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where did art go? / get lost! 10, 12 & 15 June at 10:00-13:00 What is the force that constantly follows us everywhere, even when we sleep? That craves for our creativity, our dreams and doings. Here we are in Venice – the city on water. How did this imagined force create this city? The hot spot. The epicentre and the historical source of the art world as we know it. The perfect backdrop for extraction of value. The tsunami of creativity and thinking connected, here by ducats*. Art and the City, the sources to extract in this locality. The space in the place is a sculpture, Temporary Agora. How will remain immaterial until the moment we gather to reflect upon this relationship. How to resist while bureau-crazy tries to kill us with boredom. We propose a collaborative workshop with invited guests on where and how art can happen, at a time were systemic tools are used to govern. Venice will be the focus of losing ourselves in a (re)search for historical and contemporary examples. We will walk and talk, find crucial spots and traces. We will be inspired by sharing experiences. Meet with people, think and do together. Temporary Agora is the starting and end point of this riddle. We will use the construction to exfoliate the confusion. We ARE all Venice! We are WATER! *Ducat (it. ducato) is a gold coin, first made in Venice by the doge Pietro Gradenigo (1289-1310).https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dukat(2019-02-08) Workshop part I: HOW to disrupt a necrophilic system?  10 June, 10:00 – 12:00 + joint lunch/sum up 12:00- 13:00 The art scene is run by the same economic system that relentlessly enhances inequality which grows into fatal climate change. We will all be affected! akcg therefore ask participants to reflect upon how we all transported our bodies/minds/souls/hearts to Venice. Disrupting a logic that has been mandatory ever since industrialism, even considering bourgeois artistic ‘trends’ like the Futurists, their fascination for speed, the machine, new technology and later the political fascist movement. Workshop part II: learning from Venice 12 June, 10:00- 12:00 + joint lunch/sum up 12:00- 13:00 Our wish is to share local struggles. Guests and collaborators from Venice are invited to discuss urgent concerns. We will look into the consequences of tourism and more than 20 million visitors per year. What lessons do we, as artists/art workers need to learn? How can we live beyond the spectacles and the devastating effects of CO2 emissions, wherever we are? Is there a need for building alliances between different localities? Where and how can art happen beyond art as consumption? How can we together explore what climate justice means in this context? Workshop part III: get lost! 15 June, 10:00-12:00 + joint lunch/sum up 12 :00-13:00 We start and end the workshop in Temporary Agora by altering something together. Get lost in the maze – find new ways. The third workshop will be developed from the findings of the first and/or the second workshop. Let us think the unthinkable – do the undoable – beyond NPM, tourist guides, beyond the race of market driven life – curriculum vitae – where did art go? We bring in more stuff to the Temporary Agora! Lost and found, trash to repair…put things and thoughts together! To be continued. The workshops take place in Sala del Camino. The workshops are open for the public but advance booking is required for each session. Please, be sure to bring water and snacks. To inquire or to join the workshop, please e-mail the organisers at workshops(at)akcg.org where did art go/get lost! akcg could participate through the support of IASPIS and Kulturfonden för Sverige och Finland TRAVEL DIARY 80% or more of the worldʼs population has never set foot on an airplane! We would like to ask you to observe, note, and register how you are moving your body and soul between your home and Venice. Please include: place of departure, means of transport (door to door), when the journey begins and ends. Travel time. Costs. Your thoughts on the relationship between money/time/speed and climate? How do you experience and register the combustion and dependence on fossil fuel? We want to start our first workshop opportunity with reading our notes. The stories will be collected in advance and distributed between us anonymously for reading. This is but one opportunity to discuss and learn what is needed from us in order to make the CO2 emissions curbe. ******************************************* As part of the cell Disruptive Processes akcg took part in building the Temporary Agora structure, Ajauksia group and the wording workshop. We also screened a video in the Temporary Agora during the entire RC#3 period at Sala del Camino on Giudecca. At our three meetings we started each workshop through reading submitted travel diaries. During The Convocation we ran a workshop within the Temporary Agora space with Anni Laakso where we constructed a system for recycling the trash produced by the Research Pavilion #3. The city of Venice has a very rigorous recycling program for handling 30 million tourists yearly. Link to Venice recycling program: https://www.gruppoveritas.it/how-to-recycle ******************************************** Excerpt of text read out loud as an introduction to our part of the Convocation workshop where did art go? / get lost! is here a workshop and an investigation based on real experiences that has raised questions on art in relation to capital, power and everyday life. We asked ourselves: How did we get here? By flying or taking a train? Are we aware of CO2 emissions when going to events like this? How do we approach sites like Venice? Is there something to learn from localities like the here and now Venice? As many do, we also think of HOW to disrupt a necrophilic system. And…Why are we here? Who is the Venice Bienale and also this pavilion really for and who does it benefit? 30 years ago Venice had a population of 120 000 inhabitants which now has crumbled to 55 000 (2016) that means 65 000 persons have been more or less evicted from their own city. Over 40 000 commute into Venice every day to take badly paid jobs in the tourist industry. Many of them immigrant women. These jobs are seasonal and comes and goes with the most obvious tides- the industries – of art and tourism. They don’t benefit the local situation so well on all it’s levels as we are so willing to think. In a very near future travel will slow down, extremely vulnerable places like Venice will have less visitors and hopefully venetians can move back or at least the next generation can afford to stay here. There are still hopes of a lagoon that is alive. Flying in and out is already out of mode. Slowly we will wake up to experience many more details as many artistic practices are really trying to enhance. Or as the philosopher Paul Virilio states: ...if speed is responsible for the exponential development of the man-made accidents of the twentieth century, it is equally responsible for the greater incidence of ecological accidents (in the various cases of environmental pollution)... We started to talk to people we have met here since we came. People working in hotels, artists and artisans working in this very building, Silvia Federici, people organizing immigrant women who work in hotels, the doorman in the building we live in here in Venice, a climate researcher who lives and works here. They all witness about the catastrophe of what tourism and it’s following systems like airbnb, cruising ships and the biennale brings to Venice. They all ask us to respect Venice. It is an emergency. It is a crisis. They ask us to take care of our vaste, to choose train instead of flying in or taking one of the huge cruising ships. They ask us to connect to the local people. As we have worked here in the research pavilion we have not found one single organized place or system to follow the so metiociolously planned handling of waste that the city of Venice want’s us to follow. As a reminder and a moment of thinking and doing together our workshop will today build a simple system for collecting our own waste. You are welcome to join us! Respect Venice! We will meet here in the Temporary Agora! akcg's participation has been made possible through: The Swedish Arts Grants Committee Iaspis and KULTURFONDEN FÖR SVERIGE OCH FINLAND

type	presentation
keywords	travel diary, disruptive processes, temporary agora, akcg
copyright	all participants have copyright to their own notes
year	08/05/2019

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