AULA INTERGALACTICA

by Yota Ioannidou & Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio

Wednesday 30th May

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Goleb, Burg. De Vlugtlaan 125

Doors: 19h30

Free Entrance

(Performance begins at 20h00)

AULA INTERGALACTICA is a research based collaboration that first began in 2009 between the artists Yota Ioannidou and Teresa María Díaz Nerio. The project’s first materialization appeared at the 3rd Athens Biennial as an archive and three performative lectures on three different historical events; the protests by indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon (the Bagua massacre of 2009) the 9 hours movement of Canada and the UK in the 19th century (one of the predecesors of the 8 hours movement), and the life of Maria Pantazi an early greek anarchist and former prostitute who was arrested and executed in Paris in 1871 (after the “defeat” of La Commune).

The performative lecture at Goleb will present the three stories together, contextualized in relation to one another and to their own historical “environments”. These events will be narrated by two voices, the dead woman and nobody.

AULA INTERGACTICA was first presented at the Athens Biennial 2011 curated by Kernel as part of the project Word of Mouth, Diplareios School, 22nd October – 11th December 2011.

Yota Ioannidou was born in 1976 in Athens. She graduated with a BA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a MFA from the Dutch Art Institute, The Netherlands. Her work combines visual documentation, discussions and interviews that act to question and cross-examine phenomena triggered and maintained by various hierarchical structures for political, cultural or social reasons. Recent projects include “On the hill one happens to be sitting on”- A tribute to failure (2011) in Other possible worlds – Dictionary in Space, Art workshop/Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, “Restage Radio A” an ongoing project for the Archive-Public (2010), and the publication STRATAGEM (2009), detailing with the effects of factory relocation, de-industrialization and the consequences of contemporary economic processes. Yota Ioannidou is currently the artist in residence at Goleb.

http://www.yotaioannidou.net/

Teresa María Díaz Nerio was born in the Dominican Republic and is a researcher as well as a visual and performance artist currently living in Amsterdam. She graduated in Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie  in 2007 and received her Master’s from the Dutch Art Institute in 2009. Her research often focuses on subjects informed by the history of colonial and neocolonial invasions in the Global South, challenging the Eurocentric and US centric notions of who is who and what is what. Recent projects include the transdisciplinary roundtable and screening “BE.Bop 2012 Black Europe Body Politics” curated by Alanna Lockward at the Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin. Her collaboration with Stefanie Seibold was presented at “re.act feminism #2- a performing archive”, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria Gasteisz, Spain, curated by Beatrice Ellen Stammer and Bettina Knaup, where they performed “Travesti de Sangre” and presented the installation “Matt und Slaap wie Sneew” containing their collaborative work and Seibold’s research on Gina Pane.

http://teresadiaznerio.wordpress.com/

Project Goleb & The Crisis in Culture 50th Anniversary

Maquis

By Jeremiah Day

“This war will drag on beyond any platonic armistice.” - Rene Char

Maquis, a slide-show performance, was made in 2004 to contribute to the dialogue around the European Constitution and the 2004 Dutch Presidency of the European Union.  Originally presented at an Amsterdam squat to serve as the basis for a public discussion, the work draws heavily upon the work of Hannah Arendt.

Given the ongoing conflicts about the nature of the European project, and particular Geert Wilders’ assertion that the upcoming Dutch elections should be “about one thing: Europe,” this presentation serves not only to conclude the Arendt Crisis in Culture event, but to bring the theoretical discussions into contact with practical ones.

