Thursday, 19. February 2009, 1.03 pm -
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Foto: Pia Rönicke / Zeynel Abidin Kızılyaprak, Facing, 2008, DVD 53 min
U-TURN kvadriennale for samtidskunst er nu forbi. Det blev til et for-program af kunstnerpræsentationer, foredrag og performance, til satellit programmer og udstillinger i Berlin, Stege og Århus,
samt ikke mindst hovedudstillingen der fandt sted i Københavns byrum, i en tappehal på Carlsberg, i Kunsthallen Nikolaj samt en række andre steder i byen.
Festivalgæsterne var udstyret med et armbånd, der gav fri adgang til alle udstillingerne samt en række begivenheder som eksempelvis foredrag, performance og omvisninger i udstilling og byrum, og
mange gæster var tilbagevendende.
Vi ønsker at takke kunstnerne som har bidraget og alle andre -ikke mindst de mange frivillige - der har bidraget til at kvadriennalen kunne lykkes.
Endvidere ønsker vi at takke alle fonde og sponsorer, der med økonomiske og materiale bidrag har gjort kvadriennalen mulig - ikke mindst Kunstrådet, Fonden til markedsføring af Danmark, Statens
Kunstfond, Ny Carlsberg Fondet og Københavns Kommune. Se fuld liste under sponsorer.
Sekretariatet er ophørt og henvendelse vedr. eventuel fortsættelse af kvadriennalen rettes til Kunststyrelsen. Henvendels vedr. restance rettes til advokat Christian B. Elmer, Lund Elmer Sandager,
Kalvebod Brygge 39-41, 1560 København V. Tlf.: +45 33 300 250, fax: +45 33 300 299, cbe@lesadv.dk
Diverse plakater 50 kr.
Her kan du bl.a. få den omtalte plakat "Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity" - også i kunstnerduoen Bik Van der Pol's spejlvendte udgave. Der findes desuden plakater med Jesper Just og
Laylah Ali.
Dan Perjovschi nummererede editioner - en perfekt gave idé
Enkelt edition: 1850 kr.
Serie på 3 tryk: 4500 kr.
Special U-TURN Edition: 4000 kr.
(Alle tre tryk på samme ark)
Kataloger 200 kr.
Kan også købes i boghandlere lander over.
T-Shirts (Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity)
Så længe lager haves 200 kr.
Short guides - GRATIS ved afhentning
Sted:
U-TURN
Vester Voldgade 96, st.
1552 København V
Tlf: 3391 6111
Julesalget finder sted til og med mandag d. 22 december.
Ønsker du varer tilsendt tillægges porto. Varene betales på forhånd. Hør nærmere på: info@uturn-copenhagen.dk
Foreningen af danske kunstkritikere inviterer til debatarrangement om:
U-TURN!
Hvad kan en international manifestation af samtidskunst i København?
Hvordan er det gået? Hvilke succeskriterier skal projektet bedømmes
efter? Og ikke mindst: skal projektet forsætte i fremtiden?
Kom og deltag i debatten med
Judith Schwarzbart, kurator U-TURN
Elisabeth Toubro, formand for Kunstrådets Billedkunstudvalg
Ann Lumbye Sørensen, kunsthistoriker og kritiker
Tid: torsdag d. 6. november fra 17-19
Sted: U-TURN Carlsberg Tap E
Gamle Carlsberg vej 15, 2500 Valby
Wednesday, 22. October 2008, 1.21 pm -
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U-TURN launches the long awaited exhibition catalogue and invites you to a reception on Thursday October 23 from 7- 8pm. There will be
refreshments and the catalogue will be sold for DKK 150 (normally DKK 200).
About the Catalogue
The exhibition catalogue for U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art contains more than 80 pages of photographical documentation of the exhibition and the works of the 64 artists. Furthermore the
catalogue contains 3 larger essays: Proxy-walls by art critic Boris Buden, Never Say Never Again by Art Historian
Camilla Jalving as well as Might the best cure for fear be curiosity? which describes the ideas behind the exhibition, written by the curators Charlotte
Bagger Brandt, Solvej Helweg Ovesen og Judith Schwarzbart
Wednesday, 08. October 2008, 11.06 am -
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Olafur Eliasson's work, The collectivity project opens at Rådhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) at 4.00pm on Saturday October 11.
