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Thursday March 5 at 7 pm. Conversation between Lisa Rosendahl and Elisabeth Millqvist. Location: the lobby at Magasin 3
An in depth conversation about Santiago Sierra’s artistry between Lisa Rosendahl, curator and director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby and exhibition curator Elisabeth Millqvist. Lisa Rosendahl has worked with Sierra numerous times.Santiago Sierra is an artist who leaves no one unmoved, and he is seen both as provocative and controversial. The conversation deals with the issues that comes up when working with Sierra.
Lisa Rosendahl is the director of the Baltic Art Center in Visby. As a curator she has worked with Santiago Sierra in the production of GROUP OF PERSONS FACING THE WALL AND PERSON FACING INTO A CORNER (2002) and POLYURETHANE SPRAYED ON THE BACKS OF 10 WORKERS (2004). Together with Daniel McClean she is co-curator for the project Exchange: Sites of Negotiation in Contemporary Art including Sierra’s site specific work DEATH COUNTER (2009) for Hiscox Insurance Group in London.
Wednesday March 18 at 7 pm. Program evening, the Sierra exhibition will be open 5 pm-7 pm. Lecture by Stellan Vinthagen in the lobby of Magasin 3.
Lecture by Stellan Vinthagen: Creativity as resistance; on the research about resistance and the resistance’s practical creativity
Ph D Stellan Vinthagen, senior lecturer in sociology and resistance activist in several resistance movements. Stellan teaches and does research on resistance techniques, tectics and strategies within social movements, action groups and among individuals in Sweden and the so called Third world. He is co-editor for the publication ‘Motstånd’ (released in April 2009 on Liber), and one of the founders to the global research network Resistance Studies (www.resistancestudies.org) and action project Ship to Gaza.
Thursday April 2, 7pm–10pm. Film evening.
Film evening at Magasin 3 in relation to the exhibition "iloveyouihateyou". Classical experimental films selected by chief curator Richard Julin. The films will be shown on a 16 mm projector. The screening starts at 7pm. Be on time! Café and bar. The exhibition "iloveyouihateyou" will remain open during the evening. Free admission.
"The program consists of personal favorites within experimental film. The ambition is to show films from different time periods and to highlight a number of artists and films that never or rarely have been shown in Sweden before. These films are before their time, some of them produced by the most renowned underground legends. The program has a tempo that moves from ultra-fast clips to slow motion - from silent film to an intense remix of the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird" and its sound track"
/Richard Julin
FILM PROGRAM:
Rose Lowder, BOUQUET 1 , 1995
Len Lye, Trade Tattoo, 1937
Mary Menken, GO GO GO, 1962-64
Jonas Mekas, Award presentation to Andy Warhol, 1964
Abigail Child , Covert Action. Part 5 of Is This What You Were Born For?, 1984
Martin, Arnold, Passage a l'acte, 1993
Rose LOWDER , Bouquet 10, 1995
Total length 52 min
Friday May 8 at 5pm. Lecture by Daniel McClean in the lobby of Magasin 3
"Art’s engagement with the law: from faking suicide to counting deaths"
Art may test the limits of social, moral and legal acceptance. Daniel McClean will through current as well as examples from the 16th century art world speculate on what the co-existence of these models of artistic production/distribution within contemporary culture says about art, the law and the relationship between them. Works by Santiago Sierra will be a natural part of the lecture.
McClean will in his lecture present how different moments in contemporary artistic production and distribution are linked to the law. He will identify and discuss three main models: the transgressive model where the law is intentionally transgressed by the artist through the artwork; the protective model where art has not been created deliberately to engage with the law, but the law is invoked by artists or galleries generally as claimants in order to protect art at some stage, and the operational model where the law is used often playfully as a tool by artists to be incorporated into the artwork and to reflect upon the rules that govern the social, economic, aesthetic and legal spheres and the law as a form of social power.
Daniel McClean is a lawyer specialising in art law, intellectual property law and medial law, practising at Withers LLP (London and New York). He acts for leading international artists and galleries including recently, the Haunch of Venison gallery against the UK Customs authorities. He has edited two publications, ”The Trials of Art” (2007) and ”Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture” (2002). He is also an independent curator. His most recent exhibitions is ”Offer and exchange: sites of negotiation in contemporary art” (2007-2008), co-curated with Lisa Rosendahl and produced by Electra.
Lecture by Johan Grimonprez
Thursday May 28th at 6pm in the lobby at Magasin 3
As a point of departure for his talk, Grimonprez will use a work, the so called YouTube-o-theque, that is shown in the lobby at Magasin 3. This collection of video clips taken from the Internet’s endless flow of information, illustrate his interest in how media influences our perception of reality. Starting with this general theme of interest Grimonprez will then mainly focus on the making of his newest film Double Take that is on display at Magasin 3 until June 7. The lecture will be held in English.