Goleb, Burg De Vlugtlaan 125

Performance: 20h00

For more information see: Hannah Arendt’s Crisis in Culture 50th Anniversary: Reflections, Implications, Speculations

Or see:  Facebook Invitation

Recent projects include “Aula Intergalactica” (2011) in collaboration with Teresa Maria Diaz Nerio at the Word of Mouth curated by Kernel for the 3rd Athens Biennale, the project “On the hill one happens to be sitting on”- A tribute to failure (2011) in Other possible worlds – Dictionary in Space, Art workshop/Casino Luxembourg Forum d’art contemporain, “Restage Radio A” an ongoing project for the Ärchive-Public (2010), and the publication STRATAGEM (2009), detailing the effects of factory relocation, de-industrialization and the consequences of contemporary economic processes.

http://www.yotaioannidou.net

http://archivepublic.wordpress.com

Reflections, Implications, Speculations

Presented by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and co-hosted by Goleb

16th, 17th, 18th, 19th May 2012

VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105

Goleb, Burg. De Vlugtlaan 125, Amsterdam

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More of a working session than a conference, this gathering will break open new lines of thought in the relatively under-researched terrain connecting Hannah Arendt’s work and contemporary cultural practice.

“The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance” published in 1961, was Arendt’s contribution to the debates of her time concerning avant-garde and kitsch, high and low culture. The 2011 fiftieth anniversary served as an occasion to take up this text and elaborate upon it through a series of reading-sessions and talks held last year in London, Berlin and Amsterdam. This commemorative jubileum culminates in May with a gathering of participants and speakers from the previous sessions, presented by VU University Amsterdam and co-hosted with the artist’s initiative Goleb.

The central structure will be three reading sessions in which Arendt’s “Crisis in Culture” essay will be read aloud and opened up for discussion, with each morning introduced by key authorities in the field. Accompanying the reading sessions will be two roundtable discussions – first focusing on clarifying Arendt’s work on culture and the second bringing those insights to bear upon our own present day debates.  Additionally, VU  Research Masters students will present some of their ongoing work around the subject and the event will be launched with a reception and introductory presentation on Arendt by Jeremiah Day.

All events are open to the public, with no advance preparation required for participating in the reading sessions.

Wednesday May 16th: (Hosted by VU University Amsterdam) 

• 17:30 – Tour #1 – The Former Van Heutsz Monument – Svea Juergenson – to avoid the common disconnection between symposium and their situ, and to share in the ongoing projects by VU Research Master’s students, two short walking tours will be offered parallel to the program.  The first is a case study of art’s capacity to both reflect and obscure history.  Meeting point: VU main entrance.

• 19:00 – Launch Reception and Introductory Presentation – VU Kerksaal – 16th floor.  Held in the University Chapel, with a panoramic view of the whole city, this informal reception will be hosted by Jeremiah Day, including a presentation of Ines Schaber’s “Revolution, Violence and Power: A Correspondence – Hannah Arendt and Hans Jurgen Benedict.”

Thursday May 17: (Hosted by Goleb)

• 11:00 AM – Reading Session 1, introduced by Jeremiah Day: “Pop Culture, Kitsch Criticism”

• 16:00 – Forum on Arendt and Culture – with Fred Dewey, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, Wolfgang Heuer, and Gertrud Sandqvuist - Arendt is known as the thinker of revolution – how are we to understand her work on culture and its relation to her broader project?

Friday May 18: (Hosted by Goleb)

• 11:00 AM – Reading Session 2, with an introductory dialogue between Fred Dewey and Wolfgang Heuer: “The Importance of Culture for Hannah Arendt”

• 15:00 – Tour #2 Amsterdam New-West – Roel Griffioen (VU) and Taf Hassam (co-founder of Goleb) take up the landscape surrounding Goleb as an artefact of utopian urban planning and contemporary cultural struggle.