The Danish-Icelandic artist's contribution to U-TURN - Copenhagen's festival for contemporary art, is an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join the construction of a
micro-Copenhagen.
Thousands of white LEGO bricks - potential buildings - will be piled on a tables shaped after an aerial view of Copenhagen.
The visitors can move freely between the tables, which each represent one of Copenhagen's various neighbourhoods, and are free to contribute with visionary, humorous or completely unrealistic
proposals - come re-build the city of Copenhagen at the city's most central location!
The Collectivity Project will be displayed at Rådhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008. Olafur Eliasson will be present at the
opening at 4.00pm Saturday October 11.
Photo: Olafur Eliasson The collectivity project, 2005 Installation view at 3rd Tirana Biennial, Albania, 2005 Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Vesterbros nyere historie belyst gennem kunstværker i gadehøjde. Foredrag, workshop og byvandringer fra Karriere Bar og ud i Vesterbros byrum.
På grund af et sent afbud har vi valgt at udskyde vores søndagsarrangement 'Talk and walk' den 5. oktober kl. 10-16. Ny dato bliver annonceret inden for få
dage i vores nyhedsbrev samt her på vores hjemmeside.
Kort om programmet:
Vi starter ud på Karriere Bar med præsentationer af forskellige kunstprojekter på Vesterbro og et historisk blik på byfornyelsen på Vesterbro.
Derefter fortsætter vi udenfor, hvor kunstner Kenneth A. Balfelt fortæller om tre af hans kunstprojekter i området. Afslutningsvis har vi sat to timer af til
en "produktionsworkshop", hvor en problematik udstukket af Stadsarkitekten eller en anden repræsentant fra Københavns Kommune vil blive præsenteret. Her vil vi forsøge at løse problematik med en
kunstnerisk tilgang. Resultatet og dokumentationen af workshoppen vil blive afleveret til kommunen efterfølgende som en form for idékatalog eller illustration af alternative tilgange til
byfornyelse og byplanlægning.
Talk and walk er arrangementet som et samarbejde mellem U-TURN Kvadriennale for samtidskunst og Karriere Bar.
Tilmelding er nødvendig, da der kun er plads til 40 pers.
Tilmelding eller evt. spørgsmål sendes til: christian@uturn-copenhagen.dk
Foto: Kenneth A. Balfelt, Heroin vask [Mændenes Hjem, med FOS]
Saturday, 06. September 2008, 4.41 pm -
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6 and 7 September at 8 pm (duration: 40 min.) Takkelloftet, The Opera
Price: DKK 30 with a valid U-TURN ticket, otherwise DKK 50.
Booking: booking@uturn-copenhagen.dk
During an extended stay in Copenhagen Ján Mančuška crafted a theatre performance which, as its title, Reverse Play, indicates, is a drama
performed in reverse.
Reverse Play is a performance that takes place in a theatre (hence the term 'theatre performance'), in which actors and dancers perform the piece back to
front while another actor, seated in the front row among the audience, narrates the storyline in sequence. On stage, everything runs counter to narrative logic, even breathing and walking. Further,
despite the fact that in the play's progression cause and effect are reversed, there is perfect congruence between the actions performed on stage and the incidents in the narrative. All the sound
comes from the narrator, while the play itself is performed in silence, with concentration focused upon the bodily movements performed in reverse.
As the play progresses, it becomes increasingly apparent that the action on stage
and the narrator's story are out of sync. One of the points at which the key thrust of the play comes through is at the crucial moment where the narrator is recounting an episode involving a thief
pickpocketing a wallet, and a character on stage is seen slipping a wallet into someone else's pocket. Mančuška's interest is in the ways in which stories are told, here using forward
and backward-moving narratives to disentangle the essence of - and perhaps also the contingencies surrounding - ethically charged situations.
Whether the genre be installation, film or performance, Mančuška's artistic themes invariably have an existential thrust. Typically, they focus around an individual faced with an
ethical choice, in the context of a labyrinthine storyline presenting multiple possible plot developments and avenues of interpretation. It is in particular the individual's dilemmas, complicated
by a range of contingencies, that combine to create the tragicomic universe that defines Ján Mančuška's art.
