Market Update
09 Oct - 05 Nov 2011
MARKET UPDATE – russianmarket.info – Mobile Kultur Byrå
Kurator Jole Wilcke
9 October – 5 November, 2011
Aritsts Kirsten Dufour, Hilde Methi and Ulrike Solbrig (MKB), Michel Chevalier and Rahel Puffert with contributions by Linnea Sjöberg and Kåre Grundvåg and LUJA
The exhibition Market Update shows the current work of Mobile Kultur Byrå as well as the video A Visit to Nagel's (Michel Chevalier/Rahel Puffert, 2003) by target: autonopop. Both projects deal with the subject "market" and intervene into specific situations.
Mobile Kultur Byrå members are Kirsten Dufour (artist, Copenhagen), Hilde Methi (curator, Kirkenes) and Ulrike Solbrig (artist, Berlin). Their work takes the difficult working conditions of the traders at the Russian Market in Kirkenes in North-Norway as a departure point for their interventions and investigations since 2006. As the 3rd instalment of russianmarket.info – Taking Inventory they will present photographs as well as video-material, looking into the situation of small-scale-trade inside a neo-liberal market economy.
"While nowadays the terms ‘market’ and ‘capitalism’ seem to be interchangeable, in reality markets date back long before capitalism existed, even long before monetary exchange systems came into being." Jamie Stapelton, in a video-interview with MKB, Copenhagen 2011
On Sunday, October 9, from 11 p.m., a Discursive Picnic_Flea Market co-organized with UNWETTER and LUJA, offers an opportunity for you to sell and buy, share, consume, exchange. Bring along things you want to sell or exchange: works, projects, actions, food, drinks, picnic utensils...
At 6 p.m. an artist talk with MKB and Hilde Methi (for LUJA) takes place, as well as a 15-minute-video-screening of an interview with Jamie Stapleton from 2011.
target: autonopop researches the relationship between galleries and institutions – their overbearing and repressive mechanisms, their general resistance against critique that is rooted in concrete situations. For their work A Visit to Nagel's Michel Chevalier and Rahel Puffert paid a visit to the Berlin branch of Nagel Gallery at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 2003 to find out more about the circumstances of an exhibition of Michael Krebber. What does the word “PopPolitics” on the invitation card relate to? How is this related to Russian Constructivism? How do those objects that are scarcely scattered over the walls (LP-album covers, newspaper articles, CDs, airmail stickers) relate to each other? The video A Visit to Nagel's is a clandestine recording of this conversation.
Text: Jole Wilcke
Kurator Jole Wilcke
9 October – 5 November, 2011
Aritsts Kirsten Dufour, Hilde Methi and Ulrike Solbrig (MKB), Michel Chevalier and Rahel Puffert with contributions by Linnea Sjöberg and Kåre Grundvåg and LUJA
The exhibition Market Update shows the current work of Mobile Kultur Byrå as well as the video A Visit to Nagel's (Michel Chevalier/Rahel Puffert, 2003) by target: autonopop. Both projects deal with the subject "market" and intervene into specific situations.
Mobile Kultur Byrå members are Kirsten Dufour (artist, Copenhagen), Hilde Methi (curator, Kirkenes) and Ulrike Solbrig (artist, Berlin). Their work takes the difficult working conditions of the traders at the Russian Market in Kirkenes in North-Norway as a departure point for their interventions and investigations since 2006. As the 3rd instalment of russianmarket.info – Taking Inventory they will present photographs as well as video-material, looking into the situation of small-scale-trade inside a neo-liberal market economy.
"While nowadays the terms ‘market’ and ‘capitalism’ seem to be interchangeable, in reality markets date back long before capitalism existed, even long before monetary exchange systems came into being." Jamie Stapelton, in a video-interview with MKB, Copenhagen 2011
On Sunday, October 9, from 11 p.m., a Discursive Picnic_Flea Market co-organized with UNWETTER and LUJA, offers an opportunity for you to sell and buy, share, consume, exchange. Bring along things you want to sell or exchange: works, projects, actions, food, drinks, picnic utensils...
At 6 p.m. an artist talk with MKB and Hilde Methi (for LUJA) takes place, as well as a 15-minute-video-screening of an interview with Jamie Stapleton from 2011.
target: autonopop researches the relationship between galleries and institutions – their overbearing and repressive mechanisms, their general resistance against critique that is rooted in concrete situations. For their work A Visit to Nagel's Michel Chevalier and Rahel Puffert paid a visit to the Berlin branch of Nagel Gallery at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in 2003 to find out more about the circumstances of an exhibition of Michael Krebber. What does the word “PopPolitics” on the invitation card relate to? How is this related to Russian Constructivism? How do those objects that are scarcely scattered over the walls (LP-album covers, newspaper articles, CDs, airmail stickers) relate to each other? The video A Visit to Nagel's is a clandestine recording of this conversation.
Text: Jole Wilcke