Category Archives: coming-models

models, examples, exemplaries, cases, propositions, rituals, utopias, projects, inventions…

Proto-Call: Tree Site Encounters

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In front of the Kirchner Museum there are a few impressive needle trees and a larger space Ronny and I enjoyed last year to deal with the cardboard circle. Ronny had prepared the circle to leave an imprint in the snow using a hair dryer and I further explored the symbol and ornament from below.

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During the April 2015 WOF Forum I again intend to spend some time near the tree(s) in front of the museum. Tree Site Encounters are open to everyone but I specifically wish to invite YOU to join me individually for moments or minutes of unproductive productivity in April.

Last years attempt to explore the hidden side of that cardboard circle in the snow led to the discovery of unexpected growth. I now wonder what else the underneath, the hidden, the reverse and the invisible have to offer.

 

If WEF represents the currently dominant way of thinking (optimising, minimising, efficiency) then WOF stands for all else that is needed to counterbalance that limited approach (chance, splendour, subversion, mindful/mindless repetition).  

I am looking forward to encounters by the trees at WOF 2016…               Christoph Zellweger

Proto-Call: INDIFFERENCE AND RHYTHM

WOF World Ornamental Forum – May 4-8, 2016 – Kirchner Museum Davos

INDIFFERENCE AND RHYTHM

PROTO-CALL FOR LETTERS AND VIDEOS OF INTEREST

You are hereby called to offer your address of interests for the participation at the WOF World Ornamental Forum 2016 concerned with ‘Indifference and Rhythm’. This address can have the form of a letter, a video, or any other form of your choice. You yourself are addressed as an artists or researcher independently from discipline and field. The form of the WOF is a situated exhibition/presentation (effectuation) and participation/discussion (exploration), of both artistic work and research work. The aim, however, is not the effectuation of pre-existing knowledges. Rather, in your address, you should propose in what way you intend to touch the very limits of your knowledges.

AGENDA

At the WOF we will offer a rhythmic space of situated effectuation and exploration in which the work of both artists and researchers can be generated, experienced and transformed as indifferent examples. All artists and all researchers will choose their particular site and time-slot of exhibition, presentation, or other form of effectuation, inside or outside the museum building. There will be times of isolated concentration alternating with times of encounter and exchange.Kirchner Site Projekt

ADDRESS OF INTERESTS

In your address of interests, which can take any form whatsoever such as a letter or a video, please be concerned with the following questions:

  • How do you intend to deal with the limits of your knowledge?
  • What kind of practice, experience, or knowledge do you intend to leave behind?
  • What will the WOF 2016 have been once you have left? How will it have changed you?

Include notes on what technical support you might need for the WOF, if applicable.

Please also include a note about yourself.

Deadline is 1st of June 2015.

ISSUE

Departing from Différence et Répétition (Deleuze, 1968), thus leaving the conception ‘of discontinuity (threshold, rupture, break, mutation, transformation)’ as L’Archéologie du Savoir (Foucault, 1969) behind, we intend not so much to curtain a new philosophy but rather to render some contemporary tendencies of philosophy and other practices as indifferent towards either traditional or differential philosophies. Our contention is that precisely by such in-differentiation the matter between differences can be made productive as a site of encounter. A philosophy of indifference is not one that announces the next paradigm of philosophical thinking. It rather is paradigmatic in nature. It is capable of suspending the value systems in both traditional and differential western cultures in favour of the immeasurable value of an example. The example, never being uniquely the thing as such and always being only one of which it stands for, does not function in terms of dialectical logic. The logic of the example is analogical, creating rhythmic spaces rather than repetitive lines.

Ornament is always also an indifferent example of how it could be different. There is playfulness involved, however, this playfulness is serious in terms of what other uses could be imagined. In ornament, the passage from one use to another (or the transformation of ethos) does neither happen as continuous evolution nor as sudden break. It’s just an allusion of another possibility of use, both disruptive and embedded. Ornament can therefore be seen as the primary site of a rhythmic philosophy of indifference. Ornament creates rhythms of potential uses while it is simultaneously indifferent to both the thing as such and that what it could stand for.

