Strategies of Presentation 2
LECTURES
Boris
Buden
Boris Buden is a philosopher, researcher and writer on art, culture and
politics. After his initial start in Zagreb he moved to Vienna in 1990 where
he currently lives and works. He was the editor of the Zagreb newspaper
Arkzin , and currently he is one of the editors of the Viennese newspaper
Springerin . He co-operated at numerous projects, amongst others at the
platforms of Documenta 11 in Vienna, New Delhi and Kassel. He translated
a number of books (amongst others Freud, Helmut Dahmer, etc.), wrote various
articles (amongst others for Polet , Quorum , Feral Tribune , etc.) as well
as published three books (a collection of political and cultural criticism
essays Barikade (Barricades) in 1996, a revised and extended edition Barikade
2 (Barricades 2) in 1997 and a book of cultural and social criticism essays
Kaptolski kolodvor (Kaptol Railway Station) in 2001).
Charles Esche
Charles Esche is a curator and writer. From 2004 he is director of Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven and from 2001 a research fellow at Edinburgh College of Art where
he works with the 'proto academy', an academic project aimed at discovering
more conversational and effective models for advanced art education. He
is also editor of Afterall , an art journal published twice yearly by Central
St.Martins College of Art and Design, London and CalArts, LosAngeles. He
curated several exhibitions, among them: 2000 - Intelligence - New British
Art , Tate Gallery (London) and Amateur - Variable ResearchInitiatives ,
Konstmuseum in Konsthall (Göteborg); in 2001 he was one of the curators
of f the English section at ARCO 2001, Madrid; in 2002 he curated the Gwangju
Biennale in Korea with Hou Hanru. He is an advisor at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam,
curatorial advisor to the Foundation of Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool,
and a board member of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Basel and has written
for numerous catalogues and magazines in Europe. From 1993-1997 he was Visual
Arts Director at Tramway, Glasgow. From 2001-2004 he was director of the
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö. He has curated international
exhibitions and events around art and new technology.
Ivana Keser
Ivana Keser studied at Academy of Fine Arts, Zagreb. She makes public interventions
and produces her own newspapers in which she conveys news from private and
public life and which are freely distributed. In her work she questions
the borders between local and global, propaganda and indoctrination, activism
and consumerism. She participates in the project Weekend Art Hallelujah
the Hill with A. Battista Iliæ and T. Gotovac (1995-ongoing). In 2001, together
with A. Battista Iliæ, she initiated Community Art - permanent public forum,
a long term project which consists of public discussions, workshops, Community
Art School and publishing activities.
Exhibitions:
1996 - Manifesta I , Rotterdam; Radical Images , 2nd Austrian Triennial
on Photography, Neue Galerie, Graz. 1997 - The Exhibition of the Local Newspapers
, Central Park, New York; The Exhibition of the Local Newspapers , Institute
of Art, Cleveland. 1999 - After the Wall , Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Aspects/Positions
, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna. 2000 - Vida Politica / Political Life Fundacio
La Caixa , Barcelona; Indoctrination, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb;
Sous les ponts , le long de la rivière, Casino Luxembourg Furum d'art contemporain,
Luxembourg. 2001 - Marking the Territory , The Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin. 2002 - Helle Nächte , Stadtkino/Kunsthale Basel; In Search of Balkania
, Neue Galerie, Graz. 2003 - Local News , Mamco - Musée d'art moderne et
contemporain, Genève; 25th Biennial of Graphic Arts , Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana;
Carte Blanche , Tanzquartier, Vienna; Kyoto biennial , Kyoto. 2004 - East-West, Tanzquartier, Vienna.
Viktor Misiano
Viktor Misiano is one of the most eminent (Russian) art critics, theorists
and curators. He is a great expert on contemporary art and the mechanisms
that run it. He is known especially for his critical analysis of the relations
within the art system, his innovative curatorial practice within the frame
of the concept Community Moscow-Ljubljana as well as for his intensive co-operation
with the Irwin group. His comparative analysis between the Eastern and Western
European understanding of communication, institutions and values in contemporary
art gained a large international response. He spoke about the strategies
of his operations in the 1990's on the examples of two of his projects which
he organised within the frame of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Moscow
in the mid 1990's, both of which had a strong impact on the Moscow art scene:
The Hamburg project (a workshop with Russian artists) and the Visual Anthropology
Workshop with the Russian philosopher Valery Podoroga.
