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Onomatopee 52 research project
Pre-Specifics: Access X!
Curators: Freek Lomme (NL) & Michael Capio (US)
Exhibition design: Dave Keune (NL)
Graphic design: Ludovic Balland (CH)
Contributors:
Platform for Pedagogy (US), Uglycute (SW), Olaf Nicolai (DE), Dexter Sinister (US), Joana Meroz / Andrea Bandoni /Saron Paz (NL), Unfold (BE), Metahaven (NL), Lust (NL), Claire Fountaine (FR), Societe Realiste (FR), Ryan Gander / Abake (Uk), Dave Hullfish Bailey (US) and Florian Conradi / Michelle Christensen (DE) are taking positions.
A two-phase project conducted via Onomatopee for Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg and Onomatopee, Eindhoven, with assistance from Konstfack University, Stockholm, Vera Bühlmann and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich.
PRE-SPECIFICS: ACCESS X! targets and progressively clarifies stances and design strategies that respond to and adopt the exhibition form as a model for critical inquiry and knowledge production. Taking its title and pronouncing its setting from Vera Bühlmann’s book “Pre-Specifics,” the project takes up the positioning of variable “X” to stand for the enlarged sphere of influence that design has achieved via various activities of research, conceptualization and criticality.
Phase I. September 4 - 26
Praxis Opening at Röda Sten
Objective: Process stances, formulate objectives, strategies and vocabulary
Read more on Pre-Specifics: Access X! on: www.rodasten.com
Phase II. October 23 - 31
Production Opening, October 23
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven
Objective: Activate Stances
Onomatopee next-door bleekweg,
entrance C 5611VB, Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Onomatopee 58: research project
Kapital G: facing the good.
How to cultivate commercial attitudes?
A manual
Curated by Freek Lomme, Eric de Haas and Hugo Naber
Graphic design publication: Eric de Haas and Hugo Naber
Even before we've acquired a good or related to what is good about this product, this good is imprinted upon us; has targeted and branded us. Modern civilisation relies upon the imprinting commercial experiences as our experience economy targets our mindset by expressions of the exorbitant, of the superlative. It applies protectionist dreams within our comfort zone as it enhances our authentic morality. It moreover brands a festival culture to drug us due to drain us into cultural protectionism, as it enhances a globalising sociability….
As Onomatopee researches and displays progressive perspectives of our designed culture, we would like to question the expression through which the 'good' is produced. Can we formulate a public pedagogy dealing with this colonisation of our minds, can we suggest a toolbox that actually preaches a practice that is morally valid and truly deserves our attention?
Onomatopee mobilises authentic, uncorrupted international cultural producers to cultivate civilisation! Therefore, Kapital G asks cultural producers to map out technically progressive ways to release new expressions, the branding of the 'good' and to formulate a public pedagogy enabling us to engage with the commercial colonisation of our minds. Kapital G enhances a professional debate about the technical expression of the good and publicly offers progressive sensations of another, designed culture.
Kapital G releases this 'good' progressively via applied autonomy and radically proceeds where the status quo secures itself. Therefore Onomatopee sends out this open call, mobilising forces of international cultural producers, to gain insight into the possibilities to engage with the promises of a commercial good, leaving us with a manual to comprehend the mediation of commercial goods.
Two progressive questions are targeted. Onomatopee invites cultural producers to respond to these focus points specifically.
1. Renew the brandwidth!
Can we technically incite expressions in order to revitalise a morally valid good? Is it still possible to reason morally while semantics and visual culture have been hijacked by commerce?
2. Educating brandwidth!
How do we address consumers' authenticity, offering a pedagogical grid enabling us to comprehend the commercial colonisation of our minds?
Please submit your contribution to kapital@onomatopee.net in any form considered appropriate, before September 20, 2010.
The curators/editors will make a selection for the book; all contributions will be featured in the exhibition, starting October 23.
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from Claire C.?
THE C-PROJECT
‘I lost it, I’m lost, I lost it, I’m lost, I lost it, I’m lost’. Guillaume Maguire
Some years ago, Sarah Vanhee found an unfinished manuscript by Guillaume Maguire in which the main character is the insecure, unheroic, somewhat lost Claire C. Fascinated by this character, she decided that her story should not be lost.
In The C-Project, Sarah Vanhee will further develop Maguire’s book. Not only by sitting down to write, but also by bringing the protagonist to life. Claire will go into the city in search of the other people she meets in the book. Claire’s identity will take shape on the basis of their discussions, and the book will be continued.
Where fiction and reality meet is where the imagination is unlocked.
Are the people Claire meets ‘real’ or ‘fictional’? Do they belong to the real world, or to the world of stories? And what about the accidental passers-by? Are they the unnoticed audience for a minimal performance, or do they belong to a greater fiction: have they been written themselves? Every meeting with Claire is a readymade of life in the city. The map of the city becomes a web of stories, the public space is the backdrop to a novel that writes itself. The eyes of another replace the author’s pen.
To be continued.....
You can follow Claire C. and her development at http://twitter.com/clairecestmoi.
The C-project, a Frascati Production in co-production with De Appel arts center and Onomatopee.
Onomatopee 41 intervention
Decentral Editing: a life in metadata
by Kim de Groot
01 juli 2010, 20:00u!
OPENING & INTERVENTION #02: Embed, Buzz, Tweet, Retweet, Rank, Comment, Digg, Rate, Sponsor, Spill, Connect, Link, Record, Share, Like the #oilspill
Live Twitter event at Onomatopee in Eindhoven including blue birds and floating tagcloud... You are invited!
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On the first of July Kim will talk about her project Like the #oilspill and present a floating tagcloud at Onomatopee's project space in Eindhoven. Afterwards we will boost the topic #liketheoilspill together through live tweeting. It all starts at 20:00, hope you can make it and in the mean time... turn #liketheoilspill into a trending topic on Twitter!
Onomatopee
bleekstraat 23
5611 VB
Eindhoven, NL
