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Ready to...
International Conference, Exhibition, Workshop, Screenings, Performances
Prague October 3-8, 2001
www.fcca.cz/ready

Ready to...an international event that focuses on issues of  fostering,=20
extending, and reframing sustainable partnerships  between artists'=20
initiatives mainly within the West and East Europe. Keywords: international=
=20
networks, seminars, cooperative projects, sharing of experiences.

The conference, organized on the occasion of the IKG 25th=20
Anniversary  Assembly Meeting, is bringing together a diverse group of=20
artists and art  practitioners to examine current issues in the arts. The=20
program aims to  encourage partnerships and review tactical structures and=
=20
channeling flow of experiences by means of critical interpretation of=20
related topics, especially in the field of a cross-cultural framework.=20
Talks focus on  social-cultural issues, reflecting new approaches and=20
seeking strategies for  multi-lateral co-operation, art education, access=20
to the arts. The  conference features seminar on media and archiving as=20
well as screenings of  rare video and film from different collections and=20
mediaarchives. Participants include European members of the IKG, invited=20
guests from CEE  and guest speakers.
Organized by IKG and Center for Contemporary Art Prague.

Opening event: Wednesday, October 3rd
LIGHT COILS (-LIVING ARCHIVES)

Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague www.nod.cz
Time: 7pm - 10pm
Screening of videos and films from selected media archives from Europe=20
and  North America, presenting the artist's view of current=20
social-political  events and issues.
Video by Woody Vasulka: Comission, Art of Memory & Chris Marker: La Jetee=20
Multimedia performance: Jeremy Bernstein (USA)-Bootsquad Research,
www.bootsquad.com

Thursday October 4th

Art & Society
Venue: Goethe Institute, Masarykovo n=E1br. 32, Prague 1
10am - 1pm.
A series of presentations on art education programs, on various=20
cooperations  between artists and educators and on methods of raising art=20
in the public  awarness.
Presentations by: Peter Tomasz Dobrila, (Slovinia)-Cultural Center Kibla,=20
Maribor, Bohuslav Blazek (Prague) eco-sociologist, Jaroslav Van=E8=E1t=20
(Prague), Mediaartist and Theorist, Ute.M.Reindl, (Germany, Cologne), Art=20
Critic and Curator, Svetlana Ostrova (Russia)-program coordinator of=20
ProArte St.Petersburg, Alexandra Brabcova, (Prague), OSF- educational=20
project coordinator and others.

Thursday afternoon
NETWORKS
2:30 - 6:00
Reflections on different strategies, ideas and experiences in developing=20
cultural networks and cross-border cultural initiatives.
Presentations by: Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt (Berlin), editors of an=20
information and communication system on the visual arts of Africa, the=20
Americas, Asia/Pacific, Thomas Kaiser, (Zurich) founder of Bureau 64, an=20
intercultural artists' group that focuses on cross-cultural cooperation as=
=20
social sculpture; Elmar Zorn, Society Imaginaire (Munich); Jerzy Onuch,=20
Center for Contemporary Arts-Kiev, and Treasurer of I_CAN network; Marta=20
Smolikova, Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Open Society Fund=20
Prague,  Walter van der Cruisen, Mediaartist and Theorist, Ryszard Wasko=20
(founder of Construction in Process, Lodz), Joanne Richardson=20
(Romania/USA), media curator and theorist, Zeljko Blace (Croatia), founder=
=20
of Mama media center Zagreb, An Seebach (Germany) and others.
Moderated by Bohuslav Bla=BEek.

Friday 5th October

TRUE STORIES /REAL LIES !!!cancelled!!!!
The alternative program will be announced on the website.
Symposium organized in cooperation with, and under the initiative of, the=20
National Gallery Collection of Modern Art at the Veletr=BEn=ED Palace in=
 honor=20
of Edward Hillel exhibition.

CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT
Universal Space NoD
Opening 5th October till 24th October
6:00 pm Opening performance by Ben Patterson

  Experimental Social Exhibition Project of the "suitcase" works by IKG=20
members, Czech artists and guests from Central and Eastern Europe that=20
focuses on issues such as mobility, mundanity, tranquillity and migration.
Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1
www.nod.cz

Saturday 6th October
BEAR TESTIMONY
National Gallery Prague, Veletr=BEn=ED Palace
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45
Short presentations by IKG members and guests on remarkable and significant=
=20
art and cultural events of recent history.
Venue: Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of Contemporary=
=20
Art, Veletr=BEn=ED Palace, Dukelskych hrdinu 47, Prague 7
  www.ngprague.cz

  VIDEOGRAMMES (Living Archives)
Universal Space NoD
8:00 pm
Performance by Jens Brand.
Screenings of works by Harun Farocki-Videogrammes, Michael=20
Benson-Prediction of Fire, Judith Kopper, Aleinikovs Brothers, etc.

Sunday 7th October
THE LIVING ARCHIVE I.
National Gallery Prague, Veletrzni Palace
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45

Seminar, intiated by Chris Hill, media curator and professor at Antioch=20
College, USA, will present the media archive as a specific cultural=20
artifact and a critical reference point for a range of contemporary=20
artists' works. Archives give rise to discussions around cultural=20
identities, socio-cultural contexts, and evolving ideas about access to=20
information.

Screenings will include works by Harun Farocki, Judith Kopper, Not Channel=
=20
Zero, Michael Benson, Woody Vasulka etc. as well as from selected Eastern=20
European media collections in Moscow, Wroclow, Budapest and elsewhere.
Speakers: Zeljko Blace (Zagreb), Keiko Sei (Brno), Irina=20
Lavrushkina(Moscow), Joanne Richardson (Rumania/USA), Chris Hilll (USA),=20
Milos Vojtechovsky (Prague), Judith Kopper (Budapest), Piotr Krajewski=20
(Wroclow), Jozef Czeres, Michal Murin (Slovakia), Herwig Turk (Austria),=20
Barbara Lattanzi, (USA), Tjebbe van Tiijen (Amsterdam), Paul Hookham &=20
Stewart Wilson (GB), Ales Opekar (Prague), Frank Kunkel (Berlin) and others.

CAPTURED IMAGE (Living Archives)
Sunday 7th
Universal Space NoD
8:00 - 10 pm
Continuation of screening program.

Monday 8th October
LIVING ARCHIVE II.
Institut Francais Prag
10:00-12:00 and 4:00 - 6:00

updated info:
www.fcca.cz/ready
under construction

Funding for Ready to... has been made possible through support provided by=
=20
the Czech German Future Fund in Prague, the Open Society Foundation=20
Cultural link Program, the German Embassy in Prague, ArtsLink program CEC=20
International Partners, British Council Prague, Ministry of Culture of=20
Czech Republic, German Embassy Prague.

Ready to...is being organized by: the Internationales Kunstlergremium and=20
the Center for Contemporary Art Prague, in cooperation with the Goethe=20
Institut Prag, National Gallery Prague Collection of Modern and=20
Contemporary Art, Kr=E1tk=FD Film Praha, a.s., NoD Universal Space,=
 Institute=20
Francais Prague, and others.

link to IKG site
http://www.ikg-art.org

contacts:
Georg Dietzler,
Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer des Internationalen K=FCnstlergremiums,
Im Stavenhof 17; 50668 K=F6ln;
Tel.: +49 - 221 - 123 383;
Fax +49 - 221 - 913 0663;
mailto:GDietzler@aol.com

Milos Vojtechovsky
Center for Contemporary Arts
Medialab
Jeleni 9
118 00 Praha 1
Czech Republic
tel +420 2 24373178
email: milos@fcca.cz

Liz Rymland
Center for Contemporary Arts
rymland@hotmail.com

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Ready to... 
International Conference, Exhibition, Workshop, Screenings,
Performances 
Prague October 3-8, 2001 
<a=
 href=3D"http://www.fcca.cz/ready" eudora=3D"autourl">www.fcca.cz/ready 
 
</a>Ready to...an international
event that focuses on issues of&nbsp; fostering, extending, and reframing
sustainable partnerships&nbsp; between artists' initiatives mainly within
the West and East Europe. Keywords: international networks, seminars,
cooperative projects, sharing of experiences. 
 
