Discursive Picnic_ALL YOU CAN EAT

Thursday, 03 June 2010, 3pm
Bury St Edmunds Gallery, curated by Catherine Hemlryk

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Strawberries growing in the park

Discursive Picnic_ Aufwachen, 5th April 2009, 3-6pm, Haus am Waldsee.

You/we are invited to a Discursive Picnic in the exhibition "Aufwachen", as a guest, as a host. On the platform, on the blanket, on the floor. Bring, give, take, share ideas, food, talk.

Sunday, 5th April 2009, 3-6pm, Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin, U3 Krumme Lanke, S1 Mexikoplatz

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(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1236353036&day=1236294000)

The Publication pöpp68 - participation objections anyhow of the exhibition project privat öffentlich persönlich politisch inNeue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Berlin, and the conference on Participation at the Akacemie der Künste Berlin in 2008 comes with texts and interviews referring to UNWETTER’s practice by and with Christophe Kotányi, Raimar Stange, Benno Gammerl, Ulrike Solbrig and Jole Wilcke (--> Catalog excerpt: PDF)

With six collaborative projects, a conference, and an exhibition, pöpp68 - private, public, personal, political" targeted and probed possible modes for participation in art.

In 2008 pöpp68 brought together artists born in the 1960s (Seraphina Lenz, Nanna Lüth, Ulrike Solbrig, Rebekka Uhlig, Giuliano Vece, Jole Wilcke) with artists and theorists that were already active in 1968 (Claudia von Alemann, Kirsten Dufour, Rainer W. Ernst, Sanja Ivekovic´ & Bojana Pejic´, Barbara Kleinitz, Christophe Kotányi) allowing them to revisit some of the complex issues that became prominent features of political and social discourse in '68, like fascism, body and power, gender politics, consumption critique, as well as a more general questioning of authority; while also giving opportunities for participation in workshops and other avenues for exploration and intervention. As an intergenerational forum, pöpp68 looked at the chances for participation and forms of resistance from 1968 to the present.

The publication "pöpp68 - participation objections anyhow" documents and contextualizes the entire project, the conference "on participation" at the Akademie der Künste and the exhibition at NGBK, Berlin, with workshop descriptions and text contributions by Espace Masolo, Stephan Geene, Sabine Hark, Barbara Loreck, Suzana Milevska, Rahel Puffert, Veronica Sekules, Raimar Stange, Eva Sturm, Wiebke Trunk, Ultra-red, and others.

dt./engl. participation objections anyhow
!296 S., zahlr. farb. Abb. / numerous coloured images

ISBN 978-3-938515-24-2
Preis: 20.- €, email order form: office@ngbk.de (--> http://ngbk.de)

Discursive Picnic_10th Anniversary of the Russian Market in Memory of Ellisif Wessel

UNWETTER and Mobile Kultur Byrå to be guest/host at the Discursive Picnic_10th Anniversary of the Russian Market in Memory of Ellisif Wessel on Thursday 25.09.08 from 2 pm at the sqare in the tent in Kirkenes, Norway

Discursive Picnic_8 Hours Don't Make a Day, Thursday September 4th, 2008 from 8 am till 4 pm at Alexanderplatz – between exit U2 (in front of Saturn at Alex) and the Fountain of the Friendship between Peoples with Matthias Krause and Patrick Gardener.

You/we are invited! Bring/take ideas, food/drinks, picnic utensils, work results, opinions, large potatoes and daily newspapers with want k sections and a tablecloth for printing!

We make potato prints instead of fine print!

With newspaper want ads, we want to make new paper plates.
Either unemployment or unpayed overtime everybody has to be flexible, preferrably for 24 hours a day, as the title of the American anti terror TV-series (2001 - 2010) suggests. By taking up the title of Fassbinder’s 1970’s television series 8 Hours Don't Make a Day we want to reintroduce the positive notion, that a society – in case that for instance payed labor doesn't take up more than 8 hours per working day – is able to transform itsef.

With workstation, idea workshop e.V., the Holy Church of the Last Three Workdays and other activists of /unvermittelt*, who in open workshops will present, discuss and advance their projects. Children are welcome to join in.

Discursive Picnic_8 Hours Are Not a Day, is a location in a public space of the campaign "/unvermittelt", by workstation, idea workshop Berlin e. V., also presented at the New Society for Visual Arts, NGBK, in November 2008 – /unvermittelt - für einen Arbeitsbegriff jenseits von Überarbeitung und Mangel. Praxen, Techniken, Spielräume.

