OKK/Raum 29. Opinion Props
11-16 October 2012 / St Petersburg
Organizers:
MediaArtLab and ZHIR Project, Moscow
Participants (okk, Berlin):
Andrius Savickas, Ricardo Ramirez, Juan-Pablo Diaz, Pablo Hermann
October 19.00
Lecture at "Everybody is free" bookstore
Moika bench 28
"Opinion Props"
The lecture will present most important projects of OKK : Polaris, Paint syndicate, Media impact, and especially the most recent project "2012 IS THE SEASON FOR TREASON: Critical Reflections of the Berlin Biennale 7" (Berlin, April-May 2012).
Taking the situation of the most recent Berlin Biennale as a reference point to work out the complexity of relationships among the ideology and framework of the European conception of art, institutional racism of the state & international collection of careerist lackeys, the artists elaborate on the insights of the "2012 IS THE SEASON FOR TREASON", and talks about the Querfront (also known as the Third Position) political ideology and its less concentrated manifestations.
13 - 15 October
Nepokorennie Studio (Nepokorennih prospekt 17/4)
Opinion Props are portable structures to transport one's opinion into the public sphere. Within a mediatised public, it is difficult to spread a message, as one has to compete with advertisement and a general flood of information. In workshops with local artists and students we would like to elaborate on strategies, techniques and practices to place slogans and images into the public realm in an effective and creative way.
16 October
Presentation of the results and documentations of workshops and interventions.
Nepokorennie Studio (Nepokorennie prospekt 17/4)
OKK/Raum 29 is an artist run platform for cultural activism based in Berlin, Germany. Aim of the initiative is not the support of single artistic careers, but to provide a basic structure for artists and citizens to join an open network for topic specific activities. OKK has been the home to various participative, collaborative and socially engaged projects, as well in their local neighbourhood Wedding, as well as in other parts of Germany and abroad.
The project is supported from the funds of The Year of Germany in Russia.
