Arundhati Roys Eröffnungsrede können Sie im Original und in Übersetzungen nachlesen unter: http://www.literaturfestival.com/index1_1_202.html (Übersetztungen Deutsch: Lilian-Astrid Geese, Französich: Carole Chabrel, Spanisch: Jorge Vitón und Arabisch: Dalal Harb)   Mi, 16.9. 19.00 Uhr Babylon Edward St Aubyn (Großbritannien) liest aus „Muttermilch“. MODERATION: Gabriele von Arnim SPRECHER: Frank Arnold Mi, 16.9. 19.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Norbert Gstrein (Österreich) erzählt in  „Die Winter im Süden“ einer herb-melancholischen Sprache von einem kroatischen Faschisten, der nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nach Argentinien auswandert und seine Familie zurücklässt. MODERATION: Wilfried F. Schoeller   Mi, 16.9. 20.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Große Bühne Specials_Konzert Wolf Biermann (Deutschland) „Berlin, du deutsche deutsche Frau“ ist eine 2008 erschienene Lyriksammlung: Kein Dichter der Nachkriegszeit hat die Stadt Berlin so liebevoll besungen und so rabiat bedichtet wie Wolf Biermann.   Mi, 16.9. 20.00 Uhr Museum für Islamische Kunst / Mshatta-Saal Fokus Arabische Welt Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Die Nächte des Ramadan" vom 3.9.-21.9. liest Randa Jarrar (Kuwait/USA) aus „Weiße Lügen“. (www.naechtedesramadan.de), in Kooperation mit The U.S. Embassy Literature Series, Hoffmann und Campe und den Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Kartenreservierung: 030-72664-24242 oder service@smb.museum. Eintritt frei   Mi, 16.9. 21.00 Uhr Babylon David Wroblewski (USA) liest aus  „Die Geschichte des Edgar Sawtelle“ MODERATION: Tanya Lieske SPRECHER: Ulrich Matthes   Mi, 16.9. 22.00 Uhr daadgalerie Weltweite Lesung der Fatwa von Großajatollah Montazeri für Demokratie und Freiheit im Iran in Berlin gelesen von  Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Navid Kermani . Zeitgleich findet die Lesung u.a. in Hamburg (http://www.zeitzeichen-hamburg.de/index.php?id=850), Basel / Schweiz (http://www.theater-basel.ch/news/news_detail.cfm?n_nr=2418), Bydgoszcz / Polen (http://teatrpolski.pl) und  in San Francisco/ USA (http://www.birdbeckett.com/) statt.   Mi, 16.9. 22.30 Uhr Babylon Hanif Kureishi (Großbritannien) liest aus „Das sag ich dir“ − traurig und sinnlich, spannend und komisch. „ein schillerndes Gesellschaftsporträt des heutigen London“ (Daniel Bax in der „taz“). MODERATION: Marius Meller SPRECHERIN: Vanessa Remy   Do, 17.9. 17.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Internationale Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Jutta Bauer (Deutschland) gehört mit ihrem umfangreichen Œuvre zu den bekanntesten Illustratorinnen Deutschlands. Sie wird in einer Werkschau wird die Illustratorin ihr Gesamtwerk vom Studium bis in die aktuelle Gegenwart vorstellen. (Ab 13 Jahre)   Do, 17.9. 19.00 Uhr Babylon Yangzom Brauen (Schweiz) liest aus „Eisenvogel“ MODERATION: Volker Panzer   Do, 17.9. 19.30 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Aris Fioretos (Schweden) stellt sein noch unveröffentlichtes Werk „Der letzte Grieche“ vor. MODERATION: Wilfried F. Schoeller   Do, 17.9. 