Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti]

Manifesta 8: Im Dialog mit Nordafrika

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 21, 2010

(German)

Radio WDR 3 Resonanzen

Die Welt aus dem Blickwinkel der Kultur

Donnerstag, 14.10.10

Ein Beitrag von Dorothea Breit

 

Manifesta 8, Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst

Die Manifesta wurde als Europäische Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst 1993 in Amsterdam gegründet. Sie wandert durch Europa mit dem Ziel, die geografischen und gesellschaftlichen Territorien Europas mit künstlerischen Mitteln zu erforschen. Nach Stationen in Luxemburg, Lublijana, Frankfurt und Südtirol findet die Manifesta 8 in der Universitätsstadt Murcia und in dem 50 Kilometer entfernten Hafenstädtchen Cartagena in Spanien statt. Die Geschichte beider Städte wurde Jahrhunderte lang durch die maurische Welt geprägt.

Diese historisch begründete Präsenz der arabischen Kultur in Europa will die Manifesta 8 unter der Überschrift „Im Dialog mit Nordafrika“ ins Bewusstsein rufen. Drei Kuratoren-Kollektive luden über 100 internationale KünstlerInnen dazu ein. Deren Werke, fast alle neu zur Manifesta 8 entstanden – Videos, Filme, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Texte, Skulpturen, Tanz- und Musikperformances – sind an 19 Ausstellungsorten zu sehen.

http://www.wdr3.de/resonanzen/details/artikel/wdr-3-resonanzen-cde52ba77b.html

Appendix Manifesta: shifting centres

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 20, 2010

Bericht uit Murcia en Cartagena: Manifesta 8

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 17, 2010

Kunstbeeld Nieuws

zondag 17 oktober 2010

Beeldverslag

Sam Steverlynck | Manifesta is een zwervende kunstbiënnale die elke editie opereert vanuit een ander (grens)gebied. De biënnale positioneert zich als een tegengewicht voor locatiegebonden biënnales zoals bijvoorbeeld die van Venetië.

De achtste editie – die zojuist werd geopend – vindt plaats in de Zuid- Spaanse steden Murcia en Cartagena. Ze werd samengesteld door drie curatorcollectieven: ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum) CPS (Chamber of Public Secrets) en tranzit.org.

Manifesta 8
9 okt. 2010 t/m 9 jan. 2011
www.manifesta8.com

Lees verder en bekijk het beeldverslag…


Curatoren Khaled Ramadan en Alfredo Cramerotti van CPS

Uitgemolken
De ondertitel van de biënnale luidt: ‘Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with northern Africa’. Dat klinkt als een interessant uitgangspunt door de eeuwenlange vetes, contacten en invloeden tussen beide regio’s. Alleen blijkt al gauw dat die ondertitel nogal problematisch is.
Er is weliswaar het Egyptische curatorencollectief ACAF, maar verder telt de biënnale niet bijster veel Noord-Afrikaanse kunstenaars. Van de uitgemolken term ‘dialoog’ is al helemaal geen sprake. Manifesta flirt met een politiek activisme dat zeer ongeloofwaardig overkomt. Het is niet meer dan holle retoriek en een vorm van cerebrale masturbatie, die intelligent noch diepgaand is.
Een van de dieptepunten is het buurtcentrum van Santa Lucia in Cartagena waar een hele zaal wordt ingenomen met researchmateriaal van Archivo F.X. Het ‘research’ van de kunstenaars leidt niet tot inspirerende bevindingen en nog minder tot knappe kunstwerken. Ook The Arts Assembly in Murcia kickt blijkbaar op stencils, prikborden en tabellen. Als men al een trend kan spotten op deze biënnale, moet het de terugkeer zijn van het fotokopieerapparaat dat hier blijkbaar overuren presteert.


Het fotokopieerapparaat onmisbaar op deze biënnale.


…en nog wat meer papier

Gevangeniscellen
Wel geslaagd zijn dan weer de originele locaties: van een in onbruik geraakte gevangenis, tot een casino en van een voormalig autopsiecentrum tot een postkantoor. In de San Anton gevangenis in Cartagena is Thierry Geoffroy (Colonel) één van de weinige kunstenaars die verwijst naar die zogenaamde ‘dialoog met Noord-Afrika;. Hij sprokkelt op sensationele wijze opinies bij de lokale bevolking over hun Noord-Afrikaanse buren.
Ook bekritiseert hij op ironische wijze de afwezigheid van Noord-Afrikaanse kunstenaars door hen een cel voor te behouden waar ze alsnog hun werk kunnen tentoonstellen. Eén van de weinige geslaagde ‘papers’ is een reader over geweld van Brumaria, een collectief dat daarnaast in gevangeniscellen een spervuur van beelden van gewelddadig politiegeweld op de bezoeker afvuurt.

