RESIDENT
Carlos Toledo
verb: decentralizing
Carlos Toledo (Guatemala, 1965) went to the Austrian School in Guatemala and studied at the University of Appllied Arts in Vienna. He has together with Eva Dertschei since 1996 a studio (www.liga1070.at) for graphic and exhibition design in the fields culture, art, NGOs in Vienna. Both are members of the IG Bildende Kunst and Design Austria. Since 2006 they are part of the editorial board of Bildpunkt, the magazine of the IG Bildende Kunst.
... thinking about my past and interpunctation is thinking about my grandfather (arcadio ruiz franco), who was a trade leader of typograph workers in the 1940s in guatemala, in the first democratic and social revolution after 2nd world war in latinamerica. he wrote a book (hambre y miseria. fermentos de lucha), nearly oral history, about the day to day struggle of the workers in this political change. a very nice old book. after then years a coup d'état (with the colaboration of the cia/usa) finished this democratic and social spring in guatemala (1944-1954). i think it can be interesant to work with his book, to make a poster about or another kind of work.
Pepa
verb: reflecting
Pepa creative but horribly self destructive, smiling
... praying flags - ideas, transform into prays, blown with the wind
Jason Waite
verb: critical
independent curator
...reflecting on bolwerk in relation to Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on the ontology of community and in particular the crucial position of "being-with" as not being subsequent to the individual but rather re-proposing its mutual necessity. There is no existence without co-existence.
Groupe L'étranger
verb: delimit
Groupe L’étranger is composed of Louis Kiav, Kosten Koper & Jan Perigo, who inhabit a weekly post-economic collective fictional space on Radio Panik 105.4FM, Brussels.
They do not remember the first time they met bolwerK as they lead a cursive lifestyle, and to examine this temporal ellipse will raid their own audio archives to create 'Tie A Knot In A Faded Rag (Parts 1-3), a collaborative three-part radio play.
Synopsis:
Delving into the dog-eared audio journals of trainee psychiatrist Wielo Kropek, whose practice specifically deals with disaster, trauma and lacunar amnesia. The use of the pseudonym Wielo Kropek (Polish phrase for the ellipsis) brings the subject closer to the form.
The commander could not decide whether he should keep a diary to record the course of his life. What if, by chance someone were to read it? - Alexander Sukorov, Confession (1998)
Lieve Sysmans
verb: (p)re)write
I've spend some time bringing together artists in a production and presentation model. The relationship between time and space was prior, mirrored in the nomadic and temporary existence of the initiative and the practice of the site-specific artwork. Functioning as a non-hierarchical structure, collaboration and dialogue were the main instruments applied in achieving an artistic enriching environment.
My involvement in Interpunctie is the result of various encounters on a professional base with bolwerK over the last five years. I've been proposed to co-think, observe, (re)direct, edit, (re)write, ...
Maria Karagianni
verb: digging
Maria Karagianni. Media artist-designer. Part of Graphkraft, Open Mode Collective. She works in web development, while doing next to it media art and activism with open source software/hardware
http://www.graphkraft.org/ http://www.0penm0de-collective.info/
... Researching scripts for generative layout and data retrieving. Output for online archiving and print on demand.
Laďa Sadurni
verb: translate / play
ccc part of concentriccity. I keep on walking and exploring immediate spaces and surroundings. Getting into the instant moment of now to latter bring the experience into symbolic draws and signs that can be understood and shared with others. i like to try the vast and forgotten ways of comunication.
..., Cards for Collective Compositions
Iffy
verb:
tags
Born in Brussels in 1978. Studied painting and graphic design in Sint-Lukas Gent and Brussel. Combines different interests and approaches into a holistic visual language.
Katrien Oosterlinck
verb: connect
I do actions, video's, interventions and installations where inter human relationships and the relation body - space are the central point. Studied dance theatre and visual arts. Mostly interested in the social interaction through art. Work as an art educator and as a production worker and light designer I'm touring with theatre for children.
''... would like to visit you for the weekend.
To see you and the others the place and the trees.
To make a body-connective intervention. It could be a shiatsu massage. Or group gamexercises about colours, body parts and closes eyes.''
Sara Dandois
verb: guerilla designs and installations for interactions
Timecircus Activista in timecircus, a shelter for archives and discourse
building a archive-meeting place
Stéphanie janssens + Sarah De Wilde
verb: Ik denk dat er nog wat zout bij mag, ja, en misschien ook nog iets meer peper.
