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The second large-scale project of Tou Works, TW2 LABORATORY POLYMORPHIC is presented as an exhibition in the Beer halls at Tou Scene. Artists: The Miller and McAfee Press (UK), Robert Johansson (S), Priya Mistry (UK), Galen Riley (UK). Curators: Kenneth Varpe (NO) and Dallas Seitz (CA). Period: 15 - 30 NOV, Beer Halls. Open FRI/SAT/SUN 12-18
TW2 - Laboratory polymorphic
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - Deadline: June 09, 2008Tou Works (TW) is a series of new-art-productions at Tou Scene, Center for Contemporary Arts, Stavanger, Norway. The project is supported and in collaboration with Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture.
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The initial incentive behind TW2 Laboratory Polymorphic is to explore social art-making processes through discussions on the ideas of deviation and democracy in collaborative creativity.
That which is democratically governed typically represents the majority. Majority makes for minority, which implies deviation. Although deviation is a relative denomination subject to constant redefinition, people has throughout history established different methods to aid them in their efforts to establish standards, construct normality - and limitations as to what is tolerated within or falls outside of social norms.
By the employment of the Darwin Tree format (phylogenetic) to the overall structure of the project, TW2 hopes to imbed within it new forms of project development.
TW2 consists of 2 laboratories at Tou Scene, Stavanger; working sessions devised to place participants and their working processes in anomalous and challenging environments.
TW2 is hosted by Kenneth Varpe (Stavanger/Copenhagen) and Dallas Seitz (London/Canada).
LAB#1
08/09 - 14/09
The first laboratory is developed by Kenneth Varpe and Dallas Seitz, and cover Physical, Theoretical and Artistic practice.
Outside guests or specialists in their fields participate in this lab, for example a guest lecturer from the field of deviant behavioral sciences, and it may be opened up to the public.
LAB#2
10/11 - 16/11
The second and final laboratory will be partially developed by the participants in response to the first lab, and become new branches to the tree structure, which may also give way for possible collaboration. This lab may also include guests or specialists depending on the subject and may have the possibility of public involvement.
It should be noted that with all the labs the Tou Scene program of events and exhibitions may be incorporated.
The involvement of both local and international participants will use Stavanger Cultural Capital of Europe 2008 as a backdrop for growth of this tree. The whole polymorphic process and all its branches of submission process, laboratories, discussions and collaborations will come together and congregate a web of questioning and self reflexive pathways, juxtaposing itself to, and maybe deviating from, conventional art-making structures.
Call for SUBMISSIONS:
Applicants are asked to submit one A4 drawing (widely interpreted; as a tool for or a consequence of mental activity, initiating thought, idea-map, text based, storyboard etc.) and curriculum vitae only. All the submitted drawings will in some way play a role as a tool for participants to return to throughout the project, and may influence the content and layout of the laboratories. They will also be implemented in the outcome of the second and final laboratory; whether this is an exhibition, publication, media or performance based product.
The call is open to all disciplines, training, and careers. From the applicants seven participants will be chosen.
Deadline for proposals: June 09, 2008
PRACTICAL:
Travel and accommodation will be covered. You will also receive payment for attended laboratories, €125 (NOK 1000) per day.
A4 drawing and CV are to be sent to:
Tou Scene
C/o TW2
Postboks 1590
4093 Stavanger, Norway
Questions may be forwarded to geir [at] touscene [dot] com
Please note that submitted material will not be returned, and will be included in the project whether the artist is selected to participate in the laboratories or not.
Tou Works (TW) is a series of new-art-productions at Tou Scene, Center for Contemporary Arts, Stavanger, Norway. The project is supported and in collaboration with Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture.
Work group: Nils Henrik Asheim, Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh, Kenneth Varpe, Hege Tapio.
Producer: Geir Lindahl.
Kenneth Varpe de- and reconstructs personal memories, his own and others to raise questions of how stories are created and maintained, affected or unaffected by others. A video showing the faces of the other artists in the group slowly morphing into eachother, creates an illusion of one person altering features, gender and age.
Dallas Seitz´s work takes many forms utilizing video, sculpture, photography and drawing. Conceptual in its approach Seitz points to the museum or exhibition space as a place of collecting, research, colonization and memory both personal and political. For TW2 new works were realized using Norway as a starting point.
The TW2 artists walked the 4444 steps from Florli to hilltop or from fjord to 740ft. Galen Riley carried the potatoes for the evening meal. For the TW2 exhibition she has reassembled this event most literally by making a bolus of 4444 potatoes, a process that insisted on as many potato-laden steps as the first event.
The potato grows underground and has been grown in space. Galen has installed five potato-sack trees, which hang from the ceiling and climbing rope coils that spring from the ground.
whatsthebigmistry has created an installation where she conciders the architecture, the capacity of the materials of its construction, its functionality and all its features and quirks.
She invites the viewer to orientate themselves through the space, where they might undergo discoveries, a change in perspective.
Robert Johanssons work responds to the space, where he has been scratching, sand papering, rubbing, drawing, and waxing the walls and ceiling as if to bring out pictures from them, following traces already there and exaggerating features.
The Miller and McAfee Press are presenting two new audio pieces and one collaboration with Dallas Seitz. For their first piece a song was selected by the artists, who cannot read or speak Norwegian, from a book of old Norse folk songs found in a Stavanger charity shop, Their performance of the song begins with one voice that sings with uncertainty and stumbles over notes and pronunciations.
Tou Works is a series of new art productions at Tou Scene. The project starts in 2008 in collaboration with Stavanger2008 European Capital of Culture.
Local, regional and international artists meet in Stavanger to develop collaborative projects.
The two first projects TW1 and TW2 are shown to the public in 2008.
SEEDS are projects in small format.
The aim is to make Tou Works a permanent platform for artistic production after 2008 - a production laboratory at Tou Scene.
Tou Works artistic board:
Nils Henrik Asheim, Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh, Kenneth Varpe, Jon Øivind Eggesbø.
Producer:
geir [at] touscene [dot] com
