Thursday, 22 July 2010, 7 - 10 pm

Picnic in Foret Noir A night of surprises at Direktorenhaus...

An informal feast of illustration, weaving, performance, book signing and picnicking

Olaf Hajek, “Flowerheads” Book Signing, Travis Meinolf Action weaver picnic rug weaving workshop, UNWETTER Discursive Picnic, PLAYBerlin Performance and Foret Noir Photo Booth

Discursive Picnic_ALL YOU CAN EAT
invitation-interview Catherine Hemlryk with Ulrike Solbrig

Thursday, 03 June 2010, 3pm
Bury St Edmunds Gallery, curated by Catherine Hemlryk

Discursive Picnic_Thai Massage

12 July 2009, 2 pm meeting place Görlitzerpark in the center by the hollow and the gigantic steel sculpture.

You/we are invited – Everybody is both guest and host at the same time – take/bring ideas, drinks/food, blankets - bring yourself – be there to share and exchange massage, listen and talk.

Suwan Laimanee*, TanzArt Labor, Travis Meinolf, UNWETTER

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*"Massage is the message" – Suwan Laimanee's work is about the physical touch of art and its sculptural process. He introduced massage as art and science in 1996 at the Florence Biennale, as part of Michelangelo Pistoletto's Progetto Arte. Thai massage is another form of social sculpture. It is real and it is spiritual. There is no giver (artist) and receiver (recipient) because both are united in oneness.

You/we are invited to a Discursive Picnic in the exhibition "Aufwachen", as a guest, as a host.

On the platform, on the blanket, on the floor. Bring, give, take, share ideas, food, talk.

Sunday, 5th April 2009, 3-6pm, Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin, U3 Krumme Lanke, S1 Mexikoplatz

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(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1236353036&day=1236294000)

Discursive Picnic_ Aufwachen, 5th April 2009, 3-6pm, Haus am Waldsee.
Max Raabe - Klonen kann sich lohnen (-->http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMkjoQ6S7oQ)

pöpp68 - privat öffentlich persönlich politisch – participation objections anyhow – with texts and interviews referring to UNWETTER’s practice by and with Christophe Kotányi, Raimar Stange, Benno Gammerl, Ulrike Solbrig and Jole Wilcke (--> Catalog excerpt: PDF)

With six collaborative projects, a conference, and an exhibition, pöpp68 - private, public, personal, political" targeted and probed possible modes for participation in art.

In 2008 pöpp68 brought together artists born in the 1960s (Seraphina Lenz, Nanna Lüth, Ulrike Solbrig, Rebekka Uhlig, Giuliano Vece, Jole Wilcke) with artists and theorists that were already active in 1968 (Claudia von Alemann, Kirsten Dufour, Rainer W. Ernst, Sanja Ivekovic´ & Bojana Pejic´, Barbara Kleinitz, Christophe Kotányi) allowing them to revisit some of the complex issues that became prominent features of political and social discourse in '68, like fascism, body and power, gender politics, consumption critique, as well as a more general questioning of authority; while also giving opportunities for participation in workshops and other avenues for exploration and intervention. As an intergenerational forum, pöpp68 looked at the chances for participation and forms of resistance from 1968 to the present.

The publication "pöpp68 - participation objections anyhow" documents and contextualizes the entire project, the conference "on participation" at the Akademie der Künste and the exhibition at NGBK, Berlin, with workshop descriptions and text contributions by Espace Masolo, Stephan Geene, Sabine Hark, Barbara Loreck, Suzana Milevska, Rahel Puffert, Veronica Sekules, Raimar Stange, Eva Sturm, Wiebke Trunk, Ultra-red, and others.

dt./engl. participation objections anyhow
!296 S., zahlr. farb. Abb. / numerous coloured images

ISBN 978-3-938515-24-2
Preis: 20.- €, email order form: office@ngbk.de (--> http://ngbk.de)

ART SWAP EUROPE  artist-run initiatives and internationional Exchange

Conference 11-12 October 2008 Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Presentation_Exchange_Discussion_Networking

organized by Internationale Gesellschaft Bildender Künstler / IGBK Berlin

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(--> Catalog PDF http://igbk.de/dateien/dokumente/de/art_swap_europe_-_catalogue.pdf)

(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1223647084&day=1223676000
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Discursive Picnic _8 Stunden sind kein Tag Donnerstag, 4. September 2008 von 8.00 bis 16.00 Uhr, 8 Stunden auf dem Alexanderplatz – zwischen Ausgang U2 (vor Saturn am Alex) und dem Brunnen der Völkerfreundschaft mit Matthias Krause, Patrick Gardener.

Ihr seid/Wir sind eingeladen! bringt/nehmt Ideen, Essen/Trinken, Picknickutensilien, Arbeitsergebnisse, Meinungen, große Kartoffeln und alte Tageszeitungen mit Stellenanzeigen und Tischdecken zum bedrucken mit!

Wir machen Kartoffeldruck statt Leistungsdruck!

Wir recyclen Stellenanzeigen zu Einwegtellern!

