Open Platform
The primary purpose of the Open Platform events is to break down the limits and barriers caused by conventional exhibition formats, and challenge the discursive spaces used for art. We want to open up the HKW, this established international arts venue, to the fringes of production, exploring movement, communication and aesthetics in culture, becoming that space that Boris Groys claims to be the distinct space of contemporary art, “in which multitudes can view themselves” and which “assists [us] in reflecting upon [our] own condition”.
It is thus important that this shared space encapsulates producers whose work and research takes place outside of the art world, such as in the fields of science, industry or commerce.
Presentations that indulge the theme of Cartography and Migration in the Networked Space will take the form of talks, walks, performances, guided tours, posters, interviews and discussions. For one weekend the Open Platform will scatter a generous spread of ideas exploring aesthetics, cultural theory, politics, science and technology. Such ideas will be served in bite-sized chunks, making them easier to swallow and digest in the time available.
While it will be left to other participants and spectators to fill in the holes and to bridge the gaps of thought in what will be a creative process of discussion, the physical traces of these connections and elaborations will be gathered by the Open Platform team and implanted into the discussion space in an accumulative process of retrieval.
Even if temporary, the Tracing Mobility Open Platform will nevertheless become, as defined in Marc Augé’s Non-Places, an anthropological place, a transition space but one in which culture is fleetingly frozen for our consumption. The collaborative mind map formed will feed the process and become the sum of our conjoined awareness of what movement through networked space means.
The Open Platform is there for anyone with something to say on the theme. If you missed applying for the Open Platform, then come in and sign up for the Open Hour to make your contribution alongside artists, engineers and entrepreneurs.
26 Nov 2011
3pm – 7pm Open Platform: Scheduled events
27 Nov 2011
2pm – 07.30pm Open Platform: Scheduled events
5pm – 6pm Open Plaform: Open Hour
Photo: Stefan-Riebel – Dedication Pieces
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