ESC gallery Graz
Here you can observe the spaces of ESC gallery at Jakoministrasse 16, in Graz
http://esc.mur.at/esc-gallery/index.html
and the gallery's homepage:
http://esc.mur.at/
ESC has two floors:
The larger first floor is the main gallery space that is divided roughly in:
- a space with more light (the windows that look on the street) and normal ceiling height - a space suited for installations and exhibitions that nedd light.
- a space inside with high ceiling - used for concerts, performances, public debates, projections
- a space in-between is a small bar - a social place.
The second floor is a multimedia computer room that was used for workshops for pd (a software system) group. It is less openly social, but very nice for quiter activities.
There is some possibility also to use a couple of square meters of a "vitrina" on the ground floor. Not for the public events - just for direct (visual) addressing of the passers-by.
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Stefan Doepner
Stefan Doepner is an artist from Bremen, Hamburg, living now in Ljubljana. He has been involved in important artistic & social initiatives in the nineties and participated with various renown artists and institutions. His projects can be observed here (http://www.f18institut.org). He proposes a part of an installation with the working title LivingRoom - the project that is being built just now.
Description of his comprehensive project LivingRooms (the LivingKitchen is a part of it):
Our world, especially in terms of communication, production and transport as well as 'at Home', consist largely out of embedded, capsulated machines. Meanwhile one uses these 'Blackboxes' partly more self-evident than most simple tools like pencil or hammer. The complexity of technology, development, mechanic and electronic of our everyday devices is not translated into our reception. The system behind, the creation, conditions and user-optimisation is in no way transparent.
This applies even for our not motorised or electric driven surrounding, the ideal kitchen of Bauhaus for example, which dimensions where created considering the shortest distance between the different work-stations or the whole format of our flat-units, this all is based on theories which want to make our life / daily living systematically 'easier and better'.
This thread of systematic runs through these developments and inventions which should serve us, often with the help of complex units which we shall be able to use easy and fast. Starting with the electrified kitchen via the electronic bureau and virtual space towards 'Augmented Environment' or 'Ambient Intelligence' (s.2/4), a mixture of virtual and real space.
With our Installation we want to approach this phenomena on a not object orientated level, similar to the quote of O.Onnen (s.1). The relation man č machine consist at least out of two levels, the function orientated 'what can I do with it and what do I gain out of it-' and the aesthetic 'how do I feel with it-' relation. We will create an as well post- as pre-ideal picture which you can apply to several ideas and dreams for to improve our environment and which supports you to find an own position.
The Installation offers the visitor to explore his own everyday world which is implemented in the ideas of automation and duty. A moment of sensual and aesthetic reception of an almost normal situation arises, which offers the opportunity to visitor to visualise an straightened image from the distance of a free spectator.
Scenery:
LivingRoom A standard formatted flat, ca. 70mč floorspace, no walls but doors. The single areas will not be direct attached to another but arranged with some distance between each other. There will be kitchen, sleeping-room, bath, living-room and hobby-area. Each area is equipped with ubiquitous devices and tools č furniture, kitchen devices, accessories and tools. All areas resp. Devices function until a certain degree, however, there function is not created by use, it is subject of an own dynamic.
The flat and the objects take on a life of their own, it seems the flat generates a possible inhabitant in virtual state. It arises a course of action at furniture and with accessories which then increasingly dissolve and runs into a somehow escalating independence. Single elements leave the inner space of their areas, stray through the other departments and even leave completely the living-area out into the outer world of the gallery.
Other elements start their life on the spot č some kind of orchestra out of kitchen-devices, tools and trunks, chairs and tables jump in rocking rhythmic and they all begin an absurd dance. Part by part the objects calm slowly down, some still give voice, the mobile furniture move back to their stations and the virtual inhabitant moves back to bed, the light closes down. The inner-space of the living-area relates to the outer-space, therefore the gallery space, as reality to medial reflection.
Views and sounds, angles of view and effort will be audio-visual transferred, being amplified and controlled, into projections in the outer area. So the outer area gallery reflects the inner of the living-area and thereby supports the opportunity of sensual reception of this installation.
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Our world, especially in terms of communication, production and transport as well as 'at Home', consist largely out of embedded, capsulated machines. Meanwhile one uses these 'Blackboxes' partly more self-evident than most simple tools like pencil or hammer. The complexity of technology, development, mechanic and electronic of our everyday devices is not translated into our reception. The system behind, the creation, conditions and user-optimisation is in no way transparent.
This applies even for our not motorised or electric driven surrounding, the ideal kitchen of Bauhaus for example, which dimensions where created considering the shortest distance between the different work-stations or the whole format of our flat-units, this all is based on theories which want to make our life / daily living systematically 'easier and better'.
