[Oberlist] TRANSLOCAL EXPRES_February 16_2007_Academic Library, Rävala 10, Tallinn, Estonia

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TRANSLOCAL EXPRESS

Date: February 16, 2007, 1 p.m.
Venue: Academic Library, Rävala 10, Tallinn, Estonia

A discussion about the institutional, political and social aspects of
current practices of cultural collaboration in the world of contemporary
art.

The main intention of Translocal Express is to investigate how are the
current debates in relation with the transition from national identity
politics to transnational identity discourse affecting the cultural
landscape in relatively small national communities. Translocal Express is
exploring the changing role of art institutions, as well as artists and
independent curators in the situation where contemporary art practices are
becoming more and more decentralized and extraterritorial, yet the
political and cultural institutions remain to be bound to a certain
territory. From this perspective, Translocal Express offers examples for
debate in- and outside of the disputable but still operative global-local
dichotomy, by discussing alternative ways for production, representation
and perception of contemporary art in the working methods of contemporary
institutional spaces as well as independent cultural practices.

Speakers: Annie Fletcher, independent curator, Amsterdam; Anders Härm,
curator at Art Hall Tallinn; Kestutis Kuizinas, director of CAC,
Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius; Marita Muukkonen, project coordinator for
FRAME, Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, Helsinki.

Translocal Express is the first of three events in the Public Preparation
series, the public preparation phase for the upcoming Biennale of Young
Artists in October 2007 in Tallinn. Public Preparation project is a
sequence of informal get-togethers which at the same time constitutes the
publicly visible preparation process of the Biennale as well as the course
of preparing and educating the public for the Biennale.

The seminar language is English.

Entrance is free, but registration is very much appreciated:
translocalexpress(a)gmail.com

The time schedule and abstracts are published at
www.biennaleofyoungartists.org.

For further information please contact:
Rael Artel, co-curator for the Biennale of Young Artists
e-mail: moskva80(a)moskva80.com

Airi Triisberg, project co-ordinator for Translocal Express
e-mail: airi_triisberg(a)yahoo.com

Translocal Express is kindly supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment, and
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Estonia