[artinfo] Call for applications and proposals: second Research Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale
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Call for applications and proposals: second
Research Pavilion for the 2017 Venice Biennale
Proposal deadline: August 15, 2016
Sala del Camino
Giudecca 621
Venice
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Following a successful and well-received pilot
edition in 2015, the University of the Arts
Helsinki has decided to again realize a Research
Pavilion within the context of the Venice
Biennale. This new edition will last five months
(from early May through to late September) and
will be undertaken as a Nordic collaboration
together with institutional partners outside
Scandinavia (including the Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna, Zurich University of the Arts, EARN
(European Artistic Research Network) and SAR
(Society for Artistic Research)). The second
Research Pavilion will be registered as an
official collateral event at the Venice Biennale.
Theme: The Utopia of Access
The program of the second Research Pavilion will
focus on the current debate around access. The
"Berlin Declaration" as drawn up by the European
Union, states that from 2025 research funded from
public means should be accessible for everyone
through Open Access. What are the consequences of
this measure for a relatively young and as yet
not fully disciplined field such as artistic
research? Will there be a further demise of
originality and authenticity and an increasing
focus on metadata? Are we at risk of encroaching
bureaucracy that will achieve the opposite of the
legislation/regulation's aim: Open Access as a
pricy process for the happy few who know the
rules and possibilities of the game? Can the
access-rhetorics be reduced to the now dominant,
but also questionable, neo-liberal interpretation
of the concept of democracy as a globalized
export product? And finally: how accessible will
artistic research itself remain-where will
research within the arts and about the arts, that
traditionally has a crucial impact on theorizing
and informing on art within education and
criticism, stand in the artistic turn of research?
Despite all of this: can creating an
infrastructure geared at access offer new,
constructive possibilities for the field of
artistic research, such as the fundamental
demystification of the artistic (thought) process
and the development of new links to different
forms of knowledge production and to topical
political perspectives (e.g. commonism)? And what
are the consequences of the access-oriented
agendas of mega-events such as biennials, for the
critical potential of art and research? Moreover,
starting from art, is it possible to develop a
coherent critique of current access-thinking?
Under the title The Utopia of Access the 2nd
Research Pavilion wants to give room to all sorts
of artistic interpretations and perspectives
involving access-oriented thought. Leading
question will be: how and in what way can we
prevent that the current access-ideology results
in the decline of human imagination and radical
thinking? If we recognize that nowadays
access-thought touches the very roots of
political awareness, how can we set about
dismantling these contemporary configurations of
power? And what are the consequences of such
critical reflections for the further development
of curatorial models and display-systems?
The program, designed as a series of experimental
exhibitions and parallel activities will harbor a
range of diverse perspectives and viewpoints that
can offer an incentive for the necessary and
urgent discussion of the current politics of
access.
Logistics and organisation
The second Research Pavilion has a commissioner:
Professor Anita Seppä, University of the Arts
Helsinki, two curators: Scientific Advisor in
Artistic Research at the Swedish Research Council
Jan Kaila, and Dean/Professor Henk Slager, MaHKU
Utrecht, and two guest-curators Professor Florian
Dombois, Zurich University of the Arts, and
Professor Renate Lorenz, Academy of Fine Arts
Vienna. Producer of the second Research Pavilion
is Christine Langinauer and Head of
Communications is Eevastiina Aho, both University
of the Arts Helsinki.
Steering group: Rector Jari Perkiömäki,
University of the Arts Helsinki; Dean Ingrid
Elam, Swedish Arts Universities Collaboration;
Professor Mika Elo, University of the Arts
Helsinki; Head of DocMus doctoral school Päivi
Järviö, University of the Arts Helsinki; Cecilie
Knudsen, Chair of the Norwegian Artistic Research
Programme; Researcher Otso Lähdeoja, University
of the Arts Helsinki; Vice-Dean Leena Rouhiainen,
University of the Arts Helsinki; and Geir Strøm,
Head of Administration at the Norwegian Artistic
Research Programme.
Responsibility for the contents and general
outline of the Research Pavilion lies with the
commissioner, the curators and the steering
group. They will develop the program in
collaboration with all partners and the
guest-curators.
The proposed program of exhibitions consist of
three consecutive presentation moments:
-an exhibition made by the curators (May/June
2017 based on a call for contributions-Call A);
and
-two programs by guest-curators (July-September 2017)
Parallel to these exhibitions there is room for
discursive activities, for which a second call
(Call B) will be issued in October 2016.
Call A
The curators of the opening exhibition invite in
particular (doctoral) researchers affiliated to
Nordic institutions to send in proposals. These
proposals will be expected to have a link to the
thematics of the pavilion as described above.
Artists and artistic groups from all possible
diciplines including visiual arts, performing
arts, music and transdisciplinary media are
welcome to apply.
Requirements
-One-page CV plus a general research profile
-One-page project proposal for the research pavilion
-Five relevant images, soundbites and/or other relevant modes of documentation
Logistics
The pavilion will not stand for production and
other costs of the art works exhibited.
For more information about the space, available
technology and other practical or logistic
matters, please contact the
producer: <mailto:christine.langinauer at uniarts.fi>Christine
Langinauer.
Proposal deadline
August 15 by e-mail:
<mailto:researchpavilion at uniarts.fi>researchpavilion at uniarts.fi
In late August the submiters will be informed
about the pre-selection. On September 16 the
curators will have talks with the authors of the
selected proposals (in Stockholm and/or via
Skype).
Call B
Furthermore the Research Pavilion invites
individuals and groups from the organizing
institutes and from the European Artistic
Research (EARN) and the Society for Artistic
Research (SAR), to develop proposals for the
parallel discursive program. A final call (B) for
the discursive program will be opened in early
October 2016. The curators and the steering group
will discuss these proposals in late December.
Contact and information
Contact person: <mailto:christine.langinauer at uniarts.fi>Christine Langinauer
Information 1st edition:
<http://www.uniarts.fi/en/research-pavilion>www.uniarts.fi or: <http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/the-first-research-pavilion-sala-del-camino-venice/>www.artandeducation.net
The Research Pavilion project was initiated by
the University of the Arts Helsinki-an
international leader in artistic research and
research in the arts. The project aims to bring
the importance of research to the attention of
the general art audience and the numerous
specialists visiting the Venice Biennale, while
offering a clear and significant platform
for-cross-disciplinary-collaborations between
artists and researchers.
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