Press Release October 9, 2011
Launch Open 21 at Immigrant Movement International, New York City, October 9,
2011, 2 PM
Lectures by Brian Holmes and Eric Kluitenberg and presentation Open 21 on
(Im)Mobility
Programme October 9, 2011
2:00 PM Introduction by Jorinde Seijdel
Open 21 (Im)mobility. Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility
2:30 PM Lecture Brian Holmes
What Sustains a Public Sphere? Solidarity in the Post-Liberal
Societies
3:15 PM Lecture Eric Kluitenberg
The Global Im/Mobility Privilege
4 PM End
Further info:
www.skor.nl/eng/site/item/launch-open-21-at-immigrant-movement-international-new-york-city
About:
Brian Holmes is a cultural critic living at present in Chicago. He works on
crisis theory and technopolitics. All his texts are obtainable free of charge
here: http://brianholmes.wordpress.com
For decades, the critique of neoliberalism has been a paying proposition for
left-leaning artists and intellectuals. Amidst the Internet and real-estate
booms, a fragile mix of enlightenment and entrepreneurial values preserved some
space for theories of radical democracy. Today, financial turmoil and its
hard-right political consequences have laid that ambiguity to rest. In this
lecture, Brian Holmes reopens the debate about the practical basis for an
aesthetics of equality. The first step toward new institutions of solidarity,
he argues, is to understand one's own position on the margins.
Eric Kluitenberg is a writer and curator who focuses on culture, media and
technology, living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Recent publications include
Book of Imaginary Media (2006) and Delusive Spaces (essays, 2008).
The right to freedom of movement is enshrined in international systems of law
and power that offer little space for individual influence or control. Our
examination of the global regimes of im/mobility revealed how deeply the
transnational is rooted in specific local constellations, which offer the
optimal point of intervention.
Jorinde Seijdel is editor in chief of Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain.
Immigrant Movement International (IM International) is a five-year project
initiated by artist Tania Bruguera. Its mission is to help define the immigrant
as a unique, new global citizen in a post-national world and to test the
concept of arte útil or 'useful art', in which artists actively implement the
merger of art into society’s urgent social, political and scientific issues.
Year one of Immigrant Movement International is supported by The Queens Museum
of Art, located in Queens’ historic Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and
CreativeTime, a public art organization that sponsors art and artists all over
New York City.
Location
Immigrant Movement International
108-59 Roosevelt Avenue
Queens, NY 11368
United States
Further info:
http://immigrant-movement.us/?page_id=173
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Open 21: (Im)Mobility. Exploring the Limits of Hypermobility
Advanced communications technologies seem to be paving the way for an increase
in physical and motorized mobility. At the same time, these accelerating flows
of data and commodities stand in sharp contrast to the elbow room afforded to
the biological body, which in fact is forced to a standstill. And while data,
goods and capital have been freed of their territorial restrictions, the
opposite is true for a growing proportion of the world’s population: border
regimes, surveillance and identity control are being intensified at a rapid
pace. In short, we are seeing both an uncurbed and uncontrolled increase of
mobility and segregating filtrations. This issue of Open explores the internal
contradictions of prevailing mobility regimes and their effects on social and
physical space. With, amongst others, an interview with David Harvey.
Open investigates the contemporary conditions of public space and changing
notions of publicness in a structural manner in relation to cultural
production. This implies an experimental and interdisciplinary exposition of
the reality, possibilities and limitations of the current public domain, in
particular from sociological, philosophical, political and artistic
perspectives. Within the framework of this ‘project in progress’, themes such
as safety, memory, visibility, cultural freedom, tolerance hybrid space, the
rise of informal media, art as a public affair, manipulative, precarity and
privacy have been examined.
Open is edited by Jorinde Seijdel (editor in chief) and Liesbeth Melis (final
editing) and appears twice a year in a Dutch-language and an English-language
edition. The graphic design is by Thomas Buxò and Klaartje van Eijk. Open is an
initiative of SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain (Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, www.skor.nl) and is published by NAi Publishers
(www.naipublishers.nl).
For information, ordering and subscriptions see SKOR, NAi Publishers or send
and e-mail to [email protected].
www.skor.nl/eng/publications?f=22504
www.naipublishers.nl/open_e/subscribe_e.html
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