11.00 am
Exhibitions open. Carlsberg Tap E and Nikolaj CCAC
4.00 pm
Opening speeches by Elisabeth Delin Hansen, Director of Nikolaj CCAC and Pia Allerslev, Mayor of Culture and Leisure, City of Copenhagen. Nikolaj CCAC
5.30-7.30 pm
Performance by Roi Vaara, Wet Paint Handshakes. Carlsberg Tap E
6.30-7.15 pm
Performance by Lilibeth Cuenca, How to Break the Great Chinese wall II. Women on Painting. Carlsberg Tap E
7.30 pm
Welcome speeches by U-TURN curators Charlotte Bagger Brandt, Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Judith Schwarzbart. Official speaker Christine Buhl Andersen, Chairman of The Danish Arts Council's Committee
for International Visual Art. Carlsberg Tap E
8.15 pm
Performance by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Complaints Choir Copenhagen. Carlsberg Tap E
8.15 pm
Opening reception. Carlsberg Tap E
9.00 pm
Party. Carlsberg
9.30 pm
Performance by Lucas Ajemian & Giancarlo Vulcano, U-TURN Kanon. Carlsberg
Bus shuttle
5.00 pm From Nikolaj CCAC - to Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15
6.00 pm From Nikolaj CCAC - to Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15
The raid on the printer's workshop was connected to an earlier incident, when a Petersburg activist was arrested by Petersburg police at the gates of the Petersburg sea port for handing out a
flyer to workers. The flyer aroused suspicion because it contained material critical of the Russian-Georgian conflict, and the
police raided the printer's workshop at which the flyer had been produced, where they discovered the most recent edition of Chto Delat. They confiscated the entire edition of 3,000
newspapers and detained Chto Delat editor Dmitry Vilensky for questioning.
"The situation really did look pretty absurd," says Vilensky. "We produced this issue for the U-TURN Quadrennial in Copenhagen, and it's one of the most artsy issues we've made so far; it
contains almost no references to the current political situation." Instead, the issue is dedicated to the problematic of perestroika, whose hopes and outcome the authors subject to critical
enquiry. The security officials' suspicion was aroused by the "political look" of the paper and, in particular, by the libretto of a film-opera by the Chto Delat work group, to be premiered at
U-TURN later next week, in which a nationalist, a democrat, a revolutionary, and a businessman debate the fate of the Soviet Union and its present outcome. The full text of the screenplay can
be found here.
Yesterday, Vilensky was informed by the Petersburg police that the case had been handed over to the Kirov district attorney's office to investigate whether the newspaper is in violation of the
Russian constitution, which contains paragraphs against extremism and the incitement of ethnic and religious hatred. "The militia - who told me that they 'didn't want blood' - were quite
surprised by this move," Vilensky says. "They told me that the signal came from the FSB official who was coordinating the raid on the printers." The entire edition is still in custody, and will
not be distributed at U-TURN, where it was meant to be part of a video-installation.
The printer's workshop Polyarnaya Zvezda [Pole Star] has since been cordoned off as a crime scene, and all its employees questioned. It was one of the only remaining places in Petersburg to
print opposition leaflets of a wide range, including the Petersburg issue of National Bolshevik organ Limonka. Its closure - and the
seizure of what is perhaps Chto Delat's most politically innocent issue - is symptomatic of the new atmosphere of suspicion and fear that has arisen in Russia.
Nu har du muligheden for at komme bag kulissen på Danmarks første internationale kunstfestival - U-TURN Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst.
Vi søger nu infoguides til at formidle kunsten i udstillingen på Carlsbergs grundens gamle tappehal Tap E og især i udstillingens største oplevelsesbaserede værk - Tomas Saracenos Observatory Air-Port-City. Det vil blive en formidlingsstilling, hvor man færdes rundt i udstillingen og går i dialog med gæsterne omkring de 70 kunstværker af danske
og internationale kunstnere, der optræder på kvadriennalen. Mange af værkerne er performance baserede, nogle er korte teaterstykker og andre igen kan de besøgende blive en del af. Infoguide
funktionen handler således både om at gæsterne bliver udfordret til at reflektere over udstillingens mange tematikker og om at sikre at gæsterne færdes trygt og sikkert rundt i værkerne, de gamle
fabrikshaller og i den store have.
