You and Yasmin readers may find this installation of particular interest to
your current discussion of Next Step Publishing.
Joseph Ingoldsby
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Reading rooms / Salons de lecture
3 February 3 April 2001
Edouard Boyer, Bureau d'études, Philippe Cazal, Anne-James Chaton, Daniel
Gustav Cramer, Marcelline Delbecq, Martine Derain, Krassimira Drenska,
documentation céline duval, Ilse Ermen, Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Jochen Gerner,
Hoio, Martin Le Chevallier, Jan Mancuska, Claire Morel, Plonk et Replonk,
Julien Prévieux, Ricardo Rendon, Pedro Reyes, Yann Sérandour, Taroop et
Glabel, Saliou Traoré, V8
Curator: Sandrine Wymann
La Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Centre d'art contemporain
La Fonderie
16, rue de la Fonderie
68093 Mulhouse Cedex
T +33 (0)3 69 77 66 47
kunsthalle@mulhouse.fr
www.kunsthallemulhouse.com
A written work of art, a text that becomes a work of art?
Is it a carefully thought of process that can only find accuracy in the
written form or is it more the other way around, a work in which the written
form is the natural way to express what there is to say, where the concept
is the written form.
There are as many answers as there are forms, chosen topics or envisaged
processes
Studies, reports, stories, graphic research, books, many genres that
represent a whole section of contemporary art and give rise to a specific
and singular approach.
This exhibition does not aim at giving an all-comprehensive survey of the
shapes the written form might take on as works of art. It rather aims at
thinking about a diversity of shapes that all give rise to the same
permanent features: a necessary physical rapport to the work (touching, as
much as possible, the works), a state of heightened concentration (reading)
and an invitation to take one's time (the time to read).
Apprehending a written work of art requires a particular mind set on the
part of the spectator/reader and this aspect is pivotal in reading rooms.
This exhibition awaits the reader, offers him a break and provides the
conditions that are necessary to his well-being. Even if the reader does not
enter with the intention to read everything, he may, if he so desires, spend
the afternoon there. He can take an interest in different approaches, pick
at writings and all that in ideal conditions: he is offered a seat, the
exhibition calls for him to feel at ease and to get engrossed in his
reading.
Reading rooms is divided into genres. Far from following hard and fast
rules, this categorization is to be considered rather as a way to observe
the different patterns the use of the written word follows. This division is
openly subjective and proclaims it porous borders; it is in no way
exclusive.
Historical room
The historical room brings together artists and artistic trends that have
worked from the twentieth century onwards on the book, its different shapes,
its uses, its limitations and disappearance.
Rereading room
Rereading is to use an existing text or visual element to new ends that are
entirely disconnected from their original meaning.
Process room
Artists who use process to describe what surrounds them better and who
question what is usual often resort to the re-use of shapes, phrases, and
even forms by pushing them to their limit
Books room
A book is the archetypal medium for a text, the shape we spontaneously
associate with the written form. The ones the Salon livre (Book room)
gathers share the particular feature of being in keeping with both the
history of the book and art history.
Narrative room
This room's artists use the narrative form to keep the textual form and to
explore the to and fro movement between the mental images it evokes and the
ready-made image, the cliché that pre-existed within our psyches before we
encountered their work
Documentary room
The documentary room brings writings that come from "political art"
together. Magazines, newspapers, books, index cards are all media they
choose to give their testimony of information.
The exhibition includes performances:
February 2nd, 8PM /
Mission Kaki - Hektor Maille tracks Dr. Hing - a travel adventure in
episodes, HOIO /
The Journalist and Transfer Anne-James Chaton, Andy Moor
March 15th , 8PM /
Locus Metropole, John Giorno, Jürgen O.Olbrich, Michel Collet
For further information : clarisse.schwarb@mulhouse.fr
La Kunsthalle is supported by : the town of Mulhouse, the Departement du
Haut-Rhin, the Region Alsace and the Direction Regionale des Affaires
Culturelle d'Alsace.
On 2/7/11 9:36 AM, "Sana Murrani" <sana.murrani@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Yasminers,
Just to clarify that Alex Aurigi is currently the Head of
> School of
Architecture, Design and Environment at the University of
> Plymouth.
Best,
Sana
On 7 February 2011 09:38, xDxD.vs.xDxD
> <xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Yasminers,
>
> here below i introduce
> our colleagues who have been invited to discuss on
> the subject of Next Step
> Publishing.
>
> In the next message i will introduce the initial statement,
> but i first
> wanted to introduce the discussants, as the initial statement
> is, in a way,
> a synthesis of their practices, and of the scenarios that
> emerge from them,
> which includes a series of truly insightful perspectives
> on the
> possibilities for transformation of what we are now calling
> "publishing".
