SidebySide Studio : Criticality / Network / Exchange about Value and Crisis

Between Windows - Latin America and Beyond

I-WEI LI — 2011-05-17T20:45:06Z

Jorge Luis Borges talked about a red fish swims backwards so the water will not get into its eyes in El libro de los seres imaginarios (The Book of Imaginary Beings), this red fish pops up whenever I am confronted with differences in thinking.

Between Windows attempts to initiate dialogues about and around Latin America to see if we can swim backwards together. Films, debates, book objects, political-cultural projects, live performances from Brazil, Uruguay, Chili, Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico and beyond will be presented between 27-29.05.2011. Initiated by SideBySide Studio, co-produced with Mindpirates, this 3 day program will first start at Mindpirates, Falckensteinstr. 48 1st Hof, Berlin, Germany with the possibility to continue in other countries in Asia.

Special thanks to media partners Arscenic and Groovalizacion, Between Windows will be live streamed online at between-windows.arscenic.tv. All panel discussions will be live broadcasted on Groovalizacion online radio

For detailed program, please visit http://between-windows.arscenic.tv/ or see program flyer


Between Windows Program

Photo Credit:Ônibus Verde – a project by BIJARI during the SWU 2010 festival in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Breath in Crisis Time/Respirar en tiempos de crisis

I-WEI LI — 2010-12-01T19:31:00Z

Wed, 01.12 16-18h
Continente
CENTRO CULTURAL BORGES
Viamonte esquina San Martín, Buenos Aires. 3th floor, laboratory (UNTREF), Argentina

In this talk, I-Wei Li will share her recent experience of leading the Creative Incubator workshop in Rio de Janiero where an open source community platform was launched with local emerging artists.

En este encuentro, I-Wei Li compartirá su experiencia reciente como conductora del taller de Incubación Creativa (Creative Incubator Workshop) en Rio de Janeiro, donde una plataforma comunitaria abierta fue lanzada junto a artistas locales emergentes.

Jouir Sans Entraves/Squirt Without Barriers

I-WEI LI — 2010-10-14T02:40:44Z

Jouir sans entraves Squirt without Barriers is written and performed together with Pierre Bongiovanni at Politique 0, Espace Niemeyer, Paris on 01.10. 2010.

Jouir Sans Entraves
Jouir sans entraves va "décompresser" les liens qui relient les points cardinaux du contrôle social et politique exercé aujourd'hui sur tous et chacun. La police, la mafia, les militaires et les médias sont des entités cohérentes avec des compétences complémentaires, en particulier dans les domaines de la recherche, de l'innovation et de l'utilisation des technologies de la communication électronique. En utilisant des exemples concrets, réels ou fictifs, nous montrerons comment les artistes et les opérateurs culturels d'aujourd'hui sont devenus les puissants et complaisants complices des nouvelles forment de servitudes et de domination dont le capitalisme culturel a besoin pour jouir sans entraves.

Jouir sans entraves sera présenté en anglais et en français.

Squirt Without Barriers
Squirt Without Barriers will unpack the links that connect the cardinal points of social and political control exerted now on each and everyone. The police, the mafia, the military, and the media are consistent entities with complementary skills, particularly in the areas of research, innovation and use of electronic communication technologies. Further, by using concrete examples, real or fictional, we demonstrate how artists and cultural operators today have become new forms of complacent and complicit servitude through the mighty deployment of cultural capitalism.

Squirt Without Barriers is performed in both English and French

Message in a Bag - 48 Stunden-Neukölln 2010

I-WEI LI — 2010-06-25T16:35:00Z

Fri, 25.06 19-20:30h
Kreativraum im Körnerpark
48 Stunden-Neukölln 2010

Message in a bag is a collective project initiated by ara Berlin-Madrid/ Emily Pütter. It is an artistic investigation about the current living situations of visual artists in different cities worldwide. Some proposed questions are:

How much art does a society need?
Under what conditions do the artists live live and work now?

The answers are on the bags.

I-Wei Li opens the exhibition through in depth discussion with different participating artists to further the message beyond the bag.