Bijproduct
De curatorcollectieven vallen het klassieke model van “the authorship of the single curator” aan en zijn op zoek naar een andere manier van kennisproductie. Hun alternatief is echter helemaal niet overtuigend. Ondanks een overgewicht aan theoretisering en discursieve praktijken slagen ze er maar niet in een coherente visie of concept te ontwikkelen. Natuurlijk zijn er op deze biënnale ook knappe werken te ontdekken (Laurent Grasso, Lorraine O’Grady, Metahaven, Erlea Maneros Zabala, …) maar die slagen er alsnog niet in om Manifesta 8 te redden.
Kunst wordt hier blijkbaar toch eerder gezien als bijproduct.


De gevangenis van San Anton in Cartagena.


Gevangenis van San Anton


Thierry Geoffroy’s cel voor Noord- Afrikanen


Thierry Geoffroy, aka Colonel


De holle retoriek van The Arts Assembly.


The Arts Assembly in Murcia


Erlea Maneros Zabala’s deconstructie van mediabeelden


Michael Takeo Magruders werk over de aanslagen in het Atocha treinstation Madrid.


Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ diareeks en film in Casino van Cartagena.


Stormloop op het MURAM in Cartagena.

Foto’s: Sam Steverlynck

Lees ook:
– 02/08/2010 Manifesta brengt eerste ‘non-visuele residency’
– 25/06/2010 Manifesta zal ‘ingrijpende verandering’ teweegbrengen

In het oktobernummer van Kunstbeeld vind je het Dagboek van… curatorencollectief CPS

Aesthetic Journalism: Talk at SIPF 2010, Singapore International Photography Festival

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 15, 2010

CPS Chamber of Public Secrets – Diary

Posted in nEws and rEleases, shortEssays/cortiSaggi [English/Italian] by Curatorview on October 11, 2010

Da Manifesta: Boltanski style, Michael Takeo Magruder e la memoria dell’attentato di Madrid…

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 9, 2010

[exibart] newsletter

by Santa Nastro

pubblicato sabato 9 ottobre 2010

Al Muram – Museo Regional de Arte Moderno – di Cartagena, stupendo esempio di architettura Belle Epoque, mostra The Rest is History, a cura del collettivo CPS, al secolo Khaled Ramadan ed Alfredo Cramerotti. Affascinante l’installazione dell’artista americano British-based Michael Takeo Magruder – nella foto – che ricorda l’attentato dell’11 marzo 2004 a Madrid, che causò 191 morti. Il progetto cui è dedicata una sala del museo, riporta rapporti, indagini, immagini e una pubblicazione che i visitatori possono portare con sé per approfondire la riflessione…

Wooloo at Manifesta 8

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 8, 2010

Known for “New Life Copenhagen,” an initiative that paired international visitors with host families during the city’s climate summit last year, the collective Wooloo is currently operating “New Life Residency” as part of Manifesta 8 in Murcia, Spain. For this project, commissioned by CPS Chamber of Public Secrets (Alfredo Cramerotti & Khaled Ramadan), the group has invited five artists to live and work entirely in the dark. In addition, each artist has been paired with a visually impaired assistant. Here, cofounders Sixten Kai Nielsen and Martin Rosengaard describe their latest project.


WHEN WE WERE PRESENTED WITH the curatorial investigation by Manifesta and the Chamber of Public Secrets into the history of the visual, we found it worthwhile to consider a broader view of this chronicle. We wanted to explore the impact of visuality on human history as a whole—the effects of society’s seemingly uncontrollable production and consumption of images. How could we imagine something different? What would a nonvisual world be like?

We have also been interested in the artist residency as a form. Especially now, in a financial crisis, as it’s the only way many artists can afford a studio. Yet most contemporary residency programs seem to have a very odd idea of isolating the artistic “genius” for him or her to create work. With “New Life Residency,” we wanted to do it differently––we wanted to create a situation that would not be comfortable or give room for the artists to “be themselves,” but rather the opposite.

In short, these were our initial thoughts when we came to Murcia. Then we encountered the city and began meeting its blind community. Being visually impaired in Murcia means walking through the streets to get things done, or working by selling lottery tickets, for instance, on behalf of ONCE, the local organization for visually impaired people. We began talking to these men and women, asking them if they knew about Manifesta; they didn’t. Actually, it seemed like no one locally had heard about the biennial. We began to think even more about the relation between Murcia and Manifesta. And the more we thought, the more we wanted to do something that didn’t pretend to understand the city or region. Because of course we don’t. We wanted to create a situation in which the artists were lost.