Saturday May 19: (Hosted by Goleb)

• 12:00 PM – Reading Session 3, introduced by Susannah Gottlieb and Getrud Sandqvist

• 16:00 – Forum II – the title of Arendt’s text – ‘crisis in culture’ – might apply well to our own time: what implications, speculations and points of departure can be made from Arendt’s work to our contemporary debates and practical problems?  This final session serves not to conclude, but rather to open up new questions and lines of thought.  Responses by Jeremiah Day, Fred Dewey, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, Wolfgang Heuer, Elena Loizidou, Gertrud Sandqvuist, and Michael Schultze.
• 20:00 – Performance – Maquis by Jeremiah – Given the ongoing conflicts about the nature of the European project, and particular Geert Wilders’ assertion that the upcoming Dutch elections should be “about one thing: Europe,” this presentation serves not only to conclude the Arendt Crisis in Culture event, but to bring the theoretical discussions into contact with practical ones. http://projectgoleb.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/19th-may-maquis-by-jeremiah-day

Post-script event: Monday May 21: (Hosted by the Cultural Embassy at the Lloyd Hotel)

• 20:00 - Benefit to Save the Arts – a project by Angela Bartholomew along with launch party for VU Research Masters publications.

Featured contributors:

* Fred Dewey – Writer, publisher, and teacher, developed the Arendt reading group method in Los Angeles, where he also helped place neighborhood councils on the city charter. He directed Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Centre (in LA) 1995-2010 and has written A Polis for New Conditions, a pamphlet.

*Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb – Professor of English, Northwestern University, Chicago. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden and the editor of Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture.

*Taf Hassam – Artist, organizer, founding member of Goleb, Amsterdam. Recent projects include f.i.r.e.i.n.c.a.i.r.o. and the lecture series (Self) Conscious Over You both appeared as part of We Are The Time: Art Live in the Age of Global Transition, conference-week, Gerrit Rietveld Academie.

*Wolfgang Heuer – Teaches political philosophy at Free University, Berlin, Founder of HannahArendt.net – A Journal of Political Thinking, and co-curator of the Hannah Arendt Denkraum, Berlin 2006.

*Elena Loizidou – Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Birkbeck College. She is the author of Judith Butler: Ethics, Law, Politics. She is currently working on a book Anarchism an art of living, an edited collection Disobedience:concept/theory and is a regular contributor to the blog Critical Legal Thinking.

*Gertrud Sandqvuist – Curator, critic; Professor of Art Theory and Dean, Malmo Art Academy, Lund University.

*Michael Schultze – Artist, curator and founding member of General Public, Berlin. Hosted General Public’s 2011 “Crisis in Culture” reading and lecture series. Schulze’s interdisciplinary art practice has been presented in such venues as the 4th Berlin Biennial and Centre d’art Brest. He is presently at work on a novel.

*With contributions from VU Research Master’s:

Angela Bartholomew, Svea Juergenson, Roel Griffioen, Vincent Van Velsen

Organized by Jeremiah Day

Currently pursuing a Doctorate of Arts in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam and MaHKU, a pilot project supported by Mondriaan Fonds/NWO.

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VU University Amsterdam is located at De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam-South.  Public transport – tram 5, 16, 24 and metro-line 51 – and a short walk from the Amsterdam-South (Zuid) train station.

Goleb is located at Burg. De Vlugtlaan 125, in Amsterdam New-West.  Public transport – tram 7 or 14, stop “Burg. De Eliasstraat.”

*Special thanks to the VU Faculteit der Letteren for their generous support and making this event possible. 

*For questions or reservations please contact: golebreadinggroup@hotmail.com or visit http://projectgoleb.wordpress.com

The Foreign Legion are a creative group made up of designers, architects, event managers, artists, musicians, and dancers (to name but a few), who offer their services for free, with the simple idea and desire to make the world “a better and more beautiful place.” Taking their name for the reason that “anyone can join”, and rather than seeing their approach as naïve, the group’s main aim is to free creativity from the restraints of commercial and economic factors by actively searching out creatives and would-be-clients who share the group’s core values.

“Our idea is for no property. It should be accessible and free for everybody. If you give an idea freely you will always enable it to develop. To realize this accessibility of information we make sure that every project is free to download with all necessary files to rebuild or sample.

Use it as it is or make it better.

The Foreign Legion are involved in all creative fields. We consist of designers, architects, event managers, artists, musicians, dancers and more. We want to help you with your idea but we also would like you to become a part of us.  You can join by exchanging, ideas, materials or even contributing with your own workmanship. But you can also ask us for help.

