[artinfo] Fwd: Utopia Station at World Social Forum in Porto Alegre

[St. Auby Tamas]

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> Date: 27. January. 2005. 17:43:31 CET
> To: "iput at c3.hu" <iput at c3.hu>
> Subject: Utopia Station at World Social Forum in Porto Alegre
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> 01/27/05
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>  Utopia Station
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>  the UTOPISTICS poster designed by
> Rirkrit Tiravanija and Immanual Wallerstein
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>  Utopia Station
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> World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil
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> January 26-31, 2005
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> Utopia Station being not one but several way-stations, as a project it 
> comes in steps. The next step moves it to the annual global meeting of 
> the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil on January 26-31, 2005. 
> Utopia Station this time will become a Station without walls:
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> a video program (with work by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo 
> Calzadilla, Matthew Barney, Dara Birnbaum, Pash Buzari, Paul Chan, 
> Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Joseph Grigely, Pierre Huyghe, Isaac 
> Julien, Alexander Kluge, Jonas Mekas, Lygia Pape, Philippe Parreno, 
> Martha Rosler, Natasha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala and Edi Rama, Allan 
> Sekula, Anton Vidokle, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Lawrence Weiner, and 
> Yang Fudong) has been designed to be broadcast late night as part of 
> the regular programming of TVE - Televisao Educativa Rio Grande do Sul 
> (http://www.tve.com.br );
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> a bi-lingual radio show, hosted by Arto Lindsay, for Radio Ipanema FM, 
> 94.9 MHZ
> (http://www.ipanema.com.br ) on Sunday at 1 p.m. Brazilian time (4 
> p.m. GMT).
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> the Utopia Station poster project (http://www.e-flux.com ) will 
> appear, one poster at a time on city walls;
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> a traveling bus will be used to improvise mobile programming, 
> projections, screenings, performances and presence on the grounds of 
> the Forum and around the city;
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> a daybook of observations, exchanges and projects will be compiled 
> subsequently and made available on the e-flux website.
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> For this will also be a Station at work.
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> The World Social Forum, a truly international meeting of activists, 
> concerned global citizens, public intellectuals and private 
> consciences, was constituted as such in 2001. The Forum aims to 
> provide the ground for change and to enable those working for better, 
> more equitable civil societies throughout the world to meet, learn, 
> listen and debate. In this, it is decidedly not aiming to constitute 
> itself as a political party and it is always stressed that political 
> parties per se are not permitted to organize events within its 
> purview. The events and panels of the Forum have included some of the 
> most famous radical voices of our day (Nelson Mandela, Arundhati Roy, 
> Mustapha Bargouti, Shirin Ebadi, Gilberto Gil, Jose Bove, Immanuel 
> Wallerstein), alongside the less well-known grassroots street 
> activists (environmentalists, human rights advocates, labor 
> organizers, resistance movements, antiwar demonstrators, sharp critics 
> of the neoliberal economy, protesters). It is usually, and accurately, 
> described as a movement of movements. Its battle cry is utopian: 
> Another World Is Possible.
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> In many ways the dynamic of the World Social Forum provides Utopia 
> Station with a parallel formation. It too is a way-station but much 
> larger (150,000 people are expected); it too hosts a great variety of 
> activities (at any moment there are 50 panels and activities to choose 
> from); it too prizes talking and working together. But the relation of 
> art to everything else has not been its primary concern. This year, 
> for the first time, the WSF has put culture forward on the agenda and 
> asked how culture's work can express the diverse horizons of the 
> movements, the contradictions and perspectives. Culture is being 
> understood simply as part of a liberated social life. Its role is up 
> for discussion. This is a discussion that those involved with Utopia 
> Station will join.
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> The decision to take Utopia Station to Porto Alegre sends a jolt into 
> the path of the project-it is tantamount to completely changing its 
> institutional ground, which heretofore has been indebted to 
> universities, a biennale, a museum and a theatre. This week Utopia 
> Station will find itself in a situation where the rules for art's 
> behaviour have not been set and the ground from which those concerned 
> proceed is in fact a globalized view of the world that does not yet 
> have a single project or a name. To give it the utopian language of 
> Edouard Glissant, we have all been offered a tremblement.
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> co-produced by Jochen Volz and the CACI Foundation, Belo Horizonte
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