06 May 2010

Le Grand Magasin – Symposium in Berlin, May 8, 2010

LE GRAND MAGASIN has dedicated itself to the investigation of collective forms of production. This initiative not only facilitated cooperation between artists and European cooperatives, but for over a year also operated a model department store in Berlin, for goods manufactured by producer cooperatives. In conclusion, artists and curators introduce the results of the two-year process and, with their invited guests, discuss the redefinition of the concept of work and artistic entrepreneurship.

Guillaume Bijl, Kayle Brandon, Nikolett Eross, Zsófia Frazón, Vendula Fremlová, Arne Hector & Minze Tummescheit, Christine Hill, Helmut Höge, Rafani, Katerina Katerina Seda, Katarina Sevic, Rainer Schlüter, Roswitha Scholz, Judith Siegmund, Andreas Wegner, Thomas Wulffen, Franciska Zólyom, a.o.


Program on May 8, 2010:

12:00
Welcome
Dr. Vera Baksa-Soós, chief-curator of the Moholy-Nagy Galerie, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Introduction
Dr. Dorothea Kolland, director of the Kulturamt Neukölln, Berlin

12:30
Cooperatives in Europe – travel report with slide show
Andreas Wegner, artist, Berlin and Helmut Höge, writer, Berlin

13:00
The Big Deal – dialogue
Nikolett Eross, curator, Trafó Gallery, Budapest
Franciska Zólyom, curator, Dunaújváros/Berlin

13:30 Break

14:30
On the Periphery of Concern – performative lecture
Vendula Fremlová, curator
Pavel Fric Radek Jandera Jan Pavézka Dusan Pohanka Michaela Spruzinova, students of the Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Ustí nad Labem

15:00
Untitled – Presentation of a video project
Rafani, artists' collective, Praha

15:30 – 16:00 Break

16:00
The Department Store as Art – panel discussion
Guillaume Bijl, artist, Antwerpen
Christine Hill, artist, Berlin/New York
Andreas Wegner, artist, Berlin
Moderation: art critic, Berlin

17:00
Always, for Everyone, Everything lecture and video screening
Katarina Sevic, artist, Budapest
Zsófia Frazón, cultural anthropologist, Budapest

17:30
There's No Light at the End of the Tunnel – lecture on a work in progress
Katerina Seda, artist, Praha

18.00
Between Art and Labour – panel discussion
Arne Hector & Minze Tummescheit, artists, Berlin
Judith Siegmund, artist, Berlin
Roswitha Scholz, writer, Nürnberg
Moderation: Rainer Schlüter, director Cooperatives Europe, Bruxelles

19:00 – 20:00 Break

20:00
Cube Cola Performance
Kayle Brandon, artist, Bristol

20:30
Rafani Music Production
Rafani, artists' collective, Praha


Conference languages German, English
Free entrance

Venue
Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Dorotheenstr. 12, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Tel.: +49.30.212 340-0
S+U-bahn: Friedrichstrasse; Bus, Tram: Am Kupfergraben

A project by
Bezirksamt Neukölln von Berlin, Abteilung Bildung, Schule, Kultur und Sport – Kulturamt in Kooperation mit | in cooperation with the Jan Evangelista Purkyne University, Faculty of Art and Design, Usti nad Labem, CZ; Trafó – House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; ICA, Institute for Contemporary Art, Dunaujaros, HU;
funded with support from
the European Commission, Culture Programme, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, the National Cultural Fund, Hungary, Cooperatives Europe, Bruxelles, Deutsch -Tschechischer Zukunftsfonds, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin.