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>Envelope-to: krystian@snafu.de >Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:00:00 +0100 >From: Matthieu LAURETTE <matthieu@laurette.net> >Reply-To: matthieu@laurette.net >Organization: Global Demix iHome Studio http://www.laurette.net >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 (Macintosh; I; PPC) >X-Accept-Language: en >Subject: S O C I A L H A C K E R S : part 2 > >S O C I A L H A C K E R S P A R T 2 > >G u n i l l a K l i n g b e r g (SE) / M a t t h i e u L a u r e >t t e (FR) > >November 9 - December 3, 2000 >Welcome to the opening on Wednesday November 8th, 5-7 p.m. > >M u u G a l l e r y , H e l s i n k i , F i n l a n d > > >-- > >[ press release ] > >S O C I A L H A C K E R S >Series of three collaborative projects at Muu Gallery >PART 1 : Jeremy Deller (UK) / Karl Holmqvist (SE) >October 12 - November 4, 2000 >PART 2 : Matthieu Laurette (FR)/ Gunilla Klingberg (SE) >November 9 - December 3, 2000 >PART 3 : Plamen Dejanov and Swetlana Heger (AT) / Jarno Jokinen and >Katja Valanne (FI) >December 8 - 23, 2000 > >Curators : Cristina Ricupero and Paula Toppila > >Social Hackers consists in a series of three exhibitions to take place >at >the artist run gallery MUU in Helsinki in the fall 2000. Each exhibition > >project involves a confrontation or a collaboration between an artist >from >the Nordic region and one from continental Europe. This series of >projects >deal with various phenomena in the field of contemporary art that both >comments and analyses social and political issues. These works relate >strongly to the communication system and power structures in society >problematising both the system and its message. The artists to be >presented >in Social Hackers use everyday familiar codes from the all-around >advertisement, information flow, television, newspapers and magazines. >But >they use these signs innovatively, subverting their original message and > >context, making fun of these through literal interpretations of the >messages and bringing art into the very focus of different contexts - >consumerism, commercialism and manipulation. > >In addition to the use of the gallery space (as described above) a >project >initiated by the artist Brett Bloom from Chicago entitled Dispensing >with >Formalities will also be presented Outside the gallery in the cityscape. > >This art project consists of dispensers situated in a public space in >the >city which includes artists' projects designed to be delivered for free >to >the audience. Each of the two individual artists performing in the >gallery >will also develop a project for the dispenser in Helsinki. > >-- > >S O C I A L H A C K E R S P A R T 2 >Matthieu Laurette (FR)/ Gunilla Klingberg (SE) >November 9 - December 3, 2000 > >For the second edition of the series " Social Hackers " we shall >introduce >Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg from Sweden and Matthieu Laurette from >France. Gunilla Klingberg will show a computer animation commenting on >the >consumer society and the numbing effect of consumerism via the multitude >of >signs and symbols, ads and slogans that surround us. Matthieu Laurette >dedicated all of his budget in acquiring lottery cards that will be >scratched-out by persons in an assembly line, under his direction, >during >the opening, in an Alvar Aalto environment. This time, will he win or >loose >his public funds? > >SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTISTS > >Gunilla Klingberg (b.1966) Stockholm >Gunilla Klingberg is a Swedish artist that has demonstrated an ongoing >interest in urban iconography, it's manifestations and effects. She has >examined very familiar logotypes from everyday situations that are found >in >the city, shopping areas and on television. Her work strongly reflects >the >site and the city where she is exhibiting. She produces a sharp, >critical >point of view of our ever more commercialised society commenting on the >numbing effect of the multitude of signs and symbols, ads and slogans >that >surround us. Her contribution for Social Hackers in Helsinki is a new >computer animation. > >Matthieu Laurette (b. 1970), Paris >Matthieu Laurette explores the mass-communication system by using the >media >to broadcast the "instructions for use" of his own parallel economy. >Throughout many of his projects, Matthieu Laurette has wanted to change >the >way productions budgets are usually spent, always taking into >consideration >the specific processes and economic reality of the city where he >exhibits. >Most recently, for example, for a project he did in Bilbao, he decided >to >invest his production budget in buying a new car that all the >inhabitants >from this city could acquire by exchanging it with a new product through >a >television program. In Italy, he chose to bet his production budget on >the >result of the final match of the European Football Championship, France >x >Italy, that took place on the same day of his opening (he lost). > >-- >Social Hackers is generously supported by: Finnish Cultural Fund, >Swedish >Finnish Cultural Foundation, British Council, IASPIS International >Artists' >Studio Programme in Sweden, Ministry of Education, PRO AV Saarikko, >Nifca >helps with the accomodation of the artists and with some furniture. >-- >For further information, please contact : Cristina Ricupero, mobile >phone : >+33-6117624 criric@hotmail.com Paula Toppila, email : >paula.toppila@frame-fund.fi, tel/fax. +358-9-8601236 or +358-50 60268 >Muu Gallery, Lönnrotinkatu 15, 00120 Helsinki, tel. puh/tel >+358-9-611435, >Opening hours: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16 > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Global Demix iHome Studio : http://www.laurette.net >/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// > > > We apologize if this message has reached you in error. > > We apologize for crossposting. > > To be removed from this mailing list, send an email to: >mailinglist@laurette.net ---------------------------------------------------------- # 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