20-08-2008
Necessary Discourse on hysteria (ND:hysteria)
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Once more we want to repeat and emphasize:

ND:hysteria  is an art exhibition.
ND:hysteria points out on the identified predicament “hysteria”.
ND:hysteria brings two generations of artists together.
ND:hysteria combines points of view of artists and scientists from other fields.
ND:hysteria gives the contemporary art museum an active role in the society.
ND:hysteria is an ongoing process, therefore we are looking forward to collect your feedback and impulses, that we think are essential to create a relevant discourse and to legitimate its necessity.

 

We’re pleased to announce that everything is running smoothly. The already communicated partisans were complemented with some guest stars and Rainer Wittenborn, due to personal reasons was substituted through FLATZ (flatz.net), so that we can retain the whole selection as accomplished. But see the detailed partisans and their discourse arguments below.

In this update we want to give you a detailed view on the state of affairs, and due to the already big amount of duties we preferred to start with a detailed structure, so that you can go through, point by point.

Structure of this update:

  1. All the discourse arguments listed with the related partisans (details on glu-sg.si/necessary discourse/)
  2. The necessary discourse, step by step, how its actually planned
  3. The work that’s still to manage

 

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ARGUMENTS / ARTISTS  
   
MASS - INFORMATION: Viktor Bernik, title of work “n.n.“
SUPER-SHOWS / SPORTS: Vesna Bukovec, title of work  “n.n.”
SWEET LIFE: Jaša, title of work “Sweet Life”, + Performance, + Stage
POWER OF MEDIA: Pino Poggi, title of work “Medusa / TV Kopf”
PARANOID DEMOGRAPHY: Lada Cerar & Sašo Sedlaček, title of work “Gray Division”
PROFILING: Metka Zupanič, title of work “How important I am”
NOISE CONSUMPTION: Tanja Vujinovic “Oscilox. Discreet events in the noisy domains” (Public space)
Not yet identified: Timm Ulrichs
TERROR THREAT: FLATZ, title of work “TERROR”, + Performance, + Work in public space
CONSUMER SOCIETY/
ISOLATION:
Mukul Deora, title of work “n.n.”
   

Special guests:

 
   
IDEOLOGY: Jože Barši, title of work “n.n.” (interpretation “Kapital”, K.Marx)
GENETIC ENGINEERING: Polona Tratnik, title of work “n.n.”
IDENTITY:

Tadej Pogačar, title of work “The Tale of Two Cities” (revisited)

 

ESSAYISTS

 

PERFORMANCES / LECTURES

So far following persons have agreed to give lectures. They’ll be presented on the stage built by Jaša in the big hall.

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Now we will list all steps that will lead to and through the necessary discourse on hysteria. The content emphasised in cursive are not 100% clear till now, but have still to be cleared. 

Step 1:
Communication: Production of a comic book, that explains why we do the ND:hysteria, how the ND:hysteria will function and which are the interesting aspects of our common project, who is part of the ND:hysteria and when and how it is scheduled. This comic book will be drawn by Ciril Horjak and will be printed in approx. 100.000 copies and laid in the big Slovenian dailies. VEČER assured us 4 complete pages (we want 7 of them) where we will present the ND:hysteria through texts by Marko Košan, Jernej Kožar and Rado Poggi on all 4 (7) pages will be reproduced the program and partisans, a quarter will be used for reporting the passed events and the rest will be filled up with the essays that had been contributed.
In that way we reach a more intellectual target and through the comic book the more common one. That’s our thoughts.
Obviously we will make the usual PR by giving press texts, info, etc. to the specialized and common press, nationally and internationally.

Step 2:
After having completed the material errands we will put, for the opening, all the materials needed by the single partisans in the centre of the single rooms they will work in and combine it with the text of which argument will be executed by which artist. The stage has to be built before, because we need it for the opening. The “interaction-hall” will and has to be already done at the opening, means, that all arguments treated will have one space in our big hall for interaction by the visitors (through writing, drawing, audio or video, that has still to be organized). We are thinking even about a kind of readers corner that could be done (sponsored) by, maybe, Mladinska knjiga. The chairs available in the big hall are placed casually in groups and even the essays, statements of the essayists will be hang on the walls, possibly organised with the single arguments of the discourse.

