CABAN UNNOS
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER invites artists and other participants tocollaborate on building a one-night-house in Berlin during the NEW LIFEBERLIN Festival in June 2008.
For time immemorial a persons right to live and work off the land has been amutually acknowledged folk belief across Europe. That persons right toappropriate a portion of the communes land so that they may build upon it adwelling has been put into practice by that person building aone-night-house. The appropriation of common land through the phenomena ofthe one-night-house rarely had any firm basis in law. However, this practiceoccurred and could often resist interference from a landlord or authority.
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER asks what has happened to the belief that landis ours? The project invites participants to take part in building an actualone-night-house in Berlin.
To take part of this project, artists and others are encouraged to submitresponses on governing legislation in Germany, possible Berlin sites,knowledge of materials and construction methods, examples of other suchtemporary structures in your area and other general ideas and interest.
Through a program of workshops and talks during the festival, invitedparticipants will discuss the practical aspects of clandestine building andwill finally collaborate to build a one-night-house somewhere in Berlin.
To participate in this project
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=19
http://www.wooloo.org/cabanunnos
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER is a project conceived and developed by theSheffield-based art group No Fixed Abode.
More about No Fixed Abode at
http://www.wooloo.org/nofixedabode/
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER invites artists and other participants tocollaborate on building a one-night-house in Berlin during the NEW LIFEBERLIN Festival in June 2008.
For time immemorial a persons right to live and work off the land has been amutually acknowledged folk belief across Europe. That persons right toappropriate a portion of the communes land so that they may build upon it adwelling has been put into practice by that person building aone-night-house. The appropriation of common land through the phenomena ofthe one-night-house rarely had any firm basis in law. However, this practiceoccurred and could often resist interference from a landlord or authority.
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER asks what has happened to the belief that landis ours? The project invites participants to take part in building an actualone-night-house in Berlin.
To take part of this project, artists and others are encouraged to submitresponses on governing legislation in Germany, possible Berlin sites,knowledge of materials and construction methods, examples of other suchtemporary structures in your area and other general ideas and interest.
Through a program of workshops and talks during the festival, invitedparticipants will discuss the practical aspects of clandestine building andwill finally collaborate to build a one-night-house somewhere in Berlin.
To participate in this project
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=19
http://www.wooloo.org/cabanunnos
CABAN UNNOS: ITS NOW-OR-NEVER is a project conceived and developed by theSheffield-based art group No Fixed Abode.
More about No Fixed Abode at
http://www.wooloo.org/nofixedabode/
FICTIVE DAYS
FICTIVE DAYS is a two-week performance studio for the collective research offictional characters.
Taking place during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival in June 2008, six to eightartists/researchers will be selected to live and work closely together in alarge Berlin apartment.
To participate in the project, you must apply to be a mainstream filmcharacter. For two full weeks you must adopt the identity of this characterand always act as you believe this character would.
During the course of FICTIVE DAYS, everyday functions in the projectapartment will be arranged solely on the structures of famous film scenesinvolving the performing characters. Consequently, everything that happensduring the two weeks can be understood as a scene.
All scenes will be realized by collaboration of the group and then furtherdeveloped following the individual intentions, emotional reactions andpractical needs of each participant.
As with any other private apartment, it will be entirely up to theparticipants to decide when they want to allow visitors and guests into thespace during the two weeks. Participants can come and leave, as they want.
Video equipment will be available to use in the apartment and theparticipants can document any scene(s) they want. After theperformance-residency, all participants will get a copy of all recordedmaterial and will be free to create they own version of a final film -should they wish to do so.
To participate in this project http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=16 go to http://www.wooloo.orgh/fictivedays
FICTIVE DAYS is a project developed by Peruvian artists Sergio Zevallos incollaboration with TEMPS space support for nomadic projects. The projectarises from the premise that the conscious aspects of affective relationshappen between imagined identities and that the human ability to createfiction* is one of its defining characteristics. Through its livecultivation of personal relationships, FICTIVE DAYS aims to investigate boththe clich÷Ÿof cinema and those of our everyday lives.
More about Sergio Zevallos at http://www.wooloo.org/sergiozevallos
*"Fiction" is here defined as an imaginative form of narrative, behaviour orcommunication that is not entirely based upon facts.
