Angelika Middendorf is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been presented in numerous international solo and group shows including: "Circle, Sphere, Cosmos" at Kunsthalle Würth (2007) and Pergamonmuseum Berlin (2006); "Tempo" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); Strangers/Etrangers at P.S.1 New York (2001). Middendorf received a number of distinctive awards and grants, including the 15th Video Art Award Bremen (2006), Nominee of the International Media Art Award of ZKM, Karlsruhe (2002); the German Art Award of Artistic Photography (1996), Grand Prize of the Osaka Triennale (1991), and a residency at the International Studio Program at P.S.1 in New York (2000-2001). www.mid.berlin.heimat.de
Andreas Schimanski is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. His work has been presented in numerous international solo and group shows. Schimanski is the recipient of the Video Project grant, Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin Lichtenberg (2006), the German Art Award of Artistic Photography (1996), the Bremer Advancement Award for Fine Arts (1996) and Video Award Bremen (1994). Independent research residency in New York (2000-2001). www.schimanski.net
Artist Statement
Parallel to our individual artistic work and position we work in flexible collaborations, which became elementary for our common artistic discussion. Flexible collaborations develop out of a temporary situation or out of a context which can be project based, such as within a concrete curatorial concept / theme (Levels #1 / P.O.P-Punkt.Ort.Position), also open fusions, which develop out of a common artistic concept to become an open source project (Lecture-Lounge). In both cases it is a temporary form of co-operation, such as a short-term activity of networks, which in turn results in shows, projects and events (OneFineDay – in ...). Within our initiatives of open source projects we define our function as a nodal point in a decentralized and spread out (artistic) network. We open the structure, communicate the resources (contents / persons) and create a transparency of the project, and due to the progress, the conducting, etc., it becomes transparent and the information utilizable for all who are interested. The communication is intended to be a horizontal – non hierarchic – among all participants, in order to make it possible to all interested participants creating new respective individual nodal points of responsibility. For instance, when we are moving the idea and title for a project forward, it will be complemented and confirmed by the people of our first nodal point. The contents of the project will be discussed, developed and elaborated out of a progress of intensification and presentation of our common interests, and will be transferred into an online-onsite format – website, exhibition and event. Within this context we understand ourselves as a motor or a kind of operating system to integrate and to structure the diversity of elements into one event. The open structure of open source projects provides a constructive basis for a complex exchange and discussion within comprehensive contexts, in which the condition is set for flexible collaborations, which allow a (transnational) communication of different positions, to be presented within an adequate format and to create new networks (25sec. project). This artistic network organically evolves and grows with increasing activity (Beuys’ expanded term of art as Soziale Plastik/Social Sculpture).
Residency Plan－”25sec.–Taipei” (2008)
About the 25sec. project
25sec. is a video portrait: art and cultural mediators give a 25 second statement outlining their professional goals. Each of their statements relate to the city in which they live and their art scene. Based on a research through the hierarchy of a scene, we invite - in collaboration with the local curator - a cross-section of participants from diverse levels of institutional and independent art contexts. The participants have the option of supporting their statement with an object that provides a link to their discourse and context. 25sec. focus' the individual portrait and the ensemble within the array of all 25sec. portraits.
The project contains a momentum of a temporary social sculpture, where individual goals are captured in a moment in time in different places. With each new 25sec.-project, and by all involved voices and images, new perspectives open up on each cultural situation to foster insights on individual and local situations. However, the 25sec.-project is mainly a vivid community project which is not just about but also for the local scene, and to reflect the self in a context of diverse positions anew and in a larger sense.
At all 25sec. future destinations a new one will become realized and all previous presented. In long sight the 25sec. project leads to a growing network and portrait about a moment in time of individual goals, which reflect on local structures and mechanisms, but also related to a global action scope of operating systems of the arts and cultures.
Our first project 25sec.-Berlin portrays a moment in time within a European art-scene in 2003; the second 25sec.-Toronto in Canada portrays a North American art-scene in 2006; the third 25sec.-Yekaterinburg in Russia will portray an art-scene where Europe borders on Asia; the fourth 25sec.-Taipei in Taiwan will portray an Asian art-scene in 2008; and will continue.
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