Every project we do – we do it for free.

Need help? Call the Foreign Legion!

There is no project we won’t put all our skills, passion and time into.

Today can be better than yesterday and there is always a possibility for change. Yes we are dreamers and yes we believe that the world is great, but that just makes it worth fighting for.”

-       From a statement by The Foreign Legion (2012)

www.foreign-legion.net

Nothing Wrong With Being Radical

Lecture(s) with Brian Holmes & Rick van Amersfoort (Buro Jansen & Janssen)

(Fragment from) The Revelation of the Concealed by Renée Ridgway, 2012

Tuesday 17th April @ 19:30

Goleb, Burg. De Vlugtlaan 125, Amsterdam

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Goleb is pleased to announce Nothing Wrong With Being Radical, an evening of lectures with guest speakers Brian Holmes and Rick van Amersfoort.

Brian Holmes is an art and cultural critic whose blog Continental Drift (the other side of neoliberal globalisation) acts as an archive for his texts and reflects a series of seminars Holmes carried out with various people throughout the world, including the notorious self-organized New York art space 16 Beaver Group. For this event Holmes will be discussing his new line of enquiry on the subject of Technopolitics, entitled Crisis Theory for Complex Societies. This project aims to map the multiple forces that come together to bring about societal change. (See below for a full abstract on the evening’s lecture).

Brian’s talk will be accompanied with a lecture by Buro Janssen & Jansen researcher, Rick van Amersfoort. Buro Janssen & Jansen are an organisation who utilize the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to critically investigate the police, justice, secret services and home affairs in Holland and the European Union. Van Amersfoort will be discussing a recent project that addresses the de-radicalization of the Counter Culture in Western Europe since the fall of the Berlin wall.

The evening will also serve as the Amsterdam book launch for The Relevation of the Concealed, Politics (in)forms: Freedom of Information Act Results (WOB/FOIA) by Renée Ridgway. With contributions by Freek Lomme, Simon Ferdinando and Rick van Amersfoort.

Information, books, discussions and drinks will be available at the bar.

Tickets: €4 (suggested)

Organized by Renée Ridgway + Taf Hassam

Supported by Goleb

Crisis Theory for Complex Societies
Technopolitics research project by Brian Holmes

How do societies change? We know that capitalism develops in forty-to-sixty year cycles, bookended by great crashes and periods of stagnation. Technologies and relations of production are transformed along with modes of government and social reproduction. New patterns of trade and international relations emerge on the geopolitical level. Ten or fifteen years later, people look back and realize: “That was a turning point. The world is different now.” Such a change has been experienced in living memory, with the turmoil of the late sixties/early seventies that ushered in neoliberalism. Why should we wait for fifteen years to find out what will emerge from the current crisis? By bringing together the work of the technological innovation school, the regulation approach and world-systems theory, this project aims to map out the interrelations between multiple fields of societal transformation. The aim is strategic: understanding sharpens the capacity for intervention. The presentation will offer a rapid overview of the theoretical framework and the work in progress.

Brian Holmes is a cultural critic, living in Chicago after 20 years in Paris. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, was the English editor of publications for Documenta X, was a member of the editorial collective of the French journal Multitudes from 2003 to 2008, and has published a collection of texts on art and social movements entitled Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art & Politics in a Networked Era (Zagreb: WHW, 2002); Unleashing the Collective Phantoms: Essays in Reverse Imagineering (New York: Autonomedia, 2007); and Escape The Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society (Eindhoven and Zagreb: Vanabbemuseum/WHW, 2009). In 2009, Holmes was awarded the Vilém Flusser Prize for Theory at Transmediale in Berlin.

