ready to... almost final program, Prague

[anna balint]

Ready to...
International Conference, Exhibition, Workshop, Screenings, Performances
Prague, October 3-8, 2001

Organized by the Internationales KünstlerGremium and the Foundation and 
Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague.
On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the Internationales 
KünstlerGremium's a general meeting is being held in Prague to bring 
together artists and art practitioners from around Europe and North 
America, with the intent of building partnerships and sharing practical 
knowledge and experiences. The program of events includes a series of 
cooperative presentations, discussions, workshops, film and video 
projections and an exhibition that will introduce new approaches for 
improving the international contact network, facilitate communication and 
the exchange of information, ideas and practices in the cultural field, and 
survey new methods of presentation and theoretical study.  Participants 
include European members of the IKG, invited guest from Central and Eastern 
Europe and guest speakers.



Funding for Ready to... has been made possible through support provided by 
the Czech German Future Fund in Prague, the Open Society Foundation 
Cultural Link Program, the Goethe Institut Prag, ArtsLink program CEC 
International Partners, Ministry of Culture of Czech Republic, British 
Council, and the European Commission, Department of Education and Culture.


Ready to…is being organized by: the Internationales KünstlerGremium and the 
Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, in cooperation with the 
Goethe Institut Prag, National Gallery Prague Collection of Modern and 
Contemporary Art, Krátký Film Praha, a.s., Èeský Národní Archiv, NoD 
Experimental Space, Institute Francais  Prague,  and others.


PROGRAM (Subject to change)


Ready to…

Wednesday, October 3rd

…Light Coils  (LIVING ARCHIVES)
Venue:  Universal Space NoD , Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
Time:   7pm - 10pm

Screening of  3 works from  media archives throughout Europe and North 
America, presenting the artist's view of current social-political events 
and issues.

Videos by Woody Vasulka  (The Art of Memory 1987, The Commission 1983) and 
Chris Marker (La Jette 1962), Multimedia performance: Jeremy Bernstein 
(USA) - Bootsquad Research


Thursday, October 4th

…Art & Society
Venue:  Goethe Institute, Masarykovo nábr. 32, Prague 1
Time:   10am  1pm

A series of presentations on art education programs, facilitating creative 
partnerships between artists and educators and strengthening the arts in 
the public consciousness. Film presentation: Godfrey de Reggio (Evidence 1995)

Invited speakers:       Peter Tomasz Dobrila, (Slovinia) director of the 
Cultural Center Kibla, Maribor; Bohuslav Blažek (Prague) eco-sociologist, 
Jaroslav Vanèát (Prague) Media artist and theorist, Ute M. Reindl, 
(Germany) art critic and curator, Svetlana Ostrova (St. Petersburg) Program 
Coordinator ProArte, Alexandra Brabcová (Prague) Open Society Fund Prague, 
and others


…NETWORK
Venue:  Goethe Institute, Masarykovo nábr. 32, Prague 1
Time:   2:30pm - 6pm

A series of presentations by invited speakers that focus on different 
strategies, ideas and  experiences in building cultural networks and 
self-sustaining cross-border cultural initiatives.

Invited speakers:  Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt (Germany), editors of  an 
information and communication system on the visual arts of Africa, the 
Americas, Asia/Pacific, within the context of international art processes 
and cultural exchange; Elmar Zorn, Society Imaginaire, video-presentation: 
Art&Nature and Fundamente; Jerzy Onuch, (Kiev) Director of the Center for 
Contemporary Arts-Kiev, and Treasurer of I_CAN network;  Marta Smoliková, 
Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Open Society Fund Prague; Walter van 
der Cruisen (Amsterdam/Berlin), Media artist  and theorist; Ryszard Wasko 
(Lodz), artist and organizer, initiator of the international project 
Construction in Process;  Zeljko Blace (Zagreb), founder of the Mama Media 
Center; An Seebach (Germany) Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, project Among Others; 
and others,  moderated by Bohuslav Blažek.


Friday, October 5th

…EASTERN EXIT
Venue:  Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of 
Contemporary Art,
         Veletržní Palace, Prague 7
Time:   2pm - 5pm

Projection of video-art from Eastern European archives.


…CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT
Venue:  Universal Space NoD , Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
Time:   6pm

Exhibition opening of "suitcase" works by IKG members, Czech artists and 
invited guests from Central and Eastern Europe that focus on issues related 
to mobile societies, global art and migration.  Approximately 60 individual 
works will be contributed to the exhibition at NoD gallery.  Opening 
performance by Ben Patterson. The exhibition will be open to the public, 
between the hours of 12 noon and 10pm, until Oct. 24th


Saturday 6th, October


…BEAR TESTIMONY
Venue:  Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of 
Contemporary Art,
         Veletržní Palace, Prague 7
Time:   10:15am - 12:15am  and 1:45pm - 5:45pm

A mosaic of  individual presentations by conference guests on their views 
and reflections of remarkable and significant art and cultural events from 
recent history, form a local and international perspective.


…Videogrammes
Venue:  Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
Time:   8pm

Presentation of video works from archives from Central and Eastern Europe 
and North America that focus on the artist's view of contemporary 
social-political events and themes.

Screenings of works by: Harun Farocki - Videograms, Michael Benson - 
Prediction of Fire, Judit Kopper, Aleininkovs Brothers , sound performance 
and installation by Jens Brand (Germany)




Sunday 7th, October

…THE LIVING ARCHIVE, Symposium I.
Venue:  Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of 
Contemporary Art,
         Veletržní Palace, Prague 7
Time:   10:15am - 12:15am  and 1:45pm - 5:45pm

The Living Archive program, initiated by Chris Hill, media curator and 
professor at Antioch College, USA, will present the media archive as a 
specific cultural artifact and a critical reference point for a range of 
contemporary artists' works.  Archives give rise to discussions around 
cultural identities, social--cultural contexts, and evolving ideas about 
access to information.


…CAPTURED IMAGE
Venue:  Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
Time:   8pm - 10pm

Projection of films and videos from selected media archives from Croatia, 
Russia, Poland, Hungary, USA and Germany.



Monday 8th October

…THE LIVING ARCHIVE, Symposium II.
Venue:  Institut Francais Prag, Štìpánská 35, Prague 1
Time:   10am-12 noon and 4pm  6pm

Second part of the Living Archive symposium and workshop on the theme of 
expanding, maintaining and integrating specific media archive forms - 
presentations, discussion and projections.

Screenings will include works by Harun Farocki (Videograms), Judit Kopper 
(TV Boris & Video Misha, Hungary), experimental films by the Aleininkovs 
Brothers (Moscow, PhantomCinema), Viktora Kobrina (Moscow), Not Channel 
Zero (USA), Michael Benson (Slovenia), the Vasulka Archives,  as well as 
selections from Eastern European media collections in Moscow, Wroclow, 
Budapest, Kiev and elsewhere.

Invited speakers include: Zeljko Blace (Zagreb), Keiko Sei (Prague), Irina 
Lavrukhina (Moscow), Joanne Richardson (Rumania/USA), Chris Hill (USA), 
Judit Kopper (Budapest), Jozef Cseres (Slovakia), Michal Murin (Slovakia), 
Herwig Turk (Austria), Barbara Lattanzi (USA), Tjebbe van Tijen 
(Amsterdam), Piotr Krajewski (Wroclaw), Ales Opekar (Libri Prohibiti 
Prague), Frank Kunkel (OMA, Berlin), Paul Hookham and Stewart Wilson 
(Kensington Archives, UK), Tech 2 (UK), Mylada Balounová (Short Films 
Prague),  and  others.
Moderated by Chris Hill and Miloš Vojtìchovský





Program and schedule subject to change

Information also available on www.fcca.cz/ready





Contacts:
International KünstlerGremium
Georg Dietzler
Im Stavenhof 17, 50668 Cologne, Germany
Tel. +49 221 / 123 383, fax. 913 0663
Email: GDietzler at aol.com

Foundation and Center for Contemporary Arts-Prague
Jelení 9, 118 00 Prague 1, Germany
Tel. +420 2 / 2437 3178, Fax. 5732 0640
Email. milos at fcca.cz