Announcement: Translocal Practices Dialogue and Workshop

Dialogue

aVoid. Antagonistic Fields in the Translocal Space.
Azra Akšamija in conversation with Ute Meta Bauer
(Dialogue in English)

4th June 2007, 20:00
Kunsthalle Zürich
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
Free entrance

 

Workshop

Artistic Practices in Networked Spaces
Ursula Biemann/Carles Guerra, John Palmesino/
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, K.H. Klopf/Pelin Tan,
Rimini Protokoll/Jochen Becker
(Workshop in English)

5th June 2007, 09:30 – 18:30
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
Limmatstrasse 47
8005 Zürich
Room LH 6 (ground floor)

Registration required:
contact@translocal-practices.net
www.translocal-practices.net

 

Download: Poster Translocal Practices Dialogue and Workshop June 4/5

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Research Interest of the project «Translocal Practices»

Numerous contemporary social, cultural and political processes take place in translocal spaces. A translocal space emerges from the selective connection of distributed places and actors into a new space of agency. This space is based on analogue and digital communication and transportation infrastructures enabling the circulation of people, things and information. In recent years, artists have begun to deal intensively with these new spaces.

Translocal practices and the spaces created through them are often nearly invisible and therefore unrecognizable for outsiders who do not act in them. Thus, these spaces are not related to traditional forms of the public, rather define themselves through their distinct configuration of visibility and invisibility. The translocal space is always concrete, it exists only as long of the practices which create it, based on circulation of specific resources, continue. Translocal processes takes place on all levels of society and comprise dominant (e.g. in the economy) as well as marginalized (e.g. in migration) practices. What they have in common is that they create new geographies and new cultural forms, and that they affect the local spaces which they use to a significant degree.

The space of agency of translocal actors is not delimited by the national state, it is both smaller and lager than that. Smaller in the sense that it connects not entire territories, but specific (fragments of) places. Larger in the sense that many of the translocal practices extend across multiple nation states and even continents.

Organisationally, most translocal processes are networks with nodes in various localities from which they are organized. Not all nodes are equal. Between the nodes, circulation creates relationships which integrate the localities into the network.The circulation takes often place within corridors. A corridor is a defined space which is created in order to enable movement through a territory from which it remains separate.

In their investigations of translocal practices artists raise unique political, conceptual and aesthetic issues. The research project „translocal practices“ aims to conduct workshops, art projects and publications to explore and address these questions raised by artists in relation to translocal practices and introduce their positions and works to a wider public.