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During the hundred days of documenta 12, the documenta Halle serves as
work and presentation space for the editors, authors and artists from
the network of documenta 12 magazines. The editors whom we have invited
here in changing constellations to each spend a week with us in Kassel
present their work at a special table. This consists of specific
projects they have completed over the last two years in response to the
three leitfmotifs of documenta 12.  17-23 September 2007 With: Sonia Abian Rose (documenta 12 artist, Barcelona) Babak Afrassiabi (pages, Rotterdam/Teheran) Sven Augustijnen (artist, Brussels) Koen Brams (Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht) Alaa Khaled (Amkenah, Alexandria) Valérie Mannaerts (artist, Brussels) Dirk Pültau (De Witte Raaf, Brussels) Melinda Rackham (-empyre-, Sydney) Salwa Rashad (Amkenah, Alexandria) Dieter Roelstraete (A Prior, Brussels) Ana María Saavedra (Revista de Crítica Cultural, Santiago) Allan Sekula (documenta 12 artist, Los Angeles) Monika Szewczyk (A Prior, Brussels) Aneta Szylak (A Prior, Brussels) Nasrin Tabatabai (pages, Rotterdam/Teheran) Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Site, Stockholm) Andrea Wiarda (A Prior, Brussels) Tuesday, September 18 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Conversation with Allan Sekula Allan Sekula (documenta 12 artist, Los Angeles) in dialogue with Monika Szewczyk (contributing editor of A Prior, Brussels) on his work for A Prior 15 in the context of documenta 12 and the broad trajectory of his critical project since the 1970s. In cooperation with European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Language: English  18:00-19:00 Conversation Art/Work Contributing artists to A Prior 15 Allan Sekula, Sven Augustijnen and Valérie Mannaerts in conversation with the editors Dieter Roelstraete and Monika Szewczyk about action, labour and working conditions. A Prior Magazine (Ghent) is a series of publications on contemporary art founded 1999 in Brussels. The editorial board of the magazine is formed by young curators and authors from Central and East Europe. A Prior Magazine publishes two regular issues a year in which the body of work of an artist is discussed at large by means of visual and textual contributions. In cooperation with European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Language: English Wednesday, September 19 16:00-17:30 Screening Arte y Política (1973-1989) Presented and followed by a conversation with Ana María Saavedra (Revista de Critica Cultural, Santiago de Chile). Kabinett 1 Arte y Política (1973-1989) is a video-document directed by the Chilean cultural critic and intellectual Nelly Richard. The second in a series of three videos that archived and documented artistic practices, the construction of critical discourse, and the creation of editorial platforms in Chile from 1960s to the present. Starting with the military coup of September 11, 1973, the video is on art and politics during the Pinochet dictatorship. "Escena de Avanzada" is the name Richard gave to a group of contemporary artists, including Juan Dávila, Gonzálo Díaz and Lotty Rosenfeld (documenta 12 artists), who in the mid seventies created a conceptual practice that defied the authoritarian control mechanisms and were able to critically address their political context. In this way they radically distanced themselves from the preformatted folkloric and social realist strategies of Latin American left wing art. Language: Spanish with English subtitles Thursday, September 20 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Container: the changing (public) place of the intellectual in 1989 with Koen Brams (director Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht) and Dirk Pültau (chief editor De Witte Raaf, Brussels) Container was a television program, realized by the Belgian television maker Jef Cornelis and broadcast by the BRT (the Dutch-speaking Belgian Television Company) in 1989. In Container three or four intellectuals discussed different subjects that somehow had to do with ‘the archeology of modernity’. During one hour, sitting in a newly designed container, they talked about things like ‘the storehouse’, ‘theatricality’ and ‘Don Juan’. The form of this discussion was totally free and unconcerned by any kind of television format. The lunch lecture will address the (public) position of the intellectual which changed considerably around 1989 in Flanders, coinciding with the hostile reception of Container and the birth of commercial television. Language: English  16:00-17:30 Screening Heine’s paper cone: intellectuals about intellectuals (with the help of some painters) Followed by a discussion with Koen Brams (director Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht) and Dirk Pültau (chief editor De Witte Raaf, Brussels) Kabinett 1 In a workshop during the afternoon one episode of Container will be shown and discussed: De Puntzak van Heine (Heine’s paper cone). In this daring episode Lieven De Cauter, Bart Verschaffel (the anchor men), Rudi Laermans and Paul De Vylder (the guests) used letters by 19th century writers and philosophers to discuss the way intellectuals deal with history. The letters were read live in the studio while at the same images were shown of 19th-century paintings and engravings, as well as television images. Using an extremely associative and provocative ‘montage’ of text and images, Heine’s paper cone probably can be considered as the most experimental television broadcast that Flanders ever saw. Language: English Friday, September 21 16:00-17:00 Lecture Sites and Imaginations Alaa Khaled, editor of the magazine Amkenah [Places] and the photographer Salwa Rashad will introduce the magazine’s latest issue which is devoted to the topic ‘imagination’. History is made by people who live and work in places, and who, by doing so, as Michel de Certeau writes, turn them into sites. The ability to imagine is directly linked with the potential of forming the world, but that which lies beyond imagination can also become reality. Imagination also has a tragic dimension. Through dispute and making things visible, imagination can bridge solidified differences, and perhaps that is both its power and its weakness. The independenrtrly financed journal Amkenah, which since 1999 has been published once a year in Alexandria, engages with the culture of places and sites and aims at recording existing practices and ways of life, thus giving expression to a local notion of art and culture. Language: Arabic and Translation into German by: Günther Orth 18:00-19:30 Screening Exteriors Presented by Pages (Rotterdam/Teheran) Kabinett 1 The artists and the editors of Pages magazine Nasrin Tabatabai and Babak Afrassiabi will present "Exteriors" (Iran 2004, 68 min., OV) a film by Alireza Rasoulinezhad shot on video. It is a satire in three episodes about a disillusioned intellectual who disappears from Tehran to lead a different life elsewhere. He leaves his apartment to his nephew and niece, Shayan and Sharleen, with instructions and notes on various social and cultural topics and an unfinished film. Inspired by their uncle’s ideas and his film footage, they decide to make a film together; a decision that sets the ground for their (and our) encounter with the depths and facades of the social, cultural and political complexities of Tehran. What the film shows us is a kaleidoscope comprised of self-invented orientalism, performative traditionalism, intellectual turmoil, and a genuine strive for change. Pages (Rotterdam/Tehran) began its activities in February 2004 by publishing a bilingual (Farsi/English) periodical pursuing an exchange between Iranian and international authors and artists with critical views on art, culture, urbanism, and social issues. Language: Farsi with English subtitles Saturday, September 22 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Biopolitics and the Emergence of Modern Architecture With Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Site, Stockholm) Drawing of Foucault’s analysis of how Western society crossed the “biological threshold of modernity” around the time of the French Revolution, the lecture analyzes the break-up of the classical Vitruvian paradigm of architecture as “representation” around the time of the French revolution, and the emergence of the architecture as an instrument of planning and of the production of life. Architectural modernity, Wallenstein argues, is less a question of form and tectonics than a problem of how to administer life; the living body is no longer the model for architecture, but a site of intervention and something that must constantly be produced. In cooperation with European Cultural Foundation (ECF) Language: English 17:00-18:00 Talk with Sonia Abian Rose Kabinett 1 Furniture stores our things and makes our life easier. It