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rongwrong https://rongwrong.org rongwrong Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:22:24 +0000 https://rongwrong.org en The Garden of Refusal https://rongwrong.org/The-Garden-of-Refusal https://rongwrong.org/following/rongwrong.org/The-Garden-of-Refusal Mon, 27 Mar 2017 08:22:24 +0000 rongwrong 12625385 body {background-image: url(https://payload201.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/6331384/Capture-decran-2017-01-31-a-12.45.53_349.png); background-repeat: no-repeat;} a talk by Alhena Katsof Sunday March 19th, 3-5pm at RONGWRONG Much as a twig might receive sap from a living plant if inserted into the slit of a trunk or stem correctly, this talk is grafted from one onto another, to become new again. Initially formed as a body of research about gardens, death and becoming, Alhena Katsof continues to draw inspiration from the artist Hannah Höch’s material output and her activities during the Third Reich, which include growing plants prohibited by Nazi horticulturalists while simultaneously burying in her garden Dada photomontages banned by the fascist regime. At Rongwrong, we will explore these fugitive, process-oriented events and their relevance today, as artworks and as modes of creative resistance in our troubled, authoritarian times. Hannah Höch was a central figure during Alhena Katsof’s studies at the Glasgow School of Art, where Katsof began as a collage artist and emerged as an organizer of exhibitions. Katsof first presented material about Höch at the Center for Experimental Lectures in 2013. She co-authored, with Dana Yahalomi, Solution 263: Double Agent, as part of the Solution Series edited by Ingo Neirmann (Sternberg Press, 2015). Her essay about the legendary exhibition Times Square Show (1980) is in the anthology The Artist As Curator, edited by Elena Filipovic (Mousse Publishing, 2017). Katsof is part-time faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. NOTE: Please RSVP via info@rongwrong.org Coming Up: The Garden of Refusal takes place as part of Rongwrongs public program For Fans and Scholars Alike, departing from the exhibition ‘All Heal (Valerian)’ and each time highlighting one aspect of this gathering of works and voices. a talk by Alhena Katsof Sunday March 19th, 3-5pm at RONGWRONG Much as a twig might receive sap from a living plant if inserted into the slit of a trunk or... This Rabbit looks to the left: Chocolate Scrying https://rongwrong.org/This-Rabbit-looks-to-the-left-Chocolate-Scrying https://rongwrong.org/following/rongwrong.org/This-Rabbit-looks-to-the-left-Chocolate-Scrying Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:57:53 +0000 rongwrong 8727319 12.10.2014 a performative gathering by Milena Bonila and Luisa Ungar <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/8727319/MILENAunnamed.jpg" width="489" height="638" width_o="489" height_o="638" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/8727319/MILENAunnamed_o.jpg" data-mid="47082855" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (489) — 489 × 638"/> After drinking, while moving the cup counter clockwise, you form seven circles around a question that could be concrete or atmospheric. During that time the liquid is shaping itself. After leaving the cup upside down, chocolate leftovers start to occupy their place, spirals of meaning show up and hide; their inapprehensible character might play around fears, affections and expectations, or with the idea that there is a future and there was a past. Hot chocolate will leave the necessary stains for images to turn into visions and conversation. If the Cacao Allows it*** 12.10.2014 a performative gathering by Milena Bonila and Luisa Ungar After drinking, while moving the cup counter clockwise, you form seven circles around a... SoL - Esther Leslie https://rongwrong.org/SoL-Esther-Leslie https://rongwrong.org/following/rongwrong.org/SoL-Esther-Leslie Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:23:21 +0000 rongwrong 7273890 Monday 10th of February, 6.30pm An evening with Esther Leslie <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/7273890/WB.jpg" width="300" height="365" width_o="300" height_o="365" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/7273890/WB_o.jpg" data-mid="39216881" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (300) — 300 × 365"/> Throughout her research and publications Esther Leslie has returned again and again to Walter Benjamin, tracing and ‘challenging stereotypical images of Benjamin as the tragic and lonely intellectual figure’; as well as connecting to the social, political and economic context of the post WWI Germany. While at the break of the War Benjamin was quite young and had just written “The Metaphysics of Youth”, in the aftermath of the war many of his early notions found a new maturation. In her recent research, Esther Leslie connects Benjamin’s writings to the alteration of the notion of experience (Erlebnis) after the First World War, now a hundred years ago. How can shifts of language still relate to different contemporaneities? How can the pulverisation of experience, as in the case of war, be passed down from mouth to ear onto different generations? We invite Esther Leslie to talk about her recent research, the importance of youth movements at the break of the Great War as well as about her long involvement with the writings of Walter Benjamin. Esther Leslie is professor in political aesthetics at Birkbeck University of London and has written extensively about Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, a.o. in: ‘Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism’ (Pluto, 2000); ‘Walter Benjamin’ (Reaktion, 2007); and her translation of ‘Walter Benjamin: The Archives’ (Unkant, 2007). Other research interests include the poetics of science, European literary and visual modernism and avant-gardes, animation, colour and madness. Besides, she is an editor of the magazines ‘Historical Materialism: Research in critical Marxist Theory’; Radical Philosophy’ and ‘Revolutionary History’. Based upon her research on animation history (‘Hollywood Flatalnds, Animation, Critical Theory and the Avant Garde’ (Verso, 2002)), Leslie has