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Oliver Ressler
Miscarea alter-globalizare â Interventii artistice in miscarile politice
Dialog live cu Razvan Ion
Miercuri, 17 iunie 2009, orele 19.00
Oliver Ressler va discuta despre miscarea alter-globalizare in paralel cu structura proiectelor sale din ultimi doi ani.
El a produs un video de o ora in timpul incercuirii de catre fortele de ordine a demonstrantilor impotriva World Economic Forum 2001 din Salzburg si un altul (impreuna cu with Dario Azzellini) care are ca subiect âDisobbedientiâ (grup radical extraparlamentar din Italia). âWhat Would It Mean To Win?â (cu Zanny Begg) a fost filmat in timpul blocadelor de la summitul G8 de la Heiligendamm din iunie 2007 si se concentreaza pe stadiul actual al miscarii alter-globalizare. Ressler a creat bannere pentru manifestatii (cu David Thorne) si a fost implicat in proiectul colaborativ auto-organizat "Holy Damn It" (www.holy-damn-it.org), care a produs 50000 de postere pentru a mobiliza miscarile de rezistenta impotriva sumitului G8 din Heiligendamm.
Prin lucrarile sale Ressler subliniaza strategii de interventie a artei in miscarile politice.
Oliver Ressler (b. 1970, Austria) produce proiecte in spatiul public si filme video care incearca sa estompeze granitele dintre arta si activism. Proiectele sale au fost expuse in expozitii personale la Berkeley Art Museum; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; Kunstraum der UniversitÃt LÃneburg, D and Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid si in expozitii de grup la MASS MoCA â Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; Itaucultural Institute, Sao Paulo; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL; International Festival of Video/Arte/ElectrÃnica, Lima.
A participat la bienalel din Prague, 2005; Seville, 2006; Moscow, 2007, Taipei, 2008, etc.
Proiectul sau permanent "Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies" a fost produs in 21 de orase si publicat in volum de Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk in 2007.
In prezent Ressler prregateste o noua instalatie de 8 canale numita "What Is Democracy?". www.ressler.at
Razvan Ion (n. 1970) este teoretician, curator, manager cultural si activist politic. Este co-editor (impreuna cu Eugen Radescu) al revistei PAVILION, co-director al Bucharesti Biennale, iar in 2008 a fost numit director al PAVILION UNICREDIT- centrul pentru arta si cultura conemporana. A tinut prelegeri la University of California -Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts-California, Facultatea de Stiinte Politice - Cluj, Academia de Arte - TimiÈoara, La Casa Encedida - Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisabona, etc. Scrie pentru diferite reviste si ziare. In prezent, lucreaza la proiectul curatorial "Exploring the Return of Repression". Traieste si lucreaza in Bucuresti.
Eveniment sustinut de Forumul Cultural Austriac. Multumiri Karin Cervenka.
Image: "Don't Purchase a Better World, Fight For a Better World", a billboard by Oliver Ressler on gated communities in Warsaw. Courtesy of the artist.
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Oliver Ressler
The Alter-Globalization Movement â Interventions with Art in Political Movements
Live conversation with Razvan Ion
Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 19.00 hours
Oliver Ressler will discuss the alter-globalization movement along the path of some of the projects he worked on in the last couple of years.
He produced a video on the hour-long encirclement of demonstrators by the police at a demonstration against the World Economic Forum in 2001 in Salzburg, and one on the âDisobbedientiâ (with Dario Azzellini). âWhat Would It Mean To Win?â (with Zanny Begg) was filmed on the blockades at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany in June 2007 and focuses on the current state of the alter-globalization movement. Ressler created banners for demonstrations (with David Thorne) and was involved in the self-organized collaborative art project Holy Damn It (www.holy-damn-it.org), that produced 50.000 posters to mobilize for the resistance movements against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm.
Through his work Ressler outlines different strategies to intervene with art in political movements.
Oliver Ressler (b. 1970, Austria) produces exhibitions, projects in the public space and videos which try to blur the boundaries between art and activism. His projects have been exhibited in solo-exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum; Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul; Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade; Kunstraum der UniversitÃt LÃneburg, D and Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid. Ressler participated in group exhibitions at the MASS MoCA â Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, USA; Itaucultural Institute, Sao Paulo; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL; International Festival of Video/Arte/ElectrÃnica, Lima; and in the biennials in Prague, 2005; Seville, 2006; Moscow, 2007 and Taipei, 2008.
His ongoing project "Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies" was produced in 21 cities around the world and published as a book by the Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk in 2007. Ressler is currently preparing the 8-channel video installation "What Is Democracy?". www.ressler.at
Razvan Ion (b. 1970, Bucharest) is political activist, theoretician, curator and cultural manager. He is the co-editor (with Eugen Radescu), of the magazine PAVILION, co-director of Bucharest Biennale and in 2008 he was appointed as director of PAVILION UNICREDIT- center for contemporary art & culture. He lectured at University of California -Berkeley, Headlands Center for the Arts-California, Political Science Faculty - Cluj, Art Academy - Timisoara, La Casa Encedida - Madrid, Calouste Gulbenkian - Lisbon, etc. He write in different magazines and newspapers. Now he is working on the curatorial project "Exploring the Return of Repression". Lives and works in Bucharest.
Supported by Austrian Cultural Forum. Special thanks to Karin Cervenka.
Image: "Don't Purchase a Better World, Fight For a Better World", a billboard by Oliver Ressler on gated communities in Warsaw. Courtesy of the artist.
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PAVILION UNICREDIT
center for contemporary art & culture
Sos. Nicolae Titulescu 1 (Piata Victoriei)
Bucharest 011131 Romania
T: + 4 031 103 4131
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PAVILION UNICREDIT este un centru pentru arta si cultura contemporana, un spatiu independent work-in-progress, spatiu de productie si cercetare a vizualului, a discursivului si a performativului. Este un spatiu al gandirii critice care promoveaza o Ãntelegere implicata socio-politic a artei si a institutiilor culturale.
PAVILIONâUNICREDITâis a center for contemporary art & culture, a work-in-progress independent space, a space for the production and research in the fields of audiovisual, discursive and performative. It is a space of the critical thinking, and it promotes an artistic perspective implying the social and political involvement of the art and of the cultural institutions.
PAVILION, BUCHAREST BIENNALE and PAVILION UNICREDIT are projects devised and founded by Razvan Ion and Eugen Radescu
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Supported by: Pilsner Urquell
Strategic partner: UniCredit Tiriac Bank
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, 22, Alternativ.ro, Feeder.ro, 24Fun
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Printing partner: Herris Print
Audio-visual partner: Sony
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Supported by: Pilsner Urquell
Strategic partner: UniCredit Tiriac Bank
Media partners: Radio Romania Cultural, 22, Alternativ.ro, Feeder.ro, 24Fun
Production partner: UpDate Advertising
Printing partner: Herris Print
Audio-visual partner: Sony