Welcome to the launch of

SUM magazine for contemporary art # 3

Saturday November 8 at 2pm
U-TURN Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby

- see the new SUM magazine, enjoy a drink and hear John K�rner talk about his 'problems'

U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Camp X presents two performance-lectures where the Lebanese media artist Walid Raad respond to his country's war history.

Friday November 7, 5pm
The Loudest Muttering Is Over: Case Studies from The Atlas Group Archive is a performance lecture, which collects examples from The Atlas Group Archive. This archive is a fictional organisation whose main purpose is to research and document Lebanese contemporary history with a special focus on the Lebanese wars from 1975 to 1991. Through out the years the organisation has found and created several documents: films, videos, photographies, notebooks and other objects. Walid Raad uses the documents from the archive in his performance-lectures. Therefore this performance-lecture is a good way to get an introduction to Walid Raad's works i general.

Saturday November 8, 8pm
My Neck Is Thinner Than a Hair is a part of the continuous investigation in The Atlas Group Archive. This is a multi-media/performance-lecture about the use of the more than 3.600 car bombs, detonated under the Lebanese wars from 1975 to 1991. More specifically Walid Raad investigates the events, experiences, objects and effects surrounding a car explosion that took place in Beirut on January 21 1986. After the performance-lecture there will be an informal conversation with the audience.

Place: Teater Camp X Aveny, Frederiksberg All� 102, 1820 Frederiksberg C

Price: DKK 165, youth ticket DKK 90, Reumert tickets (4 young people under 25): DKK 60. Booking 7020 1031 / www.billetnet.dk

U-TURN INDTAGER BYRUMMET MED LASERPROJEKT.

U-TURN har inviteret en r�kke kendte danske kunstnere til at bruge K�benhavns bygninger som kommunikationsflade og midlertidigt l�rred. U-TURN har kigget den globale undergrund over skulderen og introducerer en projekteringsteknik udviklet indenfor graffitimilj�et, hvor projekteret lys bliver udl�st af en f�rt pen.

ON WALLS 2
Tirsdag den 4. november kl. 19-20 rykker On Walls til Indre by, hvor John K�rner og A Kassen vil tegne p� K�benhavns R�dhus p� R�dhuspladsen.

Jesper Aabille serverer varm suppe til publikum og forbipasserende.

A one-day exhibition organised by U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art
in collaboration with �rhus Kunstbygning

November 2 2008 4-8pm at �rhus Kunstbygning, J.M. M�rks Gade 13, 8000 �rhus C

Perform History II includes performances by artists like Adam Pendleton , who performed at this years Manifesta and in 2007 at Performa in New York. Earlier this year Complaints Choir and Lilibeth Cuenca performed at U-TURN in Copenhagen with great success.


The program consists of a varied selection of live performances and film screenings
4.00pm Welcome by curator Pernille Lyngs� , introduction to the one-day exhibit by curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and photo presentation of Daniel Knorr (RO), Stolen History , 2008

4.30pm Perfomance by the Danish Complaints Choir , concept by Tellervo Kalleinen & Oliver Kockta Kalleinen (FI/DE) arranged by composer Esben Bladbjerg (DK)
5.00pm Performance by Adam Pendleton (US) Black Dada , 2008
5.30pm Soup
6.00pm Re-enactments by Lilibeth Cuenca (DK), Never Mind Pollock (Woman on Painting) , 2008
7.00pm Film screening by the artists group Chto delat / What's to be Done? (RU), Perestroijka SongSpiel, Victory over the coup, 2008
7.30pm Surprise

Exhibition Details
Admission: Reduced admission for everyone: DKK 25,- for the whole event. It's recommended that the visitors participate in the whole one-day exhibition, but it's also possible to come for just one performance. Soup can be bought for DKK 20,- U-TURN catalogue DKK 200,-.

U-TURN har inviteret en r�kke kendte danske kunstnere til at bruge K�benhavns bygninger som kommunikationsflade og midlertidigt l�rred. U-TURN har kigget den globale undergrund over skulderen og introducerer en projekteringsteknik udviklet indenfor graffitimilj�et, hvor projekteret lys bliver udl�st af en f�rt pen

ON WALLS 1
Fredag den 31. oktober kl. 20-23 indtager On Walls K�benhavns Havn. I en b�d udl�nt af By og Havn sejles publikum ud i Nordhavn, hvor f�rste session vil foreg� p� DLG-bygningen. Derefter forts�tter b�den til Sydhavn, hvor Skanskas bygning, danner rammen om aftenens sidste session. Kunstnerne ved begge sessioner er Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian St�rup + g�ster.

