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Seminario-Discusión de Brumaria en Documenta Halle:
Money, lies and contemporary art centres
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| documenta 12 magazines in Kassel. 3-9 September 2007 |
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with:
Barbara Bauer (Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin), Yael Bergstein (Studio, Tel Aviv), Carlos Prieto del Campo (theorist and editor, Madrid), Alex Cistelecan (IDEA, Cluj), Dario Corbeira (Brumaria, Madrid), Ehren Fordyce (actor, Berlin), Dora García (artist, Brussels), Thommas Keenan (Human Rights Project, New York), Esther Leslie (Radical Philosophy, London), David Levine (theatre director, New York), Irene Montero (Brumaria, Madrid), Timotei Nadasan (IDEA, Cluj), Sina Najafi (Cabinet, New York), Piotr Piotrowski (art historian, Poznan), Eduardo Ramirez (velocidadcrítica, Monterrey), Philippe Rekacewicz (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris), Adrian T. Sirbu (IDEA, Cluj), Eyal Sivan (filmmaker, Paris), Tomas Spencer (actor, Berlin), Jason Tan(Off the Edge, Petaling Jaya), Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (IDEA, Cluj), Attila Tordai-S. (IDEA, Cluj), Eyal Weizman (Cabinet, London), Joseba Zulaika (philosopher, Reno).
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co-organized by Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Copenhagen)
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| Tuesday 4 September |
| 10:00-12:30 |
Set up of Weekly Magazines' Table at documenta Halle |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Lecture
Maps between art and politics |
| A presentation by Philippe Rekacewicz (Le Monde Diplomatique, Paris) with an introduction by Barbara
Bauer (Le Monde Diplomatique, Berlin) |
| “We map-makers must make a point of demolishing the illusion that there can be an official, universally
accepted representation of the world’s political divisions. There is no such thing as the right map showing
the approved version of a country.” In his talk Philippe Rekacewicz will speak about his practice as
geographer-cartographer for Le monde Diplomatique, focusing on aesthetics, habits of looking at things,
how visualization and working at different scales enhances invisible ideologies, and how the cartographic
image meets journalism. |
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| Wednesday 5 September |
| 10:00-12:00 |
Introductory Closed Workshop Session |
A workshop on the politics of writing and editing, as well as of representation. As a part of the online
discussion, the issue of political attachments and aims came up, or more specifically that some magazines
had a political dimension that others either lacked or didn’t share. The question is, however, what exactly
constitutes such a political dimension, how and when is a magazine political?
It is a matter of content or subject matter, a matter of the manner of writing, of intentionality and/or
alignment? Remembering Walter Benjamin’s famous phrase about an art work with the correct political
tendency also having to be the formally most invented, can the same be said of writing? How is writing a
test of politics, as Claude Lefort has suggested? Can it be seen in the scope of the magazine, not only
how it deals with the world and world issues, but also in the world it creates, the horizon it delimits? Or,
shall we find the politics of the magazine not only its writing and editing, but also in its dissemination and
distribution? That is, in another way, its format, but also its alignment with social movements, a political
ideology, or a geopolitical space: What, how and for whom? (as well as, maybe, ‘What is to be done?’...)
And, finally, how does this relate to artistic production and the distribution of the sensible; in a focus on
artists whose methods and aims are aligned with the magazines (and vice versa), or in a critical position
against certain practices and positions? Or, perhaps in a mix between the two, between the descriptive
and prescriptive? |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Lecture
Beyond Democracy, or on the censorship of art in Central Europe, Poland in particular. |
| A lecture by Piotr Piotrowski (Professor Ordinarius and Chair of Art History Department at Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poznan). |
| In this lecture some censorship practices over art will be presented, and will be used as a point of
departure to rise a more general question about freedom and democracy in post-communist countries.
One of the crucial problem here is to ask what is the political, as well as historical background of new
censorship, how it works, and what does it mean for the future. A special interest will be done on the
religious iconography appropriated by the artists as a language of social critique, what in Poland, identified
itself as a catholic country, and somehow repressing those who are outside such a main stream, seems to
be particularly important. Even if Poland is on the main focus of the lecture, a sort of comparative studies
with the experience of other post-communist countries also will be provided. |
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| Thursday 6 September |
| 11:00-13:00 |
Workshop |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Lecture
The politics of magazine making
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| With participating editors of documenta 12 magazines
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| What exactly constitutes a political (art) magazine? Is it a matter of content or subject matter, a matter of the manner of writing, of intentionality and/or alignment? Remembering Walter Benjamin’s famous phrase about an art work with the correct political tendency also having to be the formally most invented, can the same be said of writing? Participating editors of documenta 12 magazines will discuss their policies of magazine making and ways of relating to artistic production. |
| 15:00-16:30 |
Presentation and Discussion
Money, lies and contemporary art centers |
| A discussion with Darío Corbeira (editor Brumaria, Madrid), Carlos P. del Campo (theorist and editor,
Madrid), Dora García (artist, Brussels) and Joseba Zulaika (philosopher, Reno), moderated by Irene
Montero (co-editor Brumaria, Madrid). |
| In the last 20 years Spanish Art Institutions have shown an excessive proliferation. Out of all players
involved – artists, galleries, universities, art fairs, art critics, colectors and media – more than 150
Museums and Contemporary Art Centres in Spain seem to have profited most from public money. Taking
up different examples from the so called "Guggenheim effect" to the spectacular architectonical renovation
of the city of Madrid, the presentation will critically analyze the instrumentalization of cultural institutions
through town-planning, economical and political interests. |
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| Saturday 8 September |
| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Lecture. The Barber Trial: Sivan vs. Finkielkraut |
| An event by Cabinet magazine including Ehren Fordyce, Thomas Keenan, David Levine, Sina Najafi, Eyal
Sivan, Thomas Spencer, and Eyal Weizman. |
In May 2006, a libel suit filed by Paris-based Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan against French philosopher Alain
Finkielkraut was finally brought to court. The trial, at which a number of well-known intellectuals were
called to testify, concerned comments Finkielkraut had made on French radio regarding Route 181, a film
made in 2003 by Sivan and Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi. At heart, the suit turned around a
question of intertextuality, namely the relation between Route 181, which addresses the Palestinian
Naqba, and Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, and by extension, around the problematic of reading the
Holocaust and the Naqba in relation to one another.
For this event, Cabinet magazine, whose current issue presents the full text of the trial along with an
introduction by Eyal Weizman and Thomas Keenan, presents a re-enactment of the trial directed by David
Levine. The re-enactment will be preceded by a screening of the two crucial scenes from Shoah and
Route 181, and followed by an open public debate. |
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Estimados amigos:
A punto de cumplirse un mes desde la inauguración de Documenta 12 de Kassel comenzamos con este artículo el envío de documentos críticos que están siendo elaborados por participantes en el proyecto Documenta Magazines, es decir, opiniones y reflexiones desde dentro de la propia Documenta. Nos ha parecido oportuno enviar, antes de dichos documentos, el texto de Roger Buergel “La migración de la forma” que, a falta de textos de mayor enjundia en el catálogo y las publicaciones de la propia documenta, se constituye en el armazón proyectual e ideológico sobre el que se ha construido la exposición.
11/07/2007 |
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| Roger M. Buergel |
La migración de la forma |
Beat Weber, Kati Morawek
MALMOE |
The Documenta Files |
| Brumaria |
Ferran Adrià en (dentro y fuera) Documenta 12 |
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Brumaria ha sido invitada a participar en documenta 12, dentro de documenta 12 magazines. |
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