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2011-12-12T16:31:00.000+01:00

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John Cage Centenary (2012)

2011-11-21T10:59:00.006+01:00

Ubuweb is a place to be- I found loads of interesting material on John Cage there:

http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/cage.html

Was there a person more influential? After Cage experimental music is more contemporary art and probably will be for another one hundred years. Writing music in terms of "space equals time" changed our understanding of both harmony and rhythm. Visual elements can be perceived as simultaneous if spatial relationships are distorted or irrelevant, like in 2-dimensional oriental art. Can we think about rhythm as a pattern of moving through space, and harmony as a product of a temporal collapse or layering different tonal colours? Experiments with magnetic tape showed that it was possible, which made many composers give up traditional notation that operates with time units. Conceptual music pieces starting out with non-musical material usually approach time as space, creating maps of sound, and the travel while playing that kind of compositions requires staying in the flow of sound or being in the now, which is a denial of time.

Cage studied for Schoenberg. Once he was trying to solve a counterpoint problem until there were no more solutions. The teacher asked what was underlying the solutions. Cage came to a conclusion that it was questions, and the chance operations as a method of composition were a way of getting answers. "I welcome whatever happens next or everyday is a great day or music never stops, we only turn away from it",all that suggests leaving questions open and never manipulating things to get desired answers.

From Diary: How to Improve the World, You'll Only Make Matters Worse.

- Your philosophy in nutshell?
- Get out of whatever cage you are in.
.......................................
- If you describe yourself in three words?
- An open cage.

Filmworkshop i Norrköping

2011-07-21T23:53:00.004+02:00

Den 6 Augusti kommer Vision Forum Film att anordna en filmworkshop. Detta sker i samband med att vi spelar in vår nya produktion, Effektivia. Ni får tillfälle att arbeta med skådespelaren LU SIQI och ljudkonstnäreren JIANG PENG, båda från Peking, som delar med sig av sin erfarenhet inom film och musik.

Är du sugen på att delta? Så är du välkommen till Verkstad för Konst den 6 Augusti kl. 17-20.

Har du frågor, kontakta Emma Palmgren på: empalm82 (at) gmail.com

Välkomna!

open source

2011-05-09T20:07:00.002+02:00

I sampled and fused two tracks today,licenced under CC(Creative Commons),- love the result- experimental dubstep:

http://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/b-hunter-at-monolua-d33-troi

People are often anxious about their open source things. It brings the mind to some scary version of communism, heard them say. No short term profits and the risks of abuse to your work, but gratification is greater than loss,and the best part is freedom and maybe sharing ideas, apart from collaboration opportunities.

I adore soundcloud and I almost live in it now, recovering at home, not able to play. Sample and mix.

grand narrative?

2011-05-06T08:58:00.000+02:00

http://www.weliveunderground.net/

Labels- Zoila Méndez Martín at Hyllan, Arbetets museum, Norrköping, Sweden

2011-04-30T06:06:00.000+02:00

It is both human nature and the basis for language to name the objects that surround us and the feelings that they evoke. But how do we label ourselves? The aim of social labels are exclude, to show how we differ from others.

Social labels are everywhere. You meet them no matter where you move through the cities of the world. They have become so fixed in everyday reality and our language that we use them without thinking about it. But what does it mean to be different? What does it mean to be a part of a group? How do we express our fears in what we are and how can we create a sense of belonging?

Spanish artist, Zoila Méndez Martín has photographed a large number of young people in Östergötland. The group of people presented, share a common link. They want to show two or more sides to their humanness and yet they are faces of a unique person. Each image pretends to discover the singular feature of the person and yet it is contradicted by a mirrored sibling. The visitor is viewing every portrait and can indentify something that is not associated with the expected expression. It offers another posed personality.

To underline this duality, the artist sometimes presents the images in black and white and sometime in colour. The photographs show something from the other “I” that the labels do not contain and do not let us to see.

The work which has been realized through Facebook networks reveals how deep technology runs in informing us about who we are and how we want to impress our being on the surrounding world. In Zoila Méndez Martín’s photographs, the act of producing the self becomes itself a form of labour that is moving to the forefront of what is considered work today.

All of the photos are untitled. The purpose is to avoid any kind of label and to make the spectator think about the humanity of this persons without any text reference of them.