20.00 Publikum afhentes i opvarmet og overd�kket b�d ved Canal Tours i Nyhavn. Gratis drikkevarer og musik ombord. Afgang mod Nordhavn.

20.30 Ankomst i Nordhavn. Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian St�rup tegner p� DLG-bygningen i Nordhavn.

21:30 Afgang mod Sydhavn. Gratis drikkevarer og musik ombord.

22:15 Ankomst Sydhavn. Husk Mit Navn og Jasper Sebastian Stur�p tegner p� Skanskas bygning p� Teglholmen - et stenkast eller to fra Half Machine A/S.

23:15 Afgang mod Nyhavn

Mikl�s ERD�LY: Version , 1981, 54'
Director of Photography: Andr�s M�sz
The film, which was made in 1979 (and standardised in 1981), is a free interpretation of Kr�dy Gyula's documentary novel entitled Eszter Solymosi of Tiszaeszl�r (1931) . The film seeks to explore what means the authorities may have employed towards convincing an overly sensitive and timid child - the son of the Rabbi of Tiszaeszl�r - to give testament against the people of his own faith and how the fake confession becomes blurred with real memories through intensified fantasy.

The Screening takes about 54min. and will be introduced by L�via P�ldi

Time: 5pm Thursday October 30
Place: Tap E Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby
Price: The event is free with a U-TURN bracelet, otherwise the entrance fee is DKK 60/40

The Bal�zs B�la Studio (BBS) was founded in Budapest 1961 by the Hungarian Film Academy's graduating class of 1961, the so-called "golden generation" of Hungarian filmmakers that included P�l G�bor, S�ndor S�ra, and Istv�n Szab�.

BBS was conceived as a workshop for young professionals to make an entr�e into film production, but later it attracted a wide range of artists, writers, and musicians from the city's lively underground scene. Early productions by these young professional filmmakers show influences from the Nouvelle Vague and Cin�ma V�rit�, with a strong feel for documentary. The documentary movement, known as the Budapest School, mixed fiction with social documentary and was also formed within the BBS with the participation of filmmakers like the internationally acclaimed B�la Tarr.

This screening is part of Opening Hours and is organised in collaboration with Műcsarnok Kunsthalle in Budapest.The films were selected by L�via P�ldi (curator, writer), Mikl�s Erhardt (artist, writer) and Sebesty�n Kodol�nyi (filmmaker, managing director of the BBS Foundation).

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

Place : Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, 2500 Valby.

IDEA arts+society presents a panel discussion on the topic presence(s) of art We are going to talk about our experience of reading and/or of presenting (contemporary) art against the political background in a Romanian and (Eastern) European context.

The panel discussion will take place at Carlsberg Tap E, on October 23 2008 at 8.00pm

Participants
Raluca Voinea (art critic, curator, editor of Idea arts+ society),
Ioana Nemeş (artist)
Corina Iosif (social anthropologist)
Živa Kokolj (political scientist)
Bogdan Ghiu (writer, theorist, translator)
Adrian T. S�rbu (theorist, translator, editor of Idea arts+society)
Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu (theorist, editor of Idea arts+society)
Alexandru Polg�r (theorist, translator, editor of Idea arts+society).

IDEA arts+society is an independent magazine published by IDEA Design & Print and IDEA Foundation in Cluj, Romania. The magazine situates itself at the self-reflective crossroad between two axes of meaning. The first of these axes runs, thematically, from arts to politics, while the second is defined by the performative effects resulted from the gap between text and image (as heterogeneous media/ realms of discourse).

The panel is a part of OPENING HOURS, a co-operation project between five European partners: KW Institute for Contemporary Art / berlin biennial for contemporary art (Berlin), IDEA art + society (Cluj-Napoca), Lunds Konsthall (Lund), Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest (Budapest) and U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen).

Saturday October 18
2.00 pm The General Line, 1928 by Sergej Eisenstein (121 min)

Sunday October 19
2.00 pm The Asthenic Syndrome, 1989 by Kira Muratova (153 min)

Both films will be shown at Carlberg Tap E and introduced by curator Anders Kreuger from Lunds Konsthall

Two Russian films, made by very different authors with very different methods. They form a diptych portrait of the Soviet mind, 'before and after' the promised Communist future that was to be achieved through political control of all aspects of life.

