ready to meeting Prague

[anna balint]

from: milos.vojtechovsky at fcca.cz


Ready to...
International Conference, Exhibition, Workshop, Screenings, Performances
Prague October 3-8, 2001
www.fcca.cz/ready

Ready to...an international event that focuses on issues of fostering, 
extending, and reframing sustainable partnerships between artists' 
initiatives mainly within the West and East Europe. Keywords: international 
networks, seminars, cooperative projects, sharing of experiences.

The conference, organized on the occasion of the IKG 25th Anniversary 
Assembly Meeting, is bringing together a diverse group of artists and art 
practitioners to examine current issues in the arts. The program aims to 
encourage partnerships and review tactical structures and channeling flow 
of experiences by means of critical interpretation of related topics, 
especially in the field of a cross-cultural framework. Talks focus on 
social-cultural issues, reflecting new approaches and seeking strategies 
for multi-lateral co-operation, art education, access to the arts. The 
conference features seminar on media and archiving as well as screenings of 
rare video and film from different collections and mediaarchives. 
Participants include European members of the IKG, invited guests from CEE 
and guest speakers.
Organized by IKG and Center for Contemporary Art Prague.

Opening event: Wednesday, October 3rd
LIGHT COILS (-LIVING ARCHIVES)

Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague www.nod.cz
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Screening of videos and films from selected media archives from Europe and 
North America, presenting the artist's view of current social-political 
events and issues.
Video by Woody Vasulka: Comission, Art of Memory & Chris Marker: La Jetee 
Multimedia performance: Jeremy Bernstein (USA)-Bootsquad Research,
www.bootsquad.com

Thursday October 4th

Art & Society
Venue: Goethe Institute, Masarykovo nábr. 32, Prague 1
10am - 1pm.
A series of presentations on art education programs, on various 
cooperations between artists and educators and on methods of raising art in 
the public awarness.
Presentations by: Peter Tomasz Dobrila, (Slovinia)-Cultural Center Kibla, 
Maribor, Bohuslav Blazek (Prague) eco-sociologist, Jaroslav Vanèát 
(Prague), Mediaartist and Theorist, Ute.M.Reindl, (Germany, Cologne), Art 
Critic and Curator, Svetlana Ostrova (Russia)-program coordinator of 
ProArte St.Petersburg, Alexandra Brabcova, (Prague), OSF- educational 
project coordinator and others.


Thursday afternoon
NETWORKS
2:30 - 6:00
Reflections on different strategies, ideas and experiences in developing 
cultural networks and cross-border cultural initiatives.
Presentations by: Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt (Berlin), editors of an 
information and communication system on the visual arts of Africa, the 
Americas, Asia/Pacific, Thomas Kaiser, (Zurich) founder of Bureau 64, an 
intercultural artists' group that focuses on cross-cultural cooperation as 
social sculpture; Elmar Zorn, Society Imaginaire (Munich); Jerzy Onuch, 
Center for Contemporary Arts-Kiev, and Treasurer of I_CAN network; Marta 
Smolikova, Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Open Society Fund Prague, 
Walter van der Cruisen, Mediaartist and Theorist, Ryszard Wasko (founder of 
Construction in Process, Lodz), Joanne Richardson (Romania/USA), media 
curator and theorist, Zeljko Blace (Croatia), founder of Mama media center 
Zagreb, An Seebach (Germany) and others.
Moderated by Bohuslav Bla¾ek.

Friday 5th October

TRUE STORIES /REAL LIES !!!cancelled!!!!
The alternative program will be announced on the website.
Symposium organized in cooperation with, and under the initiative of, the 
National Gallery Collection of Modern Art at the Veletr¾ní Palace in honor 
of Edward Hillel exhibition.

CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT
Universal Space NoD
Opening 5th October till 24th October
6:00 pm Opening performance by Ben Patterson

Experimental Social Exhibition Project of the "suitcase" works by IKG 
members, Czech artists and guests from Central and Eastern Europe that 
focuses on issues such as mobility, mundanity, tranquillity and migration.
Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
www.nod.cz

Saturday 6th October
BEAR TESTIMONY
National Gallery Prague, Veletr¾ní Palace
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45
Short presentations by IKG members and guests on remarkable and significant 
art and cultural events of recent history.
Venue: Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of Contemporary 
Art, Veletr¾ní Palace, Dukelskych hrdinu 47, Prague 7
www.ngprague.cz

VIDEOGRAMMES (Living Archives)
Universal Space NoD
8:00 pm
Performance by Jens Brand.
Screenings of works by Harun Farocki-Videogrammes, Michael 
Benson-Prediction of Fire, Judith Kopper, Aleinikovs Brothers, etc.

Sunday 7th October
THE LIVING ARCHIVE I.
National Gallery Prague, Veletrzni Palace
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45

Seminar, intiated 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, socio-cultural contexts, and evolving ideas about access to 
information.

Screenings will include works by Harun Farocki, Judith Kopper, Not Channel 
Zero, Michael Benson, Woody Vasulka etc. as well as from selected Eastern 
European media collections in Moscow, Wroclow, Budapest and elsewhere.
Speakers: Zeljko Blace (Zagreb), Keiko Sei (Brno), Irina 
Lavrushkina(Moscow), Joanne Richardson (Rumania/USA), Chris Hilll (USA), 
Milos Vojtechovsky (Prague), Judith Kopper (Budapest), Piotr Krajewski 
(Wroclow), Jozef Czeres, Michal Murin (Slovakia), Herwig Turk (Austria), 
Barbara Lattanzi, (USA), Tjebbe van Tiijen (Amsterdam), Paul Hookham & 
Stewart Wilson (GB), Ales Opekar (Prague), Frank Kunkel (Berlin) and others.

CAPTURED IMAGE (Living Archives)
Sunday 7th
Universal Space NoD
8:00 - 10 pm
Continuation of screening program.

Monday 8th October
LIVING ARCHIVE II.
Institut Francais Prag
10:00-12:00 and 4:00 - 6:00

updated info:
www.fcca.cz/ready
under construction

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 German Embassy in Prague, ArtsLink program CEC 
International Partners, British Council Prague, Ministry of Culture of 
Czech Republic, German Embassy Prague.

Ready to...is being organized by: the Internationales Kunstlergremium and 
the Center for Contemporary Art Prague, in cooperation with the Goethe 
Institut Prag, National Gallery Prague Collection of Modern and 
Contemporary Art, Krátký Film Praha, a.s., NoD Universal Space, Institute 
Francais Prague, and others.

link to IKG site
http://www.ikg-art.org

contacts:
Georg Dietzler,
Geschäftsführer des Internationalen Künstlergremiums,
Im Stavenhof 17; 50668 Köln;
Tel.: +49 - 221 - 123 383;
Fax +49 - 221 - 913 0663;
mailto:GDietzler at aol.com

Milos Vojtechovsky
Center for Contemporary Arts
Medialab
Jeleni 9
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
tel +420 2 24373178
email: milos at fcca.cz

Liz Rymland
Center for Contemporary Arts
rymland at hotmail.com