Chisinau Circumvention – art and social progress in peripheral regions
Conference, Chisinau, The Republic of Moldova State University, str. A. Mateevici 60, Main Building, Conference Room – 511
November 9th and 10th 2011, 11-18
This conference was created as a networking platform for the future, for artists, art managers and curators to meet and share experiences. The event is focused on developing cross-regional cooperation among independent art initiatives from post-Soviet countries and beyond. The main theme for the conference is how art can work as a propelling force for social progress in countries where cultural institutions are not necessarily something you can depend on. How do artists work with questions of social progress? What difficulties are there where the art producers work or come from regarding the artistic practice that needs to be circumvented?
The invited artists, curators and art managers from Sweden, Georgia, Belarus and the Republic of Moldova will talk about their strategies on how to operate in peripheral regions in relation to their own work. How could an art initiative operate autonomously? How can you organize production and develop art discourse in the context of a nonexistent art market? These are the existential questions that artists and producers of culture has dealt with for decades, where a notion of transition is a given context.
After the conference in Kalmar in September we counted ten newly created collaborations involving artists from invited countries. It is the intention of the conference and its contributors Kalmar konstmuseum (www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se), KSAK Center for Contemporary art (www.art.md/), the Oberliht Association (www.oberliht.com/), with support from the Creative Force project of the Swedish Institute, that the meetings between the attendees will lead to new collaborative projects.
In conjunction with the conference there will be an exhibition, by the artists of the conference curated by Stefan Rusu and Martin Schibli, opening at ArtHotel (Gh. Asachi str. nr. 53/1, lit. “A”, Chisinau) and Flat Space (Bucuresti 68, Chisinau) at 16.00 on Tuesday 8th of November.
Speakers: Lado Darakhvelidze (GE), Lilia Dragneva (MD), Åsa Elzén (SE), Klas Eriksson (SE), Tatiana Fiodorova (MD), Åsa Jungnelius (SE), Johanna Karlin (SE), Giorgi Kevlishvili (GE), Max Kuzmenko (MD), Martin Schibli (SE), Daniel Segerberg (SE), Irina Solomatina (BY), Giorgi Tabatadze (GE), Vadim Tiganas (MD), Vladimir Us (MD).
With grateful support from:
Svenska Institutet, center for contemporary art, Chisinau
For further information please contact: Director of Exhibitions: Martin Schibli, martin.schibli@kalmarkonstmuseum.se Coordinator: Ola Carlsson, ola.carlsson@kalmarkonstmuseum.se
K SPECIAL Handled with care, documentary film by Lisa Partby
HANTERAS VARSAMT – en dokumentärfilm om Åsa Jungnelius och Ludvig Löfgren, regisserad av Lisa Partby. Premiär 23 september på SVT2 kl. 20.00.
Repris: 25/9 kl. 12.30 SVT2, 27/9 22.45 SVT2.
Akoya. Neitsytpolku 1. open 21.9.- 9.10.2011
REALITY CLUB Kalmar Konstmuseum
a meeting place fore discussion and reflection with the artist Johanna Karlin and Åsa Jungnelius
Alex Mirutziu The Glass Factory Lab
The Glass Factory Lab is an Artist-in-residency-project at The Glass Factory in Boda. I invited the Romanian artist Alex Mirutziu, his art touches me physically.
Pending Work #6 Time’s own insult
”There are two important conceptual triggers vis a vis Pending Works machinery. The first, questions the reliability of the event and its performativity within a fluctuating timeline. The second refers to the cathexis of time and action versus duration and anti-duration and political evidence. Ultimately the chief interest in Pending works lie in the dialectic between evidence and the event as transformative of each other. I am very much interested in the idea of the chronicisation of time, and how this chronic time contaminates the work’s informational cue, and transitivity.” Alex Mirutziu
www.alex-mirutziu.blogspot.com
When love melted cavalries in our hearts
http://theglassfactory.se/utstallning/the-glass-factory-lab-alex-mirutziu-2/
NK Stockholm and NK Göteborg
Artlover
A conversation about, the body, materiality and everyday life together with Annika von Hausswolff, published in the magazine Artlover.
Sollidens Slott
Sculpture at Solliden, the royal summer palace.
Pink Panter
Solliden’s park, surrounding the royal summer palace on Öland, was commissioned at the beginning of the 20th century by Queen Victoria, who created a unique environment of beautiful plantations with different styles.
Beside the palace building is a beautiful pergola decorated with classical sculptures and to the south of this is the Italian garden, a geometrical planned renaissance garden with thuja, bux-hedges and lots of different flowers. A bronze sculpture representing Mercurius graces this garden. To the south of the Italian garden the English park spreads out with wide lawns and there are several southern three types such as platan, cypress and tulip trees. Beside the tulip tree there stands a beautiful copper beech with magnificent crown.
Solliden’s Palace parkland is open for visitors 15/5 – 15/9.
Open: Daily 11.00 am – 18.00 pm (gates close 17.00).
AGONISTPARFUMS
AGONIST just came back from a very successful exhibition at Esxence – The Scent of Excellence in Milan. With a beautiful stand we presented our complete collection of six 100% natural Fragrances. Each Fragrance is expressed in individual handcrafted sculptures made in collaboration with Åsa Jungnelius at Kosta Boda.
www.konsten.net
Åsa Jungnelius är en konstnär som lyckats bygga en smått unik karriär belägen mitt emellan den svenska glasindustrins finrum hos Kosta Boda (med access till designbutikernas skyltfönster) och en betydligt brutalare estetik som mer hör hemma på offbeat-gallerierna. Till det yttre ansluter hon till en genusproblematik i lyxförpackning, tidigare utforskad av bland andra konstnärer som Ingrid Orfali (om någon till äventyrs minns henne). Men när Jungelius gigantiska läppstift av glas numera finns att beskåda även på NK:s designavdelning tappar en del av genuskritiken udden. Hettan, svetten och temperament dunstar bort och genusfrågorna reduceras till en pikant krydda i livsstilsmagasinens prylpresentationer.
Men på Crystal tar Åsa Jungnelius igen något av det som gått förlorat. Här regerar Pålen och Hålet i ensamt majestät. Den glansiga finishen har ersatts av något betydligt mer köttigt och blodigt, med stearin och paraffin som primära arbetsmaterial. Utställningen genljuder av ekon från teoretiker som Julia Kristeva, vars texter om det abjektet passar som hand i handske med Jungnelius fysiskt påträngande skulpturer. Men allt är inte fysikalitet och sexualitet på det mest basala planet. På botten av Hålet finns en spegel, som reflekterar himlen, och kanske även en flik av universum. Här öppnar sig Jungnelius verk för en svagt klingande poesi, och ur könskampen värker det fram en slags försoning med alla konflikter och olikheter som skaver. Det ger hennes konstnärskap en ny och överraskande fräschör.
Adress: Hudiksvallsgatan 4 B, Stockholm
Utställningen pågår under perioden 24/3 – 24/4