is close to us, part of our private sphere, removed from the gaze of others and from external laws. It is a witness of a (hi)story that at the same time it cannot tell. Or can it? On the second floor of the Gemäldegalerie in Schloss Wilhelmshöhe there is a small piece of furniture that seems like an elegant sewing box and bears the disturbing title Das Konzentrationslager der Liebe [The Concentration Camp of Love]. Sonia Abian in conversation about her current documenta work. Language: German  10-16 September 2007 With: Karin Hindsbo (Ojeblikket, Gothenburg) Mikkel Bolt (Ojeblikket, Gothenburg) Domeniek Ruyters (Metropolis M, Utrecht) Matei Bejenaru (Vector, Iasi) Catalin Gheorghe (Vector, Iasi) Cristian Nae (Vector, Iasi) Mihnea Mircan (curator, MNAC Bucharest) Andrei Siclodi (curator, Innsbruck) Helmut Draxler (art historian/curator, Berlin) Habiba Djahnine (filmmaker, on behalf of Naqd, Algiers) Tuesday, 11 September 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture Forms of Criticism and documenta A discussion with Helmut Draxler (art historian, art critic, curator/Berlin), moderated by Sophie Goltz (art educator, documenta 12). A presentation by b_books ( documenta 12 bookstore/Berlin). In this documenta criticism is levelled in different forms, the clearest being criticism expressed by many artists, a rather blanketed form can be observed with the curators when critically differentiating themselves from other exhibition projects, and first and foremost in the form of art criticism, attracted by the exhibition like a magnet. How can these forms of criticism be linked to each other and how are they actually related to artistic works on the one hand, and special categories and value horizons they represent, on the other hand. Are art and criticism pulling together in the same direction or are they rather different cultural ways of expression that need to be rectified and differentiated? Language: German  16:00 - 18:00 Screening Episode 1 (40 mins) & Episode 3 (3 mins), 2002 - 2003 With an introduction by Domeniek Ruyters (Metropolis M, Utrecht) Kabinett 1 What does it mean to look at the pain of others in art? In whose interest is the visual presentation of cruelty and suffering in art exhibitions? Is it the victims, the audience, or the artist who is showing it? Metropolis M presents a video by the Dutch artist Renzo Martens, who argues that only the artist who is prepared to reflect upon his own position, can commit himself to another cause. Language: English Wednesday, September 12 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture Working in between systems of power With Mihnea Mircan (curator, Bucharest) and editors of Vector magazine: Matei Bejenaru, Catalin Gheorghe and Cristian Nae How can one define one's project in a rapidly shifting context, in an expanding cultural economy that produces new value systems and hierarchies faster than the rhythm of critical apprehension? This panel discussion gathering Romanian artists, curators, writers and editors of Vector magazine will try to give an account of different practices in a context that is undergoing ideological confusion, neo-liberal and social changes. Language: English Friday, September 14 15:00 - 17:00 Screening Letter to My Sister Kabinett 1 The documentary film Letter to My Sister (Algeria, 2005, 69 min., OV with English subtitles) tells the story of the assassination of Nabila Djahnine, the filmmaker's sister, who was President of the Algerian association "Thighri N'tmettouth" (Women’s Outcry). Nabila was assassinated in Tizi-Ouzo, a hundred kilometers from Algiers, on February 15, 1995. Ten years after Habiba Djahnine comes back to make this film. To tell what happened. To see what became of Tizi-Ouzo and its people. To find out why assassination and massacre were the only responses to a conflict that divides Algerians. Why had a dialogue become impossible? Followed by a conversation with the director Habiba Djahnine invited by Naqd (Algiers) The journal of social criticism, Naqd (Algiers) was founded in 1991 by a group of Algerian academics and intellectuals. It is the first and only independent Maghreb journal contributing to the development and circulation of contemporary critical reflection. Language: English 3-9 September 2007 The Politics of Magazine Making co-organized by Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Copenhagen) With: Barbara Bauer (Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin) Carlos P. del Campo (theorist and editor, Madrid) Alex. Cistelecan (IDEA, Cluj) Darío Corbeira (Brumaria, Madrid) Ehren Fordyce (actor, Berlin) Dora García (artist, Brussels) Iman Hamam (Bidoun, New York) Thomas Keenan (Human Rights Project, New York) Esther Leslie (Radical Philosophy, London) David Levine (Theatre director, New York) Irene Montero (Brumaria, Madrid) Timotei Nădăşan (IDEA, Cluj) Sina Najafi (Cabinet, New York) Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) Eduardo Ramirez (velocidadcrítica, Monterrey) Philippe Rekacewicz (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris) Adrian T. Sîrbu (IDEA, Cluj) Eyal Sivan (filmmaker, Paris) Thomas Spencer (actor, Berlin) Jason Tan (Off the Edge, Petaling Jaya) Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (IDEA, Cluj) Attila Tordai-S. (IDEA, Cluj) Eyal Weizman (Cabinet, London) Joseba Zulaika (philosopher, Reno) Tuesday, September 4 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Maps between art and politics A presentation by Philippe Rekacewicz (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris) with an introduction by Barbara Bauer (Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin) “We map-makers must make a point of demolishing the illusion that there can be an official, universally accepted representation of the world’s political divisions. There is no such thing as the right map showing the approved version of a country.” In his talk Philippe Rekacewicz will speak about his practice as geographer-cartographer for Le monde Diplomatique, focusing on aesthetics, habits of looking at things, how visualization and working at different scales enhances invisible ideologies, and how the cartographic image meets journalism. Language: English  Wednesday, September 5 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Beyond Democracy, or on the censorship of art in Central Europe, Poland in particular A lecture by Piotr Piotrowski (Professor Ordinarius and Chair of Art History Department at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan). In this lecture some censorship practices over art will be presented, and will be used as a point of departure to rise a more general question about freedom and democracy in post-communist countries. One of the crucial problem here is to ask what is the political, as well as historical background of new censorship, how it works, and what does it mean for the future. A special interest will be done on the religious iconography appropriated by the artists as a language of social critique, what in Poland, identified itself as a catholic country, and somehow repressing those who are outside such a main stream, seems to be particularly important. Even if Poland is on the main focus of the lecture, a sort of comparative studies with the experience of other post-communist countries also will be provided. Language: English Thursday, September 6 15:00-16:30 Presentation and Discussion Money, lies and contemporary art centers Kabinett 1 A discussion with Darío Corbeira (editor Brumaria, Madrid), Carlos P. del Campo (theorist and editor, Madrid), Dora García (artist, Brussels) and Joseba Zulaika (philosopher, Reno), moderated by Irene Montero (co-editor Brumaria, Madrid). In the last 20 years Spanish Art Institutions have shown an excessive proliferation. Out of all players involved – artists, galleries, universities, art fairs, art critics, collectors and media – more than 150 Museums and Contemporary Art Centers in Spain seem to have profited most from public money. Taking up different examples from the so called "Guggenheim effect" to the spectacular architectonical renovation of the city of Madrid, the presentation will critically analyze the instrumentalization of cultural institutions through town-planning, economical and political interests. Language: Spanish and English  Saturday, September 8 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut With: Ehren Fordyce, Thomas Keenan, David Levine, Sina Najafi, Eyal Sivan, Thomas Spencer, and Eyal Weizman In May 2006, a libel suit filed by Paris-based Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan against French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was finally brought to court. The trial, at which a number of well-known intellectuals were called to testify, concerned comments Finkielkraut had made on French radio regarding Route 181, a film made in 2003 by Sivan and Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi. At heart, the suit turned around a question of intertextuality, namely the relation between Route 181, which addresses the Palestinian Naqba, and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, and by extension, around the problematic of reading the Holocaust and the Naqba in relation to one another. For this event, Cabinet magazine, whose current issue presents the full text of the trial along with an introduction by Eyal Weizman and Thomas Keenan, presents a re-enactment of the trial directed by David Levine. The re-enactment will be preceded by a screening of the two crucial scenes from Shoah and Route 181, and followed by an open public debate. Language: English 27 August – 2 September 2007 With: Michaela Adelberger (Eurozine/Vienna) Keti Chukhrov (contributing author to Moscow Art Magazine and Chto Delat, St. Petersburg/Moscow) Katy Deepwell (n.paradoxa, London) Judy Freya Sibayan (Ctrl+P, Manila) Haruo Fukuzumi (AIDA, Tokyo) Vít Havránek (curator and art historian, Prague) Kateřina Šedá (documenta 12 artist, Brno/Prague) Ben Seymour (contributing author Eurozine/Vienna) Heie Treier (Kunst.ee, Tallinn) Tuesday, August 28 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Whose modernity are we looking at? A discussion with Keti Chukhrov (philosopher and contributing author to Moscow Art Magazine and Chto Delat, St. Petersburg/Moscow), Vít Havránek (curator and art historian, Prague) and Heie Treier (editor-in-chief of kunst.ee, art critic and art historian, Tallinn). How are contemporary artists dealing with artistic languages and formalist approaches developed by the historical avant-garde and in which regards can they be considered as "our antiquity"? What kind of modern positions are being revisited in documenta 12 and how are these being read by a global audience? Whilst in the official Stalinist take on art "formalism" was the most evil word in order to label artists as "enemies of the state", at the same time Clement Greenberg's formalist art theory became extremely powerful in the USA. Departing from a specific reading of documenta 12, the panelists will analyze different cultural and political meanings of modernity's artistic languages and the ways in which avant-garde practices could be continued. Language: English  Thursday, August 30 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Regendering Documenta Katy Deepwell (editor n.paradoxa, London) in dialogue with Judy Freya Q. Sibayan (editor Ctrl+P, Manila). Roger Buergel referenced as a key starting point for documenta 12, the question 'where does art stand today, where do we stand today?' which was asked by Bode in the 1955 documenta. This discussion will address the same question with one important difference: we will ask what difference does a consideration of gender have on documenta. More pointedly, we aim to ask questions about the position of women artists, feminist art theory/history and the perspectives of women in the organisation, agenda and reception of exhibitions like documenta. Language: English 16:00-17:00 Reading Performance Paskil With Judy Freya Sibaya (Ctrl+P, Manila). Kabinett 1 Paskil is a short story written in Filipino by Tony Perez and published in Ctrl+P's special issue on Bare Life. This story takes up the lumpenproletariat as the subject living in the slums of Metro Manila, godforsaken dwelling places and prima materia for spawning the barest of lives. Yet these bare lives lived in extreme abjection, make up the biopolitic that, according to Giorgio Agamben ironically have "the peculiar privilege of being that whose exclusion founds the city of men." Literature, film, and the visual arts, place us in a dialectical process of seeing if only to confront our own complicity in the hegemonic processes of rendering life bare. In this short story we share in the despair over the protagonist's sheer inability to make sense of things or in this case, bare his grief, bare his life through words. Language: English Saturday, September 1 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Atsuko Tanaka and Her Environment – the Position of Women Artists in Japan A lecture by Haruo Fukuzumi (editor AIDA, Japan). Haruo Fukuzumi, editor of the Japanese journal AIDA [Between] will talk about the ambivalent position of women in modern Japanese society and different forms of engaged positions developed in the arts. He will specifically focus on Atsuko Tanaka (documenta 12 artist) who dealt with the peculiar state of contradiction of a society in which the word "gender-free" appears in all official documents whilst the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare calls a woman "a birth-giving machine", or Nobuyoshi Araki's pornographic photographs are celebrated in the art scene where female "talents" are often pampered for a marketing purpose. Language: English  16:00-17:00 Screening and Discussion Bare Life and Living Labour With Ben Seymour (contributing author to Eurozine/Vienna, journalist and film maker) Kabinett 1 A screening of the short film 'The London Particular' by Ben Seymour and David Panos which relates the spatial and social transformation of the East End of London to the 'humanitarian' production of non-citizens, non-People, by state and capital. Expanding on the issues discussed in the film there will then be a talk and discussion around the way in which bare life, and the states of emergency that produce it, are not the exception but the rule in contemporary capitalism. Language: English 20-26 August 2007 Tuesday, August 20 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture On the 'Document' in Art Today A presentation by Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Raqs Media Collective, Sarai-CSDS/New Delhi) That the "document" enters the art space at a time when the world seems to be grappling with visible crises should come as no surprise. The enhanced "visibility" of the crises, particularly as a result of the intensification of the extensive presence of media networks, threatens to overwhelm all repositories of significant representations. If one function of art making is to offer a way of making sense of the realities we live in, then it is not as such remarkable that contemporary art practice chooses to engage with the visibility of global crises in our times. The art space cannot keep the troubled world at bay, and in order to apprehend reality as it is, in all its disarray, it has to permit the entry of the document as a "stable" referent of the chaotic world it inhabits. The question is, how are we to ensure that the presence of the "document" in an art space does not simultaneously produce either a tyranny of the indexical, or an ersatz ornamental overlay of processed reality on packaged representation. In this presentation we will explore strategies that range from the recording of the documentary moving image to the publication of documents, and reflect on the complex destiny of documents in an exhibition like the documenta. Language: English  Saturday, 25 August 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Insularity, insulation, and critical appropriation in Cuba Desiderio Navarro (Criterios, Habana) will discuss the complexities involved in making a magazine that puts into circulation theoretical reflection on contemporary art and culture in Cuba. A context that must deal with the insularity of linguistic, economic and geopolitical isolation, and insulation due to ideological chauvinism, cultural and ideological xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. What can be done in the current transition from upright socialism to a pre-post-communist condition? How can multilayered misunderstandings be turned into productive critical appropriation? How are these issues tackled by an enterprise of cultural and intellectual translation like Criterios? Language: English 13-19 August 2007 The Position of the Speaker co-organized by Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Copenhagen) in collaboration with LabforCulture.org With: Balazs Beothy (exindex, Budapest) Ariane Chottin (Vacarme, Paris) Keti Chukrov (philosopher, Berlin/Moscow) Göran Dahlberg (Glänta, Gothenburg) Laurence Duchêne (Vacarme, Paris) Nikolett Eros (exindex, Budapest) Andrea Geyer (documenta 12 artist, New York) Ashley Hunt (documenta 12 artist, Los Angeles) Anders Johansson (Glänta, Gothenburg) Graziela Kunsch (artist, São Paulo) John Roberts (writer, London) Katya Sander (documenta 12 artist, Berlin) Irina Sandormirskaja (Glänta, Gothenburg) Shuddhabrata Sengupta (Sarai, New Delhi) Mikela Lundahl (Glänta, Gothenburg) André Mesquita (rizoma, São Paulo) David Riff (Chto Delat, Moscow) Carolina Ruiz Torres (Alicia's Garden, Cali) Jelena Vesic (curator, Belgrade) Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?, Petersburg) Pierre Zaoui (Vacarme, Paris)  Tuesday, August 14 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture The How-To of Bare Life: A Story of O. A presentation by Irina Sandormirskaja (contributing author to Glänta, Stockholm) in the context of documenta's second and third Leitmotif. This is the story of Olga Skorokhodova (1914?