Rick van Amersfoort is a researcher at Buro Jansen & Janssen. Jansen & Janssen publishes a quarterly newsletter, books, magazines, reports and numerous websites that make visible Buro Jansen & Janssen’s research and engagement with the public: http://www.openbaarheid.nl, http://www.openheid.nl, http://justitievrijheidenveiligheid.nl, http://www.preventieffouilleren.nl, http://www.identificatieplicht.nl. Van Amersfoort has lectured at museums and institutions: Van Abbe Museum (2010), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2008), Casco Projects (2009), Fort Asperen (2011) and at universities and conferences in the Netherlands, Europe and abroad. For the past 10 years he has also worked as an experimental videographer, traveling through Africa, Asia and Latin America, conducting interviews with local people about their situations and concerns in relation to transnational companies.

Links

http://brianholmes.wordpress.com (Text archive)

http://www.burojansen.nl

http://www.16beavergroup.org

http://onomatopee.net/project.php?progID=a26eba64bcae87f77579821bbacc53c8

Recent publications include: ‘Shaping the City of Tomorrow’, with Lisa Goudsmit, XOXO The Mag; ‘From Glass to One-Way Glass. Shifting Meanings of Transparency, Openness and Privacy in Architecture’, Open (2011) 22, pp. 130-143 (English edition); ‘Imaging Purity. The rhetoric of the photographic image in Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture’, Kunstlicht 32 (2011) 3, pp. 12-23; ‘Het glazen huis. Privacy en openbaarheid in de vroegnaoorlogse stad’, Kunstlicht 32 (2011) 1/2, pp. 64-75; ‘Fuck the System’, Kunstlicht 32 (2011) 4 (essay on the epistemological structures that man builds in order to understand the world).

A recent project of Griffioen’s has been the incidental newspaper ‘WEST’, covering events, critical reflections, and facts about the neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Nieuw-West. During his residency at Goleb and working alongside residents Taf Hassam and Kaja Wie van der Pas, Griffioen will begin developing a brief socio-political history of the neighbourhood. The project aims to develop A Goleb Guide book, tracing the original ideologies of transparency that were crystalized in the architecture and urban design of the neighbourhood in comparison to the transformation that Nieuw-West is currently undergoing; from the ‘open city’ to the ‘city of security.’ The guidebook will later be freely available for the future residents and guests of Goleb.

http://soireeovervlakkee.hotglue.me

F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O.

We Are The Time:
Art Lives in the Age of Global Transition.

Conference-festival week at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie

12^th – 16^th March 2012

F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. will be running daily 13h30 to 19h30

http://wearethetime.info

www.fireincairo.org

F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. is a Live Radio/Event space inspired, in part, by the renowned Belfast independent record label, Good Vibrations. The project is a collaboration with the artist-run space Goleb, the UK community radio station Soundart Radio (102.5FM), and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie’s very own Radio Rietveld.

http://projectgoleb.wordpress.com

http://www.soundartradio.org.uk

http://radio.rietveldacademie.nl

Art and music have long contributed to society and our way of life. But in these dire financial times where media has been swallowed by giant conglomerates, and culture has fallen under the scrutinizing eye of market capitalism; where is the unifying space that announces its difference to the prescribed status quo?

Throughout the history of popular culture this collective space, occurring both physically and conceptually, has been a hub of creativity, exploring new and old technologies and giving birth to new sounds and new vibrations.

In Belfast, caught between the conflicts of its time, it was a little known record shop and label called Good Vibrations. Achieving its fame for producing the first record ever to be played twice in a row on British airwaves, it was primarily a project that recognized the potential of music to be a unifying force.

A little over a year ago it appeared that the Internet, with its use of social media, could be the free space where this difference could be heard; the apparent spark that lit the fires of the provincial town of Sidi Bouzid, which later reverberated to the cities of Cairo, London and New York.

With the recent censorship laws being proposed on the Internet, our question as a group has been: If we could freely express ourselves, what kind of vibrations would we want to send out there? The workgroup responded with a song by The Cure, F.I.R.E.I.N.C.A.I.R.O. which after all is an intense love song.

Throughout the week, different radio programs will take place with a variety of guests and a range of live musical acts.