Kiss Kill Krisis

I-WEI LI — 2010-03-05T00:14:27Z

KissKillKrisis is an online initiative by SideBySide Studio to connect worldwide cultural workers who are concerned about the social and economical values generated by creative practices in the time of crisis. One can join us via Facebook and Twitter.

WAVE Berlin Opus 1 Archive

I-WEI LI — 2010-02-23T22:44:27Z

Transmediale.10 Satellites / Feb 4th 2010 / 8pm to Midnight:
Betahaus : Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20, 10969 Berlin www.betahaus.de
Live webcast : www.sidebysidestudio.net
Partners : Relais Culture Europe Production, SideBySide Studio Coordination, with Transmediale / Sklunk / Arscenic Support

WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion

Fluctuations in the economy have become similar to global climate warnings: nobody knows exactly what will happen tomorrow, or whether the future will be bleak or bright. Uncertainty seems to become the only certain rule.

Throughout the early 20th century, art was the forerunner of social, political and technological upheaval. Art at the time foresees (but not always understands) in advance what would happen. Now, artistic activity seems too be carried away by the whirlwind of uncertainty.

The democratic ideal has never seemed so fragile. To a very large extend, it remains to be a total utopia. The modesty of political ambitions, the widespread practice of mafia, the rise of nationalist and religious sect, continuation of poverty, distraught middle-class, all these elements are destroying day after day the ideals of brotherhood, equality, and liberty.

Modern communication technology and the digital economy have overwhelmed all social practices, either cultural or economical but we still have great difficulty understanding the reality. We still continue to struggle with positive outlook and engage in critical changes into the future.

In this context, it is possible to imagine new relationships between money, politics, and artistic creation? How will we identify new approaches, especially critical approaches in a time of crisis?

WAVE BERLIN Panel Discussion

WAVE Berlin Panel Introduction by I-Wei Li

I-Wei Li - multi-media artist, freelance curator, artistic director of SideBySide Studio
www.sidebysidestudio.net
www.unstablecircus.net

WAVE Berlin Panel Statement by Christoph Fahle

Christoph Fahle - co-Funder of betahaus
www.betahaus.de

WAVE Berlin Panel Statement by Ela Kagel

Ela Kagel - program curator of Transmediale, initiator of the Free Culture Incubator
www.transmediale.de

WAVE Berlin Panel Statement by Christine Kriegerowski & Claudia Burbaum

Christine Kriegerowski - artist, working with drawing, digital drawing and photography
Claudia Burbaum - art historian and freelance curator
www.duckwoman.de/
www.mitzeitung.de/veranstaltungen

Arthur Engelbert - ae prof. dr. habil., theory and practice of media and contemporary art
http://arthur-engelbert.de/
Mutual Aid

WAVE Berlin Panel Statement by Heather Corcoran

Heather Corcoran - Curator at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
www.fact.co.uk/

WAVE Berlin Panel Statement by Matthias Reichelt

Matthias Reichelt - cultural journalist, curator and editor

WAVE Berlin Panelist Discussion

WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion with Audience

WJ-Spots Berlin

Anne Roquigny, French media arts curator will follow her series of interviews in Berlin of outstanding figures of the internet community who share their reflections of 15 years of Internet history. The interviews are conducted inside the WJ-S (webjay) multi-screen environment, transformed into a space for thought and investigation. Live online browsing into a selection of emblematic websites, chosen by the speakers, take place simultaneously on 3 big screens. Real time surfing magnifies and augments thought presentation, offering multiple points of view while the participants comment and analyze, from an artistic perspective, how the Internet has been progressively taken over as a space of artistic creation, from its beginning until now.
www.wj-s.org/WJ-SPOTS-1-15-years-of-internet

Live internet browsing : Isabelle Arvers (FR), curator, art critic /www.isabelle-arvers.com & Anne Laforet (FR) researcher and critic / www.sakasama.net
Translation : Sylvine Bois Choussy

Interviewees
I-Wei (TW/CA/DE), artist, curator / www.sidebysidestudio.net
Pierre Bongiovanni (FR), artist, curator / www.bongiovanni.info
Helen Thorington (US), writer and sound artist and co-director Turbulence / www.turbulence.org
Marie Petit (FR), author, theater director / www.chambrebleue.eu
Maria Ptqk (ES), critic, curator / ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com
Per Platou (NO), artist, curator / http://www.perplatou.net
Hans Bernhard (CH), artist / www.ubermorgen.com

Video documentation will be available at Digitalart Platform

MCD « Musiques et Cultures Digitales Magazine» will publish special bilingual editions of WJ-SPOTS Berlin with the interviews and the bookmarks.

Special Thank You

Thomas Pigache (Sound Design), Guillaume Siffert from Staalplaat (Sound Equipment), Sylvine Bois-Choussy (Translation), Alexia BalandJian (Transport), Nicolas DeFawe from HBC (Sound Equipment), Sévérine Marquin, Richter Bernd, Maria Ptqk, Gael Duongvandang, Giacomo Zaganelli, Babara Kramer from Shroeder's Data Shop, and Daniela Marzavan from betahaus.

WAVE Forum

I-WEI LI — 2010-02-15T20:40:56Z

The WAVE in Berlin is just the beginning, our discussion will not be limited by the physical space and time. With the WAVE Forum, we will continue to reflect what is valuable and innovative in our creative practices.

This forum also serves as a platform to link panelists and participants in different sessions, so the questions raised in each session will continue to echo to the next and circulate back to each other.

To participate, you need to register with a valid email address. This forum is moderated to avoid spam and inappropriate content.

For registration, 1. Click on 'Reply to message' (blue) or 'Reply to article' (blue) on The WAVE Forum page. This will lead to the registration page automatically.

2. On registration page, click on 'register' (blue) and type in your name and email address. An email will sent to your email account with your personal login and password.

3. Visit WAVE Forum website and click on 'connection' (blue) and login with the password. You can now post any comments

The Price and Value of Cultural Work

I-WEI LI — 2010-01-25T00:04:34Z

Wed, 3.2.2010 - 11-13hrs
House of World Cultures, Salon / K1

Moderation: Jaime Stapleton (uk)
Panelists: Kate Rich (uk) | I-Wei Li (tw/de) | Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de)| Dmytri Kleiner (de)

What is the currency for the cultural enterprise of the future? Cultural producers and artists produce a multiplicity of values, most of which are immaterial and emerge from the social networks of cultural practitioners and their relation to the public: respect, appreciation or knowledge are the main resources. Cultural production basically happens through the support of numerous micro-economies which apply different currency systems such as bartering or contact brokering. On this basis cultural values develop which at best are beneficial to our entire society. But what flows back to the cultural producers? It is difficult to translate cultural values into adequate market values: how do you determine the economical value of cultural work? Which currency systems are available here? And, the other way around: how much is culture actually worth for us today?

Click for video documentation by Transmediale 10

Wiebke Pöpel from 2010 LABTV interviewed panelists of The Price and Value of Cultural Work at Transmediale. 10, FUTURITY NOW!

What Is The WAVE?

I-WEI LI — 2010-01-24T16:41:12Z

Introduction

The world seems to unfold under the sign of continuous instability. Whether economical, political, ecological or ethical, all strains of thought and action seem to function with precarious and volatile nature. The world of arts and culture, even media and entertainment, evidently do not escape from such turmoil.

The period ahead will undoubtedly inaugurate powerful rearrangements and the current situation demands cultural workers to reboot their experimental thinking devices. Of course, the upcoming rapid challenges can be expected but the key is elsewhere; across individuals and collective entities who have not grown into a stabilized theoretical framework to define their work practices.

Questions about alternative economies - different methods of exchanging values and products become more acute at the time of recent crisis. Such urgency directs our attention to recapitulate active solidarity and re-evaluate the values of art and culture through other different critical discourses and innovative experimentation.

