02 May - 04 Jul. 2010
Dorm
Free / The Model re-opens at 6pm on May Day with the vibrant exhibition Dorm. Twenty-two international artist collectives will transform the building into an unprecedented, all-encompassing art project. With a nod to the political events of May 1968, histories of art collectivism, and as a parody of an art fair, the building will be filled with exhibitions, concerts, screenings and performances all aimed at the social imagination.
The Saturday opening night of Dorm will include a Public Sleepover Project (PSP) where people can spend the night within The Model. The PSP will include performances by Thierry Geoffrey/Colonel and Bloodyends. After these, guests will bed down on innovative sleeping apparatuses designed by Sligo IT design students.
Before the PSP, artist and radio DJ Donal Dineen (Today FM) will present Fresh Air with live performances from musicians of the Box Social collective in Dublin from 9pm. Projections provide for a multi-sensory performance, involving musicians Catscars, School Tour, Children Under Hoof, Hunter Gatherer and Patrick Kelleher.
As for the exhibition that runs until July 4th, Dorm includes installations referencing pagan traditions; projects involving political activism; a collaborative photo project with the local military; complex video projections; participatory projects that involve the public, local government and cats; sculpture that confronts audiences with international issues; collaborations between Irish and Northern Irish artists; and elaborate, playful constructions in the gallery that invite the viewer within.
The WochenKlauser research project for Dorm is now viewable as part of the exhbition. more info
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Artists
AES+F , 126/Catalyst, BGL, Raqs Media Collective, Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel, Critical Art Ensemble, Factotum, FASTWÜRMS, evas arche und der feminist, Freee, GANGHUT, Gelitin, General Idea, IRWIN, Laibach, monochrom, Hello Operator, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Reactor, Dexter Sinister, Urban Subjects, and WochenKlausur
Related Programming
- 29 Apr: Critical Run
- 01 May: Fresh Air: Donal Dineen
- 01 May: Dorm PSP Public Sleepover Project
- 02 May: Documentation Archive Screenings
- 02 May: Documentation Archive
- 06 May: WochenKlausur at The Model: Community
- 29 May: Dorm Symposia II: Collectives and Collectivity
Other Events
- 01 May: Dorm Opening
Dorm opens at 6pm. The opening event includes performances from Evas Arche und der Femenist. The opening is followed at 9pm by Fresh Air, a music gig with Donal Dineen and friends. The night concludes with a Public Sleepover project which commences at midnight and includes “Slow Dance” a Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel project and a performance from Bloodyends - 02 May: Dorm Symposia I: Dialogues
Dorm artist collectives discuss each other’s work with the audience. 4pm-6pm - 06 May: Thursday Tours: Dorm
A series of free tours of the contemporary exhibition Dorm will be hosted by The Model curators every Thursday in May (1pm) and June (6pm).
Featuring
Formed in 1987, the Moscow based collective AES+F is made up of Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, and Vladimir Fridkes. Arzamasova and Evzovich are graduates of the Moscow Architectural Institute, Svyatsky is a graduate of the Moscow University of Printing, and Fridkes trained as a fashion photographer. Their animated video Last Riot was first shown in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007, creating a sensation with its portrayal of beautiful young people fighting an endless battle set against the backdrop of a fantasy landscape.
Both Catalyst and 126 Artist-run Gallery are non-commercial, democratically run, member-based organizations. Established in a living room in 2005 by two local artists as a response to the need for more non-commercial gallery spaces in Galway, 126 has a mandate to exhibit and promote challenging and experimental work.
Catalyst Arts, which was formed in 1993 in response to what was seen as a cultural vacuum in Belfast, is a gallery that has also been a 24 hour cinema, a recording studio, a publishing house, a skip, a radio station, a jumble sale, a wrestling ring, a sauna, a distillery, an agnostic chapel, a banquet hall, a darts team, a leisure centre and a night club. Both 126 and Catalyst Arts have a shared history and ethos of providing a space for artistic experimentation and opportunities for artists at various stages of their careers.
BGL consists of Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère and Nicolas Laverdière, based in Quebec City. For over a decade, they have created sculptures, prints and installations that often use humor to critique the commercialism of contemporary culture and explore themes such as death, truth, and the role of art.
