tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17538435810101532552024-03-12T19:37:20.307-07:00Anne KlontzDaniele Balithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07864577739624908666noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-400619077885122712011-01-26T00:01:00.001-08:002011-01-26T02:10:22.068-08:00The Quantum Police in Brussels, BelgiumValerie Lambert Gallery in Brussels, Belgium hosted the culmination of Quantum Police (QP) events which also took place in Stockholm, Sweden and Wuhan, China. The gallery provided a unique atmosphere for the presentation of both research about this mysterious, yet international group of participants and for the experience of art as it is both part living space and part gallery space.<br /><br />The upper floor presented research to include the earliest known beginnings and inspiration behind QP--<em>The Quantum Law Manifesto </em>(1969) written by Johnny Ross and Willie Hansen. Viewers were then introduced to a timeline of various details that introduced four known QP enthusiasts; American artist Charlie White, an (anonymous) Swedish woman; Chinese author Wang Xiao Ping and an elderly French gentleman (now deceased) known as Manu. Their histories were illustrated through interviews transcribed on to musical scores that were spread along the walls of this room. Two display cases presented artifacts and memorabilia gathered and shared from these sources especially for the event.<br /><br />In the downstairs area, artist Per Huttner created a site-specific experience that was as mysterious and anonymous as any true QP action. Walking into what is normally a two-room exhibition space, the viewer could only proceed as far as the first room up to a doorway made from horizontal panes of mirror that were lit up from behind by powerful halogen lamps. Behind this facade of mirror, one could hear a one-sided conversation of a man answering a phone call from a distressed individual. The sound of this conversation could also be heard outside on street level.<br /><br />Also during the evening, Belgian sound artist Patrick Thinsy performed a unique sound scape created from a recorded interview with the Swedish woman. Outside, novels roasted on a grill ( a signature trademark of QP) providing fuel to cook sausages for the visitors.<br /><br />Where will The Quantum Police appear next? The answer remains yet to be announced.<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_yBUDWcoI/AAAAAAAAACE/BgoJiY21ft0/s1600/opening_lowres.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_yBUDWcoI/AAAAAAAAACE/BgoJiY21ft0/s320/opening_lowres.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566433768829776514" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_x5RP9icI/AAAAAAAAAB8/jgqs6-7DO3Q/s1600/display%2Bcase_lowres.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_x5RP9icI/AAAAAAAAAB8/jgqs6-7DO3Q/s320/display%2Bcase_lowres.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566433630638410178" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_wqhhcwSI/AAAAAAAAABk/LbJ4nz-Wp9I/s1600/room_low%2Bres.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_wqhhcwSI/AAAAAAAAABk/LbJ4nz-Wp9I/s320/room_low%2Bres.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566432277797060898" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_yUNcIuaI/AAAAAAAAACM/qOm6vYMs79A/s1600/outside_lowres.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 193px; height: 288px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TT_yUNcIuaI/AAAAAAAAACM/qOm6vYMs79A/s320/outside_lowres.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5566434093472201122" /></a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-45149637226000888652010-12-15T11:14:00.000-08:002010-12-15T11:18:22.260-08:00The Quantum Police Take Over StockholmNo amount of snow or cold could keep Quantum Police devotees away from coming to the unique surrounding of <a href="http://www.dktus.org/">Dktus</a> to experience music, action and grilled hot dogs roasting over burning whodunit novels. <br /><br />Below you can find images from the event as well as a video of the performance by Per Huttner and musician/DJ Jean-Louis Huhta.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-fPSLBuI/AAAAAAAAABM/509zUJVq0pY/s1600/QP_Dktus_5.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548996028529313506" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-fPSLBuI/AAAAAAAAABM/509zUJVq0pY/s320/QP_Dktus_5.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-e0cnDUI/AAAAAAAAABE/lSJh1-27p2Y/s1600/QP_Dktus_4.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 214px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548996021325335874" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-e0cnDUI/AAAAAAAAABE/lSJh1-27p2Y/s320/QP_Dktus_4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-emtp4JI/AAAAAAAAAA8/uH18W1Fp-zc/s1600/QP_Dktus_2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 199px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548996017638727826" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-emtp4JI/AAAAAAAAAA8/uH18W1Fp-zc/s320/QP_Dktus_2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_v_mePrOJdLs/TQH-etydWOI/AAAAAAAAAA0/2ip7SzKncVU/s1600/QP_Dktus.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; 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My trip was made in order to explore possible ways that Vision Forum can expand and welcome its network to include other Nordic countries.<br /><br />It was an exhilarating experience to cross the water into a country so close to Sweden, yet so different in its approach to art. This observation could be dependent on the artists I met and whose works I saw, but truly there was a different tone that I haven't quite formulated into words just yet. So for now I share with you my journey and introduce the people and art I had the opportunity to meet and see.