> New Materialisms (Station 1) > > 15 . 07 - 05 . 08 . 2015 > > part of the exhibition-in-progress New Materialisms > > artists: Petrič / Turšič . Praxis (digitized) . Armin Medosch > curator: Darko Fritz > > program: > 15 . 7. 21 h . Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič . informance (information > performance) > 18 . 7. 21 h . Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič: Cosmosapiens and the TerRatop . > presentation > 23 . 7. 22 h . Armin Medosch: What is history? Homage to Praxis, Praxis group > and Korčula Summer School . theoretical performance, peripatetic symposion > (The gathering between 9 and 10 pm) > > > On July 15 at 9 pm, the exhibition New Materialisms (Station 1) will be open > at the gallery grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art in Korčula. > The exhibition presents audiovisual installation Voyager/ non-human agent by > Slovenian artistic duet Špela Petrič and Miha Turšič. At the opening the > artists will perform an informance (information performance). > The exhibition also presents the digitized archive of Praxis journal, which > can be copied by the visitors to their USB sticks and external memory discs. > Two separate presentations will be held in English: on July 18 at 9 pm Špela > Petrič and Miha Turšič will hold a presentation under the title Cosmosapiens > and the TerRatope, while on July 23 Armin Medosch will take us for a walk in > a form of peripatetic theoretical performance. > > New Materialisms (Station 1) is the first in the series of the three-year > program carried out in cooperation of grey) (area – space for contemporary > and media art from Korčula, HICA (Highlands Institute for Contemporary Art) > from Scotland and Technopolitics, association for development of new > discourses in art and science from Vienna. Project New Materialisms explores > the nature of auto-poietic (self-organized) neotworks, whereby HICA's and > grey) (area dialogues with partners' organizations, spaces and artists will > be extending across Europe through 2016 and 2017. New Materialisms reflects > on the historically divergent art practices and related discourses of > Concrete Art and Conceptual Art, especially as identified through the 1960s, > as Modern and Postmodern, and as understood through the prism of today's > post-media approaches in fine arts, and the post-digital condition of > contemporary life (where the digital realm is interwoven through all aspects > of society). Accordingly, New Materialisms also forms a dialogue between > significant artists from this earlier period, who may be seen to be first > exploring the territory, and current practitioners, now operating within a > post-media context. Thus New Materialisms presents a mirroring of > “organismic” states, ultimately proposing aesthetic experience as a > significant mechanism in the processes of formation of the physical world. > > About the exhibited works and presentations > > > > Installation Voyager/ non-human agent uses algorithm and data collected from > the instruments from the spacecraft Voyager, which since 1977 has been > travelling across the universe. Existing space programs focus mainly on > understanding the farthest of our surroundings and on developing > technological solutions, but tend to overlook the importance of implementing > artistic development practices and methodologies in the form of a basic > question: What is it like to be a human in space? > Voyager/ Non-human Agent project investigates the possible art forms in outer > space, a composite of art and science, and the processes of science > culturalization. > > > > In the frame of the presentation titled Cosmosapiens and the TerRatope Špela > Petrič will talk about the influences of the post-(bio)technological > interregnum on the developmental challenges of artwork about/with/from living > systems. She will discuss issues of authenticity, interfaces and paradigm > contestations in connection to her practice and interdisciplinary art-sci > collaborations. Miha Turšič, artist, designer and KSEVT (Cultural Centre for > European Space Technologies) director will present the ongoing mission of > incorporating arts and humanities as constitutional human practices into > space exploration programs. For this talk, he will focus on space > architecture, non-human habitability and post-gravity art. > > > > Exhibition New Materialisms (Station 1) also presents interdisciplinary works > based on the legacy of Korčula Summer School and Praxis Journal. The > collective of critical thinkers around the journal developed a singular > trajectory of humanist Marxist and socialist analysis in the context of > non-aligned Yugoslavia. Together with the affiliated Korčula summer school > the journal functioned as a hub for the exchange of critical perspectives > between the East and the West in the years 1963-1974. In the proceedings of > the summer school and the journal participated many prominent figures of the > period, a.o. Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, Henri Lefebvre, Karel Kosik, > Jürgen Habermas, Lucien Goldmann. > > Praxis (digitized) is a collection containing the (digitized) issues of > Yugoslav, international, special and pocket editions of Praxis journal. It > also contains the journal Problemi and a smaller number of monographs that > provide context for the understanding of the work and historic significance > of the Praxis journal. Praxis (digitized) is a part of the project Public > Library, accessible at http://praxis.memoryoftheworld.org. > Public library is a project initiated by Marcell Mars and Tomislav Medak, > aimed at lobbying for the institution od public library and everybody's right > to access knowledge as its fundamental principle. Public library dwells on > the possibility of building distributed infrastructure for accessing > digitized knowledge, constructed by amateur librarians. Within the Public > Library project, the collection Praxis (digitized) was created by Ante > Lešaja and Tomislav Medak. > > Besides the archive Praxis (digitized), the work by Armin Medosch, Austrian > artist, theoretician and lecturer, also relies on Korčula Summer School and > Praxis journal legacy. > > On July 23 Armin Medosch will carry out the theoretical performance, > peripatetic symposion titled What is History? Hommage to Praxis journal, > Praxis group and Korčula Summer School that reflects on the mutuality of > interrelations among these phenomena. Through series of site specific > performative lectures, Armin Medosch will be exploring various notions of > materialism(s), historical, dialectical and new. Medosch's performative > lecture is an improvised free speech, putting forward the question: “What is > History?”. The topic of the second Korčula Summer School gathering, “What is > History?” will also be Armin's topic. To speak freely means to get back to > the origins of philosophy, to the form of friendly conversation. There will > be no script and there should also be no recording going on. One core topic > will be Praxis’ specific understanding of reflection theory, according art > and culture semi-autonomy in relation to the productive apparatus. Medosch > will seek to place Praxis in this respect in a context with Western Marxism > and its art theories, including Adorno, Marcuse, Lefebvre, Williams, Jameson > and others. > > Presenting Praxis legacy in manifold forms is also a part of the project > History of Contemporaneity, conceptualized and carried out by the informal > platform kor::net (Korčula Network), and which includes historiographic > research and mapping of highly relevant artistic and cultural practices that > marked the promotion of contemporary trends on the island of Korčula in the > 20th Ct. > More at: http://korculanetwork.info/kornet/pages/praxis. > > More about the project, as well artists' bio, at > http://grey-area.org/exhibitions/NM1. > > gallery is open daily from 21 to 22 h > Put Sv. Nikole bb (close to the town center) > free entrance > > supported by > zaklada Kultura Nova > Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia
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