PROGRAM

FOGO ISLAND DIALOGUES: C U LT U R E A S D E S T I N AT I O N

SUNDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2013 (4:00 6:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Welcome by Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (Director, MAK; Vienna) and Nicolaus Schafhausen (Director, Kunsthalle Wien and Advisor, Fogo Island Arts/ Shorefast Foundation; Vienna) Keynote lecture by Marcus Verhagen (Art Historian and Critic; London) Tourists Not Allowed! Real Travelers Only The tourist has been much disparaged in the past by writers, artists and others who have seen in tourism a mode of travel that is rife with delusional hopes and projections. A closer look, however, at theories of tourism (with a mind towards some recent art projects) suggests that the tourist may yet serve as a model for the traveling artist.

4:30 PM

5:30 6:00 PM Respondent Pedro Gadanho (Curator, Contemporary Architecture at MoMA; New
York) followed by Q&A

MONDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2013 (1:00 5:00 PM)

Closed workshops for participants

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TUESDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2013 (3:00 8:00 PM)

3:00 PM 3:15 4:00 PM
Welcome by Nicolaus Schafhausen and Simon Rees (Curator, MAK; Vienna) Presentation (20 min.) by Jack Stanley (Director of Programs, Fogo Island Arts) followed by Q&A, moderated by Nicolaus Schafhausen From Away: Fogo Island Arts in Vienna During his presentation, Jack Stanley speaks about Fogo Island Arts programs residencies, conferences, exhibitions and publications and how they have been received by visiting artists, Fogo Islanders and tourists. Stanley also comments on the inaugural edition of the Fogo Island Dialogues titled Belonging to a Place (July 2013, Fogo Island Inn). He outlines the key themes that were addressed at the conference and situates them within the context of the Shorefast Foundations long-term social, economic and cultural objectives.

4:00 5:00 PM

Dialogues I: Designing a Culture Presentation (15 min.) by Nigel Clark (Chair, Social Sustainability, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University; Lancaster) Conversation between Tulga Beyerle (Co-Founder, Vienna Design Week and an independent curator and writer; Vienna), Pedro Gadanho and Nigel Clark, moderated by Simon Rees Nigel Clark examines art and digital practices through the lens of global environmental change, using a 1999 online exhibition he curated titled Shrinking Worlds: Islands, Interconnectivity and Climate as a reference. Clark proposes that the inevitability of climate change will result in a reformulation of notions of destination, origins and locality as concepts that are no longer understood as a questions of journeys across the surface of the earth the horizontal mobility of tourism, migration, travel but of vertical mobility through the time of the earth. He will consider movements through boundaries and thresholds in earth systems, as well as passage across boundaries and distances between locations or nation-states. In this sense, the cultural and political questions of Where am I? or Where or in what place do I belong? are supplemented by the question of When am I? in relation to the uncertain times of the earth. This will open into a conversation considering, on the one hand, museums and other exhibition spaces (digital or physical) as archives, and on the other hand, the alternative kinds of archives such as ice cores or gene banks which are of ascending importance in an era increasingly focused on the deep temporality of change. As a result, the key question that emerges is: To what extent can digital media digital repositories, archives and event spaces with their forte for instantaneous communication, help convey and explore the experience of journeying through deep time? As a follow-up to Nigel Clarks opening presentation, the conversation turns to Tulga Beyerle who elaborates on ideas of (social) design and objects, looking at technological innovation and material design as part of an invention of culture. Beyerles ideas about the processes of designing a culture are positioned in relation to Pedro Gadanhos contribution, which focuses on themes of uneven growth and architectural tourism. Nigel Clark will bring the issue of social sustainability to the conversation. While Clark looks at the human impact on the physical environment, Gadanho looks at the function of architecture within the framework of sustainability, and Beyerle focuses on objecthood and societal concerns. From macro to micro, the participants raise the question of historicizing the present from their own perspectives and from an exchange across disciplines.