The conference, organized on the occasion of the IKG 25th
Anniversary&nbsp; Assembly Meeting, is bringing together a diverse group
of artists and art&nbsp; practitioners to examine current issues in the
arts. The program aims to&nbsp; encourage partnerships and review
tactical structures and channeling flow of experiences by means of
critical interpretation of related topics, especially in the field of a
cross-cultural framework. Talks focus on&nbsp; social-cultural issues,
reflecting new approaches and seeking strategies for&nbsp; multi-lateral
co-operation, art education, access to the arts. The&nbsp; conference
features seminar on media and archiving as well as screenings of&nbsp;
rare video and film from different collections and mediaarchives.
Participants include European members of the IKG, invited guests from
CEE&nbsp; and guest speakers. 
Organized by IKG and Center for Contemporary Art Prague. 
 
Opening event: Wednesday, October 3rd 
LIGHT COILS (-LIVING ARCHIVES) 
 
Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague
<a href=3D"http://www.nod.cz/" eudora=3D"autourl">www.nod.cz</a><font=
 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica">
 
Time: 7pm - 10pm 
Screening of videos and films from selected media archives from Europe
and&nbsp; North America, presenting the artist's view of current
social-political&nbsp; events and issues. 
Video by Woody Vasulka: Comission, Art of Memory &amp; Chris Marker: La
Jetee Multimedia performance: Jeremy Bernstein (USA)-Bootsquad
Research, 
<a=
 href=3D"http://www.bootsquad.com/" eudora=3D"autourl">www.bootsquad.com 
 
</a>Thursday October 4th 
 
Art &amp; Society 
Venue: Goethe Institute, Masarykovo n=E1br. 32, Prague 1 
10am - 1pm. 
A series of presentations on art education programs, on various
cooperations&nbsp; between artists and educators and on methods of
raising art in the public&nbsp; awarness. 
Presentations by: Peter Tomasz Dobrila, (Slovinia)-Cultural Center Kibla,
Maribor, Bohuslav Blazek (Prague) eco-sociologist, Jaroslav Van=E8=E1t
(Prague), Mediaartist and Theorist, Ute.M.Reindl, (Germany, Cologne), Art
Critic and Curator, Svetlana Ostrova (Russia)-program coordinator of
ProArte St.Petersburg, Alexandra Brabcova, (Prague), OSF- educational
project coordinator and others. 
 
 
Thursday afternoon 
NETWORKS 
2:30 - 6:00 
Reflections on different strategies, ideas and experiences in developing
cultural networks and cross-border cultural initiatives. 
Presentations by: Pat Binder &amp; Gerhard Haupt (Berlin), editors of an
information and communication system on the visual arts of Africa, the
Americas, Asia/Pacific, Thomas Kaiser, (Zurich) founder of Bureau 64, an
intercultural artists' group that focuses on cross-cultural cooperation
as social sculpture; Elmar Zorn, Society Imaginaire (Munich); Jerzy
Onuch, Center for Contemporary Arts-Kiev, and Treasurer of I_CAN network;
Marta Smolikova, Cultural Programs Coordinator at the Open Society Fund
Prague,&nbsp; Walter van der Cruisen, Mediaartist and Theorist, Ryszard
Wasko (founder of Construction in Process, Lodz), Joanne Richardson
(Romania/USA), media curator and theorist, Zeljko Blace (Croatia),
founder of Mama media center Zagreb, An Seebach (Germany) and
others. 
Moderated by Bohuslav Bla=BEek. 
 
Friday 5th October 
 
TRUE STORIES /REAL LIES !!!cancelled!!!! 
The alternative program will be announced on the website. 
Symposium organized in cooperation with, and under the initiative of, the
National Gallery Collection of Modern Art at the Veletr=BEn=ED Palace in
honor of Edward Hillel exhibition. 
 