Infoguides vil være i sparring med kuratorerne og i særdeleshed med formidlingslederen og den daglige leder omkring strategier for kunstformidling. De vil få et stort indblik i samtidskunstscenen
nu, og blive introduceret til det arbejde, der ligger i tilrettelæggelse af events, talks, undervisningstiltag mm.
Vi søger frivillige til den 9 uger lange udstillingsperiode 5. september - 9. november, Åbningstiden er tirsdag - søndag 10-18 torsdag 10 - 22. Det kan f.eks være til én ugenlig vagt.
Under kvadriennalen vil et omfattende aktivitetsprogram invitere til artist talks, filmvisninger, performances, debatter, koncerter og workshops.
Hvis du er interesseret i at være frivillig så kontakt hurtigst muligt Charlotte Sprogøe på charlottes@uturn-copenhagen.dk eller 61 77 85 41
Tuesday August 12 the artist Mads Lynnerup will perform the piece Ur (watch) at Karriere. During the Bar's opening hours the artist will register time passing, by using a hand-held sign with
numbers, which change every minute.
By acting as a "live watch" Lynnerup makes time into an absurd action, an existential everyday drama.
Time: Tuesday August 12, 7 pm - 12 am
Place: Karriere contemporary art & social life
flaesketorvet 57-67
1711 Copenhagen V
Mads Lynnerup is a Danish artist living in New York. His stay in Copenhagen is supported by S.A.I.R. Read more about Mads Lynnerup at: www.madslynnerup.com
The artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen will talk about their worldwide perfomance project
Complaints Choir.
Time: Monday August 11, at 6 pm.
Place: Karriere contemporary art & social life
flaesketorvet 57-67
1711 Copenhagen V
The Finish/German artist-duo Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver
Kochta-Kalleinenis in Denmark on an artist residency at S.A.I.R. Read more about Complaints Choir at: www.complaintschoir.org
Mennesket kan lide at klage. Mennesket kan lide at synge. Klager og syngerdu på samme tid - har du et KLAGEKOR!
Complaints Choir er endelig kommet til Danmark efter stor succes i
Helsinki, St. Petersborg, Singapore og mange andre byer rundt om i verden.
Kunstnerne Tellervo Kalleinen (FI) og Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen (DE)
inviterer dig til at deltage i Københavns Klagekor. Dette morsomme projekt
transformerer dine klager til en imponerende korsang!
Deltag i kor-workshop på Det Konglige Danske Kunstakademi
- Deltagelsen er gratis
- Mad vil blive serveret
- Der kræves ingen sang færdigheder
- Hver deltager modtager en DVD af opvisningen
Første møde 12. august 2008 kl. 18.00
(De 4 efterfølgende datoer for prøver vil blive oplyst på det første
møde). Den store opvisning vil foregå 5. september 2008 i Carlsberg Tap E
til åbningen af U-TURN Kvadriennale for Samtidskunst.
Tilmeld dig for at deltage: Send din klage til tijana@uturn-copenhagen.dk eller til:
Vester Voldgade 96, st., 1552 København V. Alle emner er tilladte i uanede mængder. Sendes senest d. 8 august2008.
Photo: Lilibeth Cuenca, Remake of Janine Antoni, Loving Care, Renwick Gallery New York. Photo: Thomas Duzon
On Saturday the U-TURN exhibition satellite FOOD FOR THOUGHT will open in the closed down Sugar Factory in Stege, Moen. The exhibition takes its point of depature in a series of old fluxus pieces,
and through a number of new works, it draws lines to the contemporary art.
The opening weekend offers the performance programme 24-TIMER (24 hours) and a workshop lead by Freie Klasse Berlin with guests such as Rirkrit Tiravanija
and Superflex.
1pm - 4.15pm: The performance programme 24 TIMER (24 hours) with Olof Olsson: heavy banana, Lilibeth Cuenca: Artist´s Song 2 A Void- painting! og Roi Vaara: Below the
surface.
