Spaces of Anticipation

Il simposio in programma presso ar/ge kunst è la terza iterazione del progetto di ricerca Spaces of Anticipation curato da Lorenzo Sandoval ed Emanuele Guidi.

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A SYMPOSIUM
20 - 21 November 2015
SPACES OF ANTICIPATION

KEYNOTE LECTURES
20 November, 7 pm
Roberto Poli (UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, University of Trento)
Stephen Wright (writer and researcher, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris).

ROUNDTABLE
21 November,
10:30 – 1 pm / 3 – 6 pm
Bar Project (curatorial collective, Barcelona); Roberto Gigliotti (Professor UNIBZ, Bolzano); Emanuele Guidi (artistic director ar/ge kunst); Krüger & Pardeller (artists, Vienna); Lorenzo Sandoval (artist and curator, Berlin); Manuel Segade, (curator, Rotterdam).

PERFORMANCE
21 November, 6 pm
The Politics of Fermentation
Daniel Salomon (artist, Berlin)

Curated by Emanuele Guidi and Lorenzo Sandoval

Anticipation
from past participle stem of anticipare: ante ‘before’ + capere ‘to take (care of) ahead of time’ [1]

Anticipate
‘1 Regard as probable; expect or predict.
1.1 Guess or be aware of (what will happen) and take action in order to be prepared.
1.2 Look forward to.
2 Act as a forerunner or precursor of.
2.1 Come or take place before (an event or process expected or scheduled for a later time’[2]

‘…If the last forty years have been marked by ‘posts’ (post-war, post-colonialism, postmodernism, post-communism), then today, at least, we seem to be in a period of anticipation – an era that museums of contemporary art can help us collectively to sense and understand.’ [3]

The forthcoming symposium at ar/ge kunst is the third iteration of the research project Spaces of Anticipation by Lorenzo Sandoval and Emanuele Guidi. The project began in May 2014 with an initial symposium at the EACC in Castellón and was followed by the research exhibition Making Room – Spaces of Anticipation at ar/ge kunst from June to July 2014.

Anticipation, both as ‘looking ahead’ and ‘looking forward’, evokes an idea of expectation and excitement towards what and who is yet to come. It also suggests the idea of taking action in the present to get prepared for potential encounters.
Anticipation is becoming a field of study in itself, a field that continuously analyses present conditions to respond to upcoming events, developments and trends. In its applications in design, architecture, marketing and even politics, the audience (as user, participant and consumer) becomes the main subject of anticipatory studies.

Starting from these considerations and implications, the project Spaces of Anticipation looks at this manifold notion in relation to artistic and cultural institutions. It proposes various strands of research that might help to define the fields of action in which institutions work and communicate with their communities. In these terms, the word anticipation is proposed as a conceptual and linguistic prop, a support from which the research unfolds and around which various positions are gathered in discussing institutional models, practices and attitudes.

The symposium brings together various contributors: artists, curators and researchers who, in their own practices and investigations, expand the grammar of exhibition making by intertwining it with other formats of (collective) knowledge production and distribution. Accordingly, their attention to forms of orality and ‘narratorship’, to the practices of care and hospitality and to the politics of time and display are essential when discussing modes of relations and exchange that can be established through and within the institution.

The Politics of Fermentation
Performance by Daniel Salomon

Daniel Salomon’s contribution to the symposium is a hands-on sauerkraut participative performance. He states: ‘Fermentation preserves food, is healthy, saves energy and tastes delicious. But besides all these benefits, the reason why I am so fond of fermentation is because I see it as an endless source of metaphors opening up for new ways of engaging with the world. On a microscopic scale bacteria and fungi interact, coevolve, exchange DNA, compete, die, feed on the organic rest of each other and so on, all that according to a complex environment. Fermenting food is thus more a collaboration with other species (bacteria and fungi) rather than a process we have complete control on. Applied to the idea of anticipation, I would like to propose sauerkraut making as a relevant paradigm for a pragmatic and humble approach to how we could influence our environment’.

The symposium takes place within the context of Ingrid Hora`s exhibition “der Grillentöter/ L’ammazzagrilli’ and coincides with its finissage.

The Symposium is kindly supported by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

[1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anticipation
[2] http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/anticipate#anticipate__2
[3] Bishop, Claire, Radical Museology, or, What’s ‘Contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary art?, Koenig Books, London, 2013.