The entire project will be broadcasted as a Live Feed through the Radio Rietveld website, and will also appear on the UK community radio station Soundart Radio (102.5FM)

Follow the week’s events on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/FIREINCAIRO/374246752600653

The entire project will also be streamed live on

www.fireincairo.org

The streams will later be accessible through an archive on the website.

Tutors: Taf Hassam / Renée Ridgway

Coordination/Radio Hosting

Taf Hassam (UK), Kaja Wie Van Der Pas (NO), Maria Guggenbichler (DE)

Radio / Newspaper / Design

Andre D Chapatte, Carina Erdmann, Charline Tuma, David Hermans, Gintare Kerbelyte, Julie Hénault, Lilia Luganskaia, Lotte Voets, Mads Wildgaard, Marius Jopen, Melissa Tun Tun, Mickael Marman, Mio Fujimaki, Noga Harel, Øjan Døsen, Pernilla Roos, Raoul Audouin, Sabo Day, Stefan Auberg, YURI AN, Vytautus Volbekas

House Band

Gerard Barry (IRE) + Charlie Stewart-Liberty (IRE)

Guests

Natasha Ginwala, Simon Ferdinando, Roel Griffioen, Chicago Boys, Anastasija Pandilovska + Jakob Ehrlich, Jessica Dill, Yutaka Hoshino, Stefan Wharton, Brian D McKenna, Jonathan Mikkelsen, Johann Kauth + Hannah Giese (Hallo Gallo), Laser Poodle, Little Birth + Radio Contributions from: Hiwa K, Hong-Kai Wang, LAL Featuring Leah Piepzna Simarasinha, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Low Profile, Mercedes Azipilicueta, Rana Hamadeh, Serena Lee, The Ska Vengers, and Many More…

Special thanks to

Renée Ridgway, Gabriëlle Schleijpen, Alena Alexandrova, Jort van der Laan, Anna Hoetjes, Joris Lindhout, Kristina Mirova, Lost Property http://lostproperty.cx, Mark Kremer, & Seamus Cater

We Are The Time:

Drawing inspiration from The Role of a Lifetime (2003), a work by artist and filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius WE ARE THE TIME will explore the role of lifetime and life experience as a crucial source of ideas and inspirations, as a force that shapes ones’ art practice. Life experience is always generated as the intersection between the personal rhythm of one’s life and the larger societal perspective. How do we position ourselves in time?  What are the decisive moments in our personal lives? What is our relation to the historical moment or context? How do we weave them into our life-narratives? The reflection on historical moments and situations together with one’s personal experience converge into a generative force that searches form in a work of art, an image, a gesture or informs one’s entire practice. The work of art becomes thinking history out loud.

From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street – we are witnessing a desire for transition, but its direction is still open. This momentum belongs to the youngest generation of artists who will contribute to it with their work and shape it with the way they form fleeting communities. Can we imagine our lives and our work after twenty years?

With the advent of digital technologies and new regimes of representation, the rapid changes in our media-environment suggest very different ways of relating to the materiality of images and to their veracity. The network condition we live in, offers unprecedented possibilities to have simultaneous and multiple perspectives on events with social and historical significance. This implies a very different mode of historicizing, of writing down our memories. It is in this vortex of eventfulness we have to find ourselves again.

http://wearethetime.info

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Hallo Gallo in collaboration with Project Goleb

ANGELS IN AMERICA + CITY HANDS +

BRIAN D MCKENNA

Monday March 5th

20h30 – 00h00

Free Entrance. (Blue door on the right)

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ANGELS IN AMERICA (NY, USA)

Angels in America is the duo of Moppy Pont and Merv Glisten, based in New York. Filthy electronics in the footsteps of Throbbing Gristle with a damaged pop side, almost always falling apart with lyrics spun from some poet head zone. Their first tape “Cunt Tree Grammar” was re-released through Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label.

CITY HANDS (Den Haag)