Die Arbeitswelt scheint sich im permanenten Ausnahmezustand zu befinden. Die einen sind arbeitslos, die anderen müssen massenhaft unbezahlte Überstunden ableisten alle müssen flexibel sein und allzeit bereit, eben 24 Stunden am Tag, "24" wie der Titel der amerikanischen Fernsehserie (2001-2010) lautet, bei der es um Terrorbekämpfung geht. Ausgehend von Fassbinders Fernsehserie aus den 70ern, 8 Stunden sind kein Tag, wollen wir an die positive Vorstellung anknüpfen, dass eine Gesellschaft sich mit Hilfe kritischer Einzeldenker_innen praktisch verwandeln lässt – gesetzt den Fall bezahlte Arbeit nimmt nicht mehr Zeit in unserem Leben ein als 8 Stunden am Tag.

Discursive Picnic_8 Stunden sind kein Tag findet statt im Rahmen der Kampagne "/unvermittelt", von workstation, Ideenwerkstatt Berlin e. V. die von der österreichischen Künstlergruppe Wochenklausur gegründet wruden. Im Rahmen der Ausstellung /unvermittelt findet ein reenactment der Kartoffeldruckwerkstatt in der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst statt am 16. 01. 2008 – /unvermittelt - für einen Arbeitsbegriff jenseits von Überarbeitung und Mangel. Praxen, Techniken, Spielräume.

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Discursive Picnic_8 Hours Don't Make a Day, Thursday September 4th, 2008 from 8 am till 4 pm at Alexanderplatz – between exit U2 (in front of Saturn at Alex) and the Fountain of the Friendship between Peoples with Matthias Krause and Patrick Gardener.

You/we are invited! Bring/take ideas, food/drinks, picnic utensils, work results, opinions, large potatoes and daily newspapers with want k sections and a tablecloth for printing!

We make potato prints instead of fine print!

With newspaper want ads, we want to make new paper plates.
Either unemployment or unpayed overtime everybody has to be flexible, preferrably for 24 hours a day, as the title of the American anti terror TV-series (2001 - 2010) suggests. By taking up the title of Fassbinder’s 1970’s television series 8 Hours Don't Make a Day we want to reintroduce the positive notion, that a society – in case that for instance payed labor doesn't take up more than 8 hours per working day – is able to transform itsef.

With workstation, idea workshop e.V., the Holy Church of the Last Three Workdays and other activists of /unvermittelt*, who in open workshops will present, discuss and advance their projects. Children are welcome to join in.

Discursive Picnic_8 Hours Are Not a Day, is a location in a public space of the campaign "/unvermittelt", by workstation, idea workshop Berlin e. V., also presented at the New Society for Visual Arts, NGBK, in November 2008 – /unvermittelt - für einen Arbeitsbegriff jenseits von Überarbeitung und Mangel. Praxen, Techniken, Spielräume.

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Discursive Picnic_8 Hours Don't Make a Day, Berlin, Alexanderplatz 4. September, 2008

UNWETTER è un collettivo di artisti/e, curatori/trici, attivisti/e e teorici/he che invitano a Picnic Discorsivi, sviluppando processi di scambio reciproco, combinando contesti disparati. UNWETTER sind KünstlerInnen, KuratorInnen, AktivistInnen und TheoretikerInnen, die als Basisformat für ihre Arbeit Diskursive Picknicks vorschlagen. Damit verbinden sie verschiedene Kontexte und stellen einen fortlaufenden Prozess des wechselseitigen Austausches her / UNWETTER is a collective of artists, curators, activist and theorists, that uses the Discursive Picnic as basic format to develop processes of reciprocal exchange. Lungomare Gallery / via Rafensteinweg 12, 39100 Bolzano-Bozen, Italy / T +39 0471 053636 /

www.summerdrafts.wordpress.com / www.lungomare.org / MANIFESTA7 / info{at}lungomare.org /
(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1216047731&day=1216504800 )

Discursive Picnic_Mauerpark, Berlin on the 6th of May from 12:00 – 16:00: Reclaim the commons! As part of a series of urban greening projects - rethinking public land-use, initiated by workstation Ideenwerkstatt Berllin e. V. in cooperation with:

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Satellite Picnics_Vilnius, Tales of the Travel Journal vol. I
Center of Contemporary Art Vilnius, Sunday 26 November, 2 pm, in collaboration with CAC TV

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Press release (-->http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1164484176&day=1163718000)

UNWETTER - Discursive Picnic_Emergency Room, Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, 1 Oktober, 3 pm,

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(TRYOUT/RESEARCHPLANE)

Sparwasser HQ presents:

"Curating Degree Zero Archive"
A Series of Evening Talks and Performed Recommendations Written by Joel Mu

17. Septermber, 2006 Ulrike Solbrig and Astrid Mania

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”´Discursive Picnic´ - "Collective Curating in an Extended Field” – lecture at " Collective Curating " Aarhus Denmark

NGBK hosts UNWETTER/UNWETTER hosts NGBK

On invitation of Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. UNWETTER presents the running exhibition project of NGBK at the zweiten BerlinerKunstsalon: Martha Rosler, Put on your Blue Genes and Gated Communities as well asUNWETTER-equipement in a temporary installation.

