Goethe Satellite@Vancouver

Catherine has arrived

nospam@example.com (Zoe Kreye) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:05:43 +0100

Unlearning Weekenders Research - India

nospam@example.com (Zoe Kreye) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:29:16 +0100

Follow along with our process

nospam@example.com (Zoe Kreye) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:01:20 +0100

http://unlearning-weekenders.tumblr.com/

UNLEARNING WEEKENDERS

nospam@example.com (Zoe Kreye) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:50:36 +0100

Hello Vancouver,

After a month of travel and research in India, we are getting ready for their upcoming Unlearning Weekenders events, March-June 2013. We have returned from India full of inspiration – having met the incredibly wonderful people and organizations dealing with the theme of UNLEARNING throughout Northern India. Below are some images of the workshops we have hosted, ideas we gathered, and modes of processing our research, as well as the links to organizations we worked with and researched.

CEVA – Center for Education and Voluntary Action, Chandigarh - http://www.cevachandigarh.org/

Purple Mangoes – Creative Facilitation Collective, Delhi - http://www.purplemangoes.com/

Swaraj University, Udaipur - http://www.swarajuniversity.org/

Shikshantar - The Peoples' Institute for Rethinking Education and Development, Udaipur - http://www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/

The Unlearning Weekenders will be a series of public events that challenge participants to “unlearn” dominant social structures through radical imagination and the performing of new narratives. We are currently working in experimental ways to locate learning processes in the body and in the community and extending these connections into ritual and ceremony. We are interested in invisible and often dismissed forms of learning that don't align with neo-capitalist paradigms, as well as diverse and multiple forms of intelligence. We are using play and celebrations as way of discovering and validating these individual and collective experiences of learning, encouraging us to learn backwards, inside, upside down, beyond our usual patterns. The Unlearning Weekenders will be looking for new ways of coming together, activating our perception and finding perspectives that enable creative criticality.

To follow their research process go to: http://unlearning-weekenders.tumblr.com/

RIP for the FIT

nospam@example.com (Kate Armstrong) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:53:34 +0100

From Marsha Lederman in the Globe and Mail, on Dida Zende's FIT at the Waldorf Hotel, which is set to close January 20th, 2013.

"I remember exactly where Mr. Fazio made the Disneyland comment. We were on our way to the parking lot, to visit a shipping container that was being turned into an art gallery by Dida Zende, a visiting artist from Berlin who reclaims old spaces and turns them into creative venues (he usually uses gas stations). Inside, fellow Waldorf operator, entertainment director (and musician) Thomas Anselmi was working on a video installation. For me, Vancouver never felt more world class than it did inside that tiny, dark shipping container."

Waldorf Hotel Set To Close

nospam@example.com (Sonja Griegoschewski) — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:36:49 +0100

We are very sad to hear one of our key cultural partners in Vancouver has to close its doors after a wonderful run. We will miss the concerts and screenings and exhibitions and parties. Thank you to everyone at the Waldorf who helped us launch our Goethe Satellite Vancouver series with Dida Zende's FIT and all the best for your next endeavours!!

RIP The Waldorf

PWN THE WALL - Credit Where Credit Is Due

nospam@example.com (Mirae Rosner) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:48:14 +0100

At long last, here are some pics from PWN THE WALL (Oct 12-14, 2012).

The project was an intense, educational, and rewarding experience, and has afforded us the opportunity to push our work into larger and ever-more connected directions with our local - and worldwide - collaborators.

Further development of the project is ongoing, with public release of the source code happening early in the new year. We are looking into future presentation opportunities, to be announced soon.

Many people came together to produce this event and their names are listed below. Thanks all!

PWN THE WALL
Vancouver | Berlin | Seoul

A Project by the Goethe-Institut in cooperation with Graffiti Research Lab Canada, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, W2 Community Media Arts, Platoon Cultural Development and Revised Projects

October 12-14, 2012
at W2 Community Media Arts (V), Platoon Kunsthalle (B), Platoon Kunsthalle (S)

Artistic Direction: Jesse Scott (V), Mirae Rosner (V), Hauke Altmann (B), Semiramis Ceylan (B).
Commissioned Graffiti Artists: The Dark (V), Take 5 (V), ALESH ONE (DISSIZIT!) (B), Cren (KD, TNB, CBR, HSF, TPA) (B), Klub7 (B), Poet73 (B), gogoplata (B), Marianne (B), JnJ Crew (S).
Vancouver Crew: Michael Manning, flyingoctopus, Devin Wells, Prophecy Sun, Patrick Cruz.
Berlin Crew: Daniel Daoudi, Falko, Open Media Accelerator, Jaime Schwartz, Sofia, Tau, Hanna.
Seoul Crew: Udo Lee, Joon Kim, Dooho Kim.
Many thanks to our host venues: W2 Community Media Arts (Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne, Jen Castro), Platoon Cultural Development (Tom Bueschemann + Christoph Frank, Eunsung Jeon, Inseong Kim, Marcello Dato)

Photos by Christian Vagt (Berlin), Dooho Kim (Seoul) and Devin Wells (Vancouver). More photos and info about the project at graffitiresearchlab.ca

Jonathan Syme's Monument to the Dry Exchange

nospam@example.com (Kate Armstrong) — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 09:15:46 +0100

Jonathan Syme, Monument to the Dry Exchange, which opened at the FIT in mid-October.

