Sparwasser Hq
Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Torstrasse 161
10115 Berlin Mitte
Telefon 0174-2577729
mail@sparwasserhq.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi -Fr 16-19 Uhr, Sa 14-18 Uhr
www.sparwasserhq.de
aktuelle Ausstellung
/ current exhibition
vorausgegangene Ausstellung
/ previous exhibition
09.05.- Ende August 2007
Sessions and Statements
Contributions from oversees and elsewhere - and regional research
Talks and Workshops
and after appointment / und nach Verabredung
mobile 0049 (0)179 670585 / mail(at)sparwasserhq(dot)de
in by Sparwasser HQ, Torstrasse 161, 10115 Berlin (U8-RosenthalerPlatz):
Sunday, July 1., at 10 PM
2 minutes to midnight
60 minutes performance by
Tobias Bernstrup, Annika Larsson, Sara Lunden and Karl Holmqvist
Friday, July 6. 2007, 8pm
Chto Delat
Self-organisation as method of art production, an open discussion
with Dmitry Vilensky (workgroup Chto Delat /What has to be done,
St.Petersburg), Zanny Begg (Sydney) and Johannes Raether (Meine
Akademie, Berlin)
Moderator: Dmitry Vilensky
http://www.chtodelat.org
July 22. at 6 pm to 10 pm
Skype video dinner with alt.SPACE Festival 2007,
Berlin,
London guests from Berlin: Jole Wilcke (UNwetter), Benno Gammerl
(UNwetter), Dominic Hislop (Big Hope), Heimo Lattner (General
Public), Lise Nellemann (Sparwasser HQ) and friends
http://www.altspace.info
July 29. - August 2.
social mental environmental
Participants:
The Land Foundation, Sørfinnset skole, Vagad Project,
Ingrid Book & Carina HedÈn, ecosXchange/Siraj Ishar,
Amy Plant/lifeisland.org,Ecos, Workstation ideesnwerkstatt Berlin
e. V., Body-Memory and Environment, Potato Perspective, UNWETTER,
Participatory fieldwork
Organised by:
Åsa Sonjasdotter, Ulrike Sobrig and Nis Rømer
August closed / geschlossen
The Glowing Whistle Festival re-opens on September
1. at 8 PM
Friday, July 6. 2007, 8pm
Chto Delat
Self-organisation as method of art production, an open discussion
with Dmitry Vilensky (workgroup ìChto Delat? /Was tun?î
St.Petersburg), Zanny Begg (Sydney) and Johannes Raether (Meine
Akademie, Berlin)
Moderator: Dmitry Vilensky
Self-organisation as method of art production
The open discussion with Dmitry Vilensky (workgroup ìChto
Delat? /Was tun?î St.Petersburg), Zanny Begg (Sydney) and
Johannes Raether (Meine Akademie, Berlin).
The main idea of self-organised structures is to keep under their
control the full tasks of the creation, production and distribution
of the art. It realises its activity in a form of creation of
ìArt Sovietsî that are able to politicize cultural
production through a process of collective subjectification.
The main goal of this structure is to cultivate political instincts,
and provoke a democratic, emancipatory activity in the spheres
of labor, politics and aethetics.
Itíll be discussed about anti-capitalist practices, Russian
situation, collective emancipation, the public as co-creator,
radical poverty, inner temporality, a quarrel concerning the
common, how not to choose beteween entrism and exodus, non-alienated
relations, social impact of micro-political interventions, heated
editorial process, local optic, experienced-base for solidarity,
and how art not simply reflects the world, but takes risk to
change it
everyone is welcomed to think, to argue and hopefully to act
together
Chto delat? /// What is to be done? (www.chtodelat.org)
a platform for engaged culture
Founded in early 2003 in Petersburg, the platform "Chto
delat?/What is to be done?" opens a space between theory,
art, and activism. The platform's work is coordinated by a workgroup
of the same name: its members include artists, critics, philosophers,
and writers from Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhny Novgorod (see
full list of participants on the web site).
It is a project that is aimed at creation and developing a dialogue
of different positions about politicization of knowledge production
and about the place of art and poetics in this process. The platform's
activity aims at triggering a collective initiatives in a form
of ìtemporary art sovietsî. The creation of ìTemporary
Art Sovietsî, which are involved in the making of the different
cultural projects from its earliest phases onward. It is the
ìTemporary Artistic Sovietsî that could serve as
a prototypical social model, capable of formulating and realizing
its goals independently, taking on the function of an alternative
power, an open system for interaction with society at large.
The participants of platform engages in a variety of art projects,
including videoworks, installations, public actions, radio programs,
and artistic examinations of urban space. Its most recent exhibitions
and research project is "Drift ñ Narvskaya Zastava"
(2004-2005), a community-examination of a constructivist-proletarian
neighborhood in Petersburg and ìSelf-Educationî
(September 2006) ñ international exhibition and seminars
program dedicated to spreading and producing alternative forms
of knowledge that continue and further develop the emancipatory
traditions of a variety of practices.
This workgroup as an editorial committee publishes English-Russian
newspaper, with a special focus on the Russian artistic-intellectual
situation. In our editorial approach we do not only want to engage
in a confrontational re-reading of various theoretical and practical
approaches from the Left, but also to focus on actualization
of the potential of Soviet past repressed in the course of Soviet
history and how it develops in current situation of neo-capitalism
in post-Soviet time.
Each issue of the newspaper is a process that draws artists,
critics, activists and philosophers into a heated editorial process,
which results in theoretical essays, art projects, open-source
translations, questionnaires, dialogues, and comic-strips.
This take away publication is usually made in connection with
specific events and is distributed for free at congresses or
exhibitions, social forums and rallies where it reaches a broader
cultural public.
David Riff and Dmitry Vilensky, editors of the newspaper Chto
delat
English
"Slave magazines"
Friday, 31st of August, at 8 p.m. :
Artist talk with Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie,
presented by Astrid Mania
(evening will be held in English)
Discovering the work of Kain and Rob at the Adelaide Biennale
in 2006 where they appeared under the moniker "Slave",
I would very much like to introduce these young creative minds
to Berlin.
So please join us for a presentation of various "Slave magazines"
and art works by Kain Picken and Rob McKenzie - on the screen
and on the walls. This will be a casual get-together with drinks
and food provided.
:deutsch
"Slave magazines"
Sparwasser lädt ein zu einem
informellen Künstlergespräch mit Kain Picken und Rob
McKenzie, präsentiert von Astrid Mania
Freitag, 31. August um 20.00 Uhr (Vortrag in englischen Sprache)
Es wird mir ein Vergnügen sein, das Werk zweier junger,
kreativer Geister in Berlin vorzustellen, nachdem ich die Arbeiten
von Rob und Kain alias "Slave" zum ersten Mal auf der
Adelaide Biennale 2006 gesehen habe.
Bei ess- und trinkbaren Objekten werden auch "Slave Magazine"
und natürlich Kunstobjekte zu sehen sein, auf dem Rechner,
aber auch an den Wänden.
In Sparwasser HQ on Saturday !
1. September, on Saturday at 8 p.m. curator Frederikke Hansen
will tell about and show videos from RETHINKING NORDIC COLONIALISM
and the following week, 5.-8. September, the Sparwasser audience
will be able to access the material from this big project RETHINKING
NORDIC COLONIALISM in extended opening hours.
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