Break

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5:30 6:30 PM

Dialogues II: Institutions and Relative Peripheries Presentation (15 min.) by Nikolaus Hirsch (Curator and Architect; Frankfurt) Presentation (15 min.) by Maria Lind (Director, Tensta Konsthall and independent curator and writer; Stockholm) Conversation between Nikolaus Hirsch and Maria Lind, moderated by Vanessa Joan Mller (Dramaturg, Kunsthalle Wien; Vienna) Nikolaus Hirsch presents the Cybermohalla project he realized in India, as well as a new workshop project for The Land in Chiangmai (Thailand), whereas Maria Lind talks about her experience in working off center, using the Tensta Konsthall as an example for her presentation. Both presentations indirectly reflect on the model established by Fogo Island Arts and address issues related to producing and presenting contemporary art in rural locations. Who is the audience when presenting contemporary art in non-urban contexts? What are the best forms of communication and mediation for diverse audiences? How can geographical distance be bridged and maintain specificity when the discourse transpires into the digital realm? And also, what processes can institutions put in place to sidestep a dominant architecture of the institution so as to not to fall into a rhetoric of branding that overshadows a program? Finally, how can we discuss these contradictions and potentials from the situation at hand?

6:30 8:00 PM

Dialogues III Closing roundtable discussion moderated by Gareth Long (Artist; London) and Amira Gad (Managing Curator, Witte de With; Rotterdam) Public Reception Our Universe Unfolds New Wonders

8:00 PM

9:00 Midnight Concert/AV Performance 1982 (Charles Derenne; Paris)

BIOGRAPHIES
Tulga Beyerle is a freelance design expert, author and curator. Her publications include: Isnt it romantic? Design balancing between poetry and provocation, ed. Petra Hesse and Tulga Beyerle, Walter Knig (2013); Design in Vienna, 20002010, ed. Tulga Beyerle, Peter Stuiber, Metro Verlag (2010); Pace of Design, nine to five in seven design studios around the world, experimentadesign, Lisbon (2009); Vienna 1908, in Design Cities, Design Museum, London (2008); Peter Eisenman, Barefoot on white hot walls, MAK, Museum of applied arts/Contemporary Arts, Vienna (2004); and Global Tools, together with Vitus Weh, Knstlerhaus, Vienna (2001). With Karin Hirschberger, Beyerle also co-edited the book, A Century of Austrian Design, which was published in German, English and Chinese by Birkhuser (2006). She is a founding member of Vienna Design Week, and is currently co-director of the festival, with Lilli Hollein. Nigel Clark is Chair of Social Sustainability at the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. As well as looking at human impacts on the physical environment, he is interested in the influence of volatile earth processes on human social, cultural and political life. He is the author of Inhuman Nature: Sociable Life on a Dynamic Planet (2011) and co-editor of Material Geographies (2008), Extending Hospitality (2009), and Atlas: Geography, Architecture and Change in an Interdependent World (2012). His current research interests include the geologic politics of the Anthropocene and the relationship between capitalism and the earth. Pedro Gadanho is the Curator of Contemporary Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Since he joined MoMA in 2012, he curated the exhibitions 9+1 Ways of Being Political and CutnPaste, and he is responsible for the Young Architects Program. Previously, he divided his activity between architecture, teaching, writing and curating. Gadanho holds an MA in Art and Architecture and a PhD in Architecture and Mass Media. He is the author of Interiores 01010 and Arquitetura Em Pblico, and received the FAD Prize for

