During MKP‘s first seminar in Norrkoping November 24 to 25. Tomas Nordmark and Per Hüttner performed “Stalking Thoughts” at Verkstad konsthall.
Humor opens up opportunities for people to relate to traumatic experiences that they otherwise would not be able to relate to. Vision Forum develops new ways to work with refugees in Europe who are held back in their personal development by memories of traumatic experiences in their home country and during the flight to Europe. Within the framework of workshops with performance artists, refugees, psychologists and teachers will together develop new skills, new audiences and new artistic expressions.
The first workshop is organised by Jasper de Rycker and Per Hüttner. It is private and will take place in Antwerp December 4-6, 2015.
More information here.
Stephen Whitmarsh and Per Hüttner will present the work carried out with the BrainSynth at the 25-26 November at Lund University’s faculty of arts in Malmö. The theme of the conference is the Art University – political dream or broadened future for art? The symposium will also demonstrate the width and depth of contemporary artistic research. We provide researchers and doctoral students with an opportunity to present their work at the symposium and discuss their research projects with a new, initiated Nordic and international audience.
Monday November 30 at 3.30pm Per Hüttner will make a presentation about Vision Forum and his own practice at Valand Academy in Gothenburg. The lecture means a return to his artistic roots since both his aunt, Agneta Goës and grandmother, Ingrid Goës are/were active artists in Gothenburg. It is also the town were Hüttner went to preparatory art school in the mid 1980s.
Wellcome Collection Reading Room, 10 October 2015, 13.00–18.00
Welcome to ‘What is Potential?’ – an event where a group of artists, curators and thinkers led by Per Hüttner get together to reflect on whether a 2,400-year-old philosopher and scientist can still offer tools to enrich our daily lives. Paying special attention to Aristotle’s thinking on potential, the group will explore how these ideas allow us to better understand how things change in and around us.
Potentiality is central to Aristotle’s thinking and also one of the most debated concepts. Something’s potentiality is its possibility to become something else. For example, a seed can become a tree, but it can also become food for a living being. Or we can call a man ‘thinking’ even when he is asleep and not actively engaged in reflection.
Falling between art and research, timed presentations and drop-in activity, we invite you to dwell on the issues addressed and hope you enjoy thinking about how they could relate to your life and experiences.
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Jiading Venue
Opening: November 15, 2-4pm
Exhibition Dates: Novembe16, December 15, 1-5pm (Closed Sun and Mon)
To Arrange a visit to the exhibition site please call 132 6267 3118
Address: Bldg 4, No 1288 Boxue Lu, Jiading District, Shanghai
M50 Venue
Opening: November 15, 5-7pm
Exhibition Dates: November 16-December 5. 11am-6pm (Closed Mon)
Room 210, Bldg 3, No. 50 Moganshan Lu, Putuo, Shanghai
Participants
Chen Hangfeng (Chinese Artist)
Grass Stage: Wu Meng, Yu Kai, Wu Jiamin, Liu Nian, Bruce Bo Ding, Jia Ying (Chinese theatre collective)
Per Hüttner (Swedish Artist)
Li Xiaofei (Chinese Artist) + Liu Heping (Chinese Poet)
Liao Wenfeng (Chinese Artist)
Liu Guangyun (Chinese Artist)
Mao Chenyu (Chinese Film Director/Anthropologist)
Performing Objects: Céline Butaye, Alice De Mont, Kristof Van Gestel
and Bie Michels (Belgian Artist Collective)
Egill Sæbjörnsson (Icelandic Artist)
Xiang Liqing (Chinese Artist)
Xiao Kaiyu (Chinese Poet)
Lise Yuen (Norwegian Artist)
More info here.
Vision Forum is proud to announce the launch of Unfold, a curatorial experimentation on the digital folder to trigger associative thinking, anti-authorial agency, movement of thoughts, untimely collaborations.
Re-generated by seven guest curators every two months, Unfold is a library hosting shifting constellations of artistic content, books, found objects and software, both newly commissioned and already existing. Like all libraries, Unfold is a space of copies, copies of copies, appropriations, heterogeneity and contradictions.