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UN SIMPOSIO
20 - 21 novembre 2015

SPACES OF ANTICIPATION

KEYNOTE LECTURES
20 Novembre, ore 19
Roberto Poli (Cattedra UNESCO sui Sistemi anticipanti, Università di Trento)
Stephen Wright (autore e ricercatore, Collège International de Philosophie, Parigi).

ROUNDTABLE
21 novembre,
10:30 – 13 / 15 - 18
Bar Project (collettivo curatoriale, Barcellona); Roberto Gigliotti (Professore UNIBZ, Bolzano); Emanuele Guidi (direttore artistico ar/ge kunst); Krüger & Pardeller (artisti, Vienna); Lorenzo Sandoval (artista e curatore, Berlino); Manuel Segade (curatore, Rotterdam).

PERFORMANCE
21 novembre, ore 18
The Politics of Fermentation
Daniel Salomon (artista, Berlino)

A cura di Emanuele Guidi e Lorenzo Sandoval

Anticipation
from past participle stem of anticipare: ante ‘before’ + capere ‘to take (care of) ahead of time’ [1]

Anticipate
‘1 Regard as probable; expect or predict.
1.1 Guess or be aware of (what will happen) and take action in order to be prepared.
1.2 Look forward to.
2 Act as a forerunner or precursor of.
2.1 Come or take place before (an event or process expected or scheduled for a later time’’[2]

‘…If the last forty years have been marked by ‘posts’ (post-war, post-colonialism, postmodernism, post-communism), then today, at least, we seem to be in a period of anticipation – an era that museums of contemporary art can help us collectively to sense and understand..’ [3]

Il simposio in programma presso ar/ge kunst è la terza iterazione del progetto di ricerca Spaces of Anticipation curato da Lorenzo Sandoval ed Emanuele Guidi. Avviato nel maggio 2014 con un primo simposio tenutosi presso l’EACC di Castellón, il progetto è stato seguito dalla mostra-ricerca Making Room – Spaces of Anticipation aperta negli spazi di ar/ge kunst da giugno a luglio 2014.

L’anticipazione, intesa sia come ‘guardare avanti’ sia come ‘attendere con impazienza’, evoca aspettativa ed emozione nei confronti di cosa e di chi deve ancora arrivare. Suggerisce anche l’idea dell’agire nel presente in preparazione di potenziali incontri.
L’anticipazione sta oggi diventando un campo di studio, in cui le condizioni del presente vengono sottoposte a un’analisi continua allo scopo di rispondere a eventi, sviluppi e tendenze futuri. Nelle sue applicazioni nel design, nell’architettura, nel marketing e persino nella politica, il pubblico (sotto forma di utenti, partecipanti e consumatori) diventa oggetto degli studi anticipatori.

Partendo da queste considerazioni e implicazioni, il progetto Spaces of Anticipation considera questo concetto sfaccettato in relazione a istituzioni culturali e artistiche e propone diversi percorsi di ricerca per meglio definire i campi d’azione in cui le istituzioni operano e comunicano con le proprie comunità.
In questo contesto, la parola anticipazione opera come cardine linguistico e concettuale, un supporto da cui la ricerca si sviluppa e attorno a cui varie posizioni sono raccolte per discutere modelli, pratiche e atteggiamenti istituzionali.

Il simposio riunisce vari contributi: artisti, curatori e ricercatori che, nelle rispettive pratiche e indagini, ampliano la grammatica dell’exhibition making intrecciandola con altri formati di produzione e distribuzione di conoscenza (collettiva). Di conseguenza, l’attenzione a forme di oralità e “narratorship”, a pratiche di cura e ospitalità e alle politiche del tempo e display sono essenziali nel discutere le modalità di relazione e scambio che possono essere stabilite attraverso e internamente all’istituzione.

The Politics of Fermentation
Performance di Daniel Salomon

Il contributo di Daniel Salomon al simposio è una performance partecipativa in cui i sauerkraut (piatto tradizionale a base di cavoli fermentati) saranno preparati. Nelle parole dell’artista: “La fermentazione conserva gli alimenti, è salutare, consente di risparmiare energie e ha un gusto delizioso. Ma al di là di tutti questi benefici, il motivo per cui mi interessa la fermentazione è che la vedo come una fonte infinita di metafore che aprono nuove modalità di relazionarsi con il mondo. A livello microscopico, batteri e funghi interagiscono, co-evolvono, si scambiano DNA, competono, muoiono, si alimentano dei resti organici gli uni degli altri e così via, il tutto secondo le regole di un ambiente complesso. La fermentazione degli alimenti è quindi più una collaborazione con altre specie (batteri e funghi) che un processo su cui abbiamo pieno controllo. Applicando il concetto all’idea di anticipazione, vorrei proporre la realizzazione dei sauerkraut come paradigma rilevante di un approccio umile e pragmatico al modo in cui possiamo influenzare l’ambiente”.