What we experience through the work of art is also a suspension of use, not in favour of a new use but merely for the sake of being suspended. Precisely this instantaneous suspension of use (and truth) allows for a specifically artistic exploration of any subject whatsoever. This kind of exploration in suspense is what we call artistic research.

Proto-Call: May Beyou

Call for WOF 2016

The World Ornamental Forum 2016 will be held from 4th to 7th May 2016 in Davos. WOF’s host will be the Kirchnermuseum, to which we already are highly grateful.

Traditionally the WOF will formulate its own model during these common working days. Although the content will be kept the most open possible we have already formulated a schedule for WOF, days of experience and genuine knowledge.

 

These unique experience-based experience sessions will, as every experience, live from the participants and their inputs in all possible and impossible planned and popping-up situations.

 

Therefore you are kindly invited to participate in the creation of WOF 2016; we invite you to send to WOF till 30th October 2015:

 

  • Letter of Intent: Short description of “What WOF 2016 will have been?”

Formalities:           Max 2 pages A4 or 2’500 characters

Content:                  My description of WOF 2016 on my way back home

  • Biographical data

Formalities:           Max 50 characters in prose

Content:                  You may know

  • My contribution to WOF 16

Formalities:           Max. 1 page or 1’500 characters, pictures, tables, foreign languages allowed

Content:                  Description of the intervention you propose for WOF 2016 and its function within the program

  • My ideal schedule of WOF 16

Formalities:           Open form and quantity

Content:                  What program you would preferre

 

No jury of any kind will judge your inputs! The definitive program and speakers list will be distributed on registration desk WOF 16. So be prepared to your phantasms falling apart and your dreams turning real!

 

Please take note of the sketch of program- below

 

 

 

Sketch of Program WOF 2016

 

 

Thursday 4th May: Starting Day, presentation of the “Review WOF 2016” and other basics

4.00 pm                   Registration and greeting note           by Thorsten Sadovsky, Head of Kirchnermuseum

4.30 pm                   WOF? WOF!                                            by Ronny Hardlitz Head of Head of WOF

5.00 pm                   Program and schedule                          by Julie Harboe Head of WOF

5.30 pm                   Aperitif and “historical slides”             by and with Heads of WOF

in parallel

6.00 pm                   Presentation of “Review WOF 2016: What WOF 2016 will have been? 42 appliable paradoxes of

(un-) productivity”

7.00 pm                   Dinner and “Academics, so what!”   by May Beyou

 

Wednesday 5th May: Stationary Day

9.30 am                   arrival and coffee

10.00 am                plenary session, Keynote 1                 by May Beyou

10.45 am                panel 1

11.30 am                “Gesture and Model*”                          by May Beyou

12.15 am                discussion and lunch

2.00 pm                   Specification workshops:

  1. “quantic physics or we don’t know, what is going on*”
  2. “craftsmanship is academic gesture?*”

4.00 pm                   reporting in plenary session

5.00 pm                   “Practical theory or theoretic practice: Ways out” by May Beyou

6.00 pm                   Aperitif and “historical slides”             by WOF

7.30 pm                   Dinner and cultural presentations

 

Fryday 6th May: Ambulant Day

9.00 am                   coffee at Kirchnermuseum; physical check-up

10.00 am                departure from Kirchnermuseum to Stafelalp by foot

12.00 pm                visit of and lunch at Kirchner’s chalet on Stafelalp and lunch

2.00 pm                   “Woodwork and painting: models and / or / of gestures?*” by May Beyou

4.00 pm                   strengthening drinks and departure to Davos

8.00 pm                   Dinner and Discussions

 

Saturday 7th May:

9.00 am                   “I would prefer not to!” productivity, unproductivity or opposition, really?              By May Beyou

10.00 am                Discussion

11.00 am                Plenary session: “Reflexions about coming up pasts and past futures”

12.00 am                Discussion

1.00 pm                   Farewell-Aperitif, -lunch and –dinner

3.00 pm                   Closing session

4.00 pm                   closing of WOF 2016

 

 

*These topics are set as examples and not as models!

Call for WOF 2016 mb

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: World Ornamental Forum 2016

Application deadline:

worldornamentalforum.ch/

Kirchnermuseum, Promenade 82, 7270 Davos, Switzerland

Explore the idea of coming– and modeling/exampling across practice and theory; appropriate your own elevated categories as part of your individual or collective endeavors!