BGL was included in the 2007 Montreal Biennial, la Biennial del fin del Mundo in Ushuaia, 2007, la Havana Biennial in 2006, and sous les ponts with the Casino of Luxembourg, 2005. Recent group exhibitions include Maniobres at Toni Tàpies Gallery in Barcelona, 2009, Caught in the Act: Viewer as Performer, at the National Gallery of Canada in 2008-09, and On being an Exhibition at Artist Space in New York, 2007.
Made up of Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective is based in Delhi, India. A word that in Persian, Arabic and Urdu describes the state that whirling dervishes enter into when they whirl, Raqs signifies and embodies a kinetic contemplation of the world.
Raqs has been variously described as artists, media practitioners, curators, editors and catalysts of cultural processes. Their work, which has been exhibited internationally, often takes the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters. They are members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series, and in 2008 curated The Rest of Now and co-curated Scenarios for Manifesta 7.
Since writing a manifesto in 1989 on five types of moving exhibitions, Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel has been creating stimulating situations that help participants develop their awareness of emergencies in contemporary society. His project, Emergency Room, is a physical space for professional artists to exhibit and debate daily about emergencies; Critical Run is a format for debating while running; Protest Fashion is a format for debate while at a rave or dancing a slow dance; and Awareness Muscle aims to train the collective “muscle of awareness.” These projects intend to enable participants to face together, before it is too late, the important issues of today.
Emergency Room has toured internationally and been enacted at P.S.1. in New York. Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel has made numerous productions for Danish national television, and is is now preparing a format to be launched during daily TV news .
The Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective of five tactical media practitioners of various specializations including computer graphics and web design, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance. Formed in 1987, CAE’s focus has been on the exploration of the intersections between art, critical theory, technology, and political activism. The group has exhibited and performed at diverse venues internationally, ranging from the street, to the museum, to the Internet. Museum exhibitions include the Whitney Museum and The New Museum in NYC; The Corcoran Museum in Washington D.C.; The ICA, London; The MCA, Chicago; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and The London Museum of Natural History.
Factotum was formed in 2001 by Stephen Hackett and Richard West. Undertaking a number of activities including the publication of a bi-monthly cultural newspaper called The Vacuum, running a choir, publishing books and curating exhibitions, Factotum’s work has been exhibited around the world, including most recently Frankfurt, Germany, and Halifax, Canada.
In 2005 Factotum was selected to participate in Northern Ireland’s first exhibition at the Venice Biennale. Factotum has won a number of awards including a Paul Hamlyn Award for the Visual Arts and the Curated Visual Arts Award from the Arts Councils in Dublin and Belfast. Factotum’s first feature film, Ditching, was released in March 2010.
Formed in 1979, FASTWÜRMS is the cultural project, trademark, and joint authorship of Kim Kozzi and Dai Skuse. Characterized by a DIY sensibility, witch-positive identity politics, and a firm allegiance to working class and queer communities, their work employs time-based media, performance, installation and social exchange to create interactive installations and collaborative events. FASTWÜRMS’ cultural practice is predicated on the free exchange and circulation of aesthetic knowledge.
Recent exhibitions include Soylent Orange and Red of Tooth and Kaw at the 27th Biennale de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Krummi Krunkar: Tarot+Tattoo in Reykjavik, Iceland as part of the SEQUENCES Festival. Their recent exhibition, Donky@Ninja@Witch, has shown across Canada at the Art Gallery of York University, North York, the Contemporary Art Galley, Vancouver, and Plug In ICA, Winnipeg.
Founded in 2005 by Peter Kisur and Pati Hertling, and originally based in Berlin, evas arche und der feminist is an ongoing series of happenings organized by its co-directors Marlous Borm and Pati Hertling.
In 2007 evas arche und der feminist was moved to New York where Pati Hertling and the new co-director Marlous Borm have been organising monthly events at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise. Featured in Artforum, they have held events at P.S.1. in New York (2007 and 2010) and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis (2009). At their most recent events they have presented works by Jutta Koether and Loretta Fahrenholz, Rachel Harrison and Marina Rosenfeld, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili and Mira Billotte.