Unfold is the final outcome of the VOLUME project, a research and artistic project focusing on the concept and agency of the library curated by Sara Giannini in collaboration with 98weeks Research Project (Beirut) and Vision Forum (Stockholm).
Vision Forum is proud to announce the release of the “Ö – A Möbius Trip” publication and CD. It is a multi-facetted and collaborative book created over two years that brings together different journeys undertaken by an international group of artists.
The publication will be presented under performance-like circumstances in Stockholm and London:
- Dream of the Palace – A gesamtkunstwerk created by Henrik Sputnes and Vilma Luostarinen in collaboration with Felicia Atkinson, Rasmus Persson which forms a sattelite to the XIVth OuUnPo-session The Fugue – Hallwylska museet, September 15, 12 am – 3pm.
- What is Potential? Exploring Aristotle, Art and Medicine, October 10, 2-6pm 2015 at the Wellcome Reading Room.
Both events are free of charge and open to the public. The publication was edited by Isabel Löfgren and Per Hüttner and designed by Erik Månsson. Find out more about Vision Forum’s publications here.
Per Hüttner will present work in the 10th Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial which focuses on the cultural, philosophical, economic and ecological aspects of the sea. At least since the age of Romanticism, inherent qualities of mystery and horror have helped made the ocean a transcendent symbol in the canonical topos influencing the European imagination. Artistic presentation, often metaphysical and melancholic, makes it possible to trace these semantic meanings and cultural entanglements.
From the pragmatic approaches taken in the 17th and 18th centuries that portrayed the sea chiefly as a medium for developing trade and military conquest, today’s artistic treatment depicts the sea as ensuring the continuity of consumption on a global scale. As such, the sublime associations that provided the foundation for phantasmagoric content have given over to practical consideration of the effects of exploitation.
Deleuze and Guattari use terms “deterritorialisation” and “reterritorialisation” frequently in their book A Thousand Plateaus (we know that the terms are annoying to pronounce). The two writers use “soft” concepts in the book. The softness of the ideas allow them to change with time and context. For example, a child might have problems with reading and writing, but is very good at expressing herself by dancing. The reterritorialising powers want her to be like the other children, but a pedagogue might develop deterritorialising methods so that she can express herself with dance in school instead of the normal reading and writing forms of expression.
Per Hüttner returns to Californa for the 10 years anniversary of Torrence Art Museum. Showing vintage drawings from 2013 with puns and Hollywood stars in a magic mix.
July 19-24, 2015, Per Hüttner, Jean-Louis Huhta and Stephen Whitmarsh will carry out a workshop on the BrainSynth in Athens. The BrainSynth will allow anyone to use their own muscles activity, eye-movements, heart beat and brain activity to control music-synthesizer equipment in real-time. The interface is being developed as an instrument for both artistic and scientific exploration, research and expression. The construction of the BrainSynth is done with affordable off-the-shelf components and the development will be done in according to open source and open hardware principles. (More technical details here.)
Wellcome Collection in London announces a collaboration with Per Hüttner that will take place October 10, 2015. The project uses the logic of art to discuss issues that are central in the human body and medical science. It takes its starting point in the work of Aristotle, one of the most well-known and oldest of the names on the Wellcome Reading Room’s frieze. The event will unfold during an afternoon and will unlock hidden potential of the space and inspire the audience to find new ways of thinking and interacting. The project will activate all the 10 stations (face, breath, mind etc.). It will start in ‘travel’ and move around the room. Some of the interventions will be on-going throughout the afternoon while others might last only a few seconds or simply be a poem posted on a wall. Some will be clearly announced and visible, while others are made to remain virtually invisible. More info.
Per Hüttner will take part in “Back To The Trees,” an interdisciplinary and collective folly in the french forests on june 27. More info and travel descriptions here. Madness will descend on La Vieille-Loye, which is a commune in the Jura department in Franche-Comté in eastern France. The estimate for the 2004 population was 363. “Back To The Trees” will more than double the population.
