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The launch of LABOUR issue #1
"No Comment", a performance by Rachal Bradley and Jessica Wiesner
plus an exhibition of works by Henry VIII's Wives
Friday 27th January at 7pm
Kunsthall Oslo/Torpedo Bookshop
Trelastgata 3, 0191 Oslo
www.kunsthalloslo.no
Kunsthall Oslo and Torpedo Bookshop are pleased to present the Norwegian launch of LABOUR, a new independent publication on art and work with a feminist perspective. On the occasion of the launch, we are also presenting work by some of the artists featured in Issue #1: the performance No Comment by Rachal Bradley and Jessica Wiesner, and a mini-retrospective of the artists' group Henry VIII's Wives (Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knupfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer).
The performance No Comment will combine a scripted conversation - between Rachal Bradley, Jessica Wiesner, Melissa Gordon, Rachel Dagnall and Simon Polli - with the live production of a giant screen print. Sabotaging the framework of the artist interview and the implied validation of those involved, the choreographed scenario of No Comment will draw on the controlled slapstick of Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton to aid its investigation of the conditions of art production.
LABOUR is published in London and edited by artist Melissa Gordon and writer Marina Vishmidt. The first issue includes: Nina Power on Women’s Work; Avigail Moss on What We Talk About When We Talk About Painting; Marina Vishmidt on Working Artists in the Greater Economy; Lisette Smits in conversation with Meredyth Sparks on The Female Dandy; Lizzie Borden interviewed by Kaisa Lassinaro about the making of Born in Flames; and artists' projects by Henry VIII’s Wives, Emma Hedditch, and Rachal Bradley with Jessica Wiesner. LABOUR was initiated as a result of the discussion series 'A conversation to know if there is a conversation to be had' held in 2010-11 at Dexter Sinister (New York); Kunstverein Amsterdam; Salon Populaire (Berlin) and Raven Row (London).
Henry VIII’s Wives are a collective of artists founded in 1997, and include Rachel Dagnall, Bob Grieve, Sirko Knupfer, Simon Polli, Per Sander and Lucy Skaer. The six members of Henry VIII’s Wives met at art college in Glasgow in the mid-90s and are now based in various northern European countries. In the last two years they have been commissioned by Kunsthalle Bern, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade and created a new work for Populism, commissioned by NIFCA that also travelled to Frankfurt Kunstverein, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, CAC, Vilnius and Spike Island in Bristol. Rachal Bradley is an artist currently working in Glasgow, and Jessica Wiesner is an artist and stage designer based in London. They began their collaboration with the exhibition 'Ever-Changing Moods' at Auto Italia, London in 2011.
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Knowledge production – Counter-practice or Commodity?
A one-day symposium at Deichmanske library, Arne Garborgs plass, Oslo
January 17th, 15:00-19:00
Invited speakers include Sarat Maharaj (Professor of Visual Art & Knowledge Systems, Lund University & Malmö Art Academy, Sweden), Olivia Plender (artist based in Berlin) and Matthew Poole (Program Director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex, UK). The symposium will be moderated by Vanessa Ohlraun, Dean of Oslo Academy of Fine Art.
Artistic, academic and curatorial practices have, in recent years, often been discussed in terms of "knowledge production". But what do we mean when we speak about these practices as “producing knowledge”? If we wish to affirm the potential of art as a thinking process, how should we understand the wider institutional context in which this process now operates? If we work in a knowledge economy, how should we understand the commodified form in which knowledge must then circulate? What are the alternatives to the emerging reality of cognitive capitalism?
The symposium aims to reflect on the understanding of artistic or cultural practice as knowledge production. This is to raise the question whether artistic, curatorial, or even academic practices can establish a counter-practice to processes of commodification.
Programme:
15.00-15.15 Registration
15.15-15.30 Welcome and introduction by Gerd Elise Mørland and Wiebke Gronemeyer
15.30-15.40 Introduction by Vanessa Ohlraun
15.40-16.30 Presentation by Olivia Plender, followed by a discussion with Vanessa Ohlraun
16.30-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-17.35 Statement by Matthew Poole, followed by a discussion with Wiebke Gronemeyer
17.35-18.00 Break. We serve soup and bread
18.00-18.50 Lecture by Sarat Maharaj, followed by a discussion with Vanessa Ohlraun
18.50-19.00 Closing remarks
The symposium is free. To sign up please e-mail
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The symposium is conceived by Wiebke Gronemeyer, Gerd Elise Mørland and Heidi Bale Amundsen in collaboration with Kunsthall Oslo.
Kindly supported by the Arts Council Norway, The Norwegian Embassy in London (UK), Oslo National Academy of the Arts and The Freedom of Expression Foundation.
The symposium forms part of The Expanded Library, a collaborative project by Kunsthall Oslo with the Deichmanske library. The Expanded Library is kindly supported by The Freedom of Expression Foundation and Arts Council Norway.
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