16/02/2012 - article
Pleidooi voor een nieuw sociaal realisme
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21/02/2012
Nu ook een schreeuw om architectuur!
Niet occupy-en, maar de gevestigde orde verleiden om in crisistijden te investeren in leuke projecten. Lees hier meer over de Studio for Unsollicited Architecture.
21/11/2011
Waarom kunstenaars niet fascistisch genoeg zijn
Lees het artikel in het decembernummer van Rekto:Verso.
29/08/2011
Artist Participation in South Africa
The international PR campaign to showcase Rotterdam's robust policy on artist participation is now also tapping into the emerging African art markets.
17/06/2011
Denkverbod op liberale kunst
Column over de stellingenoorlog naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde bezuinigingen in de cultuursector.
07/06/2011
Maak liberaal kunstbeleid liberaal
Lees BAVO's advies aan staatssecretaris Zijlstra met betrekking tot de noodgedwongen keuzen die de cultuursector in Nederland te wachten staat.
18/03/2011
International promotion campaign of the Office for Artist Participation kicks off
The City of Edinburgh will be the first to host an international promotion event of Rotterdam's innovative cultural policies for enforcing the participation of artists in heightening a city's competitiveness and securing social peace on the local level.
28/02/2011
Culture and Contestation
The essay 'Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism' is published in the book volume 'Culture and Contestation in the New Century'.
19/01/2011
Art and Activism
BAVO's essay 'Artists... one more effort to be really political!' is published in the volume 'Art and Activism in the age of Globalisation'.
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29/02/2012
Architectures of exclusion
13/01/2012
1:1 Extra City
06/12/2011
Primacy of Change
23/11/2011
Lezing Project Baksteen
11/11/2011 - 12/11/2011
(Anti)neoliberal architecture in Graz
25/10/2011
Hybridisering en academisering
30/09/2011 - 01/10/2011
The long march towards artist participation in South Africa
09/09/2011 - 10/09/2011
De nieuwe elite in Amsterdam
01/09/2011
Sustainable urban change in Stockholm
30/08/2011 - 31/08/2011
The architect as a human-being / EAAE Conference, Crete
05/05/2011
Bevrijdingsfestival
14/04/2011
Architecture of shared time
16/03/2011
Chto Delat? and Etcetera
Connecting collectivity, friendship, collaboration and mutual inspiration | Mediated by Gideon Boie
18/01/2011 - 28/01/2011
Debatten 'Cultureel activisme vandaag'
In zaal De Unie en het SMBA vinden in januari 2011 twee debatten plaats over BAVO's recente boek 'Too Active to Act'.
09/11/2010
Kunstenaarsparticipatie aan het KASK
BAVO presenteert de proeven van het Actieprogramma Kunstenaarsparticipatie voor Gent.
25/10/2010 - 26/10/2010
Duurzaam internationaal kunstenbeleid in Vlaanderen?
BAVO participeert aan de conferentie Joining the dots in BOZAR
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Where have the subversives gone?
In the Studium Generale 2011 of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam BAVO participates at the program on the possibility of subversive art today together with Miodrag Šuvaković, Jonas Staal and Lech Kowalski.
The program is curated by Stefan Majakowski and is entitled: Where have the subversives gone?
The studium Generale 2011 goes under the name: CINEMA CLASH CONTINUUM: FILM & HISTORY IN THE AGE OF GODARD
Visit the website of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy
Program outline
WHERE HAVE THE SUBVERSIVES GONE?
This may seem an outdated question. But in an age of global unrest, growing control and command by the State, and a stifling grip of the mainstream consensus culture, filmmakers may wonder if they can be subversive at all. It may be that the requirements of protest result in the sacrifice of originality and artistic inventiveness. Is that too high a price for a filmmaker to pay? Our path leads to a rare cinematic spirit which deals with the society's ‘in-betweens', quietly, without announcing it.
“In these great times, which I knew when they were small’Let him who has something to say step forward and be silent” — Karl Kraus (1914)
Engagement is now a problem for all the arts.
We'll start by looking at the visual arts. In BAVO's ‘Too Active to Act', they wipe the floor with Dutch neo-liberal cultural policy. They claim that artists have become ‘cultural therapists' and ‘conflict managers' with neighbourhood projects that camouflage the real issues of vandalism and property speculation. Can BAVO provide an alternative and tell artists how to avoid falling into the trap of the creative masquerading as social solution?
Artist Jonas Staal places himself in the eye of the storm. His ‘The Geert Wilders Works' led to his two-day imprisonment and to his next two works: ‘The Geert Wilders Work — A Trial I – II'. ‘The Barack Obama Project' displays an ingenious concept combining an original visual language with questions of political correctness regarding race. We will ask the artist why he refuses to call his works ironic (one work is actually entitled ‘Against Irony').
Can artistic practice be critical and subversive operating within the the sphere of the conceptual, discursive and political? Transparency and autonomy of art must be addressed. After the zenith of conceptual art, what is the role and necessity of theory? Miodrag Šuvaković considers whether there is now any difference between theory and practice within the context of artistic subversion.
Lech Kowalski's BORN TO LOSE: THE LAST ROCK AND ROLL MOVIE is a monument to Punk culture and independent filmmaking. The cinema of Lech Kowalski has flourished with the rise and fall of the last subversive movement — Punk. Did he identify himself with that counterculture? Knowing that MTV awaits its chance to absorb anything, does it matter to the free-spirited filmmaker where his films are shown? Kowalski's portraits of former terrorists and of prostitutes in Eastern Europe reveal a deep concern with those marginalized. However, does the fact that films on issues big and small are everywhere on the Internet actually help to sensitize an audience to society's lost causes?
Timetable Wednesday Program 1
13.30 – 13.45
Introduction by Stefan Majakowski: from the Arts to Punk to the Cinema of Lech Kowalski
13.45 – 14.15
Presentation by BAVO
14.15 – 14.45
Presentation by Jonas Staal
14.45 – 15.15
Presentation by Miodrag Šuvaković
15.15 – 16.10
Discussion with BAVO, Jonas Staal and Miodrag Šuvaković moderated by Stefan Majakowski: methods of artist's intervention, artistic criteria regarding the place of art and possible protest within the neo-liberal landscape
16.10 – 16.30
BREAK
16.30 – 18.30
Presentation by Lech Kowalski. The filmmaker discusses various aspects of his cinema (Subject matter, form and context) using film fragments
18.30 – 20.15
DINNER
20.15 – 22.30
Introduction to and screening of Born to Lose: the Last Rock and Roll Movie (Lech Kowalski, 100 min, 1999)
Discussion with Lech Kowalski and the audience
22.30
END OF PROGRAM