4.15pm - 4.30pm: Presentation of the workshop on Sunday.
6pm: the exhibition closes, but the bar is open.
Sunday 27. July, 12pm-10pm
Workshop lead by Freieklasse Berlin (freieklasse.de) with contributions by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Superflex.
Travel to and from Stege
Take the train to Vordingborg st. and bus no. 62 between Stege and Vordingborg.
On Saturday 26 July a special shuttle will leave from Vordingborg st. at 11.30am, which connects with the train departing from Copenhagen Central Station at 10.03am. The shuttle leaves from the
Sugar Factory in Stege at 4.30pm, which connects with the train departing at 5.23pm arriving at Copenhagen Central Station at 6.45pm. For other departures with public transport see: www.rejseplanen.dk
Accommodation
There are a couple of camping areas close to Stege, where cabins are for rent. You can also find cottages and a B&B. for more information: Vitismoen.com
Watch Köken Erguns film TANKLOVE in the making. The filming takes place in the small provincial town Jyderup on Western Sealand. The film is produced in collaboration with S.A.I.R, the National
Defence, a tank collector, a lot of volunteers and a local environment which support the project. TANKLOVE can be seen at U-TURN from 5. of September.
Video by: Anders Kongshaug, vnr.tv
A film about the artist group Parfyme. The group focus on practical research, activities and 'immediate' actions. They see art as a tool that can be used
for many things: as an "excuse" for personal contributions to our surroundings, a way to communicate serious issues, simple fun and good deeds!
At U-TURN Parfyme is contributing with Harbour Laboratory, a project that will test new uses of the harbour and hopefully bring some fresh
perspective to the harbour situation in Copenhagen.
Harbour Laboratory, Bryghusgrunden (at the end of Vester Voldgade - by the water of course), June
- October 2008. Video by: Parfyme and Anders Kongshaug, vnr.tv
Photo: Andy Warhol, Campbell Can, ca. 1962. Courtesy René Block.
A turning point nationally and locally?
On 26 July, U-TURN opens with the exhibition satellite Food for Thought in the bare halls of the disused sugar factory in Stege on the island of Møn. U-Turn
thus opens up completely new perspectives for international contemporary art in Denmark - and casts a new light over the historic role of Møn.
26 July to 14 September 2008 at Stege Sukkerfabrik (Sugar factory) 26 & 27 July - Special programme
U-TURN and Karriere Bar have initiated a collaboration, hosting a number of talks and performances during the Quadrennial. Over the summer we will present a number of artists who will be in Denmark
preparing for U-TURN in September.
First talk will be with the Turkish artist Köken Ergun, who has been in Denmark since April on an artist residency at S.A.I.R to produce his new film,
TANKLOVE.
Köken Ergun will talk about how his project TANKLOVE is realised with the help of volunteers, S.A.I.R, the National Defence, a tank collector and a local environment which support the project.
TANKLOVE is filmed in Jyderup, West Sealand in the beginning of July where the relaxed provincial atmosphere for a moment is interrupted by a tank and an unexpected sympathy between the the
military vehicle and the citizens occur.
Moreover, two of the artists older films will screened.
Time and place: Sunday 22 June, 4pm at Karriere Bar, Flæsketorvet 57-67, Copenhagen.
U-TURN kvadriennale for Samtidskunst har fornøjelsen af at invitere til pressemøde:
Onsdag d. 11. Juni kl. 12.00 - 13.00
På Carlsberg, Tap E
(Indgang fra Vesterfælledvej 100, indgang C)
Her vil U-TURN give svar på alt det, der er værd at vide om Danmarks første internationale samtidskunstfestival og offentliggøre den samlede kunstnerliste bestående af 65 kunstnere fra ind- og
udland -en mangfoldig blanding af internationale anerkendte topnavne og nye lovende talenter.
Samtidig løfter U-TURN sløret for de rå og spektakulære rum på Carlsberg, der kommer til at indeholde hovedudstillingsprogrammet. Der er tale om den 4000 m2 store tidligere tappehal, Tap E, der
aldrig tidligere har været tilgængelig for offentligheden. Dette gælder også I.C. Jacobsens gamle og stemningsfyldte akademihave. Begge vil blive præsenteret på pressemødet. Et antal af de
udstillende kunstnere samt U-TURNs kuratorteam vil være til stede på mødet. U-TURN byder desuden på lidt at spise og drikke.
