Events in Other venues

POPULISM DEBATES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND OTHER EVENTS

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NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, STANDARD (OSLO), and
the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo)
invites you to the launch of

The Populism Catalogue & The Populism Reader

Saturday 10 December at 7 PM
At STANDARD (OSLO)

Presentation

Presentation and short discussion with Cristina Ricupero co-curator of the Populism project, Ina Blom contributor to The Populism Reader, Matias Faldbakken contributor to The Populism Catalogue, Eivind Furnesvik director of STANDARD (OSLO) and Gavin Jantjes curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

The presentation will analyse the discussions and criticism aroused by Populism and introduce texts from the two publications produced: The Populism Catalogue, which documents the four exhibitions and features works of fiction, as a literary approach to the theme, and The Populism Reader, an anthology with theoretical texts about various aspects of populism.

The book launch is co-organized by NIFCA, STANDARD (OSLO) and the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design.

During spring 2005, the Populism exhibition opened in parallel in Vilnius, Oslo, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. The exhibitions closed, 8 June at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, 28 August at Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 4 September at both the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt.

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Book Launch and Panel discussion at the Münzclub
Münzclub

Monday October 10th at 19.30

The Populism project has set out to establish concrete and imaginary spaces for experience, reflexion and discussion linked to the theme of populism. A book launch and panel discussion will take place at the Münzclub in Berlin on October 10, in order to close down the series of debates held throughout the spring and summer at the exhibition venues, as well as at the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art in Malmö, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Nordic House in Reykjavik.

The panel will analyse the discussions and critics aroused by Populism and introduce projects presented in the exhibitions as well as texts from the two publications produced: The Populism Reader, an anthology with theoretical texts about various aspects of populism and The Populism Catalogue, which documents the four exhibitions and features works of fiction as a literary approach to the theme.

The panel discussion is organized by NIFCA, In collaboration with the publisher Lukas & Sternberg - Caroline Schneider

Date & time: Monday October 10th at 19.30
Location: Münzclub
Address:

Moderator: Jörg Heiser
List of panelists (to be confirmed): Participants in the panel discussion are the curators of the Populism project, Lars Bang Larsen, Cristina Ricupero and Nicolaus Schafhausen, the artists Mauricio Dias (Dias & Riedweg), Willem de Rooij, Milica Tomic, Gediminas Urbonas and Antek Walzcak (Bernadette Corporation), who all have participated in the Populism exhibition; Ina Blom and Vanessa Joan Müller contributors of The Populism Reader, and Jean-Charles Massera and Gila Lustiger contributors of The Populism Catalogue

The panel discussion will be held in English. Free entrance. Limited number of places. Please confirm if you wish to attend the discussion by email to: .

 
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Atelier Nord, Oslo (Norway)

Tuesday 23 August 2005, (6:45) 7-9 pm

The Pro-test lab in Vilnius (Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas), the Office for Contemporary Art Norway and Atelier Nord in Oslo invite you to participate in a panel discussion about the politics of urban development and public space in the form of a “TV-bridge” (real-time video streaming) between Norway and Lithuania.

The audience is invited to contribute to the discussion. Please be punctual as the doors close at 6:45.

Time and location:
Tuesday 23 August 2005, (6:45) 7-9 pm

For more information, please contact:

The PRO-TEST LAB at the former ticket office at cinema LIETUVA:

www.vilma.cc/LIETUVA
 

Or Office for Contemporary Art Norway



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Nordic House, Reykjavik (Iceland)

29 May, 2–5 PM

The tendency in European politics over the past decade has been to move toward consensual politics. In the same period, right-wing populism has enjoyed a growing success in many countries, and in others, the grounds for that growth are being shaped now. The debate in Reykjavík will be formed around the argument that the lack of an alternative to the existing hegemonic order has encouraged this success and that, indeed, the disappearance of agonistic politics is undermining democracy. The focus will be on the role of critical artistic practices in reversing this tendency, through their contribution to the fostering of pluralist attitudes, rather than a moralistic one.

For further information please see: www.nordice.is and populism2005.com,
or contact Hanna Styrmisdóttir,

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The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen (Denmark)

7 April–26 May, 7–9 PM

Series of Populism Talks:

7 April: Dismantling Populism through Populism
Barbara Steiner (curator; director at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig)
Jens Haaning (artist)

20 April: Art and Activism
Tone Olaf Nielsen (independent curator)
Jakob Jakobsen (artist)

4 May: The Culture Industry
Simon Sheikh (curator, critic and course leader of the Critical Studies program at Malmö Art Academy)
Anders Michelsen (visual culture lecturer at Copenhagen University)

26 May: “Until the Principles of Form are Applied to Democracy …” and “Populism and Democracy” 
On the populist imagination of the avantgarde.
Ina Blom (Associate Professor, Dept. of Art History, University of Oslo )
Dieter Lesage (Lecturer and Research Coordinator at the Dep. for Audiovisual and Performing Arts (RITS) of the Erasmushogeschool Brussels)

All talks start at 7 PM in the Hishsprung auditorium at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, .

Copenhagen Talk Series organized by Grunduddannelsen (at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Tamar Guimaraes and Lotte Jull Petersen with support from NIFCA.


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Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (Sweden)

8th of April, 4 – 7 PM

Accessibility, Participation and Art as an Independent Force
A panel discussion about populism, art and cultural policy.

Panelists: Gerald Raunig, Rolf Hugoson, and Vanessa Joan Müller
Moderator: Lene Crone Jensen (Rooseum)

The panel at Rooseum will discuss the relation between populism and current cultural politics. Questions addressed will include, how populism articulates itself on a political level and what structuring effects it has or might have on contemporary art. Linking themes addressed by NIFCA’s Populism exhibition and Rooseum’s current exhibition Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?, the panel wishes to debate general tendencies in cultural politics as well as more specific changes within social democratic contexts such as the Nordic.

For further information please see: www.rooseum.se or contact Lene Crone Jensen, Rooseum, Tel. , e-mail:

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For further information on all the Populism Debates
please contact: ,
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