"...The museum was > originally proposed in the 1970s under the Soviet regime in Yugoslavia..." ...YUGOSLAVIA WAS NEVER UNDER SOVIET REGIME ...WHOLE 'STORY' IS RESULT OF IGNORANCE AND BAD EDUCATION... MANIK,OCTOBER 2009.
----- Original Message ----- From: "info" <[email protected]> To: "NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:21 PM Subject: [NetBehaviour] It isn't what it used to be and will never be again > It isn't what it used to be and will never be again > Centre for Contemporary Arts: CCA > > 350 Sauchiehall Street > Glasgow > G2 3JD > Scotland, UK > Phone: +44 (0) 141 352 4900 > Fax: +44 (0) 141 332 3226 > Contact: Kirsty Gordon > [email protected] > > www.cca-glasgow.com > > 10 October - 21 November 2009 > > Tuesday - Saturday, 11am - 6pm > > Dutch duo Bik Van der Pol come to the CCA this October following a two > month residency at Cove Park to present 'It isn't what it used to be and > will never be again', an exhibition featuring new work developed in > collaboration with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and a publication > featuring a collection of new texts from Glasgow based artists and > writers. > > Liesbeth Bik and Jos van der Pol have been working together as Bik Van > der Pol since 1995 and have been in residence at Cove Park and in > Glasgow for two months. Adopting their usual approach, they have > explored the city, meeting and interviewing a wide range of people. > Having identified areas of local concern, they have entered into an > open-ended negotiation with various artists and writers, resulting in a > collection of texts and the creation of new artwork for the upcoming > exhibition. > > The title of the new work, 'Art Is either Plagiarism or Revolution, or: > Something Is Definitely Going to Happen Here', refers to a film Bik Van > der Pol made earlier this year about the unfinished Museum of the > Revolution in the Park of Friendship in Belgrade. The museum was > originally proposed in the 1970s under the Soviet regime in Yugoslavia. > However, only the foundations were ever laid, a large concrete platform > studded with rusting iron framework poles. > > The artists researched the background to this building project and > re-activated the phantom Museum of the Revolution through a gathering > that implicated the public as they recorded proceedings with film and > sound crew with equipment, catering, and technical teams. Essentially > they created a film scenario that imbues the location with meaning and > questions art, the museum, revolution, the public and the way 'the > media' work. > > Throughout their residency, Bik Van der Pol have been working with the > Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra on a score for this film. With the film as > a starting point, they will speculate on free improvisation, the process > of decison making and the dynamics of interaction and dialogue. > > The exhibition brings together this new work together with existing > works that hover around questions of what distribution of information > may or may not set off in the public realm, and if action can, should or > is taking place when seemingly nothing seems to happen. > > For the publication, Bik Van der Pol invited a series of artists and > writers to respond to the themes of the exhibition and, in particular, > to a quote from Slavoj Zizek: 'Sometimes, doing nothing is the most > violent thing to do. […] The threat today is not passivity, but > pseudo-activity, the urge to 'be active', to 'participate', to mask the > nothingness of what goes on. People intervene all the time, 'do > something' [...] The true difficult thing is to step back, to withdraw.' > (Vilolence, Zizek, 2008) > > Featuring contributions from Francis McKee, Neil Davidson, Sarah Tripp, > Sarah Pierce, Simon Yuill, Camcorder Guerrillas, Fiona Jardine, John > Bywater, Jan Verwoert, Anthony Iles, Neil Gray, Darren Ryhmes, and > others, the publication will accompany the exhibition at CCA. > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