Please join Berlin based UNWETTER for Discursive Picnics with: FOOD/SHARING improvised events in the style of a potluck.You/we are invited to bring your own materials, food, ideas to shareand exchange and records to play.

Oct. 2, 3 pm: Discursive Picnic_New Meaning with New Meaning (Ebba Moi, Gry Ulrischsen) and Ingrid Book & CarinaHedén from Oslo.

With "The Field/O Campo" Ingrid Book & Carina Hedèn introduced urban agriculture as a potential form of a "future archive" at the 26th Bienal deSão Paulo . They will hand out the centerpiece of their Bienal-contribution, the newspaper "News from the Field".

The magazine NEW MEANING is a plattform for people who recently migrated to Norway to reflect their experiences. New Meaning launched their internet radio in September

Oct. 4, 8 pm, films from the UNWETTER-Box are presented as part of NGBK's daily program. Amongst others:

Lenka Clayton (Great Britain, 2005, 3.47 min, DVD, ) A video to "Nigella, George, Tony and Me" by Matthew Herbert from thealbum Plat du Jour: A tank rolls over a picnic blanket, upon which liesa reconstuction of the meal which had been prepared by British TV chef Nigela Lawson. It was originally prepared for the occaision of President Bush`s visit to England to thank Tony Blair for his support during the Iraq Conflict. As a backdrop is an image of the two warlords in the mud accompanied by a brutal Industiral-Techno soundtack."

No land! No house! No vote! Voices from the Housing Struggle Cape Town (Germany/SouthAfrica, 2005, 35 Min , DVD) This film features community activities in different townships in Cape town. Ella Haide prents this 'video newsletter' on the recent struggles that she produced in cooperation with Ali Vorbrugg and Indimedia South Africa.

ORANGE FARM WATER CRISIS (South Africa/Holland, 2003, 15 min, DVD ). Following the assassination of a 61 year old woman activist from the Orange Farm Crisis Committee, video activist from around the world expose the methods for water privatisation in Orange Farm, one of the poorest townships in South Africa. Inrtoduciton by one of the procuers: Amerigo.

Oct. 5, 3 pm: Discursive Picnic_workstation freifunk with Frauke Hehl, workstation Ideenwerkstatt,Berlin e. V. and Jürgen Neumann, from http://www.freifunk.net, which connects WLAN computers to a wireless-clowd, everybody can join.

workstation Ideenwerkstatt Berlin e.V. was founded as an intervention of the artist-collective WochenKlausur in the spring of 1998 and percieves itself as a plattform for societal and social experiments.

Glashaus der Arena, Eichenstr. 4, Berlin Stand 25

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(--> Lenka Clayton http://www.platdujour.co.uk)
(Ella von der Haide http://eine-andere-welt-ist-pflanzbar.urbanacker.net/25-0-ella-von-der-haide.html)
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Discursive Picnic_INTERVENING THE URBAN VOID, PSWR Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Discursive Camping_Dwelling on the move Liverpool Biennial Independants 04, Liverpool, England

bring, give, take, share food, thought, projects
5 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, in front of Blue Bluecoat Arts Center, School La_on nutrition
7 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, at Hamilton Sq., Birkenhead_on migration and transport
6 Oct, 4 - 7 pm, at Jamaica St./Greenland St._on gentrification
8 Oct, 2 - 5 pm, at Magnet Club, 43 Hardman St._on sound, systems and music

we offer an off road programm for everyone. After arriving at a DISCURSIVE CAMPING site, dwelling on the move unpacks and unfolds a setting between tents, carpets, camping furniture. DISCURSIVE CAMPING interacts with each specific site where it takes place, collecting materials and opinions and presenting, discussing and dealing with projects (in video, audio, paper or other formats). We invite local groups as well as contributions from other parts of the world. It's a potluck, where everyone is both guest and host at the same time. Together we will think, drink, eat, speak, play and work within the contingent meterological, social, cultural etc. conditions and influences that my occur. After a while things will be re-packed again and the caravan will move on to the next stop on the tour.

WE/YOU ARE INVITED Please join us

(Press relase: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1096891572&day=1096927200)


Discursive Camping_Dwelling on the move, ­ Center of Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
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Discursive Picnic_Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland


Discursive Picnic_Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin North invited by Sparwasser HQ, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum of Contemporary Art , 3 April 2004, Berlin, Germany

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Old Habits Die Hard - 50 videos selected by 50 artist-run-spaces and collectives, Sparwasser HQ
Norwich Gallery 15 January to 14 February 2004
Kunstnernes Hus Olso Norway 6 February to 12 March 2004

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(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1074004650&day=1074034800)
(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1094550304&day=1094594400)

Old Habits Die Hard - 50 videos selected by 50 artist-run-spaces and collectives, Sparwasser HQ,
Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany, 30 September to 29 November 2003

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(Press release: http://www.undo.net/cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1094550304&day=1094594400)

UNWETTER_G. U. N., Galerie Uten Navn, Oslo, Norway
Discursive Picnic_G. U. N. Oslo, Norway

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