Baraques du 14, Forêt de Chaux, La Vieille-Loye, Franche Comté
From 5pm to 2am , June 27
Per Hüttner will show a new installation in Shanghai entitled “3 Novels Dissected” as a part of the exhibition “Assured Stability” at V Art Center. The work circles around The Castle by Franz Kafka, The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector and The Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua. The installation reflects on how literature and narrative moves between stable and unstable states. Instability is often the driving force behind action, suspense and passion. The three books depict individuals whose lives, in greatly different ways, are thrown into flux by social forces that strive for balance, uniformity or even submission. Private view May 30, 2015.
V8skan has been developed by artist Per Hüttner in collaboration with the Turkish curator Fatos Üstek and focuses on eight laureates in chemistry, physics, medicine, economics, and literature 1927-2009. The work draws inspiration from popular science and board games in order to suggest a new interface for visits to the museum and novel ways to discover the Nobel laureates’ discoveries and philosophies.
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[A history with a present and a (probable) future]
International Workshop
Athens, 14-15, May 2015
Athens School of Fine Arts , Athens, Greece.
[256, Peiraios street , Athens, 18233 ]
Organisers:
Art & Body, Performance
Unit of research : “Fronts and Borders”
Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts (ISBA)
Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA),GR
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Per Hüttner has written an introductory text to Verkstad: Rum För Konst that documents the first 6 years of the Gallery/Cultural space with the same name based in Norrköping. It also includes texts by Susanne Ewerlöf, Erik Berggren along with ample documentation from the Verkstad’s exhibitions and events.
Welcome to preview of V8skan at the Nobel Museum 6-7.30pm, April 16 with artist Per Hüttner (free admission).
V8skan has been developed by artist Per Hüttner in collaboration with the Turkish curator Fatos Üstek and focuses on eight laureates in chemistry, physics, medicine, economics, and literature 1927-2009. The work draws inspiration from popular science and board games in order to suggest a new interface for visits to the museum and novel ways to discover the Nobel laureates’ discoveries and philosophies.
The project is made up of eight specially designed briefcases that offer a starting point for a collaborative process. Each briefcase has been created for a group of 2-6 people and the visitor can choose which laureate to work with based on their personal interests. Together the members of group develop thoughts and discussions with the starting point in a given laureate and his/her universe.
With V8skan Hüttner continues his research into how performance art can revitalise academic and scientific representation and gives the audience the opportunity to participate in artistic and scientific performance.
V8skan provides an excellent opportunity to meet a group of friends, colleagues or family for an experience that generates conversation and exchange. Together you will have the opportunity to rediscover each other at the same time as you find out more about the discoveries of an important artist or scientist.
For the preview on April 16 Hüttner will present the project and how he has developed the project. You will also have the opportunity to try one of the briefcases. The presentation will be in English.
V8skan is supported by Längmanska kulturfonden and Stockholm stad.
Nobelmuseet, Stortorget 2, Gamla Stan, 103 16 Stockholm, Sweden
Anders Olofsson has written a beautiful text about The Silence at Galleri Fagerstedt in Stockholm. He says that the film “is one of the most intriguing video pieces he has seen in years.” Read the article here (in Swedish only).
Per Hüttner will show these larger than life photos at Portes Ouvertes at ISBA in Besançon in France on February 4, 2015. The day is devoted to reflections on male and female and the photos will be shown on the sliding doors at the entrance at the institute. The images come from the promo material that the artist created for Ö – a Möbius Trip.
Per Hüttner will present his exhibition ‘The Silence’ at Fagerstedt Gallery in Stockholm February 19 – March 28, 2015.
The exhibition brings together two bodies of work created for greatly different contexts that both investigate that fine membrane between you and me. The work examines how we, human beings, are both all the same and yet infinitely different. Same, because we all begin and end our lives the same way; and different because no two instances in the history of the universe is ever the same. In any interaction with other human beings these similarities and differences are activated. Huttner, in other words returns to a central question in art, philosophy and religion that has occupied man since the beginning of time and that beckons our attention without ever offering any solutions.
The film ‘The Silence’ was commissioned for the VOLUME project in Beirut in 2014. The work is clearly inspired by Bergman’s Persona, Buñuel’s El ángel exterminador and shows two women who are imprisoned in a library and whose situation is pushed to its extreme when the world goes mysteriously silent. The circumstances pushes the two women to make life changing decisions in the face of the events.