Da Carlsbergs område endnu ikke er tilgængeligt for offentligheden, er det særdeles nødvendigt at tilmelde sig pressemødet hos nedenstående kontaktpersoner fra U-TURN.
Second issue of SUMmagazine for contemporary art will be released in Copenhagen on 13 June at the The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts.
This Issue offers articles about Tove Storch and Layla Ali, as well as an interview with Kirstine Roepstorff. There will also be contributions by international authors who participated in the conference On Cultural Translation organized in fall 2007 by U-TURN.
As part of the collaborative project Opening Hours U-TURN Quadrennial and the 5th berlin biennial (bb5) presents a 2 1/2 hour performance by Roi Vaara, who is known worldwide for his humoristic and
existential performances. Spectators are free to come and go during the performance.
In Below the Surface the blindfolded performer washes white T-shirts in water, which colours them red. He hangs them to dry on clotheshorses. The dripping
water colours the floor. A special live reading, which consists of lists of words collected by the artist since 2001, will accompany the performance. After the performer has filled all the
clotheshorses with the coloured T-shirts he turns on the lights. This performance can be viewed as a comment on history already written in the 21st century.
June 4th 2008 8.30pm · Dock 11, Kastanien Allee 79, Berlin
For registration and further information: www.berlinbiennale.de Admission fee: 10 Euro / 8 Euro
Til efteråret slår U-TURN dørene op for Danmarks største samtidskunstudstilling nogensinde. Fra den 5. september udstiller over 60 kunstnere i en af Carlsbergs gamle tappehaller, Kunsthallen
Nikolaj og flere steder i Københavns byrum.
Torsdag den 8. maj kl.14.30-17.00 inviterer vi derfor til lærerkursus og snigpremiere på de alternative og historiske udstillingslokaler. Vi vil gerne
fortælle om U-TURN og give et overblik over, hvilke undervisningstilbud vi udbyder.
Unfolding in a 4.000 m2 old bottling hall the main part of U-turn takes place at the former Carlsberg brewery between Vesterbro and Valby in Copenhagen. Furthermore a large-scale artwork will be
installed in the old academy garden, which opens to the public for the first time. In addition to this the exhibition will also take place at Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center and in
different public spaces in the city.
Judith Schwarzbart presents the program and ideas behind U-TURN at Frankfurter Kunstverein.
In continuation of the one-day exhibition Perform History on January 26 at Overgaden - Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Judith Schwarzbart will discuss
the implication of 'performing history' and show an extract of Melik Ohanian's film "September 11, 1973_Santiago de Chile 2007".
Time: Saturday, February 9, 5 pm Place:Frankfurter Kunstverein Entrance is free The presentation will be in English
Photo: Performance on the Beach! The choir complains about Peter the Great at the bank of the Neva. Complaints Choir St. Petersburg, September 2006. Courtesy of the
artists Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen. During spring and summer 2008 a number of international artists will be visiting Denmark, working on projects for the
U-TURN Quadrennial. Among the artists are:Köken Ergun, Mads Lynnerup, Irina Korina,Roi Vaara,Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinenand Jan Mancuska
To see more about when and where, click here
Melik Ohanian, "September 11, 1973_Santiago de Chile 2007" (2007)
Repetitions are a possibility to change things - history is alive!
Saturday 26 January from 11am-18pm at Overgaden U-TURN will warm op to the Quardrennial for Contemporary Art in fall 2008, with the event Perform History, which offers talks by Inke Arns (DE) and Camilla Jalving (DK); a
workshop by Dmitry Vilensky (RU); a performance by Roi Vaara (FI) and a re-enactment by Dora Garcia (ES) performed by Jan Mech (DE); Filmscreenings by Irina Botea (RO) and
Melik Ohanian (FR). It is a one-day exhibition, where history is embodied and interpretated in choreography in the space of Overgadens. The programme will be
in English and is curated as well as moderated by U-TURN.