Upcoming evas arche und der feminist presentations will feature K8 Hardy and Tara Delong, Donnie & Travis and MEN, Kai Althoff and Brett Millspaw.
Freee is a collective made up of Dave Beech, Andy Hewitt and Mel Jordan who create slogans, performances, billboards and publications that challenge the commercial and bureaucratic colonization of the public sphere.
In 2009 Freee’s projects included Revolution Road: Rename the Streets; Solo Works, Zoo Art Fair; Abstract Cabinet Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, The Peckham Experiment, Space Station Sixty-Five, Camberwell Space; Generosity is the New Political, Wysing Arts, Cambridge; Joy, Sadness and Desire, Spin[Freee]oza SMART Project Space, Amsterdam. Freee’s work has been reviewed in Art Monthly and Frieze.
GANGHUT is an artist collective founded on creative endeavor, the psychology of social structures, and friendship. Since 2005 GANGHUT has produced projects in cities including Bristol, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Lumsden, Dundee, Inverness, London and Uist, that have involved raising pigs, digging foundations, building permanent structures, making films, performances and installations, and raising a village gala day from its grave.
Recently, GANGHUT has become a 12 piece band, created its own contemporary arts residency, acquired Top of the Pops last video wall, created a number one hit t-shirt for Dundee, danced, gotten drunk, eaten, and gone through two sets of matching overalls.
Gelitin is comprised of four artists: Wolfgang Gantner, Ali Janka, Florian Reither and Tobias Urban. They met first in 1978, and then have been playing and working ever since.From 1993 they began to exhibit internationally. The group was formerly known as gelatin and changed their name in 2005. They are known for creating sensational art events in the traditions of provocative modernist art, often with a lively sense of humor.
Among their projects are a gigantic plush toy a 55 meter tall pink rabbit on Colletto Fava (near Genova, Italy ), intended to remain there until 2025.
In November 2005, the group had a show at Leo Koenig, Inc. in New York, a project called Tantamounter 24/7. The project was a “gigantic, complex and very clever machine,” according to the artists, which functioned as a kind of art-Xerox. The group erected a barrier blocking off one half of the space, locking themselves inside for one week, then asking visitors to insert items that they wanted copied into an opening in the barrier, which copies were then returned through another opening.
AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal lived and worked together as General Idea from 1969 until the deaths of Jorge and Felix in 1994. Their work addressed themes such as the mass media, popular culture, and the art world itself, and from 1987 until 1994 their work focused almost exclusively on the theme of AIDS. General Idea exhibited internationally in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia. They presented their first museum exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1979.
Major retrospectives toured Europe and North America in 1984-85 and again in 1992-93, visiting such institutions as the Kunsthalle Basel, the Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1996), the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1997), the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh (2005), and the Kunsthalle Zurich (2008). A touring retrospective of General Idea will open at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris in early 2011. General Idea was included in the Venice, Paris, Sydney and Sao Paulo Biennales, as well as Documenta (1983).
Founded in 1983 in Slovenia, IRWIN is a collective of artists Dušan Mandič, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, and Borut Vogelnik. In turn, IRWIN comprises one of the core groups within the artists’ collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). Recent exhibitions include The Promises of the Past, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010), The Eye of the State, The Israel Center for Digital Art, Holon, Israel, (2010), Third New Old Cold War, Moscow Biennial, Red October, Modernities, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), Barcelona, State in Time, Kunsthalle Krems (2009), Here Is Every, MOMA (2008–09), NSK Passport Holders, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Art Museum (2008), Birds of a Feather, Akbank Art Center, Istanbul (2006–07), East Art Museum, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen (2005), Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (2005), IRWIN: Retroprincip 1983–2003, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2003), and Individual Systems, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (2003). The members of the group live and work in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Laibach is a cross-media collective, founded in 1980 in the industrial town of Trbovlje, in Slovenia. The name Laibach (Austro-German for the capital city Ljubljana) refers to the group’s militaristic self-stylization, propagandist manifestos and totalitarian statements. Primarily making industrial pop music, Laibach’s practices draw upon avant-garde art history, nazi-kunst and socialist realism.
