We have organized a Congress here. Why? What reason can there be for artists, the freest, most independent people in society; people who live like "the lily of the field", to come together, organize themselves, and undertake theoretical discussions?
-Asger Jorn (1956)
This is a research project that culminated in a six-hour theatrical performance building upon the
First World Congress organized in Alba, Italy,
in 1956 by Asger Jorn and Pinot Gallizio among others. The Aarhus performance marks a collaboration with six actors and over 30 writers in the
performance of original scripts that offer assessment and analysis of the political conditions of artistic higher education, classroom power relations,
and the inherent tensions between audience and performer.
The Second World Congress of Free Artists, Aarhus included the following texts:
Camel Collective (DK/US/MX): Opening Speech
Mirene Arsanios (LB): Consensus Over the Mediterranean Sea
UKK (DK): Young Art Workers' Speech at the Second World Congress of Free Artists
The YES! Association(SE): We Will Open a New Front II - lecture by Lee H. Jones
Benj Gerdes and Jenn Hayashida (US/SE): Slow People
Colin Lang (US): An Imagined Bauhaus
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (DK): Dear Patient Listener
Sande Cohen (US/TH): Best Wishes to Artists and Intellectuals
Zachary Cahill (US): Art, Pedagogy: A Small Compact
Eduardo Abaroa (MX): A Brief Account of Didactic Curiosities
Javier Toscano (MX): On Critical Boredom
Ashley Hunt (US): Dictatorship of an Audience
Johannes Raether (DE): Towards an Academy of the Future: A Few Monstrous Thoughts by Ari Godwin Kollontai-Hartz
Jakob Jakobsen (DK): We Have Won!
Temporary Institute For Witchpower (XX): REFUSE - RE-FUSE - RE-FUSE
Michael Ashkin (US): were it not for the price of desertion
Andrea Creutz with Sebastien Berthier and Shirin Sabahi (SE): The Parties to this Convention: When capitalism and the academy follow the same impetus, only a disruptive silence can stop the machine from running amok
Anthony Davies, Nils Norman, and Howard Slater (UK): Suspended Vocation By Movement of the 20th October 2010
Carlos Motta (CO/US): A Message on Pedagogy and the Liberation of the Spirit
Sean Dockray (Public School) (US): An Escape Act
Monica Castillo (MX): Völkerball
Rum46 (DK): Just (a) Dictionary of a Few Ordinary Thoughts: Validation and Disruption of the Collective
Mary Walling Blackburn (Anhoek School) (US): Odor is Speech
Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler (AT/IT): Self-Organization and Self-Education in Venezuela
Sarina Basta, Karin Schneider, and Simone Leigh (US/EG): When the Southern Cross the Dog
C. Krydz Ikwuemesi (NG): Art Training in Nigeria and the PhD Syndrome
Miklos Erhardt (HU): Would the Situationists Teach Art?
Eva Egermann and Elka Krasny (AT): To Make Demands Towards Education: The Things We Have Learned...
J. Morgan Puett: Mildred's Lane, Pennsylvannia
Eva Diaz (US): Whither Curatorial Studies?
Sam Gould/Red76 (US): Flatlands: Non-Hierarchical Space and Its Uses
Flo Maak (DE): Declaration of Dependence
Stephan Dillemuth (DE): El Arduo camino hacia el conocimiento
Douglas Ross (US)
More information
Exhbibited at:
Modifications, Aarhus Arts Building, Aarhus, Denmark, 2010
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