[nettime-see] kapelica gallery > terror=decor, a series of panels:torino-new york-beirut

[sandra sajovic <sandra.sajovic@kapelica.org>]

TERROR=DECOR
A series of panels: Torino - New York - Beirut

NEW YORK, Wednesday, May, 28 2003, 6.30 pm
Max Protetch Gallery, 511 W 22nd St. NY 10011

Participants:
Ziga Kariz, artist, Slovenian Pavilion, 2003 Venice Biennial
Jill Magid, artist, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
Igor Zabel, co-curator of the 50. Venice Biennial 2003
Marcel Stefancic Jr., critic and media theoretician,
philosopher/writer
Timothy Druckrey, new media theoretician
moderated by Katherine Carl, curator and writer, New 
York


After Torino, where at panel discussion on May, 12, Ziga Kariz and his
production crew encountered Alberto Franceschini, co-founder of the Red
Brigade (Brigate Rosse) and Antonio Caronia, media theoretician, editor
of the Red Star (Stella Rossa) newspaper in 1970s, we are eager to invite
you to the second panel discussion, where panelists will discuss about
the art in the realm of global capital and violence.

For his exhibition at the Slovenian Pavilion (curated by Kapelica
Gallery) at the 2003 Venice Biennial, Ljubljana-based artist Ziga Kariz
has developed a new phase of TERROR=DECOR project, his ongoing
investigation into the cultural zone where painting meets surveillance
technology, terrorism, and cinema. By outfitting his paintings with
digital cameras, distributing them throughout private homes in Venice,
and using the Slovenian Pavilion as a site for surveillance monitoring,
Kariz destabilizes the traditional roles played by artists, viewers, and
collectors.

How does the painter-painting-viewer relationship change in a world whose
visual culture is dominated by rapid exchange of information through the
media and the constant possibility of terrorist activity? In what way is
the viewer of painting directly implicated in the larger cultural
discourse, a discourse that extends beyond the art world and into the
realm of global capital and violence? The panel discussion at Max
Protetch on May 28 will address these issues as they exist in both
Kariz's work and the art world at large.

The panel discussion in Beirut (Lebanon) will occur in the end of June
2003 when we will encounter artists, media theoreticians and strong
opinion-makers who will discuss about the mediation of Middle East
socio-political disturbances which media translates to the western way of
understanding the world map.



Project supported by: Ministry of Culture, Slovenia

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Kapelica Gallery - Gallery for contemporary investigative arts
Kersnikova 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenija
tel.: +386 1 43 80 302, fax: +386 1 43 80 202, gallery@kapelica.org

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