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[Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Newsletter]

    PRODUCE YOUR OWN ELECTRICITY
   EXPERIMENT OF THE ARTISTGROUP REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
   Thursday, 19.th Oktober, 18 p.m.
   Ort: Fitnessstudio „Sport & Freizeit“, Häschenstr. 17, 28199
   Bremen
   ABOUT THE IDEA OF THE UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME
   Ludwig Paul Häußner, University Karlsruhe
   Thursday, 19th October 2006, 7 p.m.
   Afterwards
   A VILLAGE DOES NOTHING
   PROJECTPRESENTATION, FILMSCREENING AND DISKUSSION
   With Elisabeth Schimana, Thomas Frey and Ludwig Paul Häußner
   Thursday, 19th October 2006, about 8.30 p.m.
   Within the framework of
   I’M BUSY
   October 13 2006 – Jnauary 7, 2007
   Opening: October 12, 2006, 8 pm
   FRANCIS ALŸS \ JOHN BALDESSARI \ ALICE CREISCHER/ANDREAS SIEKMANN
   \
   JOSEF DABERNIG \ MATTHIAS KLOS \ AERNOUT MIK \ JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE \
   ADRIAN PACI \ DANICA PHELPS \ REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT \ CORINNA SCHNITT
   \ ELISABETH SCHIMANA/MARKUS SEIDL \ ANTJE SCHIFFERS \ INGO VETTER/
   ANNETTE WEISSER
   What is work? Profession, career and perhaps self-fulfilment are
   models that are still incontestable on the one hand, and are beginning
   to crack on the other – but are nevertheless based on a common
   principle: Work is understood as productivity that is visible and can
   be converted into capital. And what is the opposite of this work? It
   seems to be irreconcilably opposed to idleness, leisure or
   self-determined activity, everyday occupations, necessary, meaningless
   or self-chosen actions. Are they reluctantly accepted accessories to
   effectiveness, the germ cell of identity formation, an evil necessity
   for the regeneration of what really counts – i.e. the ability to
   work -, or are they the paradisiacal realm of freedom?
   The exhibition focuses on discussions revolving around the concepts of
   work and leisure and on the way society evaluates them, particularly
   from the point of view of how those evaluations affect art. The wide
   range of art projects begins with John Baldessari’s statement
   “I’m making art” of the year 1971, arising from the core of the
   essential artistic issue in the studio: What is the relationship
   between what one does and what one produces?

   Curator: Gabriele Mackert
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   WINTERSCHLAF
   24.\25. und 31. Dezember 2006 Geschlossen

   26. Dezember 2006 und 1. Januar 2007 14 – 18 Uhr

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