-1982), a blind-deaf scholar, educationalist and author, a star of Stalin's cultural revolution. Skorokhodova lost hearing, vision, and speech in her childhood and gradually regained language through persistent effort and with the help of advanced special education technologies in the 1930s. In her presentation Sandormirskaja will follow Skorokhodova's re-invention of her own self in the process of her re-acquistion of language. Language: English  16:00-18:00 Avant-gardes after Avant-gardism? Kabinett 1 A lecture by John Roberts (writer, London) followed by a discussion with David Riff and Dimitry Vilensky from the collective Chto Delat? [What is to be done?], (Saint Petersburg/Moscow). In both contemporary art and contemporary grass roots politics, the idea of avant-gardism sounds rather discredited by the Soviet experience of party politics. Most if not all new cultural workers refuse such claims of totality, at the same time, the developing political situation urgently poses the questions of the forms of the organization which can arise on a place of party politics. Which new forms of cultural production are capable of continuing avant-garde practices? Which political subjectivity lies at their base? Or, as John Roberts puts it in his lecture, what are the possibilities for “avant-gardes after avant-gardism”? Language: English Thursday, August 16 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture 9 Scripts from a Nation at War Andrea Geyer, Ashley Hunt and Katya Sander in conversation with Simon Sheikh about their current documenta work. 9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a collaborative project developed over the past two years by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer. Featuring multiple videos installed at Documenta Halle, the work responds to the new questions and changed conditions that have arisen since March 2003. The project considers the processes by which we become, are placed into and/or refuse to be certain kinds of “individuals”—artists, soldiers, students, journalists, prisoners, detainees, citizens, Iraqis, Europeans, Americans, and so on. Language: English  16:00-19:00 Screening Art lost in Politics Vacarme (Paris) presents "Atelier 2" (Pascale Bouhenic, 2007), a film on the French writer Olivier Cadiot. Kabinett 1 Art and litterature seem never to have been that far from politics and at the same time never needed as much politics. In fact, a collapse of the three traditional relations of art and literature to politics is actually taking place: ideological art or blessing art, religious or tragic art, court art, art of denunciation, comical art, ironical art, art of resistance and art for art’s sake lost the major part their credibility. Therefore, and paradoxically, contemporary art may have to invent a new relation to politics: no more relation of obedience, neither overhanging relation, nor one of exile but a relation of immersion, if not partial and divided up identification, blurring feelings and distinctions. Language: Film in French language with English subtitles, Discussion in English Saturday, August 18 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture The position of the speaker With participating editors from Chto Delat (Saint Petersburg/Moscow), Exindex (Budapest), Glänta (Gothenburg) and Vacarme (Paris) moderated by Simon Sheikh (Copenhagen/Berlin) The theme for this Lunch Lecture will be the constructions and delimitation of a specific figure; the speaking subject. How does this figure emerge through discourse, and what are its functions? What can be said and not said in order for a speaking subject to appear as real, as authentic, as authoritative and/or as truthful? Questions which will also serve as reflections on the current exhibition and the editorial work of magazines: How is truth produced, and subsequently, staged? Language: English   16:00-19:00 Screening and Discussion The unbearable lightness of censorship Introduced by Miklós Erhardt (Exindex, Budapest) Kabinett 1 The Hungarian Magazine Exindex presents three films from the archives of the Balázs Béla Studio that all rely on the genre of documentary while subverting it to different degrees: Tibor Hajas: Self-Fashion Show (1976), Péter Dobai: Archaic Torso (1971) and Miklós Erdély: Version (1979). Three positions to deal with the double layered reality of the seventies/eighties’s Hungary (as opposed to the multilayered reality of today). While exploring the different conceptions of the figure of the ‘documentator’ discernible in the films, the screening tries to address the specific cultural-political situation of the so called ‘soft dictatorship’, the remarkable role of the Balázs Béla Studio in organizing and making visible certain underground contural activities as well as the relevance of documentary filmmaking in that period. Sunday, August 18 13:00-18:00 Lunch Lecture Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064 A public reading Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics Documenta Lunch lectures presents “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064,” a five-hour public reading of fifteen tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and March 2005. Featured are approximately 110 pages of tribunal transcripts, a small fraction of the material generated by 558 tribunals. This performance is part of the artwork “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, Andrea Geyer on view in the Documenta Halle. Language: German   6-12 August Asia Speaking Up! Organized by Keiko Sei (documenta 12 magazines, Bangkok) Histories of modernization in Asian states are histories of possibility but also conflict, ambivalence and negotiation between Western administrative frameworks and traditions (those include strategically-reinvented ones). While the powers that be may appropriate infrastructure of Western cultural and political systems in order to strengthen their authority, historically-vulnerable populations in Asia have actively started to explore spaces and possibilities in which to speak as „citizens“. New media technologies augment this process: allowing both possibilities for intensified surveillance but also for new voices to challenge historical hierarchies. Throughout the week editors of independent media from Asia will discuss various ways to make these voices clearer, considered and more representative. With: Antariksa (KUNCI/CLiCK, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Nirwan Dewanto (Kalam, Jakarta, Indonesia) Somkiat Tangnamo (Midnight University/Thai Bookazine, Chiang Mai, Thailand) Pinyo Trisuriyatamma (Open/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok, Thailand) Chuwat Rerksirisuk (Prachatai/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok, Thailand) Thanapol Eawsakul (Fah Diew Kan/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok, Thailand) Arthit Suriyawongkul (translation, Thailand Wikipedia, Bangkok, Thailand) Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez (Pananaw, Paranaque, Philippines) Lucy Davis (FOCAS, Singapore) Moe Thet Han (Sabei Phyu, Yangon, Burma/Myanmar) Hoai Phi (talawas, Berlin/Hanoi/ Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Ly Doi (talawas, Berlin/Hanoi/Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) Ye Tong (Dushu, Beijing, China) Adeline Ooi (Kakiseni.com, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) Nur Hanim Khairuddin (sentAp!, Ipoh/Perak, Malaysia) Roslisham Ismail (sentAp!, Ipoh/Perak, Malaysia) Kean Wong (Center for Independent Journalism, Off the Edge, Berlin/KL/Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)   Tuesday, August 7 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Islamic Southeast Asia – New Reality of the World Nirwan Dewanto (editor of Kalam, Jakarta, Indonesia) will talk about the strife of liberal Muslim organizations in the context of the rise of fundamentalism in Indonesia. A fall of a dictator makes people fall asleep one night only to wake up with new problems as well as possibilities. Eight years after the fall of Suharto, liberal culture and media figures and organizations in Indonesia are still trying to explore a new spirit of culture while facing various threats and pressures. Nirwan Dewanto is a member of the Utan Kayu Community of artists, intellectuals and activists that has been considered as a role model for experimentation, free thinking, and an intellectual laboratory for what is termed “Liberal Islam”. Nirwan will talk about his experiences with Utan Kayu. Language: English  18:00 Launch of FOCAS Forum On Contemporary Art & Society Vol 6 Regional Animalities at the Weekly Magazines' Table, documenta Halle A special volume