>
>
> and so i am really happy and honored to introduce our dear
> friends and
> colleagues:
>
> Massimo Canevacci
> Currently teaching at the
> universities in San Paulo and Florianopolis,
> Massimo is a major researcher
> on anthropology of visual cultures and on the
> concept of what he calls
> "design eXpanso" (expanded design), a meta-design
> practice in which
> ubiquitous technologies enact interstitial spaces where
> polyphonic cultural
> expression flourishes in unexpected forms. FakePress
> collaborated with
> Massimo on a project called "Ubiquitous Anthropology": an
> augmented reality
> system used on a research with the Bororo population in
> Mato Grosso,
> experimenting tools and strategies to go beyond ethnographical
> writing,
> enabling native, cross-cultural forms of expression for
> anthropology. This
> theme is also at the base of the recent book
> "Beyond
Ethnographic Writing",
> a collection of essays exploring potential
> directions of ethnography with a
> special focus on its publishing practices.
>
>
> Andrew Hudson Smith
> Dr
> Andrew Hudson-Smith is a Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in Urban
>
> Planning and Geographic Visualization and Course Leader of the new MRes in
>
> Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization at the Centre for Advanced
>
> Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
The main topics of his
>
> research involve developing visual techniques for urban planning, three
>
> dimensional city visualizations and public participation by means of
>
> web-based systems using GIS and CAD. He has been instrumental in developing
>
> CASA into a world leading research lab in the area of visualization and
>
> transferring research into the commercial and private sector, most notably
>
> through the recent Virtual London, GENeSIS and MapTube projects which he
>
> manages.
>
>
> Luca Simeone/FakePress
> Luca is a cultural anthropologist and
> an interaction designer and carries
> out research activities for FakePress
> and the University of Rome, La
> Sapienza. He has recently edited the book
> "REFF, the reinvention of reality
> through critical practices of remix,
> mashup, recontextualization and
> reenactment". This book represents a
> milestone in the research of FakePress
> Publishing as it materializes a
> technological platform and the
> methodological and scientific approaches used
> to design it, that allow
> using
> objects, architectures, bodies,
> geographical spaces and social networks as
> spaces for publication.
Together
> with Luca, the entire team of FakePress
> (Oriana Persico, Federico Ruberti,
> Cary Hendrickson) will initiate a stream
> of discussion on the (potential)
> role of publishing houses in future
> publishing scenarios and practices.
> Andrew Hudson Smith
> Dr. Andrew Hudson Smith is a Lecturer and Senior
> Research Fellow in Urban
> Planning and Geographic Visualization and Course
> Leader of the new MRes in
> Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization at the
> Centre for Advanced
> Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London.
>
>
> Simone Arcagni
> Researcher at the University of Palermo, Journalist and
> Cinema expert,
> Simone published a number of books on the main theme of "post
> cinema":
> after
> the historical analysis of vision and of representation and
> fruition, Post
> Cinema describes a series of practices and methodologies in
> which artistic
> expression expands throughout other media and creates
> narratives that take
> part in architecture and design.
>
> Marc
> Garrett/Furtherfield
> Marc is an artist with an extensive knowledge of
> network based arts and on
> the possibilities for collaboration between
> sciences and artistic
> experimentations. Marc leads the
> Furtherfield/Netbehaviour networks, where
> around 15000 people among artists,
> hackers, activists and researchers in
> humanities, design, engineering and
> architecture constantly discuss and
> enact collaborative practices, including
> experiments in performative,
> networked, participatory, p2p, ubiquitous
> publishing.
>
>
>
> And please let me also introduce our colleagues who have
> agreed to
> participate to the discussion, but to a limited degree (due to
> traveling
> and
> faculty work which would make continuous participation
> difficult or at all
> impossible to sustain). We value their contributions as
> representing truly
> insightful frontiers in the areas of our discussion. And
> so i am very happy
> to introduce:
>
>
> Alessandro Aurigi
> Director of the
> Architecture Department at Newcastle University. He focuses
> on what he calls
> "augmented cities".
>
> Mike Batty
> Chairman at the UCL Centre for Advanced
> Spatial Analisys (CASA).
>
> Nina Czegledy
> Senior Fellow, KMDI, University
> of Toronto, Canada
> Adjunct Associate Professor, Concordia University,
> Montreal, Canada
> Honorary Fellow, Moholy Nagy University of Arts and Design,
> Budapest,
> Hungary
>
> We will also have some unexpected guests that will be
> joining into the
> discussion, and you are all invited to actively
> participate.
>
> Coming up: initial statement for the discussion.
>
> best,
>
> Salvatore
>
> --
> Salvatore Iaconesi
>
>
> m. ++39 3476054421
> t. ++39
> 0697600324
>
> salvatore.iaconesi@artisopensource.net
>
> xdxd.vs.xdxd@gmail.com
> salvatore@fakepress.net
>
> skype: xdxdVSxdxd
> ---
>
> Art is Open Source
> http://www.artisopensource.net
>
> ---
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>
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>
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> Italy
>
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Sana
> Murrani
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Experimental Architect
Lecturer in
> Architecture,
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> Levinsky Building,
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