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Discursive Picnic_8 Stunden sind kein Tag Donnerstag, 4. September 2008 von 8.00 bis 16.00 Uhr, 8 Stunden auf dem Alexanderplatz – zwischen Ausgang U2 (vor Saturn am Alex) und dem Brunnen der Völkerfreundschaft mit Matthias Krause, Patrick Gardener.

Ihr seid/Wir sind eingeladen! bringt/nehmt Ideen, Essen/Trinken, Picknickutensilien, Arbeitsergebnisse, Meinungen, große Kartoffeln und alte Tageszeitungen mit Stellenanzeigen und Tischdecken zum bedrucken mit!

Wir machen Kartoffeldruck statt Leistungsdruck!

Wir recyclen Stellenanzeigen zu Einwegtellern!

Die Arbeitswelt scheint sich im permanenten Ausnahmezustand zu befinden. Die einen sind arbeitslos, die anderen müssen massenhaft unbezahlte Überstunden ableisten alle müssen flexibel sein und allzeit bereit, eben 24 Stunden am Tag, "24" wie der Titel der amerikanischen Fernsehserie (2001-2010) lautet, bei der es um Terrorbekämpfung geht. Ausgehend von Fassbinders Fernsehserie aus den 70ern, 8 Stunden sind kein Tag, wollen wir an die positive Vorstellung anknüpfen, dass eine Gesellschaft sich mit Hilfe kritischer Einzeldenker_innen praktisch verwandeln lässt – gesetzt den Fall bezahlte Arbeit nimmt nicht mehr Zeit in unserem Leben ein als 8 Stunden am Tag.

Discursive Picnic_8 Stunden sind kein Tag findet statt im Rahmen der Kampagne "/unvermittelt", von workstation, Ideenwerkstatt Berlin e. V. die von der österreichischen Künstlergruppe Wochenklausur gegründet wruden. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung /unvermittelt findet ein reenactment der Kartoffeldruckwerkstatt in der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst statt am 16. 01. 2008 – /unvermittelt - für einen Arbeitsbegriff jenseits von Überarbeitung und Mangel. Praxen, Techniken, Spielräume.






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UNWETTER presenta/presents/präsentiert
nell'ambito di/on the occasion of/anlässlich von SUMMER DRAFTS
20.07.08 Discursive Picnic_Prati del Talvera, 2 - 6 pm
v/noi siete/siamo invitati! portate/scambiate idee, cibo/bevande!
we/you are invited ! take/bring ideas, drinks/foods!
sie/wir sind eingeladen! bringen/nehmen Sie Ideen, Essen/Trinken mit!
Znerenti a: / on the topic:/ zum thema:
non/academic knowledge production
informal artistic and urban experimentation, self-organisation, casual aggregation and participation

UNWETTER è un collettivo di artisti/e, curatori/trici, attivisti/e e teorici/he che invitano a Picnic Discorsivi, sviluppando processi di scambio reciproco, combinando contesti disparati. UNWETTER sind KünstlerInnen, KuratorInnen, AktivistInnen und TheoretikerInnen, die als Basisformat für ihre Arbeit Diskursive Picknicks vorschlagen. Damit verbinden sie verschiedene Kontexte und stellen einen fortlaufenden Prozess des wechselseitigen Austausches her / UNWETTER is a collective of artists, curators, activist and theorists, that uses the Discursive Picnic as basic format to develop processes of reciprocal exchange. Lungomare Gallery / via Rafensteinweg 12, 39100 Bolzano-Bozen, Italy / T +39 0471 053636 /

www.summerdrafts.wordpress.com / www.lungomare.org / MANIFESTA7 / info{at}lungomare.org /
(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1216047731&day=1216504800 )

We/you are invited to social mental environmental
in the framework of a 3 day workshop-conference at the initiative for contemporary art and communication, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin we meet at the Interkultureller Garten Neukölln and Interkultureller Garten Friedrichhain-Kreuzberg und Rosa Rose.