<br /><br />Despite the fact that the train from Stockholm to Copenhagen was an hour late, I managed to track down the studios of the first two groups on my list which were both fortunately located in the same area of the Old Carlsberg brewing factory. First up was a collective of four artists who call themselves </span><a href="http://www.akassen.com/lamp%20post.html"><span style="color:#000099;">AKassen</span></a><span style="color:#333333;">; Christian Bretton-Meyer, Morten Steen Hebsgaard, Søren Petersen and Tommy Petersen.<br /><br />Individually, their backgrounds consist of sculpture, photography and painting, but together their work is about space and to "puncture architecture". Whether it relates to altering the inside of a white cube or outside of art's context within a community's public area, their work is narrative and at times humorous. (Check out </span><a href="http://www.akassen.com/floor.html"><span style="color:#000099;">Concrete Floor</span></a><span style="color:#333333;"> and </span><a href="http://www.akassen.com/lamp%20post.html"><span style="color:#000099;">Lamp Post</span></a><span style="color:#333333;">). Their works are always unique and specific to the space or event they are invited to exhibit at.<br /><br />The one signature that binds their style together is that what they create is always subtle and challenging to the viewer's experience of art. There is no obvious object on a pedestal, instead one must actually participate as if they are on a treasure hunt to find and see a work created by AKassen. I experienced this first-hand when I went to the exhibition "Make Yourself At Home" at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. I walked into a large room of the exhibition space and saw two statues by Philip Aguirre y Otegui, some random glass window panes stacked on the floor in the corner and a large installation by Pascal Marthine Tayou. AKassen was in this room too as the wall label with their name on it told me, but at first I couldn't figure out what or where their work was! It wasn't until I looked up and saw the large, empty space in the ceiling where windows should have been that the light bulb went off in my head. This exhibition space has truly been punctured by AKassen.<br /></span><div><div><div><div><div><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_ucSgxZtI/AAAAAAAAADw/R3bgmKmnMOI/s1600/Fall+2010+020.JPG"><span style="color:#333333;"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534904636834670290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_ucSgxZtI/AAAAAAAAADw/R3bgmKmnMOI/s320/Fall+2010+020.JPG" /></span></a><span style="color:#333333;"><br /><br />After meeting with AKassen, I ran up a couple flights of stairs to have a short meeting with the artist duo Sixten Kai Nielsen and Martin Rosengaard who founded </span><a href="http://www.wooloo.org/about/people-behind"><span style="color:#000099;">Wooloo.org</span></a><span style="color:#333333;"> in collaboration with programmer Russell Ratshin. They function both as artists working on projects such as the ongoing democratic project known as New Life Copenhagen, and as managers of the virtual platform of Wooloo.org which is an extensive web site for art practitioners to advertise information about works, open calls, exhibitions and other events taking place worldwide. I really enjoyed Rosengaard's and Nielsen's confidence and enthusiasm and who knows—maybe they will collaborate with Vision Forum in the near future.<br /><br />The painter Mie Morkenberg was on my list of artists I wanted to meet, however she was out of town during my time in Copenhagen. I was particularly curious about her work for their narrative, dream-like references which is something of a personal interest. I was able to see a new mural exhibited at "Make Yourself At Home" and other paintings at Politikens Hus. Her paintings depict a scene from a room in a house and have a reference to the old-fashioned, yet are layered with sinister sensations of danger or harm like a nightmare.<br /><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_vJ14tHGI/AAAAAAAAAEA/0YiNBThc9wo/s1600/Fall+2010+023.JPG"><span style="color:#333333;"><img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534905419424406626" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_vJ14tHGI/AAAAAAAAAEA/0YiNBThc9wo/s320/Fall+2010+023.JPG" /></span></a><span style="color:#333333;"><br /><br />The final artist that I met was the sculptor Henrik Menné, whom I should add is an engineering genius despite the fact he never studied this area as a profession. All of his sculptures are large scale, a mechanical creation that usually take in a specific material such as glue or wax and then reprocesses and emits it out into another ephemeral sculpture creation. His work captures notions of process, alteration and time that are visually stunning and engaging.<br /><br />The best way to describe his work is through experience and photographs, which you can see on his gallery's site: </span><a href="http://www.tomchristoffersen.dk/artists/henrik_menne/henrik_menne.html"><span style="color:#000099;">Galleri Tom Christoffersen</span></a><span style="color:#333333;">.<br /></span></p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_vanhefhI/AAAAAAAAAEI/2Nm2r3gyCyQ/s1600/Henrik+Menne+114L+2006.jpg"><span style="color:#333333;"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534905707626659346" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/TM_vanhefhI/AAAAAAAAAEI/2Nm2r3gyCyQ/s320/Henrik+Menne+114L+2006.jpg" /></span></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><br /></p></span></div></div></div></div></div>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-8467088502849596942010-05-17T03:56:00.000-07:002010-05-17T05:05:50.244-07:00The Show Must Come Down<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtsKwLK9I/AAAAAAAAADY/6sX517gc-4k/s1600/Oana+videos.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472205259055770578" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtsKwLK9I/AAAAAAAAADY/6sX517gc-4k/s320/Oana+videos.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;">"The Places Where I Live" by Oana Camilleri.