Corner College

12/05/2019

Here's some exhibition views, taken by the photographer of Plovdiv 2019. We will post more over the next few days...

Ето някои снимки на изложбата, снимани от фотографа на Пловдив 2019. Ще постваме още фотографии от изложбата през следващите дни...

Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future

Fold II of Digital Ecologies: an international exhibition project in two folds

across two exhibition venues, the Center for Contemporary Art ‘Ancient Bath’ (6th September Str. 179) and the former to***co warehouse SKLAD (Ekzarh Yosif Str. 16) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

With works on display and interventions by Donatella Bernardi, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Johanna Bruckner, Sarah Burger, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Valko Chobanov, Voin de Voin & Marie Civikov, Jonas Etter, Anne-Laure Franchette, Monica Ursina Jäger, Stefanie Knobel, Marlene Maier, Boyan Manchev with Ani Vaseva and Leonid Yovchev (Metheor), Emil Mirazchiev, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, Lourenço Penaguião Soares, Elodie Pong, Oliver Ressler, Tabita Rezaire, Dorothea Rust, Elza Sile, Kerstin Schroedinger, Pascal Schwaighofer, Venelin Shurelov, Sandro Steudler, Kamen Stoyanov, Milva Stutz, Katharina Swoboda, Una Szeemann / Bohdan Stehlik, Riikka Tauriainen, Lena Maria Thüring, Alexander Tuchaček, Borjana Ventzislavova, and Martina-Sofie Wildberger

with interventions and talks by the philosophers Boyan Manchev, Stanimir Panayotov, and Gerald Raunig

Curated by Dimitrina Sevova

Austrian participation co-curated by Katharina Swoboda

with organizational support from Emil Mirazchiev

04 May to 30 June 2019

Photos in this album: Evgenia Dimitrova, Plovdiv 2019

http://digital-ecologies.arttoday.org/2019/index.html

12/05/2019

Digital Dramatizations: Ecologies from the Future

Fold II of Digital Ecologies: an international exhibition project in two folds

across two exhibition venues, the Center for Contemporary Art ‘Ancient Bath’ (6th September Str. 179) and the former to***co warehouse SKLAD (Ekzarh Yosif Str. 16) in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

With works on display and interventions by Donatella Bernardi, Ursula Biemann, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Johanna Bruckner, Sarah Burger, Delphine Chapuis Schmitz, Valko Chobanov, Voin de Voin & Marie Civikov, Jonas Etter, Anne-Laure Franchette, Monica Ursina Jäger, Stefanie Knobel, Marlene Maier, Boyan Manchev with Ani Vaseva and Leonid Yovchev (Metheor), Emil Mirazchiev, Uriel Orlow, Ursula Palla, Lourenço Penaguião Soares, Elodie Pong, Oliver Ressler, Tabita Rezaire, Dorothea Rust, Elza Sile, Kerstin Schroedinger, Pascal Schwaighofer, Venelin Shurelov, Sandro Steudler, Kamen Stoyanov, Milva Stutz, Katharina Swoboda, Una Szeemann / Bohdan Stehlik, Riikka Tauriainen, Lena Maria Thüring, Alexander Tuchaček, Borjana Ventzislavova, and Martina-Sofie Wildberger

with interventions and talks by the philosophers Boyan Manchev, Stanimir Panayotov, and Gerald Raunig

Curated by Dimitrina Sevova

Austrian participation co-curated by Katharina Swoboda

with organizational support from Emil Mirazchiev

04 May to 30 June 2019

Photos in this album: Evgenia Dimitrova, Plovdiv 2019

http://digital-ecologies.arttoday.org/2019/index.html

23/08/2018

Luchezar Boyadjiev, The Greatest Love of My Life was a Non-Human, 2018. Photo: code flow.

02/08/2018

04/12/2017

Beginning of Katharina Swoboda's performance To Performen Muche Time, on Saturday, 28 October 2017, at the trans-local Sympodium What’s Wrong with Performance Art? at Corner College, Zurich, 27-29 October 2017, curated by Dorothea Rust and Dimitrina Sevova, co-curated by Denis Pernet. See .

Dear Sympodium participants
We would like to thank you so much for your great contributions, for making this three-day marathon Sympodium event happen! It was such an intense time, and exchange between us, and all of you contributed to this special environment that we created together, a space for the enjoyment of performance art, but also discussing around the topic, both publicly and privately.