Most of the participating artists normally produce visual work. But the most important reason we selected them is for their interest in experimentation and their proposed collaboration with their assistant, as well as their ability to go beyond simply presenting a fixed work in a dark space. The selected artists all demonstrated awareness of the fact that what they initially proposed will most likely end up being very different due to the process. A lot of applicants seemed to forget that this is a residency program, not an exhibition series.

We found the participating assistants by speaking to them. ONCE has also been a tremendous help in communicating our initial idea. Funnily enough, only women wanted to take part. We spoke to several visually impaired men, but they were not interested. For us, this work is not about a challenge of darkness as much as it is a challenge of collaboration; to leave the visual production behind and see what is left. This project is also a lot about translation and communication. And what can be lost (and gained) in that process: A language barrier is present in some of the collaborations, but no more than is already the case between Manifesta and Murcia. We see this as part of the project and an integrated part of working internationally in a local setting.

All of our work explores new ways of living and working together. This has been our interest since we built wooloo.org, our very first social sculpture, almost ten years ago. Today, the website functions as a working platform for artists and cultural producers, but in the beginning, it was also an experiment in online space—long before Facebook and the social network explosion we see now. Overall, the mission of Wooloo is to explore new ways of living together on this planet. Each of our different projects is, in one way or another, a social experiment in collectivism. The antiglobalization movement has this slogan—“Another World Is Possible.” We agree, but we would like to take another angle: What world is possible? Let’s begin the testing now, please.

Kunstforum International’s announcement of Manifesta 8

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 3, 2010

The Fondazione Furla as institutional partner of Manifesta 8

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 1, 2010

Manifesta 8, la Bienal europea de arte contemporáneo comienza el 9 de octubre de 2010.

Posted in nEws and rEleases by Curatorview on October 1, 2010

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Manifesta 8, la Bienal europea de arte contemporáneo, tendrá lugar en la Región de Murcia (España) en diálogo con el norte de África, desde el 9 de octubre de 2010 hasta el 9 de enero de 2011.

Inauguración para prensa y profesionales: 7 y 8 de octubre.
Inauguración oficial: 9 de octubre.
http://www.manifesta8.es / http://www.manifesta.org

Durante 100 días, Manifesta 8 tendrá lugar en las ciudades de Murcia y Cartagena en edificios históricos, museos, espacios no convencionales y varios canales de medios de comunicación. Manifesta 8 está dirigido por tres colectivos curatoriales independientes, cada uno de los cuales desarrollará un proyecto propio como contribución curatorial. Los colectivos son ACAF (Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum), CPS (Chamber of Public Secrets) y tranzit.org .

ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, se plantea una pregunta: ¿Cómo puede cualquier proyecto artístico tocar auténticamente la sofisticada y azarosa maraña de la complejidad de la vida? Como respuesta proponen OVERSCORE (Tachadura), un proyecto polifacético que mantiene su coherencia por la lógica de una interfaz creada especialmente para ello y llamada The Theory of Applied Enigmatics (La teoría de la enigmática aplicada).

Comisario: Bassam El Baroni / Comisario asociado: Jeremy Beaudry / Asistente de comisariado: Yolanda Riquelme García.

Artistas: The Action Mill / Gonzalo Ballester / Lene Berg / Michael Paul Britto / Pablo Bronstein / Ergin Çavuşoğlu / Common Culture / Céline Condorelli / Willie Doherty / Juan Downey / Sherif El-Azma / Alfonso Escudero / Simon Fujiwara / Ryan Gander / Melanie Gilligan / Nav Haq / Ann Veronica Janssens / Jeleton / Mahmoud Khaled / Hassan Khan / Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler / Suhail Malik / nOffice / Ana Martínez / Rosell Meseguer / Metahaven / Nástio Mosquito / Charles Mudede / Kenny Muhammad & Adam Carrigan / Lorraine O’Grady / Olivia Plender / Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz / Jasper Rigole / Red 76 / Alexandre Singh / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak / Take to the Sea / Mariusz Tarkawian.

CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets. A través del uso crítico de la producción de medios de comunicación, realización de documentales, investigación artística y periodismo estético, el proyecto curatorial de CPS, ¿THE REST IS HISTORY? (¿El resto es historia?, ocupa y se cuestiona las estructuras que definen la realidad hoy en día, así como de su historia.

Equipo curatorial: Khaled Ramadan & Alfredo Cramerotti / Asistente de comisariado: Rian Lozano de la Pola.