In conjunction with the film, the artist shows a series of photographs that depict an object that was developed for a performance at Pinacoteca in Sao Paulo in 2014. The object is made up of three interconnected circles of different white fabrics that have been twisted once and in and forms a complicated Möbius strip. In the photographs we see four feminine hands that handle the object delicately. Are these the same hands that work on the books in the library? What are the hands trying to negotiate? Where does the object come from and what purpose does it serve?
A special performance will be presented on February 18 with a limited number of places. Please contact the gallery to book your free ticket well in advance.
On February 6, 2015 Per Hüttner will perform a “Decision-making Fugue” with long term partner Elias Arnér at Hallwylska museet in Stockholm. The event forms a part of the 14th OuUnPo research session entitled the Fugue that is curated by Stephen Whitmarsh and Elena Nemkova and that brings art and science into multiple dialogues. Huttner has collaborated with the museum on numerous occasions. The image above shows a detail from the Neither You nor Me in collaboration with Anders Mossling och Anders Paulin from 2012.
Vision Forum in collaboration with Skogen and Blvvd organises a double release event for the catalogue for the Temporality and the Dislocation of Self project with the intriguing title March 8 – August 30. The book is edited by Anders Paulin and includes contributions by Anders Paulin, Sandrine Nicoletta, Tor Lindstrand, Rita Nettelstad, Johan Forsman, Tova Gerge, Iggy Malmborg and Per Hüttner. The book is an outcome of a series of workshops carried out in private and public spaces in and around Stockholm. Together the authors reflect on theatre, performance, identity, time and much more.
In Stockholm the event will include an installation by Rita Nettelstad, a discussion lead by Iréne Berggren about the book, a performance by Tomas Nordmark and Carima Neusser; a DJ set by Tomas Nordmark and a live performance by Dungeon Acid.
Welcome Saturday, November 29 at 8pm.
Stockholm: Hornhuset, Långholmsgatan 15, Stockholm
In Gothenburg the event will start at 4pm
For the OuUnPo session “We Are what We Lost,” (November 7-16, 2014) Huttner will organise a tour through the tactile collection of Pinacoteca. In order to underline the tactile aspect he will “deprive” the audience of one of its senses. Rather than depriving them of their sight, which would be the expected thing to do, he will make the whole performance silent. In other words no one will speak. The audience will be lead through the collection (by OuUnPo members) – with the idea that the visitor feels the sculptures and their guide at the same time. The OuUnPo members will wear specially designed clothes by French fashion designer Emilia Rota. The clothes will be designed in a way so that they indicate which parts of the bodies can be touched and which cannot. The tour will start in the normal collection and each pair will cross one of the walking bridges at Pinacoteca and enter into the tactile collection. The OuUnPo members will also art encourage the audience to touch architectural details and other non-art objects. When the audience is waiting (before and after) the group will remain silent, while filing their nails and doing other actions from Helio Oiticica’s work.
Huttner will also present an experimental performance in collaboration with local artist Gustavo Sol, neuroscientist Stephen Whitmarsh and sound artist Jean-Louis Huhta. The performance is based on Samuel Beckett’s last play “What Where” and looks for alternative forms of creating scores for performances using neuroscientific and digital technologies.
The publication, March 8 –August 30, Temporality and Dislocation which is edited by Anders Paulin is out. It contains a poetic text by Per Hüttner that is based on 8 hexagrams from the I-Ching or the Book of Changes and that reflects on the limits of creativity and the importance of having a home to return to. The book is the outcome of a series of workshops organised by Anders Paulin entitled Temporality and the Dis-Location of Self. A double release event will take place in Stockholm and Gothenburg on November 29, 2014.
