Sam April 28 2012, Take Away Sound Cube in Amsterdam
“Take Away Sound Cube” will be presented at the de Appel project: “Three Artists Walk into a Bar…”.
day: Sam, April 28, 2012
time: noon onwards
place: Weesperzijde, between Torontobrug and Grenstraat
On April 28, 2012, a tiny cube can be found somewhere in a residential area in Amsterdam. As long as the integrated battery lasts, the cube will transport a sound from one quarter of Amsterdam to another, playing back a recorded file endlessly in a loop. At the same time sound object, commodity and intruder, the take-away sound cube has to fulfil different requirements at once. Depending on the beholder, the cube can be perceived as artwork, lost mp3 player, acoustic intrusion or practical joke. The duration of the exhibition is unforeseeable: it will either end with the expiration of the integrated power supply, by destruction form external forces or if someone takes to cube home and reuses the artwork for his or her own purposes. No matter how the display of this piece ends: the exact nature of the artwork is unforeseeable and depends highly on its unknown public.
Exhibition “Die Kunst der Intervention” / ratskeller / Berlin
March 29 – April 27, 2012
“Die Kunst der Intervention”
Ein Jahr Lichtenberg Studios
(the art of intervention – one year Lichtenberg Studios)
exhibition at ratskeller (Möllendorffstraße 6, 10367 Berlin)
opening: Wednesday, March 28, 7 pm
Doris Prlic and Lucas Norer will show their project “Faltstadt Lichtenberg” at the exhibition “Die Kunst der Intervention”, curated by Uwe Jonas, at ratskeller in Berlin.
Faltstadt Lichtenberg is a gold extra project, funded by Kulturfonds der Stadt Salzburg
book presentation “Reclaiming Spaces”
February 29, 2012, 7pm
afo – architekturforum oberösterreich
within the frame of “Theorie im Keller”
book presentation “Reclaiming Spaces – zum Umgang mit leeren Räumen”
Edited by Franz Koppelstätter and Doris Prlic.
With texts by Barbara Holub/Paul Rajakovics, Robert Temel and Koppelstätter/Prlic.
The book furthermore contains documentations of different projects by artists and architects who reuse empty spaces.
The event will also feature a lecture by Christine Dissmann who presents her book “Die Gestaltung der Leere”.
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Sprawl Festival
Sprawl – Structures/Feedbacks/Disruptions
Nikolaus Gansterer
Marlene Hausegger
Matthias Klos
Marianne Lang
Winkler/Köperl
Tao Vrhovec Sambolec
curated by Lucas Norer & Doris Prlić
funded by “art in public space “ Province of Tyrol, 2011
opening: Friday, September 16 2011, 7 pm
duration of the exhibition: September 16 – September 25, 2 pm – 6 pm
works in public space: September 16 – October 31 (can be visited all day)
“Sprawl” is a performative exhibition in public space: an art festival in the form of temporary, spatial interventions and occupancy of different places in Tyrol. Thereby the chosen spaces, their appropriation, design and change lie in the centre of attention. Through the interplay with rural and urban architectures, the spaces are being questioned in an experimental approach, always in connection with the central theme of structures, feedbacks and disruptions.
The expression “sprawl” means to expand, grow and spread or on architectural ground “urban sprawl” describes uncontrolled development or extension of metropolitan areas. In this sense “Sprawl” can be considered as a spreading temporary exhibition in public space with a special focus on visual art works and installations. Architectures of everyday life, like shopping malls, event centres or green areas, undergo fundamental shift through performative interventions. The potential for conversion and interference of the chosen places is under investigation, thereby they alternate into sculptural objects.
Artists are invited to deal with the reality of given conditions as well as with the poetic quality of those unsentimental and foreign spaces. “Sprawl” aims to reoccupy new spaces, explore possibilities and restructure urban areas temporary. Thereby not only artistic positions which have been developed for a certain situation, are of interest – also expanding, recurring and spreading interventions gain the focus of attention.
Regarding its architectural condition as well as its location in the city , the festival centre itself, based at “Die Bäckerei” (http://www.diebaeckerei.at) in Innsbruck, is a place of transition. The centre is exhibition space and point of information at the same time, it offers space for relicts and documentations of previous performances and interventions in public space.
Reclaiming Spaces
Reclaiming Spaces
program focus of afo – architekturforum oberösterreich 2010
“Reclaiming space – temporary reuse of spaces” was the main focus of the “afo – architekturforum upper austria” in 2010.
Curated by Astrid Hager and Doris Prlic, the program consisted of an exhibition in the architectural forum, put on stage as the “centre of vacant spaces” (Leer-Raum-Zentrale), a series of lectures, a workshop with students of Art University Linz and a festival situated in two empty shops.
Reclaiming spaces, changing structures, the re-use of vacant spaces – temporary uses are gaining importance for urbanism and urban planning. City councils, architects and landlords are confronted with problems regarding the conflict between trying to establish long term economic utilization and opening unused spaces temporary for cultural purposes. In the same time, artists who use empty spaces in order to be able to find a cheap place for production risk to support developments of gentrification and urban restructuring they would usually oppose.
The program „Reclaiming Spaces“ aims to analyze these problems and presents several concepts for reusing vacant spaces, focusing on artistic and cultural projects.
The exhibition presents different international positions and seeks to show critical approaches as well as interesting spacial concepts.