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Thought and Criticism in 2012. He was the editor of BEYOND bookazine, writes the Shrapnel Contemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications. He curated Metaflux at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale and exhibitions such as Post.Rotterdam, Space Invaders, and Pancho Guedes: An Alternative Modernist. He was also a chief curator of Experimenta Design between 2001 and 2003. Amongst exhibition layouts, galleries and refurbishments, his designs included the Ellipse Foundation in Lisbon, and the widely published Orange House in Carreo, Family Home in Oporto, and GMG House in Torres Vedras. Amira Gad lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is Managing Curator at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), where she has worked since 2009. She received a Masters in Contemporary Art from Sothebys Institute of Art, London and an honors Bachelor of Liberal Arts & Sciences from the University College Utrecht. In 2012, Gad was appointed curator for the Collectors of Contemporary Art (C.o.C.A.) commission. Projects include The Temptation of AA Bronson; I am for an art criticism that, a 2-day symposium presented at Witte de With and at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Short Big Drama (with Nicolaus Schafhausen), and a solo exhibition of Angela Bulloch at Witte de With. Prior to joining Witte de With, Gad worked at the Ecomuse de la Pche et du Lac in Thonon-les-Bains (France) where she worked in the department of Culture & Heritage. Gad has been involved in the production of several publications on contemporary art including: Source Book 10: Angela Bulloch (2012); the artist book Rotterdam Sensitive Times (2013) by Lidwien van de Ven; and has contributed to a number of publications including: the critical reader by artist Mario Pfeifer, A Formal Film in Nine Episodes, Prologue & Epilogue (2013); and Source Book 8: Edith Dekyndt (2010). She is also editor of Witte de Withs newly launched online platform WdW Review (wdwreview.org) and a Correspondent Editor for Ibraaz (www.ibraaz.org), an online publishing forum dedicated to contemporary visual culture in the Middle East and North Africa. Nikolaus Hirsch is a Frankfurt-based architect and curator. He was the director of Stdelschule and Portikus Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (20102013) and previously taught at the Architectural Association in London, University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and at the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at Gieen University. His architectural work includes the award-winning Dresden Synagogue (2001), Hinzert Document Center (2006), Bockenheimer Depot Theater (with William Forsythe), unitednationsplaza (with Anton Vidokle), European Kunsthalle, the Cybermohalla Hub in Delhi, a studio building at The Land (Thailand) and a number of exhibition structures such as Bruno Latours Making Things Public, ZKM (2005) and Indian Highway, Serpentine Gallery (2008). Hirsch has curated: ErsatzStadt: Representations of the Urban at Volksbhne, Berlin (2005); Cultural Agencies, Istanbul (2009/10); I knOw yoU, Dublin (2013); and numerous exhibitions at Portikus and the Folly project for the Gwangju Biennale in Korea (2013). Hirschs work was exhibited at Manifesta 7 (2008), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2011), the Shanghai Biennale (with Anton Vidokle, 2012), the Devi Art Foundation in Delhi (2012), and most recently at The Land Workshop exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel. He is the author of the books, On Boundaries (2007), Track 17 (2009), Institution Building (2009), Cybermohalla Hub (2012) and co-editor of the Critical Spatial Practice series at Sternberg Press. Maria Lind is a curator and critic based in Stockholm, where she was born in 1966. She is the director of Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm. From 2008 to 2010 she was Director of the Graduate Program, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Prior to that she was Director of Iaspis in Stockholm from 2005 to 2007. From 2002 to 2004 she was the director of Kunstverein Mnchen where she worked with a curatorial team that ran a programme involving artists such as Deimantas Narkevicius, Oda Projesi, Annika Eriksson, Bojan Sarcevic, Philippe Parreno and Marion von Osten. And from 1997 to 2001 she was curator at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, where she worked with artists on a series of 29 commissions that took place in a temporary project-space and within/beyond the Museum, working with artists such as Koo Jeong-a, Simon Starling, Jason Dodge and Esra Ersen. There she also curated What if: Art on the Verge of Architecture and Design, filtered by Liam Gillick. She has contributed widely to newspapers and magazines and to numerous catalogues and other publications. She is the co-editor of the books Curating with Light Luggage and Collected Newsletter (Revolver Archiv fr aktuelle Kunst), Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Collaborative Practices in Contemporary Art (Blackdog Publishing), as well as the report European Cultural Policies 2015 (Iaspis and eipcp) and The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press). Among her recent co-edited publications are Contemporary Art and Its Commercial Markets: A Report on Current Conditions and Future Scenarios and Performing the Curatorial: With and Beyond Art, both with Sternberg Press. She is the 2009 recipient of the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement. In the fall of 2010 Sternberg Press also published Selected Maria Lind Writing. Gareth Long lives and works in London, UK. He holds an honours BA in Visual Studies and Classical Civilizations (2003) from the University of Toronto and a MFA in Sculpture (2007) from Yale University. Longs work centres on processes of transference, translation and collaboration as a means to question authorship and the mechanisms of cultural and knowledge production. In much of his previous work, he has explored the cross-translation of artistic forms, non-linear narrative tropes and gestures de-stabilizing medium specificity. Frequently, these explorations lead to a revised understanding of Modernism as it relates to artistic and literary traditions and the history of design, particularly book publishing. Long has held solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery, New York (2012); Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2012); Torri, Paris (2011 and 2012); The Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (20112012); Oakville Galleries, Oakville (20082009); and Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto (2005 and 2006). His work has been shown at various institutions including Witte de With, Rotterdam (2013); Wiels, Brussels (2011); Casey Kaplan Gallery (2011), MoMA PS1 (2009 and 2010), and Artists Space (2008 and 2009), New York City; Flat Time House, London (2010); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2009); Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto (2009); and Muse dArt Contemporain de Montral, Montreal (2005).

