Marion von Osten on Mon, 17 Jan 2000 20:35:39 +0200 |
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Happy New 2000 to all of you! I like to inform you about our meeting next weekend in Vienna. Yours Marion ------------------------------ INVITATION ------------------------------ INFO-TALK MoneyNations 2000 kunsthalle exnergasse Vienna ------------------------------ starting at 17.00 Saturday 22nd of January 2000 ------------------------------ Projectpresentation / discussion of new issues and working fields / local networking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kunsthalle Exnergasse. Währingerstrasse 59. 1090 Wien. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear friends! We like to invite you to the local INFO-TALK in the kunsthalle exnergasse in the WUK Cultural Center, (Währingerstrasse 59, 1090 Wien) at 17.00, Saturday the 22nd of January. We are interested to start a new colaborative frame for the next public presentation of the MoneyNations project in middle October 2000 in the kunsthalle exnergasse. You are welcome to join our discussions and the correspondent network: http://www.moneynations.ch the Info-Talk was initiated and will be presented by: Jochen Becker (critic, Berlin), Micz Flor (mediaartist, Vienna), Rike Frank (curator, Vienna), Marion von Osten (artist/author, Berlin), Peter Spillmann (artist/author Zurich) with our special guests from the correspondent net: Jennifer de Felice (curator, Brno), Susanna Perin (artist, Zurich/Rome) ------------------------------------------------------------------ info: MoneyNations The concept of Eurocentrism has been alluded to in the past years again and again as a reprimand for the conception of a hegemonic Western culture. Traditionally European identity was established in opposition to the "Big Others": Africa, USA, Japan, Asia and the Orient. This identity was defined by focussing on the particularities of its cultural traditions, in order to depreciate those of the "Others" at the same time. In the first part of the project initiated by the Shedhalle Zurich, the redefinition of the "big Other", the former Eastern Bloc, in relation to the constitution of a Western European Union as a "fortress", and its contemporary economic policy were of main interest. The aim of MoneyNations is to broaden already existing critical actions like the "Kein Mensch ist illegal" (Nobody is illegal) campaign, which developed from the Documenta X or the "Innenstadtaktionen" (Innercity Actions), which grew from the critical cultural field in Germany. MoneyNations@access unlike the other projects and campaigns, focussed on an active dialogue between Middle, Central and Southern European producers, to discuss the question of representational politics in the perception of the so called EAST, and its meaning for the construction of the border, new nationalism and low-wage production locations. MoneyNations was anounced via Internet. The textual and visual contributions, as well as reports form the "correspondent net", are published in the WebZine http://www.moneynations.ch and in a special MoneyNations printedition ?The Correspondent". The exchange process brought about video productions for the MoneyNationsTV network, as well as photographic work, installations, theoretical texts and reports. The theoretical approaches were part of the 'Border Economies' conference in Zurich. MoneyNations 2000 During the last year the project was continued in some of the cities participating in several meetings and conferences. It will be represented again in the Kunsthalle Exnergasse, in october 2000 in Vienna. The geographical and political situation of Vienna and Austria will be a starting point for new discussions about the dynamics of EU-normalization and integration processes. Before this background our outlook for the future of the project is to reflect much more on the emerge of racist politics and gendered geographies inside and outside the EU, as well as on the shifting concepts of center and periphery, the formal/informal etc. The e-mail address moneynations@access.ch is a mailing list where the correspondents, and an interested public, can subscribe their texts and comments. For more information, or to be part of the MoneyNationsTV pogramm and the correspondentnetwork please mailto: mailto:majordomo@access.ch and write subsribe moneynations . To order the MoneyNations printversion, or videos please fax to Shedhalle Zurich 0041 1 481 5951 or send e-mail to shedhalle@access.ch, or marionvonosten@gmx.ch. ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress