[rohrpost] Fwd: S O C I A L H A C K E R S : part 2

[Krystian Woznicki <krystian@snafu.de>]

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>Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 17:00:00 +0100
>From: Matthieu LAURETTE <matthieu@laurette.net>
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>Subject: S O C I A L   H A C K E R S : part 2
>
>S O C I A L   H A C K E R S      P A R T    2
>
>G u n i l l a   K l i n g b e r g   (SE)  /  M a t t h i e u   L a u r e
>t t e  (FR)
>
>November 9 - December 3, 2000
>Welcome to the opening on Wednesday  November 8th,  5-7 p.m.
>
>M u u   G a l l e r y ,   H e l s i n k i ,   F i n l a n d
>
>
>--
>
>[ press release ]
>
>S O C I A L   H A C K E R S
>Series of three collaborative projects at Muu Gallery
>PART 1  : Jeremy Deller (UK) / Karl Holmqvist (SE)
>October 12 - November 4, 2000
>PART  2  : Matthieu Laurette (FR)/ Gunilla Klingberg (SE)
>November 9 - December 3, 2000
>PART 3 : Plamen Dejanov and Swetlana Heger (AT) / Jarno Jokinen and
>Katja Valanne (FI)
>December 8 - 23, 2000
>
>Curators : Cristina Ricupero and Paula Toppila
>
>Social Hackers consists in a series of three exhibitions to take place
>at
>the artist run gallery MUU in Helsinki in the fall 2000. Each exhibition
>
>project involves a confrontation or a collaboration between an artist
>from
>the Nordic region and one from continental Europe. This series of
>projects
>deal with various phenomena in the field of contemporary art that both
>comments and analyses social and political issues. These works relate
>strongly to the communication system and power structures in society
>problematising both the system and its message. The artists to be
>presented
>in Social Hackers use everyday familiar codes from the all-around
>advertisement, information flow, television, newspapers and magazines.
>But
>they use these signs innovatively, subverting their original message and
>
>context,  making fun of these through literal interpretations of the
>messages and bringing art into the very focus of different contexts -
>consumerism, commercialism and  manipulation.
>
>In addition to the use of the gallery space (as described above) a
>project
>initiated by the artist Brett Bloom from Chicago entitled Dispensing
>with
>Formalities will also be presented Outside the gallery in the cityscape.
>
>This art project consists of  dispensers situated in a public space in
>the
>city which includes artists' projects designed to be delivered for free
>to
>the audience. Each of the two individual artists performing in the
>gallery
>will also develop a project for the dispenser in Helsinki.
>
>--
>
>S O C I A L   H A C K E R S      P A R T    2
>Matthieu Laurette (FR)/ Gunilla Klingberg (SE)
>November 9 - December 3, 2000
>
>For the second edition of the series " Social Hackers " we shall
>introduce
>Swedish artist Gunilla Klingberg from Sweden and Matthieu Laurette from
>France. Gunilla Klingberg will show a computer animation commenting on
>the
>consumer society and the numbing effect of consumerism via the multitude
>of
>signs and symbols, ads and slogans that surround us. Matthieu Laurette
>dedicated all of his budget in acquiring lottery cards that will be
>scratched-out by persons in an assembly line, under his direction,
>during
>the opening, in an Alvar Aalto environment. This time, will he win or
>loose
>his public funds?
>
>SHORT INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTISTS
>
>Gunilla Klingberg (b.1966) Stockholm
>Gunilla Klingberg is a Swedish artist  that has demonstrated an ongoing
>interest in urban iconography, it's manifestations and effects. She has
>examined very familiar logotypes from everyday situations that are found
>in
>the city, shopping areas and on television. Her work strongly reflects
>the
>site and the city where she is exhibiting. She produces a sharp,
>critical
>point of view of our ever more commercialised society commenting on the
>numbing effect of the multitude of signs and symbols, ads and slogans
>that
>surround us.  Her contribution for Social Hackers in Helsinki is a new
>computer animation.
>
>Matthieu Laurette (b. 1970), Paris
>Matthieu Laurette explores the mass-communication system by using the
>media
>to broadcast the "instructions for use" of his own parallel economy.
>Throughout many of his projects, Matthieu Laurette has wanted to change
>the
>way productions budgets are usually spent, always taking into
>consideration
>the specific processes and economic reality of the city where he
>exhibits.
>Most recently, for example, for a project he did in Bilbao, he decided
>to
>invest his production budget in buying a new car that all the
>inhabitants
>from this city could acquire by exchanging it with a new product through
>a
>television program. In Italy, he chose to bet his production budget on
>the
>result of the final match of the European Football Championship, France
>x
>Italy, that took place on the same day of his opening (he lost).
>
>--
>Social Hackers is generously supported by:  Finnish Cultural Fund,
>Swedish
>Finnish Cultural Foundation, British Council, IASPIS International
>Artists'
>Studio Programme in Sweden, Ministry of Education, PRO AV Saarikko,
>Nifca
>helps with the accomodation of the artists and with some furniture.
>--
>For further information, please contact : Cristina Ricupero, mobile
>phone :
>+33-6117624 criric@hotmail.com Paula Toppila, email :
>paula.toppila@frame-fund.fi, tel/fax. +358-9-8601236 or +358-50 60268
>Muu Gallery, Lönnrotinkatu 15, 00120 Helsinki, tel. puh/tel
>+358-9-611435,
>Opening hours: Tue-Fri 12-17, Sat-Sun 12-16
>
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