THE FORGOTTEN PIONEER MOVEMENT
3.10. – 29.11.2014
Opening 2.10.2014
District invites to explore the experiences of the last, transitional
European pioneer generation between socialism and post-socialism in the
interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project The Forgotten
Pioneer Movement on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of
the Berlin wall.
Participants
Lina Albrikienė, Ēriks Apaļais, Ieva Astahovska & Inga Lace, bankleer,
Ana Bogdanović, [BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković),
Mitya Churikov, CORO Collective, Kasia Fudakowski, Sophie Goltz, Gal
Kirn, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, Snejana Krasteva &
Peter Tzanev, Kate Krolle & Maya Mikelsone, Anchi Cheng & Kristina Leko
& Jonathan Ryall & Lisa Schwalb, Marina Naprushkina, Rasa Navickaitė,
Newsreel front, Alexandra Pirici (& Madalina Dan, Farid Fairuz, Manuel
Pelmuş), Marta Popivoda, Claudia Rößger, Elske Rosenfeld, Anca Rujoiu &
Madalina Zaharia, Anna Till & Juliane Schmidt, SKILLS, VIP, Ana
Vujanović, Nikola Vukobratović, ŽemAt (Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Domaš Noreika,
Eglė Ambrasaitė, Aušra Vismantaitė, Noah Brehmer, Eglė Mikalajūnė) and
others
Curated by
Ulrike Gerhardt and Susanne Husse
in conversation with Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Ana Bogdanović, Snejana
Krasteva, Eglė Mikalajūnė, Maya Mikelsone, Anca Rujoiu and [BLOK]
Opening: October 2nd, 2014,
2pm bankleer: performance at Bundestag
6pm exhibition opening, and
7pm SKILLS: performance at District
3.10. – 29.11.2014 performances all over Berlin, exhibition and public
seminar at District
We understand that our generation’s mission is to revise this
strategically demonized past.
Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė (artist and curator, Lithuania)
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement (TFPM) is an interdisciplinary
performance and exhibition project about the experiences of the last,
transitional generation between socialism and post-socialism. As a
fictional movement, TFPM addresses the impact and the societal
perspectives of the “last pioneers”: a generation whose childhood and
youth is linked to the times of the Perestroika and the ‘pOst-Western’
Europe of the 1990s.
As a modernist phenomenon and ex-symbol of childhood and adolescent
identification, the figure of the pioneer lends itself to an
investigation of the many inscriptions of educational institutions and
publicly mobilized ideologies in the former “East” and “West”. TFPM
combines strategies and discourses from visual as well as performative
arts and cultural theory in order to approach “the future behind us”,
observed by Edit András, as a pan-european experience beyond
geopolitical classifications. 25 years after the fall of the Berlin
wall, TFPM suggests new constellations between this remote future and
insignia of the present.
Set #A Performances
bankleer, Kasia Fudakowski, Snejana Krasteva & Peter Tzanev, Kate Krolle
& Maya Mikelsone, Domaš Noreika / ŽemAt, Alexandra Pirici, Elske
Rosenfeld, Juliane Schmidt & Anna Till, SKILLS, VIP
Guided by the cultural technique of the ‘psychodrama’, SET #A reacts
upon places in the former East and former West of Berlin to re-connect
collective and individual trajectories of memory based on the figure of
the ex-pioneer. The performances activate instants and gestures of
historical and political discontinuity, emphasizing their transformative
momentum. The participating persons, objects and architectures become
representatives for not yet articulated, opaque experiences.
The complete performance programme can be found here.
http://www.district-berlin.com/detail_full.php?categorie_id=19&article_id=178&lang=en
Set # A is realized in collaboration with Galerie M, the youth center
FAIR and HAU Hebbel am Ufer.
Set # B Exhibition
Lina Albrikienė, Ēriks Apaļais, bankleer, Mitya Churikov, CORO
Collective, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, Marina
Naprushkina, Claudia Rößger, ŽemAt
During the exhibition, objects, styles and words that were unnoticed,
negated or simply unknown in the context of “pOst-Western”
transformation will be collected and reconfigured as indexical traces.
In order to understand the processes of historicizing the 'socialist /
post-socialist experience' beyond any mythologizing absorption, TFPM
suggests new connections between that remote future and specific
experiences of the present.
Set # B is complemented by the Appendix Collection, a research station
with reference materials from the participants, the archive transitland:
Video Art from Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009 (curated by Edit
András and Margarita Dorovska) and the TFPM video archive with Lina
Albrikienė, bankleer, Vlad Basalici, Eglė Budvytytė, Irina Botea,
Cooltūristės, Anna Jermolaewa, Szabolcs Kisspál, Wilhelm Klotzek, Jumana
Manna & Sille Storihle, VIP, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Katarina Zdjelar, a.o.
Set # B is realized in collaboration with Balassi Institut – Collegium
Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB).
Set #C Public Seminar - The Pioneer Camp of ReVision
Ieva Astahovska, Nika Autor / Newsreel front, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė / ŽemAt,
[BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković), Ana Bogdanović,
Sophie Goltz, Gal Kirn, Inga Lāce, Kristina Leko & Anchi Cheng &
Jonathan Ryall & Lisa Schwalb, Rasa Navickaitė, Marta Popivoda, Anca
Rujoiu, Ana Vujanović, Nikola Vukobratović, Madalina Zaharia and others
The Pioneer Camp of ReVision is a public seminar taking place from
October 3rd through October 5th 2014 at District and different locations
in Berlin. It includes lectures, workshops, discussions, artist talks,
performances and film screenings. In this context a revision of
questions, concepts and terminologies of The Forgotten Pioneer Movement
will be initiated. Co-organized by Zagreb curators’ collective [BLOK]
and art historian Ana Bogdanović (University of Belgrade), The Pioneer
Camp of ReVision addresses cultural theory ranging from the ‘presence of
the absent’ and the critical re-evaluation of socialist projects to the
analysis of generational experience.
The complete Pioneer Camp of ReVision programme can be found here.
Set # C is realized in collaboration with [BLOK] and the Latvian Centre
for Contemporay Art, Riga.
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement is a project of District Kunst- und
Kulturförderung Berlin, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin and BKJ
funding programme Künste Öffnen Welten.
The Forgotten Pioneer Movement is realised in cooperation with [BLOK],
Balassi Institut – Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (.CHB), Latvian Centre
for Contemporay Art, Riga, Galerie M, FAIR and Galerie im Turm and with
friendly support by HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Maxim Gorki Theater, Stiftung
Kunstfonds, Ehemaliges Tschechoslowakisches Kulturinstitut, Artseco,
CinePlus, deinestadtklebt.de and Estrel Hotel.
More information here.
http://www.district-berlin.com/detail_full.php?categorie_id=19&article_id=178&lang=en
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