Syndicate: MoneyNations 2000/Meeting in Vienna/Invitation

[Marion von Osten <marionvonosten@gmx.ch>]

Happy New 2000 to all of you!
I like to inform you about our meeting next weekend in Vienna.
Yours Marion

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INVITATION
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INFO-TALK
MoneyNations 2000
kunsthalle exnergasse Vienna
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starting at 17.00
Saturday 22nd of January 2000
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Projectpresentation /  discussion of new issues and working fields / local
networking
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Kunsthalle Exnergasse. Währingerstrasse 59. 1090 Wien.
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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)
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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.


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