Interview: Ariel Reichman at Manifesta 8
Ariel Reichman’s short interview about his project in San Anton old prison in Cartagena for Manifesta 8.
Footage and interview by Davis Berg and Henna Hyvärinen.
Produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets.
Interview: Michael Takeo Magruder at Manifesta 8
Michael Takeo Magruder talks about his work “(in)Remembrance(11-M)″ at MURAM in Cartagena for Manifesta 8.
Footage and interview by Davis Berg and Henna Hyvärinen.
Produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets.
Interview: Erlea Maneros Zabala at Manifesta8 – part 2
Second part of short interview to Erlea Maneros Zabala on her work shown at MURAM in Cartagena. Footage and interview by Davis Berg and Henna Hyvärinen.
Produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets
Interview: Erlea Maneros Zabala at Manifesta8 – part 1
Short interview to Erlea Maneros Zabala on her work shown at MURAM in Cartagena. Footage and interview by Davis Berg and Henna Hyvärinen.
Produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets.
Interview: Stefanos Tsivopoulos at Manifesta8
Short interview to Stefanos Tsivopoulos on his work ‘Amnesialand’ shown at the Casino Society in Cartagena. Footage and interview by Davis Berg and Henna Hyvärinen.
Produced by the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and CPS Chamber of Public Secrets.
On Tsivolopolus’s work:
” In fact one of the most effective works, Amnesialand by Stefanos Tsivopolous, was devised in response to a site not previously used for contemporary art exhibition – the Casino in Cartagena. This was one of a relatively small number of works in ‘¿The Rest is History?’ to fulfil the potential of aesthetic journalism, as theorised by Cramerotti, through its fusion of fictional and documentary modes of address. In addition, while numerous contributions to Manifesta 8 employed a self-consciously ‘archival’ mode of display, Amnesialand was one of the few video installations to make effective use of – and clearly acknowledge – already existing archives. ”
[Aesthetic Journalism in Practice: Manifesta 8 and the Chamber of Public Secrets by Maeve Connolly, variant 39/40 Winter 2010]
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
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
TVE Metropolis – Manifesta 8
Special Metropolis TV format from TVE Spain about Manifesta 8 / CPS Chamber of Public Secrets
Penetration at Manifesta 8
Penetration at Manifesta 8 / for Northern African artists only
Manifesta
Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel, Penetration Space
until 9 January 2011
San Anton Prison
Cartagena
Spain
1@colonel.dk
www.manifesta8.es
Penetration
A Penetration is the act of an artist placing an artwork within another artist’s existing exhibition.
Manifesta
At Manifesta Biennial Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel is opening his exhibition space for last minute Penetrations.
The Colonel’s Penetration space at Manifesta is reserved only to artists from Northern Africa having pertinent work about today.
The theme of the Manifesta Biennial is: “in dialogue with Northern Africa”
Procedure
To be part of the Penetration, artists from Northern Africa can just come and install their work at San Anton Prison in Cataregna on any day that they have a pertinent art work. Every time they install a Penetration work they are kindly asked to send photographs of their installation to Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel so the blog can be updated and a catalogue created: 1@colonel.dk
Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel has responded to the invitation to take part at Manifesta by the curators of CPS: Khaled Ramadan and Alfredo Cramerotti and is co-working with BIENNALIST
Thierry Geoffroy creates a debating format.
More info on this Penetration:
www.emergencyrooms.org/manifesta/penetration.html
Penetration format
www.emergencyrooms.org/penetration.html
contact
Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel: 1@colonel.dk
Curatorview [Alfredo Cramerotti] 
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