Swedish artist Per Huttner invites the citizens of Beirut to an artistic walk through their city (at Assabil Library on September 12, 5.30pm at Geitawi Garden in Beirut) that will be followed by the screening of a short film entitled “the Silence” that the artist has created specifically for the Volume project (At 7pm at 98weeks.) Both works look at how metaphysics and politics of our everyday lives dialogue to shape our existence. Huttner introduces an imaginary silence that mystically descends on the inhabitants of the city and stops them from both uttering or hearing any sounds. In the film we follow women who are mysteriously trapped in a library and who follow the political changes that take place outside as a crippling silence descends on the city and their lives. Drawing from Ingemar Bergman and Louis Buñuel The Silence is both a reflection on the library, Huttner’s Nordic upbringing and creates a wedge between imagination and reality that compels us to reflect on values that we normally take for granted. The project is a collaboration with cinematographer and director Yang Tingting.
Vision Forum Film is proud to announce that the short film “Dark Light” by Per Hüttner has been selected for the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, 16-30 September, 2014. “Dark Light” was created by artist Per Hüttner’s project for the 33e Panorama da arte brasileira in Sao Paulo in 2013. It was filmed in Trinidad in the same year with a local producer and local actors.
In the film, we follow two men who inhabit the same space and who still cannot see or communicate with each other. Through a discovery on the beach, one of the two men finds a tool that allows the two to communicate. “Dark Light” asks questions about how we can influence our lives in positive ways and particularly how a small shift in our outlook on existence can change the very fabric our how we live. In the era of self-help books and consumerism we often look for outside influences (education, work, marriage, travel) to change, while Hüttner suggests that a small change in our perspective on the world can have a far bigger impact.
Equally, the film suggests that the solutions to our problems usually lie closer than we expect and asks what can be done collectively to make these visible. It looks at how people who similarly live very different lives can become united through new discoveries and novel links. However, in order to do so, we need to keep an open mind and an open spirit.
Günther ont Günther opens for Dungeon Acid and Per Hüttner does live video for DA.
BLVVD Nº1 – ARNAUD REBOTINI, DUNGEON ACID, NO SCIENCE + DJ’S, PERFORMANCES, VIDEO ART
Friday, May 23 at 10:00pm
Per Hüttner will contribute to OuUnPoïesis which is the third OuUnPo session dedicated to the topic of «Catastrophe and Heritage» and will take place in the town of Gibellina Nuova (Sicily) in collaboration with the Fondazione Orestiadi and the C.R.E.S.M.
The session is organised by Claudia Squitieri and Raffaella della Olga and will take place May 11-18 it will be end with a collective performance by OuUnPo. on May 17 which is the European Night of the Museums. Here you can find more info about OuUnPo and OuUnPoïesis.
Vision Forum node Ö – A Möbius Trip will participate at Normalcy Bar at Moderna Bar April 25, 2014.
In 2011, a group of artists embarked on a trip in the Stockholm archipelago in search of a lost island. According to marine archaeologist Atle Baekken, the existence of this island had been kept alive in myth and song within the old villages of the archipelago. However, the knowledge about it has been lost as the archipelago has now been transformed from a place of subsistence (fishing, farming, etc.) to a gigantic touristic resort attracting thousands of sailors and wealthy owners of summer homes. In an attempt to rediscover the island, 8 artists set out on an expedition to follow the traces of this island. On this trip, one hundred guests were invited to testify to the discovery of this island.
The Ö project was initated in 2011 by Isabel Löfgren and Per Hüttner within the framework of Vision Forum. Participating artists are: Camila Sposati, Andrea Hvistendahl & Atle Baekken, Marcia Moraes & Egill Saebjornesson, Valerio del Baglivo, Cecilia Ahlqvist, Samon Takahashi, Lillevän Pobjoy, Jean-Louis Huhta, Isabel Löfgren and Per Hüttner.
Click here for more information about the project.
Lise Kolstad Yuen, Li Xiaofei, Per Hüttner, Liu Guangyun, Chen Hangfeng, Tang Maohong and Xiang Liqing
Opening: Friday, May 9, 7 pm
HALLE50, Städtisches Atelierhaus, 50 Margarete Schuette-Lihotzky Strasse, 30 D-80807 München
Saturday, May 10, 6 – 8 pm: Film evening (screening program with Chinese video-films)
WERKSTATTKINO, Fraunhoferstr. 9, 80469 München
“Change & Exchange” Exhibition results from the rapid social and economic growth of China and the manifestation of the spiritual state of Chinese people. From the spring of 2014 onward, seven artists from China will stay in Munich for a month during which the they will compose works for exhibition in halle50 through detailed observation on the city’s specific scenery.
