WORLD-EX-POSITION 08WORLD-EX-POSITION 08, April 26 – Mai 15 2008

WORLD-EX-POSITION 08WORLD-EX-POSITION 08, April 26 – Mai 15 2008
Shazalakazoo

WORLD-EX-POSITION
Erotic Union, Open Space and LAB factory

Open Space
Zentrum für Kunstprojekte
Lassingleithnerplatz 2
Schwedenplatz
1020 Wien
www.openspace-zkp.org
(+43) 699 115 286 32
Phone: +43 699 115 286 32
Fax:
Contact: Alexander Nikolic
world-expo@eroticunion.org

openspace-zkp.org

April 26 – Mai 15 2008

Parallel Opening in Open Space|| LABfactory
25.04.2008, 19.00 – 21.00

Press Launch 24.04.2008, 11.00 – 12.00
Open Space – Zentrum für Kunstprojekte

Program:

25.04.2008 19.00 LABfactory
film/lecture/performance
sister0 "My First Burial"
Jessie Darlin" "I was a teenage porn star"
Moderation: Alexander Nikolić / Thomas Jelinek
Live: shazalakazoo
DJ: White Girl

26.04.2008. 19:00 LABfactory
audio/talk performance
Johannes Grenzfurthner / monochrom "The innermost Unifier"
Moderation: Alexander Nikolić / Thomas Jelinek
DJ: Gudrun Brüll (SCHWESTERN BRÜLL)

30.04.2008 21:30 LABfactory
lecture performance
Dr. Richard Barbrook "Imaginary futures"
Moderation: Stefan Lutschinger
DJ: Ohrgasmus

10.05.2008 20:00 LABfactory
streaming Laboratory
XLTerrestrials "Transmigration Of the Telepresent"
In Kooperation mit theSCREEN.tv, sonance.artistic.network und
Press/Play in Detroit
Moderation: Alexander Nikolić / Ppod Yvol
DJ: Alexander Nikolić+ Ppod Yvol

Paricipating Artists || Open Space & LABfactory

Jesper Alvaer the banana tree stereoscope Dr. Richard Barbrook
Imaginary futures cuntstunt Take it as a Gift! Jesse Darlin" I was a
teenage porn star Lukas Pusch Vienna Vodoo" Johannes Grenzfurthner -
monochrom The Innermost Unifier Mario Grubisic utopia-expo Ira Hadzic
Visoko-Flying High Rudi Hübl Art&Culture Sausages Stefan Lutschinger
Performer, Blogger and author Kazimir Malevic black cross -sketch 1985
Stefan Rusu Lazo | Sars Opera | Jeres sister0 My first Burial societé
réaliste Minist?¨re de l'Architecture. MA: Temporary Free Zones
Shazalakazoo - live! breakbeat/folk/electronica. Christoph Theiler
-wechselstrom Reply Tanya Ury Whos Boss | Boss Rune XLTerrestrials‚
Transmigration Of the Telepresent Zampa di Leone selections

The proposed WORLD- EXPO in 1991 for Vienna did not succeed due to a
poll result asking the citizens of the city for consent. We don't ask.
Not at all. We even wouldn't, not that we would know whom to ask. Yet,
did you know the eldest pyramids in the world to be built in
Bosnia-Herzegovina? If the mummies would suddenly awake and appear,
what would they think? In Balkan regions you will hear a running joke
frequently: "Here, still nothing has changed" or a variation: "Who
turned back the time?"

The buzz of World-Exposition was conceived in 1995 and considered to
be conduit breaking. An epoch making first one to be planned, arranged
and carried out of two Countries. First World-Exposition in Vienna
took place in 1873 - its former office, today is premise of
LABfactory.

A parallel to 1995 was that to 1873, the Balkan Peninsula countries
freed themselves of Ottoman Empire. They fought for and presented
themselves as newly independent states - the planned World Fair 1995
should open a similar perspective. Man in charge agreed to theme their
master plan "bridges into the future" - a metaphoric overkill
concealing a profitable concept: to subordinate former eastern regions
economically through a Utopia of "democratisation" for those who found
their self finally at liberty from Real Socialism.

Today, time stands still - still for too many. Opposing this we will
cross those bridges to future – marching. "world-ex-position" exhibit
will guide us where to go, and how to proceed from here, everyone is
free to decide on their behalf.

