Dear Friends of surveillance and better times! !Mediengruppe Bitnik: Too big to Fail Too Small to Succeed
An intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich. Reconaissance, media technologies and advertsing playfully probe the blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power from state to corporation. 3 Sep - 2 Oct Private View 2 Sep 6.30-9pm SPACE Courtyard and Mare Street Advertising Billboard 129 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik's first UK solo exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe Bitnik describe their work as an 'explorative practice' to determine how systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed. Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed is kindly supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain. PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies _______________________________________________________________________ + 1. Tomorrow Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany - Exhibition !Hacking the City Video Installation 'Chess for CCTV Operators' from tomorrow (23.08.) on in the exhibition 16.07.2010 - 26.9.2010 http://www.hacking-the-city.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ + 2. Opening coming Wednesday Les Complices*, Zürich, Switzerland Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed Opening - Wed, 25.8.2010, 18:00h 26.8.2010 - 18.9.2010 http://lescomplices.ch/ _______________________________________________________________________ + 3. Opening Next Week [ space ], London, UK Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed 03 Sep – 02 Oct 2010 Preview: Thursday 2nd September 6pm - 9pm http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Museum Folkwang, Essen, !Hacking the City 16.Juli - 26.September 2010 Chess For CCTV Operators Performance in the surveillance space of Essen, August 2010 Video 15'37'' For "Chess for CCTV Operators" !Mediengruppe Bitnik is in Essen for three days in order to challenge CCTV Operators to a chess game. For this purpose they trace surveillance signals, hijack them and replace them with their own video signal, the chessboard. Thus the surveillance monitor in the control room is taken over and turned into a game console. With their invitation to play !Mediengruppe Bitnik breaks the power structure of the surveillance situation - a subtle performance for a single and specifically selected recipient. http://www.hacking-the-city.org/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Les Complices*, Zürich, Switzerland Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed Eröffnung: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010, ab 18h 19h: Kommentar zur Finanzkrise von Kaspar Surber, WOZ-Redaktor Ausstellung bis 18. September 2010 Do, Fr, Sa: 14 - 18h Hinweis Veranstaltung: Following The Crisis Donnerstag, 16. September 2010 15:30h: Les Complices* 19:30h: anschliessendes Essen im Les Complices* Die Finanzkrise ausgelöst im Frühsommer 2007 durch die amerikanische Immobilienkrise und eine weltweite kreditfinanzierte Massenspekulation an den Finanzmärkten verursacht in der überhitzten Weltwirtschaft einen Systemabsturz. Ein Absturz – so hoffen manche – der Raum gibt, um über alternative Wirtschaftssysteme oder zumindest über Korrekturen des gegenwärtigen Systems nachzudenken. Kaum zwei Jahre nach dem Zusammenbruch der Grossbank Lehman Brothers schreiben die verbliebenen Grossbanken wieder satte Gewinne, die Medien sprechen von Aufschwung, die Grossbanken bleiben „too big to fail“ und können auch in Zukunft spekulative Risiken eingehen, die sie ohne staatliche Absicherung nicht eingehen würden. Während eines Rechercheaufenthaltes in London im Frühjahr 2010 hat die !Mediengruppe Bitnik das Finanzsystem auf sein parasitäres Potential hin untersucht. Sie haben das Finanzsystem, seine Medien und Strukturen in verschiedenen Feldversuchen unter die Lupe genommen, um festzustellen wie sie in diese Systeme eingreifen und ihre Prozesse für eine spielerische Intervention öffnen können. Mit der Ausstellung «Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed», die gleichzeitig in den Space Studios in London und bei Les Complices* stattfindet, eignet sich die !Mediengruppe Bitnik mit den psychogeographischen Mitteln des «Sich-Leitenlassens» den städtischen Aussenraum der Finanzplätze Zürich und London an. Entstanden sind dabei subjektive Beobachtungen, die mit den Mitteln der Observation die Spuren der Krise im städtischen Raum suchen. http://lescomplices.ch/ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Too big to Fail Too Small to Succeed [ space ], London, UK 129-131 Mare Street London E8 3RH Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed 03 Sep – 02 Oct 2010 Preview: Thursday 2nd September 6pm - 9pm An intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich. Reconaissance, media technologies and advertsing playfully probe the blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power from state to corporation. This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik's first UK solo exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe Bitnik describe their work as an 'explorative practice' to determine how systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed. Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed is kindly supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain. PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/-mediengruppe-bitnik-too-big-to-fail-too-small-to-succeed _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ Hope to see you! !Mediengruppe Bitnik http://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
