The Bet

an evening of talks and performances for the contemporary attention span.
Presented by Ana Teixeira Pinto, in association with KW and Foreign Affairs‘ collaboration on the subject of the Bet.

Kunst-Werke Chora (3rd floor, main building), 3 Euros.

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Exhibiting and the Exhibition

Kunst-Werke Studiolo (front house, first floor), 3 Euros.

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Salon Populaire events over Summer 2013

Salon Populaire’s program at Kunstsaele will return in fall 2013.

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Call for Presentations: What is power today?

What is power today?

Acknowledging the backdrop of The Arab Spring, The Occupy Movement, a renewed interest in feminism, and increasing fluidity of gender definition, this event will aim to find an array of contemporary definitions of power in collaboration with all participants and attendees. Furthermore, this event will question how women’s and men’s relationships to power are changing, particularly in relation to recent events.

Current power struggles are reaching beyond a fight for empowerment, and towards a destabilization of power in its traditional form. The prevalence of collective action today supports definitions of power proposed by feminist theorists, including Hannah Arendt, Jean Baker Miller, Sarah Lucia Hoagland, and Judith Butler, all of whom have encouraged the ideas of “collective power,” “power with, rather than power over,” and “power to be able to.” This area of discourse is itself wracked with differences in opinion on the subject of power. However, such definitions are gaining more traction as power is becoming something held by groups of people in action, rather than by individuals. These observations still remain up for debate; the only certainty is that power is transforming, not only through discourse but through action.

During this event we will aim to pinpoint these changes and find new definitions of power in the world today. This event will aim to give space for and illuminate diverse definitions of power. Focus will be offered to both personal and theoretical definitions of power, without ignoring their merging points. Discussion on how these formulations of power are transforming us as societies and people will be encouraged.

An open call is being staged to support the presence of diverse opinions.

The evening will be composed of short (5-10min.) presentations on definitions of power. The definitions will be united using mind-mapping techniques and through the production of a small booklet.

If you are interested in presenting, please send:

– A short abstract on the topic, What is power today? (no more than 250 words)

– Name, profession, email address, and phone number.

** No formal qualifications are necessary to submit an abstract. We believe that insightful discourse can occur with self-education, as well as formal education.

Selection:

– Selected speakers will give a presentation of 5-10 minutes during the event, What is Power Today?, at Salon Populaire.

– Presentations can be theoretical; they can be performative; they can be personal;

they can be poetic, they can be anarchic.

– Selections will be made to ensure a wide variety of definitions and opinions on the

topic.

-Submissions which are not accepted for the event may still be used in the production of a small booklet on the topic.

What is power today? will take place at:

Salon Populaire

Bülowstrasse, 90 / 10783 Berlin

8PM, March 28, 2012

Any questions should be directed to: 2012.redefining.power@gmail.com

Abstracts should be submitted by March 15th to: 2012.redefining.power@gmail.com

Please pass on to others who may be interested!

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Spacial Translation

With Samuel Korn
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Andrzej Zulawski’s Possession (1981)

A Film Club Screening and Conversation on Fantasy, Separation and Urban Planning. Hosted by Florian Wüst. (mehr …)

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A museum of cruelty

Das Museum der Grausamkeit. Ein Ausstellungsmanifest

1. Ausstellungen sollten Medien kultureller Selbstverständigung sein.

Exhibitions should be the medium of cultural self-understanding.

2. Die Institution muss die Auseinandersetzung mit den Gesetzen und Zwängen des Museums selbst führen und darf diese nicht allein der Kunst oder dem Künstler überlassen.

The institution has to examine the laws and constraints of the museum and must not leave this to the art or the artist alone.

3. Die Unterscheidung zwischen Kunstwerk, kultur- und wissenschaftlichem oder Alltagsobjekt sowie das damit verbundene Selbstverständnis der Institution muss aufgelöst werden. Alle damit verbundenen Evidenzen stehen zur Disposition.

The differentiation between artwork, cultural, scientific or mundane objects, as well as the related self-understanding of the institution has to be eliminated. All related evidence is up for disposition.

4. Die Unmöglichkeit einer neutralen Präsentation befreit den Kurator/die Kuratorin nicht davon, diese durch Exponierung der konkreten Ausstellungsbedingungen je und je herzustellen.

The impossibility of a neutral presentation doesn’t free the curator from trying to establishing it through the repeated exposure of the concrete display conditions

5. Ausstellungen sind als Gesamtkunstwerk zu betrachten. Ihre Bedeutung entsteht durch die Wechselwirkung all ihrer Elemente und nicht durch einzelne Werke.

Exhibitions are to be regarded as a total work of art. Their relevance develops through the interplay of all its elements, not through single works.

6. Jede Ausstellung ist wesentlich Vermittlung. Der Kurator/die Kuratorin muss im eigenen Namen sprechen und sichtbar machen, welche Rolle er/sie gegenüber dem WAS, WIE und WEM der Vermittlung einnimmt.

Each exhibition is essentially a mediation. The curator has to speak in his/her own name and has to make visible which role he/she takes in mediating the WHAT, HOW and to WHOM of the exhibition.

7. Die Auswahl der Exponate darf nicht nur nach immanenten Qualitätskriterien erfolgen, sondern muss den Besucher von Anfang an in die Überlegung einbeziehen und das Verhältnis zu ihm exponieren.

The selection of exhibition material must not only follow immanent quality criteria, but has to include the viewer in its considerations from the start, and to expose its relation to him/her.

8. Die Idee der Wissensvermittlung darf nicht als sekundär/defizitär gegenüber der Präsentation angesehen werden und umgekehrt. Das Medium ist gesellschaftlich nur durch die Wechselwirkung beider legitimiert.

The idea of knowledge transfer must not be considered secondary/deficient to the presentation, and vice versa. The medium is socially only legitimized through the interplay of both.

9. Jeder Kurator/jede Kuratorin muss sich in seinem/ihrem Tun so angreifbar wie möglich machen. Theoretische Referenzen müssen sich im Medium selbst exponieren und nicht durch Zitate oder Paraphrasen. Sonst hat das Medium Ausstellung versagt.

The curator has to make him or herself vulnerable as much as possible in his/her own actions. Theoretical references must be exposed in the media itself and not via citations and paraphrases. In any other case the exhibition as a medium has failed.

10. Museen und ihre Ausstellungen werden Orte des kommenden Denkens nur dann sein, sofern ihre Agenten dauerhaft bereit sind, gegenüber ihren eigenen Evidenzen grausam zu sein.

Museums and their exhibitions are only then places of coming thought, if their agents are constantly willing to be cruel towards their proper critical values.

An exhibition seminar on the identity of the museum. By Ellen Blumenstein and Daniel Tyradellis

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