From naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com Sat Dec 19 07:21:38 2009 From: naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com (Naeem Mohaiemen) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:51:38 +0530 Subject: [SHOBAK] SMS Iran After Gilles Peress | Pulp for Eflux Time Bank Message-ID: Portions of some projects are now online, and if you're in Kolkata, drop by tonight (Dec 19) for the panel discussion. --- PULP for eflux Time Bank at Frieze Art Fair Currencies designed by Julieta Aranda, Mary Walling Blackburn, Francois Bucher, Cabinet Magazine, Carolina Caycedo, Dexter/Sinister, Wilson Diaz/Ana Maria Millan, Jimmie Durham, Harrell Fletcher, Liam Gillick, Francesca Grassi, Nikolaus Hirsch/Zak Kyes, Alevtina Kakhidze, Raimundas Malasauska Morten N. Halvorsen, John Miller, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sarah Morris, Carlos Motta, Olaf Nicolai, Hans Ulrich Obrist/Koo Jeong-A, Raqs Media Collective, Viktor Rosdahl, Mariana Silva, Michael Smith, Sean Snyder, Nedko Solakov, Mladen Stilinovic, Bik Van der Pol, Anton Vidokle, W.A.G.E., Lawrence Weiner, Judi Werthein, Florian Zeyfang. http://shobak.org/projects/pulp.shtml Although Pulp is a fiction, real news overtakes, as with recent announcement that Zia Airport will be renamed. Syeed Ahmed, a fellow member of Drishtipat.org, wrote: Prediction 1: Even though replacing Zia, a 20th century statesman, with Shah Jalal, a 14th century religious leader, is an anti-secular, reactionary stance, no secular writers/bloggers/pundits will say anything about it. Prediction 2: Even though it is perfectly justified for us to honour the country?s founder with a newly constructed airport, the precedence of naming politics will lead to a future BNP government renaming it as Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) International Airport. Take it to its logical conclusion, every institution in Bangladesh should be named after great figures in Islamic history! --- SMS IRAN, AFTER GILLES PERESS A project w/ Mary Walling Blackburn http://shobak.org/projects/smsiran.shtml Gilles Peress original TELEX IRAN http://www.amazon.com/Telex-Iran-Revolution-Gilles-Peress/dp/3931141365 We featured Peress project in the SYSTEM ERROR: WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING show http://shobakorg.blogspot.com/2007/01/these-guys.html --- LIVE TRUE LIFE OR DIE TRYING Portions are showing in three group shows Gijon: Angel of History AES+F, Christopher Baker, Stella Brennan, Paul Chan, Nancy Davenport, Nonny de la Pena and Peggy Weil, Hasan Elahi, Cao Fei, Barbara Fluxa, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Daniel Garcia Andujar, Goldin + Senneby, Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, Knowbotic Research + Peter Sandbichler, Langlands + Bell, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Margot Lovejoy, Naeem Mohaiemen, Ali Momeni + Robin Mandel, Carlos Motta, Trevor Paglen, Rachael Rakena, Fez, Faanana, and Brian Fuata, Stephanie Rothenberg +Jeff Crouse, System77 Consortium, Piotr Szyhalski, Tamiko Thiel + Teresa Reuter, Carey Young. http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/exhibitions/show/108 Zurich: Im/Possible Communities Nevin Aladag, Ulf Aminde, Sabina Baumann, Perry Bard, Bureau dEtudes, Hassan Khan, Korpys/Loffler, Heimo Lattner, Naeem Mohaiemen, p-r-o-x-y, Isabelle Stever, Tellervo Kalleinen/Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Juliane Zelwies. http://www.shedhalle.ch/eng/programm/gemeinschaft/ Kolkata: Freedom is Notional Shilpa Gupta, Bani Abidi, Naeem Mohaiemen http://www.experimenter.in/freedom/1.html ---- MINARETT VERBOT While installing in Zurich, I met the Minaret posters many times on the street, and later we know how the vote turned out. A short conversation with designer, artist and activist Sandy Kaltenborn (and a debate between Daisyand Aarti Sethi in comments section), is on Kafila: http://kafila.org/2009/12/04/minarett-verbot/ ---- ARTIST TALK Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Bani Abidi, Naeem Mohaiemen December 19th, 6pm 2/1 Hindusthan Road, Gariahat, Kolkata 700029 (next to Kanishka Sari Shop) T: +91 33 40012289 E: info at experimenter.in Often, when asked an uncomfortable question, or faced with an unsettling reality, the rattled respondent ducks and dives with a stammer, a mumble, a sweat, a scrawl, or a nervous tic. The respondent may not be lying, but neither may he be interested in offering a captive legible truth either to the interrogator or to his circumstances. [Raqs Media Collective, E-flux journal] Shuddha, Bani and Naeem discuss issues of form, impact, and measurability that influence their own art practices: the turn to documentary forms in visual arts, the clash between evolving new mediums and earlier forms, the question of impact vs. the liminal spaces of immeasurability. Public interventionists in the visual arts deal with political issues with varying degrees of impact and friction. Artists can take public positions in expected forms (the letter to the editor, the petition, the essay, the interview) and this ruffles few feathers. But when the political concerns are fused through the work within the gallery walls, but yet operate within modes of illegibility, the audience can have varied and unexpected responses. This has also led to debates about the problem of use-value within work, and the necessity (or not) of separating activist work from art practice (for example in conversation between Martha Rosler & Paul Chan in DAP?s Between Artists series).