GASWORKS
Disclosures
27th March - 18th May 2008
Gasworks and offsite locations, London
Seminar: free but booking essential at: moira (at) gasworks (dot) org (dot) uk
Organised by Anna Colin and Mia Jankowicz
http://www.gasworks.org.uk
Disclosures is a multi-faceted
project that looks at the manifestations of Open Source methodologies in fields of cultural production outside of
the Internet. Openness – or its technological underpinning, Open Source
– here refers to situations in which the viewer, reader, listener
or Internet user becomes emancipated through egalitarian participation,
collaborative authorship and/or the breaking down of hierarchical and social
boundaries.
If openness is found in varied cultural practices, it matches certain systems
and economies (internet-based or media practices) better than others (the
artworld or the film and music industries). Issues around Intellectual Property
and copyright – and the question of whether or not diffuse authorship and
unrestrictive distribution are financially viable – come immediately to
mind. Meanwhile, assessing the socio-economic, political and cultural
conditions for openness is a necessary step.
A second reading of openness revolves around the idea of transparency and of
availability of information. Of relevance here are practices which are
committed to releasing public information and resources that have been out of
civic reach for political, economic, historic or bureaucratic reasons. Disclosures will address histories and
genealogies that inscribe themselves outside of the rigid bonds of
‘monopolistic’ versus ‘alternative’ social and cultural
activity.
A range of practitioners, from tactical media practitioners, to cultural
theorists, music producers and artists, will help identify and discuss references
and strategies that have been common to two interrelated areas of practice:
critical media practice and socially-collaborative work in the expanded visual
art field. The various facets of the project will attempt to find a common
language and to set up the basis for improved understanding and greater
collaboration between the two fields.
LAUNCH
Date: Thursday 27 March 2008,
20.00–01.00
Location: Plastic People
Participants: Oliver Ressler |
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive)
SEMINAR
Dates: Saturday 29 - Sunday 30
March 2008, 10.30–19.30
Location: Toynbee Hall (Saturday
29th) and Middlesex Street
Estate (Sunday 30th)
Participants: Electronest | Critical
Practice | Ilze Black | Tim Jones |
Saul Albert | Marina Vishmidt
|
The MicroPolitics Research Group | Nenad Romić | Simon
Sheikh | Ana Laura Lopez
de la Torre | Neil
Kenlock | Marysia Lewandowska | Toni Prug | Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran | Adnan
Hadzi | The People Speak | Emily Druiff | Tony
Nwachukwu and Gavin Alexander | Matthew
Fuller | Usman Haque | Tsila
Hassine | Goldin+ Senneby | agency | Mai Abu ElDahab
|
Francis McKee | Rodrigo
Nunes
FILM AND READING LIBRARY
Dates: Preview on Thursday 10
April, runs till Sunday 18 May. Open Wed-Sun, 12.00–18.00
Location: Gasworks,
155 Vauxhall Street, London SE11 5RH
Films by: Shaina Anand | Amy
Balkin | Neil Cummings, Marysia Lewandowska, Eileen Simpson, Ben White | Carles
Guerra | Nicoline von Harskamp | Tsila Hassine | Abhishek
Hazra | Kurator | The League of Noble Peers | Oliver Ressler
| Ashok Sukumaran
FLOATING EVENTS
Date: Thursday 10 April,
18.30-19.30
Location: Gasworks
Event: Deleted Swedish stories. A performative lecture by artist
Petra Bauer to launch the library.
Date: Friday 11 April, 19.00-21.00
Location: Gasworks
Screening: Lavorare con Lentezza - Radio Alice 100.6 MHz (2004) dir. Guido
Chiesa, scriptwriters: Guido Chiesa and Wu Ming (duration 111 min); followed by
a discussion with artist Petra Bauer and philosopher Rodrigo Nunes.
Date: Monday 21 April, 11.00-16.00
Location: Ben
Pimlott Building,
Seminar Room, Digital Studios, Goldsmiths
University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW
Workshop: Taxi to Praxi (and back again): the next layer research day,
a collaboration between Armin Medosch and Adnan Hadzi to address and discuss
some of the generic, rather than discipline-specific, challenges of undertaking
practice-based research within academia.
Date: Sunday 18 May, 12.00-20.00
Location: Gasworks
Screening: La Commune (1999) dir. Peter Watkins
(duration 345 min). Includes breaks with refreshments, food and discussions.
This event will mark the closing of the library.
Disclosures is supported by Arts
Council England, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation and the
Austrian Cultural Forum, London.
Disclosures is part of NODE.London
Spring '08.
Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London SE11 5RH
+44 (0)20 7587 5202
info@gasworks.org.uk
www.gasworks.org.uk