19.30 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Große Bühne Aus dem Programm der Internationalen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur Klaus Kordon (Deutschland) liest aus seinem neuen autobiografischen Roman „Auf der Sonnenseite“ (Ab 14 Jahre)   Fr, 18.9. 19.30 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Oberes Foyer Amir Hassan Cheheltan (Iran) Der 1956 in Teheran geborene Amir Hassan Cheheltan ist für seine scharfsichtigen Berichte in der „FAZ“ und der „SZ“ zur politischen Lage im Iran bekann. Er stellt seinen neuen Roman "Teheran Revolutionsstrasse" vor. MODERATION: Sven Arnold SPRECHER: Friedhelm Ptok   Fr, 18.9. 19.30 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Atiq Rahimi (Afghanistan/Frankreich) MODERATION: Omar Akbar SPRECHERIN: Michaela Steiger Der in Kabul geborene Autor erhielt 2008 für seinen jüngsten Roman „Stein der Geduld“ den wichtigsten französischen Literaturpreis, den Prix Goncourt.   Fr, 18.9. 21.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Oberes Foyer Sebastian Barry (Irland) stellt seinen Roman  „Ein verborgenes Leben“ vor. MODERATION: Bernhard Robben SPRECHER: Friedhelm Ptok   Fr, 18.9. 21.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Monika Maron (Deutschland) In ihrem jüngsten Roman „Ach Glück“ bricht ihre 54-jährige Protagonistin aus dem Alltagstrott aus und reist nach Mexiko − auf der Suche nach einem neuen Anfang. MODERATION: Florian Höllerer   Sa, 19.9. 18.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Große Bühne Siegfried Lenz (Deutschland) MODERATION: Volker Weidermann SPRECHER: Burghart Klaußner   Sa, 19.9. 18.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Seitenbühne Colum McCann (Irland/USA) verwebt „Die große Welt“ vor dem Hintergrund eines Drahtseilaktes zwischen den Türmen des World Trade Center im Jahr 1974 ganz verschiedenartige Lebensläufe und arrangiert damit ein Prélude der Zeitenwende des 11. September. MODERATION: Bernhard Robben SPRECHER: Frank Arnold MUSIK: Joe Hurley   Sa, 19.9. 20.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Große Bühne Konzert mit Bachar Zarkan (Syrien) und Ensemble   So, 20.9. 16.00 Uhr, Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Oberes Foyer Colum McCann (Irland/USA) und Binyavanga Wainaina (Kenia/USA) im Gespräch über Verbindlichkeit: Werte im Wandel der Gesellschaft. MODERATION: Marius Meller   So, 20.9. 20.00 Uhr Haus der Berliner Festspiele / Große Bühne Die vergessenen Befreier (À nos morts) Hip-hop-Musical in Erinnerung an die französischen Kolonialsoldaten Deutschlandpremiere: Mit Yan Gilg, Farba MBaye, Maeva Heitz, Sovannak Nam, Ibrahima MBodji, Christophe Roser, Yassine Allouache, Mickaël Stoll   Veranstalter des internationalen literaturfestivals berlin sind die Berliner Festspiele und die Peter-Weiss-Stiftung für Kunst und Politik e.V. Es wird ermöglicht aus den Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds und steht unter der Schirmherrschaft der Deutschen UNESCO-Kommission.

+ Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . Vela Luka
+ grey) (area - space of contemporary and media art . Korčula
+ DECro - Digital Exchange Croatia . Zagreb

> present

The Visual Collider by Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter

18 . 09 - 10 . 10 .  2009

Opening: Friday, September 18th, at 8 p. m.
in the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
in Cultural Centre of Vela Luka
Curator: Darko Fritz . grey) (area
Gallery curator: Rada Dragojevic Cosovic

Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Vela Luka and the gray) (area  –  space of contemporary and media art, Korčula, through an informal association with the cor::net (Korčula Network), and in association with DECro-Digital Exchange Croatia, Zagreb present a world premiere of the Visual Collider project. Within the Visual Collider project Hungro-Canadian artist Nina Czegledy and South-African artist Marcus Neustetter collaborate for the first time. The authors and the curators will attend the exhibition opening on Friday, 18th September at 8 p. m.

On September 10th 2008, billions of particles were smashed together in nano-seconds to recreate the first moments of the Big Bang, in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Thousands of scientists worked for decades to achieve this scientific spectacle “challenging those who seek confirmation of established knowledge, and those who dare to dream beyond the paradigm”.  Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter were so inspired by a lecture on the LHC that while they had already deliberated and tested project ideas for several months, they immediately adopted a fresh approach, which led to The Visual Collider.

For the first exhibited manifestation of The Visual Collider, Nina Czegledy and Marcus Neustetter are presenting a small segment of their larger vision of an ongoing collision of images and impressions that take place with each experience by both artists. In some sense, the exhibition in Korcula becomes a sketch for a Visual Collider that, much like the LHC, can produce data through reaction, some of which is measured and some of which we are not able to comprehend or express.

Artist statement:

At the actual Collider every function including research, development and production, is based on principles and systems. In contrast our method is spontaneous, immediate and intentionally unsystematic. Nevertheless there are significant junctures. LHC is an immense scientific venture - our deep interest in the intersection of arts, science and technology is one of the crossover points. While in the sciences it is prudent to build on fundamental facts with analytical precision, in reality these investigations are often permeated with the exploration of the unknown, reaching unexpected revelations. In our practice working with the bizarre, traveling towards unpredictable destinations is a regular pursuit. In science a negative experimental result might become as valid as an expected outcome. These unexpected results including happy accidents often lead to significant alternate solutions or theories.  Our adjacent images presented in this exhibition reveal unconventional interpretations frequently through unforeseen collisions. By employing a personal approach to the Visual Collider we challenge mega-projects such as the actual LHC, asking atypical questions concerning the experimental smashing together of information whether in the form of photographic light or protons.

For several years, we have been involved in high-tech experimentation in the virtual and the physical world. These days however, -similarly to many others, - we feel that there is a certain validity in a low-tech approach. This project differs very much from most of our work where we seek to evoke the sublime.

In the “Visual Collider” we present raw, spontaneous records that reflect more a momentary involvement that is simply juxtaposed with another. With this we make use of everyday experiences, experimenting with commonplace objects and situations. While the scale differs, our act of snatching and smashing these moments together is not unlike the Hadron Collider colliding myriad of particles in fractions of seconds.

The Visual Collider image sets (derived from our own source material) traverse cultural, political and personal boundaries suggesting different connotations. During the journey we cross time and space, bracketing generations and spanning continents in a never-ending conceptual loop. In the process of the juxtaposition of ideas and images we invite the viewers to develop their own hypothesis, their own Collider of the project.

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Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
in Cultural Centre of Vela Luka
Obala 3/9 . 20270 Vela Luka . Croatia
tel: + 385. 20 . 813602

open: 9-14h, 18-19h
Saturday 10- 12 h
free entrance

contact: Darko Fritz This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it / tel + 385 [0] 91.5800193

grey) (area program 2009: Lemeh 42 (Italy) . Petar Grimani (Croatia) .  Ivan Marusic Klif  (Croatia) . Toni Mestrović  (Croatia) . Samuel Cepeda (Mexico) .  Nina Czegledy (Canada) and Marcus Neustetter (South Africa)

 

Nina Hoechtl, Tales of protest. A necessity.

Thuersday, 10th September, 20h,
Center for Cultural Decontaination (Balet hall), Bircaninova 21

November 2008 I spent a one month residency in Belgrade (Galerija KONTEKST in collaboration with <rotor>/Austria) researching into the fight of the workers from the factory Jugoremedija in Zrenjanin. For 2 years the workers fought for their factory and against the privatization of their work place. Throughout their struggle they lived partly in the factory, squatted the city hall for 4 months, protested 3 days and nights in front of the agency for privatization in Belgrade, got beaten up, injured and imprisoned by the police and private security. During this 2 years period the workers didn’t earn and many were left behind by their families. Since 2006 Jugoremedija became the first factory amongst the "transition" countries in Eastern Europe undergoing neoliberal privatization to be recovered and controlled by its workers.