entitled Regional Animalities, on cultures natures humans and animals in art and life in Southeast Asia –in collaboration with documenta 12 magazines– on and around the themes of "What Is Bare Life” and "What is to Be Done”. FOCAS also includes sections on Art and Censorship in Southeast Asia and Art & Activism in Singapore. Language: English  Thursday, August 9 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Censorship in Asia – psychology, mechanism and strategy With Antariksa (editor of KUNCI, Yogyakarta/Indonesia), Lucy Davis (editor of FOCAS, Singapore), Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez (editor of Pananaw, Paranaque/Philippines), Somkiat Tangnamo (president of Midnight University, Bangkok/Thailand), Kean Wong (freelance journalist, co-founder of Center for Independent Journalism, Petaling Jaya/Malaysia) While Asia is rapidly becoming the economic power house and is expected to be the next superpower, in every country in the region, suppression of freedom of expression continues in various forms. Meanwhile Europe, a stanch advocate for democracy and free speech, is turning blind eyes to the problem in Asia for fear of losing trade relationship as well as offending local “tradition” and “culture”. Hence more and more “traditions” are re-invented, “culturally sensitive matters” strategically constructed. How are people working in art and culture in Asia coping with this situation? Language: English  Saturday, August 11 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture The King, the Army and YouTube - Thai Forum With Thanapol Eawsakul (Fah Diew Kan/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok), Chuwat Rerksirisuk (Prachatai/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok), Somkiat Tangnamo (Midnight University/Thai Bookazine, Chiang Mai), Pinyo Trisuriyatamma (Open/Thai Bookazine, Bangkok). The dramatic changes in Thailand over the last year have stunned Asia and the rest of the world: the King, the army, the dictatorship, economic corruption, and the religious conflict. Thai politics are beginning to look like a showcase of Asian political problems. While little of this complexity is known in Europe, citizens in Thailand have been working tirelessly to strengthen their rights and powers. Various forms of media have become a battlefield between the old power forces and the new citizens’ movements –from community radio to YouTube. Four representatives of the most important independent media in Thailand will talk about the current context of Thai politics and media, and a forecast of the future. 30 July - 5 August 2007 With: Felicity Scott (Grey Room, New York) Harun Farocki (filmmaker, Berlin) Anjalika Sagar (Multitudes, London) Kodwo Eshun (Multitudes, London) Tirdad Zolghadr (Sharzhad, Zurich) and the Editorial Team of archplus (Berlin/Aachen)  Tuesday, July 31 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Bare Life or Just Existence? Klaus Ronneberger on the second leitmotif of documenta 12 In his reflection on "bare life" and the figure homo sacer, Ronneberger concludes: Modernity produces not only the camps, but also the resistance to them, which is carried forward last but not least by the idea of justice. Language: German Thursday, August 2 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Render Time A conversation between Harun Farocki (documenta 12 artist), Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun (Multitudes Online Magazine/ Otolith Group). In an era characterized by extreme rates of temporal contraction, pockets of slow time nonetheless emerge as blue flowers in the land of technical reproducibility. What if the distracted temporality of waiting, experienced during the practice of digital editing, were to be invoked outside of the editing suite as a condition of attentiveness rather than of endurance? This proposition provides the name and informs the contingencies of this dialogue. To orient the conversation, each participant has selected a film clip. The clip is double faced: it is exemplary and singular at the same time; it provides a point of departure for discussion around the auditory image as a distinctive form of knowledge production, as an event and as a mode of collectivity. Language: English 17:00-18:00 Screening –Tropical Modernism Followed by a conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr (Shahrzad, Zurich) Kabinett 1 "Tropical Modernism" (Iran/Switzerland, 2005, 23 Min.) by Tirdad Zolghadr is a short film about the Iranian Left. Following the example of “successful anthropological experiments conducted in Africa”, Dr. G. Rahati allegedly claims control over Zolghadr’s camera, apparently deciding to film himself, on his own, as he recounts a brief history of Iranian socialism. The latter constituted a mass movement until shortly after the revolution of 1979, when it came to an abrupt end; over the 1980s, close to 20'000 activists were executed without trial. This film is an attempt to portray a onetime militant without heroifying him or his comrades, and without sensationalizing a painful personal past. Language: English  Saturday, August 4 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Groovin’ on Time Felicity D. Scott (Grey Room, New York) The psychedelic experience of a spatial expansion of “consciousness” and sense of an interconnected “planetary culture” was widespread among the late-sixties counterculture. This identification with a global community and its concern for the whole earth’s ecosphere was largely a postindustrial phenomenon, a reflection upon new technological potentials that, while apparently euphoric, were haunted by a politics of survival. In addition to this spatial sensation was an equally symptomatic sense of temporal transformation. The psychedelic experience of the “trip” involved an “expanded time phenomenon,” a sense of one’s ability to “dwell exponentially” in time, or to experience not the sequential passing of time but accelerating rates of change. It was within this historical condition that Ant Farm was founded in 1968 on a platform of educational reform, one intending to bring architectural pedagogy into an alignment with these radically transformed space-time relations and in so doing to offer a “turned-on” counterpart to normative models of pedagogy. The presentation will focus on Ant Farm’s early work, particularly the Truckstop Network project that sought to articulate an educational framework dedicated to radical environmental alternatives and within which architecture became closed life-support modules interfacing with open-ended media systems. If Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes had operated at the helm of a transforming modernity, Ant Farm’s work would be cast, rather, as fully inscribed within the postindustrial milieux. Language: English  Sunday, August 5 13:00-23:00 Interview Mini-Marathon archplus with Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist archplus projectroom, Kulturbahnhof Bahnhofsplatz 1, 34117 Kassel Interviews with: Thomas Bayrle (artist, Frankfurt/Main), Gottfried Böhm (architect, Köln), Hannes Böhringer (philosopher, Berlin/Braunschweig), Arno Brandlhuber (architect, Berlin), Harun Farocki (filmmaker, Berlin), Jeremy Gaines (publicist, Frankfurt/a.M.), Manfred Grohmann (civil engineer, Frankfurt/a.M.), Hardt-Waltherr Hämer (architect, Berlin), Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm (author, Berlin), Jens Jessen (editor-in-chief of Feuilleton Zeit, Hamburg), Sejla Kameric (artist, Sarajevo/Berlin), Annette Kelm (artist, Berlin), Friedrich Kittler (media theoretician, Berlin), Alexander Kluge (filmmaker, München), Xavier Le Roy (choreographer/dancer, Berlin), Antje Majewski (artist, Berlin), Jürgen Mayer H. (architect, Berlin) Eva Meyer-Keller (performance artist, Berlin), Markus Miessen (architect, London), Isabel Mundry (composer, Zürich), Ulrich Müther (architect, Binz), Ingo Niermann (author, Berlin), Marie Luise Scherer (journalist/writer, Damnatz), Karl Schlögel (historian, Berlin/Frankfurt Oder), Thomas Schütte (sculptor, Düsseldorf), Hito Steyerl (filmmaker, Berlin), Günter Zamp Kelp (architect, Berlin) Language: German 23-29 July 2007 With: Ric Allsopp (Performance Research, Cheshire) Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, New York) Francois Bucher (Valdez, Berlin) Bojan Djordjev (Teorija koja hoda, Belgrade) Oliver Frljic (Frakcija, Zagreb) Sergej Goran Pristas (Frakcija, Zagreb) Emil Hrvatin (Maska, Ljubljana) Luis Jacob (documenta 12 artist) Raimundas Malasauskas (A Prior, Gent) Ulrike Müller (LTTR, New York) Lucas Ospina (Valdez, Cali) Marta Popivoda (Teorija koja hoda, Belgrade) Katja Praznik (Maska, Ljubljana) Els Roelandt (A Prior, Gent) Ozaki Tetsuya (Art-it, Tokyo) Ana Vujanovic (Teorija koja hoda, Belgrade) Andrea Wiarda (A Prior, Gent) and participants of OPEN SPACE Tuesday, July 24 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Magazines