“Change” bears weight in meaning. To remain stable is regarded as rigid and inflexible in the Chinese context. However, what is strange about the present situation in Chinese society is that “change” and “stubborn adherence”constantly coexist in the wrong way. With the over- emphasis attached to “change” in society nowadays, people are inclined to swiftly adjusting to different things while neglecting the necessary adherence to the righteous ones. The present problem that we are facing is how we can, in the awkward and uneasy situations in which we conduct our abundant undesirable choices, “change” and learn how to deal with people and things, and “change” the way people communicate with each other, either vis-a-vis or through means of multi-media. As what people are lacking in today is not technology, but a multi- faceted and in-depth mindset from which the evil side of ours can be diminished to the greatest degree.“Exchange” is in a sense broader as compared with that in China before the 21st Century, which we believe still falls short of our expectation. As we are quite painstakingly moving forward, we must undertake a lot of pressure from various sides which leads to the change in the sense of values, cultural property and traces of history. In this light, the exhibition “Change and Exchange”builds up a bridge for communication which clearly and objectively represents the process of adapting to globalization today which influences both the individuals and society as a whole.Besides, the key words for the rapid growth of Chinese economy (such as “assembly line”) will have direct dialogues with concepts like “specialization” and “adaptation”while simultaneously come face to face with the priciples of sucess in Western economy. The exhibition of “Change and Exchange” will search for common ground and common elements, hoping to find a way of expression in the form of modern art.
Exhibition concept: Li Xiaofei
Curatored by COLLABORATION_project
Alam + Petrov are proud to present its first solo exhibition by Per Hüttner in Mexico in collaboration with The City of Mexico and the Embassy of Sweden. For the project “Poseidon Recreates Lake Texcoco,” at Villa Punk, Swedish artist Per Hüttner teams up with musician Dungeon Acid to reflect on security and risk-taking with starting point in Homer’s “Odyssey” and James Joyce’s “Ulysses.”For the installation Huttner makes use of the unique situation of having a gallery in a hotel. He will invite the guests to reconfigure specially designed aquariums during their stay. He will also reshape an electric pole into a giant oar that will be placed vertically on the roof of the Hotel. The pole alludes to the “Winnowing Oar,” Odysseus was instructed by a soothsayer to take an oar from his ship and to walk inland until he finds a people who know nothing of the sea, where the oar would be mistaken for an agricultural instrument. At this point, he is to offer a sacrifice to Poseidon, and then at last his journeys would be over. The project forms the second part of the Schendel-Fahlström Institute for Research, where the first part was realized at MAM in Sao Paulo in October 2013
Performance by Per Hüttner and Jean-Louis Huhta, 4pm, 29 March, 2014
Concert by Dungeon Acid, 8pm, 29 March, 2014
Private view: 6-8pm, 3 April, 2014
Alam + Petrov, Gobernador Rafael Rebollar 80 esq. Gelati, Col. San Miguel Chapultepec, Mexico City
The exhibition is open until June 1
On March 17, Per Hüttner and Fatos Üstek held a talk and a workshop with the staff and educators at the Nobel Museum in Stockholm to prepare for the project they will present in 2014. In the internal memo to the museum they write
“The project that we bring to the Nobel museum is an attempt to relate slightly differently to the institution. We investigate where it is possible to slightly shift how people think about the museum and how the audiences interact with what is on display. We do so with the hope of making the daily working process a little bit more interesting for you, the audience and us. We try to bring out the innate curiosity that lives in all of us and at the same time re-activate the knowledge produced by eight laureates. In order to do this we are dependent on a series of dialogues and exchanges:
We are relatively ignorant about your audience therefore dependent on your expertise as educators and also to tap into your experiences and knowledge in mediating what you know about the museum and the laureates. The workshop will be an opportunity both talk about these questions and also to discuss the 7 briefcases that will play the central role in the project – so that we together can agree on how to create the briefcases in the best of ways.”
