May 6, 2013

ARTISTTALK CLOSING EVENTS & BOOK LAUNCH AT THE 15TH WRO MEDIA BIENNALE

We are concluding the two year ArtistTalk, a collaborative project by Museum of Transitory Art (MoTA), Ljubljana, International Centre for […]

We are concluding the two year ArtistTalk, a collaborative project by Museum of Transitory Art (MoTA), Ljubljana, International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Prague and WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, with announcement of ArtistTalk Best Interview Award winners, screening of awarded interviews, the launch of the OUTERVIEWS book and the interactive installation featuring collection of artists’ talks and statements.

8 May 2013, 16:00 DCF Cinema Center, auditorium LALKA

PRESENTATIONS // SCREENINGS // INSTALLATION

On the talks by artists - round table discussion

ArtistTalk Best Interview Award winner announcement & screening

Outerviews – book launch

Selected Talks – an interactive installation by Andrej Boleslavsky and Maria Judova (CIANT) with talks by Piotr Bosacki, Joe Davis, Jaś Domicz, VALIE EXPORT, Izabella Gustowska, Paweł Janicki, Zbig Rybczyński, Lech Twardowski, Noriko Yamaguchi

8-11 May 2013, main foyer, DCF, Cinema Center

8 May 2013

Program

16:00 Welcome

Bartek Korzeniowski, moderator, WRO Art Center

16:05-16:30

On the talks by artists podium presentation and discussion with Martin Bricelj Baraga and Neja Tomšič (MoTA), Andrej Boleslavsky (CIANT) and Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka (WRO) on the context and the role of artist talks in cultural organisations, its potential for enhancing understanding of contemporary and new media art and building stronger relationships with local and international audiences.

16:35-17:05

Artisttalk Best Interview Award winner announcement & screening of best videos ArtistTalk Best Interview Award was an international open call for the best video interview with an artist, curator or cultural worker, organised as part of ArtistTalk project in partnership with organisations MoTA, WRO and CIANT.

The aim of the open call was to stimulate dialogues with artists among art professionals as well as general public.

We have received around 80 submissions in total. Jury formed by MoTA, CIANT and WRO decided to award the First Prize and three Honorable Mentions. The winner will receive a 1000,00 eur prize and an entry pass for the opening events of the 15th Media Art Biennale WRO 2013. The winner will be announced and present at the award ceremony.

The screening of best works will follow the announcement:

Agaconda: To explain the sense to the world. Joe Davis in 8 Chapters, 10’39”

Dalibor Martinis/1978 Talks to Dalibor Martinis 2010, 2010, 9’53’’

Camilla Haukedal: To all the important people, 2006, 5’10’’

Jeff Gardiner: Unkle Bob, 2012, 8’39”

17:10-17:35 Outerviews. Conversations With Artists

Book launch - Presentation by the editors Neja Tomšič and Martin Bricelj Baraga

Outerviews. Conversations with artists is comprised of 17 interviews with artists, selected from the archive of the artisttalk project. Outerviews presents authors active in a variety of artistic fields , which challenge the common conceptions of art. The conversations included illuminate the processes behind the making of ground breaking works .

From the foreword: »OUTERVIEWS presents a mosaic of different personas, hailing from different backgrounds and active in a large variety of artistic fields, some very hard to pin down. But we claim that what unifies these artists in their very different approaches, is a drive to contribute to social reality in a highly critical, yet constructive way. Our approach in these conversations was therefore in looking for world views – the underlying observations and individual positioning in the world, which is a prerequisite for any socially engaged artistic practice.«

Included artists: Zbig Rybczyński / Eyal Sivan / Harun Farocki / Piotr Krajewski / Jorge Rodriguez Gerada / Arjan Pregl / Societe Realiste / Zimoun / Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen / Emptyset / Plaid / Burnt Friedman / Julian Oliver / Roy Ascott / Joe Davis / Ion Sorvin – N55 / Biennale de Paris

Coordinator: MoTA- Museum for Transitory Art (Ljubljana);

Partners: CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague) ; WRO ART Center (Wroclaw)

This project has been funded by European Comission- Education and Culture DG