Museum Night Intervention (Museumnacht Interventie)
The idea of this intervention at museum night (Museumnacht Interventie) occurred to us by reading few recently published books and articles, which tried to open a new chapter of the critical practice and institutional critique. We found the museum night a right moment to comment on this neo-liberal cultural policies, demonstrated by the museums in an even like n8.
By thinking about those artistic practices from late 1960s and early 1970s, when artists practiced critically towards the institutions, which by that time were museums mainly but not only, this movement has moved to a second weave from 1980's. When critical art and practice has become part of the institution itself. In both ways as Simon Sheikh notes : " institutional critique was a practice mainly, if not exclusively, conducted by artists, and directed against the (art) institutions, as a critique of their ideological and representative social function(s)."
But now what does it mean when the critical practice of artists against the museums has been changed to the practice of the curator of director of the institution itself?
Internalizing the critique can be seen as a way of controlling the critique in the space of the white cube designed for it.
The Museum Night Intervention is an start of an experiment of self-organized interventions, exhibitions and performances that are consciously decided to take place outside the art institutions or rather the "white cube". An experiment and a try to argue a new wave of Institutional Critique as artists practice. A method of critique that can criticize the Institutionalized Critique or as S. Sheik said: " A machine of control within new modes of governmentality- politics and education"
This Intervention was a collaboration work of :
Stedelijk Museum
Van Gogh Museum
Smart Project Space
NiMK / Montevideo
Foam
Mediametic
Past Event: 'Contained' in Subvision Kunst Festival Off, Hamburg
Group photo of the Dutch participants: Parachutartists Foundation & De Service Garage.
(From Left to right) Wouter Klein Velderman, Ehsan Fardjadniya, Thijs Rhijnsburger, Zoro Feigl.
Parachutartists Foundation in collaboration with De Service Garage presents Contained at Subvision Art Festival Off, Hamburg.
Contained presents:
Offshore/Onshore by Zoro Feigl,
Themework #5 by Wouter Klein Velderman,
Privatized Democracy by Ehsan Fardjadniya,
SUBVISION KUNST FESTIVAL FUCK OFF (INTERVENTION IN THE HAFENCITY)
Untitled (EU Campaign Posters Collage) by Thijs Rhijnsburger.
Subvision Festival describes Off as ‘a form of cultural production that deliberately delimit themselves from established and commercial business activities.’ Associated with Subculture and underground, ‘a counter-position of what is regarded as on, or mainstream… off – in the sense of a standpoint of assertion that sets itself off and comments on what is displayed’.
The requirements of this invitation include placing or making ‘Art’ in/with the provided containers that are already branded by the shipping company logos.
Since Subvision Festival collaborates with the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Deichtorhallen, the art academy HFBK, and Multinational shipping companies (Mainstreams) to organize and sponsor this festival for underground and critical art initiatives globally; Since we are recognized as an underground and off initiative, we’ll retain this character of counter-position by being the Off program of an Off festival and callSubvision Festival itself into questions.
Read our statement on Subvision here
Read Chto Delat? (what is to be done?) Statement here
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Festival Opening at August 26, 2009 at 19h
Festival open from 27 Augustus till 6 of September 2009
Sunday - Thursday 14 - 22h
Friday and Saturday 14 -24h
subvision. art. festival. off.
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D-20457 Hamburg
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