<br />Dual videos visible from the outside of the Romanian Culture Institute.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtmowEcoI/AAAAAAAAADQ/cER3MAK_m3g/s1600/Neither3nor4.JPG"><img style="WIDTH: 213px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472205164029178498" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtmowEcoI/AAAAAAAAADQ/cER3MAK_m3g/s320/Neither3nor4.JPG" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">"Neither Three Nor Four" by Yan Jun.<br />Sound installation within an antique elevator of the institute's building.<br /></span><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtekHtJrI/AAAAAAAAADI/TRGzpVYH_0g/s1600/zhifei_pillow+performance.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 224px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472205025347184306" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EtekHtJrI/AAAAAAAAADI/TRGzpVYH_0g/s320/zhifei_pillow+performance.jpg" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">"Day Dreams II" by Zhifei Yang.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Live performance</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">in Stockholm on April 24, 2010.<br /></span>////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////<br /><br /><div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EhAFKOoMI/AAAAAAAAACg/eQfgcrXdJmw/s1600/Jun_elevator.jpg"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 216px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472191307500658882" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/S_EhAFKOoMI/AAAAAAAAACg/eQfgcrXdJmw/s320/Jun_elevator.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> <strong>Yesterday</strong>, May 16th, was the last day of the group exhibition <em>Simultaneity</em>, uniting the works of Oana Camilleri, Yan Jun and Zhifei Yang. On reflection, the project was a tremendous accomplishment in networking and long distance communication between the artists and myself as well as the other institutions like the Romanian Culture Institute of Stockholm and Platform China in Beijing, who both played a supporting role in making the event a reality.</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />After looking through my project notes from the past year, I was surprised to realize that several questions I had posed at the beginning were in the end, answered: What are some of the ways one could exhibit experiences of simultaneity through contemporary mediums? Will this be an exhibition that occurs twice? Same time/different places? Could it occur in a public space and a virtual space at the same time? </span><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">I think the combination of Jun's soundscapes, Zhifei's performance/video and Oana's videos beautifully articulated and enabled expressions of simultaneity to exist and be experienced by others. There was an overlapping presentation of the works, allowing different elements to occur at the same time both through the Internet where Zhifei's video was placed and in the public exhibition space of Platform China, who hosted the same soundworks created by Jun for the exhibition in Stockholm.</span></div><br /><div><span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;">Today, as I packed up the final equipment from the Romanian Culture Institute's space, I thought how wonderful it has been to bring together talented people and the other various elements involved in this experience of exhibition making. It's really hard to pack it all away, but there is a glimmer of optimism that maybe, just maybe simultaneity can be something created and exhibited again.</span></div><div></div></div>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-24883734779440859762010-02-12T08:19:00.000-08:002010-02-12T08:34:53.466-08:00An Exhibition in the MakingI just wanted to write to update everyone on the exhibition I've been working on these past months. The <a href="http://www.rikis.se/">Romanian Culture Institute </a>of Stockholm has welcomed me to curate the group exhibition "Simultaneity-An Infinite Experience" (<em>current working title</em>). It will feature Vision Forum artists Oana Camilleri, Yan Jun and Zhifei Yang.<br />The exhibition will also be part of a larger cultural event taking place for the first time in Stockholm called <a href="http://www.kulturnattstockholm.se/">'God Natt Stockholm</a>' on Saturday April 24th.<br />The exhibition will include "The Places Where I Live," a dual-video projection by Oana Camilleri; "Both One and Two" and "Neither Three nor Four," which are two sound works created by Yan Jun and finally, Zhifei Yang will be on site to dream on her large, over-sized pillow.<br />I will keep posting updates as the exhibition progresses and takes on more definate details.Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-12902381469555799532009-10-28T06:40:00.000-07:002009-10-28T08:04:45.949-07:00A Simultaneous Situation<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/SuhS7nLIWZI/AAAAAAAAACI/5n79cgE-mE4/s1600-h/venice+080.JPG"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397655337484966290" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QQdqqy4YTLo/SuhS7nLIWZI/AAAAAAAAACI/5n79cgE-mE4/s400/venice+080.JPG" /></a><br /><div>Above is text from one section of an installation on display in the Arsenale in Venice--unfortunately as I write this I realize I don't have the name of the artist (Falke Pisano perhaps...). I share it here as an example of the simultaneous "situations" I'm collecting and trying to implement in a public realm. It is also a source of inspiration and a novel example of the simultaneous instance of how the viewer not only experiences an art work but also becomes an object related to the work.</div>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-58825146505054888192009-10-20T02:21:00.000-07:002009-10-20T02:35:48.447-07:0011:11 Archive Experiment<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">I've created a blog to begin collecting individual accounts of 11:11. Everyone is welcome to leave a comment to build the archive! Visit:<br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.1111archiveexperiment.