Artistas: AGM / Mounira Al Solh / Abed Anouti / Eşref Armağan / The ARTS ASSEMBLY / Michael Baers / Ghassan Ben Jeddou / Brumaria / Filipa César / Danilo Correale / Anders Eiebakke / Aida Eltorie (con Fateen Abdel Wahab, Dalia Neis, Sergio Leone, Bassem Yousri, Naiza Khan, Pauline M’Barek, Jan Ijäs, Aissa H. Deebi, Ghamkin Saleh, Madeline Djerejian, Yto Barrada) / Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia / Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel / Laurent Grasso / Khaled Hafez / Ralf Homann / Erlea Maneros Zabala / n.e.w.s.: Renée Ridgway & Rick van Amersfoort / Ángel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere  / Fay Nicolson (en colaboración con Rasheed Araeen, Mark Ashurst, Katerina Gregos, John M. Kennedy , Huda Smitshuijzen, Alex Vesudevan) / Nada Prlja / Ariel Reichman / María Ruido / David Rych / Nikolaus Schletterer / Michael Takeo Magruder / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Wooloo (en colaboración con Gema Alava, Helidon Gjergji, Pedro Guirao, Clarinda Mac Low, Matthias Neumann) / Raed Yassin.

tranzit.org . Si preguntamos sobre las convenciones de la exposición colectiva, CONSTITUTION FOR TEMPORARY DISPLAY (Constitución para una exposición temporal) de tranzit.org es el resultado de un pensamiento colectivo sobre el potencial para un espacio auto constituido, modelado por las condiciones estéticas, sociales y políticas; un espacio donde artistas y comisarios abren su trabajo a la reflexión, imaginación y reelaboración.

Equipo curatorial: Vít Havránek, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička, Georg Schöllhammer / Asistente de comisariado: Anna Pahissa Deulofeu.

Artistas: Basma Alsharif / Babi Badalov / Neïl Beloufa / Erick Beltrán / Igor & Ivan Buharov / Banu Cennetoğlu & Shiri Zinn / Boris Charmatz / Loulou Cherinet / Heman Chong / Kajsa Dahlberg / Cristina David / Stephan Dillemuth / Carla Filipe / Pedro G. Romero-Archivo F.X. / Alexandra Galkina / Karl Holmqvist / Sung Hwan Kim / Adela Jušić / Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc & Sarah Maldoror / Darius Mikšys / The Otolith Group / Bouchra Ouizguen / Emily Roysdon / Ruti Sela / Catarina Simão / Tomáš Vaněk / Martin Vongrej / Tris Vonna-Michell / Tanja Widmann.

Educación: Manifesta 8 presta especial atención a las actividades educativas. Se ha creado un programa especial de mediación en arte para investigar y reflexionar junto con nuestros visitantes sobre las obras y los conceptos que se presentan en Manifesta 8. Durante las horas de apertura se realizaran visitas guiadas en español, inglés, árabe, francés, alemán e italiano, al igual que un abanico de proyectos especiales, material educativo y actividades para escuelas y estudiantes de arte. http://www.manifesta8.es/medular .

Simposio: El domingo 10 de Octubre de 10:00 a 14:00, tendrá lugar el simposio Dando respuestas antes de conocer las preguntas: cuatro posiciones sobre la idea de una bienal pan – africana itinerante en el Centro Párraga de Murcia.

Para más información sobre el programa de inauguración:

Página web: http://www.manifesta8.es / http://www.manifesta.org
Teléfono: +34 868 950 750
Email: contact@manifesta8.es / accreditation@manifesta8.es

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English

Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, takes place in the Region of Murcia (Spain) in dialogue with northern Africa, from October 9, 2010 until January 9, 2011.

Preview days: October 7 and 8 in Murcia and Cartagena

Official opening day: October 9 in Murcia and Cartagena

www.manifesta8.es / www.manifesta.org

Running for a period of 100 days, Manifesta 8 will be taking place in the cities of Murcia and Cartagena in historical buildings, museums, unconventional spaces and several media channels. Manifesta 8 is curated by three independent curatorial collectives, each of them developing a project as an autonomous curatorial contribution. The collectives are ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets and tranzit.org.

ACAF – Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, raise the question ‘How can any art project genuinely touch on the sophisticated and haphazard web of life’s complexity?’ In response, they propose OVERSCORE, a multifaceted project held together by the logic of a specially devised, theoretical interface called The Theory of Applied Enigmatics.

