OUTSIDE DAMSGÅRD
ØYVIND RENBERG AND MIHO SHIMIZU
As part of Hordaland Art Centre´s Outside-programme, Øyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu´s new piece Damsgård will be on display at Kabuso in Øystese from August 20th to September 18th. The project follows a traveling residency organised by Hordaland Art Centre.
TEXTS RETROSPECTIVE CATALOGUE 2011
Retrospective Catalogue 2011 is the collection of the texts that have accompanied our exhibitions in 2011, as well as visual documentation of the exhibitions. In addition you can read a text by one of our 2011 residents; Valentinas Klimašauskas' The Barman Says, and Arne Skaug Olsen's evaluation of the two first years of the Collaborative Research Residency; Back to the future - Evaluation of Collaborative Reseach Residency. Our 2011 witness has been artist and philosopher Andrea Spreafico, who has written the witness report Dog-Thoughts on Hokaës.
RESIDENCY STINE HEBERT (DK)
Stine Hebert is Hordaland Art Centre's December 2011 and February 2012 resident. During her residency, she will work on the international anthology project Self-Organised Subjects.
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B-open reading group: Anthea Buys
B-opens first reading group in 2012 is hosted by Anthea Buys, resident at Hordaland Art Centre this January. Buys has chosen two texts and one recipe for the reading: The Man of The Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe, an extract from Three Banquets for a Queen by Charlotte Birnbaum and a recipe for great great Aunt Bessie´s biscuits. In the study circle, Buys wants to look at the rise of incidental amateur professionalisms in contemporary artistic and curatorial practice and the relationship of knowledge in traditionally “non-art” fields to the art-specific practices which this knowledge informs. The texts and the discussion will be in English.
Back to the future – Evaluation of Collaborative Research Residency by Arne Skaug Olsen
“The project places emphasis on the creative process and aims to foster new ideas, different forms of knowledge production and the development of new working methods. At the same time we would like to shift the traditional focus in residency programmes from individual practitioners to collaborative practice. As the project is focused on the research phase, the goal is to encourage new relationships, the testing of new ideas and the taking of creative risks.”
Excerpt from the position statement of Collaborative Research Residency
Collaborative Research Residency (hereafter called CRR) has been a two year joint venture between Baltic Art Center – BAC in Visby, The Factory for Art & Design – FFKD in Copenhagen and Hordaland Art Centre. These three institutions initiated the project in 2010, on a trial basis, with financial support of the Nordic Council of Ministers. This transnational project was inspired by a desire to create a new residency platform, giving the participants more freedom than what is commonly the case in most residencies, including the ones currently operated by the three institutions themselves.
Common to most current arrangements is the insistence on productivity. This may be an expectation that the participants will provide some kind of “payback”, either in the shape of some definite production in connection with the work or mandate of the host institution, or its role in a national or regional context. The visitors, be they artists, curators or writers, are usually invited on the basis of a proposed project, to be started or completed during the visit. By focussing on the period of creative work ahead of any project formulation, CRR has actively tried to break with instrumental thinking as far as the production of meaning in the art scene is concerned. This freedom has been linked to the concept of “creative risk”, which should be the fulcrum for participants in CRR, rather than production. Putting freedom in the driving seat also increases the risk that knowledge produced through this research will not be applied. The other element counteracting instrumentality is the highlighting of cooperation and a collective situation with actors representing different specialties; the only criterion for the group is that at least one member must belong to the art scene.
This text is an assessment of CRR commissioned by the institutions behind CRR. The evaluation was made on the basis of public presentations online, the open call, the application materials, internal documents and the criteria provided by the sponsoring partner, the Nordic Council of Ministers. The method employed was to subject these linguistic elements to semantic and rhetorical speculations in the light of concepts derived from economics and philosophy. Thus the evaluation does not try to review what CRR is, but rather to create a discursive platform which pushes to extremes some of the challenges presented to participants and institutions by contemporary transnational (art) economics and politics.Master night: Tor Steffen Espedal - Artist and maniera. The concept of sublimity in manierism and contemporary art
In his presentation on Master Night, Tor Steffen Espedal will take as his starting point Miroslaw Balka’s How it Is, and try to outline the concept of sublimity related to contemporary art
Launch: Bookshop
The new bookshop at Hordaland Art Centre, which opens November 2011, carries a broad range of magazines and books dealing with contemporary art and culture. You can find a wide variety of anthologies and text collections discussing important aspects of art production, art institutions and curatorial practice. We also carry catalogues and books by artists in Hordaland that might not be distributed widely.Master night: Anne Blindheim - The construction of identity through documentary photography
We are sorry to inform that this Master night is cancelled due to illness.