More information here: http://blog.goethe.de/satellite/archives/81-Jonathan-Syme-at-the-FIT-October-18.html

RAW DATA - the origin for a new set of questions

nospam@example.com (Elvira Hufschmid) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:44:30 +0100

Neutrino oscillation is a term used in physics, describing an extraordinary behaviour of subatomic particles called Neutrinos. On their way from sun to earth they frequently change their state of mass and – simplistically spoken – we don´t know why that happens.
This is a short description of the physics problem that started a chain reaction of artworks, finally resulting in a real encounter of artists and physicists in the RAW DATA translation hub workshop.
The exhibition of results of the RAW DATA transformation process, displayed within the context of the international Symposium "Remaking Research" at Emily Carr University, Nov1-3, 2012, showed a multiplicity of artistic views on the specific problem.
It seems as if the artworks are "brilliant representations" (Tim Meyer) of what was formulated by Dr. Kendall Mahn, experimental physicist at TRIUMF, Canada´s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver. But could they also deliver relevant information for physicists? Is it possible to treat art as raw data and can art be re-translated into the realm of physics? Or in other words: what do we hope to discover?
These questions were discussed in a lively conversation between RAW DATA artists, curators, scientists and audience.
Besides its definite qualities in visualizing and communicating a certain topic, artworks can probably "not solve a problem" but can contribute to "surrounding" the problem (Gloria Steinem).
The artworks offer insights which might change our understanding of things but not necessarily explain them in full. In this sense RAW DATA is an open ended process where the inquiry stays discursive and unpredictable and it enters the field of possibilities from which something new may emerge.

Stay tuned for a follow up of RAW DATA.

Artist Sonnet L´Abbé´s reading her poems as a response to David Khang´s artwork. Background print: Randy Lee Cutler "The Vast Majority"

Translation Hub: Physicist Dr. Ania Kwiatowski speaks to the artists and physicists

Physicist Dr. Anadi Canepa responds to the RAW DATA artworks

Michéle Stanners (audience) in conversation with the artists and physicists

Physicist Dr. Chris Ruiz explains his view on the RAW DATA artworks

RAW DATA curators Koenig, Schild & Hufschmid with Jutta Brendemuehl (Goethe Institute Toronto), middle, and Katharina Wilhelm (German Consulate Vancouver), left.

RAW DATA EVENTS

nospam@example.com (Elvira Hufschmid) — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:58:10 +0100

Save the dates!

Opening of the exhibition:  Thursday Nov 1, 8.30pm, Concourse Gallery Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island

RAW DATA Performance Evening
Friday Nov 2, 7pm at Concourse Gallery Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
Suzi Webster, Performance 
Sonnet L´Abbé, Reading Performance
Stefan Smulovitz, Interactive Sound Composition

RAW DATA Translation Hub
Saturday Nov 3, 3-5pm Public workshop with artists & physicists,
at Concourse Gallery Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver

The results of the transformation process will be exhibited and discussed with artists and physicists in a public workshop in the context of the »ReMaking ReSearch« Conference.
In a so-called »Translation Hub« the artistic „raw data“, that is provided by the artists, is in turn to be re-translated into the scientific realm.

http://aicad.ecuad.ca/project/raw-data-project
http://www.triumf.ca/education-and-outreach/raw-data

Opening: RAW DATA: Thursday, November 1st at 8:30pm

nospam@example.com (Kate Armstrong) — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 21:47:51 +0200

Please join us Thursday, November 1st at 8:30 pm to celebrate the launch of Goethe Satellite@ Vancouver//RAW DATA.

Thursday, November 1st
8:30 pm
Concourse Gallery
Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island

See you there!

Photos from the opening of PWN the Wall

nospam@example.com (Kate Armstrong) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:30:50 +0200

Photos from the opening of PWN the Wall!

Visiting artist Dirk Fleishmann, curator Mirae Rosner, Director of Goethe Institut Toronto Sonja Griegoschewski, Consul General Hermann Sitz

Jonathan Syme at the FIT: October 18

nospam@example.com (Kate Armstrong) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:14:32 +0200

Join us Thursday October 18 for an art opening in the FIT.

