Monday, March 18, 2013

Utopia Station

various activities, 

with Kris Delacourt, Nico Dockx & Michelle Naismith,

curated by Molly Nesbitt, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rirkrit Tiravanija & others, 

50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003

Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2004 


live sound performance, Building Transmissions, feat. Jan Lemaire & Douglas Park, + screening of ‘Disquiet Tectonica remix’ & Pyrotropism: video installations (in collaborator with Kris Delacourt, Michelle Naismith & Douglas Park), + poster edition ‘A Poem A Day’, designed by Nico Dockx in collaboration with Jean-Michel Meyers, + conversation/ text in Janus Art Magazine n°14 - Utopia issue, 50th Venice Biennial, Venice Italy (as part of the ‘Utopia Station’, a project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Molly Nesbit & Rirkrit Tiravanija).
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Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2004 

50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2003



photos from
http://www.markusdegerman.com/Utopia-Station



DasTAT/Bockenheimer Depot Utopia Station at DasTAT/Bockenheimer Depot Warum Erst Jetzt? / Why Only Now? February 4-May 31, 2004 A season of performances, events, exchanges Curated by Louise Neri DasTAT/Bockenheimer Depot Bockenheimer Warte 60325 Frankfurt am Main http://www.DasTAT.de tel: +49-069-212-37435 image: Patti Smith, Utopia Station poster project http://www.e-flux.com/projects/utopia/ Plans for Utopia Station continue. The poster show has been shown at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and at Kunst + Projekte in Sindelfingen. The poster project at e-flux site has registered more than 15,000 downloads, which means that the posters are in constant, unplanned circulation around the world. Other new opportunities are presenting themselves. The Venice Biennale plans a tour of Southern Italy which will put Utopia Station in Naples this July. As the project goes forward however it is changing. One flexible structure does not fit every circumstance. We shall need others. Last year at DasTAT/Bockenheimer Depot we were invited to meet as part of its programme Public Life. This year we will convene again there under the auspices of its 2004 season Warum Erst Jetzt?/Why Only Now? (http://www.DasTAT.de) on March 19th, 20th and 21st. That March 20th has also been designated as the time for the next worldwide peace march has thrown us into the arms of some great chance operation. For last year’s Utopia Station meeting in Poughkeepsie found itself in the middle of the first of the worldwide peace marches. Their success led the New York Times to declare the great surge into the streets the second superpower. But what kind of superpower is this? And what is its culture? Is it always and already ours? In Poughkeepsie the discussion led inevitably to the question of our relation to the politics sweeping through the streets that weekend. This year we should like to begin there. Many of those working on Utopia Station, not to exclude those of you reading this, have implicitly, or explicitly, embraced the movement of the demonstration in their work. Does that embrace include the movement of movements, as the World Social Forum (which has been meeting in Porto Alegre, this year in Mumbai) calls itself? Is our effort at Utopia Station part of the wider surge that sees that Another World To Be Possible? Is Another World a Chance Operation? Or not? We must operate now. The discussion has only just begun. You are cordially invited to join it. Speakers on March 20th include Elizabeth Linden, Raqs Media Collective, Julian Roder, Bruno Serralongue, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Arto Lindsay will give a concert that evening. Speakers March 21st will be Thomas Bayerle, Michael Beutler, Daniel Birnbaum, Stefano Boeri, Ecke Bonk, Cerith Wyn Evans, Avery Gordon, Michael Hirsch, Tobias Rehberger, Tomas Saraceno and Anton Vidokle. 
The video program will include work by Bernadette Corporation, John Bock, Disquiet Tectonica, Marine Hugonnier, Jonas Mekas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Philippe Parreno, Nick Relph and Oliver Payne, Anri Sala and Edi Rama, Agnes Varda, and Yang Fudong. Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija will present and moderate the ongoing discussion. 
Friday March 19 22h00-24h00 late night video screenings 
Saturday March 20 16h-20h30 discussions and video screenings 21h30 
Arto Lindsay concert Sunday March 21 14h-19h 
discussions and video screenings 20h00 Video screenings Additional funding has been provided by the Haus der Kunst, Munich.

http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/utopia-station-4/



2004:

recital, group event, Utopia Events, in connection with Utopia Station (auf dem weg nach porto alegre 1 / on the road to porto alegre 1), curated by Molly Nesbitt, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rikrit Tiravanija, Haus der Kunst, Munich 



Utopia Station

EXHIBITION 07.10.04 – 16.01.05
This "Utopia Station", curated by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija, follows from several others, some of them gatherings, some of them virtual, some of them exhibitions. The best known, the first large exhibition of "Utopia Station", was organized for the Venice Biennale 2003. Before it had closed, the "Utopia Station Posters" opened in September 2003 at Haus der Kunst in Munich. This exhibition of the posters was conceived as a prelude to a newly conceived "Utopia Station" designed to occupy the former Ehrenhalle of the Haus der Kunst.
The former "Ehrenhalle" of the Haus der Kunst has several pasts, the first being the most infamous: During the openings of "Grosse Deutsche Kunstausstellung" [Great German Art Exhibition"] it was used as a speaking platform and broadcast center for Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party. The current administration of the Haus der Kunst has made it a priority to restore the hall to its first state, the better to see its past plainly, "tabula rasa", and to establish new, even more powerful uses for a space destined to be haunted by its history. The "Utopia Station" contributes to that effort to re-program the space by letting the catalyst utopia loose there.
The result?
Time as well as space in the former Ehrenhalle are re-programmed and opened. The "Utopia Station" becomes an alternate real-time, a portal through which every visitor can travel as they wish. The station is a way-station for those en route to utopia, the no-place, the unattainable place, that has come to represent the ideal of the better life. Time in the "Utopia Station" is structured by a computerized sequence of sounds, videos and quiet time filling an entire day differently.
This new real-time is haunted too. It follows from documentary film and photography, from the living theatre, from critical theory, from geodesics, from contact improvisation, from protest.
Special events, performances, lectures and discussions are scheduled for "Utopia Station" itself and others will be offered at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Bayerische Rundfunk/ Hörspiel und Medienkunst, Intermedium, the Bayerische Staatsschauspiel, Buchhandlung Walther König, Dance 2004, the Filmmuseum München, International Child Art Foundation and the Münchner Kammerspiele.
http://www.hausderkunst.de/index.php?id=667&L=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=104&cHash=1df8d8b156f45725a4dcdc15c257ee85

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