This thread of systematic runs through these developments and inventions which should serve us, often with the help of complex units which we shall be able to use easy and fast. Starting with the electrified kitchen via the electronic bureau and virtual space towards 'Augmented Environment' or 'Ambient Intelligence' (s.2/4), a mixture of virtual and real space.
With our Installation we want to approach this phenomena on a not object orientated level, similar to the quote of O.Onnen (s.1). The relation man č machine consist at least out of two levels, the function orientated 'what can I do with it and what do I gain out of it-' and the aesthetic 'how do I feel with it-' relation. We will create an as well post- as pre-ideal picture which you can apply to several ideas and dreams for to improve our environment and which supports you to find an own position.
The Installation offers the visitor to explore his own everyday world which is implemented in the ideas of automation and duty. A moment of sensual and aesthetic reception of an almost normal situation arises, which offers the opportunity to visitor to visualise an straightened image from the distance of a free spectator.
Scenery:
LivingRoom A standard formatted flat, ca. 70mč floorspace, no walls but doors. The single areas will not be direct attached to another but arranged with some distance between each other. There will be kitchen, sleeping-room, bath, living-room and hobby-area. Each area is equipped with ubiquitous devices and tools č furniture, kitchen devices, accessories and tools. All areas resp. Devices function until a certain degree, however, there function is not created by use, it is subject of an own dynamic.
The flat and the objects take on a life of their own, it seems the flat generates a possible inhabitant in virtual state. It arises a course of action at furniture and with accessories which then increasingly dissolve and runs into a somehow escalating independence. Single elements leave the inner space of their areas, stray through the other departments and even leave completely the living-area out into the outer world of the gallery.
Other elements start their life on the spot č some kind of orchestra out of kitchen-devices, tools and trunks, chairs and tables jump in rocking rhythmic and they all begin an absurd dance. Part by part the objects calm slowly down, some still give voice, the mobile furniture move back to their stations and the virtual inhabitant moves back to bed, the light closes down. The inner-space of the living-area relates to the outer-space, therefore the gallery space, as reality to medial reflection.
Views and sounds, angles of view and effort will be audio-visual transferred, being amplified and controlled, into projections in the outer area. So the outer area gallery reflects the inner of the living-area and thereby supports the opportunity of sensual reception of this installation. More »
a couple of keywords
A couple of keywords appeared so far:
– “open source” principle (in the metaphorical sense it means that nothing is taken as a set form, a recepy – everything is open to debate and to a re-thinking process. In this sense the “open source money” was introduced to me by Chiron Morpheus)
– “diy” (do-it-yourself) principle of the so-called “mini-festival” (in the sense of self-organization, self-motivation, self-representation of artists, who are also the only and the main “capital” of the festival)
– procesuality (no need to present the ready-made project – it can be an intermediate “live” phase)
– some more keywords?
Your desires and needs…
There is a kind of questionary available that will register participants’ desires and needs. Use it as soon as possible. The formular will be submitted to Borut’s email and saved in database. Check it here .
Be aware that this is basically a self-organized festival, so some extra technical needs should be known in advance – and nothing fancy. To sleep we can choose the basic solution: at the nunčs hotel (for males and females) or in a rented appartement.
During the days there will be three levels of activities:
– the passive: installations, exhibitions
– the interactive/interpassive: debates, presentations, social actions
– the active: performences, concerts
(there is no clear line between the three – letčs keep it open & fluid)
First deadlines
In english (click more for slovene): In the beginning of august Mojca and me met with our Graz partner Reni Hofmueller. Reni named and described participants from Graz, that are of the same variety as Ljubljana participants. Who are they? We also declared two deadlines.
First is 15th of august, when we have to know when in the week of the Graz event (23. september to 1. oktober) someone will be in Graz – to make the reservations for rooms. It would be necessary also to define more precisely the dates and specifics of presentations, so that it can form a kind of skeleton of the mini-festival.
It became clear that a translator from slovene to english will be needed for the presentation by Bostjan Leskovček. Milena Kosec will need an local partner to help her with her public interventions in the streets of Graz.
Second deadline is the 31st august, when we have to have the material for the flyer ready. It should include all the participants, dates and hours, titles, descriptions, other texts… of participants’ most concrete presentations/performances/installations/exhibitions.
Participants lost and found
Lost is Milijana Babič for reasons of family illness.
Found is Irena Tomažin, who confirmed her participation for two days.
Lost for physical participation is Chiron Morpheus for reasons of family holidays, but he will try to connect telematically from Greece and present his idea of Ideotop – over the net and onto the screen of ESC.
:end of english