We have chosen the following artists because we are interested by the fact that the artists reflect on their local situation with its social circumstances and history.
It is important to ‘re-read’ history, question historical facts and re-create history in Indonesia, where history has been manipulated for many decades.
London-based artists & initiatives; a selection by a Dutch curator.
Ruth Beale (UK, based in London)
With her performances, installations and film the British artist Ruth Beale explores and draws attention to current social-political issues using cultural and historical references to create a new critical narrative.
Jenny Moore (CA, based in London)
Jenny Moore is an energetic storytelling artist, musician and author whose performances, publications and sculptural work draw attention to every-day situations via a magnifying glass of small details.
n.o.where run by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler (UK, based in London)
The artist-run initiative n.o.where at the heart of London, is unique in their approach. They combine being a production house for all sorts of analogue film and video while at the same time having a critical dialogue about contemporary image making through their public program.
Exhibiting music, performance, (re-)contextualization.
SOUNDFAIR is an exhibition project based in Berlin that has set as its purpose the re-contextualization of music through the auditive exhibiting of music as unique artworks.
The goal of SOUNDFAIR is to establish a context for composed sound to be understood and consumed as an artwork. To exhibit music as a means of artistic expression mainly without any visual component or implied visual or spatial strategy.
A project by Ari Benjamin Meyers, Clara Meister, Thomas Mayer.
www.soundfair.net
COPYRIGHT Concept: Soundfair
COPYRIGHT Images: Douglas Gordon
Tags: public art, collaboration, painting.
Zeta's goal is to cultivate and promote public, contemporary art. We consider our goal as an inherent characteristic of emancipated societies. Through exhibitions, presentations, collaboration projects on local, as well regional and international level.
Zeta Center started its activities in 2007. It is a non-profit center focused on visual arts that promotes collaborative, professional practices between the artists and curators, critics, researchers and other art professionals, in order to contribute to the establishing of an active contemporary art scene in Albania.