and education: East Dance Academy with participating editors from Frakcija (Zagreb), Maska (Ljubljana), Walking Theory (Belgrade) There is no other art form which would be so closely linked to contemporaneity (modern, post-modern, contemporary) and freedom as dance. Dance as an art form has always been considered as part of democratic societies. It's the art form par excellence of the first world. It is not surprising that dance of non-democratic societies is not mentioned in the official histories of contemporary dance. Instead there was folklore, ballet and the military parade — all forms of pre-democratic regimes. Understanding dance practice in Eastern Europe as a strategy of piercing through social choreographies, we will discuss several educational models and projects which translate artistic practice into the political or the art school. Language: English  16:00-18:30 The Dead, The Absent and Fictitious – Screening Followed by a conversation with Ulrike Müller and Ginger Brooks Takahashi (LTTR, New York) Kabinett 1 LTTR (New York) is a feminist genderqueer artist collective with a flexible project oriented practice founded in 2001. LTTR produces an annual independent art journal, performance series, events, screenings and collaborations. For documenta 12 magazines LTTR presents a screening of short films and videos as a recognition of all things un-see-able: "Is it in your mind, in your blood? Is it your dream or deep evil? Is it your grandma or your hero's unfinished last work? You paint wide with your camera and think big. The point is that it doesn't have to be new. Does it make sense? Or state the absence of it?" Language: English Wednesday, July 25 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Subtle plots. The performance of a magazine Presentation by Francois Bucher and Lucas Ospina. "Subtle plot" is a term that Argentinian writer Ernesto Sábato coined to refer to other stories that are not history as we know it. We always like to say half-jokingly that the editors of Valdez don't read the magazine; we know the subject matter of the articles, but there is something else, a subtle plot, that is ciphered in the way each text is set in the magazine. This is the performance of the magazine, or the magazine as performance. Even when not being published —when it has turned, for a couple of years into a tacit entity— Valdez is asking itself the introspective question: What is it to be a magazine? what is this genre about? how far can it be pushed? And more recently: why insist on a magazine as an object despite the world of virtual fast-track possibilities? Language: English  17:00-19:00 Presentation Proposal for documenta 12 Kabinett 1 Raimundas Malasauskas presents A Prior Magazine extra #2 produced as a response to documenta 12 magazines – a booklet with proposals for any documenta in the past, present or future, from any moment in the past, present or future by 22 artists and curators. A speculative-imaginary curatorial project particularly relevant with regards to the current exhibition. This event is part of a series of seminars set up by A Prior inviting students of various art schools in Belgium, Germany and Italy to make proposals or to respond in the form of a work, text or moving image. The Kunsthochschule Kassel is one of the participating academies and also the initiator of another education project, Open Space (www.openspacekassel.de) organised by Bjorn Melhus. Language: English Thursday, July 26 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Fast and furious collaboration: ad-hocing in the art A debate and brainstorming by participating magazines and people interested in disappointment. What is collaboration once we objectify that quasi-object? How do we exhibit or (re)present collaborative work and collaboration as methodological dispositif? Is the collaboration among the subjects or we are talking about a singularity or idea which always appears as additional subjectless subjectivity? What is a role of curator inviting for collaboration in post-fordist cultural institution? Language: English  Friday, July 27 11:00-13:00 Common Whispers and Gossips Meeting at the Weekly Magazines' Table, documenta Halle A guided tour as performance In a performative set up, participating writers, editors, artists and art mediators demonstrate artworks they find relevant to talk about. Demonstration is a hybrid form between lecture and performance and it includes direct and concrete delivery of the work presented as well as elements of contextualization and interpretation. These reconstructions can be understood as performative procedures of historicizing contemporary art. Language: English Saturday, July 28 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Luis Jacob (documenta 12 artist, Toronto) in dialogue with the public about his current work. 16-22 July 2007 Paper and Pixel organised by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller in collaboration with LabforCulture.org With: Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari) Nat Muller (Rotterdam) Miren Eraso (Zehar, Donostia/San Sebastian) Maider Zilbeti (Zehar, Donostia/San Sebastian) Christina MCPhee (-empyre-, L.A.) Jaime Iregui (Esfera Pública, Bogotá) Fran Ilich (Sab0t, Mexico City) Patricia Canetti (Canal Contemporaneo, Sao Paulo/Rio de Janeiro) Regine Debatty (We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Paris) Nebojsa Vilic (Concrete Reflection, Skopje) Jose-Carlos Mariátegui (Peru/London) Simon Worthington (Mute, London)   Tuesday, July 17 13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture How to Survive the Paper Industry With Simon Worthington (Mute, London), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari), moderated by Nat Muller (Rotterdam) Ever since ink turned into toner and pixel, printed paper has been struggling to survive as a medium. Yet, stubborn independent editors are still producing the most endangered species of paper products: the independent magazine. By endlessly reinventing content, technical and economical strategies these magazines testimony to the distinct qualities of printed publications, such as periodicity, touch of paper and smell of copy. Yet, it is precisely the love for the speed of electrons, and an understanding of the potentials of networked media, that have inspired the cultural tactics of these magazines; from print-on-demand, collaborative editing, sharing content and knowledge, to surfing and playing up to new economical demands. Language: English  16:00-17:30 Screening and Discussion Ibon Aranberri (documenta 12 artist, Bilbao) in dialogue with Pablo Lafuente (London) Kabinett 1 Thursday, July 19 13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture Processual Aesthetics, Processual Editing: Net-Working With Miren Eraso (Zehar, San Sebastian), Christina MCPhee (-empyre-, Sydney), Patricia Canetti (Canal Contemporâneo, São Paulo/Rio de Janeiro), moderated by Alessandro Ludovico (Neural, Bari) Cultural networking has been embodied in different forms through the various nets of independent publishers. We will focus on the aesthetics and practices of networking, collaborative editing and publishing and how that all ties into what has been called “processual aesthetics”, namely an aesthetics that recognizes the material and embodied dimensions of netculture. Strategies of connecting, sharing, improve altogether, meeting on shared goals and then terminating collaborations to start new ones as temporary autonomous zones of production and development. So how do editors really work on the net, and where is the locus of pixel and where is the locus of paper?  