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Response to Proto-Calls by Lars Schuchert
proto-call-reaction-framework / c. lars schuchert
- With the WOF 2016 we are setting aside time for a journey. Following the un-necessity of ornament, we will go for walks – metaphorically and in reality, discovering places of E.L. Kirchner – setting forth to dreams may come. Finding ourselves in unexpected topoi, implanting the uncontrolled challenge of serendipity by trusting people to improvise navigation, and provide models as toys for tools. Within a given rhythm of walks and talks, we will meet in matter, performances, presentations, and dialogue. [Lars]
- They [all these roles which you will create youresves] can work alongside Voltaire and his optimistic hero, Candide, on the vision of an ideal world designed to meet the requirement of being “the best of all possible worlds,” or they can follow the example of the English scholar Robert Burton and fully surrender to melancholy, failure, and the great No-Purpose. For sometimes the one who fails is indeed the smarter one who is above the illusionism of the realitycapable and the hubris of the winners and doers. Where all of this is heading is thus completely open and depends on the ideas and inspiration of the participants. Left or right turns are possible at any time and the so-called “magic roundabout,” a supreme challenge for traffic planners and participants, is therefore the appropriate symbol for this challenge. [Thorsten]
- 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. […] 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. [Ronny]
- 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
Yout 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
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!
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 Beyo
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:
a. “quantic physics or we don’t know, what is going on*”
b. “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: Recovery
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! [Martin]
- 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). Ten successful applicants will be invited to take part in a prize draw! [Verina]
- Like a museum, like a dream, like art, and maybe even life, WOF entails PARADOX. PLAYFULNESS chases away the hovering shadow of PRODUCTIVITY and yields spaces of careful unlimited activity. Retracing gesture as form and ornament as intermediary WOF is a dancing EXCHANGE of elegance and SIGNIFICANCE. Go for it like an unfolding vortex, like the almost invisible entasis.
WOF 2016 will meander between model and gesture:
Case study – example – Fallstudie – paradigm – Beispiel
Praxis – visualisation – movement – performance
WOF has a virtual and an analogue existence here and there. You can log into www.worldornamentalforum.ch and be in the WOF any time or you can ascend into Davos and be with Kirchner and others who expose themselves to the pleasant anxiety of no-how. (*see texts and talks by Sarat Maharaj
WOF is an academic and abstract endeavour into the territory. We need to hack and circumscribe the assignment and we have to engage not with structures but with the material itself always in situ. WOF gives you a space to check your thinking with others, picking up the energy between Sein and Schein necessary today. WOF moves from craftsmanship-to object-to discourse, it asks you to get in line and talk to the people next to you do as much and as little as possible. Folding and unfolding. Welcome to WOF. [Julie]
Response to Proto-Calls by Sharon Kivland
Response to Proto-Calls by Verina Gfader
- My vote is for Thorsten’s proto-call
A model art biennale!
“For this construction of a possible biennial world various roles are to be assigned that you can apply for: Exhibition designer, Exhibition technician, Architect, Biennial blogger…“
This proto-call seems most attractive to me as it speaks to a larger audience, and yet remains loose, potential, without emphasizing any kind of ‘direct production’.
Yes, ‘biennale’ as some sort of anchor point is urgent to address, bringing to light places you’ve never heard of and you trace… and the whole mythology around them.
Highly relevant, fun, in-time yet ahead, ‘ornamental’
The title would need reformulating, it sounds to ‘occupying’ – hierarchical.
PS1.
The theoretical tropes in Ronny’s section ISSUE’ sound promising, yet perhaps Deleuze and Guattari are already projecting a most significant (and partially misleading?) grounding.
Paragraphs 2 and 3 great.
PS2.
Julie’s ideas > To me some great links set up, yet to attract a wider audience it may need more detours/elaboration.
I love some of the phrasing…
Image or diagram would need to be carefully chosen. Maybe call just nicely designed, with lines, arrows etc.
Proto-Call: »Modelle für die beste aller möglichen Biennalen«
WOF World Ornamental Forum, May 4-8, 2016, Kirchner Museum Davos »Modelle für die beste aller möglichen Biennalen«
Swindon (GB), Magic Roundabout
CALL FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST/ APPLICATIONS
The 2016 WOF will be devoted to constructing a model art biennial.
In 2017 an international art biennial is to be launched in Davos: the 2017 Kirchner Biennale Davos. To this end you are invited to help develop a model biennial that takes into account all aspects of such an event. Things to consider include a concept and theme, financing, logistics, marketing, architecture, exhibition venues and cooperation partners, selecting artists and curators etc.