FICTIVE DAYS is a two-week performance studio for the collective research offictional characters.
Taking place during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival in June 2008, six to eightartists/researchers will be selected to live and work closely together in alarge Berlin apartment.
To participate in the project, you must apply to be a mainstream filmcharacter. For two full weeks you must adopt the identity of this characterand always act as you believe this character would.
During the course of FICTIVE DAYS, everyday functions in the projectapartment will be arranged solely on the structures of famous film scenesinvolving the performing characters. Consequently, everything that happensduring the two weeks can be understood as a scene.
All scenes will be realized by collaboration of the group and then furtherdeveloped following the individual intentions, emotional reactions andpractical needs of each participant.
As with any other private apartment, it will be entirely up to theparticipants to decide when they want to allow visitors and guests into thespace during the two weeks. Participants can come and leave, as they want.
Video equipment will be available to use in the apartment and theparticipants can document any scene(s) they want. After theperformance-residency, all participants will get a copy of all recordedmaterial and will be free to create they own version of a final film -should they wish to do so.
To participate in this project http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=16 go to http://www.wooloo.orgh/fictivedays
FICTIVE DAYS is a project developed by Peruvian artists Sergio Zevallos incollaboration with TEMPS space support for nomadic projects. The projectarises from the premise that the conscious aspects of affective relationshappen between imagined identities and that the human ability to createfiction* is one of its defining characteristics. Through its livecultivation of personal relationships, FICTIVE DAYS aims to investigate boththe clich÷Ÿof cinema and those of our everyday lives.
More about Sergio Zevallos at http://www.wooloo.org/sergiozevallos
*"Fiction" is here defined as an imaginative form of narrative, behaviour orcommunication that is not entirely based upon facts.
FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN
FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN is a game, a social study, an aesthetic endeavor and avehicle for touching upon a most sensible measure of peoples hope: WORK as amean to lead a SELF-GOVERNED LIFE.
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN seeks to encourage and facilitate artists and otherapplicants to act as CATALYSTS in the project, developing and publishingtheir own social interventions as credited artists of the NEW LIFE BERLINFestival, June 115, 2008.
The campaign goal is to bring citizens together in Job-situations, and so todiscover and portray what happens when cooperative scenarios are establishedfor people who would most likely never form a relationship - because ofethnic or religious differences, their belonging to different socialclasses, age groups, gender, etc.
Supported through workshops, lectures and multimedia trainings, THE FLASHJOB CAMPAIGN will be launched in Berlin Neukoelln, a borough said to be thehardest in the city; troubled by unemployment, stigmatized by socialwelfare, threatened by youth gangs, infiltrated by organized crime andenergized by cultural diversity.
The projects primary target group (to do jobs) is teenagers met by chancewhile walking around in Neukoelln. Equipped with THE FLASH JOB STARTER KIT(including a form for parental signature in cases of under-age youth andinstructions concerning the Youth Work Protection Act), the CATALYST looksfor small jobs beyond regular employment.
In practical terms, selected applicants will set up DEALS between smallbusinesses and local teenagers. Even without knowing each other, teenagersand business owners must be willing to commit to the rules of a Flash Job: Aone-time job of maximum 3 hours where afterwards, the teenager is given afee, the job client rates the performance quality of the teenager AND theteenager rates the job client.
To secure a job deal, it will be up to you as a CATALYST to convince bothparties about fairness and goals. Your task is furthermore to investigate,portray and REPORT to the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival when, how and why thingswent the way they did. You can use whatever medium you prefer for yourdocumentation.
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN is launched from the most simple of questions: Whyare the market mechanisms of globalization and the facilities of theso-called creative class, so impenetrable to such a vast number of people?
To participate in this project
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=19 go to http://www.wooloo.org/flashjob
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN and its conceptual patron TeenKom (a price-winningproject currently being implemented in Berlin Schoeneweide) are conceivedand coached by Berlin-based ArtSourceLab - an interdisciplinary networkfounded in 2001 by artist and activist Per Traasdahl for the development andsocietal implementation of sustainable, social micro-models.
FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN is a game, a social study, an aesthetic endeavor and avehicle for touching upon a most sensible measure of peoples hope: WORK as amean to lead a SELF-GOVERNED LIFE.
