Multitudinario
dal 7/9/2005 al 10/9/2005
Segnalato da
7/9/2005
Multitudinario
SAPS Sala Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City
The show underlies the necessity to reflect upon the points of encounter between masses and the forms of democratic and technological filters consequently applied to them. To question ourselves for a multitude is to contemplate forms of collectivity, democracy, technique and above all, social relations, not to mention alienated subjectivity implicit in all environments of human activity.
The Question for Collectivity and its Forms
curated by Juan Pablo MacÃas
Since the beginning of the last century, the notion of the mass has become important in understanding modernity’s artistic regimen. It has urged forth a reflection upon the production, transmission, and reception of artwork, subjectivity, and above all, on an ethical sector in all spheres of human practice. In contemplation of such, the 4th annual Public Art Forum, Multitudinario, presented at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros’ targets the following: How is the multitude captured theoretically? Furthermore, what are the points of convergence and divergence between a massified subject and a collective-democratic subject?
Multitudinario underlies the necessity to reflect upon the points of encounter between masses and the forms of democratic and technological filters consequently applied to them. To question ourselves for a multitude is to contemplate forms of collectivity, democracy, technique and above all, social relations, not to mention alienated subjectivity implicit in all environments of human activity. To take into account the multitude is to critically ponder the processes of identification and class as well as the practices and critical postures regarding the inherent antagonism surrounding capitalist life. This in essence, puts into consideration the efficiency of contemporary artistic strategies and cultural legitimation. The question for collectivity becomes a necessity to understand the submission of humanity to the economical and epistemic determinations of the capitalist logic.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY 8
18:00 Opening of the exhibition DISOBEDIENCE, an ongoing video library curated by Marco Scotini in collaboration with the SAPS and play_gallery for still and motion pictures (Berlin)
19:30 John Holloway CRACKS (videoconference)
20:00 Marco Scotini DISOBEDIENCE as a basic form of political action
FRIDAY 9
18:00 Opening of the installation of PILOT TV (videos and ideas about pilot television) curated by James Tsang y Emily Forman
19:00 James Tsang & Emily) Forman Pilot TV: feminist autonomy and trespass (conference)
20:00 Juan MartÃn Prada Technologies of Dissension (conference)
SATURDAY 10
11:00 VÃctor Palacios Collectivity by Accession/ Accessories of Exclusion (conference)
12:00 Radek Community Suffering and Protest: what is to be a contemporary body? (speech/presentation/discoursive performance)
DISOBEDIENCE
An ongoing video library
A project by Marco Scotini
Disobedience is a video station/platform for discussion dealing with the relationships between artistic practices and political action. It developed from a co-operation between the Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros (SAPS, Mexico City) and Play gallery for still and motion pictures (Berlin) on the occasion of the Multitudinario Forum. Conceived as a diverse and constantly changing archive, the project represents a guide to the geography of civil disobedience, from the social struggles in Italy in 1977 to the recent anti-globalisation protests before and after Seattle. The project is also an atlas of the plurality of resistance tactics such as direct action, counter-information and biological resistance.
**Artists and activists included in DISOBEDIENCE:
Alterazioni Video, Delphine Bedel, Franco Berardi (Bifo), Beth Bird, Black Audio Film Collective, Jota Castro, CAT–group, Chto delat?/What is to be done?, La Comunitaria TV, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), Deep Dish Television, Dodo Brothers, Etcétera…, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki, Ronith Gitelman & José Ignacio Lezcano, Alberto Grifi, Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Guerrillavision, Indymedia, kanalB, Gianni Motti, Non-Governmental Control Commission, OUT (Office for Urban Transformation), Radek Community, Oliver Ressler, Herbert Reyes, Pierre-Olivier Rollin, Paula Roush (msdm), Paola Salerno, Ernesto Salmeron, Hito Steyerl, Socialist Resistance, Grupo SUMA, The Yes Men, Tute Bianche, Andrei Ujica, Ultra-red, Videoteppisti, Dmitry Vilensky, Paolo Virno, Peter Watkins, Wayruro…
Pilot TV: Feminist Autonomy and Trespass
Presented by / Presentado por James Pei-Mun Tsang and Emily Forman
pilotchicago.org
Pilot TV is an experimental autonomous television studio built by queers,
feminists and other border-crossers to strategize anti-capitalist resistance on
camera. James Tsang and Emily Forman will be sharing some TV shows and
discussing the pleasures of collective organizing. This will be presented on Friday September 9th at 7:00 pm
Selections from Pilot TV:
Math Bass, A.K. Burns, Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy, Tara Mateik, Marriage, Ulrike Muller, Megan Palaima, Stephen Remington, Emily Roysdon, Lanka Tattersall & Becca Taylor.
SAPS Sala Arte Publico Siqueiros
Tres Picos 29 Colonia Polanco - Mexico City