Vision Forum is proud to announce its latest publication. It documents the Think Again project that took place in Shanghai and Hangzhou in May 2012 with projects at Rockbund Art Museum, Mingshen Museum and many more venues. The book is beautifully designed by Guo Xingling from Shanghai and published with Fei Art Center and contains rich visual documentation and critical texts. The book inlcudes work by Wooloo, Natasha Rosling, Per Hüttner, Olav Westphalen, Li Xiaofei, Olafur Jonsson and two texts by Per Hüttner.
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Dungeon Acid and Jean Claude Saintilus performing in Port-au-Prince |
Jean-Louis Huhta/Dungeon Acid has performed with Per Huttner twice as part of the Ghetto Biennale. First performance was a collaborative improvisation where the two mixed the sounds of the interviews carried out in “Is Misunderstanding Misunderstood?” and the sounds of Huttner playing the cage that was the project’s HQ. The second was a collaboration with artist Adler Pierre where Huttner played percussion and local MCs were rapping.
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Jean-Louis Huhta and Per Hüttner performing at Rue de Magazin de l’Etat. |
Per Hüttner’s work “Jogging in Exotic Cities” keeps getting attention. This month Chinese journalist Cheng Wan writes about the project in Beijing-based publication Traveler Magazine. You can read more here (in Chinese only). Parallel to that, Kenneth Gysing is writing about the same project and Hüttner’s approach to running in the Swedish edition of Runners World. More info about the project here.
Event at David Roberts Art Foundation, London – October 29 at 6.30pm.In spring 2003 Chisenhale Gallery commissioned Per Huttner to create an exhibition that reflected on collective and collaborative practices and to developed his experimental exhibition practice. The outcome was I am a Curator (IAAC), a project where people from all walks of life came to the gallery for a day to reflect on the complexity of art and exhibition-making. They did so by researching and negotiating the work of 57 artists with the help of a technical and conceptual team.For the project’s 10-year anniversary, David Roberts Arts Foundation (DRAF) has invited Per Huttner to think about the project and how IAAC has influenced exhibition making.IAAC, along with a handful of other experimental projects, introduced a practice whereby exhibitions changed throughout the time that they were open to the public. The project also provoked profound questions about artistic identity and its relationship to collectivity. Both shifts, in turn, lead to changed perspectives on the relationship between artworks, exhibitions, curators and artists. In short, IAAC opened a floodgate of problematics that overwhelmed the team working with the project. It is therefore important to revisit these questions after 10 years have passed and to see how they have influenced individual artistic processes and how they can guide us into meaningful future reflections on related issues.For the event Per Huttner will reflect of the project together with Celine Condorelli, Stephen Whitmarsh and Veronique Wiesinger.For more info visit here, here or here.
Per Hüttner will show a piece called “The Fahlström-Schendel Institute for Research” at the 33 Panorama da arte brasileira, curated by Lisette Lagnado at Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM) in Sao Paulo in October. The work includes a new film shot in Trinidad in 2013, work by Öyvind Fahlström on loan from Moderna Museet in Stockholm, work by Swiss-born brasilian artist Mira Schendel from the MAM collection. More info about the exhibition here.
Vision Forum is proud to announce the first OuUnPo publication that documents the session in Porto that the took place in spring 2012. The book is edited by Samon Takahashi and Claudia Squitieri, designed by Åbäke and published by Dent-de-Leone. It comes with an 11-track CD and includes documentation of the research carried out in Portugal. The publication includes two texts by Huttner and documentation of the performance, Her Sad Pardone that was performed in collaboration with Fatos Ustek.
18-27 June, 2013
Coordinated by Per Hüttner and Samon Takahashi with support by Najomo.
Venues: Mori Art Museum, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, BankART 1929, Institut français de Tokyo, Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo, Gallery 360°, Creative Hub 131, Traumaris, Kameido Studio, Koganecho Bazaar, Zou No Hana, Nitehi Works, Musashino Art University, Shuhaly farm and Publicus Nihonbashi.
Godzilla and The Phoenix is the second phase in a series of events organized by OuUnPo, and will take place in Japan between 18-27 of June, 2013. OuUnPo has chosen the two mythical creatures, Godzilla and The Phoenix as a starting point to develop dialogue and research with local partners in Japan. The goal is to use local knowledge to gain a deeper understanding of how renewal and creativity are interlinked. Godzilla and The Phoenix represent east and west, but also rebirth from destruction, underlining that every fundamental societal change is based on a different outlook on the world.