Monument to The Dry Exchange utilizes the form of a shipping container
and a simple but completely altering intervention.

The shipping container is a vessel that is specifically designed to be
filled with valuable goods that are then shipped from one port to
another around the world. It is therefore a symbol of commerce and
international trade aiding directly in the production of great wealth.
Usually the container is regarded as a humble labourer but in a rich
and luxurious new skin this container is dressed for the party that it
facilitates.

Jonathan Syme graduated with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and
Design in 2003. He lives in Vancouver, BC. where he makes work
primarily focused on a painting practice combining sensitive balances
between controlled repetitive elements and expressive gestural
painterly comments, creating often-disorienting compositions of
intertwining elements and plastic spaces. Recently applying this
optically rich methodology to new sculptural and installation based
works.

For additional viewing please email fitgoetheinstitut@gmail.com to
make an appointment.

PWN THE WALL - Artists Announced

nospam@example.com (Mirae Rosner) — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:41:26 +0200

We are very happy to be able to proudly present most of the featured artists who will paint/draw/write in Vancouver, Berlin, and Seoul during our 25-hour installation PWN THE WALL. At certain hours during the installation, graf artists in all three cities will meet on interactive canvases for a visual digital-graffiti-dialog. The exact schedule is coming up soon.

Featured artists for PWN THE WALL:

ALESH ONE / DISSIZIT! (Berlin)
Cren / KD, TNB, CBR, HSF, TPA (Berlin)
gogoplata (Berlin)
JNJ CREW (Seoul)
KLUB7 (Berlin)
Marianne (Berlin)
Poet73 (Berlin)
Take 5 (Vancouver)
The Dark (Vancouver)

Goethe Satellite @ Graffiti Research Lab

PWN THE WALL
Vancouver/Berlin/Seoul

A Project by the Goethe-Institut
in cooperation with Graffiti Research Lab Canada, Graffiti Research Lab Germany, W2 Community Media Arts, Platoon Cultural Development and Revised Projects

PWN THE WALL is a 25 hour interactive digital graffiti event connecting Vancouver, Berlin, and Seoul. Created by GRL members in Canada, Germany, and South Korea, PWN THE WALL uses open-source technology to collapse geographical space through a real-time telematic exchange. Simultaneous live digital painting events in all three cities will showcase local graffiti writers. The installation is interactive and open to the public for the duration of PWN THE WALL.

12-14 October 2012

Vancouver - W2 Media Cafe, 111 W Hastings Street
Opening October 12, 9 pm - 1 am (PST)
Digital Painting Event October 12, 11 pm - 1 am
Installation Open to the Public October 12, 6 pm - October 13, 7 pm

Berlin - Platoon Kunsthalle, Schönhauser Allee 9
Digital Painting Event October 13, 11 pm (CET)
Installation Open to Public October 13, 3 am - October 14, 4 am

Seoul - Platoon Kunsthalle, Gangnam-gu Nonhyeon-dong 97-22
Digital Painting Event October 13, 11 pm (KST)
Installation Open to Public October 13, 10 am - October 14, 11 am

More Info & Updates:

Event Invite
GRL Canada
GRL Germany

RAW DATA transfer of art works by chance operation

nospam@example.com (Elvira Hufschmid) — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:37:51 +0200

Bird´s lottery

While artists of the first round were finalizing their artistic responses to the physics problem presented to them in beginning of September, a lottery was held determining the pairing of artists for the transfer of art works. Who would receive whose art work?
The names of the artists were tied to pieces of bread and spread along the busy Granville Island sea wall. The first bird to arrive and pick the bread thus made the selection of who would receive the arts transfer. The birds lottery in that sense functiones as „random number generator“ and as a metaphor mirroring chance collisions of particles.
Chosen by ornithological vote, Ingrid Koenig starts off with Stefan Smulovitz´s sound piece, Suzi Webster is now inspired by Ben Reeve`s visual works, as is Sonnet L` Abbé by David Khang´s performance video. And finally Randy Lee Cutler passed on a text work to Dennis Burke who now - with his own words - „doesn´t care about the original problem, it is not his problem, .... as he has gotten a new problem now.“   Within three weeks the second round of artists will develop their responses to the received artworks. And, like in all creative processes, the excitement lies in the unpredictability of what will unfold.

Save the dates:

Nov 1 - 3, 2012
RAW DATA at the ReMaking Research Conference Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver
http://aicad.ecuad.ca/

Nov 2, 2012 7pm
RAW DATA Performance Suzi Webster
Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver

Nov 3, 2012 3-5pm
RAW DATA Translation Hub
Public Workshop with artists & physicists
Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver

Ben Reeves and Suzi Webster

Stefan Smulovitz and Ingrid Koenig

David Khang and Sonnet L´Abbé

Randy Lee Cutler and Dennis Burke