Δ Frankfurter Positionen 2013

"Currencies and Collectives“
A seven-hour performative conference
In English.

Start: 3pm
Party: 10pm (Dj: Misha Hollenbach/P.A.M, Melbourne)

“Currencies and Collectives” is a performative conference conceived in response to the long-term research project "Theatrum Mundi/Global Street" (theatrum-mundi.org) initiated by sociologists Richard Sennett and Saskia Sassen together with partners from various disciplines and cities including London, New York and Frankfurt.

“Currencies and Collectives” asks leading thinkers and practitioners from the fields of architecture, urban planning, contemporary art, curating, fashion and literatureto respond to the question: “Where and how can meetings and modes of exchange be developed that lead from a disposable trade in goods and ideas towards a prototype form of continuity and common ground?”

Reflecting Frankfurt’s history within a global context, “Currencies and Collectives” identifies exchange and trade as central factors within urban formations both past and future. It refers to built environments that include both established cultural centres such as museums or universities as well as less visible practices that rely on forms of hidden architecture and adaptability.

Together with an installation by Mike Bouchet, choreographer Richard Siegal will work with 30 performers to create a ‘social movement’ navigating visitors through this performative conference. Costumes by P.A.M./Perks and Mini (AU), who can also be seen in the exhibition “TRADING STYLE – Weltmode im Dialog” at the Weltkulturen Museum.

 

Frankfurt LAB, Schmidtstraße
Entrance free.
Reservations on 069 97328863 or at frankfurterpositionen.de

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Δ Luke Willis Thompson

"On E1620, 1887"

As a response to his residency at the Weltkulturen Museum, Auckland-based artist Luke Willis Thompson will discuss the crisis that ethnographic objects can present to an understanding of ready-made sculpture, its history and future practice. The talk will consider how a constellation of objects and images gathered from the museum's collection have prompted a way of art making that is no longer directly concerned with what is visible.

Luke Willis Thompson (*1988 Auckland, NZ) lives and works in Auckland, NZ. His conceptual practice exists in both tangible and intangible forms. In recent work the artist has borrowed ready-made objects – such as a local funeral home’s art collection and a black minstrel-style figure from an antique store – to trace the faultlines of race and class in his chosen context. Thompson’s objects are often taken from sites of trauma or contain references to the artist’s biography, but these are rarely made explicit. Thompson sets up estranging encounters where the viewer is invited to engage with a marginal object both ontologically and pushed into a fictional space of narrative and mythology.
Thompson graduated with an MFA from the University of Auckland's Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include: “inthisholeonthisislandwhereiam”, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland (2012); and “Yaw”, RM, Auckland (2011). In 2012 Thompson’s work was included in: “Between Memory and Trace”, Te Tuhi, Pakuranga (2012); “Made Active: The Chartwell Show”, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki (2012); and “In Spite of Ourselves: Approaching Documentary”, St Paul St Gallery, Auckland and Dowse Art Museum, Wellington (2012).
Forthcoming exhibitions include “5th Auckland Triennial”, Auckland Art Gallery (curated by Hou Hanru); “Octopus Show”, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (curated by Glenn Barkley); Solo Exhibition, Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland; “The Physics Room”, Christchurch New Zealand.
He is represented by Hopkinson Cundy Gallery (hopkinsoncundy.com), Auckland, NZ.

Supported by Creative New Zealand.
 

€3 / reduced €1.50 incl. refreshments.
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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