Round Table Discussion
ONG KENG SEN :
Ong Keng Sen ist Kurator vieler Ausstellungen und Festivals weltweit, u.a. Spaces and Shadows, Politik der Spaß-Kunst aus Südostasien im Berliner Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2005), In-transit (2001–-2003, Berlin) oder die genreübergreifenden Urban Fetishes (2006, Wiener Tanzquartier). Er kuratierte Public Lab on Memory (2006, Göteborg) und zeichnete für Insomnia (2005, Institut zeitgenössischer Kunst London) als Gründer und Kurator verantwortlich. In Singapur kuratierte er die 48-Stunden Nonstop-Festspiele bildender Künste und Performances Insomnia48 @ The Arts House, die wiederum die Seni, die Festspiele bildender Künste 2004, eröffneten.Ong (ausgebildet an der Tisch School of Arts, New York University), arbeitet als Performance-Regisseur genreübergreifenden und interkulturellen Kooperationen. Als künstlerischer Leiter des Kunstraums 72-13 in Singapur begann er das Creatives-in-Residence-Programm und das Singapore Creative Arts Nucleus (SCAN).
1995 fand das Flying Circus Project (FCP) statt, sein wichtigstes Werk: Ein Forschungsprojekt-Workshop, der traditionelle und zeitgenössische asiatische Künstler aus den Bereichen Video, bildende Künste, Dokumentarfilm, Theater, Musik, Tanz und Kulthandlung zusammenbringt. Die Künstler arbeiten gemeinsam an Projekten, die die Konzeption von Wiederentdeckung, kulturellen Verhandlungen und die Politik des Interkulturalismus erforschen. Ong hat diese Workshops in Städten auf der ganzen Welt geführt, bsw. in Amsterdam, Luang Prabang, New York, Berlin, Göteborg, Wien oder Singapur.
Mit diesen Erfahrungen gründete er 1999 ein neues Netzwerk, das Arts Networks Asia (ANA). Das ANA fördert interasiatische Engagements zwischen Künstlern und Kulturarbeitern sowie die Kommunikation zwischen Asien und der Welt. ANA hat wichtige regionale Asienkünstlerkonferenzen in Shanghai (2000) und Hanoi (2002) sowie zahlreiche Künstlerworkshops abgehalten und veranstaltet gerade ein einjähriges Programm in Vietnam 2007.
www.theatreworks.org.sg, www.72-13.com und www.artsnetworkasia.org
BERLIN BETEILIGUNG AN DER ROUND TABLE
Dellbrügge & de Moll, Antje Weitzel, Lise Harlev, Jole Wilcke, Patricia Reed, Åsa Sonjasdottir, moderatorin Lise Nellemann
Dellbrügge & de Moll
bereiten aktuell die Ausstellung New Harmony zur Zukunft des Künstlerhaus Bethanien vor.Christiane Dellbrügge and Ralf de Moll have, since 1984, been working contextually across all media at the points of intersection between public, digital, and institutional spaces. They moved to Berlin in 1988 as guests of Künstlerhaus Bethanien. In 1993/94 their studio was located in Kunst-Werke Berlin, where they produced the magazine “below papers” together with the art critic Thomas Wulffen. During a residency in Moscow they developed a project about the situation of the contemporary Russian art scene. In 2006 they engaged in a "Quest of the perfect location" in Christiania and Tivoli. Right now Dellbrügge & de Moll are working on the exhibition „New Harmony“ which focuses the Artist House Bethanien in Berlin in its current state of occupation by squatters and harrassment through local policy. Opening May 3rd. www.workworkwork.de
Antje Weitzel
Karatorin von der Ausstellungserie "How To Do Things? In the Middle of Nowhere"
The project involved artists from 14 countries who were invited on a residency grant to spend one month in an unfamiliar environment in Budapest, Bucharest, Kiev, Copenhagen and Berlin. The artists researched and developed new projects that refer to the different local realities and contexts in the 5 cities. The resulting art works were shown at exhibitions held at the local partner institutions and sometimes also in public spaces. mehr hier
Lise Harlev is an artist in the exhibition, How To Do Things-In the Middle of Nowhere. Her kontext-specifizie works touch a possible disucsion topic for the night, which is the question to what extend the circulation of artists, artist-in-residence in other places makes sense, and to what extend it would make sense to give artist in a local context the possibility to develope projects, which is on their way already. www.liseharlev.com
Jole Wilcke (UNwetter, gruppeinitiative die auf selbstorganizierung und improvisierte temporäre orte stattfindet.)
Patricia Reed aka Pia Fuchs (dt. ID v. Patricia Reed) born: 1977, Ottawa, Kanada Participated in the research and residency programs of Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu, Japan (2001-02), FCCA Prague (2003) and Akademie Schloss Solitude (2003-04 / 2005). Her projects focus on the representation of the public body as it performs itself through the everyday choreographies of estrangement.
Åsa Sonjasdottir
Sonjasdotter has experience of different art funding structures and artists-in-residence‚s structures in Scandinavia. As an artist representative, she took part of the structuring of the new Danish international exchange structure DIVA, and she is a member of CRIR (Christiania Researcher in Residence) steering board committee. Sonjasdotter is also a member The Danish Arts Council‚s International Committee for Visual Art (2003 ˆ 2007) and she has been a board member of NIFCA (Nordic Institute For Contemporary Art) during 2005 - 2006 (chairman 2005). Sonjasdotter's practice focuses on place, identity, power and relations. Taking her starting point in a given site or situation, she creates a framework or a set of conditions for an initiation of thought processes within the parties involved. Sonjasdotter's projects function as social forums linked to a specific site, in which the artist herself often acts and interacts with the subjects involved. Collaborating with other artists or selected groups, she works towards the realization of projects that address societal issues while being meaningful to the everyday life of the individuals involved.
(see wwww.crir.net, www.kunststyrelsen.dk/8930029 (DIVA), www.potatoperspective.org (Sonjasdotters current project) for more info.)
contact: aasa(at)post7.tele.dkLise Nellemann
Moderator of the Round Table discussion and co-curatorin of the exhibition FUTURAMA and re-inventing Tradition