Curator: Bassam El Baroni / Associate Curator: Jeremy Beaudry / Curatorial assistant: Yolanda Riquelme García

Artists: The Action Mill / Gonzalo Ballester / Lene Berg / Michael Paul Britto / Pablo Bronstein / Ergin Çavuşoğlu / Common Culture / Céline Condorelli / Willie Doherty / Juan Downey / Sherif El Azma / Alfonso Escudero / Simon Fujiwara / Ryan Gander / Melanie Gilligan / Nav Haq / Ann Veronica Janssens / Jeleton / Mahmoud Khaled / Hassan Khan / Irene Lucas & Christoph Euler / Suhail Malik / nOffice / Ana Martínez / Rosell Meseguer / Metahaven / Nástio Mosquito / Charles Mudede / Kenny Muhammad & Adam Carrigan / Lorraine O’Grady / Olivia Plender / Wanda Raimundi-Ortíz / Jasper Rigole / Red76 / Alexandre Singh / Jean-Marc Superville Sovak / Take to the Sea / Mariusz Tarkawian.

CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets. Through the critical use of media production, documentary-making, artistic research and aesthetic journalism, CPS’s curatorial project ¿THE REST IS HISTORY? occupies and questions the structures that define reality today, as well as its history.

Curators: Khaled Ramadan & Alfredo Cramerotti / Curatorial assistant: Rian Lozano de la Pola

Artists: AGM / Mounira Al Solh / Abed Anouti / Eşref Armağan / The ARTS ASSEMBLY / Michael Baers / Ghassan Ben Jeddou / Brumaria / Filipa César / Danilo Correale / Anders Eiebakke / Aida Eltorie (featuring films by Fateen Abdel Wahab, Dalia Neis, Sergio Leone, Bassem Yousri, Naiza Khan, Pauline M’Barek, Jan Ijäs, Aissa H. Deebi, Ghamkin Saleh, Madeline Djerejian, Yto Barrada) / Marcelo Expósito & Verónica Iglesia / Thierry Geoffroy-Colonel / Laurent Grasso / Khaled Hafez / Ralf Homann / Erlea Maneros Zabala / n.e.w.s.: Renée Ridgway & Rick van Amersfoort / Ángel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere / Fay Nicolson (in collaboration with Rasheed Araeen, Mark Ashurst, Katerina Gregos, John M. Kennedy , Huda Smitshuijzen, Alex Vesudevan) / Nada Prlja / Ariel Reichman / María Ruido / David Rych / Nikolaus Schletterer / Michael Takeo Magruder / Stefanos Tsivopoulos / Wooloo (in collaboration with Gema Alava, Helidon Gjergji, Pedro Guirao, Clarinda Mac Low, Matthias Neumann) / Raed Yassin.

Tranzit.org. Querying conventions of the “group show”, tranzit.org‘s CONSTITUTION FOR TEMPORARY DISPLAY is the result of a collective thinking about the potential for a self-constituting space, shaped by aesthetic, social and political conditions; a space where artists and curators open up their work to reflection, imagination and re-elaboration.

Curatorial team: Vít Havránek, Zbyněk Baladrán, Dóra Hegyi, Boris Ondreička, Georg Schöllhammer / Curatorial assistant: Anna Pahissa Deulofeu

Artists: Basma Alsharif / Babi Badalov / Neïl Beloufa / Erick Beltrán / Igor & Ivan Buharov / Banu Cennetoğlu & Shiri Zinn / Boris Charmatz / Loulou Cherinet / Heman Chong / Kajsa Dahlberg / Cristina David / Stephan Dillemuth / Carla Filipe / Pedro G. Romero-Archivo F.X. / Alexandra Galkina / Karl Holmqvist / Sung Hwan Kim / Adela Jušić / Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc & Sarah Maldoror / Darius Mikšys / The Otolith Group / Bouchra Ouizguen / Emily Roysdon / Ruti Sela / Catarina Simão / Tomáš Vaněk / Martin Vongrej / Tris Vonna-Michell / Tanja Widmann.
Education: In Manifesta 8, particular attention is dedicated to educational activities. An art mediation program has been set up to research and reflect together with the visitors on the artworks and concepts presented at Manifesta 8. Guided tours in Spanish, English, Arabic, French, German and Italian are available during opening hours, as well as a range of special projects, education material and activities for school classes and art students. www.manifesta8.es/medular.

Symposium: On Sunday 10th of October, from 10.00 to 14.00, the symposium Bringing you the answers before we know the question: four positions regarding the idea of a pan-African roaming biennial will take place in the Centro Parraga, Murcia.

For more information on the preview/opening program:

Website: www.manifesta8.es / www.manifesta.org

Phone: +34 868 950 750

Email: contact@manifesta8.es / accreditation@manifesta8.es