Altijd op zoek naar de warmte en veiligheid van de keuken, maar geweldig nieuwsgierig voor wat in de living gebeurd.
het belang van helpen?
Philipp Messner
verb:
Philipp Messner (*1975) is a scholar of cultural studies and professional archivist. He lives and works in Zurich and Berne, Switzerland
I am interested in the simultaneity of different concepts of the „archive“ in the cultural field. With my archival background I would like to contribute to the definition and interpretation of terms and concepts related to self-archiving.
Lucie Kolb
verb: debunking
Lucie Kolb (*1985) writes her PhD about paratexts in the art field at the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Within her artistic and curatorial practice she co-organizes different working formats such as lecture series, radio shows, archive tours and exhibitions. From time to time she also exhibits. Lucie Kolb lives and works in Zurich and Lucerne, Switzerland.
I'm interested in archiving (and self-archiving) as "bureaucratic" practice. My point of departure is the folder "The Ever Mass Land" on my external hard drive. Due to a possibly mechanical problem the data in this folder is visible but not accessible anymore. What is left, is the title and the metadata. What do we do with these lonely paratexts?
Bla
verb: Bla
Bla
Bla
Open Source Publishing
verb: relearn
OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based foundation for art and media Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a range of F/LOSS tools., OSP is ready for 2 days of experimentation around the node archives-punctuation.
http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/
''From the bolwerK material and linked to our actual and future projects we're interested to investigate archive visualization/schematics and automatic archives digest. Instead of a traditional layout work, we'd like to focus on tools development, bases of an archives blender, small chain of automatic process.''
Kurt Cornelis & Koen Caerels
verb:printing
Kurt Cornelis (graphic designer) & Koen Caerels (digital media producer) are both passionated about graphic design and typography. During six days they will create a print trying to visualize punctuation.
http://www.kurtcornelis.be/
http://www.koencaerels.be/
<noBreak>Space — A printed and visual research about typography and punctuation — Attach:U2000.pdf.
Caroline Vincart
verb:eye-ing
non face private eye documentator of bolwerK events / greenhouse assistent / procession bus tour sitter / interpunctionista
http://carolinevincart.be/
some silky screens + interpunctions : re-readings of imagery , re-loading of non posted projects , joyful presence
NG
verb:adventure
NG continues a nomadic artistic project which brings her from residence to residence, experimenting with modes of collective habitats as well as architectural prototypes, and testing all kinds of spaces, lifestyles, situations. To be an artist is an adventure, art is speech. NG draws, from her readings on botanical research in Amazonia the conclusion that the world is unknown, that all is to be discovered, to be explored. Each project - soundtrack, video, drawing, data base, performance - is a personal expedition, to meet people, places, specific contexts, new tools. During her latest research, which have pushed her to meet Yona Freedman, NG questions our modes of living. Her auto-fictions show (video, photo, drawing) or tell about (text, blog, soundtrack, performance) the artist seeking her place in utopian architecture, projecting herself in another space-time: from the Bubble House of Antti Lovag in Nice to the VDS House of Neutra or the Freeman House of Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles.
http://ngng-news.blogspot.com/
''I propose a discussion around questions we have in common ---"mirror" as you said my own exploration about utopia (through the exploration of architecture ideas and way of life--) also the question of exhibition in relation with research process--
I will show some visuals about my work too''
Romy Rüegger
verb:listening and asking questions. writing. radio-plays-
artist and author, living and working in Zürich. Organizing the lectures-series "With With: Everything but an Artist Talk" together with Lucie Kolb.
When Marthe participated in "With With: Everything but an Artist Talk" she made a performance take place at Shedhalle Zürichinvolving all the audience. She prepared a lot of objects, some everyday objects, others she actually produced for that evening. One of the objects, curved out of wood, I kept. I still have it and will bring it with me to Kasterlee. I would like to find out more about the object by talking about it to the people present at Frans Masereel Center. I will cut this talk into a small "sound-object", which could be broadcaste. Out of the object-descriptions I will take some lines and make a printed sheet with some words and maybe again involving the object itselfes.
Ron Bernstein
verb:-
biking as archiving- offering time and space as an traveling experience