Il simposio si svolge nel contesto della mostra di Ingrid Hora “der Grillentöter/ L’ammazzagrilli” e coincide con il finissage della stessa.

Il Symposium è realizzato con il gentile supporto di Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

[1] Anticipazione: dal lat. anticipare, comp. di ante «prima» e capere «prendere» “l’atto di prendere prima del tempo”. Fonte: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anticipation
[2] Anticipare: ‘1 Considerare probabile; aspettarsi o predire; 1.1 Indovinare o essere a conoscenza di (cosa accadrà) e agire per prepararsi di conseguenza; 1.2 Attendere con trepidazione; 2 Agire come antesignano o precursore di; 2.1 Venire o avere luogo prima (di un evento o processo atteso o previsto per un momento successivo). Fonte: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/anticipate#anticipate__2
[3] “…Se gli ultimi quarant’anni sono stati segnati dai ‘post’ (post-guerra, post-colonialismo, postmodernismo, post-comunismo), oggi, almeno, sembriamo vivere in un periodo di anticipazione – un epoca che i musei di arte contemporanea possono aiutarci a percepire e comprendere collettivamente.” Fonte: Bishop, Claire, Radical Museology, or, What’s ‘Contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary art?, Koenig Books, Londra, 2013.

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EIN SYMPOSIUM
20. – 21. November 2015

SPACES OF ANTICIPATION

KEYNOTE
20. November, 19 Uhr
Roberto Poli (UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, Universität Trient)
Stephen Wright (Autor und Researcher, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris).

ROUNDTABLE - GESPRÄCH
21. November,
10:30 – 13 / 15 – 18 Uhr

Bar Project (Kuratoren Kollektiv, Barcelona); Roberto Gigliotti (Professor UNIBZ, Bozen); Emanuele Guidi (Künstlerischer Leiter ar/ge kunst); Krüger & Pardeller, (Künstler, Wien); Lorenzo Sandoval, (Künstler und Kurator, Berlin); Manuel Segade (Kurator, Rotterdam).

PERFORMANCE
21. November, 18 Uhr
The Politics of Fermentation
Daniel Salomon (Künstler, Berlin)

Kuratiert von Lorenzo Sandoval und Emanuele Guidi

Anticipation
‘from past participle stem of anticipare: ante 'before' + capere 'to take care of ahead of time’ [1]

anticipate
‘1 Regard as probable; expect or predict.
1.1 Guess or be aware of (what will happen) and take action in order to be prepared.
1.2 Look forward to.
2 Act as a forerunner or precursor of.
2.1 Come or take place before (an event or process expected or scheduled for a later time).’[2]

‘…If the last forty years have been marked by ‘posts’ (post-war, post-colonialism, postmodernism, post-communism), then today, at least, we seem to be in a period of anticipation – an era that museums of contemporary art can help us collectively to sense and understand.’[3]

Das kommende Symposium bei ar/ge kunst ist die dritte Station des von Lorenzo Sandoval und Emanuele Guidi initiierten Forschungsprojekts Spaces of Anticipation. Das Projekt begann im Mai 2014 mit einem ersten Symposium am EACC in Castellón, gefolgt von der Research-Ausstellung Making Room – Spaces of Anticipation bei ar/ge kunst im Juni/Juli 2014.

Antizipation – als ‘Vorausblicken’ ebenso wie als ‘Entgegensehen’ – evoziert die Idee der Erwartung und des Begeistertseins von dem und von denen, die noch ausstehen. Sie verweist auf den Plan, Maßnahmen schon in der Gegenwart zu ergreifen, um auf potentielle Begegnungen vorbereitet zu sein. Antizipation wird somit selbst zu einem Untersuchungsgebiet, zu einem Feld, in dem man gegenwärtige Umstände analysiert, um auf kommende Ereignisse, Entwicklungen und Trends reagieren zu können. In ihren Anwendungen in Design, Architektur, Marketing und sogar im Politischen wird dabei das Publikum (als Nutzer_in, Teilnehmer_in und Konsument_in) zum Hauptgegenstand antizipatorischer Forschung.

