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Mediaspace
For the first time Wand 5 e.V. was announcing an open competition to select the media-space 09 curatorteam. There were no limitations on the means of implementation. The purpose of this open competition was to establish a new experimental space - an >open space< in which artists can perform. (>> more) -
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Exclusive art booms despite finance crisis
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some texts I came across
ROBERT WADE / FINANCIAL REGIME CHANGE?
As stock markets plunge and governments scramble to bail out the finance sector, Robert Wade argues that we are exiting the neoliberal paradigm that has held sway since the 1980s. Causes and repercussions of the crisis, and errors of the model that brought it to fruition. >> read on
ROBIN BLACKBURN / THE SUBPRIME CRISIS
As reverberations from the stricken mortgage market reach the real economy, Robin Blackburn reveals the origins of the crunch in the shadowy realms of financialization. Precedents from the bubbles and crash of the 1920s, warnings from pioneers and venture capitalists, and proposals for how to turn the crisis to socially redistributive effect. >> read on
further by Wade: The financial crisis: burst bubble, frayed model
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hi, Chris, yesterday I was looking to your project idea worldtrade ! There are many interesting and important thoughts and I like the possible interactivity with the visitors. I only was thinking of that the interpretation of the worldtradecenter catastrophe as the main subject gets too much weight in a discussion about the actual world wide finance crisis and what are the currently consequences. Could you imagine to include more ideas in your installation in addition to?
analyses I could work with
Wow, Steffi, your posting from 10/27 gives links to impressive analyses:
- two long comments about the crisis in german language - interviews with Robert Kurz and Erwin Wagenhofer.
- a trailer about Wagenhofer´s right-in-time-coming movie “let´s make money”. This movie, growing since three years, will give us “problems” to say things closer, more emotinal, in our way, in Media Space installations to the same theme.
Until this moment I wanted to invite members of Attac for an evening of discussion in Media Space Stuttgart… but I feel inspired after reading Robert Kurz, to sit on these already given correct analyses, and to try the artistical crazyness of giving - don´t laugh - ideas of solution.
From me there will come three ideas… but I must imagine a government beyond actual governments, watching three focusses - the impossibility of long-time credit akkumulation, the climax of richess if you have your first two million dollars, and - this is no actual, but for me an important focus - the growth of money and time consuming adminstrations in large social structures.
actual links to finance-crash
Telepolis: Interview (german) with crisis-theoreticer Robert Kurz:, part 1,2:
part 1
part 2
Interview (german) with Erwin Wagenhofer, filmmaker: “Let’s make money” starts October 31st
Interview “Tagesschau”
Media-Space blogstart
At the End of October 2008 the Media-Space which is part of the Stuttgarter Filmwinter, an internationally renowned Film festival that features short film, experimental film and new media, is starting now an online curator discussion to establish a new experimental space and built up the program fort the show in January.
To start the blog I want to cite some examples that were already posted in our mailing list and formed a first concept:
„…we look at the current global economic crisis. It propagates stock market by stock market and effects our lives deeply. How do artists react to such man-made global crises?…“
„… Since days I have the same mad pic in my mind: There is still a world trade center. And a third plane crushes in. It´s based on the way economy was flying the last twenty years. …“
„… as it means definitly a certain end to the most recent form of neo-liberalism - how will it effect us - will it open up again a wider door for non-commercial, or just not strictly commercial art forms .. will it allow to bring in a more substantial discourse as the focus might shift to immaterial aspects of (behind) the assets and effects …“
„…language suddenly becomes ambivalent in a new way, as financial terms, nobody of us really knew some weeks ago, now becomes familiar with…“
„…this theme not only moves from local to global .. but back again …
Thus this narrow theme is very wide reaching, and eventually incorporates already the shift from local to global - to ‘lobal and glocal’ or any other hybrid form of it. …“
„…did neo-liberalism ever limit „non-commercial, or just not strictly commercial art forms“? People who act as artists in non-commercial art forms had their place in this neo liberalistic business world. We had small enemies like „being grabbed and sold“. But not the big enemies - I see them in any kind of dictatorship, and in structures with lots of administration too.
That´s why I don´t feel a change in my social position as an artist actually. But I see a chance for Media Space being actual. …“
„…there was and is a ´global lobotomy …“
„…The goverments buy bad credits with mad risks. It´s another way of handling the crisis than it was handled 1929. But uuuh, they agree in October 2008 that they don´t know what will happen in next weeks, months or years. …“
„… the reference I had in mind came more from the ‘Betriebsystem Kunst’, which just days before the crash was used so superficially again by Damien Hirst and his big sell-out … (keeping in mind that the items never might be anything worth again … and even never might be paid .. will we ever know?) …“
„… comparing this to the big sell-outs or/and deals of the banks and other risky gamblers, who are playing just with some more or less virtual ‘assets’ on the stock market .. and when it all goes wrong and the world is in crisis - which will have eventual overall effects, not just to the stock owners … they are kind of shocked that someone might be against having them receiving their ‘bonus’…“
„…’democratic control’ is a sort of nice construction…“
„…So it seems that we all converge on an interest in the suggested topics of finances and virtual labor…“
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Wand5 and the online curator team would sincerely like to invite everyone who interested to follow our discussion up and join the Media-Space during the presentation which is in January 22nd-25th.
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mediaspace blog
Hello, everyone ..
finally the mediaspace blog appears on the www. It is still a bit rudimentary due to some problems which occurred in the installation, but it is still worked on and will improve over the next few days. Which should not stop anybody to bring in their on ideas/improvements …. gadgets/widgets … so forth.
But most important:
With this post the platform is open now and your contributions highly appreciated !!!!
For those, who wonder that we have currently an elder wordpress version installed - it is because of the database version on the homeserver, which will be renewed in the next time period. So this will hopefully be updated during the next 2 or 3 weeks. .. also a tagcloud eventually, a better calender focusing on events, etc….
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