CHECK-IN/CHECK-OUT 
Universal Space NoD 
Opening 5th October till 24th October 
6:00 pm Opening performance by Ben Patterson 
 
&nbsp;Experimental Social Exhibition Project of the &quot;suitcase&quot;
works by IKG members, Czech artists and guests from Central and Eastern
Europe that focuses on issues such as mobility, mundanity, tranquillity
and migration. 
Venue: Universal Space NoD, Dlouha 33, 1st floor, Prague 1 
<a=
 href=3D"http://www.nod.cz/" eudora=3D"autourl">www.nod.cz 
 
</a>Saturday 6th October 
BEAR TESTIMONY 
National Gallery Prague, Veletr=BEn=ED Palace 
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45 
Short presentations by IKG members and guests on remarkable and
significant art and cultural events of recent history. 
Venue: Auditorium of the National Gallery at the Collection of
Contemporary Art, Veletr=BEn=ED Palace, Dukelskych hrdinu 47, Prague 7 
&nbsp;<a href=3D"http://www.ngprague.cz/" eudora=3D"autourl"><font=
 face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" color=3D"#0000FF">www.ngprague.cz 
 
</a>&nbsp;VIDEOGRAMMES (Living
Archives) 
Universal Space NoD 
8:00 pm 
Performance by Jens Brand. 
Screenings of works by Harun Farocki-Videogrammes, Michael
Benson-Prediction of Fire, Judith Kopper, Aleinikovs Brothers, etc. 
 
Sunday 7th October 
THE LIVING ARCHIVE I. 
National Gallery Prague, Veletrzni Palace 
10:15-12:15 and 1:45-5:45 
 
Seminar, intiated by Chris Hill, media curator and professor at Antioch
College, USA, will present the media archive as a specific cultural
artifact and a critical reference point for a range of contemporary
artists' works. Archives give rise to discussions around cultural
identities, socio-cultural contexts, and evolving ideas about access to
information. 
 
Screenings will include works by Harun Farocki, Judith Kopper, Not
Channel Zero, Michael Benson, Woody Vasulka etc. as well as from selected
Eastern European media collections in Moscow, Wroclow, Budapest and
elsewhere. 
Speakers: Zeljko Blace (Zagreb), Keiko Sei (Brno), Irina
Lavrushkina(Moscow), Joanne Richardson (Rumania/USA), Chris Hilll (USA),
Milos Vojtechovsky (Prague), Judith Kopper (Budapest), Piotr Krajewski
(Wroclow), Jozef Czeres, Michal Murin (Slovakia), Herwig Turk (Austria),
Barbara Lattanzi, (USA), Tjebbe van Tiijen (Amsterdam), Paul Hookham
&amp; Stewart Wilson (GB), Ales Opekar (Prague), Frank Kunkel (Berlin)
and others. 
 
CAPTURED IMAGE (Living Archives) 
Sunday 7th 
Universal Space NoD 
8:00 - 10 pm 
Continuation of screening program. 
 
Monday 8th October 
LIVING ARCHIVE II. 
Institut Francais Prag 
10:00-12:00 and 4:00 - 6:00 
 
updated info: 
<a=
 href=3D"http://www.fcca.cz/ready" eudora=3D"autourl">www.fcca.cz/ready 
</a>under construction 
 
Funding for Ready to... has been made possible through support provided
by the Czech German Future Fund in Prague, the Open Society Foundation
Cultural link Program, the German Embassy in Prague, ArtsLink program CEC
International Partners, British Council Prague, Ministry of Culture of
Czech Republic, German Embassy Prague. 
 
Ready to...is being organized by: the Internationales Kunstlergremium and
the Center for Contemporary Art Prague, in cooperation with the Goethe
Institut Prag, National Gallery Prague Collection of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Kr=E1tk=FD Film Praha, a.s., NoD Universal Space, Institut=
e
Francais Prague, and others. 
 
link to IKG site 
<a=
 href=3D"http://www.ikg-art.org/"=
 eudora=3D"autourl">http://www.ikg-art.org 
 
</a>contacts: 
Georg Dietzler, 
Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer des Internationalen K=FCnstlergremiums, 
Im Stavenhof 17; 50668 K=F6ln; 
Tel.: +49 - 221 - 123 383; 
Fax +49 - 221 - 913 0663; 
<a=
 href=3D"mailto:GDietzler@aol.com"=
 eudora=3D"autourl">mailto:GDietzler@aol.com 
 
</a>Milos Vojtechovsky 
Center for Contemporary Arts 
Medialab 
Jeleni 9 
118 00 Praha 1 
Czech Republic 
tel +420 2 24373178 
email: milos@fcca.cz 
 
Liz Rymland 
Center for Contemporary Arts 
rymland@hotmail.com 
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