Developing Despite the noise

Despite the noise Pt 1 - Launch event











18th April 2008 – 7pm until late, Egg, 200 York Way, Kings Cross

Organised by the London based independent artist and curator David Goldenberg

Despite the noise is planned as a sequence of dynamic events, projects, trajectories, and activities spread across one year to explore the concept of “Post Autonomy” via exploring the different spaces that make up the Egg venue. Where, how we build up a picture of a new concept, is equivalent to building up an idea of an unfamiliar place. The simple question that the project poses is “How is it possible to rethink staging a contemporary practice from the beginning?” Key to this idea of a beginning is the mental image of the blind space of a chat room, and how you go about revealing the interior of that blind space. If we take that idea of a beginning to the next stage, then everyone is potentially part of developing Post Autonomy.


Participants:

David Goldenberg - A London based independent artist, curator and writer. Recent exhibitions: Istanbul Biennial; Sharjah Biennial; Century City, Tate Modern; Plausable Worlds, ICA, Philadelphia, USA.
The Freee art collective is made up of Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt, Mel Jordan. Recent exhibitions: Gavin Wade’s Strategic Question: What are Aesthetics? at the Venice Biennale 2005, B+B’s Real Estate at the ICA in London 2005, and the Guangzhou Triennale curated by Hou Hanru in China 2005.
Karly Rayner - A London based performance artist.
Bob & Roberta Smith and his Apathy band - A London based artist and band. Recent exhibitions: The Beautiful Poetry of Bob & Roberta Smith at the Hales Gallery, London (2005/6) and Help Build the Ruins of Democracy, Baltic (2005).
Bjork Vigosdittor - An Icelandic installation and sound artist, exhibits in Iceland, Greece and the USA.
No Bra - Formed in 2003 comprising Susanne Oberbeck and Dale Cornish







Despite the noise Pt 2: Holding bay














Materialising Post Autonomy no 4

A project by David Goldenberg

As part of a project by Artist Anonymous, A-foundation, Liverpool, UK, and the Liverpool Biennial


November Friday 20 & Saturday 21 08
10am – 6pm

A foundation, Green Street, Liverpool, UK

The existing model of art has finished and we need to locate a new model of art.

This is the second part of a series of projects looking at materialising a new model of art under the name of Post Autonomy. In the second stage we will look at defining that moment which follows leaving behind the existing model of art and before the next model of art is constructed, in other words the event will look at that moment of waiting in order to locate the language and representation to define and locate a new model of art.

During this moment or gap we do not know what art is… where the spaces for art exist….nor notions.. of the artist and audience…

The project is to take place inside artist anonymous project at the A foundation in Liverpool, as part of the Liverpool Biennial. How do we use this free space to explore the notions of free space, Biennials, Globalisation, and the role of participation within a participatory practice?

Despite the noise

Despite the noise

materialising post autonomy

There is a sense today that art is known, and there is a standard way of staging and thinking about art, which we can call the standard or normal idea of art. However, if this is not true, and for the argument of this project I want to suggest that it isn't, then how do we break with this normalised idea of staging art and go onto explore other possibilities? This then leads to the following possibilities -

We don’t have a clear idea what art looks like
We don’t have an idea about the spaces for art
We don’t have a clear concept to think about and evaluate art
We don’t have a clear concept of the purpose of an art audience

Our point of departure starts by thinking through how it is possible to break our current thinking and staging art, and then to go onto rebuild another idea? Let us say that at the outset this idea is unknown so the series of events will look at working towards clarifying and making this idea known (This unknown idea we will call postautonomy).

The mental image of post autonomy can then be used to speculate about different possible models of art. This is useful particularly in thinking about the expanded role of a Euro-centric tradition of art against the context or backdrop of a Global context. How are we to understand the relationship between a Euro-centric tradition of art against this Global context? Does the space/zone exist to understand this relationship or is it necessary to develop different spaces and zones? How do we locate representations of this global context and the idea of Global cities?


Ideas for staging an event

To stage a series of interlinked, dynamic projects that explore the quality and atmosphere of the different spaces that make-up a venue .