This summer I came back to Serbia to research further into the subject. I soon found that alone in August there were around 40 smaller or bigger protests per day.

Based on this research and interviews with the workers (mainly from the factory Jugoremedija) I developed “Tales of protest. A necessity.“. In this piece fictionalized characters tell their tales, juxtaposed with text derived from the interviews, and footage from Sergei Eisenstein’s silent film “Strike“.

In 1925 the film “Strike“ Eisenstein depicts a complex re-creation of the development of a 1912 factory strike in pre-revolutionary Russia. The workers were acted by the Proletkult Theatre. My interest in this film lies on the scenes that portray collectivism in opposition to the individualism of each tale in a similar way as the characters’ voices generate a murmur that one can only follow focusing on each tale.

As I talked to the workers, and having witnessed their protest in front of the Privatization agency and the governmental building in Belgrade triggered to question my own position as an artist and framer of the workers’ struggle: What am I fighting for? Do I let anything be done to myself?

Nina Hoechtl

Nina Hoechtl, born in 1978 in Stockerau (Austria), lives in Vienna and Mexico City. Nina studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Presently, she is a doctoral candidate in Fine Art by Practice at Goldsmiths (UK).

Nina’s projects deal with identity, language and communication and employ different media. Since 2000, she has participated in several exhibitions and projects. Most recently, she has exhibited Moved, Mutated and Disturbed Identities, Casino Luxembourg (LU), DONAU GEHT, Viertelfestival Weinviertel, Lower Austria, 2009; Too Early for Vacation, OPEN/INVITED ev +a, 2008, Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland, 2008 (Curator: Hou Hanru); Arbeitswege, Festival of Regions, Kirchdorf, Austria, 2007; PAN-CARTA, lugar a dudas, Cali, Columbia, 2007; Loutec, Fundaçion Valenzuela y Klenner, Bogotá, Columbia, 2007; To my dear friend, Naïma, who is already 10…, Animotion Festival, Sibiu, Russia, 2007; Ear candies, Emil Filli Galerie, Ûstí Nad Ladem, Czech Republic and Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaujvaros, Hungary, 2006.

http://www.ninahoechtl.org

Supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum - Belgrade
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Poziv za ucestvovanje na radionici i izlozbi:

Bez granica? Nekoliko kritickih refleksija o evropskom i globalnom stanju granica 31. oktobar – 7. novembar, Beograd

H.arta i Kontekst, u saradnji sa Austrijskim kulturnim forumom Beograd povodom dvadesetogodisnjice programa “Artists-in-Residence-Programme” KulturKontakt Austria

Rok za aplikacije: 22. septembar 2009.

KONCEPT

(duza verzija na engleskom jeziku je u attachmentu)

Projekat je konceptualizovan kao saradnja izmedju Konteksta iz Beograda (Vida Knezevic, Ivana Marjanovic i Marko Miletic) i grupe h.arta iz Temisvara (Maria Crista, Anca Gyemant i Rodica Tache). Organizuje se u sirem okviru projekta “Without Borders” („Bez granica“) KulturKontakta (Austrija) u saradnji sa Austrijskim kulturnim forumom Beograd povodom dvadesetogodisnjice ovog rezidencijalnog programa. h.arta grupa je pozvana kao umetnicka grupa koja je bila jedna od ucesnica pomenutog programa.

