artschool/uk and its Observers (artschool uk Phrase II)

picture by Sabine Hagmann

Performers: Min Joo, Marijn van Kreij and Klara Orosz

picture by Sabine Hagmann

picture by Sabine Hagmann

picture by Sabine Hagmann

Observers

Floor plan

Observation, 2010, 15 mins. performance art, three performers: Min Joo, Marijn van Kreij and Klara Orosz, one notebook computer, 30 pictures taken from Mahasarakham province in Thailand, 90 sheets of white card, 2 red and 1 blue permanent markers, wrist watch.

Concept: All three performers observe images of art, culture and campus life of Mahasarakham University in the northeast region of Thailand, from a computer monitor.

Each performer writes a word or sentence to describe the picture on sheet of paper. The performers write as many words as they can in the time available, 15 seconds per image. The writings are displayed for public viewing for 10 seconds.

Performers are invited to represent the work based on their differences in writing speeds, decision/reaction time and cultural backgrounds. The interpretation on ambiguous pictures based on their personal and cultural influences; Min Joo(Korea), Marijn van Kreij(Holland) and Klara Orosz(Hungary). The results appear to show both similarities and differences in performers' observations and interpretations.

This work are creted to be seen clearly from both inside and outside the gallery space. The viewers observe the performer's observations.

"The event at the Whitechapel Gallery will involve two groups of people: ARTSCHOOL/UK 2010 and its observers. The space we’re interested in at the Whitechapel consists of one room, separated by sliding glass doors so in effect it becomes two rooms. One room for ‘working’ and the other for ‘observing’. This space allows us to create an intimate situation for our group to look at participants' work, while at the same time satisfying the curiosity of many people about the workings of art education in general and ARTSCHOOL/UK in particular. "

- Sabine Hagmann, one of the artschooluk project founders.

Artschool/ UK II at Whitechapel Gallery, London. 15-17 October 2010

Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, U.K.

Exterritory Project

Exterritory is a non-profit project that strives to create a platform for knowledge production and exchange in an autonomous space, temporarily free from grounding national restraints. The project was initiated by artists, curators and scholars who believe that utopia exists only without a permanent place and as a constantly dynamic journey. The project wishes to become a platform in transit, sailing on ex-territorial waters and providing space for critical thinking and production in various fields of art and culture.

The practice of Exterritory is mainly based on bringing together artists and scholars who wish to rethink geo-political stipulations and conventions in a non-national space. Exterritory will take form as on-sea events and on the Internet Website. By sailing on ex-territorial waters, we wish to create a space that bypasses the laws of territory and nationality and thus enables temporary emancipation from limiting social interpellations.Exterritory attempts to create an alternative situation for encounter, research, discussion and art-making and to generate a network of intellectual and professional connections that surpasses national politics and social hierarchies.

The main agenda of Exterritory is to create an open structure for thought that concentrates on exploring the notion of Exterritory in various fields of knowledge. We hope that this unstable, flux and dynamic notion will become both a catalyst and a tool for critically reflecting upon culture’s discriminating geographies, while potentially setting up enclaves of (temporary) freedom.

Exterritory is a project initiated by artists, curators, and scholars who wish to rethink geo-political conventions in a non-national space. Taking to the sea on board three vessels the first Exterritory event will take place in the Mediterranean Sea from June 17-21, 2010. The project is a constantly dynamic journey, a platform in transit, exploring various non-nationalized spaces in order to generate a network of intellectual and professional connections that surpasses national politics and social hierarchies.

Leaving from the shores of Israel and stopping in Cyprus, the two-dozen participants on board three boats will present curated programs that examine the notion of ex-territory in various mediums such as performance, installation, video, and sound. Some of the works will be site-specific and utilize marine equipment (broadcasts over marine radio), boat parts (such as video projection on sails), boat choreography, floater-view-art, and messages in bottles. On-board discussions and panels will be streamed online.

Initiated in 2009 by artists/curators Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir as a response to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian political conflict, Exterriroty wishes to bring together artists and thinkers from conflict areas, who can hold reconcilliation meetings usually under the auspices of third countries, mainly in Europe and the USA. The project aims to create a different location both mentally and geographically: a floating platform for inter-cultural exchange outside the sovereign territory of any specific country.

Historically, the distance separating territory from exterritory is the length of a cannon shot. Symbolically, if weapons define territory, exterritory commences where the power of weapons has no domain. Exterritory is the space between nations, as well as between cultures, between the subject and a sum of enacted ideological interpolations.

Exterritory Project – Event #117-21 June, Mediterranean ex-territorial waters
Featuring Works by: Christos Andreou,Nadia Awad ,Magdiel Aspillaga ,Jose Ballavian ,Mirelle Borra, Josephin Boettger, Tina Gverovic, Barbara Halali, Constanze Vogt, Denis Venturelli, Mikhail Kharikis, Adrian Lee, Mladen Miljanovic, Anne Maniglier, Dauglas Paulson, Raquel Schwartz, Amy Sharrocks ,Cheng-Ta Yo, TBA , Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, Sarah Wood, Adrian Sina, Brad Butler and Karen Mirza, Hovhannes Margaryan, Yoshoa Okon, Yiannos Oikonomou, Demetrios Roussos, Rodrigo Rada,Paul Ramirez Jonas Luis Garcinga y Javier Castro, Devis venturelli, 242 Costas Mantzalos and Costantinos Kounnis

Featuring Curated Programs by: Klista Antoniou, Rael Artel, Ulrich Horstmann, Margareta Kern, Chen Tamir, Agatha Wara & María Schneider

Creators of the project :Ruti Sela and Maayan Amir

For more information please visithttp://exterritory-project.org/ or email info@exterritory-project.org

artschool uk contributors and participants

Artschool/ UK II at Whitechapel Gallery, London. 15-17 October 2010
Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, U.K

Contributors: Alicia Paz, Andrew Hunt, Caroline Achaintre, Caroline McCarthy, Céline Condorelli, Christian Jankowski, Dan Perjovschi, David Mollin, Dave Beech, Gail Pickering, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Klega, Markus Vater, Matthew Poole, Michael Craig-Martin, Oliver Klimpel, Paul O'Neill and the Bristol School, Phyllida Barlow, Rainer Ganahl, Richard Wentworth, Ruti Sela/Maayan Amir.

Participants: Adam Knight, Alice Evans, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, Daniel Pasteiner, Elizabeth McAlpine, Habib Asal, Jedsada Tangtrakulwong, Kevin McPhee, Klára Orosz, Marijn van Kreij, Melanie Russell, Micha Patiniott, Michiel Ceulers, Min Joo, Rita Evans, Romeo Gongora, Ruth Höflich, Sibylle Feucht, Sissu Tarka, Vaishali Pathak.

Artschool/ UK I at Cell Project Space, London, 6-25 April 2010