[artinfo] Visibility Works II. - workshops by Marjolijn Dijkman and Inga Zimprich, Hungarian University of Fine Arts

Tue Mar 4 12:42:42 CET 2008

VISIBILITY WORKS     

Metahaven Design Research: 
Vinca Kruk (NL), Daniel van der Velden (NL) Gon Zifroni (BE/ NL): Academy
Flows 
(20/02  23/02.2008)
Katarina Zdjelar: Residue Department (20/02  23/02.2008.)
Marjolijn Dijkman (NL): Geography is a Flavour (10/03  13/03.2008.)
Inga Zimprich (D/NL): Department of Practice (10/03-13/03.2008.)
Curated by: Eszter Lázár
Finissage: 13. March 2008. 7 PM
Venue: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall
1062 Budapest, Andrassy 69-71
www.mke.hu

The program will be realised in the framework of the LOW Dutch-Flemish
Festival

The aim of the program 'Visibility Works', hosted by the Hungarian
University of Fine Arts, is to encourage students, professors and the
general public to think aloud and work together. The exhibition and workshop
series will be held in the exhibition space of the university, which will be
transformed into a meeting point, a classroom, a professors' study, a studio
and an office for the occasion.

The program of workshops run by the guest artists  the 'guest professors'
of the university  will be closely linked to the building  the education
facility  as well as to the training of artists and the processes of
artistic creativity. The program will provide an opportunity for students
and all participants to discuss the legitimacy of academic training, forms
of representation of the university and possible new visual strategies.

On display on the walls of the exhibition space will be works presenting the
earlier projects of the invited artists  Inga Zimprich (D/NL), Metahaven
Design Research (NL), Katarina Zdjelar (YU/NL), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL).
These will be continually added to and complemented with the material
results of the workshop.

Presentation by the students about the realised projects of Visibility Works
I.: 6 March 2008 11 AM, Barcsay Hall
Marjolijn Dijkman and Inga Zimprich will talk about their previous projects
and the workshops:  10 March 2008. 5 PM, Barcsay Hall

Visibility Works II. 
Marjolijn Dijkman: Geography is a Flavour
date: 10.03  13.03 March 2008. 
venue: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall and different venues
in Budapest

Her practice consists of the parts that are closely interconnected: research
projects that are carried out all over the world, site-specific
interventions and the initiative Enough Room for Space. The ongoing research
aims to gain an insight into the way in which the world is organised. Not by
means of abstract maps and purely geographical data, but by arranging
photographic registrations of the world according to personal criteria. The
archive is a footing for site-specific interventions as well as a reflection
of the many travels she has undertaken to realise interventions. By making
temporary structural alterations, by reorganising objects and spatial
characteristics she queries the meaning and stratification of space. By
recording the traces of other peoples actions, or by making a confronting
gesture vis-à-vis the actual organisation of the space, these works
reinforce the existent characteristics. Proceeding from the wish and the
necessity to collaborate with others to further develop my thinking and
working methods, she has initiated several collaboration projects. In 2005
she set up Enough Room for Space <http://www.enoughroomforspace.org>
(ERforS) together with Maarten Vanden Eynde. Since 2007 Martijn Hendriks is
jointly running and coordinating this foundation.
About her projects: http://www.marjolijndijkman.com/

It seems that Budapest is the third most popular destination in the world
for luxury weekend gateways. How is the city influenced by the tourism and
what kind of influences from outside Hungary did this bring along? 
In a three day photography workshop she would like to investigate together
with the participants how geographical references to different places are
build into the city and how the city is influenced by tourism. The workshop
will be a dialogue between Dijkman 'as a short visit tourist' and the
students who live in the city. 
If you would like to take part in the workshop, please prepare the
following: 
1 an image of Budapest used by tourism in the folders, shops etc.
2. an image you have of your own city and why that would be different form
the previous one.

Inga Zimprich
Department of Practice 
Date: 10.03  13.03. 2008.
venue: Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Barcsay Hall

Inga Zimprich studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, and at the
Jan Van Eyck Academie, NL, and curated for the project space Public Space
With A Roof, Amsterdam (2004 / 2005). Departing from socially engaged
art-practices she is interested in the potential of opening speculative
spaces through artistic thinking, experiencing the internet once again as a
valuable tool to re-negotiate contexts and relations, to speculate about the
making of and distribution of knowledge, touching upon concepts such as
university, access, in-/exclusion and the making of a public sphere.
She has conducted the Thinktank 0.1  A groupware research and development
project since 2005 which questions values, methods and principles developed
in self-organized contexts and within socially engaged practices and their
possible transfer into online environments. She initiated the Faculty of
Invisibilty project which <http://www.alterfin.net/congress/foi.html>
dedicates itself to answering the central questions 'what is artistic
research and production', by following case-studies of persons who practice
artistic research and production. 
More about her projects: http://con-gress.net/

>From March 10th to March 13th the Department of Practice will be put in
practice in the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary.
Invited to reflect with students on the degree the university is visible to
itself within and to the public outside, the Department of Practice proposes
to practice the question of university. Who are students? Why are you? How
does one teach art? If you were to create an art-academy, what would be the
entrance exam? When would students graduate? What would they have learned?
The Department of Practice publishes assignments which can be issued by
anybody excercised by anybody  or not. 
You can issue own assignments at http://practice.tinka.cc/en/create-content
At all times it is possible to graduate from the Department of Practice. The
Graduation Certificate can be downloaded here: http://practice.tinka.cc
<http://practice.tinka.cc/> 
and can be stamped in the University of Fine Arts. This website offers an
unmoderated forum to which you can contribute if you want.