[Reader-list] SOCIETE REALISTE: Activities in Berlin, January 2008.

Jean-Baptiste Naudy jbnaudy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 21:55:02 IST 2008


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Activities in Berlin: January 2008.

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    i/ POLISTERIES

Friday 25 JAN, 20:00
a lecture presented at uqbar,
Schwedenstr. 16, Wedding, 13357 Berlin
www.uqbar-ev.de


    ii/ TRANSMEDIALE: Conspire...

Exhibition opening: Tuesday 29 JAN
Open through Sun 24 FEB 24.
Festival located at Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de


    iii/ THE ARTIST, THE SCIENTIST AND THE INDUSTRIAL

Thursday 31 JAN, 15:30
a lecture at the Bilderberg Salon
within the frame of Transmediale
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de


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CONTENT: POLISTERIES
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Lecture


A stere is an old measurement unit, coming from the greek -stereos-, which
means "a volume of solid matter". Societe Realiste will use this notion to
relate,
> on one hand, the work established by its MINISTERE DE L'ARCHITECTURE (
http://www.societerealiste.net/#MA) about blocks as a perception unit (see
MA: Volksballast der Republik); membranes as a territorial device between
various kind of steres  (see: MA: Deuxième Contact); the relation between a
practical discipline and a work volume (see: MA:Volksballast der Republik
(The Seminar))
> on the other, the exploration of "steres of utopia" by "Le Producteur",
the 2008 political transitions collection of Societe Realiste's Trend Bureau
TRANSITIONERS


Friday 25 JAN, 20:00
uqbar
Schwedenstr. 16, Wedding, 13357 Berlin
T +49.30.46069107
projectspace (at) uqbar-ev.de
www.uqbar-ev.de



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CONTENT: TRANSMEDIALE - Conspire...
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Exhibition


Transmediale: CONSPIRE… the transmediale exhibition, guest curated by Natasa
Petresin-Bachelez, focuses on the strategic notion of the conspiratorial
act. In poetic reference to the term's Latin roots, conspirare, the
exhibition deconstructs the nature of conspiracy into a silent and cosmic
act of 'collective breathing' suggesting a sharply targeted, yet anonymous
and intimate form of creative collaboration. The works and projects chosen
approach the perceptive borders of our daily lives with coded instructions,
exploratory maps and speculative allusions which provoke alternative views
about the way in which we understand information and what we believe to be
universal truths. As such, thematic constructs around the notions of
conspiratorial truths, bio-organic systems and twisted realities emerge from
the contextualising clusters explored within the exhibition.

Featuring works by:

Julieta Aranda, Uršula Berlot, Lene Berg, Egle Budvytyte, Bureau d'Etudes,
Alain Declerc, Alban Hajdinaj, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Ilana
Halperin, Norimichi Hirakawa, Janez Janša, Christoph Keller, Hassan Khan,
Kimsooja, Olga Kisseleva, Knowbotic Research, Julius Koller, Mangelos, Alice
Miceli, Laurent Montaron, Matt O'dell, Trevor Paglen, Lisa Parks, Marko
Peljhan, Tobias Putrih, Peter Sandbichler, SilentCell Network, Société
Réaliste, Einar Thorsteinn, Ykon, Artur Zmijewski,


Exhibition opening: Tuesday 29 JAN
Open through Sun 24 FEB 24.
Festival located at Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de



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CONTENT: THE ARTIST, THE SCIENTIST AND THE INDUSTRIAL
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Lecture


Invited for the Transmediale 08 : Conspire exhibition, the cooperative
Société Réaliste will present the 2008 collection of Transitioners, its
political trends design bureau. This collection, entitled Le Producteur, is
inspired by major utopist thinkers of the first three decades of the 19th
century, such as Fourier, Enfantin, Rodrigues, Cabet, Owen, or Saint-Simon.
Their role as theoritical activists in the first stage of the industrial
revolution has been central and still nourishes our common political, social
and economical representations. Indeed, inventing what could be nowadays
called political design, they managed to melt problematics coming from
fields as different as politics, culture, spirituality, industrialism or
science. They have proposed programs for transforming modern societies,
partly realized, partly still at the basis of current political critical
theory.

For its intervention at the Bilderberg Salon, Société Réaliste will come
back to the exemple of the saint-simonians, inventors of the concept of
avant-garde artist. In his 1825's essay entitled "The artist, the scientist
and the industrial" (L'artiste, le savant et l'industriel), one of their key
philosopher, Olinde Rodrigues, explains that considering "the power of the
arts as indeed the most immediate" in order to reform, every rational
society should place the artist next to the scientist to pilot the
pioneering social machine. The work of most of these utopian thinkers had
been to determine how to improve the industrial society, how to make it
peaceful, how to design it as a perfectly balanced and dynamic system. The
stake of this intervention is to try to understand how utopian strategies
and techniques are still used in order to pilot the social machine.


Thursday 31 JAN, 15:30
Bilderberg Salon
Transmediale
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
http://www.transmediale.de



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