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN seeks to encourage and facilitate artists and otherapplicants to act as CATALYSTS in the project, developing and publishingtheir own social interventions as credited artists of the NEW LIFE BERLINFestival, June 115, 2008.
The campaign goal is to bring citizens together in Job-situations, and so todiscover and portray what happens when cooperative scenarios are establishedfor people who would most likely never form a relationship - because ofethnic or religious differences, their belonging to different socialclasses, age groups, gender, etc.
Supported through workshops, lectures and multimedia trainings, THE FLASHJOB CAMPAIGN will be launched in Berlin Neukoelln, a borough said to be thehardest in the city; troubled by unemployment, stigmatized by socialwelfare, threatened by youth gangs, infiltrated by organized crime andenergized by cultural diversity.
The projects primary target group (to do jobs) is teenagers met by chancewhile walking around in Neukoelln. Equipped with THE FLASH JOB STARTER KIT(including a form for parental signature in cases of under-age youth andinstructions concerning the Youth Work Protection Act), the CATALYST looksfor small jobs beyond regular employment.
In practical terms, selected applicants will set up DEALS between smallbusinesses and local teenagers. Even without knowing each other, teenagersand business owners must be willing to commit to the rules of a Flash Job: Aone-time job of maximum 3 hours where afterwards, the teenager is given afee, the job client rates the performance quality of the teenager AND theteenager rates the job client.
To secure a job deal, it will be up to you as a CATALYST to convince bothparties about fairness and goals. Your task is furthermore to investigate,portray and REPORT to the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival when, how and why thingswent the way they did. You can use whatever medium you prefer for yourdocumentation.
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN is launched from the most simple of questions: Whyare the market mechanisms of globalization and the facilities of theso-called creative class, so impenetrable to such a vast number of people?
To participate in this project
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=19 go to http://www.wooloo.org/flashjob
THE FLASH JOB CAMPAIGN and its conceptual patron TeenKom (a price-winningproject currently being implemented in Berlin Schoeneweide) are conceivedand coached by Berlin-based ArtSourceLab - an interdisciplinary networkfounded in 2001 by artist and activist Per Traasdahl for the development andsocietal implementation of sustainable, social micro-models.
OPEN DIALOUGES
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is a critical writing initiative exploringonline and offline communities during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival in June2008.
Through the OPEN DIALOUGES program, we ask local and international writersto apply for taking part in discussing and developing critical responses theNEW LIFE BERLIN Festival.
In collaboration with the writers selected, OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLINwill investigate the implications and role of critical writing as adiscourse in relation to communities of contemporary art, and will developorganic responses to the Festival itself as it unfolds.
We are looking for writers of all ages to participate. You will need to befluent in written and spoken English (you will also have the opportunity towrite in German), have a strong interest in contemporary art practice and bewilling to write accessibly for art and non-art audiences. You will alsoneed to have a minimum of a university degree (BA) in a related field and astrong interest in contemporary art practice.
Writers must be able to commit to one full days writing workshop, two 2 hourpeer-critique sessions, at least one OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN eventand to writing at least three texts throughout the festival.
To participate in this projectgo
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=21 to http://www.wooloo.org/opendialouges
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is devised and organized by Mary Patersonand Rachel Lois Clapham of Open Dialogues. Open Dialogues is a UK-basedcritical writing initiative that supports, fosters and promotesinternational networks for critical debate around contemporary art.
Previously, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham have collaborated withsuch events and biennials as The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow 07 and08), SPILL (London 07), VITAL (Manchester 07) and the Performa 07 Biennial(New York 07).
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is a critical writing initiative exploringonline and offline communities during the NEW LIFE BERLIN Festival in June2008.
Through the OPEN DIALOUGES program, we ask local and international writersto apply for taking part in discussing and developing critical responses theNEW LIFE BERLIN Festival.
In collaboration with the writers selected, OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLINwill investigate the implications and role of critical writing as adiscourse in relation to communities of contemporary art, and will developorganic responses to the Festival itself as it unfolds.
