Alternativa 2012 – Alfredo Cramerotti’s inaugural lecture
Alternativa 2012:
Alfredo Cramerotti – Tagging and Other Amenities of Contemporary Life
25th of May (Friday)
5 PM Conference Room / Wyspa Institute of Art / Gdansk / Poland
Alfredo Cramerotti’s inaugural lecture will introduce a series of ’tags’, each discussed on its own terms, all taking onboard the idea of how-to use various ’systems’ that govern/influence/complement/sustain our lives i.e. journalism, books, clothing, leisure, cooking and so on. Please don’t assume this would be an exhaustive list of words, as it is not. It will, however, include the following tags, among others: Footnotes, Midpoint, Leisure, Suspension, Reception, Curiosity, Knitting, Skyscraper, Access, Gap, Perspective, Hole, Dependency, Translation
Come along and discover by yourself how all these may come together and make (some) sense.
Direct link here
Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing @ Corner College, Zurich, Switzerland
Lecture
Aesthetic Journalism
How to Inform Without Informing
Alfredo Cramerotti
04.05.2012
20,00 Uhr
Italian writer, curator and artist Alfredo Cramerotti will give an introduction in his book “Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform Without Informing”. Recognising the “blurring of margins between artistic and information practices” as a main feature in contemporary culture, Cramerotti sets out the Who, What, Where, When and How, and Why of Aesthetic Journalism.
Cramerotti identifies this “’investigative approach” in contemporary art and photography as the use of fieldwork, reportage, interviews, document analysis, graphic mapping and information distribution. He cites a number of artists who employ these strategies: Hans Haacke, Martha Rosler, Lukas Einsele, Laura Horelli, Renzo Martens, Alfredo Jaar, Renée Green, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad and Bruno Serralongue. For Cramerotti, Aesthetic Journalism implies the critical use of documentary techniques and journalistic methods where the medium itself undergoes questioning. He posits that aesthetics, understood as a “process in which we open up our sensibility to the diversity of the forms of nature (and manmade environment)” can open up the mechanisms of art and media to expose the limitations of photojournalism, documentation and the ethics of representation. In doing so, Aesthetic Journalism renders productive readings of reality, information, fact, fiction and objectivity.
The concepts outlined in the book have been a key tool in the development of the Chamber of Public Secrets’ curatorial approach for the 8th edition of Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Manifesta 8 taking place in the region of Murcia, Spain.
Exhibitions are not enough
Exhibitions are not enough: Publicly-funded galleries and artists’ professional development
By: Reyahn King
Introduction
Regional galleries working more with visual artists will provide funders, local authorities, galleries and artists with ways to build a sense of place, open doors to technological and innovative ideas, and ensure art reaches wider audiences. Arts Council England should recognise the opportunity created by their own expanded role to rethink the administrative and policy distinctions between galleries with and without collections; and enable and encourage all galleries to engage with contemporary visual artists. To achieve stronger relationships will ultimately mean more investment in artists by publicly-funded institutions. At a time of constraint this expenditure of time and money requires leadership from gallery directors to make the relevance of artists to their organisational purposes clearer and to make their organisations more visibly part of a cultural and creative ecosystem.
Read the whole post here
Reyahn King is Head of Heritage Lottery Fund West Midlands, and was formerly Director of Art Galleries, National Museums Liverpool. These are personal opinions and not the view of The Heritage Lottery Fund.
First published: a-n.co.uk April 2012; Written in September 2011 when King was a 2010/11 MLA Clore Fellow.
Alfredo Cramerotti: A Close-up on Violence, lecture @ LiveInYourHead, Geneva, Switzerland
LaRadioSiamoNoi is a collaborative project with different tightly interconnected forums and laboratories forming a common platform, pointing out different aspects of the Italian free radios in the 1970s, their impact and aftermath. We want to rewind the evolution of the initiatives of that period, put them in relation to to each other and to parallel developments and also present actual projects referring explicitly to them.
Creative and Digital Economy: A New Fusion, workshop & panel 30 March 2012, London
Creative and Digital Economy: A New Fusion
30 March 2012 13:00 – 17:00pm
National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
1 Plough Place London EC4A 1DE
This workshop brings together researchers and practitioners, entrepreneurs and businesses from creative and ICT backgrounds to explore new approaches to innovation in the emerging digital ecology that might lead to new forms of economic dynamism. It will look at different paths towards innovation pursued in domains with different academic, professional and industrial cultures, and take up key questions about how and why creative and ICT skill sets and approaches to research and development might be brought together. It will consider whether by combining the theory and practice of innovation from different disciplines, there is greater potential for disruptive innovation.
The workshop will address this central question:
How can creative and ICT sectors produce new fusions of expertise and innovation to harness all these opportunities?
Speakers include Frank Boyd (Creative Industries KTN), Prof. Gillian Youngs (University of Wales, Newport), Hasan Bakshi (NESTA/Creative Industries KTN), Prof. David Gauntlett (University of Westminster), and Alfredo Cramerotti as part of the ” Creative and Digital Ideas Panel” chaired by Gillian Youngs at 15.30 hrs.
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ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI: I believe in starting from the middle… @ Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
ALFREDO CRAMEROTTI
I believe in starting from the middle…
The relevance of contemporary art for a better or worse understanding of contemporary life.
20.03. 2012
6 p.m.
Centre For Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Zygmuntowska Hall, Warsaw
free entrance. Lecture in English
The talk will revolve around the idea of expanding curatorial and artistic activities beyond the environment of art; specifically, beyond the art space as such.
Alfredo Cramerotti – is a writer, curator, editor and artist working across a variety of media such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. He directs Mostyn, Wales.
Video trailer:
Mali Morris’ exhibition at Mostyn in RA Magazine
1 March 2012
RA Magazine (Royal Academy London, UK)
by Eleanor Mills
Alfredo Cramerotti: The Future of MOSTYN
Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of Mostyn, Wales, will give a talk about his future vision for the gallery.
5pm, 14 March 2012
H6, Rathmell Building,
Caerleon Campus
Newport
NP18 3QT
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and artist based in the UK. His cultural practice explores the relationship between reality and representation across a variety of media and collaborations such as TV, radio, publishing, internet, media festivals, photography, writing and exhibition curating. Cramerotti is Director of Mostyn, the largest publicly funded contemporary art gallery in Wales, and was co-curator of Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009-2010) and Senior Curator, QUAD Derby (2008-2011). He co-directs AGM Culture, roaming curatorial agency; CPS Chamber of Public Secrets, media and art production unit and is Visiting Lecturer in various European universities among others NTU Nottingham Trent University, University of Westminster and DAI Dutch Arts Institute. Cramerotti is also Editor of the Critical Photography book series by Intellect Books, and his own recent publications include Aesthetic Journalism: How to inform without informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).
Links
http://www.alcramer.net
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Series,id=19/
http://www.mostyn.org
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