Embarking on a new chapter of WOF World Ornamental Forum, we are seeking contributions to this international setting without walls in Davos, Switzerland in Spring 2016. Working and acting from within the Kirchnermuseum, the invigorating surroundings of this alpine region,* loaded with histories of creative restoration, shall form the setting in which agency is given to the coming– or what can be called the future material – enacted by the guests; players, artists, writers, thinkers, curators, editors, scientists and organizations.

Topics of discussion should refer to WOF’s concern with artistic modeling/exampling, the ornamental and the world, the de- and re-vocabularizing of artistic knowledge in response to aesthetic-planetary-sensorial transformations.

Key topics: new vocabularies, format of the format, coming–, temporalities-eventualities, altitudes, sea level, sound theory, meta-phrasing and un-phrasing, ornament, architecture, periodicals, commons and the humanities, scores, stars down to earth.

A new setting dictates a new modus in which to work: there is no material to quote from on hand. The modus is prompted by … (Sergei Eisenstein, 1988)

10 successful applicants will be invited to take part in a prize draw!

Submission Guidelines:

Applicants should submit a one-page proposal in English outlining the specific topic and vocabulary they wish to explore, the format of their contribution, expectations of what WOF should be, and their future involvement in worldly ornamental activities. We will do our best to facilitate the conversations.

Application deadline: September 30, 2015, noon.

E-mail proposal submissions: [ ]

WOF World Ornamental Forum is a conglomerate of creative workers with a growing number of its community and communal spaces.

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*Davos sea level 1560m.

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WOF-DAVOS TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS (Manual)

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STORAGE-DATA

SCHOOL SERVER AT LUCERNE UNIVERSITY

LACK OF DATA – NIL/ZERO

ANECDOTE : SMALL TALK

SUB-STRUCTURES/GROUNDWORKS

ANXIETY

BIOGRAPHIES (PARTICIPANTS)

100 YEARS OF ANTI-LENINIST PROPAGANDA

SCEPTICISM

19TH CENTURY ROMANTICISM –

LIBRARY – SIGHT LINES : ‘THE OBSERVING OBSERVER’

UK CONTEXT – NECESSARY ENGAGEMENT WITH ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, ESPECIALLY LAND VALUE, FEES, VENTURE CAPITALISM ARRIVING IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR

INTELLECTUAL [&] CRITICAL CONDITIONS

PRACTICES OF REPRESENTATION

GREY ENERGY (MATERIAL CONDITIONS)

PLANT

RONNY, JULIA

HOSPITALITY

MODEL RESONANCES ORNAMENT

CULTURAL INDUSTRIES / FUNDING SCHEMES

PROCESSES [&] TECHNOLOGIES

CONVERSATION

MAINTAINENCE OF ALL ABOVE (SPACE + CONVERSATION ETC)

WIFI

RETREAT

DISTRACTION

MOVEMENT BETWEEN SPACES

SCEPITCAL FACILITATION

COURTESY/GENEROSITY

REFLECTION

ANALYTICAL TOOLS (POSSIBLY/HOPEFULLY)

MATERIALS

PARTICIPANTS

THE MUSEUM – BUILDING AND WORKS

AGENCY OF PARTICIPANTS

LIGHT

COFFEE

PAPER

FOOD

COMPUTERS

CUTLERY + WC

MIC

CAMERAS

LIGHT

VIDEO

FABRICATION

NEGOIATION OF PREPARATION

CRITICAL DIALOGUE

MAINTAINENCE OF CRITICAL DIALOGUE

LIVE PROJECT – PRACTICES (CF. HOSTS)

TYPING

QUESTIONING AND FACILITATION

MAINTAINANCE [&] LIFE SPAN

ONLINE PLATFORM

LIVE DIALOGUE

INSTITUTIONAL COMMITMENT

GATHERING

INFORMED RESEARCH

CRITICAL EVALUATION OF SUCCESSES AND FAILURE

All the information provided here is for guideline use only.

For further in-depth technical advice, please contact our research [&] development team. Tel: 01282 861325