recently written on contemporary artists such as Ed Atkins and Jordan Wolfson. She is also a contributor for Afterall Journal. Her publications have been quite important for our program here at rongwrong. - This conversation takes place within the context of the ongoing program ‘School of Life: Things we do not learn in school’ and 'The Metaphysics of Youth' and is generously supported by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst. - <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/7273890/logo-afk_o.gif" width="284" height="85" width_o="284" height_o="85" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/7273890/logo-afk_o_o.gif" data-mid="39217024" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (284) — 284 × 85"/> Monday 10th of February, 6.30pm An evening with Esther Leslie Throughout her research and publications Esther Leslie has returned again and again to Walter... Sol - Övül Ö. Durmusoglu https://rongwrong.org/Sol-Ovul-O-Durmusoglu https://rongwrong.org/following/rongwrong.org/Sol-Ovul-O-Durmusoglu Wed, 27 Nov 2013 07:57:22 +0000 rongwrong 6822205 Copycats, Counter Personas, Fake Encounters A talk with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu 16.11.2013 <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/6822205/OVUL-RW.png" width="278" height="253" width_o="278" height_o="253" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/6822205/OVUL-RW_o.png" data-mid="36831038" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (278) — 278 × 253"/> ~ Övül Ö. Durmusoglu speaks about the ludic potential of social media communication that was unleashed during the Gezi summer in Turkey and how this potential escalated into a dangerous game with counter responses. To be modern in Turkey has always meant to copy and adapt to given political and social models. The Gezi summer was a moment where a generation decided to break these habitual copycat codes. Therefore it was not surprising to see them claiming their voice to be heard via unexpected humourous tools and slogans.The current 'ancient regime' translated the modern habits to a doubling communication: while grey paint 'cleaned' the walls, spamming and trolling became handy ways to disinform. Ö.Ö.D. ~ Övül Ö. Durmusoglu is a curator and writer living between Berlin and Istanbul. As a Goethe Institute fellow, she organized several programs at Maybe Education and Public Programs in dOCUMENTA(13). Durmusoglu also curated Sofia Contemporary 2013, which took place in different locations of Sofia with the title “Near, Closer, Together: Exercises for a Common Ground”. She has been one of the curatorial collaborators of 13th International Istanbul Biennial. Copycats, Counter Personas, Fake Encounters A talk with Övül Ö. Durmusoglu 16.11.2013 ~ Övül Ö. Durmusoglu speaks about the ludic potential of social media com... SCHOOL OF LIFE - things we don't learn in school https://rongwrong.org/SCHOOL-OF-LIFE-things-we-don-t-learn-in-school https://rongwrong.org/following/rongwrong.org/SCHOOL-OF-LIFE-things-we-don-t-learn-in-school Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:31:28 +0000 rongwrong 3854281 An Ongoing RW talk ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/Capture decran 2013-06-04 a 12.36.16.png" width="500" height="382" width_o="529" height_o="404" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/Capture decran 2013-06-04 a 12.36.16_o.png" data-mid="31049939" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 — 529 × 404"data-hi-res="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/Capture decran 2013-06-04 a 12.36.16_o.png" /> A series of intimate discussions with artists, writers and special guests. Throughout the months of March and April 2012 we have wished to address the intrinsic relations between the quotidian, the inner self and more abstract realms as ethics, politics and aesthetics. Our recurrent questions, through the last months, have often concerned the constant friction between the inner self and the theoretical, professional and artistic practices that describe and inscribe us in daily life. In a concealed veil the everyday embraces an ever-changing map of one’s life – with its detours, mountains and rivers, memories and historical developments. How does it feel like to navigate within those? Throughout the years many attempts have been made to connect the pleasures and frustrations of the quotidian to the practice of intellectual and artistic thinking. We have come together at Rongwrong to explore topics as diverse as: facing the coming of old age, visually representing one’s own life, struggling between fiction and reality… We discuss these matters together with you in a modest attempt to approach the quotidian within the political, the poetical and the performative aspects of life. Our Guests in 2012: Franco Berardi (Bifo), A.A. Bronson, Cathy Haynes, Vincenzo Latronico,Louwrien Wijers, Banu Cennetoglu and Philippine Hoegen, Jennifer Teets and Paolo Thorsen-Nagel. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Follow our 2013 talks by subscribing to our mailing list : info@rongwrong.og ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ‘The School of Life: Things We Do Not Learn in School’ is made possible with the generous support of the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunsten and in collaboration with The Gerrit Rietveld Academie Studium Generale. <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/AFK logo mini.png" width="172" height="59" width_o="172" height_o="59" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/AFK logo mini_o.png" data-mid="31049977" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (172) — 172 × 59"/> <img src="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/Capture decran 2013-06-04 a 12.42.10.png" width="162" height="34" width_o="162" height_o="34" src_o="https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/8/268649/3854281/Capture decran 2013-06-04 a 12.42.10_o.png" data-mid="31050068" border="0" align="left" data-title="500 (162) — 162 × 34"/> An Ongoing RW talk ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A series of intimate discussions with artists, writers and special guests. Throughout the months of March and April 2012 we have...