We are looking for writers of all ages to participate. You will need to befluent in written and spoken English (you will also have the opportunity towrite in German), have a strong interest in contemporary art practice and bewilling to write accessibly for art and non-art audiences. You will alsoneed to have a minimum of a university degree (BA) in a related field and astrong interest in contemporary art practice.
Writers must be able to commit to one full days writing workshop, two 2 hourpeer-critique sessions, at least one OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN eventand to writing at least three texts throughout the festival.
To participate in this projectgo
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=21 to http://www.wooloo.org/opendialouges
OPEN DIALOGUES: NEW LIFE BERLIN is devised and organized by Mary Patersonand Rachel Lois Clapham of Open Dialogues. Open Dialogues is a UK-basedcritical writing initiative that supports, fosters and promotesinternational networks for critical debate around contemporary art.
Previously, Mary Paterson and Rachel Lois Clapham have collaborated withsuch events and biennials as The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow 07 and08), SPILL (London 07), VITAL (Manchester 07) and the Performa 07 Biennial(New York 07).
SANDWICH BOX
THE SANDWICH BOX is circulating between artists around the world.THE SANDWICH BOX is an ongoing, collaborative artwork.THE SANDWICH BOX is a gesture and a fellow traveller.
As part of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Contemporary Art Festival, artists anywherein the world can apply to obtain THE SANDWICH BOX for one week.
THE SANDWICH BOX is consisting of a metal suitcase measuring: 31 x 37,5 x12,5 cm (height, length, width). This suitcase is packed with a Lysthus(Gazebo in English) tent measuring 200 x 150 x 150 cm (height, length,width). The tent can be unpacked from the suitcase and has room for a coupleof people.
Artists working in all mediums are encouraged to apply for THE SANDWICH BOXand selected applicants will finally receive the box for one week each. Allselected artists will be included in the official Festival Program.
When applying for THE SANDWICH BOX, you are free to use the box and tent forwhatever artwork, situation or other scenario you might find relevant.However, a contextual codex for inspiration can be found at:
http://www.thesandwichboxsite.org/
More than 40 international artists have worked within the context of the boxproject since 2004, but this is the very first time that the project islaunched in its current form*.
To request the SANDWICH BOX
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=17 go to http://www.wooloo.org/sandwichbox
THE SANDWICH BOX project is formulated and conceived by Danish artist LarsVilhelmsen in collaboration with Charlotte Mosen Jensen / Den lille Have
More about Lars Vilhelmsen at http://www.wooloo.org/larsvilhelmsen
*THE SANDWICH BOX project originates from Vilhelmsens Travellers Secret Boxproject begun in May 2004.
THE SANDWICH BOX is circulating between artists around the world.THE SANDWICH BOX is an ongoing, collaborative artwork.THE SANDWICH BOX is a gesture and a fellow traveller.
As part of the NEW LIFE BERLIN Contemporary Art Festival, artists anywherein the world can apply to obtain THE SANDWICH BOX for one week.
THE SANDWICH BOX is consisting of a metal suitcase measuring: 31 x 37,5 x12,5 cm (height, length, width). This suitcase is packed with a Lysthus(Gazebo in English) tent measuring 200 x 150 x 150 cm (height, length,width). The tent can be unpacked from the suitcase and has room for a coupleof people.
Artists working in all mediums are encouraged to apply for THE SANDWICH BOXand selected applicants will finally receive the box for one week each. Allselected artists will be included in the official Festival Program.
When applying for THE SANDWICH BOX, you are free to use the box and tent forwhatever artwork, situation or other scenario you might find relevant.However, a contextual codex for inspiration can be found at:
http://www.thesandwichboxsite.org/
More than 40 international artists have worked within the context of the boxproject since 2004, but this is the very first time that the project islaunched in its current form*.
To request the SANDWICH BOX
http://www.wooloo.org/new/s3/s3Make.php?page=ProjectInfo&id=17 go to http://www.wooloo.org/sandwichbox
THE SANDWICH BOX project is formulated and conceived by Danish artist LarsVilhelmsen in collaboration with Charlotte Mosen Jensen / Den lille Have
More about Lars Vilhelmsen at http://www.wooloo.org/larsvilhelmsen
*THE SANDWICH BOX project originates from Vilhelmsens Travellers Secret Boxproject begun in May 2004.
