Iratxe Jaio + Klaas van Gorkum

The Social Experiment is a collaboration between artists Klaas van Gorkum, Iratxe Jaio, Wouter Osterholt, Jonas Staal and Elke Uitentuis. In October 2011 they will organise a training in self-protection for artists. During three days a select group of participants, comprising of students, teachers, artists and other interested parties, will work on improving their resilience.

Under the guidance of two instructors from the police academy they will be trained in interrogation techniques (questioning and being examined) as well as how to deal with violence (indexing of violent situations and regulating or breaking up such situations). Through screenings, debates and relevant literature, participants will also be stimulated to apply this knowledge within their own practices.

The training takes place from 15 to 17 October. From day one, participants will follow a collective program, and will eat and sleep together in blockhuts that have been hired for this purpose. The program is free of charge, but needs to be followed in its entirety.

For more information: sociaalexperiment.com

En última instancia, la obra consiste precisamente en la iluminación y el cuestionamiento de una serie de procesos productivos, y no en la glorificación del resultado concreto de tales procesos. Frente a la estetización de lo político que esto supondría, Jaio y van Gorkum proponen una politización de lo estético, que no discurre por el fácil camino de la soflama ideológica, sino a través de una reflexión crítica sobre las condiciones de la propia actividad. Revelan así una vía fructífera para deslindar el arte de la lógica espectacular y fantasmagórica de la mercancía. Pocos empeños parecen más necesarios en la situación actual del mundo del arte.

30 october - 27 february, SMAK and the Museum of Fine Art in Ghent

A video of the project "Stay inside. Close windows and doors" has been selected for the exhibition Hareng Saur: Ensor and contemprary art, to be shown in Contemporary Art Museum SMAK in Ghent.

De studiereis van het Fonds BKVB met als titel What’s up, what’s down. Cultural catalysts in Urban Space heeft tot doel de stedelijke transformaties van de afgelopen decennia in een aantal secondary cities in Europa te onderzoeken. De reis (van 1 t/m 17 oktober 2010) zal leiden naar de Balkan (Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana), Marseille, vervolgens naar Noord- Engeland (Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool) en de Baskische regio (Bilbao en Vitoria-Gasteiz).

Van het Baskische gedeelte namen wij de begeleiding op ons. Lees hieronder het programma dat we voor de deelnemers hebben samen gesteld: