AGM Conversation Series, Cairo Session: On Dialogue
AGM Culture Conversation Series, Cairo Session: On Dialogue
During the upcoming Cairo Biennale, AGM will coordinate a recorded conversation between curators, artists and cultural producers on the 16th December 2010. This one day session will focus on social and geo-political topics relevant to the Mediterranean region, opening up to some tactics for producers and audiences to employ via modes of aesthetic journalism, ficto-criticism and political fictions. Having recently interrogated the nature of collective production and collaboration as part of Chamber of Public Secrets’ contribution to Manifesta 8, AGM wishes to expand on this to address the term “dialogue”. If, as in the realm of cultural diplomacy, dialogue is to be understood as a reciprocal act and as a prelude to collaboration/cultural understanding, then the session asks: who sets the terms of dialogue, where is it enacted, how does it function and what are its inherent asymmetries? More specifically, we hope to delve into the realm of questioning the instrumentalisation of “dialogue” in contemporary art and institutional practices as well as on the geo-political scale.
This session will be disseminated through attendees networks and on agmculture.org.
Participants
Khaled Ramadan (Lebanon, Finland & Denmark) Alfredo Cramerotti (Italy & UK) Hannah Conroy (UK) Yesomi Umolu (UK), Khaled Hafez (Egypt), Aida Eltorie (Egypt & USA), (Dermis Leon (Spain), Achilleas Kentonis (Cyprus) Patrizio Travagli (Italy) Giuseppe Moscatello (UAE), Alexandre Gurita (France), Michael Thoss (Germany).
Sponsors/Supporters
Allianz Stiftung
European Union House of Delegation Cairo-Egypt
About AGM Conversation Series
The AGM Conversation Series brings together, in different configurations and venues, artists, curators, thinkers and contributors variously involved in processes of “knowledge production” via art, media, research or other forms of critical engagement. Adopting AGM’s itinerant format, these sessions seek not only to assess the “state-of-play” at various moments in the lead up to the exhibition or research process in which they are involved at that time, but to continue discussions around thematics that are central to their approach and productions.
A significant feature of the Conversation Series is that they have taken place in semi formal settings, requiring no audience but a camera and an amassed group of participants. They sit somewhere between the formal setting of the commonly used artists talk /seminar format and the informal nature of social/networked conversations between arts practitioners and producers. The sessions provide an open forum for sharing and exchange with no underlying pretext but to consider the current state of affairs.
The edited versions of the AGM Conversation series are distributed online through open networked communities such as Facebook, Vimeo, LinkedIn, Flickr, Twitter and also on agmculture.org.
About AGM
AGM Culture is a curatorial project with some of the inbuilt features of a parasite. Each time, by changing partner, location, form and content, its primary focus is to explore the peculiarity of the hosting body – be it a site, an institution or a theme. Previously, AGM has explored new modes of knowledge production within art and the media in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the U.K. and in the Web space
Art Expanded. From theory to practice, and back again.
Lecture at MA in Art and Media Practice in the University of Westminster
Guest speaker: Alfredo Cramerotti, curator at QUAD, Derby, presents his art-as-research practice as curator of Manifesta 8 and author of the book Aesthetic Journalism How to Inform Without Informing (Intellect, 2009).
Session format: Visual Lecture. The author will give a lecture illustrated with images of the artworks of M8 and the book followed by Q&A
Abstract: ” My curatorial approach is not about creating new (artistic) knowledge but rather shifting existing modes of knowledge production and distribution. It implies entering a mutual relationship with other systems such as mass media, science, law, architecture or other areas, constantly shifting society’s perception of itself through non-artistic disciplines.
In my most recent curatorial project, the European biennial of contemporary art Manifesta 8, Region of Murcia, Spain, I opened up a space for artists to cross boundaries with the realm of media information and communication, a daunting terrain as opposed as the ‘safe’ environment of art. By creating new sequences of knowledge and generating what I regard as ‘aesthetic journalism’, artists and audiences alike become active participants of the curatorial concept since they become a part of the information chain, of the sequence of knowledge.
The talk will investigate this approach, from the development of the concept to its practical implementation, and will open up to the audience to discuss how hybrid practices – think about biopolitics, sustainable development, experiential reality and other processes that are the sum of different parts of ‘set’ disciplines- are re-constituting us and our world on a daily basis.”
Reading for week 05
Visit the following websites:
- Alfredo Cramerotti’s own website for text and image resources
- Manifesta 8 website
http://www.manifesta8.com/manifesta/manifesta8.home
Download the press dossier
http://www.murciaturistica.es/manifesta8/descarga_en_9.pdf
read about the projects
http://www.manifesta8.com/manifesta/manifesta8.manifesta_artists
http://www.manifesta8.com/manifesta/manifesta8.artists_commissioners
- Curatorial statement
Alcramer, 210. Curating in the context of Manifesta 8: A conversation between ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Art Forum), CPS (Chamber
of Public Secrets – Alfredo Cramerotti & Khaled Ramadan) and tranzit.org. [online] Available at: http://www.alcramer.net/cms/publications/Curating%20in%20the%20context%20of%20M8_cut_invisible%C2%A0.pdf [Accessed 7 October 2010].
- Cramerotti, A., 2009. Aesthetic Journalism How to Inform Without Informing. London: Intellect.
Full text available as electronic resource in Westminster catalogue
- Aesthetic Journalism: wikipedia entry
http://en.wikipedia/org/wiki/Aesthetic_Journalism
Etivity for week 05
In the blog “An ABC of Aesthetic Journalism” you are invited to choose one letter from A to Z to respond to the book and Fay’s response to it.
http://fayinc.wordpress.com/category/1-about/
“We invite you to engage in the ABC blog by responding to a post/s or by creating your own. You can add to, comment on, critique, extend, oppose or digress from the current content. Responses can take the form of text, image, video, audio or web link. Directly or indirectly consider our opening bullet points in relation to this invitation. Your approach can be academic, artistic, communicative, reflexive, objective or personal. The only rules are that you cannot delete existing content and that responses are indexed in their respective alphabetical category. You will be given the username and password to the blog.” Alfredo Cramerotti / Fay Nicolson
After you post in the ABC blog, post the full text in the TP blog, with a permalink to your text in the ABC blog.
Furla Award 2011
VOGUE ITALIA
by Fabiana Gilardi
Published:
11/18/2010
The names of the five finalists and of the curators, protagonists of the eighth edition of one of the Italian excellence awards that support young contemporary artists, were announced
Padrino: Christian Boltanski. Presentata a Milano l’ottava edizione del Premio Furla
Exibart.com
Pubblicato mercoledì 17 novembre 2010
L’attesa era forte, ed in effetti decisamente motivata, con l’evento che non ha tradito le aspettative. A Milano si presentava l’ottava edizione del Premio Furla, che ha calato subito un asso in grado di sbaragliare la partita: Christian Boltanski, che sarà l’artista – padrino e l’ideatore dell’immagine grafica e del titolo, Pleur qui peut, rit qui veut. “Una sorta di ossimoro – spiega Chiara Bertola, curatrice del premio – che apre la strada ai finalisti per l’ideazione dei loro progetti”.
E chi sono i cinque artisti finalisti? Alis/Filliol – Andrea Respino e Davide Gennarino, nominati da Simone Menegoi e Marianne Lanavère; Francesco Arena, nominato da Vincenzo De Bellis e Philippe Pirotte; Rossella Biscotti, nominata da Cecilia Canziani e Vincent Honoré; Matteo Rubbi, nominato da Lorenzo Bruni e Carson Chan; Marinella Senatore, nominata da Alfredo Cramerotti ed Emily Pethick.
Una giuria internazionale composta dallo stesso Christian Boltanski, da Stefano Chiodi (storico e critico d’arte), Vit Havranek (curatore e project leader del team curatoriale tranzit.org), Jörg Heiser (co-editor di Frieze Magazine e guest professor all’Art University di Linz, Austria), Miguel Von Hafe Pérez (direttore del Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo di Santiago de Compostela, Spagna) sceglierà il vincitore, che sarà annunciato il 28 gennaio 2011 a Bologna.
Il vincitore sarà invitato a realizzare un’opera finanziata dalla Fondazione Furla e destinata alla fruizione pubblica attraverso la concessione in comodato al MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna. L’opera del progetto vincitore sarà presentata in anteprima presso la Fondazione Querini Stampalia a Venezia nel giugno 2011, in concomitanza con la 54. Biennale di Arti Visive.
“Con questa ottava edizione che segna la chiusura del primo decennio del Premio Furla – ha detto Giovanna Furlanetto, Presidente della Fondazione Furla -, alla Fondazione Furla si affianca per il futuro la Fondazione Carisbo come partner istituzionale, che ha messo a disposizione per la mostra dei cinque artisti finalisti uno dei suoi spazi più prestigiosi, Palazzo Pepoli a Bologna, recentemente restaurato”.
Radio Papesse Interview: Alfredo Cramerotti – Chamber of Public Secrets @ Manifesta8
RADIO Papesse INTERVISTA/INTERVIEW
Alfredo Cramerotti – CPS
15 NOVEMBRE 2010
>>the interview is in English<<
>>English text below<<
Il discorso sulla contaminazione e il dialogo fra mondo mediatico e mondo artistico non è nuovo. In fondo si può sostenere che l’arte, in ogni sua espressione ‘deve utilizzare dei media’ e che questi attingono a piene mani dall’immaginario artistico; è un dibattito che probabilmente non avrà mai fine e che è nato e sviluppato a pari passo con i media elettronici, dalla nascita della radio e del cinema ad oggi.
Ma cosa succede se si parla di ‘industria dei media’? se un insieme di artisti, scrittori, intellettuali viene invitato a confrontarsi con i sistemi della produzione medicata contemporanea?
È quanto hanno fatto Alfredo Cramerotti e Khaled Ramadan insieme al collettivo Chamber of Public Secrets – cps con il loro progetto per Manifesta8.
CPS non è una struttura formale, non ha una data di fondazione o un’agenda prestabilita, è un gruppo trasversale, un ‘meta-luogo’ di discussione e analisi critica ed è uno dei gruppi curatoriali di Manifesta8.
Abbiamo parlato insieme a Cramerotti di CPS, del metodo utilizzato nel lavoro curatoriale, del loro invito a confrontarsi con le strutture produttive dei media per la creazione di progetti artistici.
la musica che accompagna l’intervista è tratta dall’album a bell and a mirror di Let’s drive to Alaska pubblicato dalla netlabel muertepop
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The contamination and encounter dicourse about the artworld and the mediatic world isn’t new.
It is a never-ending debate born and developed together with the electronic media: form the early days of radio and cinema until nowadays.
But what happen when we talk about the media industry? what happen when a group of artists, writers, intellectuals is invited to deal with the contemporary media industry production system?
It is what Alfredo Cramerotti and Khaled Ramadan did together with the Chamber of Public Secrets – cps collective curating their project for Manifesta8.
CPS isn’t a formal structure, do not have an official founding date or a fixed agenda, is an horizontal group, an ensemble of dicussion and critical thinking and is one of the curatorial teams of Manifesta8.
We talked with Cramerotti about CPS, about their curatorial method, their invitation to deal with the production structures of the media industry for the creation artistic projects.
The music used in this interview is A bell and a mirror by Let’s drive to Alaska published by the netlabel muertepop
Questa opera è prodotta da Radio Papesse, un progetto di Ilaria Gadenz e Carola Haupt
Kunstforum International: CPS for Manifesta 8
Die Europäische Biennale zeitgenössischer Kunst die Region Murcia (Spanien) im Dialog mit Nordafrika
Texte und Auswhal: Susanne Boecker
Fotorundgang: Wolfgang Träger
TVE Metropolis – Manifesta 8
Special Metropolis TV format from TVE Spain about Manifesta 8 / CPS Chamber of Public Secrets
HumanKind: Interview with Alfredo Cramerotti
Introducing Alfredo Cramerotti, Associate Curator of Format International Photo Festival, Editor of the “Critical Photography” book series, and a member of the jury of “HumanKind”.
“HumanKind” is the New York Photo Festival’s second juried photo invitational (following the smash success of Capture Brooklyn), ongoing now and open until November 28, 2010
For more information, please visit humankind.newyorkphotofestival.com
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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