DOCUMENT 120.519

Saturday 19 May 2012 

Congres Station
Boulevard Pachéco, 40 / 1000 Brussels
Doors open at midnight

 Inspired by Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, DOCUMENT is a Brussels-based project which blurs the borders of temporary art spaces and dance floors. The alternative club night welcomes a series of DJs - primarily from WHITE records in Berlin - and visual artists at the Congres train station in Brussels for its fourth edition.

...ment is taking part to the event, where we will be presenting our third issue of the journal (that is, before the festivities properly kick in). We are looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones - please do come say hi if you're around.

Jeremy Deller & David Shrigley at the Hayward Gallery

Until Sunday 13 May 

Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX

David Shrigley, Leisure Centre, 1992

Building up towards the Olympics, London’s galleries and museums are slowly turning the city into a vitrine for iconic British art and creation. From YBA’s Damien Hirst at Tate Modern, Cecil Beaton’s portraits of the Queen at the V&A to the government’s art collection at the Whitechapel Gallery, London’s cultural scene is renovating a sense of ‘Cool Britannia’ ahead of the international spotlight about to be shone on the capital.

The Hayward Gallery is currently putting forward two emblematic British artists: Jeremy Deller and David Shrigley. Both are internationally acclaimed practitioners, even though they operate at relatively different ends of the contemporary art spectrum. While Jeremy Deller is a self-described ‘self-taught conceptual artist’, known for his engaging and community orientated work and referencing different moments of England’s protest history, David Shrigley is the infamously dark and quirky cartoonist (amongst other of his many practices). Both exhibitions co-exist quite peacefully in the Brutalist building of the Hayward gallery and offer an opportunity to discover a cohesive display of their work.

Jeremy Deller’s Joy in People and David Shrigley’s Brain Activity have a few weeks left to go, for those who are actively (or not) exploring the current pre-Olympics London art circuit. The Hayward Gallery will then be turned into a month-long ‘open school’, with international artists developing a wide range of discursive activities into the space and, possibly, offering an alternative to the 2012 ‘Cool Britannia’.

Social Housing – Housing the Social BLOG

Critical Perspectives on Public Housing and the Social Sphere –
 a collaboration between ...ment Journal & SKOR|Foundation for Art and Public Domain - essays, reviews, comments, interviews, projects and more.


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...ment & SKOR - 'Social Housing - Housing the Social' - The Reader OUT NOW!

Actors, Agents and Attendants II: Social Housing—Housing the Social November 4 and 5, 2011  Felix Meritis, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam www.skor.nl www.journalment.org The second edition of a series of symposia initiated by SKOR| Foundation for Art and Public Domain. Social Housing—Housing the Social is a two-day symposium that emphases the relationship between the waning political and practical imperative of social housing and the broader political and philosophical idea of 'housing the social.' Given the increasing global condition of unequal wealth distribution, and the specific urgency brought about by cuts in social and cultural funding in the Netherlands, can forms of cultural production be reclaimed as tools with which to design and defend social space, or are the agents and engineers of such projects merely tools in the further decoration of reduced welfare rights? What do we want cities to accommodate today? What is the legacy of the utopian ideals of the 1960s and what alternative plans for living together in cities are being incubated now? How do we deal with the very real problems of social division brought about by poverty, migration, addiction and lack of representation? What roles do artists, designers, architects play in this process?  …ment, as an independent publishing project, is concerned with the establishment of alternative discursive channels and  with the task of addressing and participating in ongoing discussions.  The Reader  for the symposium is developed in collaboration with SKOR, Foundation for Art and Public Domain. This special issue, designed by Boy Vereencken, is devoted to the main topic of our symposium and proposes a space where research, theoretical texts and possible responses can meet. It is conceived as an integral part of the discussions developed during the symposium and as being parallel and independent research into the topic. Contributions include: Teddy Cruz, Ludwig Engel, Thèo Frey, Liam Gillick, David Harvey, Nikolaus Hirsch, Anthony Iles & Josephine Berry Slater, Suely Rolnik and Slavoj Žižek. The reader is accompanied by a postcard edition by Brandlhuber + Emde, Schneider. An ongoing online platform will collect textual and audio-visual material produced during the symposium and will expand the printed reader with new texts and contributions.   Visit us at www.socialhousingthesocial.blogspot.com Admittance includes: symposium reader, coffee, lunch, dinner and refreshments.  Venue: Felix Meritis, Keizersgracht 324, Amsterdam Registrations and full programme  www.skor.nl SKOR | Foundation for Art and Public Domain is an internationally operating art institution based in Amsterdam, which advises, develops and creates art projects in relation to the public domain. The projects organized by SKOR react to socio-political changes in society and new developments in contemporary art, urban design and landscape architecture. Through addressing such current topics, SKOR contributes to the debate about the politics of the public domain. Journal for Contemporary Culture, Art and Politics is an publishing initiative run by Federica Bueti, Benoit Loiseau and Clara Meister.

Generation 0S 13: New Culture of Resistance

The film takes you on a rapid-fire tour de force through the madness of our world and the new resistance movement that’s trying to come up with alternatives.

What’s fascinating about Generation OS13, and about the new culture of resistance in general, is that it’s trying to carve out a new ideological niche that is firmly critical of our present world order without falling into the trap of the old-fashioned socialist or communist clichés. After all, we need new critiques, new narratives, new inspiration.

Generation OS13 is an explosive insight into the attack on civil liberties occurring in western democracies and how artists, musicians, journalists and authors encourage the peoples right to resist against Banker occupation.

Examining economic dictatorships, puppet regimes, tax havens, tax dodgers, and the debt based money system the film explains why you can not count on the law makers to see shit when it first happens.

For a new era, generation OS13, the repression will not be tolerated; do the government really think they can win that war if the young people are like fuck this, you cant beat that you, can’t beat us, it’s Impossible – Saul Williams.

Featuring Painter, poet and song writer Billy Childish, Harry Malt from Bare Bones, Luke Turner from The Quietus, journalist Huw Nesbitt, broadcaster Max Kaiser, author Nicholas Shaxson and Artists Anika, Comanechi, Gaggle’s and Saul Williams.

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The International Necronautical Society (INS)

Founded in 1999 by Tom McCarthy, the International Necronautical Society (INS) spreads itself as both fiction and actuality, often blurring the two. “Famously described as ‘replaying the avant-garde along the faultline of death’” (Art Monthly, London), the INS inhabits and appropriates a variety of art forms and cultural ‘moments’ from the defunct avant-gardes of the last century to the political, corporate and conspiratorial organisations they mimicked. The INS’s manifestos, proclamations, reports, broadcasts, hearings, inspectorates, departments, committees and sub-committees are the vehicles for interventions in the space of art, fiction, philosophy and media.

visit the website 

Questioning Capitalist Realism: An Interview with Mark Fisher by Matthew Fuller

Mark Fisher is the author of 'Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?'out recently from Zer0 Books.  As a blogger he writes K-Punk.  Capitalist Realism is one of the most acute diagnoses of contemporary politics as it is played out in one small island off the coast of Europe.
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2009/fisher271209.html
http://www.metamute.org/en/questioning_capitalist_realism