Kvöld hinna glötuðu verka // Night of the lost artwork

Allt þetta grænmeti og öll þessi orðanotkun. Gjörningur framinn á Sequences rauntíma-listahátíðinni 2007. 

Fyrir utan galleríið var hlið sem skreytt var grænmeti, þeir sem áttu leið sína í galleríið Lost Horse gengu um hliðið. Þegar inn var komið tók á móti þeim listamaður sem var í óða önn að skapa verk, rétt í því kom manneskja klædd í græn jakkaföt. Peningarseðlarnir stóðu út úr fötunum. Þessi persónugervingur  var bankamaður. Undirleikurinn ómaði, einhverskonar söngur sem búið var að klippa og setja saman við pop tónlist. Listamaðurinn reyndi og reyndi að ná í sköpunarmáttinn með aðferðum frumbyggja, að falla í trans, á meðan bankamaðurinn dældi í hann peningum. 

Artíma Gallerí býður þig velkomin á þetta fyrsta kvöld; 

Kvöld hinna glötuðu verka og verka sem föst eru í formi hugmyndar, 

þann 14. janúar 2012.

Listamenn fyrsta kvöldsins eru:

Ólöf Björns 

Sara Björnsdóttir

Bryndís Hrönn

Snorri Ásmundar

Rakel McMahon

Hlynur Halls 

Kolbrún Ýr

Katrín I Jonsd. Hjordisard

Kvöld hinna glötuðu verka eru ætluð til þess að safna gögnum um verk sem gerð hafa verið og engar heimildir eru til um, sem hafa kannski aldrei verið framin, eða þá ný verk sem ennþá eru á hugmyndarstiginu. Þessi kvöld eru líka ætluð til þess að rannsaka hvernig ný form af tímabundsleika (temporality) verða til og endurramma hugmyndir um gagnasöfnun. 

Og við getum einnig velt þessu fyrir okkur:

Hvernig gjörningarlist, sem verður til milli “líkamlegrar tjáningar” og “sálrænnar reynslu áhorfandans og listamanns af því sem mun gerast”, er síðan sýnd sem listaverk (artifact) í galleríi, vefsíðu eða inni á listastofnun.

Það er vandmeðfarið að greina kjarna gjörningarlistar. Hvernig fer það fram og hvað gerist þegar gjörningar eru endurgerðir? Erum við að búa til veikar kópíur þegar við fremjum gjörning sem við höfum framið áður? Og maður getur líka spurt sig hvort gjörningur sem framinn hefur verið sé einungis æfing fyrir þann sem verður framinn seinna. Eða fer endurgerð á gjörningi upp á móti kjarna gjörningarlistar? Kannski eru þetta allt kópíur; því listaverk eru kópíur eða endurgerðir af raunveruleikanum. Þá er hver endurgerð öðruvísi og gefur þann möguleika að skapa nýja reynslu og sögu.  

Með kveðju 

Katrín I. H. J. Hirt & Eva Ísleifsdóttir 

   Allir að koma með sínar eigin veigar. 

   Aðgangseyri er 500 kr og sá peningur rennur óskiptur til listamanna kvöldsins.

Artíma gallerí

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Smiðjustígur 10 

101 Reykjavík

In English

All of these vegetables and all this use of words. Performance at the Sequences festival 2007 in Reykjavik. Outside the gallery is a gate decorated with vegetable, the guests that came to performance had to walk through the gate before entering the Lost Horse Gallery. When the guests had entered they where greeted by an artist that was in dozed in making art and a person wearing a green suit. Money notes where sticking out from underneath the suit. It was a personification of a banker. In the space a sound track, a women voice, similar to a sirens voice mixed with pop beats was banging. The artist was trying and trying to connect with the creative force using ancient techniques that had trance like features, whilst the banker kept throwing money at her. 

Artíma Gallery invites you to the first night of;

The night of the lost artwork and artworks that have only remained an idea. 