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Vanessa Joan Mller is an art historian, curator and writer, who lives and works in Vienna. She is Head of Dramaturgy at Kunsthalle Wien. She studied art history and film theory at Ruhr-Universitt Bochum and holds a PhD in art history. From 2000 to 2006 she was curator at Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt am Main. From 2007 to 2011 she was director of Kunstverein Dsseldorf. Since 2011 she has been, together with Astrid Wege, artistic director of European Kunsthalle, an institution without a permanent site, that targets overall performative presence and exists in the very places where its projects are happening. Simon Rees is the head of programming and development at the MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, where he has worked since 2011. For six years prior to this Rees was the head of exhibitions at the CAC Vilnius in Lithuania. A New Zealander, who was educated between Australia and New Zealand and who has held positions in national institutions in both countries, Rees made the transition to Europe via a curatorial residency at Iaspis, Stockholm (20032004). Rees has curated numerous exhibitions internationally and writes regularly for popular press and specialist publications about contemporary art and culture. Nicolaus Schafhausen is Director at Kunsthalle Wien since October 2012. From 1995 to 1998 Schafhausen served as artistic director of Knstlerhaus Stuttgart, and from 1999 to 2005 as director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein. From 2003 to 2005 he was a curator at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki (NIFCA). From 2005 to 2007 he was the founding director of the European Kunsthalle, an initiative to establish a new art institution in Cologne. From 2006 to 2012 he headed the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. Schafhausen was the curator of the German Pavilion for the 52nd and the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2007 and 2009. He was co-curator of the first Brussels Biennale in 2008 and co-curator of 2010 Media City Seoul festival. He was also curator of the Dutch House at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai, and, among others, curated exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Lenbachhaus in Munich, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, and the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) in Vilnius. In addition to Schafhausens extensive experience in leading institutions and curating exhibitions, he is author and editor of numerous publications on contemporary art. Currently, Schafhausen is the strategic advisor to Fogo Island Arts and the Shorefast Foundation, both located in Newfoundland, Canada. Jack Stanley is Director of Programs for Fogo Island Arts, a not-for-profit cultural institution in Newfoundland, Canada. In partnership with the Shorefast Foundation, Fogo Island Arts is bringing international attention to the region by supporting projects by artists and scholars working at the intersections of art, heritage and community enterprise. Stanleys recent work focuses on the role that aesthetic education plays in rural resilience. Key areas of interest include hospitality, situated knowledge and critical regionalism. His commitment to context-oriented art started in the early 90s while studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Since then he has been preoccupied with the issue of place and the often-overlooked significance of context in the production and reception of artworks. Marcus Verhagen: Since earning his PhD in art history from the University of California at Berkeley, Verhagen has taught at universities in both the States and Britain, initially specialising in French art of the nineteenth century. For some ten years now he has been working primarily on contemporary art, focusing in his research on the efforts of artists to examine the effects of globalisation. He has published in anthologies and in periodicals such as Representations, Third Text, New Left Review and Afterall. He has contributed essays, reviews and interviews to magazines such as Art Monthly, Modern Painters, Frieze and Art Review. And he occasionally writes catalogue essays.