„The Dystopia Files“ at g-mk is the newest iteration of Mark Tribe's ongoing project, which recontextualizes the history of demonstrations in the US. This American artist had gathered an archive of protest footage, which serves as a base for creating site specific video installations in gallery and museum spaces. The work poses the questions about power relations, spectatorship, image manipulation, participation, interaction and political engagement.
The relationship between these issues and recent curatorial practices will be discussed during the workshop held by Mark Tribe. Following the workshop, there will be a lecture by the artist, who will present his multimedia artistic practices, including his previous acknowledged projects such as Rhizome and Port Huron.
All interested in participating in the workshop are kindly asked to contact us at info@g-mk.hr. We are looking forward to your participation!
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Mark Tribe (American, b. 1966) graduated in 1990 from Brown University, Providence, RI, and received a MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, CA in 1994. His acclaimed art projects often incorporate various media and technologies. They revolve around institutional critique, activism, audience participation and collaboration, and raise questions about performance, mediation and public sphere. Tribe’s art work has been exhibited at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions); Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY; the DeCordova Biennial at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY; Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel; and the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. He has organized curatorial projects for the New Museum of Contemporary Art, MASS MoCA, and inSite_05. Tribe is the author of two books, The Port Huron Project: Reenactments of New Left Protest Speeches (Charta, 2010) and New Media Art (Taschen, 2006), and numerous articles. He has lectured at CalArts, Goldsmiths College, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MIT, and UCLA. He is Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Studies at Brown University, where he teaches courses on digital art, curating, open-source culture, radical media, and surveillance. In 1996, Tribe founded Rhizome, an organization that supports the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology.
Join us for the book launch of ‘Ad Hoc Project’ by Rafaela Drazic and a talk on Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 7pm. The book is a result of the artist' piece developed in the framework of the 'Secret Exhibitions' - a curatorial project dealing with the mechanisms of censorship in the field of visual arts within the context of post socialist transformations. Besides 'Ad Hoc Project', the talk will address the case of censoring the exhibition '7 Zeros' in Split City Museum and other case studies of censorship that the project 'Secret Exhibitions' focused on. With: Rafaela Dražić, Eugen Jakovčić, Irena Borić, Ivana Hanaček i Ana Kršinić Lozica.
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Micropolitics_Differentiated neighbourhoods of New Belgrade_Monday, January 11, 2010 at 19.00
BLOK and DeLVe invite you to the presentation of the project of the Centre for Visual Culture at MoCA Belgrade with projections, promotion of the publication and public discussion with Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, Stefan Römer and Helmut Weber moderated by the project curator Zoran Eric. The project explores different connotations of the term neighbourhood, in the vocabulary of its urban, architectural and social contexts, and analyses the historical development and actual dynamics of urban transformations of the neighbourhoods of New Belgrade. This sentence could be seen as a common denominator and a platform for all different approaches to the topic developed in the course of more than a year long process of working within an international and interdisciplinary team.The particular topics of the public debate are: - How to build on the local socio-political legacy of workers self-management and reaffirm this concept in the new context where different kind of self-organization would be desirable? - How to deal with rapid urban transformations resulting in socio-spatial homogenisations and segregations?, and - Is there a possibility for spatial justice in the city neighbourhoods?
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Micropolitics_Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere_Friday, December 4, 2009 at 7 pm @ HDLU
Nevarez and Tevere’s research interests lie in the intersection between music and civic action/responsibility and historical moments that resonate through musical instrumentation and rhythmic/melodic traditions.
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Micropolitics lecture series_CARLOS MOTTA_Suturday, September 5, 2009 at 7 pm
Carlos is a Colombian born, New York based artist working primarily in photography, video and installation that engages political history by employing strategies used in documentary genres and sociology in order to interrogate governmental structures, to observe the repercussions of political events, and to suggest alternative ways in which to interpret those histories. Motta's work has been individually presented at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Konsthall C, Stockholm; Fundación Alzate Avendaño, Bogotá; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; and Art in General, New York and included in group exhibitions such as the X Biennale de Lyon 2009; The Greenroom, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Soft Manipulation, Casino Luxemburg and Democracy in America, Creative Time, New York, amongst others. The presentation at G-MK will encompass Motta's projects since 2005.
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Micropolitics_ lecture series_ MATEI BEJENARU_Tuesday, JuLY 14, 2009 at 7 pm
Matei Bejenaru is an artist and initiator of Periferic Biennial in Iasi, Romania. Established in 1997 as a performance festival, Periferic transformed into an international contemporary art biennial defined as a platform for discussions on the historical, socio-political and cultural context of Iasi. Together with a group of artists and philosophers from Iasi, Matei Bejenaru founded in 2001 the Vector Association, a contemporary art institution which supported the local emerging art scene to become locally and internationally visible. He is also member of the editorial stuff of Vector – art and culture in context magazine, a publication that mainly analyses the regional artistic and cultural situation of the South East European countries, in the process of transition, and the Middle East region, subdued to the pressures of conflicts.As an artist, he is socially engaged in analyzing the way globalization affects postcommunist countries labor force and rapidly changes mentalities and lifestyles. In 2003, for the second edition of Tirana Biennial he installed a water post in the center of the city offering a free water distribution for Albanian inhabitants. In 2004, he initiated the cARTier project, a socio-cultural project aiming to regenerate a workers district from Iasi. In 2005, he published in the Idea Magazine and later exhibited at Thyssen-Bornemisza Contemporary Art in Vienna, a Travelling Guide for Romanian illegal workers. In 2007, he developed the project Impreuna/Together involving the Romanian community from UK and showed it at Tate Modern – Level 2 Gallery. In 2008 he participated in the Taipei Biennial where he presented the video Maersk Dubai, a documentary about the assassination of three Romanian immigrants.
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