[artinfo] (fwd) iWorkers' Club project at IBCA 2005 Prague

[Andreas Broeckmann]

WORKERS’ CLUB AT IBCA 2005  National Gallery in Prague
14. 06. – 11. 09. 2005
Inauguration: 13 June, 6 - 10 pm

Curator: Suzana Milevska

The project Workers’ Club is going to take place as one of the 30
curatorial projects to be exhibited during the International Biennale of
Contemporary Art 2005 at the National Gallery in Prague, at its main space
in Veletržní Palác. It is imagined as a kind of ironic re-staging of the
workers’ club shows that used to be organised in most of the communist
countries on the occasions such as anniversaries, public holidays and
other celebrations. During such shows various sections of the local
workers’ clubs could present their activities in a form of poetry
readings, drama and sketch performances, concerts, exhibitions, quiz
shows, chess and sport tournaments. By miming this format of workers’
clubs’ shows (but not their content) the project Workers’ Club offers an
informal ‘stage’ for interaction between art and cultural ‘workers’, and
members of the audience (in a way ‘workers’ themselves). The project’s
main aim is not any kind of call for revival of the original concept of
workers’ clubs but it rather intends to enable a ‘second sight’, a kind of
framework for revisiting and critical re-evaluation of this extinct
phenomenon of self-organisation and social ‘design’. The visitors are
invited to mingle and communicate with the project’s participants and
through various art concepts to re-consider the relevance of the issues of
work and organisation of work, self-organisation, measurement of working
time, and also the issues of idleness and organisation of leisure time in
the cultural and art context.


Artists and projects:
Zdenko Bužek, Bužek Comedy Club, 2005 performance
Susan Kelly and Stephen Morton, What is to be Done?
Time-Work-Organisation, 2002-2005
installation, on-going archive and conference
Tanja Ostojić and Fahim Amir, European Capitalism and the Need for
Metapolitics, 2005
speech and discussion
Dan Perjovschi, Working&Clubbing: The Prague Report, 2005
wall-newspaper and printed newspaper
Tadej Pogačar, MonApoly - A Human Trade Game, 2004
Interactive board game (41 x 28 x 5 cm), edition of 100
Produced by GFZK, Leipzig and P.A.R.A.S.I.T.E. Museum of Contemporary Art
Mladen Stilinović, Work is a Disease – Karl Marx, 1979 (2004)
text on T-shirt  (edition of 150) and
text, acryl on silk, 20 x 80 cm
Mladen Stilinović, The Praise of Laziness, 1993
print on paper, 40x30cm

Workers’ Club Conference and Labour Party
14 June, 10.00 am - 6.00 pm,
National Gallery – Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Veletržní Palác
Praha 7 - Holešovice, Dukelských hrdinů 47



THE IBCA 2005 – NATIONAL GALLERY IN PRAGUE IS HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
VÁCLAV KLAUS, PRESIDENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, PAVEL DOSTÁL, MINISTER OF
CULTURE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC, AND PAVEL BÉM, LORD MAYOR OF THE CAPITAL
CITY OF PRAGUE.

PREPARATORY TEAM:
PRESIDENT OF IBCA: MILAN KN͎ÁK, GENERAL DIRECTOR, NATIONAL GALLERY IN PRAGUE
MAIN CURATOR OF IBCA: TOMÁŠ VLČEK, DIRECTOR OF THE COLLECTION OF
MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, NATIONAL GALLERY IN PRAGUE
CO-ORDINATOR OF IBCA: SVĚTLANA MICHAJLOVÁ
PRODUCTION MANAGER OF IBCA: ŠÁRKA PODLIPNÁ

INTERNATIONAL BOARD OF EXPERTS:
ANTHONY VIDLER – DEAN, COOPER UNION, NEW YORK, USA
ROBERT FITZPATRICK – DIRECTOR, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO, USA
DAVID JOSELIT – YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, USA
MARIA ANNA POTOCKÁ – DIRECTOR, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CRACOW, POLAND



Contact for journalists:
Petra Jungwirthová
Head of the Public Relations Department
Kinski Palace, Staromìstské Square 12, Prague 1
phone: 222 321 459
e-mail address: jungwirthova at ngprague.cz or
Contact the curator: suzanamilevska at yahoo.com
http://www.ngprague.cz/biennale/projects.php?lng=en&cat=c&id=13