ARTISTS | Guide

Sister0 is performer working with experimental media concerned with
disorientated, ostracized, banished or imperilled bodies of knowledge
and interested in the transmission and retrieving of them. Jesse
Darlin" works across the platforms of performance, live music,
literature, collage, illustration and "experimental living," moving
into and becoming the spectacle in order to transcend it. In her
performance lecture, I was a teenage porn star, she will go through
why she"s against the sex industry but pro-porn; take the gaze back
from the hands of Grosse Kapital. XLTerrestrials - Popd Yvol employs
strategy for reversing engineering phallic-centric rocket-style
science and industry. By using art-portal, they wish look inward and
face-to-face to illuminate the dubious dual enterprise that is taking
place.

Johannes Grenzfurthner - monochrom uses different historical and
current examples (especially from the area of the
hardware/software-industry). Johannes Grenzfurthner gives a
theoretical and applied overview on the musical genre of corporate
anthems by taking the issues, such as the advancement of
pre-capitalism to post-capitalism (ie. the form of organisation for
all social relations in a particular economical ideology), the most
dominant type of organisation of the post-capitalist endeavour. Yet
this is where contradictions within, and indeed clashes of interest
take a step back behind the curtain of the "community". The return to
old ideas of community also brings with it certain forms of rituals,
like the usage of a corporate anthem.

Dr. Richard Barbrook traces the early days of the Internet, beginning
from a pivotal point at the 1964 World"s Fair, in what critics are
saying is the most well-researched and original account of
cyber-technology among contemporary works. Crucially, he argues that
had the past been different, our technological and political present
would not be what it is today. Stefan Lutschinger is a proletarian
bohemian and a departed on holiday. He works in the fields of digital
art, recreational robotics, mass agitation art and anthropology of the
post-human.
Jaesper Alvar focuses on our living conditions. Société Réaliste
proposed to show an extract from its ongoing project Minist?¨re de
l'Architecture. The production takes the form of an administration
devoted to work on various aspects of the politics of the space. In
Vienna, Société Réaliste shows the second chapter of a Minist?¨re de
l'Architecture's research project about territorial membranes. This
partition specifically concerns the possibility of reshaping European
autonomous territories in a more ergonomic way than now.

cuntstunt is a zine, which we like to understand as a feminist
"Handapparat", a subjective compilation of texts, drawings and
collages, coming from the fields of feminism, anarchism, sexuality,
queer theory and music, somewhere in between. Its something like a
"best of" of collected material.

Zampa di Leone works within the parameters of cultural activism in the
Balkan region. Their first fanzine, "In the Arse of the Balkans",
which parodies an entire movement of balkanization of art practices.
Their experiment of aesthetic reformulation of the Balkans created its
anti-history of sorts. Whereas Lukas Pusch brings together realities
which are usually separated by border fences and restricted areas. Ira
Hadzic brings euphoric plans for the future in a region of Europe
where globalisation is only just starting to take effect into fore.
Ira introduces the newly discovered pyramids that fulfil multiple
functions: they act as a beacon of hope, a source of inspiration and
not least of all as an important economic catalyst.
Stefan Rusu explores how images were used in the construction of the
Moldavian identity during soviet era. The construction of myths and
legends ends with the appropriation of fairy-tales that overturn the
meanings of good and evil and by replacing the real facts with
fiction. Then moves to the history and the present of the Moldavia,
his home country, and the deep-going cultural connections between it
and Mongolia, then we land in Soviet Moldova with a striking story
about the creation of an identity as a "brand" which is an artificial.
Rudi Hübl produces fluxus-like sausages made of posters from Austrian
culture-personalities: Mozart, Klimt, Schiele, Falco… He works with
different techniques and methods, but always posters are subject and
material of his urban folxart.

Mario Grubisic creates experiments for the future of utopia derived
from the normal and an-normal situation from the past experience. And
when we come to a special contribution, Kazimir Malevič, confronts us
with a question: "[…] I know, this letter is sort of a surprise for
most of you, for the general assumption is, I deceased in 1935. Many
of you supposed I"m dead and gone. But: is this really true?"

Tanya Ury engages with contemporary trends that still conform to an
average uniformity with the idea that a costume doesn't just provide a
protective layer but can also be a form of disguise. Christoph
Theiler works in cross disciplinary approach that covers media art and
electronic music, leads to tape compositions and multimedia sound
installations where everything was in motion.

The intention of the Shazalakazoo - Balkan Breakz is simple: it is not
meant to be art; it is simple entertainment like the music of its
countless predecessors - an important pastime, faithfully accompanying
the inhabitants of the Balkan Peninsula throughout its turbulent
history, in good or bad times alike. This music only kept changing its
outer shell, embracing the ongoing evolution of popular instruments,
harmonic and rhythmical influences of any current era. Its essence,
however, remained the same: less talking, more dancing, and tomorrow
is a new day.

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