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>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:52:28 +0200 >From: Uwe Buechler <ub@werkleitz.de> > >4. Werkleitz Biennale - real[work] >July, 5th - 9th 2000 in Werkleitz, Tornitz and Barby > >The 4. Werkleitz Biennale - situated between Magdeburg and Halle, the biggest >art and media festival in Germany's new "Bundesländer" - presents a wide range >of international contributions from the fields of film/video, performance art, >visual arts and internet. Six curators working in the various disciplines have >invited more than 80 artists from 17 different countries to participate. Under >the title real[work], the topic of this year's Biennale is the ongoing >discussion about changing notions of work and their implication in >transforming >social values. Set against the background of a rural area with one of the >highest rates of unemployment in Germany, the Biennale addresses questions >which >are being widely discussed on both a regional and international level. The >field >of tension spanned by the artistic projects includes the reflection of >contemporary and future concepts of work as well as the immediate shaping of >social structures. Attention is focused on current shifts within a society >grounded on a work ethic and the discussion of its limitations and >opportunities. > >In the visual arts section, the curators Corinna Koch and Christiane Mennicke >invited 25 artists and artist groups to propose and to realise projects >relating >directly to the villages or to place existing work in the new context. The >exhibition provides insight into different artistic practice, which >includes and >takes place at various sites of public life in the villages. In the film and >video program, Marcel Schwierin and Florian Wuest present 35 contributions >under >the aspect of alternative and provoking concepts of work. Among the eight >categories are the single programs of leisure [work], heroic [work], gender >[work] global [work] and needless [work]. Five selected works of the "call for >netart" will be presented and discussed by the artists. In addition, Benjamin >Heidersberger, curator for the internet section, has invited four accompanying >projects, which deal with the transformation of industrial society through new >communication media. The artists in the performance component of >real[work] come >to Werkleitz from diverse socio-political and cultural economies, on both >sides >of the colonial era divide - a divide that still largely defines global >economic >relations. A curatorial premise for the performance component of real[work] is >the performance of unalienated labour in cultural tension. > >Together with Dr. Gerd Harms, the Minister of Culture for Saxony-Anhalt, >artists, theorists and curators will discuss the topic of "Culture work - a >model for the future?" at 5.30 pm on the 6th of July. >As an alternative to the Berlin Loveparade, the "realparty" in Werkleitz with >DJs and Bands at [work] takes place on the night of July 9th. The opening >barbecue on the 5th of July carries the title "Return of the tattooed pig", >reminiscent to one of the audience's favourites of the '98 Biennale "sub >fiction". > >Detailed information is available at: http://www.werkleitz.de/realwork > >Contact: >General: info@werkleitz.de >Reservations: cm@werkleitz.de >Press service: Joachimpenzel@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------- # rohrpost -- deutschsprachige Mailingliste fuer Medien- und Netzkultur # Info: majordomo@mikrolisten.de; msg: info rohrpost # kommerzielle Verwertung nur mit Erlaubnis der AutorInnen # Entsubskribieren: majordomo@mikrolisten.de, msg: unsubscribe rohrpost # Kontakt: owner-rohrpost@mikrolisten.de -- http://www.mikro.org/rohrpost