'OLD HABITS DIE HARD'in SPARWASSER HQ, BERLIN"Old habits die hard" is organized by Initiated for Sparwasser HQ Opened on Monday the 29th of September at 9 PM "art forum berlin 2003" Spezial: Party at the 4th of October
from 11 PM FIRST INVITATION SEND OUT TO ARTIST RUN SPACES AND COLLECTIVESOld Habits Die Hard, Organized by
INVITATION We are delighted to invite you to participate in the project "Old habits die hard", 50 videos selected by 50 international artist run spaces and collectives.This will be exhibiting in Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, in October and November 2003. We ask you to choose the best art video you can think of (and get hold on). There is no topic or other issue to relate to when selecting the video. The video has to be less than 15 MINUTES long.
AIM We do not ask for a video showing or presenting your space or collective, but we would like to show an art video SELECTED by your space/ collective.
DEADLINE 1 November 2003
CATALOG Please send along a short description of the video as well, it will be needed for a low cost catalog, a manual for the show.
FORMAT The video you send has to be either Pal and NTSC and it has to be on a DV mini tape.
ADDRESS Please send to the
CONTEXT In order to show, who chose the art video, we would like to have a short description of the your collective, your activities (and the space). CONTACT mail@sparwasserhq.de
ANSWER please send us a note, for us to see that you received this mail and in order to say that you consider to participate.
HOMEPAGE A homepage will be made within the next week, where you can see how the project develops, a copy of the catalog will be available here.
EXHIBITION The videos we receive will be installed in the rooms of Sparwasser, according to character of videos we receive and our equipment available. There will be one wall projection and several monitor installed, we will install the videos, once a day we screen video compilations.The exhibition will change from day to day and the structure of this developement will be presented in the manual. There will be an archive, where all the participating art videos are accessible and where a catalog of the participating art spaces can be studied.
ORGANIZATION Heman Chong (SG/Berlin), artist FOR Sparwasser HQ AND Sparwasser Online: http://www.sparwasserhq.de Opened on Monday the 29th of September at 9 PM
GENERAL INFORMATION Sparwasser HQ is a non-commercial artist run space. Sparwasser HQ's practice is characterized by an open, process-oriented participation from a large group of artists and theorists, influencing the program as well as the day to day running of the space. Theory and organization result from this artistic collaboration. New projects grow out of an intense exchange of ideas, leading to constant questioning and reformulating of Sparwasser's strategies. A broader field of work, including monthly exhibitions combined with video screenings, artist talks and live performances, re-examines the context of contemporary art practice and expands our objectives. Since the beginning of the project in the summer of 2000, we have been able to build up and establish our position as a place of communication. Sparwasser HQ is linked to the Scandinavian art scene, while defining itself as part of an international, multilingual scene. Sparwasser HQ combines theory and practice, production and communication, politics and aesthetics. With the aim of examining contemporary society and the conditions of artistic production by confronting various artistic and curatorial practices, we consider art an important form of alternative knowledge production. Combining a tight international exhibition program with an intensive communication activity (ideas lab), Sparwasser has become an vital element of the art scene in Berlin. Being aware of the tradition of cultural activism and the highly political consciousness of the Berlin art scene many dialog events are catching up on the problematic of the political situation on a global street level, and so producing the curatorial condition for future exhibitions. Sparwasser has existed since summer 2000. Within this period 28 group exhibitions has been organized. ca. 300 participating artists/theorists have been connected to a network used to distribute information and exchange knowledge. Curatorial strategy: All exhibitions are made on the basic of collaborations and research among artists, developing the conceptual, theoretical and organizing strategies as a consequence of this collaborative process. |
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