NOWs: Odyssee, Möhnesee

20 - 30 July 2017 / Nows

Raul Walch: Semaphore, Möhnesee, 2017

Odyssee

Möhnesee

Opening on the Möhnesee lake: 20th July, 7pm

Opening at Kunstverein Arnsberg: 28th July, 7pm

With Øystein Aasan, Aram Bartholl, Kerstin Brätsch, Julian Breuer, Marco Bruzzone, Nine Budde, Burghard, Eric Ellingsen, Andreas Greiner, Knut Henrik Henriksen, Theresa Kampmeier, Daewha Kang, Fabian Knecht, Daniel Knorr, Tanaz Modabber, Swantje La Moutte, Ulrike Mohr, Reto Pulfer, Anton Quiring, Yorgos Sapountzis, Mirjam Thomann, Raul Walch, Tilman Wendland, Ella Ziegler

The exhibition ‘Odyssee’ takes place in water. All artworks have been conceived for the water, and visitors are invited to swim, row or sail between the works.

Instead of the usual foundational elements of walls, ceiling and floor, in this exhibition the artists have to deal with water, weather and wildlife. Even the water is not entirely reliable, with the water level varying depending on rainfall and industry. In the absence of the kind of certainties they are used to, the artists had to rethink their methods of artistic production and presentation in order to develop new works especially for the exhibition. The dynamics of the surrounding area and the spontaneity of the visitors open up the exhibition for further developments beyond the artists’ intentions.

The Möhnesee is the largest lake in North-Rhine Westphalia, located between Kassel and Münster. Visitors to documenta and Sculpture Projects Münster can complete their triathlon at Möhnesee. The exhibition can best be reached from Körbecke, on the north side of the lake – in the wild lakeside area between the pedestrian bridge and the Westphalia Yacht club. The second part of the exhibition takes place from 28th July until 10th September 2017 at Kunstverein Arnsberg, and in August on the river Ruhr. The project will be further expanded by workshops on location with students. There will be a comprehensive education programme with guided tours from the lakeside and on the water. Entry, tours and performances are free.

‘Odyssee’ is a Project by Kunstverein Arnsberg, realised with the generous support of Kunststiftung NRW, the Ministry for Family, Children, Youth and Sport of North-Rhine Westphalia, C. & A. Veltins Brewery, Sparkasse Soest, the district parish of Möhnesee, the city of Arnsberg and Yachtclub Westfalia Arnsberg.

Contact:
info@odyssey.to
Vlado Velkov / Juliane Rogge
Kunstverein Arnsberg e.V.
Königstraße 24, 59821 Arnsberg
www.kunstverein-arnsberg.de

NOWs: Azimut – publication by Raul Walch

01 August 2017 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Raul Walch: Azimut Publication Published by Drittel Books, Berlin, the publication by Raul Walch features his series Azimut. Many paths lead to Europe. The most dangerous is the sea route. In Azimut, Raul Walch travelled to Europe’s southern periphery to the heart of the greatest humanitarian catastrophe of our age. Azimut is an attempt to rethink artistic contemporaneity. It’s a presence that neither comments nor judges, but rather expands perspectives, participates and produces. Azimut is political; it is narrative and full of poetry. It doesn’t talk about people, it listens to them. In the Winter of 2015, Raul Walch travelled to Lesbos. This, the first of several visits, marks the beginning of Azimut. In nautical terms the Arabic word refers to the intended course, or azimuth, of a journey from beginning to end. In navigational terms the north is a reference point. For those who have chosen the route across the sea, the north encompasses both hope and horror. Time and again Walch has explored global migration flows – investigating and deconstructing their materiality. As Olafur Eliasson’s student at the Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experimentation), Walch adopted a broad approach to artistic practice. The question as to whether an artistic idea can become a product remains pertinent throughout his work. In Azimut he takes it one step further: can an artistic idea save lives? From discarded tarpaulin he fashioned colourful kites. The temporary architectures of Arrival Cities have long become symbols of instability and uprootedness; in Azimut they are structures of freedom and empowerment. Where there are kites there is humanity. The next step is to turn them into Rescue Kites; lighthouses flying above the water to direct the ships; fluorescent mosaics in the wind that oppose the politics of nationalism. The book contains texts by Paul Feigelfeld and Alexander Karschnia as well as a conversation with Olafur Eliasson and drawings by the artist. It appears in an edition of 500 copies and has 12 differently designed covers. Additional Edition: 3 prints, edition of 20 (inkjet-print / Hahnemühle photo rag, 30 x 38 cm) and framed photos, edition of 5, (inkjet-print auf Hahnemühle photo rag, 30 x 40) – Artist name: Raul Walch – Title: Azimut – Publisher: Drittel Books – Release Year: 2017 – Country of release: Germany – Price: 38 € -Auflage: 500 NOWs: Raul Walch: Azimut Publikation Anfang August erscheint im Verlag Drittel Books, Berlin die Publikation von Raul Walch zu seiner Werkserie Azimut. Die Arbeit hat sich fortlaufend seit Winter 2015/16 in Griechenland und Deutschland unter anderem mit Geflüchteten und unabhängigen Helfern entwickelt. Es sind Aktionen, Photographien und Objekten entstanden, die in diesem Künstlerbuch zusammengefasst werden. Das 136-seitige Buch enthält Texte von Paul Feigelfeld und Alexander Karschnia sowie ein Gespräch mit Olafur Eliasson und Zeichnungen des Künstlers. Es erscheint in einer Auflage von 500 Exemplaren und hat 12 unterschiedlich gestaltete Cover. Zum Buch sind zwei Edition entstanden. Zum einen drei Prints, Auflage 20 Stück (Inkjet-print auf Hahnemühle Photo rag, 30 x 38 cm) und zum anderen gerahmten Photographien, Auflage 5 Stück, aus der Serie Azimut (Inkjet-print auf Hahnemühle Photo rag, 30 x 40, kaschiert und weißgrau gerahmt) – Artist name: Raul Walch – Title: Azimut – Publisher: Drittel Books – Release Year: 2017 – Country of release: Germany – Price: 38 € -Auflage: 500

NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read

14 - 16 July 2017 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 14-16 July 2017 Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, exhibition space, distribution service and ‘sometimes shop’ based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Woven together by a serially enlisted cast of agents, the project engages in a wider discussion of globally enabled and dismantled forms of exchange amidst a late-capitalist networked production. Among them, the distribution and production of independent publications acts as a loosely organised confluence—dialogue and exchange on critical, self-organised practices across Asia/SE Asia. To facilitate small-scale distribution, transport of our books, zines and perodicals is carried out by LIGHT LOGISTICS, a person-to-person network enabled by the surplus carrying power of couriers engaging a mobile space for intimate and flexible forms of reading. For the duration of Miss Read Festival, a corporeal reading unit and mobile distribution node will present Display Distribute’s “SECOND(hand)MOUNTAIN(fortress)” series of print-on-demand editions. For this launch, publications have been specially dedicated to readers courtesy of practitioners such as ZHANG Hanlu, Jong PAIREZ, Susanne BOSCH, Franz SCHUBERT, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, DANWARAREN, Renan LARU-AN, Elaine W. Ho, Ming LIN, Zikri RAHMAN, HomeShop, et al. Display Distribute and LIGHT LOGISTICS have initiated a series of events and other experiments of reading and writing at various hosting institutions, including: BANK (Shanghai), Irregular Rhythm Asylum (Tokyo) and Gasworks (London). NOWs: Display Distribute at Miss Read Art Book Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 14-16 July 2017 Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, exhibition space, distribution service and ‘sometimes shop’ based in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Woven together by a serially enlisted cast of agents, the project engages in a wider discussion of globally enabled and dismantled forms of exchange amidst a late-capitalist networked production. Among them, the distribution and production of independent publications acts as a loosely organised confluence—dialogue and exchange on critical, self-organised practices across Asia/SE Asia. To facilitate small-scale distribution, transport of our books, zines and perodicals is carried out by LIGHT LOGISTICS, a person-to-person network enabled by the surplus carrying power of couriers engaging a mobile space for intimate and flexible forms of reading. For the duration of Miss Read Festival, a corporeal reading unit and mobile distribution node will present Display Distribute’s “SECOND(hand)MOUNTAIN(fortress)” series of print-on-demand editions. For this launch, publications have been specially dedicated to readers courtesy of practitioners such as ZHANG Hanlu, Jong PAIREZ, Susanne BOSCH, Franz SCHUBERT, KUNCI Cultural Studies Center, DANWARAREN, Renan LARU-AN, Elaine W. Ho, Ming LIN, Zikri RAHMAN, HomeShop, et al. Display Distribute and LIGHT LOGISTICS have initiated a series of events and other experiments of reading and writing at various hosting institutions, including: BANK (Shanghai), Irregular Rhythm Asylum (Tokyo) and Gasworks (London).

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