14th of January 2012 

The artist are

Ólöf Björns 

Sara Björnsdóttir

Bryndís Hrönn 

Snorri Ásmundar 

Rakel McMahon 

Hlynur Halls 

Kolbrún Ýr 

Katrín I Jonsd. Hjordisard

The nights of the lost artwork are meant to gather and collect documentation of performance art that have not been showed in Iceland, have not been showed at all or new work that still are just an idea. These nights are also meant to research how new forms of temporality re-frame and re-examine ideas about documentation. 

And we can also ask our selves; 

How performance art that happens between ´physical expression ´and ´ the viewer and the artist psychological experience of what is about to become  ´ is presented as an artifact. 

Analyzing the core of performance art is very tricky. How does one re-enact a performance and what happens to the performance when it is re-created?  Are we making weak copies, when we re-create a performance work that we have performed before? And you can also ask your self was the original performance only a rehearsal for the second one? Or is re-creating performance going against 

it´s own ontology? Maybe it´s all copies; like the Greek philosopher Platon states, work of art are copies or recreations of nature (reality). 

But given that we can suggest that every copy is different thus giving a chance on creating new experience and history. 

With all the best 

Katrin og Eva 

Artíma Gallerý 

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BYOB 

500 Kr ISK entry fee that goes to the artist of the night. 

The Ugly Clean up at the Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh Scotland

ugly clean up

• Dates:15.10.11 - 30.10.11
• Opening:14.10.11 1900~2100
• Location:Embassy @ 10b Broughton St Lane
• Artists:Alexis Milne, Alexis Milne and Mark McGowan, Beagles & Ramsay, Berry Patten, John Russell, Liam Richardson, Liam Richardson and Eva Isleifsdottir, Tori Drost

ugly clean up presents work that engages with social, political and environmental issues through representation, re-enactment and engagement. Social and political differences, exacerbated by economic circumstances, are central to various projects whilst others are concerned with the relation of humans to water, animals, plantlife, vehicles and the end. Uses of public and private spaces, and spaces that approach wilderness, are also a focus.

The exhibition The Return Of The Losers in which Gustav Hellbergs In Your Head is a part, is on show at Kalmar konstmuseum until September fourth. On the third of June Swedish culture news released its top five list on the most relevant cultural happenings for the month of June. The Return Of The Losers got ranked in second place. The reviewer found the exhibition to be a relevant and thought-provoking report on what in the future awaits the Lost Generation; i.e those born during the 1990s and 2000s.  Read up on The Return of the Losers.

(http://artline-southbaltic.eu/2011/06/second-in-list/)

OUTPOST SUMMER FAYRE 21-26 June Am Nuden Da, Embassy, Grand Union, OUTPOST and Permanent 5 formal presentations from 5 small, artist-led organisations based in the UK alongside contributions from: Castlefield Gallery, Eastside Projects/Extra Special People, The International 3, LUX, Spike Island and Wysing Arts Centre. Also featuring regional stalls from Kaavous/Bhoyroo, Stop Sharpening Your Knifes, YH485 Press and others. Launch event 21 June, 5-9pm

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Artists include:

Rachel Adams
Jonny Aldous
Bruce Asbestos
Jeffery Baker
Darren Banks
Jordan Baseman
Oliver Beer
Nina Beier
Brass Art
Marcel Broodthaers
Helen Brown
Miguel Calderón
Bonnie Camplin
Kitty Clark
Coco Crampton
Studio Downturn
Tom Duggan
Oliver Eales
James Early
Mark Essen
Tatiana Echevarri Fernadez
Rob Filby
Leo Fitzmaurice
Jessica Flood-Paddock
Pat Flynn
Alistair Frost
Tom Godfrey
Rachel Goodyear
Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry
RJ Hinrichsen
Andy Holden
Sacha Imrie
Eva Isleifsdottir
Erin Javes
Juneau Projects
Samson Kambalu
David Kefford
Morag Keil
KIMICONRAD
Stuart Whipps & James Langdon
Lawrence Leaman
Bill Leslie
Simon Liddiment
Linder
Nina Beier & Marie Lund
Tessa Lynch
Laurie MacPherson
Ján Mancuška
Lee Marshall
Andrew McDonald
David Miller
Marlie Mul
Shahryar Nashat
Francesca Nobilucci
Thomas Nolan
Yelena Popova
Elizabeth Price
Beagles & Ramsay
Abigail Reynolds
Matthew Richardson
Olivier Richon
Phil Root
Wilhelm Sasnal
Eric Schumacher
Mounira Al Solh
Cally Spooner
Matt Stokes
Stephen Sutcliffe
Alex Tobin
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Fritz Welch
Pablo Wendel
Matt Westbrook
Michael White
Bedwyr Williams
Amy Petra Woodward
Simon Woolham

MY FRIEND THE FOREIGNER

New updates about the project that is taking place in Edinburgh in September 2011.

The exhibition will be held at the Old Ambulance Depo.

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The Return of the Losers

Kjersti Andvig (NO), Páll Haukur Björnsson (ISL), Conny Blom (SE), Alessandra Di Pisa (SE), Sara-Vide Ericson (SE), Klas Eriksson (SE), Ivan Galuzin (NO), Tamar Guimaraes (DK), Gustav Hellberg (SE), Eva Isleifsdottir (ISL), Elin Magnusson (SE), Jumana Manna (NO) & Roxy Fahrat (SE), NUG (SE), Hanna Ojamo (SF), Kristian Skylstad (NO), Pilvi Takala (SF), Sören Thilo Funder (DK), Theis Wendt (DK), Danh Vo (DK) and YKON.

Curator: Martin Schibli

The Return of the Losers is based on economic calculations that show that the young people who grew up in the Nordic countries in the 1990s and 2000s will in general have a lower standard of living than their parents’ generation. A change like that will likely force a reformulation of the Nordic welfare state. Many believe that transformation is already underway, with Sweden having lost is position at the head of the pack of welfare societies. The rest of the world seems already to have lost faith in the Nordic model as a sustainable and successful role model for welfare in the globalized world. The struggle for survival is going to be tough for many Nordic regions, cities, and individuals. The issue couldn’t be more relevant, especially for the Kalmar region, with its diminishing and ageing population.

The participating artists are themselves members of the lost generation, but they have in common the fact that they don’t see themselves as victims. On the contrary, they create instead their own conditions for survival in a global world. In this way, the artists contribute with their actions to the reformulation of the Nordic welfare state. In their work, the artists capture the younger generation’s attitude toward the Nordic welfare state’s changes in the wake of globalization—and toward its future.

The exhibition is also intended to reflect on the position of art and the artist in a time of social change and development. What is possible? Several of the participating artists have been perceived by the surrounding community as provocative. Could that be because they make their own way, refusing to resign themselves to fate? Perhaps it’s precisely because these artists have touched on and questioned the foundations of the welfare society, the basis for many debates in the art world in Sweden in recent years.

OPENING Saturday, May 7
1:00 PM Performance by Klas Eriksson
2:00 PM Introduction by exhibition curator Martin Schibli, Director of Exhibitions
3:00 PM Conversation with several of the participating artists

SCHEDULE
Wednesday, May 18, 6:30 PM: “A Contemporary Mirror on Criminal Groups,” Anette Karlsson, social planner/researcher, City of Kalmar
Sunday, May 22, 2:00 PM: Tour of the exhibition with its curator
Wednesday, May 25, 10:00 AM: “Pram Tour” with the Director of Exhibitions Martin Schibli
Wednesday, August 24: Martin Schibli on “Contemporary Swedish Art”
Wednesday, August 31: Release event for Oscar Guermouche’s book What Are You Doing Right Now?

The exhibition has received funding from OCA, Norway and Statens Kunstråd (The Danish Art council, Denmark.