Step 3:
In accordance to the didactical moment of this discourse, with having here three of the genuine generation of social engaged workers within the contemporary art, all artists, that occupy spaces and that has to built their artworks in the first week (10th to 17th November) are invited to be in loco on 9th November in the evening, so we can have dinner together and appoint the start on the next day. In the evening on 10th there will be the opening, with clearly the explanation what and how everything will work, the director will speak and even you, present artists are invited to intervene, before running out with the piano improvisation of Aljoša we will give the public the appointment for the next week, when the artworks will be finished and exhibition is built, obviously inviting them even to come and to see how we do this during the week. Probably we will have a seminar of the University of Maribor with us, so that we have as many helpers as we need. However, Artworks have to be finished by the 17th of November at the latest. All will be documented through photo and video.

Step 4:
Second opening will be on Monday 17th November in the evening. Classical vernissage, without long speeches and the audio performance of Mukul Deora. Also here, you, present partisans are invited to intervene.

Step 5:
All the artists, completed their installation, for sure someone stressed after a week of action, are free to leave us. The house of Rado near the gallery invites you to stay, but we can’t ask more than we already did on that point. Hopefully someone will stay.
The program will be held as programmed, means lectures, etc…will happen, etc. etc.. All the process, especially the performances will be documented through video, audio and photo.

Step 6:
End.

During the weeks we will have the VEČER-pages that will document what happened and keep the population informed. Jernej Kozar, the museum-team and me will also prepare the book that will document the discourse like a kind of diary, with photo, press-clippings, texts, week by week. Actually we think about a book in format 24x24cm, b/w, approx. 200-400pages, mainly English.

In the whole book we will have a short info about each partisan in the appendix, each artwork will be obviously shown through photo and subtitle, but no critic will talk about single artists, we invite them just for writing about the whole process about the whole discourse team.

 

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Actually we are planning and organizing to get all material lists and all kind of information for the arrival and the accommodation for the partisans. Please push on giving us that information, than more soon we have them than better we can coordinate its errand and then going on in looking for more funds and taking care about our PR.

We are looking actually for patrons and sponsors, we hope to find persons, willing to support our innovative and collective endeavour. If you have ideas whom to contact, don’t hesitate to inform us.  Nevertheless we are optimistic and working hard on that, because we really would like to reward your efforts for the necessary discourse. At this point …thanks to all of you!!! Future will pay all of us, for sure!!

Regarding the PR we will take care to get some German papers like Süddeutsche, Kulturforum, Kunstnachrichten, etc…. we will send info on Reuters, that would grant us internationally press. Its even sure, that we will get some press in India, thanks to our Partisan and good friend of mine, Mukul Deora, who, like all of you, is happy to participate and to work together at this project. Regarding Televisions, we have still to check out in which form to approach them….insomma,…we are studying actually the whole PR – Campaign, we will do. (Also therefore you are invited to give us your impulses).

 

I thank you for your attention, and for your generous and idealistic existence, knowing almost all of you we are sure to build a real strong, flexible and visionary team, so that we are really looking forward to astonish the people by showing, how artists and creatives can give a pragmatic contribution to diversification of every-days life and thoughts.

All the best….

Radopoggi / Jernej Kozar

 

 

Referring to the general accepted concept of mental diseases, persons are defined as a sane equilibrium of four parts of personality traits: depressive, compulsive, schizophrenic and hysteric. The neurotic suffers from disequilibria regarding these four parts. Persons with a dominant hysteric trail have the insatiable need to be in centre of attention. They are easily to become enthusiastic, but even faster to get disappointed, they tend to close their eyes regarding the reality.

 


“Occidental World seems to suffer from Hysteria – a pathology which allows effective influence on opinion building and degenerates in consequence the consciousness of the single individual and the whole culture they/ we live in. Let us find the way to reactivate our consciousness.”