July 30 – August 2, 2007

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http://www.sparwasserhq.de/indexENG.htm)
http://www.free-soil.org/index.php?post_id=681&cat_id_rel=21&feat=1

THE third annual alt.SPACE FESTIVAL, took place in July 2007 in and around London, in host venues as well as in public space. Within the context of an overall engagement with the notion of 'the revolutionary & the radical' the festival was an attempt to highlight the increasing number of self-organized collaborative structures that operate within the field of cultural production, particularly those that explicitly address issues of collectivity and collective learning as an alternative to institutional research and educational structures.

http://www.altspace.info/blog/archives/26

Discursive Picnic_Mauerpark, Berlin on the 6th of May from 12:00 – 16:00: Reclaim the commons! As part of a series of urban greening projects - rethinking public land-use, initiated by workstation Ideenwerkstatt Berllin e. V.

in cooperation with:
www.landnahme.de
www.mauerpark.info
www.kulturpflanzen.info
www.kunst-stoffe-berlin.de

Discursive Ringbahn_Picnic, Berlin, Picnic on Berlin's circle-line and its periferry. In cooperation with, amongst others. "C.CRED" [Collective CREative Dissent] now called "the alt.SPACE Network".

http://www.altspace.info

UNWETTER - Discursive Picnic_Emergency Room, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, 1 Oktober, 3 pm

Over the cause of several days UNWETTER kept arranging the news and objects that came floating into the EMERGENCY ROOM on its "research plane"

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(TRYOUT/RESEARCHPLANE)

NGBK hosts UNWETTER/UNWETTER hosts NGBK

On invitation of Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. UNWETTER presents the running exhibition project of NGBK at the zweiten BerlinerKunstsalon: Martha Rosler, Put on your Blue Genes and Gated Communities as well asUNWETTER-equipement in a temporary installation.

Please join Berlin based UNWETTER for Discursive Picnics with: FOOD/SHARING improvised events in the style of a potluck.You/we are invited to bring your own materials, food, ideas to shareand exchange and records to play.

Oct. 2, 3 pm: Discursive Picnic_New Meaning with New Meaning (Ebba Moi, Gry Ulrischsen) and Ingrid Book & CarinaHedén from Oslo.

With "The Field/O Campo" Ingrid Book & Carina Hedèn introduced urban agriculture as a potential form of a "future archive" at the 26th Bienal deSão Paulo . They will hand out the centerpiece of their Bienal-contribution, the newspaper "News from the Field".

The magazine NEW MEANING is a plattform for people who recently migrated to Norway to reflect their experiences. New Meaning launched their internet radio in September

Oct. 4, 8 pm, films from the UNWETTER-Box are presented as part of NGBK's daily program. Amongst others:

Lenka Clayton (Great Britain, 2005, 3.47 min, DVD, ) A video to "Nigella, George, Tony and Me" by Matthew Herbert from thealbum Plat du Jour: A tank rolls over a picnic blanket, upon which liesa reconstuction of the meal which had been prepared by British TV chef Nigela Lawson. It was originally prepared for the occaision of President Bush`s visit to England to thank Tony Blair for his support during the Iraq Conflict. As a backdrop is an image of the two warlords in the mud accompanied by a brutal Industiral-Techno soundtack."

No land! No house! No vote! Voices from the Housing Struggle Cape Town (Germany/SouthAfrica, 2005, 35 Min , DVD) This film features community activities in different townships in Cape town. Ella Haide prents this 'video newsletter' on the recent struggles that she produced in cooperation with Ali Vorbrugg and Indimedia South Africa.

ORANGE FARM WATER CRISIS (South Africa/Holland, 2003, 15 min, DVD ). Following the assassination of a 61 year old woman activist from the Orange Farm Crisis Committee, video activist from around the world expose the methods for water privatisation in Orange Farm, one of the poorest townships in South Africa. Inrtoduciton by one of the procuers: Amerigo.

Oct. 5, 3 pm: Discursive Picnic_workstation freifunk with Frauke Hehl, workstation Ideenwerkstatt,Berlin e. V. and Jürgen Neumann, from http://www.freifunk.net, which connects WLAN computers to a wireless-clowd, everybody can join.

workstation Ideenwerkstatt Berlin e.V. was founded as an intervention of the artist-collective WochenKlausur in the spring of 1998 and percieves itself as a plattform for societal and social experiments.

Glashaus der Arena, Eichenstr. 4, Berlin Stand 25

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Discursive Picnic_INTERVENING THE URBAN VOID, PSWR Amsterdam, Netherlands

You are, we are invited to join the DISCURSIVE PICINC at Public Space With A Roof - on the floor, on the blanket. Be a guest, be a host. IDEAS. FOOD. TALK. Bring, give, take, share : food + thought. UNWETTER is an international, Berlin based group of artists, curators, critics, theorists and activists. The most important goal of UNWETTER's work is knowledge production in and about the drastic world-changes brought about by the process of globalization. UNWETTER brings together artistic, theoretical and political practice. We operate in public space as well as in an art context. We cooperate with local initiatives and establish temporary situations (picnics, walks, camps, etc.), which connect strands of research and streams of knowledge. http://people.freenet.de/unwetter