Imajuci u vidu naslov projekta KulturKontakta „Bez granica“ kao polaziste, ovaj projekat ce se kriticki osvrnuti na pitanje granica posle pada Berlinskog zida, kao i na pitanje nove Evrope bez granica. Uvodjenjem „Sengenzemlje“ nakon 1989. godine, tranzicijom od komunizma i socijalizma do kapitalizma u istocnoj Evropi, sveopstom transformacijom zapadne Evrope – transformacijom kapitalizma od Fordizma do Postfordizma, nametanje ekonomije zasnovane na slobodnom trzistu i deregulacije u neoliberalizmu, istorijski (vestfalski) koncept suvereniteta vecine zapadnih i istocnih evropskih zemalja je oslabio. Granice su dezintegrisane stvarajuci novu organizaciju prostora u Evropi i svetu (posebne ekonomske zone u kojima vlada posebna tj. vanredna legislativa, tvrdjava Evropa, Fronteks itd). U okviru Evropske Unije granicni prelazi su nestali, ukinute su vize. Posebni granicni rezimi se uvode za zemlje koje su na putu pridruzenja Evropskoj Uniji, kao sto je npr. Bela sengenska lista, posebni trgovinski sporazumi sa zemljama EU gde se porezi na uvoz i izvoz smanjuju, kampovi gde su “ilegalni” imigranti koji pokusavaju da imigriraju u EU zadrzani itd. Ipak, granice su i dalje duboko upisane u drustveno tkivo (siromastvo, rasizam, patrijarhat itd.). Ali u ovom brutalnom rezimu, sve sto postane prepreka efikasnom protoku kapitala mora biti uklonjeno, kako protok robe ne bi bio prekinut i kako bi doneo profit. Stoga, svet je postao “svet bez granica” samo za moc kapitala, ali ne i za ljude koji u njemu zive.

U okviru radionice smo zainteresovani za istrazivanje, diskutovanje i preispitivanje pitanja granica kao i nacina na koje one s jedne strane nestaju (kako bi se cirkulacija kapitala osigurala), a sa druge strane se konstantno reprodukuju na drugim nivoima.

RADIONICA I IZLOZBA

Sedmodnevna radionica koju ce voditi grupe h.arta i Kontekst, sastojace se od citanja tekstova, diskusija, gledanja filmova/videa, razmene istrazivackog materijala, pisanja tekstova, produkcije fotografija. Kao konkretan ishod rada na radionici, ucesnici/e radionice h.arta i Kontekst ce pripremiti tekstualni i vizuelni materijal koji moze imati razlicite formate kao npr. posteri i bukleti koji ce biti predstavljeni na izlozbi u Beogradu, a koji ce se moci poneti i distribuirati u javnom prostoru.

Radionica ce se odrzavati na engleskom jeziku. Pomoc oko prevoda bice ponudjena u pojedinacnim slucajevima od strane organizatora ukoliko bude neophodno. Pripremna faza putem e mailova ce prethoditi radionici koja pocinje 31. oktobra.

RADNI RASPORED RADIONICE

Subota, 31. oktobar – 10–18h sa pauzom za rucak;

Nedelja, 1. novembar – 10–18h sa pauzom za rucak;

Od 2. do 6. novembra – raspored ce biti fleksibilan u dogovoru sa ucesnicima/cama radionice. U vecernjim casovima bice organizovana prikazivanja videa i filmova.

7. novembra u 19h – otvaranje izlozbe

KO MOZE DA SE PRIJAVI

Studenti/kinje umetnosti, drustvenih nauka kao i svi/e drugi zainteresovani/e za teme koje smo pomenuli/e su dobrodosli/e da se prijave! Znanje o vizuelnim umetnostima nije neophodno vec zainteresovanost za kriticku refleksiju gorepomenutih tema! 10 do 15 ljudi ce biti pozvano da ucestvuje na radionici.

KAKO SE PRIJAVITI

Molimo vas da posaljete prijavu na engleskom jeziku (koji ne mora da bude savrsen!),a koja ce se sastojati od:

narativne biografije (do 500 reci) koja ce ukljuciti sfere vasih interesovanja;

motivacionog pisma (do jedne strane) koje ce odgovoriti na sledeca pitanja: Sta ocekujete od radionice? Zasto ste zainteresovani za ove teme? Sta mozete o njima da kazete/prokomentarisete? Ako imate neke ideje za radionicu, mozete o njima nesto da napisete.

kontakta (email adrese i mobilnog telefona);

Prijavu poslati najkasnije do 22. septembra 2009. na sledeci e mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

O odlukama cete biti obavesteni 25. septembra 2009.

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Ucestvovanje na radionici je besplatno.

 

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