This ferment is at once chaotic and fertile. It is too early to define and to classify existing sustainable models: too few are executed and many have become immediately obsolete. But it is not too early to try to detect, identify and report them with critical attention. "The Wave" is such initiative that will investigate alternative possibilities while stimulating critical discussions.

Provisions

1°) – 6 8 panelists including intellecturals, artists, philosophers, economists are invited to discuss issues related to « art / culture / innovation / economy »
2°) – Each WAVE event is filmed and broadcast live via internet platform
3°) – Internet users can chat online to participate the discussion in real time
4°) – WAVE documentation will be archived on internet platform and published into a multimedia book.

Implementation

Production: « Relais Culture Europe (Paris) »
Coordination: « Sidebysidestudio (Berlin) »
Online Technical Support : « Sklunk» (Paris), « arscenic » (Lxembourg)

WAVE Opus 1- Berlin

I-WEI LI — 2010-01-24T14:40:16Z

The WAVE Opus 1 Programme

04.02.2010, 8pm till late

betahaus, Prinzessinnenstraße 19-20, 10969 Berlin, www.betahaus.de
live webstreaming: www.sidebysidestudio.net

WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion 8-10pm
« Innovative Artistic and Economic Practices »
with I-Wei li, Christine Kriegerowski, Claudia Burbaum, Ela Kagel, Matthias Reichelt, Tonia Welter, Arthur Engelbert, Heather Corcoran .

WJ-SPOTS Berlin 10 PM to midnight
« 15 Years of Artistic Creation on the Internet »
with Anne Roquigny, I-Wei Li, Pierre Bongiovanni, Helen Thorington, Marie Petit, Maria Ptqk, Per Platou, Hans Bernhard, Isabelle Arvers, Anne Laforet.

Relais Culture Europe Production, SideBySide Studio Coordination, with Transmediale / Sklunk / Arscenic Support
Special thanks to Thomas Pigache for sound design

WAVE Berlin Panel Discussion

In this context, it is possible to imagine new relationships between money, politics, and artistic creation? How will we identify new approaches, especially critical approaches in a time of crisis?

Panel

I-Wei Li - multi-media artist, freelance curator, artistic director of SideBySide Studio
Born in Taiwan, grew up in Canada, I-Wei positions herself as a ‘contexterin' – a female person who aims to generate new context each time in her art practice. The artistic experience for her is an overall experience that queries all aspects of life. As a curator, she seeks to highlight the approaches and viewpoints of contemporary artists. As a producer, she animates events where intellectuals and artists are invited to exchange their critical reflections. As an artist, she commits herself to experimental and documentary films, multi-media installations, and interactive performances. Solidarity within cultural sector is I-Wei's current research focus. Besides the theoretical framework, she also tackles this topic with animated events such as Kunst Apotheke Salon and The WAVE. In addition, she is leading Value of Values, a non-artistic exchange experimentation among cultural workers since 2008.
www.sidebysidestudio.net
www.unstablecircus.net

Christine Kriegerowski - artist, working with drawing, digital drawing and photography
Claudia Burbaum - art historian and freelance curator
Both Christine and Claudia are based in Berlin, they organized lectures and shows mainly but not exclusively at NGBK, Berlin. Topics they are interested in are: the constant economic crisis and ways to deal with it (fast um$onst/almost free, group exhibition, 2004, Prekäre Perspektiven/precarious perspectives, lecture series, 2005-2006, unvermittelt/unmediated, 2008, catalog), democracy (democracy, lecture series, 2007), and doing nothing (Nichtstun/doing nothing, group exhibition and lecture series, 2008). In 2009, they participated in Strike Academy, by thealit, Bremen with their illustrated excerpts from discussions after lectures, captioned, "why do we sit here and talk instead of doing something?".
www.duckwoman.de/
www.mitzeitung.de/veranstaltungen

Ela Kagel - program curator of Transmediale, initiator of the Free Culture Incubator
Ela Kagel is a freelance curator and producer in Berlin. She is a member of Public Art Lab and co-initiator of the Mobile Studios project. In 2006, she has launched Upgrade! Berlin, a series of events which present latest developments in digtal culture. For this year's transmediale, she is the program curator of the Free Culture Incubator.

Matthias Reichelt - cultural journalist, curator and editor
Born 1955 in Leipzig and grew up in West Germany. He is a cultural journalist for various papers and curator and editor in Berlin. Published several essays and books on artists such as the first monography on the outstanding german painter, Blalla W. Hallmann (1941-1997), in 2007. He is also co-author of Reinhild Dettmer-Finke's documentary on the Holocaust Survivor and artist, Boris Lurie (1924-2008), "Shoah and Pin-Ups. The NO!artist Boris Lurie" (2006).

Tonia Welter - co-Funder and artistic director of betahaus
Tonia Welter studied product design at the University of Arts Berlin. During her work for a Zurich based design agency she developed office furniture and café interior, but soon decided that Berlin still is the most beautiful and exciting place for living and working. Here she started her own label for „hardware fashion“ in 2008. Her USB jewellery is sold all over the world now. As co-founder and art director of betahaus she takes care of the development of the betahaus CI, its flexible interior and especially the creation of a new atmosphere inbetween living and working. Furthermore she tries to establish the betahaus café as galery, showroom and platform for art, design and progressive ideas.
www.betahaus.de
www.toniawelter.de

Arthur Engelbert - ae prof. dr. habil., theory and practice of media and contemporary art
Since 1996 Arthur Engelbert is professor of media theory and practice and art at the university of applied sciences in Potsdam. In 1998 he habilitated in „media theory and aesthetics" by Bazon Brock and 1985 he did his doctorate in art history by Max Imdahl und Gottfried Boehm. Hereafter he was a research associate at the National Conservator Department in Saarbrücken and from 1987 to 1992 he worked as a research associate at the Berlin University of the Arts. Lectureships at various universities and art schools followed. In addition to teaching, Arthur Engelbert conducted a multimedia company in Berlin for ten years. He was also on the board of the Werkbund-Archiv in Berlin for many years and finally introduced a travel related, interdisciplinary research project (cultrans), which has been investigating cultural transfers between cultures and arts since 1999. http://arthur-engelbert.de/

Link to the publisher: http://www.tectum-verlag.de/9783828...

Heather Corcoran - Curator at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
With a specialism in media art and music, Heather has commissioned projects by international artists such as Krzysztof Wodiczko, N55, Benjamin Jones and others, alongside a number of group exhibitions including Space Invaders (FACT, 2009), Climate for Change (FACT, 2009), Tha Click: Beige and Paper Rad (UK touring, 2007-2008), Schematic: New Media Art from Canada (Space, 2008), Controller (Interaccess, 2006) and more. She is a member of the Liverpool Biennial curatorium, and curator for the Abandon Normal Devices festival. She also works hands-on with free software/technology communities, as a Developer of Puredyne, the GNU/Linux distribution for media arts.
www.fact.co.uk/

WJ-Spots Berlin

MCD « Musiques et Cultures Digitales Magazine » regularly launches special bilingual paper editions of WJ-SPOTS with the interviews and the bookmarks. Videos of WJ-SPOTS events are also published on line on Digitalart platform

www.wj-s.org/WJ-SPOTS-1-15-years-of-internet

Interviews by Anne Roquigny Media arts curator / www.roquigny.info
Live internet browsing : Isabelle Arvers (FR), curator, art critic / www.isabelle-arvers.com & Anne Laforet (FR) researcher and critic / www.sakasama/net

>>>> Interviewees :

I-Wei Li (TW/CA/DE) - artist, curator / www.sidebysidestudio.net/
Pierre Bongiovanni (FR) - artist, curator /www.bongiovanni.info
Thorington (US) - writer and sound artist and co-director Turbulence / www.turbulence.org
Marie Petit (FR) - author, theater director / www.chambrebleue.eu
Maria Ptqk (ES) - critic, curator / ptqkblogzine.blogspot.com
Per Platou (NO) - artist, curator / www.perplatou.net
Hans Bernhard (CH) - artist / www.ubermorgen.com