PRESENTATIONS Universal Embassy Universal Embassy highlights the urgent situation of 'personnes sans papiers' (people without papers), and tries to help them overcome their social isolation. In 2001 the former Somalian Embassy in Brussels was squatted by 'personnes sans papiers' after Somalia lost state-status as a result of severe civil war in that country. Universal Embassy brings together individuals who suffer the discrimination of not belonging to a nation. Universal Embassy appoints its own diplomats and produces its own Universal passports. Mohamed Benzaouia is the first person to obtain a Belgian passport through the Universal Embassy, and he will tell his and the Embassy's story. Mohamed Benzaouia and Kobe Matthys presented the Universal Embassy, Brussels. http://www.universal-embassy.be

C.CRED: Ola Stahl, Kajsa Thelin and Carl Lindh What is a network? What are the potentials and limits of the network as a mode of artistic production? What are the possibilities, problems and limits encountered when working politically as an artist in the city? C.CRED CREative Dissident is a London-based artist collective that maps critical art-practices, initiatives and individuals in the counter/cartography project. In Intervening the Urban Void C.CRED used a mobile workstation to organize meetings in public spaces in the city where you could discuss, question and exchange ideas, accompanied by music, hot wine and screenings. The meetings were followed by journeys around the city based on sites identified during the discussion. These meetings and journeys then formed a part of our archive and the expanding counter/cartographies of the project. C-CRED presented the Counter Cartography Archive including the materials collected in Amsterdam.


http://alterfin.net/congress/sica/pswar5.html
http://pswar.org/projects/intervening-the-urban-void/events/part-3/

Discursive Camping _Dwelling on the move Liverpool Biennial Independants 04, Liverpool, England

bring, give, take, share food, thought, projects
5 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, in front of Blue Bluecoat Arts Center, School La_on nutrition
7 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, at Hamilton Sq., Birkenhead_on migration and transport
6 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, at Jamaica St./Greenland St._on gentrification
8 Oct, 2 - 5 pm, at Magnet Club, 43 Hardman St._on sound, systems and music

we offer an off road programm for everyone. After arriving at a Discursive Camping site, dwelling on the move unpacks and unfolds a setting between tents, carpets, camping furniture. Discursive Camping interacts with each specific site where it takes place, collecting materials and opinions and presenting, discussing and dealing with projects (in video, audio, paper or other formats). We invite local groups as well as contributions from other parts of the world. It's a potluck, where everyone is both guest and host at the same time. Together we will think, drink, eat, speak, play and work within the contingent meterological, social, cultural etc. conditions and influences that my occur. After a while things will be re-packed again and the caravan will move on to the next stop on the tour.

WE/YOU ARE INVITED Please join us

Press relase: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1096891572&day=1096927200

Discursive Camping_Dwelling on the move ­ Center of Contemporary Art ROSEUM, Malmø, Sweden including a night of sleeping in the ROSEUM entrance hall.

Gentrified_Discursive Picnic Malmø

In Malmö from the 13th to the 15th of August 2004 we will take up a model which was put into practice during the Gujarat conflict in New Delhi in 2002: For at least two weeks, day and night, artists, musicians, intellectuals opened up a location in a public space, next to an arterial road, for contributions of all kinds.

DISCURSIVE CAMPING - dwelling on the move, will set up its tents for the first time, in an off road situation in the city space of Malmø, from the 13th to 14th of August, and on the 15th in the Rooseum, the local Center of Contemporary Art. It will take up and continude the multiple threads and practices that emerged around the DISCURSIVE PICNICS held in Kassel, Vienna, Belgrade, Malmö, Berlin and Oslo since 2002.

The DISCURSIVE PICNIC as well as the DISCURSIVE CAMPING work as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. In Malmö we will invite local groups as well as contributions from other parts of the world. There will be space for presentations, concerts, video screenings, games - theoretical and practical, seductive and dry - whatever comes up. Our aim is to open up a situation for both spontaneous and thoroughly elaborated contributions where visitors, guests, or the public become actors, performers, hosts, then listeners and audience again, in continuously changing roles.

People need only arrive from different directions and unpack what they have brought along. We don't expect a sophisticated, harmonious order of events to level out difference. Perhaps what results will be more like a stumbling over spontaneously arising melodies, clashes and narratives. Blankets, food and drinks are always welcome.

WE/YOU ARE: INVITED! Please join us.

Examples of what will be presented within DISCURSIVE CAMPING: I LOVE MY INDIA: This video is set against the backdrop of genocide against the minority Indian Muslim community in the state of Gujarat (starting Feb 2002). It takes place (one year after the genocide) at a popular public recreational space, that of the 'balloon target shooting'. The text I LOVE MY INDIA acts as a catalyst and the board as an interface screen within the visual space, through which larger concepts of religion, national identity, self & community are mitigated. It's performance set within the recreation & violence in the everyday while drawing comments on the world's 'largest democracy'. The responses are sometimes hilarious and often apathetic. Culminating in a sense of loss, of a perceived nationhood and a love for home. (Tejal Shah video 10 min)

THE PAVILION - a movable installation as a space to dwell on THE PAVILION unfolds its space between flexible architectural elements which host material collections as connections to other theoretical, historical and geographical fields and seductive interfaces like the offer of free tea, table tennis or a party. An assemblage of the VIDEO ATLAS will be the focus of attention of the installations in Malmö. During her fieldtrips in the last years, Dorothee Albrecht collected video-statements from groups, projects, collectives, all exploring non-academic or marginal areas of knowledge production. These include small try-outs, soft and delicate attempts, convincing and very professional strategies to build up own methods and channels, to challenge hegemonic world views. (Dorothee Albrecht)

The Art(s) of HÔTE investigates the in/distinction of guest and host-states that are named by the French word l’hôte. (Duchamp: ‘a guest + a host = a ghost’). The project DRESS - THE SEASONS 1: Theory_to_go covers terrain from weatherconditions to processes of self-organization that come as fashions (Art of HÔTE-t-shirts, “I AM YOUR GHOST”-wearables, candy wraps).

Everything in the world is doomed to decompose The project compares the production, harvest and transport of imported and autochthonous vegetables and makes their decompostition processes visible. How do differences, produced within a globalised economy, (de)materialize? (Benno Gammerl)

A video work that will document the new flourishing of small scale farming in Berlin. It can be seen as an example of a world wide phenomenon of initiatives dealing with the economic crisis by being productive and forming social networks as well as building a public platform for cultural integration and exchange. (Ulrike Solbrig)

Time to Market / Das Wetter erklären The project explores methods for the valuation of knowledge and information in the capitalist society. The re-organisation of knowledge in the global knowledge-based economy and its understanding of value-production: wealth of nations/weather of nations. (Jole Wilcke)

List of the participants: Dorothee Albrecht, Mattias Arvastsson, Philipp Ekardt, Benno Gammerl, Anke Haarmann, Farida Heuck, Andrea Melloni, Emmanuel Nyberg, Miguel Rothschild, Simon Sheikh, Ira Schneider, Tejal Shah, David Sickinger, Ulrike Solbrig, Jole Wilcke, Christine Wolfe, Elena Zanichelli and further people and groups from Malmö and its surroundings.








Spontaneous leep over in the entrance hall of the ROSEUM

"Discourse and Slumber Parties", in: New York Arts Magazine;
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Discursive Picnic_Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Discursive Picnic_Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin North invited by Sparwasser HQ, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art , 3 April 2004, Berlin, Germany

From September 28th – 30th, Unwetter will be in G. U. N.. The opening reception will be held on Sunday September 28th at 3 pm. with a Discursive Picnic, to which we invite all to bring food and refreshments. It will be followed by a film evening.

On Monday you are welcome to join us at 3 pm for an Unwetter Walk_Oslo.
Under the term Unwetter artists, activists and theorists work together at non-academic knowledge production. The catalyst for this was the one year long Ideas Lab and Thinking and Doing Documenta, Sarat Maharaj offered as part of his guest professorship tenure at Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2001 and 2002. Like an „Unwetter“, global upheavals swirl around the knowledge systems that previously where in place. This opens up spaces that we stroll through and investigate. Interrelationships between individuals, projects, ideas and material of all kinds are worked on in an experimental mode. In shifting formations, from one, to five, to one hundred (networks), we proceed through practical and theoretical means. Different project threads develop. The resulting material is collected in boxes.

The basic format of Unwetter is the Discursive Picnic which connects different contexts into an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. the Discursive Picnic functions as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. We arrive, we unpack the Unwetter-Thermobox, we exchange, alter, repack and move on in different directions, to meet somewhere again.

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UNWETTER_Summer-of-2002-Tour:

- Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
- Real Presence, Museum of 25th May (Museum of National History of Yugoslavia),
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Discursive Picnic_Belgrade