ORIGINALFASSUNG Issue #50:Kirsten Forkert // Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2006   // 8.00 pm   // free admission   // GENERAL PUBLIC   Schoenhauser Allee 167 c   U-Bahn Senefelder Platz     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////   Kirsten Forkert Performance and Artist talk   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////   Kirsten Forkert is an artist, writer and organizer. Her work, which takes the form of performances, installations and net art projects, explores the effects of neoliberalism on our subjective experience, and also how we might imagine and enact resistance. She was also a union activist for two years. Kirsten is currently based in New York, where she is participating in the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is also a volunteer at Bluestockings Radical Bookstore and Democracy Now, and a contributing editor for FUSE magazine, a Canadian publication on culture and politics. She is currently working on a net art project questioning the political role of the intellectual and the artist in relation to 'white collar' definitions of work, which can be viewed at www.artwurl.org . She recently presented papers at the CAA conference in Boston and Left Forum in NYC, which engaged with issues such as the commercialization of arts education, and the role of the arts in the service economy.   OPEN READING SESSION: AN EXPERIMENT IN CONTINUITY   This evening's performance will be a collective reading session. You are invited to bring texts you would like to read aloud and which you feel make an important commentary on the the present political situation, but which were written during another time—recently or long ago. They can take the form of journalism, fiction, theory, etc. We will read the texts together, maybe swap them, and then have a discussion about the relationship between then and now.   The text you bring can be one you feel showed incredible foresight: that predicted the current situation with surprising accuracy. They can also be texts you disagree with—texts you feel reveal ideologies that are still very prevalent today, attitudes that you feel should really have changed but haven't.   I see the act of reading aloud as performance in its barest and most basic sense: of speaking someone else's words and negotiating how much we identify or don't identify with them.   If you are bringing a text longer than 2 single space pages, please choose excerpts to read aloud.   For further information on Kirsten Forkerts work:   http://www.visibleartactivity.com/kirsten/knowledgeeconomy.htm http://www.visibleartactivity.com/kirsten/publicservices.htm http://glowlab.com/lab/artist_project.php?project_id=98&artist_id=70 http://www.oakvillegalleries.com/sitescope/sitescope_kirsten/     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////     ORIGINALFASSUNG, a series of talks and discussions based on an understanding of collaboration rather than competition motivated by the curiosity of strangers or visitors to tap into different fields, such as science, music, architecture, art, dance, choreography, theater, film, politics, design, media, economics, journalism. ORIGINALFASSUNG is a project by Geoff Garrison, Heimo Lattner, Oliver Baurhenn, Cecile Belmont and Angelika Middendorf.     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////       GENERAL PUBLIC   Projektraum   www.generalpublic.de       ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////     > November 21, 2006   <- Back to: Originalfassung
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