KUB Arena   Enduring Value? Cooperation ›springerin‹ 04 | 02 - 09 | 04 | 2012    

 
   
  

 
 
 
2 KUB Arena
Enduring Value?
Cooperation ›springerin‹
Installation view KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Photo: © Christian Hinz		  

With Yto Barrada, Alice Creischer, Josef Dabernig, Katrina Daschner, Andreas Fogarasi, Claire Fontaine, Sanja Ivekovic, Julius Koller, Jiri Kovanda, Dorit Margreiter, Ulrike Müller, Andreas Pawlik, Mathias Poledna, Florian Pumhösl, Walid Raad, Jochen Schmith, Andreas Siekmann, Mladen Stilinovic, Kamen Stoyanov, Milica Tomic and an exhibtion architecture by Johannes Porsch

The journal springerin – Hefte für Gegenwartskunst published in Vienna addresses a heterogeneous audience with interests ranging from contemporary culture to general pop-cultural topics. The journal and KUB Arena thus share much common ground both in respect of subject matter and in terms of their target audiences.

While the production, presentation, and distribution of the journal’s contents take place in the form of text and image, in an exhibition it is the exhibits that are crucial. But since theoretical, social, and interdisciplinary issues are so central to the KUB program, styles of presentation are often close to the discursive form of a journal. The collaboration between springerin and KUB Arena will explore what specific spaces they each create and how these are used. Can a journal be translated into an exhibition space and can the topics and methods dealt with and used in an exhibition be translated into journal format without just illustrating or simplifying the subjects?

The concept of value in its various senses lies at the heart of this joint project. “Value change,” “decline in values,” and the like, are common ideas nowadays. At the same time, material goods and increasingly all-embracing individualistic values seem to be becoming more important than ever. How is this reflected in the field of art? What new positions, erosions, and breaks with the past have occurred in the last 10 to 15 years? What visible factors pertaining to value and validity have established themselves in conjunction with what more or less valid articulable factors? What ideas of value, transient or enduring, are inscribed in such different art-related formats as exhibitions, works, discourse, or media like journals and magazines? Further lines of inquiry will explore the extent to which “criticality” – whether in the medium of the exhibition or the journal – represents abiding values and what temporal and/or contextual constraints they are subject to.

As part of the springerin and KUB Arena cooperation a project-oriented presentation is to be developed on the ground floor of the Kunsthaus Bregenz accompanying the production of the journal’s spring 2012 number. Central here are questions as to the durability and “shelf-life” of art and cultural appreciation and the different productive and distributive modes of exhibitions and magazines. Apart from the issue of the journal appearing along with the cooperation, a complete display of all springerin publications will be on show in the KUB Arena. A jointly planned program of events will accompany the project.
   
 
   
 
   
 

1 KUB Arena
Enduring Value?
Cooperation ›springerin‹
Installation view KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenzz
Photo: Markus Tretter
© Kunsthaus Bregenz
2 KUB Arena
Enduring Value?
Cooperation ›springerin‹
Installation view KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz
Photo: © Christian Hinz

 

KUB Arena
24.2. – 26.2.2012

Enduring Value?
Lectures, screenings, panel discussions, performance
with Anette Baldauf, Christa Benzer, Andreas Berger, Eva Birkenstock, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Tony Chakar, Alice Creischer, Josef Dabernig, Yilmaz Dziewior, Süreyyya Evren, Michaela Grill, Christian Höller, Georg Schöllhammer, Simon Sheikh, Simon Worthington



Friday, 24.2.2012, 6-9 p.m.
6 p.m.
Introduction by Yilmaz Dziewior and Eva Birkenstock

6.15 p.m.
Lecture
springerin with Christa Benzer, Christian Höller, Georg Schöllhammer (springerin, Vienna)

7 p.m.
Screening
Parallel Movements. Films by Visual Artists From the Former East, film screening with an introduction by Georg Schöllhammer (springerin, Vienna)



Saturday, 25.2.2012, 4-9 p.m.

4 p.m.
lecture
Changing the Currency: Art, Value, and Critique, lecture by Simon Sheikh (curator, critic, Berlin), in English

5 p.m.
Lecture
Values Without Trust. How Precarious Work is Shifting Social and Cultural Paradigms, lecture by Süreyyya Evren (author, cultural theorist, Istanbul), in English

6 p.m.
Powerpoint presentation
Speak Mouthless - powerpoint presentation by Tony Chakar (architect, Beirut)

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7 p.m.
Lecture
Wo und warum man nicht mehr weiterlesen soll... Zu Michel Foucaults Vorlesung vom 21. Januar 1976 am Collège de France, lecture by Alice Creischer (artist, curator, author, Berlin)

8 p.m.
Screening
Film screening Herna (17 min., 2010) and Hypercrisis (17 min, 2011) by Josef Dabernig followed by artist’s talk

Sunday, 26.2.2012, 12-4 p.m.

12 noon
Lecture
Freiheit, Selbstermächtigung, Aneignung oder: Was ist los mit Cultural Studies?, lecture by Anette Baldauf (sociologist, Vienna)

1 p.m.
Lecture
Ten Ways to Survive an Art Crazy Nation: Notes on Critical Publishing in a UK Context, lecture by Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman (Mute Magazine, London), in English

2 p.m.
Performance
glimgrill, audio visual performance by Michaela Grill (live Video, Vienna) and Andreas Berger (electronics, guitar, Vienna)
Living is mostly wasting time – the audio visual performance by Michaela Grill and Andreas Berger aims at an inquiry of the microstructures of sounds and images.

3 p.m.
Guided tour through the exhibition with curator Eva Birkenstock

Moderation: Christian Höller (springerin, Vienna)

Enduring Value? – Magazine Release
Wednesday, 04 April, starting 4 p.m.
with members of the editorial board and guests. A detailed program with the
exact times of events will be appearing in due course.

    
         
 
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