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">1111archiveexperiment.blogspot.com</span></a><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /><br />If you want to continue to write on the blog to document your experiences, please e-mail me (<a href="mailto:elevenelevenarchive@gmail.com">elevenelevenarchive@gmail.com</a>) so I can add you as an author.<br /><br />During the next couple of weeks this experiment will take place in Shenzhen and Bejing through the Invisible Generation events taking place in these cities.</span>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-76051946594237458722009-10-02T08:22:00.000-07:002009-10-03T00:26:56.122-07:0011:11:11:11:11:11<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Often times when I look at the clock, whether on purpose or at random--the time reads 11:11. It is a strange phenomena, one that has reoccurred steadily for several years of my life. But what is intriguing to me is that it is a visual image of simultaneity. Why these numbers are significant is an honest mystery, could it simply be due to my remembrance of the sequence of numbers versus other times? Or is there a dimension of it that is spiritual and symbolic? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">No matter what the possibility is, I started keeping an archive of what I'm doing during the chance encounters with this particular time because of my project with simultaneity. I share them here with you now and I'm curious to know if any of you have experienced these moments and would maybe want to join me in archiving when and what you are doing during the 60 seconds (x2) 11:11 exists in reality.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Friday, September 18: Unplugging my cell phone from its charger<br />Sunday, September 20: I finished watching Vicky, Christina Barcelona (11:11 p.m.)<br />Tuesday, September 22: Turning on the computer to write a friend an email<br />Thursday, September 24: Having coffee with a friend and I looked at my phone </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;">Saturday, September 26: Getting a ride home from a relative after a party, the clock glowing in the dashboard reads 11:11 (p.m.)<br />Friday, October 02, 2009: Making the bed</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">(<em>These were all random encounters with seeing 11:11</em>)</span>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-76595389606402345592009-07-20T07:07:00.000-07:002009-07-20T07:56:44.125-07:00State of Mind: Version 2.0<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><em>...worlds exist outside of the World...but is the World still here when you close your eyes?</em></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">The above closing lines from the movie "Memento" have become a source of new inspiration for my project, which I now visualize in two phases.</span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>Part I:</strong> Exhibition<br />This exhibition, currently titled "Simultaneity and the Infinite Mind" is in the planning stages and currently includes three Vision Forum artists, whom I will mention at a later date when timing, location, works, etc are more clear. The working concept relates to relative simultaneity. Simultaneity—as a scientific concept—extends from Einstein’s theory of relativity, which explains if two events occur at the same time, but are also separated by space (i.e. occurring in different towns, countries, etc) <strong>there can be no absolute certainty</strong> if they happened at the same time or which one occurred “first”. The observers involved in the experience are integral to actual account of the situation. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">The three artists I’m collaborating with explore simultaneity through different paths; one person in two places at the same time, how other worlds exist in parallel with our universe, and how people in different places can dream the same themes, maybe even at the same time. </span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><strong>Part II:</strong> The Observers</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I'm interested in the observer’s role not only in the context of an exhibition, but also in reference to simultaneous events because it is their account of the situation which determines the "certainty" of the event. What Einstein clarifies about relative simultaneity is that each account by the observers involved is acceptable. And like this notion, I'm drawing a slight parallel to how art is subjective, open to one's own personal interpretation and understanding, therefore each person's observation about an artwork is right.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">During the actual realization of the concept exhibition mentioned above, I want to film the works of the participating artists installed in a chosen space (with and without the audience) from which I will create multiple video narratives and short stories from this one event. Each filmed narrative will have an accompanying collection of stories to go with it. </span></span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">These narratives will then be "exhibited" again at multiple locations/sites (like a coffee shop for example or on YouTube) where one can watch the event and read the companion story. </span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">My mind is exploding with many point of interest that can be investigated in this situation...such as the way an exhibition is experienced without a person actually being in the context of an art space with the works. Another factor relates to the short story concept... How does the text influence one's thinking of the art work and what if the text is a fictional account?</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">If I mix up fictional and real images in the video and do the same when I write the stories,</span> <span style="font-size:85%;">how does the observer know what is reality and what isn't between the two accounts?