10:30-12:00 The Art of Blogging Kabinett 2 A lecture by Régine Debatty (We-make-money-not-art.com, Berlin). The art of blogging. How blogging is an art and how to make it successful. The queen of media art blogging Regine Debatty talks about the king of media art blogs. Ironically titled, 'we make money not art', the latter is a unique case in the world of digital art publishing successful, competent, engaging, and purely digital. Saturday, July 21 13:00-14:30 Lunch Lecture Publishing the Public: Contextualising Locality Participants: Jaime Iregui (Esfera Pública, Bogotá), Fran Ilich (Sab0t, Mexico City), José-Carlos Mariátegui (Lima/London), Nebojsa Vilic (Concrete Reflection, Skopje) Moderator: Nat Muller (Rotterdam) In a time when the public sphere is shrinking and “things public” become convoluted with “things privat(ised)”, we would like to approach writing and publishing as a public act. Like curating, we would like to view publishing as an effort towards making this public, and in the service of various publics. What is public is of course shaped and moulded by the specificities of context. In a global era we insist to ask how we can work from a particular locality, and go beyond the standard (and by now tedious) “local vs. global” debate, but head to another (yet unknown Language: English  9-15 July 2007 With: Christa Benzer (Springerin, Vienna) Charles Esche (Afterall, London) Christian Höller (Springerin, Vienna) Sasa Janjic (Remont, Belgrade) Pablo Lafuente (Afterall, London) Lisette Lagnado (trópico, Sao Paulo) Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Camera austria, Graz) Viktor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine, Moscow) Hedwig Saxenhuber (Springerin, Vienna) Yong Soon Min (BOL, Seoul and contributor to Ctrl+P, Manila)   Tuesday, July 10 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Reflecting on the post-communist condition In this panel discussion on artistic, curatorial and editorial practices, the rapidly changing context of former socialist countries will be analyzed in relation to shifting models of self-representation. What strategies are employed to make sense of the different contexts and identies raised by the post-communist condition? Does the current documenta propose relevant models for this discussion? With Sasa Janjic (Remont, Belgrade), Lisette Lagnado (trópico, São Paulo), Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Camera Austria, Graz), Victor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine, Moscow) and Hedwig Saxenhuber (springerin, Vienna), moderated by Cosmin Costinas (documenta 12 magazines). Language: English  16:00 – 18.00 Discussion and Screening Visibility/Accessibility. The magazine as part of the process – or as part of the problem? Kabinett 2 Călin Dan (Bucharest/Amsterdam) in conversation with Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Camera Austria, Graz). Thursday, July 12 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture On curatorial methods: universalist frescoes, grand statements and large exhibitions A panel discussion with Christa Benzer (springerin, Vienna), Pablo Lafuente (Afterall, London), Lisette Lagnado (trópico, São Paulo), Victor Misiano (Moscow Art Magazine, Moscow) on the objectives and limitations of large-scale curatorial endeavors with a special reading of documenta 12. Moderated by Cosmin Costinas (documenta 12 magazines). Language: English  Saturday, July 14 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Lecture Editorial Practices and Criticality With Sasa Janjic (Remont, Belgrade), Pablo Lafuente (Afterall, London), moderated by Christian Höller (springerin, Vienna). A discussion on criticality in the current practice of magazine making. How do magazines negotiate their functions as "constructive" platforms and agents of criticality? Language: English  2–9 July 2007 The Living Newspaper Concept: Clémentine Deliss With: Ntone Edjabe (Chimurenga, Cape Town) Luis Romero (pulgar, Caracas) Dan Arps (Natural Selection, Aotearoa) Warren Olds (Natural Selection, Aotearoa) David Hatcher (Natural Selection, Berlin) Clémentine Deliss (Metronome, Paris) Thomas Boutoux (Metronome, Paris) Oscar Tuazon (Metronome, Paris) and members of Future Academy: Kim Bang (Nagoya) Takayuki Yamamoto (Nagoya) Michelle Mantsio (Melbourne) Naohiro Deguchi (Kyoto) Pablo Herrera D. Veitia (Edinburgh) Steven Mykietyn (Edinburgh) Christos Papoulias (Athens) Jan Mast (Ghent) April Mellor (Edinburgh) Ella Barclay (Edinburgh) Toku Matsubuchi (Edinburgh) Context The first Living Newspaper originated in Soviet Russia around 1917 when Jacob Leby Moreno devised a medium to present daily news to the illiterate. Living Newspapers were improvisational and consisted of dramatizations of current events, social problems, and controversial issues, with appropriate suggestions for improvement. Teams of researchers-turned-playwrights clipped articles from newspapers about current events, often hot issues like farm policy, syphilis testing, and housing inequity. These newspaper clippings were adapted into plays intended to inform audiences, often with progressive or left wing themes. Although the undisguised political invective in the Living Newspapers sparked controversy, they also proved popular with audiences as an art form both in Soviet Russia, the US, and Germany. For documenta 12 magazines, the concept of Living Newspaper can be seen as a response to Lenin’s work “What is to be done?” in which Lenin speaks of the newspaper as a “collective organiser” intended to promote communication both across Soviet Russia and internationally. It will provide a backdrop to a series of events produced in collaboration with Natural Selection, Pulgar, Chimurenga, Metronome, and their collaborators.  Tuesday, July 3 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Overcoming Loathing Talk by Dan Arps, David Hatcher and Warren Olds (Natural Selection, Aotearoa) The editors of the New Zealand based magazine Natural Selection will present their latest issue especially conceived for documenta 12 magazines. The issue is on problems and their solutions in and around the visual arts, including the proposal “Overcoming Loathing”, consisting in a series of pamphlets that will be worked on during their stay at documenta. "Overcoming Loathing" will be available as a supplement of the present issue at the conclusion of the week spent in Kassel. Language: English  22:00 The House of Truth Club Loyal Werner-Hilpert-Str. 22 With Ntone Edjabe (Chimurenga, Cape Town), editor and guest DJ The name “House of Truth” is borrowed from a drinking pit in the old Kofifi where the makers of the infamous Drum magazine gathered nightly for informal seminars with Can Themba as resident deconstructor. At the "House of Truth", fluids, bodies and burning minds mix freely. Thursday, July 5 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Shared, Mobile, Improvised, Underground, Hidden, Floating On Future Academy and the architecture of future art academies, mobility, post-Fordist universities, games, exchange, and the currencies of international art colleges with Christos Papoulias, Thomas Boutoux, Clémentine Deliss, Oscar Tuazon, Nico Dockx, Jan Mast, Johannes Raether, Steven Mykietyn, Takayuki Yamamoto, Naohiro Deguchi, Kaori Sawamura, Ella Barclay, April Mellor, Pablo Herrera. Languages: English, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Spanish 16:00-18:00 Workshop The Living Newspaper: Silent Symposium Kabinett 2 With Chimurenga, Metronome, Natural Selection, pulgar, and members of the public. The Living Newspaper invites members of the public to participate in a silent meeting during which ideas, drawings, questions and comments are circulated and exchanged. The event takes place in silence, lying down. Cushions, pencils and paper are provided. Lead questions and provocations from the magazines will be handed out in several languages thus abating any potential dormitive response. Languages: German, English, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and other languages. Friday, July 6 18:30 Charles Darwin Memorial Dart Competition As a finale to the Silent Symposium, Natural Selection will supervise a collective throw of paper darts across the high-density discursive space of the Halle and award a mystery prize to the thrower of the dart with the most spectacular trajectory. Visitors will be asked to assemble their darts as a craft project before the toss, a measure which should thwart any cheats with intentions to throw a pre-assembled dart with unannounced and illegal enhancements. Natural Selection also recommends measures to ensure that printed matter that is no longer required at the site is efficiently recycled. While not knowing how this might be achieved, they will be actively pestering people to advance this agenda.  Saturday, July 7 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture The Living Newspaper A discussion with participants of the workshop. Following the week of Living Newspaper events, including Silent Symposia, Hawking, Pamphleteering, Migakikko Car-polishing, the House of Truth club-nights, Autocopias, Ph.D services, and other informal and quasi-invisible activities, editors and artists from Chimurenga, Metronome, Natural Selection and pulgar will present the results of all these collaborations to the public. Languages: English, Japanese, Greek, German, French, Spanish  22:00 The House of Truth With DJ Mr. Soulsell and Ntone Edjabe (Chimurenga, Cape Town), editor and guest DJ. Mono Club Kulturzentrum Schlachthof/ Mombachstr. 12 The name “House of Truth” is borrowed from a drinking pit in the old Kofifi where the makers of the infamous Drum magazine gathered nightly for informal seminars with Can Themba as resident deconstructor. At the "House of Truth", fluids, bodies and burning minds mix freely.  