The session will address issues like: how can historical problem resolution help and/or mislead us in the present? How do our expectations of the future shape how we see the reality that surrounds us and how we act in the present? How can exchanges between different disciplines and between different cultures offer tools to help us to foster creativity and safeguard diversity?
Previously, OuUnPo held a session in Lebanon (December 2012) and after the Japan session, the group will continue to investigate future topics in Sweden (May 2014) and Brazil (September 2014). During each session, OuUnPo looks at how heritage and crises are linked to explore the similarities and differences in how people respond and deal with situations of regeneration in each country– and most importantly, how negative situations can be used for the development of new ideas and solutions.
OuUnPo is a group of artists, curators and researchers, and operates like an itinerant laboratory co-creating and sharing knowledge through artistic production. Please go to the OuUnPo blog or visit us on Facebook to find a detailed program including addresses and links.
Contributors: Sara Giannini, 西原 鶴真(Kakushin Nishihara), 武谷 大介(Daisuke Takeya), 藤井 光(Hikaru Fujii), 高山 明(Akira Takayama), Natasha Rosling, Yane Calovski, Nikola Nikolovski, 猪飼 尚司(Hisashi Ikai), 柳原 照広(Teruhiro Yanagihara), Damien Faure, 塚本 由晴 (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto ), 東京ピクニッククラブ(Tokyo Pic-Nic Club), Natalia Kamia, 丹羽 良徳(Yoshinori Niwa), Marcus Petterson, Åbäke, 山本 高之(Takayuki Yamamoto), 小泉 明郎(Meiro Koizumi), Raffaella della Olga, 諸泉 茂(Shigeru Moroizumi), 新野 圭二郎(Keijiro Niino), 近藤 健一(Kenichi Kondo), Zeina Assaf, Boat People Association, 山野 真吾(Shingo Yamano), Bucci, 嶋田 勇介(Yusuke Shimada), 須弥山(Shumisen), 工藤 丈輝(Taketeru Kudo), 稲吉 稔(Minoru Inayoshi), Fatos Ustek, Stephen Whitmarsh, Queen’s Ostrich, Elena Nemkova, Carl Stone, Christophe Charles, Megane, 遠藤 一郎(Ichiro Endo), 西﨑 健人(Takehito Nishizaki), 杉田このみ(Konomi Sugita), Jacopo Miliani, 曽我 高明(Takaaki Soga), 中里 和人(Katsuhito Nakazato), 嘉藤 笑子(Emiko Kato), Claudia Squitieri, Per Hüttner and Samon Takahashi.
Godzilla and The Phoenix is supported by Embassy of Sweden in Japan, Institut français de Tokyo, Spiral/ Wacoal Art Center, Musashino Art University, The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation.
OuUnPo is supported by CREED and Linköpings universitet.
Per Huttner shows a freshly edited version of the 2010 video “Do not Go Gentle” at Palais de Tokyo in Paris. It forms a part of Transmedia, curated by Yang Qingqing and organized by Shanghai Theatre Academy. It will be on display June 1-14. More information about the project here and about the exhibition here.
2013-05-01
Per Hüttner contributes with two texts to the catalogue “Vision Forum Film Three Film Collaborations between Sweden and China.”It looks at three projects that Vision Forum has undertaken in 2011-12: The River by Yang Tingting, Effektivia by Jesper Frilund and Assembly Line by Li Xiaofei. The book is edited by Rudi Heinrichsen, translated by Yan Rong and beautifully designed by Erik Månsson.
“This publication is the outcome of “Film and Visual Art: Globalization and Democracy in Sweden and China” , a project that we have developed, in cooperation with Fei Art Center in Shanghai, in order to inspire young people to become involved in issues of globalization, democracy, and human rights through collaborative film ventures. We have brought together young people from Sweden and China and allowed them to reflect on how human beings respond to the pressure that is put on young people in our globalised world.”
Find out more here.