Their public performances, as an anonymous and uniformed quartet, provoke de-individualisation and make conceptual proclamations through forceful sonic stage performances. Laibach practices collective work, dismantling individual authorship and establishing the principle of hyper-identification. Having defined the term “retro-avant-garde” in 1982, since then they have creatively questioned artistic “quotation,” appropriation, copyright and copy-left. Laibach is especially known for their cover versions of Euro hits including Life is Live and One Vision.
monochrom is an international art-technology-philosophy group, founded in 1993. Its offices are located at Museumsquartier/Vienna (at ‘QDK’).The group’s members are: Johannes Grenzfurthner, Evelyn Fürlinger, Harald List, Anika Kronberger, Franz Ablinger, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Daniel Fabry, Günther Friesinger. In November 2005 Roland Gratzer joined as PR content manager, and in December 2006 Jacob Appelbaum became official monochrom ambassador. The group works with different media and art formats and publishes the German book and zine/magazine series Monochrom.
monochrom is known for its left-wing political work/civil society work. The group’s website functions as a collaborative digital art community.
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Founded as Pallas Studios in 1996, and run by artists Mark Cullen and Gavin Murphy, Pallas Contemporary Projects (PCP) is located in Dublin. PCP develops exchanges between Irish and international artists who have a strong conceptual approach to their work, and also offers an internally-curated programme of exhibitions, augmented by invited curators and exhibition exchanges with Irish and international organizations.
PCP also develops projects in its own studios, and in locations throughout Dublin, such as council flats awaiting demolition in Pallas Heights, The Hugh Lane Dublin City Gallery, Dublin Docklands, as well as in London, Belfast, Rotterdam and Bangkok. Recent projects include the two-part exhibition Automatic, presented in London and Dublin, the presentation of films by Hito Steyerl and Manon de Boer, and The Problem with Stability by Australian artists Pat Foster and Jen Berean.
Based in the UK, Reactor is a group of contemporary artists who create projects in which audiences become active participants, bringing to the foreground group dynamics and social interaction, as they immerse themselves in an unknown that invites risk-taking and creates a heightened sense of reality. The multilayered and social nature of this experience encourages diverse interpretations of its meaning and emphasises the responsibility individuals have in forming collective perceptions of reality.
Interested in community building and the social microcosm, the artists employ social technologies – including Web based networking and complex CCTV systems – enabling the work to transcend its expected parameters, spilling into the world beyond.
Established in 2006, Dexter Sinister is best described as an impossible triangle of a publishing imprint, a just-in-time workshop and occasional bookstore, and a pseudonym of Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, that operates from the basement of 38 Ludlow Street in New York City.
Reinfurt graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1993 and Yale University in 1999, and went on to form O-R-G, a design studio in New York City. Bailey graduated from the University of Reading in 1994 and the Werkplaats Typografie in 2000, and co-founded the arts journal Dot Dot Dot the same year. Reinfurt currently teaches at Columbia University and Bailey teaches at Otis College of Art and Design.
Urban Subjects is a visual research collective based in Vancouver, Canada, and Vienna, Austria, formed by Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, and Helmut Weber. Together they develop interdisciplinary artistic projects focusing on global urban issues, the texture of cities, and on civic imaginations. They recently published the book Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade, with a previously unpublished manuscript by Lefebvre (Fillip, Vancouver, CA and Sternberg Press, Berlin, DE) and have a forthcoming edited volume, Not Sheep: New Urban Enclosures and Commons.
They are currently developing an international exhibition on the urban effects of Olympics and Expos, Where the World Was: Cities After Global Mega-events and are working on a project on new forms of autogestion in relation to the state, in Caracas, Venezuela.
Staging public interventions since 1993 at the invitation of art institutions, WochenKlausur develops and realizes proposals for improving sociopolitical deficits. Following many 20th century artists who understood actively taking part in the shaping of society to be part of their practice, WochenKlausur sees art as an means for achieving long-term improvement in human coexistence. Artists’ competence in finding creative solutions, traditionally utilised in shaping materials, can be applied in all areas of society, such as ecology, education and city planning.
According to WochenKlauser, there is no difference between artists who do their best to paint pictures and those who do their best to solve social problems. However, the individually selected task, like the painter’s self-defined objective, must be precisely articulated. WochenKlauser has conducted more than 30 projects, involving over 60 artists, in Japan, America and Europe.
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