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Workshop I:


Divided Macroland - CrossChecking E and U – Where are we?
Monday 22nd November to Tuesday 7th December 2004
in WUK, (Werkstätten und Kulturhaus) Big Project Space


A performative discussion and confrontation of different international
and regional art contexts, and a reflection about the development of
current space and art concepts, and of those to come.


  • An urban situation will be simulated, one in which, as in every day life, a crossfire of aesthetics is going on.
  • Over ten days individuals and groups will construct 14 territories
    as living, working and exhibition spaces.
  • A wooden footbridge system over 500 square meters will divide the different territories and functions, and will operate like a traffic route and line of communication between the different spaces.
  • The medium is installation, sculpture, applied design, production, performance and interactive media.
  • A kind of transparent, staged studio setting, where the particular territories demand different codes of behavior and use from the visitors and also gives a right to hospitality and a right of asylum for visitors and other artists.
  • On the sixth day the territories change according to a random function and the participants are confronted with the relics of their forerunners, which they can adapt, if parts are not under monumental protection.
  • Comland is about the refraction and the impact of the processes in digital media and through internet, which runs in the analog construct of MAKROLAND. The situation will be reflected and transmitted daily by internet and video conferences via CU SEE ME. compare products installable on the website seriouspop.com: GRUF-Spaces (group area with adapted workflow); PloneforArtists/Railroad (Audio/Video-Handling); PloneBlog (Blog-Werkzeug), Plone AT Audio (automatized MP3-Management); Plone Gazette (Newsletter tool). (dependent on resources)

Mike Hentz (USA/D): born 1954 in New Jersey, Irvington, is a musicion, actor, sculptor, photographer, designer, media installation and performance artist and teacher. Founder of music performance groups PADLT NOIDLT and MINUS DELTA t. Visiting professor at the HfBK Hamburg (per pro for Sigmar Polke). 1980 – 84: THE BANGKOK- PROJEKT of MINUS DELTA t, Journey, expedition and transport of a 5 1/2 ton granite stone through Jugoslawia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, Nepal and India (with B. Hoffann and K. Dudesek, amongst others). 1992: PIAZZA VIRTUALE at DOCUMENTA 8 with VAN GOGH TV, three months of interactive live TV broadcasting on 3sat. 1997: MACROLAND Vienna. Since 2003 professor for expansion at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Numerous participations at festivals and visiting professorships.


Richard Fajnor (CZ): born 1965 in Slovakia; 1989-94 studies art and psychology, University of Nitra, SK; 1994-2002 university teaching position in the department of Conceptual Trends and Video/Multimedia, Technical University, Brünn; since 2000 university teaching position, New Media School, Akademy of Fine Arts, Prague; 2002 head of department for Multimedia, faculty Fine Arts, TU Brünn; 1994-2000 university teaching position Performative Arts, Akademy of Music and Performative Arts, Brünn; awards and scholarships: 1998 scholarship, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, ArtsLink 98, CEC; 2000 visiting teaching position, Akademia likovnych umjetnosrti, Zagreb, CEEPUS; single exhibitions (selected), 1998 Chicago/USA: Sentimental bibliography; 2001 Kosice/SK: Marginal art; 2001 Bratislava:Omenklatura.; group exhibitions (extract) 2002 Berlin: Art Forum; 2003 Prag:281m?; 2003 Bratislava: Permanent romanticism; 2003 Graz: Balkan konsulat; 2003 Künstlerhaus Wien: Stadt in Sicht. Numerous video productions, festival participations and workshop directions.





Workshop II:


MENTAL ESCORT / Phase I
Monday 22nd November to Wednesday 1st December 2004
Tutors: Thomas J. Jelinek (A) + Alexander Nikolic (A)


Phase 1: Research

Each Student searches a person living in Vienna, who can be called migrant of th 2nd or 3rd generation and who also perceive her/himself in such a way. Within the scope of one week this person will be interviewed, accompagnied, observed and documented with basic video equipment, so that a 24 hours daily routine can be presented in a short video feature (not longer than 15 minutes). Therefore a short written study, may be enriched with images and outlines, should document the collected facts. Questions concerning work and place of employment, favorite places in Vienna, circle of friends, arrangement of the free time, perspectives towards live and working conditions should be discussed in the study. The figuration of the video clips can be an independent artistic work.



Phase 2: Performing studies
 Starting from the basic theme of the project Serious Pop, selected texts (song lyrics) of the headed Pop- and Rock-groups, which worked or work with totalitarian structures or forms, will be presented by the coaching team.

A) Out of those the students choose conjointly. The selection process will be documented and the the group have to give reasons for the criteria of the choice of the definite teh definite text.

B) The students form small groups of 3 to 6 persons. These groups have the task to develop a performance or performance orientated installation in the length of 10 to 15 minutes out of the chosen song text within the scope of 2 weeks. The development process will be accompagnied by the producer Thomas J. Jelinek, as coaching director, and by Alexander Nikolic. The coaching director can consult expert teachers and coaches for intensified trainings and project orientated workshops (speech coach, body- and dance coach/choreographer, media experts, etc.).

C) The developed performances will be presented and recorded on one or several evenings.


Phase 3: Associated project
Starting form the results and experiences of the works in phase one and two the students develop a free work from the original material which associatively combines the two phases.

The process of formulation is accompanied and coached by Thomas J. Jelinek and Alexander Nikolic. The students can work in the groups accumulated in phase two, in other constellations or individually. The coaches are avaliable for technical troubleshooting.

The results of the last phase of the work are presented to a broad audience and on a large scale.



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