Schmuck2 and UNWETTER invite for a Discursive Picnic at the International Crafts Fair/showcase Forum Jewelry at Maximiliansforum at the exhibition Neuer Schmuck in Munic on March 18, 2011, 4 - 7 pm under the headline: art/design/jewelry/exhibition space/studio/space - interdisciplinary approaches - working between categories.

2010 the HOCHsitz studio - a space created as an intersection between exhibition space/studio/space, as comment to the current debate on interdisciplinary approaches - was developed by Martí Guixe in collaboration with the association Schmuck2 e.V. in Glashagen. We will unpack HOCHsitzen - a magazine style publication fresh from the printers in which designers, artists and project rooms like Verzameld Werk, BLESS und UNWETTER contemplate their practice. Anne Schloen and Susan Pietzsch von Schmuck2, as well as Jole Wilcke and Ulrike Solbrig from UNWETTER will be present. Stefan Wischnewski will wear his color line collection. Mizuho Matsunaga will invite us to join her for producing picnic blankets on the spot. Silke Koch will introduce her WATCH OUT HOCHsitzen installation. Liesbeth den Besten presents the latest publication "JEWELS" from the jewelry department of the Rietveld Academy Amsterdam (NL).

At the Discursive Picnic everybody is guest and host at the same time. Bring ideas, art, works, projects, actions, catalogs, publications, food, drinks and picnic utensils or come as you are. Unpack, pack: we are looking forward to seeing you!

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THE SPACE/COLLECTIVE

Like Unwetter (German for stormy and turbulent weather) radical global transformations reshuffle conventional knowledge systems and hierarchies, opening new spaces to be explored.

UNWETTER's basic format is the Discursive Picnic that connects different contexts in an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. The Discursive Picnic is an improvised event, ready to be modified and changed. Time and place are announced for the public to join. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. In the UNWETTER thermos-box, "where ideas are kept cool", theory and practice fall together. We find, collect, exchange, alter, pack up and move on.

Arriving at a site, we unpack and array within flexible elements, blankets, picnic furniture also tents - when necessary. Our aim is to open up a situation for both spontaneously and thoroughly elaborated contributions, where visitors, guests, we ourselves or the public, become actors, listeners, performers, hosts or audience, in ever changing roles, departing into new directions by tours, associations, diversions, walks etc. (Christine Wolfe, Jole Wilcke, Ulrike Solbrig, Clemens Krauss, Benno Gammerl, Dorothee Albrecht)
Leo teaches the picnicker:

In her article, Walls Fall Down: Berlin's Contemporary Art Institutions, the Berlin based curator and writer, Astrid Mania, states: "Among the many Berlin-based initiatives offering space for debate and reflection on contemporary art and its institutions, UNWETTER is perhaps the most changeable and unpredictable, functioning without a permanent space or platform as an umbrella organization for relatively unstructured, open art events....read more