For this construction of a possible biennial world various roles are to be assigned that you can apply for:
Exhibition designer Exhibition technician Architect
Biennial blogger Bookshop operator Gallerist
Guides
Café operator
Artist
Art critic
Art facilitator
Curator
Press officer
Sponsor
Web designer
And additional roles waiting to be defined…
The project sees itself as a contribution to “design science” which is mainly concerned with designs and testing models, prototypes etc. What is important, though, is that it is not so much about innovative artefacts and corresponding applications as about designs of “possible worlds.”
At the same time it is up to each of the applicants to choose their positions. They can work alongside Voltaire and his optimistic hero, Candide, on the vision of an ideal world designed to meet the requirement of being “the best of all possible worlds,” or they can follow the example of the English scholar Robert Burton and fully surrender to melancholy, failure, and the great No-Purpose. For sometimes the one who fails is indeed the smarter one who is above the illusionism of the reality- capable and the hubris of the winners and doers.
Where all of this is heading is thus completely open and depends on the ideas and inspiration of the participants. Left or right turns are possible at any time and the so-called “magic roundabout,” a supreme challenge for traffic planners and participants, is therefore the appropriate symbol for this challenge. This roundabout can be passed in both directions; in an inner ring traffic moves anti- clockwise – the continental way, so to speak – while in the outer ring traffic always moves with the times. Access to and exits from this roundabout are regulated by additional small roundabouts. For inexperienced participants it can be easy to lose track…
WOF 2016: 4 – 8 May 2016, Kirchner Museum Davos Application length limit: 6000 characters and spaces Deadline: 1 August 2015
Proto-Call: «model»
Proto-Call / WOF 2016 / C. Lars Schuchert
With the WOF 2016 we are setting aside time for a journey. Following the un-necessity of ornament, we will go for walks – metaphorically and in reality, discovering places of E.L. Kirchner – setting forth to dreams may come. Finding ourselves in unexpected topoi, implanting the uncontrolled challenge of serendipity by trusting people to improvise navigation, and provide models as toys for tools. Within a given rhythm of walks and talks, we will meet in matter, performances, presentations, and dialogue.
To set the stage and content of the WOF 2016, we ask for proposals in formats which are open to experimentation and reflection while addressing topics of gesture and practice, model and example. We are asking for proposals to conclude what the WOF 2016 will have been once it is over: whom you will have met, what topics will have been discussed, what you will have discovered, etc.
Engaging this utopian picture in retrospective future feedback, we will unroll the ornamental present towards the WOF 2016, finalizing in the past of un-production.
As warm-up, we ask for the contribution in the sense of a «Letter of Interest» at our website, proposing your interest and involvement at the WOF 2016 and reaction to the following question:
- How can the metaphor of a «model» help to understand the connection between ornament and unproductive activity?
dramatize/fall 
enjoy/fly 
or else… 
Proto-Call: no-how
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World Ornamental Forum Davos 2016
PROTO_CALL for three days of collaborative work in the Kirchner Museum and surroundings May 5th -7th 2016
Like a museum, like a dream, like art, and maybe even life, WOF entails PARADOX. PLAYFULNESS chases away the hovering shadow of PRODUCTIVITY and yields spaces of careful unlimited activity. Retracing gesture as form and ornament as intermediary WOF is a dancing EXCHANGE of elegance and SIGNIFICANCE. Go for it like an unfolding vortex, like the almost invisible entasis.
WOF 2016 will meander between model and gesture:
Case study – example – Fallstudie – paradigm – Beispiel
Praxis – visualisation – movement – performance
WOF has a virtual and an analogue existence here and there. You can log into www.worldornamentalforum.ch and be in the WOF any time or you can ascend into Davos and be with Kirchner and others who expose themselves to the pleasant anxiety of no-how*.
WOF is an academic and abstract endeavour into the territory. We need to hack and circumscribe the assignment and we have to engage not with structures but with the material itself always in situ. WOF gives you a space to check your thinking with others, picking up the energy between Sein and Schein necessary today. WOF moves from craftsmanship-to object-to discourse, it asks you to get in line and talk to the people next to you do as much and as little as possible. Folding and unfolding. Welcome to WOF.
*see texts and talks by Sarat Maharaj
Proto-Call: Tree Site Encounters
WOF 2015 / 2016
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.
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.
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:
- “quantic physics or we don’t know, what is going on*”
- “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!