The General Line from 1928 by Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948)
has been called a 'linear' and 'tonal' film. It is a fairytale of collective will and technical progress at a stage when the collective and state farms were still a 'voluntary' option for Russia's majority population, the peasants. Just a couple of years later, Stalin's forced collectivisation of agriculture would lead to the starvation and deportation of tens of millions of people.

The Asthenic Syndrome from 1989 by Kira Muratova (born 1934)
has been hailed as the greatest film of the perestroika ('reconstruction') years that concluded the Soviet experiment. Eisenstein's carefully engineered narratives have imploded, and Muratova's characters are adrift in the bleak and coarse reality of decaying real socialism, redeemed only by her mastery of visual phrasing and her devastatingly precise use of theatrical detail.

The screenings are a part of Opening Hours and are organised in collaboration with Lund Konsthall in Sweden in relation to the current exhibition After Eisenstein , which runs at Lunds Konsthall until November 2, 2008.

U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art has invited the three Danish architect studios BIG, EFFEKT and POLYFORM to battle in new and exciting city planning ideas for the city of Copenhagen. The battle is with LEGO bricks and is an event arranged in relation to Olafur Eliasson's interactive artwork The collectivity project at R�dhuspladsen - an urban planning experiment that encourages everyone to join in the construction of a micro-Copenhagen.

The event takes place on Friday October 17 from 12-4pm at R�dhuspladsen

The collectivity project by Olafur Eliasson is exhibited at R�dhuspladsen (The City Hall Square) in Copenhagen from 11 - 19 October 2008.

The Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius (1964), just as the British documentary film-maker Peter Watkins (1935) work with the relationship between objective truth and interpretive constructs, particularly when it comes to describing historical events. On Thursday October 16 Cinemateket screens Narkevičius film The Role of a Lifetime , as well as Forgotten Faces by Peter Watkins. Deimantas Narkevičius will make a short introduction the films and talk about how his work is influenced by Watkins.
Later the same evening Cinemateket also screens Peter Watkins film portrait of the artist Edward Munch.

Price: 50DKK for non-members / 35DKK for members and people with valid U-TURN bracelets. Booking: 33 74 34 12

Address: Gothersgade 55, 1123 K�benhavn K

Hvilken rolle spiller samtidskunsten i den politiske debat? Mange kunstnere vil blande sig, debattere og pege p� aktuelle emner og brydningspunkter i deres samtid. P� U-TURN kan man derfor opleve faldne soldater, folk p� flugt og v�rker der udfordrer vores kulturelle selvforst�else. Offentlige statuer er blevet bekl�dt med elefanthuer og et spejl placeret foran den lille havfrue sp�rger, om vi (som land) er blevet forelsket i os selv.

Vi har inviteret Rune Lykkeberg , weekendredakt�r p� Information og aktuel med debatbogen 'Kampen om sandhederne', Klaus Rothstein , debatt�r og litteraturanmelder p� Weekendavisen og Ditte Maria Bjerg , Kunstnerisk kurator p� Teater Camp X til en diskussion om, hvordan de oplever kunstens rolle i den politiske debat. Moderator Christian Skovbjerg Jensen, formidlingsleder p� U-TURN.

Tid og sted:
Torsdag den 9. oktober kl. 17-19 i cafeen p� U-TURNs hovedudstilling, Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 15, Valby.

U-TURN Kvadriennale for samtidskunst tilbyder en unik mulighed for at m�de skuespillere fra GladTeater, som i n�ste uge deltager i et �bent performancestykke lavet af den spanske kunstner Dora Garc�a.

I performancestykket stiller skuespillerne sig mellem de udstillede kunstv�rker og publikum, som de fors�ger at komme i dialog med. Samtalerne drejer sig om samfundet, om kunst generelt og mange andre vigtige emner, der normalt diskuteres, is�r i intellektuelle kredse.
Det eneste, der er anderledes i denne sammenh�ng, er at skuespillerne fra GladTeater er udviklingsh�mmede. De g�r i dialog med os og udfordrer dermed vores fordomme om normalitet i samfundet, samtidig med at samtalerne giver en helt anden indgang til en r�kke presserende og aktuelle problematikker. Denne prikken til vores forestillinger og fordomme om det anderledes sker i kraft af, at skuespillerne er mennesker, der ikke n�dvendigvis indretter sig efter normerne om at sige og g�re det rigtige og forventede. Derfor hedder Dora Garc�as performance The Innocents .