Thursday, 13. December 2007, 6.35 pm -
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First issue of SUMmagazine for contemporary art will be released in Copenhagen on 18 December. Come and help us celebrate and get a free magazine at 5pm at Karriere Bar, Flæsketorvet 57-67, 1711 Copenhagen
V.
SUM is a magazine about current artistic practice and related activities. The Magazine will be published twice a year. It is bilingual (Danish/English), and takes its point of departure in the
Danish art scene. SUM is the outcome of a collaboration between The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts and U-TURN. Read more here and on www.kunstakademiet.dk/sum
Thursday, 13. December 2007, 6.30 pm -
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Thursday 13 December 2008 the art collective Parfyme and curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen participated in the TV show
Brunch at TV2 Lorry under the headline: Art is more than art - Art in public spaces.
The programme can be seen on web-tv the next 15 days. The
programme is in Danish.
Notice that 14 December is last chance to see Parfyme's exhibition at the City Hall.
The event will take place 3 December 2007 4PM-6.30PM at Copenhagen City Hall.
The exhibition will be open during the period 3 - 15 of December, all weekdays between 7.45am and 5.00pm.
To sign up for the event, please contact Philip Seidler at ps@okf.kk.dk
or 33 66 68 92.
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Programme
4.00pm
Opening of the exhibition by Parfyme - main entrance City Hall 4.05pm
Parfyme introduces the exhibition and sends the participants of on thier journey through the City Hall. (Everyone will end in Festsalen at 4.30pm) 4.35pm
Welcome to the debate by Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard 4.40pm
Introduction to the programmme and the debate by U-TURN 4.50pm
Stadtlounge - and example of a new and different way to use public space by Pipilotti Rist and Carlos Martinez 5.30pm
Break 5.40pm
The potential of the art project and how it can contribute to a city like Copenhagen - experiences and ideas by Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, curator and art
educator, has primarily worked with art projects in public space. Co-founder of Publik in 2005. 6.00pm
The debate will be started of by a panel consisting of: Trevor Davies, director of KIT- Copenhagen International. Artistic director of Metropolis Biennial. Christina Prip, architect and artist, has during the last 5 years besides working at Dorte Mandrup and Schønherr, focused on the placement of art in public
spaces. Per Schulze, architect. Has worked on numerous urban regeneration projects. Works as development consultant at The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports
Facilities. 6.30pm
The End
Photo: The Russian art collective Chto delat? (What is to be done?)
The Russian artist group Chto delat? (What is to be done?) and U-TURN look for former participants in the Danish initiative in 1988/89 'Next-Stop Sovjet': the project starts now!
Chto delat? will be in Copenhagen in October and November 2007 on an AIR residency, during their stay they will produce a publication, as well as a number of new video works, including a film
re-enactment of situations related to the Next Stop experience in 1989.
All the projects will take their point of departure in the 'Next-Stop Sovjet' movement and its relation to the Soviet time of 'Perestroika'.
Members of Chto delat? were themselves involved in 'Next-Stop Sovjet' as hosts for the Danish visitors and they experienced the impact this initiative had on the then Soviet (underground)
culture.
How can you participate?
As part of Chto delat's? project in Copenhagen they will co-operate with The Royal Danish Art Academy where they will do a series of workshops and lectures with the students. For these events Chto
delat? wish to invite former 'Next-Stoppers' to participate with their experiences and to discuss these (with the students and Chto delat?) in relation to current Danish/European/global cultural,
artistic and political debate.
Likewise Chto delat? wish to invite former 'Next-Stoppers' to participate in the project in one or more of the following ways:
by answering 10 questions about their experiences (that will be send electronically)
function as an actor or extra in the video productions
contribute to the publication
The finished work will be presented at U-TURN, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in September 2008.
Chto delat? and U-TURN look forward to your hearing from you!
To participate please contact Helga Christoffersen before 1 October 2007. Participants are also welcome to join during the project.
Contact:
Helga Christoffersen
U-TURN
Vester Voldgade 96 st.
DK-1552 Copenhagen V
+45 33916111
helga@uturn-copenhagen.dk
See more information on Chto delat? (What is ti be done?) here or visit www.chtodelat.org
