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About the project
In between the movements looks
at the networking that is taking place between local & global
justice movement groups. The project
investigates corresponding practices and their influence
on theory.
Interviews were conducted on various subject areas. ‘No Border No Nation’ and ‘§129a’
looks at the criminalization of left-wing movements in the course of
the anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa 2001 and Heiligendamm 2007. The
situation of the residents near a G8 summit is topic of ‘NOG8’. ‘Transplanted’ talks about the lack of a genuine civil society in Albania. ‘Queer’ shows the necessity of Queer Politics and anti-discriminatory demands. ‘Transversal’
is a little stroll through a socio-cultural center in a search for
transversal lines that always cross through new movements and
institutions.
“Snip...Snip...Bang, Bang: Political Art Reloaded”,
created with Gregory Sholette in New York, thematizes the uneven
distribution politics in the art system by means of the comparison of
invisible art- and culture work with the phenomenon “Dark Matter” in
astrophysics. The history of political art actions in New York City in
the 1980s and 1990s presented by Sholette in the video and their
influences on current activist and artistic practices shows in
addition, possibilities of action outside of the art market.
"Medinat Weimar & Global Justice Movements"
was shot in 2009 together with Ronen Eidelman in Holon near Tel Aviv.
It thematizes the special situation of Israelian activists within the
movement of globalisation and the role, which can be ascribed to
Israelian artists in post-nazi countries. The paternalistic attitude,
which may be taken in this process by public German institutions, is
shown by the censorship of Eidelman’s art project at the
Bauhaus University in Weimar. Thus, the establishment of an office
“Medinat Weimar” (a movement for a Jewish state in Gemany) on the
university premises was prohibited, and this with the argument to
protect him from the neonazi-attacks.
The scheduled demolition of a small agricultural village to make way
for the new rail line from Hong Kong to mainland China in 2010 is the
topic of “Choi Yuen Village”. The film shows several forms of resistance in and outside the village.
“Save Union Square” is based on
interviews in 2008 and 2009 with activists from groups like “Church of
Stop Shopping”, “Nyc Park Advocates” or “Billionaires for Bush” who
fight against the privatization of the pavilion at Union Square New
York. A very different approach is discussed in “pure products usa”.
It’s about a company that manufactures since more than 16 years a
series of multiple edition sculptures that play with the role of
politics in an age of marketing and consumerism.
The latest film is about “Erased People”
in Slovenia. In 1992, the newly independent Republic of Slovenia erased
from the register of permanent residence 25,671 inhabitants that until
then had enjoyed full citizenship rights. It starts with an interview
Krenn did in 2003 with the researchers and activists Jasminka Dedic and
Jelka Zorn. Seven Years later Krenn continues this conversation with
Jelka Zorn and Irfan Beširević, who is an political activist and
spokesman of the “Erased“.
Each
video as well as its poster is developed in close collaboration with
activists from different geographical and cultural contexts giving
insights into various perspectives of resistance.
This project is supported by Kurt Eisner Kulturstiftung
Links
autofocus videowerkstatt: http://www.videowerkstatt.de
Umbruch Bildarchiv: www.umbruch-bildarchiv.de
noborderLAB: http://no-racism.net/noborderlab
]diskursiv[: http://www.diskursiv.at
translate.eipcp.net: http://translate.eipcp.net
Installationview, In between the movements in Center for Contemporary Arts Celje/Likovni salon, 11.3. – 11.4.2010
Conference Borders, Nations, Translations
Previous Presentations
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (A) 2008
Have the cake and eat it, too
Institutional Critique as Instituent Practice
Artists:
Agentur, Bini Adamczak / Persson Baumgartinger, Zanny Begg / Oliver
Ressler, Zanny Begg / Dmitry Vilensky, Chto delat?, Marcelo Expósito /
Nuria Vila, Anna Sigmond Gudmundsdottir / Tone Hansen / Marit Paasche,
Martin Krenn, Lia / Dan Perjovschi
Designers: Toledo i Dertschei
Curators: Charlotte Martinz-Turek und Luisa Ziaja
emil filla gallery, Ústí nad Labem (CZ) 2008
Why do you resist? »Forms of resistance in contemporary art and society«
Curators: Andrea Domesle (Austria), Michal Koleček (Czech Republic)
Artists:
Paulo Mendez (PT), Marina Gržinić (A) a Aina Śmid (SK), Kristina Leko
(CRO), Martin Krenn (A), Oliver Ressler (A), Akademia Ruchu (PL), Lucas
Lenglet (NL), Jiří Kovanda (CZ), Zbyněk Baladrán (CZ)
Forum Stadtpark, Graz (A) 2007
Why do you resist? »Forms of resistance in contemporary art and society«
Curators: Andrea Domesle (A), Michal Koleček (CZ)
Artists:
Paulo Mendez, Marina Gržinic / Aina Šmid, Kristina Leko, Martin Krenn,
Oliver Ressler, Akademia Ruchu, Lucas Lenglet, Jirí Kovanda, Zbynek
Baladrán
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