</span> </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Just as the movie "Momento" is the account of a double narrative intertwined with one life, so too will this project explore the many narratives intertwined within one exhibition.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"></span>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-82890403154444714312009-03-27T10:46:00.000-07:002009-03-29T13:49:56.243-07:00Simultaneous+lyIn the article 'Art and Objecthood' by Michael Fried, the notion of simultaneity appears not once but three times through the course of his arguement against the theatrics of art. Choosing to focus only on these sections where Fried inserts the word which is the topic of this post, I became interested in disecting how the critic uses the term. An interesting tangent emerges, about how one <em>experiences</em> art which also relates to time. Simultaneity, as Fried describes it, comes into play as the viewer involved in the "experience" of (art) becomes an object within the situation (an exhibition for example).<br />I'm attempting to extract and simplify a rather complicated text, but I find it interesting that Fried's focus on "experience" also relates to a very contemporary description of how one see's a trip to a museum or art-related event. And the experience market is having an affect on the art world for both curators and artists alike. I'm just skimming the surface of my thoughts addressed above, but it could be a possible course of investigation through this Vision Forum process. Furthermore, what are some of the ways one could exhibit experiences of simultaneity through contemporary mediums?Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-87764611328394198702009-02-21T11:57:00.000-08:002009-02-21T12:22:27.627-08:00State of Mind<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">The main focus of my project is about </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">dreams</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> intermixed with concepts of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">simultaneity</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams#Recurring_dreams"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">reoccurrence</span></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">I’m interested in developing this from a curatorial perspective whereby I will try to orchestrate an exhibition(s) or book that calls upon artists involved with Vision Forum. This will be a great way to meet people, initiate dialogue and explore how these topics take form through an international community network.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Part I: Ideas to explore</span></strong></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Dreams manifest in the mind, in the form of an image and follow a narrative:<br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">-How are they affected by or become reality?<br />-Why does an experience from the past reoccur in dream form?<br />-Do these dreams change when they reoccur?<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The dream can be a metaphor for an exhibition:<br />-An exhibition can be repeated in different locations/spaces to mimic the concept of “reoccurrence” </span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">-How does an exhibition change when it reoccurs in different spaces?<br />-Or, what if 2 exhibitions occur simultaneously in different locations?<br />-Mode of display = to be discovered…<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Contrasts/themes emerging from this project:<br />Reality/fiction; dream/science; past/present; artist/curator; observer/narrator<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><strong>Part II: Emerging thoughts about staging the event<br /></strong>Create a call for entries from other participants in VF and try to organize reoccurring and/or simultaneous exhibitions during workshops or other events<br /></span><br /></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Curate a two part book to “capture” the events<br />-There could be established observers at each event who tell about their experiences to see if the idea of simultaneity produces similar results<br />-Who is an observer and what is their role?<br />-Do they affect the work or are they affected by the work?</span>Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1753843581010153255.post-74430169443513888412009-02-19T23:03:00.000-08:002009-02-19T23:17:09.732-08:00I'm awake nowAt 7:45 a.m. I dragged myself out of bed, and now having had a cup of coffee I can function enough to write about a dream. It actually occurred during 15 minutes after the alarm went off at 7:30. It was vivid, about a project I was a part of in some way. I was in a room that had an almost yellowish filtered light from overhead skylights. The walls were covered with black and white posters of images from popular culture, such as Audrey Hepburn and images from my generation, like Garfield the cat.<br />It was an exhibition coming to an end.<br />People were working in the room to take posters off the walls and underneath, the walls were the color red. Paper and images were all over the floor, I felt like I wanted to salvage something.<br />A person in the room told me that things are becoming (constrained, consolidated, conformed), he used a C-word like this to reference how the economic crisis if affecting the actions of everything, even how art is exhibited in <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">museums</span>. Since limited funding poses a problem, alternative methods of display were sought for this red, yellow-filtered room situated only in the space of my mind.<br /><br />My project for VF 2009 will be about dreams, reoccurance and simultaneity. Specifics will follow soon.Anne Klontzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14882143642336196451noreply@blogger.com0