Zoila Méndez Martín (1988) lives in Madrid, Spain. She is completing her degree in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid through an Erasmus scholarship in Sweden and in collaboration with Vision Forum. Her background is in painting, printmaking, drawing, video and design. But for her exchange year she has chosen to focus on photography to express her fascination for how young people in Östergötland relate to their identity.

a download friendly 25 MB

2011-04-02T11:49:00.002+02:00

Check out www.xym.no

I think this is wonderful and I help myself from that fridge! A perfect format for internet-specific work, something I find worth considering while working on the current "cloudy weather"project. Initially inspired by Smart Frrridge..., one of the works presented on the webbsite, and playing with an idea of a fridge thief, secretly consuming and even manipulating the contents of a dropbox, where all project files are stored, it is taking the course of a virtual students hostel shared kitchen reality: 3 soundcloud users,located in London, Reggio and Gothenburg,so far nobody stealing , but some products already finished. I think we need a bad guy to go on...

immersed in the river... (long version)

2011-02-22T00:08:00.000+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ORb0LGhm2k

immersed in the river of words

2011-02-18T22:15:00.004+01:00

Immersed in the river of words at Branly Museum in Paris and listening to invisible dialogues between the statues, probably the voices of African artists, no longer anonymous and solely bound by tradition, I was thinking about language as a flow. Of course, we have to break it in order to grasp the meaning, but this is no guarantee you will understand and will be understood. That brings us back to the flow, which is a more reliable means of connecting the sender and the receiver. And anticipating (in)visible dialogues coming up soon at the Art Academy in Stockholm, I hope to be able to connect with an open heart.

Life Without Buildings- Young Offenders (Any Other City)

2011-02-03T13:58:00.000+01:00

life without buildings, any other city

2011-02-03T13:55:00.002+01:00

they offer concealment and prevent escape

http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60jR9IbS0Fc&feature=related

bolero finale

2011-02-03T10:41:00.002+01:00

Mickey mousey unsync. Stretched the basic beat in Comic way of life by Briby Welsh and filled it with some personal experience.

great digital library

2011-01-13T20:47:00.001+01:00

http://www.nolayout.com/

open invitation to a project

2011-01-12T16:08:00.002+01:00

January is an altogether depressing month, but the advantage of staying home with a cold is that you get plenty of time for reflection over future projects. My mind is set on something i would like to call "Cloudy weather"- a digital cloud project with several internet users sharing a dropbox, where they store all kinds of files: images, audio tracks, texts, video clips, what not. And the starting point is real Icelandic ash clouds that sabotaged infra-structure in the same way soundcloud, aviary and other horizontal programs challenge commercial music market. We'll be dealing with textoids, audioids, videoids ( sorry for clumsy neologisms)as long as we have access to each others' files and can make changes, add own material, transform, etc. across the borders of authorship. So, it's Icelandic ash, microscopic images for music making, the chaos it caused. Things are still very fuzzy, but no matter where you are, come forward.

March 9-10

2011-01-11T11:19:00.005+01:00

Following the success of the meeting in September 2010, Vision Forum Organizes a new 2 day workshop March 9-10. (More info and program for the September workshops can be found here.) The March workshop will be co-organized with Verkstad and The Art Museum and will include performances by Pauline Curnier Jardin, Natalia Kamia and the release of the catalogue for the project The Invisible Generation, presentations by Stephen Whitmarsh and Alessandra Sandrolini about the last Ouunpo meeting and tons more. Keep your eyes on this blog for updates.

Plocka fram era agendor

2011-01-08T19:22:00.005+01:00

jag hoppas att 2011 har börjat lysande!

det är dags att plocka fram era agendor och boka resor till stockholm.

varje söndag i mars, så kommer en fantastisk dialog mellan en konst och en vetenskaps expert att hållas på konstakademien i stockholm.

missa inte möjligheten att möta dessa unika performances.

(klicka på bilden nedan för att se programmet i sin helhet)

THE REVEREND OF LOVE IS ON MISSION.

2010-12-29T14:23:00.002+01:00

My friends, aren’t we all? I believe that the mission is LOVE. Kärleken.

I need to know more about it.
And my friends I believe together we can find out more.

I believe we can share our inner love, and show our inner selves, by meeting and sharing, and with the help of youtube.com.

Becasue we e are humans made for loving we can communicate, with sounds and images, my friends -

CONTRIBUTE TO THE GOSPEL OF LOVE MY FRIENDS.

AND BE A WITNESS - A WITNESS OF LOVE!

http://the-reverend-of-love.com/mission

Use the power of youtube.com to make us feel what you feel.
Choose a video clip that shows us how the LOVE feels to you.
Use the video as a backdrop to your story.
Then tell us how it makes you feel.

God kritik!!!

2010-12-09T16:26:00.001+01:00

Natalia Kamias utställning på Mors Mössa i Göteborg har mottagits väldigt väl med recenssion både i GP och Göteborgs Fria. Den förra finn inte på nätet, men vill ni läsa om den andra så klicka här.