Kom og oplev The Innocents fra tirs dag den 23. september til s�ndag den 28. september 2008. Forestillingen starter kl. 14.00 alle dage og varer cirka en halv time.

Sted: Carlsberg Tap E, Gamle Carlsberg Vej 11, 2500 Valby

Med almindelig entr�billet til udstillingen, koster det ikke ekstra at se eller deltage i performancen.

Tilmelding er kun n�dvendig for st�rre grupper og kan ske p� [email protected]

YOYOOYOY BES�GER PARFYME

Fredag d. 19. September kl. 16.30 til 23. 00
Bryghusgrunden / Christians brygge (for enden af Vester Voldgade ved Langebro)

STOF
Der var engang nogen som boede et sted hvor det tit var koldt, s� fors�gte de at blive venner med solen. De der var klogest t�nkte at den bedste m�de at blive det p�, var ved at sige de samme lyde som den, men den var for langt v�k og deres �re for sm� til at de kunne h�re den, s� de fandt p� noget selv.

KALLE DEL HEY - med venner
F�rst er der en der spiller noget, s� er der en anden der spiller noget andet p� det samme instrument som den f�rste og s� er de allerede mange, og s� er der en tredje der spiller noget andet end de to f�rste spiller men t�t p� det samme, men s� er det at der er en fjerde som spiller noget underligt funk men det er p� det samme instrument som de tre f�rste s� det l�gger man ikke rigtig m�rke til. Men s� kommer der nogen som spiller p� andre instrumenter end dem som de f�rste spillede p� og s� bliver de alle sammen venner. Men det var de p� forh�nd allerede, s� det.

SUPERMELLE - alene inde i kassen
En lydinstallation med musik genereret af havnens omgivelser, hvor biler, mennesker, dyr, fisk, vand, b�de, cykler, hunde, b�rn, fugle, tr�er, buske, bl�st, vind og b�lger forst�rkes op og spilles ud i en container som en slags audiotivt k�mpe mikroskop.

K�KKEN HAVN
K�kken Havn har v�ret en tur p� herrreg�rd, hentet en kasse �bler. Der vil i denne anledning blive serveret gammeldags �blekage og kaffe punch.

How to Break the Great Chinese Wall III. Bed-in, Yoko Ono / John Lennon
By Lilibeth Cuenca & Toke Lykkeberg

18. september kl. 20 / September 18 8pm
I udstillingen / in the exhibition, Carlsberg Tap E

Photo: Lilibeth Cueanca, How to Break the Great Chinese wall II. Women on Painting. 5. September 2008

See pictures from the whole day here

Art as a deregulator of public space took place December 3 at Copenhagen City Hall where the Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard opened the event.

FACTS

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 [email protected]
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 Sch�nherr, 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: Hito Steyerl: Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression (2007) Video Still


A conference on culture as translation and the role of art in contemporary globalized society.

SATURDAY 24 November 2007, 10am -5.30pm

The conference offers contributions by international artists and cultural critics such as: Suely Rolnik (Sao Paulo), Boris Buden (Berlin), Jalal Toufic (Beirut), Johan Schimanski (Tromsoe/Vienna) og Hito Steyerl (Berlin)
Read the full programme for the conference here

Note!!! New location:
Festsalen, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Kongens Nytorv 1, 1022 Copenhagen K.

Entrance is free , but registration is necessary: [email protected]

The conference is organised by U-TURN and Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen in collaboration with med The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts and Danish Lettre Internationale.

You can also read the article Challenging East-West Art Map by Maibritt Pedersen about the last conference U-TURN organized. (in Danish)

Thursday 11 October the Romanian artist Dan Perjovschi stopped by U-TURN's office at Vester Voldgade to continue the work in progress and extend the repertoire of drawings on walls and ceilings.

Read more about Dan Perjovschi and see more photos here

From 21-23 September the U-TURN team introduced an interested public at Art Copenhagen to the ideas behind U-TURN Quadrennial of Contemporary Art.

See more photos here

7 September Curator Solvej Helweg Ovesen and curatorial assistant Helga Christoffersen presented U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art at the 10th international Istanbul Biennial.

See more Photos here