In 2012 Franz Koppelstätter, Doris Prlic and afo published the book “Reclaiming Spaces – how to deal with empty spaces”.
participating groups/institutions/artists: Anschlaege/Berlin, bb15/Linz, club real/Berlin, Department für öffentliche Erscheinungen/München, de player/Rotterdam, mik/Wien, raumlaborberlin/Berlin, Kolonie Wedding/Berlin, kompott/Linz, kultuuritehas polymer/Tallinn, nomadenetappe/Linz, peanutz architekten/Berlin, pixlel hotel/Linz, REIS/Antwerpen, rhizom/Graz, transparadiso/Wien, unortnung/Wien
Little Voids – Simultan Stimulation, 2010
Little Voids – Simultan Stimulation initiates the temporary reprogramming of two empty shops at the Humboldtstraße in Linz, a street in the city center struggling with vacancy, traffic noise and a high percentage of habitants with migrant family backgrounds.
International and local artists, urbanists and architects stimulate vacant spaces, show alternative ways of using them and experiment with potentially sustainable utilizations of the empty properties.
The short term interventions only last two or three days per artist, within this time frame the former shops along the street are being recharged with new content.
On the one hand, the so called “turbo interventions” encourage the spinning of quick fantasies, on the other hand the problems of the structure of the city of Linz and the ongoing failure to reanimate premises offside the city center are being made a subject of discussion.
The concepts for the temporary interventions are chosen by the artists – some offer services, others introduce alternative situations for exhibiting art, others work with the neighbours and their problems. The most important presetting for the artists is the task to work with their surrounding in the Humboldtstraße and to face the process of gentrification critically.
curated by Franz Koppelstätter and Doris Prlic with Astrid Hager
participating artists: Department für öffentliche Erscheinungen (DE), Club Real (DE), Kristina Kornmüller (AT), Marianne Lang (AT), Edith Stauber & Michaela Mair (AT), Peter Szely (AT)
Instant Stadtparcours, 2011
a city tour for bad weather and lazy days
developed for: http://www.stuttg-arttours.de/
Visiting an unknown city usually implicates long walks and spending a big amount of time outside in order to discover the unknown place. But what if the weather is too bad for an extensive march, if one’s feet are already sprinkled with blisters or the prospective tourist is simply too lazy for long walks?
“Instant Stadtparcours” offers an alternative option for all those who do not intend to discover the city themselves by foot.
Starting in a café at the central Charlottenplatz in Stuttgart, an Austrian tourist documents four trips to different locations all over the city. These audio trips to the south, the north, the east and the west of the city can be listened to with an mp3 player, the participants of “Instant Stadtparcours” don’t even have to leave the café at Charlottenplatz to follow the tour – the city is being discovered for them.
In order to guarantee a visual impression of the parcours, the listeners get an additional sketch of the places which they are going to visit.
Instant Stadtparcours was created during a one-week workshop organized by the artist group Treacle (Susanne Kudielka/Kaspar Wimberley) for their project Arttours and was part of the Flaneur Festival in Stuttgart in summer 2011.
Collaborate
exhibition at IG-Bildende Kunst, 2010
Artist groups, duos, networks – there are different forms of cooperation between artists and various collaborations between artists and non-artists.
Despite the fact that the classical art market is concentrated mainly on fixed formations and single working artists, there are still various artists who work in collaborations.
The cooperation amongst artists does not only serve the purpose of finding a joint output, it can also be the result of analytic reasoning and helps to establish networks between artists living in different cities. Other collaborations arise from the correlation of different artistic disciplines. In all those forms of team work the individual artist has to step back and listen to others, the basis for the work is agreement and discussion.
The exhibition “Collaborate” focuses on those different kinds of collaborations and shows examples of how collaborative art production can work.
participating artists: Sonja Bendel & Adam Benjamin Fung / Christina Gillinger / Lilo Nein / Projekt LOVE_ / Hannah Stippl / Yolanda de Los Bueis, Elisa Marchesini, Christoph Schwarz und Sarah Vanhee
“Artist and …” a research project about artists and their day jobs
How artists earn their income
Among applying for funds, designing exhibitions and working on concepts, there is another important date on the agenda of many artists: the daytime job. For “artist and…” I investigate the working conditions of today’s young artists.
Until not so long ago, society was prepared to see the artist as starving fighter for one purpose: the production of artworks. Artists are said to live from inspiration and are ready to give everything just in order to be able to produce their pieces of art.
This legend may be true in some cases, but lots of young graduates of art academies don’t want to be starving at all and have a very practical approach for managing their economic survival: they finance their live through day jobs.
Those who are active in the field of the arts tend to skip this side of the story, when telling about living artists or preparing students for their future life. If day jobs are of interest, it is mostly the case when artists have very special second professions and if they help to form an image of the artist as misfit, an outsider or a person with a very particular gift.
Philip Glass supposedly worked as plumber and taxi driver until he was 41, Vincent van Gogh worked as assistant priest before his brother paid for his living expenses – but in the end they were both rewarded with infinite fame. Those legends seem to inspire artists to take non-arts related side jobs rather than to encourage them to expand their artistic field of work.
But of course for some artists this strategy works out, some years ago I heard this rumour that 1% of all graduates from Austrian Art Academies can make their living from producing art. But what does that mean and what kind of work does it include?
“Artist and..” is an ongoing project. At the moment I interview different artists with an emphasis on those who graduated from Art Academies within the past few years, and question them about their work situation. What does their working life look like and how does their working life/income situation relate to their artistic work?