The Forgotten Pioneer Movement invites to a Set #C Public Seminar - The Pioneer Camp of ReVision on October 3-5, Berlin

September 22, 2014
Author Echo Gone Wrong
ŽemAt, Imagining the Absence, video still, 2014, photo: Eglė Ambrasaitė / Museum Aikas Žado Live

ŽemAt, Imagining the Absence, video still, 2014, photo: Eglė Ambrasaitė / Museum Aikas Žado Live

On 3-5 October The Pioneer Camp of ReVision is a public, four-day seminar taking place at District and different locations in Berlin from October 3rd to 5th and on November 20th. It includes lectures, workshops, discussions, artist talks, performances and film screenings. In this context a revision of questions, concepts and terminologies of The Forgotten Pioneer Movement will be initiated. Co-organized by Zagreb curators’ collective [BLOK] and art historian Ana Bogdanović (University of Belgrade), The Pioneer Camp of ReVision addresses cultural theory ranging from the ‘presence of the absent’ and the critical re-evaluation of socialist projects to the analysis of generational experience.

Among the speakers are: Ieva Astahovska, Nika Autor / Newsreel front, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė / ŽemAt, [BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković), Ana Bogdanović, Sophie Goltz, Gal Kirn, Inga Lāce, Anchi Cheng & Kristina Leko & Jonathan Ryall & Lisa Schwalb, Rasa Navickaitė, Marta Popivoda, Anca Rujoiu, Ana Vujanović, Nikola Vukobratović, Madalina Zaharia and others

Dates

03.10.2014, 11am-8pm
1. seminar day entitled Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t, moderated by [BLOK] with Gal Kirn, Nikola Vukobratović, Anchi Cheng, Kristina Leko, Jonathan Ryall, Lisa Schwalb, newsreel front (Nika Autor, Marko Bratina, Ciril Oberstar, Jurij Meden)

04.10.2014, 11am-8pm
2. seminar day entitled ‘Vocabulary Lesson’ – Techniques of preposterous history in pOst-Western art and culture moderated by Ulrike Gerhardt & Susanne Husse with Ieva Astahovska & Inga Lāce, Rasa Navickaitė, Snejana Krasteva & Peter Tzanev, Domaš Noreika / ŽemAt

05.10.2014, 11am-8pm
3. seminar day entitled Reconsiderations of the
(post-)socialist experience
 moderated by Ana Bogdanović, Anca Rujoiu & Madalina Zaharia, Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė / ŽemAt, Maya Mikelsone & Kate Krolle

20.11.2014, 7pm-10:30pm
4. seminar day entitled How Ideology Moved our Collective Body mit Elske Rosenfeld, VIP, Sophie Goltz, Marta Popivoda, Ana Vujanović

Set # C is realised in collaboration with [BLOK] and the Latvian Centre for Contemporay Art, Riga.

OCTOBER 3rd

Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t.

Curated and moderated by [BLOK] (Ivana Hanaček, Ana Kutleša, Vesna Vuković), curatorial collective, Zagreb

Locations: District and other locations

11am
The figure of partisan: from the Yugoslav revolution to the memory on revolution
Lecture and discussion
Gal Kirn (Postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt University Berlin)

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

12pm
From Youth Labour Actions to football hooligans: Youth socialization and politicization in Socialism and Transition
Lecture and discussion
Nikola Vukobratović (Historian, Writer, Zagreb)

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

3pm-6pm

WEDDING SEMINAR OUTLET (crash course)
Workshop
Anchi Cheng, Kristina Leko, Jonathan Ryall, Lisa Schwalb

WEDDING SEMINAR OUTLET (crash course) is a guided tour through Berlin-Wedding, and a further development of the WEDDING SEMINAR by Kristina Leko which took place at the Institute Art in Context at the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) over two semesters in 2013 and 2014. The seminar researched the history of this traditional working class district, its social, cultural and ethnical landscape of nowadays, in order to learn about different notions of art and culture, which might be functional in situ. Wedding is one of the poorest areas of Berlin with high unemployment and crime rate, partially undergoing gentrification process. One of the key question of the workshop will be: How can an artist position him/herself in such an environment, without compromising his/her progressive social intentions?

Workshop in English
Limited number of participants, please register at eh@district-berlin.com until 29.09.2014

Meeting Point: Walter-Röber-Brücke, 13357 Berlin-Wedding

7pm
Newsreel 55
(31min, 2013), Regie: Newsreel front (Nika Autor, Marko Bratina, Ciril Oberstar, Jurij Meden)

Film screening and discussion with Nika Autor (Newsreel Front) and all contributors of Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t

Newsreel 55 is a compilation of quotations, archival footage and footage of current events relating to the territory of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, with a special focus on Maribor, the former country’s third-largest industrial center. It explores questions that relate to the social and political shifts of the 20th century and that have shaped the city’s economic, political and social dynamics.

