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microsillons is an artist collectfive founded in 2005 by Marianne Guarino-Huet and Olivier Desvoignes. They work autonomously, or in collaboration with institutions, on projects at the border of art and art education. In 2009, they curated an exhibition called “Utopie and the Everyday. Between Art and Pedagogy“ at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.
Under the titles : “Knowledge exchange and artistic practices with a pedagogical dimension: a vector for change” (working title) and “Toward a horizontal pedagogy through collaborative art projects” (working title), they are working on research degrees at Chelsea College of Art and Design. The practical sides of their research are based on the projects they are developing as microsillons.


Workshops are aimed at two groups -
May 30th, 9:00 a.m – 6:00 p.m for Pupils
May 31st, 9:00 a.m – 6:00 p.m for Students


Space -
Wyspa Institute of Art / the grounds of the former Gdańsk Shipyard


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29.05.2011-30.09.2011_Events

Alternativa 2011 - Estrangement


Opening party:
May 28, 2011 7pm

Exhibition on view
29 May - 30 September 2011
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 07:00 PM
artistic director: Aneta Szylak

Estrangement: At the very core of the project there is the question of the circulation of cultural forms. The idea of considering the notion in this way arises at the intersection of the poetics of Shklovsky—a representative of Russian formalism—and the Arabic term taqseem, which means both musical improvisation and mathematical division. Found forms and ’everydayness’ are points of entry into the way the project takes shape and disintegrates. “Estrangement” works with various elements that do not seem to be connected then places them under observation and sometimes sets them to work.

Artists: Sherko Abbas, Shirwan Can & Horen Gharib, Shirwan Fatih, Gailan Abdullah Ismail, Maryam Jafri, Hiwa K, Poshiya Kakil, Hüseyin Karakaya, Anton Kats, Reben Majeed, Rozhgar Mahmud Mustafa, Mattias Olofsson, Sener Ozmen, Diary Muhammad Osman, Joanna Rajkowska, Avan Sidiq, Cengiz Tekin and Knutte Wester.

Estrangement is curated by Aneta Szylak and Hiwa K.
The exhibition reader is edited by Francesca Recchia.



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Opening party:
May 28, 2011 7pm

Exhibition on view:
29 May - 30 September 2011
Tuesday - Sunday 11:00 - 07:00 PM
artistic director: Aneta Szylak

The Summer 2011 programme will materialise in two exhibitions, Estrangement and Work & Leisure.

Labour and Leisure is a project encompassing that other side of labouring or what is out of sight of the typical representation of the work or worker. It seeks interest in stagnation, spare time and its uses, dreams and phantasies, false identities, forms of survival, frustrations of engagement and failures of transformation.

Artists: Anders Bojen & Kristoffer Ørum, Kalle Bröllin, Jane Cheadle, Maureen Connor, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Köken Ergun, Elżbieta Jabłońska, Hiwa K, Grzegorz Klaman, Zbigniew Kosycarz, Kasia Krakowiak, Joanna Malinowska, Ekta Mittal & Yashaswini Raghunandan, Ines Moreira, Jacek Niegoda, Cora Piantoni, Konrad Pustoła, Jadwiga Sawicka, Dominika Skutnik, Marek Sobczyk, Łukasz Surowiec, Michał Szlaga, Pilvi Takala, Milica Tomić, Anna Reinert, Zorka Wollny & Anna Szwajgier, Mariusz Waras, Julita Wójcik and Artur Żmijewski.

The project is curated by Aneta Szylak in collaboration with Maks Bochenek as curatorial assistant. The exhibition reader is edited by Krzysztof Gutfrański.

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In the opening of the International Festival of Visual Arts ALTERNATIVA welcome to the Hall 90B,  on the  performative lecture by danish artists  Anders Bojen i Kristoffer Ørum.

The Subjective History of Gdańsk is a performative lecture dedicated to the history of Gdańsk, seen from the perspective of person suffering from the Alice in Wonderland syndrome – an neurological disorder causing a change in the way that the sufferer perceives his/her body (loses the orientation about the size and shape of it or some of its parts). Trying to create a new history of Gdańsk and the Shipyard, the lecture will focus on the physical characteristics such as size, weight and appearance – it will compare the present and past events, the buildings and people, as well as the length of ships built in the Gdańsk Shipyard with the Stanisław Lem’s space ships and the height of Neptune’s Fountain with the Westerplatte monument.

Anders Bojen and Kristoffer Ørum
International Festival of Visual Arts ALTERNATIVA vernissage
Hall 90B and the grounds of the former Gdańsk Shipyard
May 28th, 2011
Start 9.00 PM

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The International Festival of Visual Arts ALTERNATIVA welcome to a music performance by Zorka Wollny and Anna Szwajgier – A song while working

 
The concert in Hall 90B is based on the contrast of work (extreme noise) and the leisure (delicate and minimalistic compositions). For the first time in his practice, the artists use the sounding and finished recordings of warm up tracks that stimulate the work. The choreography and music with the use of light and heavy equipment will be created by artists, along with the group of the shipyard workers. The music coming from the loudspeakers “switches on” the choreography – the workers start working, producing the maximum noise. The music stops, followed by the break – during that time it will be possible to listen to the peaceful music arrangements.

Zorka Wollny i Anna Szwajgier - A song while working
Place: Hall 90B
Start: 09.30 PM
Date: May 28th


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