Further activities Hawking A further function of the agents of Living Newspaper will be hawking. Each participating magazine in Living Newspaper will be invited to prepare an intervention that emphasizes the informality and performative nature of knowledge transfer, panning out into a public service, invisible to most, but with the generosity and ambiguity of an unofficial economy. E.g., Metronome’s Future Academy is a hawking academy, built from itinerants, people who are ready to speak to visitors through several vernaculars, draw them towards the d12 magazines project, and provide various services. These include Migakikko, a car-polishing service run by Japanese artists Takayuki Yamamoto, Kaori Sawamura, and Naohiro Deguchi conceived as an educational faculty that remains casual both aesthetically and economically.  E.g., Natural Selection’s offers their Free PhD Service for strung out academics and cultural workers, awarding doctoral status and a final graduation ceremony in Kassel to interested parties working in the field of aesthetics. Whilst this service is available online, the Natural Selection board of examiners (Dr. Dan Arps, Dr. David Hatcher and Dr. Warren Olds) will be present in Kassel over this period to perform on the spot accreditations. The external observer, Dr. Deliss, will monitor the integrity of this procedure.  E.g., pulgar offers a selfcopying service - as an hommage to the Venezuelan artist Claudio Perna (1938-1997).  25 June – 1 July 2007 With: José Fernández Vega (ramona, Buenos Aires) Diego Melero (ramona, Buenos Aires) Süreyyya Evren (Siyahi, Istanbul) Eric Alliez (Multitudes, Paris) Maurizio Lazzerato (Multitudes, Paris) Brian Holmes (Multitudes, Paris) Yann Moulier-Boutang (Multitudes, Paris) Giovanna Zapperi (Multitudes, Paris) Benoît Durandin (Multitudes, Paris) Marika Demerneur (Incident.net/The Upgrade!, Paris) Jean-Baptiste Naudy (Société Réaliste, Paris) Ferenc Gróf (Société Réaliste, Paris) Tuesday, June 26 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture After Sarkozy A discussion between Yann Moulier Boutang (Multitudes/ Paris) and Maurizio Lazzarato (philosopher/ Paris) on the politicisation of the aesthetic field in the wake of Sarkozy’s presidential election.  16:00 Presentation Critical and clinical Documentation With Benoit Durandin, Marika Dermineur, Giovanna Zapperi, Eric Alliez (Multitudes, Paris) Multitudes contribution/response to the documenta 12 magazines takes place in the new website Multitudes-Icones, through interventions that stimulate an “institutional critique” of the documenta 12 magazines online device by relating it to a broader reflection on politics of/in contemporary art. To do this, we sent back to the artists the three Documenta questions (duly de-formed and trans-formed, that is to say, forced), asking them to evaluate the impact of their “theoretical” positions on their selection (“questions-entries”) or non-selection (“answers-exits”) by documenta 12. Organized by entries and false exits in an open framework, each response can in its turn be articulated with others, so that hybrid or even “monstrous” answers are composed, transforming each user of the site into a curator-artist of (another?) virtual/real documenta. Multitudes editorial team will present the site’s structure and navigation. As part of the website, participants have the possibility of reconfiguring the answers to Multitudes’ d12 questions in various ways. Language: English Wednesday, June 27 15:00 Presentation Capitalism, schizophrenia and consensus. Of relational aesthetics. With Eric Alliez (Multitudes, Paris) Is there a significant relation between aesthetics and politics to be studied today? Addressing this issue, the lecture proposes a critical and clinical investigation of Nicolas Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics under the (bad) light of Populism. Transforming the becoming-life of art into an impossible becoming-art of everyday life, relational aesthetics appropriates the heritage of the most innovative artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, but the reconfiguration of their radical politics into a strategy of consensus produces a kind of post-modern humanism. Language: English 17:00 Presentation Why Reply? With Renée Green (documenta 11 artist) A presentation by Renée Green reflecting upon processes of thinking entailed and the resulting encounters possible in the International Group Exhibitions as an instigation to further thought and action, noting its ramifications beyond any fixed locations or temporalities and how "nothing applies everywhere." Green will present films and discuss ideas developed in recent projects, which include "Relay," "Code: Survey," "Climates + Paradoxes" and "United Space of Conditioned Becoming." Language: English Thursday, June 28 14:30 Performance Wohnungsfragen an die Kunst A microintervention by Diego Melero (artist and sociologist, ramona/Buenos Aires) and José Fernández Vega (philosopher, ramona/Buenos Aires). Language: English, German, Spanish 16:00 Lecture The World Metaphor With Brian Holmes (Paris) Kabinett 2 Unique for its size, resources and extended period of preparation, documenta 12 has evolved far beyond Germany and "the West" to become a global exhibition. But what does that mean? How to present and frame the artistic expressions of a planetary condition? How to succeed, or at least productively and insightfully fail in the articulation of a world metaphor? Using a few concepts from the toolkit of the journal Multitudes, this lecture will consider the present documenta in the light of the two previous ones, or maybe just in the light of the summer sun - our common condition of becoming-visible. 17:00 Lecture Re-presenting Birgit Jürgenssen With Giovanna Zapperi (Multitudes, Paris) This lecture considers the work of the Austrian artist Birgit Jürgenssen (1949–2003) and also raises the perennial question of the "woman artist" and its relation (or non-relation) to feminism. Reflecting on the first two volumes of the documenta 12 magazines, it would seem that the woman artist is to be understood, on the one hand, as a depoliticised modernist hero(ine), while on the other, the influence of feminism as a political formation is, once again, marginalized. Birgit Jürgenssen’s work, in its explicitly feminist exploration of the interrelations between sexuality, power and desire, relates to both these problematics even as it reaffirms the fundamental contribution of women artists to 20th century art. Language: English 18:00 Lecture MA: Soliton With Jean-Baptiste Naudy und Ferenc Gróf (Société Réaliste, Paris) MA: Soliton is a typological inquiry about Solitonism, commissioned by Ministère de l’Architecture. In this research, Ministère de l’Architecture has demanded to continue the work of some eminent physicists about non-linear waves, by proposing to extend the analysis of Solitons to the field of the politics of space, and more precisely for reading activities like design or the erection of buildings. Société Réaliste is an artistic cooperative created by Ferenc Gróf and Jean-Baptiste Naudy in Paris in June 2004. Ferenc Gróf was born in 1972 in Pécs, HU. Jean-Baptiste Naudy was born in 1982 in Paris, FR. They work and live in Paris. Language: English Friday, 29 June Ruins of beauty: from Plato to Ratzinger A microintervention by Diego Melero (artist and sociologist, ramona/Buenos Aires) and José Fernández Vega (philosopher, ramona/Buenos Aires). Language: English Saturday, 30 June 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture On documetaphors Brian Holmes in dialogue with Sureyyya Evren (Siyahi, Istanbul) on different metaphors evoked by the exhibition and the discourse around documenta 12. Language: English  16-22 June 2007 Tuesday, June 19 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Is Modernity our Antiquity? Presentation of Mark Lewis (artist and author/Afterall, London) Departing from his essay published in the first Documenta 12 magazine Marc Lewis talks about different moments of a past and yet present modernity in architecture, film and painting. Language: English Thursday, June 21 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Informal Territories and Fairytales Ai Wei Wei in conversation with Jiang Jun (Urban China/Hong Kong), Laurent Gutierrez and Valérie Portefaix (MapOffice/Hong Kong). With participants of “Fairytales” in the audience. This talk will reflect upon Ai Wei Wei's project “Fairytales” in the context of a wider research on informal territories and the self-organisation of migrants carried out by the urbanists of MapOffice. Where did the 1001 temporary inhabitants of “Fairytales” come from and what will happen to them in Kassel? Language: English   Saturday, June 23 13:00-14:00 Lunch Lecture Future Relics Presentation of the screening and Conversation between Manray Hsu (curator/ Taiwan), Hu Yuanxing (Art World/ Hong Kong) and Phobe Wong (Asian Art Archive/ Hong Kong) The screening "Future Relics" shows a selection of contemporary films and videos that confront issues of socio-cultural transformation in China and Taiwan as well as the possibilities of new forms of filmmaking. Language: English |
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