Von diesen Überlegungen und Implikationen her untersucht das Projekt Spaces of Anticipation den vielschichtigen Begriff in seinem Bezug auf künstlerische und kulturelle Institutionen. Es schlägt mehrere Forschungslinien vor, die bei der Definition der Handlungsfelder hilfreich sind, in denen Institutionen arbeiten und mit ihren Öffentlichkeiten kommunizieren. Insofern wird der Begriff der Antizipation als konzeptuelles und sprachliches Werkzeug vorgeschlagen, als Basis, von der aus sich die Forschungen entfalten und um die sich verschiedene Positionen in der Diskussion institutioneller Modelle, Praktiken und Haltungen versammeln können.

Das Symposium führt diverse Mitwirkende zueinander: Künster_innen, Kurator_innen und Researcher_innen, die in ihren eigenen Praktiken und Investigationen die Grammatik des Ausstellungsmachens erweitern, indem sie dasselbe mit anderen Formaten der (kollektiven) Wissensproduktion und -distribution verknüpfen. Entsprechend ist ihre besondere Aufmerksamkeit für Formen der Mündlichkeit und Erzählerschaft, für Praktiken der Sorge und Gastfreundschaft sowie für Politiken der Zeit und des Ausstellens zentral für die Diskussion der Beziehungs- und Austauschformen, die sich durch und in Institutionen etablieren lassen.

The Politics of Fermentation
Performance von Daniel Salomon

Daniel Salomon’s Beitrag zum Symposium ist eine partizipative und ganz und gar handfeste Sauerkraut-Performance. Er schreibt dazu: „Fermentation konserviert Nahrungsmittel, ist gesund, spart Energie und schmeckt hervorragend. Unabhängig aber von all diesen Vorteilen schätze ich die Fermentation, weil ich sie als eine unerschöpfliche Quelle von Metaphern dafür ansehe, wie man auf neuartige Weisen mit der Welt in Kontakt treten kann. In mikroskopischer Dimension interagieren Bakterien und Pilze, durchlaufen eine Co-Evolution, tauschen DNA aus, konkurrieren, sterben, ernähren sich von den organischen Überresten der anderen usw., alles gemäß ihrer komplexen Umwelt. Das Fermentieren von Nahrungsmitteln ist viel eher eine Kollaboration mit anderen Spezies (Bakterien und Pilze) als ein Prozess, den wir vollständig kontrollieren würden. Angewandt auf die Idee der Antizipation möchte ich die Sauerkrautherstellung als maßgebliches Paradigma vorschlagen für eine pragmatische und bescheidene Haltung dazu, wie wir unsere Umwelt beeinflussen können.“

Das Symposium findet im Rahmen von Ingrid Hora’s Ausstellung „der Grillentöter/L’ammazzagrilli“ statt und fällt mit deren Finissage zusammen.

Mit der freundlichen Unterstützung von Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)

[1] „Antizipation, gebildet aus dem Partizip Perfekt-Wortstamm von anticipare: ante „vor“ + capere „nehmen, ergreifen“, „sich vorzeitig um etwas kümmern““. Quelle: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=anticipation
[2] „antizipieren, 1 für wahrscheinlich halten; erwarten oder vorhersagen; 1.1 etwas (künftig Passierendes) ahnen oder kennen und aktiv werden, um vorbereitet sein; 1.2 freudig entgegensehen; 2 sich als Vorreiter und Wegbereiter verhalten; 2.1 erscheinen oder stattfinden vor (einem Ereignis oder Prozess, der für einen späteren Zeitpunkt erwartet oder geplant war)“. Quelle: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/anticipate#anticipate__2
[3] „Waren die letzten vierzig Jahre geprägt von den ‘Posts’ (Nachkriegszeit, Postkolonialismus, Postmoderne, Postkommunismus), so scheinen wir uns zumindest heute in einer Periode der Antizipation zu befinden – einer Ära, die Museen zeitgenössischer Kunst uns helfen können wahrzunehmen und zu verstehen.“ Claire Bishop, Radical Museology, or, What’s ‘Contemporary’ in Museums of Contemporary art?, Koenig Books, London, 2013.