THE QUANTUM POLICE @ DKTUS, Stockholm

2010-11-28T20:06:00.001+01:00

Per Hüttner in collaboration with Jean-Louis Huhta - curated by Anne Klontz
Performance – Saturday 4 December kl 19

“There is an invisible and little known force amongst us called ‘The Quantum Police’. They operate internationally and assimilate unnoticed into civilian communities. Their actions strive toward renegotiating the relationship between individual and society and claim that the law, morality and reality are all unique to the inner self.”

For the event at DKTUS, artist Per Hüttner will create a performance based on an anonymous woman’s role as a QP mediator and will include her entire transcribed interview along with videos and music played outside the gallery’s courtyard. In collaboration with Hüttner, musician and DJ, Jean-Louis Huhta will perform using a unique musical score created by Charlie White, an artist who in the late 80s developed a series of performances he called “Interviews” based on conversations with QP founder Johnny Ross. White believed that over time, Ross lost sight of the true meaning behind QP and therefore wanted to re-establish his voice as the strength of the movement. White added a soundtrack to the interviews which were then re-interpreted by a DJ as White performed wearing an LAPD uniform and using materials like glass sheets, halogen lamps and vinyl texts. For more info click here.

Program Vision Forum/KSM workshop

2010-08-24T05:27:00.003+02:00

Ateljé 2, Kåkenhus, Linköpings universitet, and Verkstad för Konst, Norrköping, September 2-3, 2010

Hello Everybody,

We are looking forward to hosting you all at this two day seminar and offering everyone this opportunity to meet and to exchange ideas and experience.

Thursday September 2
10.00 Arrival and presentation of KSM and Vision Forum - Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Per Hüttner.
11.00 Anne Klontz – Simultaneity a project at RKIS in Stockholm and Platform China in Beijing with artists from Romania, China and Holland. (http://anneklontz.blogspot.com/)

12-13 Lunch.

13.00 The MA students make their 5 minute presentations.
13.30 Yulia Usova and Viktor Sobiianskyi presents The Invisible Generation, a performative project in public the public space in Kiev. (http://tig-kiev.blogspot.com/)
14.30 Francesca Grossi and Vera Magnioli – Performance Season, the world’s first (?) online performance project. (http://www.performanceseason.com/)
15.30 Laura Guy – Project After S – buried duck eggs art and architecture between Shenzhen and London. (http://laura-guy.blogspot.com/)
16.30 Good TV – This Image Is No More – non object based exhibition about memories in Beijing. (http://visionforum2009.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-image-is-no-more-invisible.html)

17.30-19.00 Break

19.00 – Dinner at Verkstad för konst. (http://www.verkstadkonst.se/)
20.00 – Open bar Verkstad för konst with videos and performaces. (Invite your friends to join!!!)

Friday September 3
9.30 Louise Nilson and Lisa Boström – Travels, two publications about travel in the contemporary art world. (http://lisaandlouise.blogspot.com/)
10.30 Fatos Ustek – London Houses, from museum to retreat in 6 months. (http://visionforum-londonhouses.blogspot.com/)

12.-13 Lunch.

13.00 The Vision Forum students make their 5 minute presentations.

13.30 Geoffrey Lowe – A Constructed World and Speech and What Archive two ongoing projects investigating the nature of communication and audience. (http://speecharchive.blogspot.com/)
14.30 Claire Louise Staunton – Inheritance Shenzhen and New Cities Project
(http://inheritanceprojects.org/inh-sz/)
15.30 Summery and reflections - Mattias Åkesson, Anna Berglind and Per Hüttner.

You are, VERY, VERY WELCOME!!!

Vision Forum and KSM workshop september 2-3

2010-08-03T13:45:00.000+02:00

Vision Forum and KSM are co-organizing a 2 day seminar september 2 and 3.

A dozen interesting artists and curators (from all over europe, australia and the us) who have realized projects for Vision Forum in 2009-10 will present this work, their respective practice and their outlook on life and art. Verkstad för konst will also organize a bar and social events on september 2. It will be a wonderful opportunity for each of you to be stimulated by their inspiring and creative work and also to meet and talk to them in person.

Speakers include:

Geoffrey Lowe, A Constructed World, Paris
Fatos Ustek, Nowiswere, London and Istanbul
Claire Louise Staunton, Inheritence, London

You can find more info about what they do on:

http://visionforum2009.blogspot.com/

and

http://visionforum2010.blogspot.com/

more details about the events will appear here in late August.

vision forum|s 2010

2010-05-31T23:04:00.002+02:00

hello everyone!

welcome back old participants and very warm welcome to our new members at vision forum|s 2010. please contact vfprog(a)gmail.com if there's any questions!

all the best,

tomas and per