Snowball Cultural Productions

In conjunction with the launch of the new ‘Lounge’ at Konstepidemin, artist Josefina Posch will present her project {crowdsourced} Noir/Love Beyond Recognition and invite the public to participate in the workshops that will take place during the spring and summer of 2012. For more information go to Konstepidemin or contact us.

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Pid web gallery´s current exhibiting artist Mike blackman is visiting from the UK and will presnet his work - Bird on the Wire

(crowdsourced) NOIR / Love Beyond Recognition är ett process baserat verk av Josefina Posch bestående av en skulpturell installation och en internetbaserad live–stream–projektion.

Båda delarnas tillkomst är baserade på s.k crowdsourcing. Konceptet beror på det faktum att då det är öppet för alla att bidra, drar det till sig de som är mest lämpade att utföra uppgifterna, lösa komplexa problem och bidra med de mest relevanta och nytänkande idéerna.

Under våren och sommaren kommer allmänheten att kunna delta i skapandet av verket genom olika workshops. Mer information och anmälan till dessa kommer finnas på hemsidan www.crowdsourcednoir.org

Bird on a wire

Bird on the Wire är ett web baserat konstverk av den engelske konstnären och ny media utvecklaren Mike Blackman som i verklig tid lyssnar på ‘tweets’ innehållande ett förutbestämt ord, från ett specifik geografiskt område.

När ett tweet som innehåller det ordet fångas upp, omvandlar Bird on a Wire hela tweetet, tecken för tecken, till näcktergalssång. Detta enkla användargränssnitt möjliggör det för galleri besökaren att lyssna på fågelsången och se texterna från tweeten allteftersom de behandlas på konsollen.

Till utställningen på pid web gallery for moving art and sound, lyssnar Bird on the Wire efter ordet ‘spring’ inom en radie av 2000 km från Sveriges centrum.

Now showing at the Pid Gallery for Moving Art and Sound

at Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden

Nov 18th – Dec 18th, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, November 18th 6-9pm
Galleri Box
Kastellgatan 10
Gothenburg, Sweden

Time Capsule

Time Capsule is a presentation of Chinese artist Lu Pingyuan’s work process during his stay in Gothenburg as IASPIS fellow. In order to explore new ways of exhibition production and to remove himself from the standard practices of showing exhibitions of contemporary art in China today, Lu has chosen to present his work in the form of models even though the work has been created in full scale. The artist sees the gallery space as a medical capsule where the art becomes the active ingredient and the space the inactive vessel – the capsule. This specific capsule is a slice of time from his stay in Sweden and Lu’s medicine that helps him to achieve calmness. The exhibition orbits round subjects such as; competition within the art world and the different rules this game has in China and the Western world, artists frustration over always being pressured for innovation and originality and investigates the relationship between communist ideology and contemporary art.

Lu Pingyuan b. 1984, Zhejiang, China is a graduate from Shanghai Institute of Design China Academy of Art who now lives and works in Shanghai. His solo exhibitions and several group shows include: ”Autonomous breathing” in M50 Creative Space, Shanghai (2010). The Youth Sale Store, Peking Fine Arts, Beijing (2010), DDM warehouse space, Shanghai (2009): Art Economies beyond Pattern Recognition, Osage Gallery, Shanghai (2009): KÅT A4 Galleri Box, Gothenburg (2009): Xiaozhizuo no. 8, Zhenda MOMA (2009): Xiaozhizuo no. 5, Shopping Gallery Shanghai (2008)

With the support of IASPIS and The Mommy Foundation. Thanks to Louise Lam for interpreting.

As one of the jurors for the selection I must say that there were plenty of risktaking and innovative projects submitted from unexpected places around the world and I am happy to announce that the apexart Francise in 2012 will be in Mexico City curated by  Jaya Kloara Brekke and Julio Salazar and in Johannesburg  curated by Katharina Rohde.

For more information go to apexart

The artist included in the video screening are: Jordan Baseman (UK), Brice Dellsperger (FRA), Magdalena Dziurlikowska (PL/SE), Frida Franker (SE), Eliana Ivarsdotter Haddad (SE), Richard Phillips (US), Eszter Szabó (HU).

For detailed information on the program go here.