ÅMX.06 Should I Stay Or Should I Go? On Secondary Cities Malmö 18 February to 5 March 2006 Århus 23 February to 5 March 2006
PROGRAMME OBJECTIVES The Århus-Malmö Exchange Programme 2006 is a long-term research and exhibition project that takes place in Malmö (SE) and Århus (DK). It is initiated by Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Jee-Eun Kim and Christian Schult, in association with C-SAM center for samtidskunst and exhibition space rum46 in Århus, and Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö. The programme strives to examine the specific socio-economic conditions relevant to secondary cities (as opposed to capital cities), and their affects on cultural production, and hence the lives of cultural producers in the two cities. Århus and Malmö are almost the same size and they share Copenhagen as the closest metropolis. However, the issues of networking and sustainability within cultural production differ in Århus and Malmö due to its specific size and local context. This project examines existing networks and encourages additional modes of collaboration between and among the two communities. The project addresses artists and institutions alike, regarding the two as having equal importance as actors within a community, and aims to create physical and intellectual platforms of exchange. The idea of sustainability is to be established by structuring the programme into a modular framework, that build upon each other, stretching over a period of five months. Given the many points of convergence between Århus and Malmö, artists, writers, social critics and institutions are invited to reflect and discuss the notions of secondary cities. The project focuses on ways to investigate how a space and its inhabitants identifies and structures itself, and the permeability of such identity and networking constructions, as it responds and resists the impacts of societal conditions. EXCHANGE MODELS Challenging the conventional working definitions within art, the programme confounds practice with equally critical examination of the space in which such productions have been displayed. It is structured around multi-platform interfaces of exchange that unfold along two tracks over the course of the year, in order to provide a structural framework that house and propel debates and their collaborative offshoots. The first module of the programme starts at the end of February with an exchange of existing video and performance works made by artists in the two cities. Moderated screenings are to take place in the Microcinema at Rooseum in Malmö and at the auditorium at AROS in Århus. Artists are invited to give a short talk, or be represented in statements of their choice that contextualize the work they are contributing with. Subsequent exhibitions open in the Critical Studies Test Site and Microcinema at Rooseum in Malmö and at exhibition space rum46 in Århus. Creating an alternate viewing platform and opportunities for the audience, the exhibitions comprise the works shown in the screenings, as well as additional works outside of time-based media. Regular reading group meetings start immediately after the opening of the exhibitions. They are moderated by Jee-Eun Kim and Christian Schult and are hosted by exhibition spaces Signal in Malmö and rum46 in Århus. The readings are centered on literatures examining the various ideas of public (the/a public, public sphere, public space), as well as notions of the urban environment as a physical manifestation of social and political conditions. By creating a common ground of textual exchanges in forms of discussion and question, the initiators seek to encourage an exploration of strategies and principles to guide and enrich the current debate of public and public sphere, and to provide a working vocabulary to formulate and observe the immediate local contexts. The second programme module consists of a larger exhibition of works, accompanied by talks and panel discussions with invited contributors from various disciplines, as well as a publication. Based on the dialogue generated through the reading groups, a smaller number of cultural producers from the two cities are invited to make proposals for specific projects, that are collated to be exhibited in Malmö in June 2006. // ÅRHUS IN MALMÖ 18 February - 5 March 2006 Critical Studies Test Site and Microcinema Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Gasverksgatan 22 With contributions by Grete Aagaard aarhus.nu Anne Dyrh Lasse Krog Møller Hanne Lindstrøm Tanja Nellemann Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen Jacob Nielsen Anja Raithel Trine Rytter Andersen Lise Skou SHARE YOUR COUNTRY Sixten Therkildsen Friday 17 February 19:30 Exhibition Opening 21:30 Concert with Jab Mica Och El Sunday 19 February 14:00-16:00 Introduction to the ÅMX reading group Signal, S Skolgatan 31 // MALMÖ IN ÅRHUS 23 February - 5 March 2006 Exhibition space rum 46, Studsgade 46 AroS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aros Allé 2 With contributions by Mats Adelman Karlotta Blöndal Johanna Gustafsson Ewa Einhorn Beata Fransson Mathias Kristersson Runo Lagomarsino Tova Mozard Ylva Westerlund Thursday 23 February 19:30 Performance Evening with Mathias Kristensson, Lise Skou and Johanna Gustafsson rum 46 Saturday 25 February 15:00 Moderated Screening of video works from Malmö AroS Auditorium, 3rd floor Saturday 25 February 18:00 Exhibition Opening rum 46 Sunday 26 February 14:00 Introduction to the ÅMX reading group rum 46 // For further information on the programme please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] // www.c-sam.info www.rum46.dk www.aarhus.nu www.rooseum.se www.signal-galleri.org //// ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