WHW
WHW (What, How & for Whom) is a non-profit organization for visual culture
and curator's collective formed in 1999 and based in Zagreb, Croatia. Among
their projects are international projects and exhibitions: What, How &
for Whom, On the Occasion of 152nd Anniversary of Communist Manifesto (Zagreb
/ Vienna), Broadcasting Project, Dedicated to Nikola Tesla (Zagreb), START
(Ljubljana/Zagreb), Looking Awry (apexart, New York), Side-Effects (Salon
of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade), INeed a Radical Change (Gallery
Nova, Zagreb) . All WHW projects have been conceived as a platform for discussing
relevant social issues through art, theory and media, as well as a model
of collaboration and exchange of know-how between cultural organizations
of different backgrounds. Besides exhibitions, WHW projects encompass lectures
and public discussions conducted by international artists, curators and
cultural theorists; publications and a book edition on contemporary curatorial
practice and cultural theory; radio broadcasts and interventions; screenings
and live acts. From 2003 WHW has been directing the Gallery Nova in Zagreb,
whose focus is not only on producing and presenting contemporary visual
arts, but also on establishing links between visual culture and other forms
of cultural production with civil, activist and NGO scene. Besides exhibitions,
the program is characterised by series of events that are designed to turn
the gallery into a vivid cultural centre, and includes concerts, theatre
performances, film screenings and public discussions. Currently WHW is working
on an exhibition on collective practices & group enjoyment called Collective
Creativity to be held in May 2005 in Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.
Jurij Krpan
Jurij Krpan, architect by profession, has become the artistic director
of Kapelica Gallery (www.kapelica.org) in Ljubljana in 1994. In seven
years of his leadership the gallery has gained international reputation
of one of the most active and conceptually focused art spaces in Slovenia.
Through international projects the gallery systematically presents new
media, artistic interventions in gallery space, and extreme body-art practices.
It has succeeded to generate its constant and potentially collaborative
public, consequently establishing a specific art scene.
Douglas Davis
Douglas Davis is a pioneer of video art and new media, a theorist, performer,
pedagogue and advisor for digital media strategies. As an artist he specialized
for the 'wrong use' of new media: he convinced the video to touch, the
printer to talk, the Internet to lay down in the visitor's lap like a
puppy, etc. In 1994 he created one of the first web art works that reached
a broader audience. Since the 1970's he has been using traditional and
advanced technology in his work - from radio, film to satellites. In the
1976 project Art from a Distance he was the first artist to use satellites
for personal, artistic purposes. A year later he (in co-operation with
Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik) performed the first global live transmission
of a video performance for Documenta 6 . He wrote a number of books on
the relation between contemporary art and technology, he taught art of
the new media at over 25 universities and received numerous rewards for
his work.
Web art:
- The World's First Collaborative Sentence (commissioned by Lehman College
Art Gallery; collection Whitney Museum of American Art gift of Barbara
and Eugene M. Schwartz): http://here.is/THESENTENCE
- MetaBody (The World's First Collaborative Visions of the Beautiful)
(commissioned by George Waterman III Collection; co-sponsored by P.S.1/The
Institute of Contemporary Art, New York; Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell,
Ithaca; Municipal Art Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland; Center for Contemporary
Art,Warsaw, and others, 1997: http://this.is/METABODY
- Terrible Beauty (an Evolving Work of Ineractive Global Theater), 1997-2000,
performed to date in New York, Dublin, San Francisco, and Berlin: http://here.is/TERRIBLEBEAUTY
- http://this.is/DOUGLASDAVIS, 1997-to date, evolving.
- http://here.is/RODCHENKORISING, 2000
- http://go.to/INNOCENCEDOTCOM, 2001 (redirect for http://moralpornography.com,
a double site hosted/designed in Copenhagen, Denmark and New York City
(required to avoid censorship in institutional computers in the U.S.A
only)