SURPLUS
Re-examining the strategies within cross-disciplinary art and design practices
20. - 22. 2008.
seminar and workshop organized in collaboration with CASCO - office for art, design and theory.
Aim of this program is to discuss interdisciplinary cultural strategies with focus on shared concepts between art and design disciplines.
The project is initiated in order to share critical discourse among different practices /concepts, question the value systems embodied in the cultural production, and to give presence to the topic on the local scene.
Combining formats of public lectures, workshops and a publication, program ‘Surplus’ also wishes to promote theoretical reflection in parallel to the practical involvement.
In the serial of lectures, Dutch cultural producers will present/analyze different methods and cross-disciplinary tools for communicating commentary on social surroundings.
The program takes place in different locations. It is organized within the frame of LOWFEST.
www.impex-info.org
www.cascoprojects.org
www.lowfesztival.hu/index.php?id=28&program_id=30
Details:
Hidden Curriculum/ Annette Krauss
Hidden Curriculum is an ongoing project that looks at the unrecognized and unintended knowledge, values and beliefs that are part of the learning process in high schools. It focuses on actions that go beyond existing norms and shows creative and productive ways of navigating through everyday life in school. Most recently it was realized at Casco through a series of workshops with two groups of 16-17 year old students from two local schools. Through the workshops students investigated their own actions and forms of behaviour and transfered the knowledge gained from their investigations towards other ends, such as video and public actions. Activating situations that could be conceived as going beyond common sense or secure behaviour, they reflected on the legitimacy of specific social contexts, taking a critical stance in order to think through the complexity of their own actions. In a broader context the project forms a model of how institutional structures are negotiated in all areas of public life, thinking about how people deal with rules and imposed categories of thought, and both internalise them as well as subconsciously resist them.
Annette Krauss received her MA in Fine Arts in the Art Academy Malmoe in 2002.
Slavs and Tatars / Kasia Korczak
Kasia Korczak will present the work of Slavs and Tatars, a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. Slavs and Tatars produces work across fashion, design and art redeeming an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between slavs, caucasians and central asians. She will talk about the particular role that collaboration plays not only across different disciplines such as art and design, but also across the very physical cultural, religious, and national boundaries that make up the group's work.
www.slavsandtatars.com
Kasia Korczak is interested in design primarily as a vehicle for producing and distributing content. Her work has been exhibited at the Design Museum and the Barbican Gallery in London and Casco, Utrecht. She recently completed an MA residency at the Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem. In 2005 she founded the collective Slavs and Tatars with long-time collaborator, artist and essayist Payam Sharifi. S&T has recently been joined by graphic designer Boy Vereecken, writer Victoria Camblin and theoretical physicist Christophe Galfard.
Casco / Emily Pethick
Casco works with international artists and designers on projects that are of an interdisciplinary nature, crossing between the fields of art, design and theory, and other related fields. Casco’s projects often take experimental and critical approaches, involving forms of participation, ephemeral and non-object-based initiatives, and open ended forms of inquiry that are not limited by set space or time-frames, as well as workshops, events, symposia, and publishing. She will talk about specific projects that have been realized at Casco that demonstrate this approach.
www.cascoprojects.org
Emily Pethick is director of Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory in Utrecht.†She was previously the curator at Cubitt, London (2003-2004), where she foudned the ongoing annual self-publishing fair and archive Publish and be Damned with Kit Hammonds. She also works freelance, recent projects include Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London, 2007, Hall of Mirrors, film programme, Oberhausen Film Festival, 2007, and upcoming projects include An Ambiguous Case, film programme, MUMOK, April 2008, which will also be shown at Kunsthalle Basel in June 2008.
Program:
20th February, Wednesday / Models
16-18h
Location:
Reaktor
Tűzoltó u. 22., IX district, Budapest
(http://reaktor-dinamo.freeblog.hu)
Lectures:
Emily Pehtick (Casco director) – Casco strategies
Katarina Sevic (artist), Rita Kálmán (curator) – Impex strategies
21 st February, Thursday / Flexible structures
17-20h
Location:
KIBU – Kitchen Budapest, new media research lab.
Ráday u. 3 0./ entrance from Biblia köz, IX district, Budapest
(www.kitchenbudapest.hu)
Lectures:
Metahaven (designresearch) - presetnation of the work
Kasia Korczak (graphic designer) - Slavs and Tatars
22 nd February, Friday / Moments of production
17-20h
Location:
University of Fine Arts, Budapest (Barcsay hall)
Andrássy út 69-71., VI district, Budapest
(www.mke.hu)
Lectures:
Annette Krauss (artist) - Hidden Curriculum
Emily Pethick / Wendelien van Oldenborgh (artist) - A Certain Brazilianness