Location: Analog Bar, Martin Opitz Str. 21, 13357 Berlin-Wedding

OCTOBER 4th

‘Vocabulary Lesson’ – Techniques of preposterous history in pOst-Western art and culture

Moderated by Ulrike Gerhardt (PhD candidate, Leuphana University, Lüneburg) und Susanne Husse (Artistic Director, District Berlin)

11am
Revisiting Footnotes. Echoes of the past translated into present
Lecture and discussion
Ieva Astahovska & Inga Lāce (Curators, Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art, Riga)

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

12pm
The Children from the Hotel America. Post-communist Lithuanian Cinema from a postcolonial feminist perspective
Lecture and discussion
Rasa Navickaitė (PhD candidate, Central European University Budapest)

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

3pm-6pm
Vinagi Gotov! Always ready!
Workshop
Snejana Krasteva & Peter Tzanev

Inspired by the psychotherapeutic method of ‘psychodrama’, artist and art historian Peter Tzanev (Chair and Professor of Art Psychology at the National Academy of Arts in Sofia) and curator Snejana Krasteva (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow) propose to stage a performative workshop centred on the various processes of ‘pioneer initiation’. Vinagi Gotov! (Always Ready!) acts as a reflexive environment, a psychodrama of personal and collective memories that seem to have remained frozen in time; it attempts to unpack tensions between social and formal aspects of such rituals of initiation with particular focus on the aspect of sincerity.

Workshop in English
Limited number of participants, please register at eh@district-berlin.com until 29.09.2014

Location: District Berlin, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

7pm
Circulation Verkehr тираж cirkuliacija
Performance
Domaš Noreika / ŽemAt

Domaš Noreika’s performance Circulation Verkehr тираж cirkuliacija (2014) is part of the ongoing Fut(o)urism series and deals with the architecture and interior of the RMS Titanic, launched in 1911, sunk in 1912. In the NIZZA conference room of the Estrel Hotel, the artist organises a virtual tour through formerly existing rooms of the Olympic-class ocean liner. At the beginning of the last century, the Titanic was one of the most progressive and technologically advanced ships in the world, comparable to socialist ideology, which was considered a promising political idea of modernity. In 1985, at the very beginning of Glasnost and Perestroika, the politics of openness and restructuring, the wreck was found on the seabed at a depth of 12,415 feet. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, Domaš Noreika activates imaginary connections between this century-old myth and the cold war’s ruins.

Meeting point: Estrel Hotel, Lobby, Sonnenallee 225, 12057 Berlin-Neukölln

OCTOBER 5th

Reconsiderations of the (post-)socialist experience

Moderated by Ana Bogdanović (Art historian, University of Belgrade) 

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

11am
Generation as a framework for historicizing the socialist experience in contemporary art
Lecture and discussion
Ana Bogdanović (Art historian, University of Belgrade)

12pm
On the threshold of the future
Lecture and discussion
Anca Rujoiu (Curator, Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore) and Madalina Zaharia (Artist, London)

1pm
They don‘t know how to say it anymore. Notes on collectivity and collectivism

Lecture and discussion
Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė / ŽemAt (Artist, Curator, Žeimiai / Vilnius) 
 
3pm-6pm
Soviet Kitchen Table Workshop
Maya Mikelsone & Kate Krolle
Workshop

In their Soviet Kitchen Table Workshop, artist Kate Krolle and curator Maya Mikelsone invite participants to engage in, and learn from, a reenactment of Soviet popular culture with regards to food and table preparation. Nothing dramatic changes in the practices of preparing, presenting and consuming food in the regions of the former USSR since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. Mikelsone and Krolle thus tap into a history of Soviet cuisine in which societal configurations recorded through time. The table culture they revive renders the table an aesthetic tableau that features precise arrangements, including e.g. the sculpturing of vegetables into flowers and ornament, thereby making domestic dream topographies the site of celebrations and communal experience.

Workshop in English
Limited number of participants, please register at eh@district-berlin.com until 29.09.2014

7pm 
The Pioneer Camp of Revision

Farewell dinner

NOVEMBER 20th

How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body

Location: District, Bessemerstraße 2-14, 12103 Berlin

from 7pm
Genullt (2014)
Performance
VIP

The series of video-pictograms Genullt I-VII (Nullified I-VII) (2013) observe the building blocks of contemporary social relations in an ultra-reduced fashion.  Some of these spots are reassembled in the performance Genullt (2014) in the context of TFPM. As if in an elementary course of social geometry, three actors practice an array of mechanical gestures ranging from unfriendliness to hostility without any sign of involvement or affect. Rather than leading to solidarity and cooperation, the small-group dynamics here just seems to mirror abstract economical, juridical and ideological modes of relation dominant in capitalist societies at large. Thus it is precisely on those levels of abstraction that the piece urges the viewers to reinvent post-socialist kindness by strategically depriving them of it.

8pm
She turns her head, she lifts the pen (2014)
Performance
Elske Rosenfeld

She turns her head, she lifts the pen (2014), Rosenfeld’s performance at TFPM, is part of Rosenfeld’s ongoing research and exhibition project A Vocabulary of Revolutionary Gestures, developed in collaboration with Scriptings, Berlin and Galerie im Turm, Berlin. it is based on three filmic sequences that are projected next to her. Displaying the uniqueness and seriality of body actions in a revolutionary climate, these images are actualized by the performers’ real-time and recorded movements, gestures and speech.

9pm
Yugoslavia – How Ideology Moved our Collective Body (2013)

(Serbia/ France/ Germany, 62min, 2013), Regie: Marta Popivoda
Produziert von: TkH [Walking Theory], Belgrade, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris, Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin joon film, Berlin

Film screening and discussion with Sophie Goltz (Curator, Hamburg und Berlin), Marta Popivoda (Artist und cultural worker, TkH [Walking Theory], Berlin/Belgrade) and Ana Vujanović (Theorist of performing arts and cultural worker, TkH [Walking Theory], Berlin/ Belgrade