TOTAL GLOBALISM – Tactical networked cognitivism
1 December – 15 December 2015
P74 Gallery, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 1, Ljubljana
Curated by: dr. Miško Šuvaković
You are cordially invited to the opening of the exhibition TOTAL GLOBALISM – Tactical networked cognitivism by Provisional SALTA Ensemble on Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 20.00 at the P74 Gallery in Ljubljana.
Provisional SALTA Ensemble, Water Titled
TOTAL GLOBALISM – Tactical networked cognitivism
Provisional SALTA Ensemble
The conceptual international intermedia collective PROVISIONAL SALTA ENSEMBLE was founded around the agreement that its members communicate only with each other and that its production comes into being only at a distance and exclusively with the assistance of online tools and e-mail. The protocol of the group’s work is determined by four basic rules:
– the members of the group never meet in person
– communication among members takes place only online
– the basic impulse for projects comes from the curator Miško Šuvaković and the five-member group develops the project without the participation of the curator
– all results of the project are created with the help of tools of mass digital technology
The project in P74 Gallery presents three of the conceptually most elaborate projects of the group:
1. The Gaze of the Curator – Communication Networks, 2008–2010
2. The Subconscious of the Museum and the Logic of Surplus Value
3. Fascinations with Water (Beirut, Munich, Helsinki, Kalingrad
The aim of the exhibited project is to show how the bodies of five artists, who are geographically separated from one another, can resolve a problem that can be summed up with the phrase “object oriented mind” together using computer programs and e-mail, while being passively monitored by the curator. In doing so, the concept specifies three aspects: the gaze, the subconscious and fascination.
The project took place gradually, in four basic phases: the first phase represents the initial communication (the delivering of instructions) between the curator and the performers. Next is the phase of creation – a process of long intensive communication among the artists. In the third phase, the curator received the basic parameters for the layout and installation of the project in the gallery space. The exchange process was carried out much like in so-called closed communities: controlled and directed, according to precisely determined codes and rules.
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About the group
The production platform or Provisional Salta Ensemble (PSE) was created in 2008 through an online correspondence among the artists Benjamin Brandt (Berlin), Cristiano arvizo (Buenos Aires), Mazin Labaky (Beirut), Min Laing (Beijing) and Nenad Josif (Belgrade).The mediator in communication among these five artists is the curator, art theorist and doctor of aesthetics dr. Miško Šuvaković. He personally knows Mazin Labaky from childhood, when their fathers worked on collaborative projects in Kuwait in the 1960s. Labaky studied with Cristiano Carvizo at MIT in Cambridge (USA) in the mid-1970s. Carvizo worked on a series of projects connected with industrial design with Benjamin Brandt and Nenad Josifo at AEG in the late 1980s. The sister of Nenad Josif, Vera Josif, lives with Min Laing in Beijing, where he is studying for his doctorate in digital design.
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About the curator
Miško Šuvaković is an internationally renowned theorist, lecturer, writer and curator as well as one of the best authorities of contemporary arts in the region. He is an honorary member of the Slovene Society of Aesthetics. He received his PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Arts in Belgrade and is employed as a full professor at the Faculty of Music Arts. He lectures on the theory of art in the interdisciplinary post-graduate study at the University of Arts in Belgrade.
He was an active as a member of the conceptual group Grupe 143 (1975–1980), editor of the independent journal for theory Mentalni prostor [Mental space] (Belgrade, 1982–1987), a member of the editorial boards of the journals Transkatalog (Novi Sad, 1995–1998) andTeorija koja Hoda [Walking Theory](Belgrade, since 2001).
He has published a number of books, among them: Pas Tout (Buffalo, 1994); Prolegomena za analitičku estetiku (Novi Sad, 1995); Postmoderna (Belgrade, 1995); Asimetrični drugi (Novi Sad, 1996); Estetika apstraktnog slikarstva (Belgrade, 1998); Pojmovnik moderne i postmoderne likovne umetnosti i teorije posle 1950 (Belgrade and Novi Sad, 1999); Paragrami tela / figure (Belgrade, 2001); Anatomija angelova (Ljubljana, 2001); Figura, askeza in perverzija (Koper, 2001); Martek – Fatalne figure umjetnika – Eseji o umjetnosti i kulturi XX stoljeća u Jugoistočnoj, Istočnoj i Srednjoj Europi kroz djelovanje umjetnika Vlade Marteka (Zagreb, 2002); Impossible Histories – Historical Avant-gardes, Neo-avant-gardes, and Post-avant-gardes in Yugoslavia, 1918-1991 (MIT – Cambridge Mass, 2003); Politike slikarstva (Koper, 2004); Pojmovnik suvremene umjetnosti (Zagreb and Ghent, 2005), Konceptualna umetnost (Novi Sad, 2007), etc. As a curator, he has organized and prepared more than twenty exhibitions.