Lounge Talks 2007

Program

Thursday

Expanding the field or ”Art is where I lay my hat”

The space for presentation of art is gradually expanding its possibilities beyond and within the physical room and activating new ways to reach audiences. What is the impact of these initiatives on an art scene, its economics, its distribution and its criticality? Do they claim uncharted territories? 

During the day: Presentations of approximately 20 minutes each, screenings and screening installations in the Lounge and outside, in the entrance hall.

14:00 
Twochange, Stockholm
Twochange shows art were they find people and offers possibilities for collaboration with artists with the intention to create innovative, site-specific and different visual experiences. With focus on artworks based on moving images, they investigate their use in public spaces.
language: eng

15:00
KRO och vänner om lobbying, lagtexter, avtal
Karin Willén, ordförande KRO Konstnärernas riksorganisation/styrelseledamot Konstnärsnämnden
Ulrica Källén, jurist, KLYS Kulturella och Litterära yrkesutövares samarbetsorganisation
Christian Nilsson, jurist immaterialrätt, Stockholms universitet, curatorsutbildningen.
language: swe

16:00  
Natalya Pershina, alias Gluklya, St. Petersburg presents the art project ”The Utopian Clothes Shop”.
Gluklya is also a co-worker of Chto Delat, a collective platform. Chto Delat opens a space between theory, art, and activism with the goal of politicizing of all three types of praxis. They publish an English-Russian newspaper on issues central to engaged culture, with a special focus on the relationship between a repoliticization of Russian intellectual culture and its broader international context. These newspapers are usually produced in the context of collective initiatives such as art projects or conferences.
language: eng

17:00
Edmund Piper, Berlin
Edmund Piper has started Berliner Kunstsalon in Berlin and is about to start up Tease Art Fair in Cologne in April.
language: eng

19:00
Performance by Jaw Nongkran Panmongkol.
language: thai

In the Lounge Café:

Good TV, Stockholm
Good TV is a non-profit organisation initiated by Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Loulou Mirjam Cherinet. It is broadcasted by Public Access Television Network, OPEN CHANNEL in Stockholm/Sweden and offers a free space on Swedish Television and invites contributors from around the world.
language: eng/swe

Torpedo Bookstore, Oslo
Torpedo is an independent Bookshop and Publishing House specializing in printed matter and publications on contemporary art and visual culture. Torpedo produce and host different projects such as exhibitions, seminars, concerts and book launches in collaboration with artists, curators and institutions. Being a semi-public, autonomous space Torpedo functions as a territory for self-determined organisation and art practices.
language: eng/nor

Ersta Konsthall, Stockholm
founded in May 2006, is a 3,75 square meter model art institution run by Linus Elmes. The space is located between a bar and a toilet in El Mundo Bar on Södermalm.
language: eng/swe

The Pineapple Project Room, Malmö
The Pineapple platform is based on communication, net-working and joint operations in an international and domestic context to stimulate a creative flow. Torbjörn Limé presents videos.
language: eng/swe

Friday

14:00–15:00
Öykü Özsoy presents the vibrant artist-run scene in pre-biennial Istanbul.
Öykü Özsoy works as an assistant curator and programme coordinator at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul. She is one of the initiator of Alti Aylik which is an independent art project space located in Istanbul. She has been working as one of the coordinator of Black/North SEAS project initiated by intercult in Stockholm, Sweden since October 2006 and also making a research on the contemporary visual art scene in Sweden and Nordic countries.
www.platform.garanti.com.tr
www.platformgaranti.blogspot.com
www.altiaylik.blogspot.com
www.intercult.se
language: eng

15:00–18:00
Money changes everything:
the impact of commerce on the artist-run space

Canal proposes 'Money changes everything: the impact of commerce on the artist-run space', a discussion set up to question and respond to the backdrop of Supermarket, a fair for artist-run spaces. After organising an informal discussion titled 'The possibility of an artist-run space' in July 2005, in London, and gathering a range of observations and conclusions from the twenty people involved in it, Canal is interested in carrying on the discussion and debating such issues with artist-led initiatives mainly established in Scandinavian countries. Confronting contexts and exchanging considerations rather than falling into a debate about the funding situation is the aim of this event.

Questions
. Is the artist-run space a route into the commercial arena?
. What alternative can the artist-run space propose to the power
structures of the art world?
. Does commercial activity compromise criticality?

CONTRIBUTORS

Open call
To all artist-run spaces and projects participating in Supermarket to contribute to the debate.

Presentations by
. Manuela Unverdorben and Ralf Homann of schleuser.net
. Ralf Homann on 'Free Class of Munich' and the project 'Jour Fix'
. Per Hasselberg of Konsthall C (www.konsthallc.se)

Respondents
. Felice Hapetzeder of ak28 (www.ak28.org)
. Natalya Pershina of Chto Delat (www.chtodelat.org)

Moderation
. Canal
language: eng

Canal's Background
Canal formed in May 2006 with the aim of presenting a range of activities including discussions, screenings and performances. It was originally based in a dedicated space on Vyner Street, East London, but is now a peripatetic organization hosted by different venues according to the project in hand. As an informal group of artists and curators, Canal acts as a framework to generate a programme which is specifically not exhibition-led and which incorporates practitioners from other creative fields in addition to the visual arts. Canal is Anna Colin, Matthew Darbyshire, Gareth Jones, Sarah McCrory and Olivia Plender.
www.canalonvyner.org

Co-ordination by Diana Kaur +46 (0)70 424 53 41

Saterday

Peliminary schedule for Saturday:

13:00–13:45
About Money
Sven-Olov Wallenstein, philosopher and editor-in-chief SITE Magazine.
language: of choice

14:00–14:45
FESARS and Allt ljus på oss
presented by Camilla Backman from IKK, Institutet för konstnärer och konstförmedlare: a presentation of the first conferences for artis-run initiatives that took place in Stockholm in 1999 and in Malmö in September 2006. What was the aim of the conference and what came out of it?
language: eng/swe

15:30–17:00
Nordic Highlights.
NKF, Nordic Art Association,  initiates a dialogue on cooperation in Nordic art.

- Nordic identity - a trap or a spring-board? Is the Nordic identity only a memory from the past - is it possible to capture a Nordic identity in a global world?
- Which definitions of  "the Nordic" are relevant today? Are they useful just in general to make contacts and exchanges? To confirm the national art scene? Or, can there be some real advantages by  strengthening the Nordic identity in the global concept?
- Do we really need cooperation in the Nordic artscene? What does Nordic cooperation look like now and what will happen in the future?
- Do we need new platforms and how do we imagine an ideal future from the perspective of Nordic cooperation in the field of art?

Participants:
Tone Hansen, artist/writer, Norway
Juha Huuskonen, curator/artist, Finland
Cai Ulrich von Platen, artist an former chairman in BKF (BilledKunstnenernes Forbund( Denmark, member of TAPKO artists group
Riitta Heinemaa, Senior Advisor at the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen
Ann Larsson, head of Konstnärsnämnden, The Arts Grants Committee, Sweden
Moderator: Richard Sangwill, curator/art critic, member of the board NKF Swedish section
language: eng/swe/nor/den

Thanks to Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur who supports us in the realization of this small seminar.