Friday — 08.01.03 — 2 + 1 Events with 16Beaver Leipzig + Mexico City
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Contents:
0. Summary
1. About this Friday’s events
2. 12:00 noon in Leipzig and Mexico City
3. 16:00 in Leipzig at Halle 14
4. Specific Questions related to 12:00 meeting
5. Specific Questions related to 16:00 meeting
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http://www.16beavergroup.org/w-l
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0. Summary
There will be 3 events, please choose one that interests you and we hope to
see you there.
2 will be walks in Leipzig and Mexico City, and third a discussion rooted
but not limited to the site/context of the exhibition “Get Rid of Yourself”
in Leipzig, Halle 14.
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Leipzig
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A. Counter-Cartography walk with 16 points
when: Friday at 12:00 noon
where: At the skateboarding ramp beside the pedestrian bridge in front of
Brühl Kaufhaus in Leipzig
who: all interested parties prepared to walk!
B. Space, Community, and Gentrification/Regeneration?: Who do spaces like
Halle 14, 16Beaver, Bilbao and/or _________ serve?
what: a discussion
when: Friday at 16:00
where: Stiftung Federkeil Halle 14 . Spinnereistrasse 7 .
(Telephone — 0341.4980-125)
who: all are welcome
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Mexico City
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C.
Details forthcoming
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1. About this Friday’s events
This Friday 16Beaver Group will be organizing three programs in association
with the “Get Rid of Yourself” exhibition at the ACC in Weimar and in Halle
14 in Leipzig. 2 of the 3 programs will take place in Leipzig.
Having spent our first week in Weimar, we now move our activities to Leipzig
where we hope to engage questions related to both the city (Leipzig) and the
actual context/site of the exhibition, Halle 14.
Halle 14 is a former cotton spinning mill which is in the process of being
converted into a larger cultural center/exhibition/project space (the plans
are still in the process of being developed).
It is within the context of these two lines of interest (city/site) that we
have developed our dual-program for Friday.
For more details, please see descriptions below. We hope you will be able to
attend.
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2. 12:00 noon in Leipzig — Counter-Cartography walk/discussion/lunch with
16 points
Our first scheduled event is a walking discussion + lunch that will take
place in and in relation to Leipzig, its history, architecture, sites of
cultural memory, sites of (in)significance, contestation, renewal?,
shrinkage, development, destruction, habitation, …
This event is linked to the Counter-Cartography Project we have been
developing with c.cred. This walk will begin in the center of Leipzig and
end at Halle 14. Time permitting we will send a more detailed e-mail with
some possible readings.
We will begin our walk/talk at the skateboarding ramp beside the pedestrian
bridge in front of Brühl Kaufhaus in the center of Leipzig at 12:00 noon.
This location was suggested by Elske Rosenfeld. Although not all the
participants are confirmed and the event is open to all, some guests wil
include Heimo Lattner (Berlin), Geoff Garrison (Berlin), Ola Stahl (c.cred
in London/Leeds), Elske Rosenfeld (Leipzig), one or 2 members of L21 (a
group of artists, architects, researchers based in Leipzig)… these are
only the “confirmed” participants.
Once all the participants arrive, based on our interests, knowledge of the
city, and/or possibly chance we will agree to 16 points in the city and
attempt to organize a route that will lead us eventually to the exhibition
site. (One of these sites will be a place to eat or picnic).
If you are interested in participating and would like some more info on a
criteria for selecting sites, please visit the counter-cartography
description for the weimar/leipzig shows
(http://www.16beavergroup.org/w-l/projects.htm).
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3. 16:00 in Leipzig at Halle 14 — Discussion —
Space, Community, and Gentrification/Regeneration?: Who do spaces like Halle
14, 16Beaver, Bilbao and/or _________ serve?
Our second event in Leipzig will be a discussion on the roof of Halle 14.
Of course the end of that title above is a provocation. It can even read,
“Do we need Halle 14? 16Beaver? Bilbao… What for? But the basic question
revolves around the usefulness and purpose of spaces to artistic/cultural
practice. It is related to the walking project in that, just as the first
attempts to situate art and political discourse within the city itself.
Our second discussion brings it back to the question of spaces, communities,
institutions.
In addition to you, the conversation will involve members of the 16beaver
group as well as Frank Motz, curator of the exhibition “Get Rid of
Yourself,” co-director of the Halle 14 and director of the ACC galerie in
Weimar, as well as Bertram Schultze, manager of the cotton spinning mill
complex (Leipzinger Baumwollspinnerei).
THIS IS NOT A PANEL, so it will not involve long winded presentations!! The
discussion will take place on the roof of Halle 14 at 16:00. All are
welcome to attend.
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4. Specific Questions related to 12:00 meeting
Please come with questions!
But we can at least begin with the relation of artistic/political
practice/activity to the city.
With particular emphasis on questions related to moving through the city,
contesting conventional relations/representations of cities and
counter-cartographic practices. As well as the recent rise of
interest/popularity in/of (for good and bad) and allusions to “mapping”, the
Situationists, “psychogeography” within the general cultural discourse.
We may also consider different approaches to working and engaging with
public sites/spaces.
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5. Specific Questions related to 16:00 meeting
16 + Questions to begin our conversation/discussion:
1. What do cultural workers want and need from a space?
2. What spaces exist or have existed in Leipzig and beyond that present
useful examples or models?
3. What are some of the concerns that artists and others foresee in terms of
beginning any initiative like Halle 14?
4. How do people perceive their role as cultural workers in relationship to
economic developments?
5. Where do art practitioners, cultural workers reside within this matrix of
economics, real estate development, enfranchisement, disenfranchisement,
gentrification, regeneration, spatial politics, social work? (Within the
German context, the context in Leipzig, in other cities)
6. (Specific to our context) Who is Halle 14 meant to serve? Who is meant to
participate/show in this space? Who are its publics/audiences? Who do
cultural institutions or spaces generally serve? (Serve can be replaced here
with a variety of verbs, including of course threaten)
7. What is the nature of the project in Halle 14? How does this exhibition
space fit into the larger project of the Leipzinger Baumwollspinnerei and
Federkeil Foundation project? How does this enterprise relate to the
projects of other cultural institutions/models (inside and outside of
Leipzig)? How does it relate to individuals and groups within the city of
Leipzig (and in a larger context as well)?
8. How can artists and independent curators be served by institutions rather
than serve them?
9. Can institutions be organized in a more open fashion, as a platform, as
..?
10. What would a model institution offer, look like and most importantly how
would it function?
11. What are some of the functions missing within larger cultural
institutions today as they pertain and relate to artistic production as well
as exhibition? What is wrong with the term institution itself? What about
centers, platforms, other words, other approaches/headings?
12. In the context of New York, which is The center of art commerce, spaces
like 16Beaver exist as anomolies, outside without necessarily being in
opposition to… What could be said for smaller groups, spaces, and
initiatives in other cities like Leipzig in their relation to larger
spaces/orgs?
13. What is it to be non-institutional vs. anti-institutional
14. What are the larger questions governing outside and inside in relation
to cultural spaces and producers…
15 and 16. The questions of the history of groups, collectives,
“alternative” spaces of productions or exhibition or presentation or
distribution of art…
Keywords:
Space
Community
Financier
Presentation
Discussion
Industry
Public
Production
Culture
Cultural Industry
Cultural Production
Cultural Worker
Politics
Real Estate
Real Estate Politics
Gentrification
Regeneration
Money
Time
Center/Periphery