We would have liked to get back to you earlier with this e-mail. But our duties towards other projects, and travels immediately after the Sympodium, delayed it somewhat, as we had to organize ourselves again. For us it is important, even with some delay, to express our great appreciation for what we did together.

We would like to thank our co-curator and fantastic collaborator Denis Pernet for his inspiring contribution, and especially for his careful engagement with the selection of participants from the Romandie. This turned the Sympodium into one of those rare events celebrating the cross-regional performance scene, bringing together strong positions across the performance scene. We enjoyed your very engaged participation, as well as a very emotional and committed audience.

We would not want to miss any of your contributions, be it performance, performative intervention, panel presentation or input, as well as your long-lasting presence throughout the Sympodium, being also a passionate and dedicated audience.
We want to thank Denis Pernet again for collaborating with us and having chosen such interesting positions from the Romandie. We are very happy about these contacts.
Let’s hope that we can stay in touch, inform each other about our activities or relevant issues we want to share with each other. We think it’s important nowadays that we make possible such temporary gatherings which affect us and might have a longer lasting impact on us.

Regarding the documentation of the Sympodium:
If you have images, footage or sound recordings, we would appreciate very much if you could send it to us.
We will publish a selection, together with our documentation material, and publish it on the Materials website of Corner College (materials.corner-college.com), hopefully by the end of the year, from where you will be able to download the materials. We kindly ask you to be patient, it will take a while.

Thank you sincerely

Camille Aleña
Madeleine Amsler
Donatella Bernardi
Linda Cassens Stoian
Delphine Chapuis Schmitz
Voin de Voin
Mo Diener
Heike Fiedler
Gilles Furtwängler
Lia García
San Keller
Elise Lammer
Milenko Lazic
Valerian Maly
Federica Martini
Angela Marzullo
Lou Masduraud
Muda Mathis
Irene Müller
Sibylle Omlin
Denis Pernet
Guillaume Pilet
Nathalie Rebholz
Chris Regn
Georg Rutishauser
Andrea Saemann
Pascal Schwaighofer
Dorothea Schürch
Bernadett Settele
Axelle Stiefel
Kamen Stoyanov
Katharina Swoboda
Martina-Sofie Wildberger
and Alan Roth for the manifold support ’behind the curtains’
and Chris Regn for her charming presence behind the bar
and all who have helped out in some ways or other.

Warm regards
Dorothea & Dimitrina

18/03/2017

Gregory Hari: begone before somebody drops a house on you too. Performance on 08 October 2016. Photo: code flow.

An exhibition by Gregory Hari

with the support of Lavdrim Dzemailji

curated by Dimitrina Sevova and Alan Roth.

Opening: Saturday, 08 October 2016, starting at 18:00h
with a performance by Gregory Hari at 19:00h.

Saturday, 08 October 2016 - Friday, 21 October 2016

Further performances by Gregory Hari on Friday, 14 and Friday, 21 October 2016, 20:00h (door opens 19:00h).

begone before somebody drops a house on you too

“Suddenly, this story came in and took possession. It really seemed to write itself.” L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)

With his exhibition project at Corner College, Gregory Hari undertakes an experiment with the medium of exhibition and performativity, site specificity and the relation between mapping and performance. He further explores issues on belonging and territory, home and journey, inspired by the contexts of the novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by Lyman Frank Baum and published in 1900, and its most successful and popular movie/musical adaptation starring 13-year-old Judy Garland, which launched in 1939 to six Oscar nominations, and become influential for the new era of Walt Disney and the later Disney Empire, and by their aesthetic, social and political impact in the mainstream and in subculture.

The artist generates a performative map or diagram of movements and fragments that will open up a process, and project power-knowledge relations that reveal the hidden social and political issues and their potential to aesthetically and critically engage the audience. But the production of the event is not an ‘exchange of knowledge for power,’ nor a symbolic force. The performance confronts the audience with its archival moment across various narratives structures, and scatters in an-other geography of a journey as a vehicle for metamorphoses that go through contradictory permutations, as every act activates on this topography the performing strategies of an Odyssey. The topography becomes a “science of the sensible – the science of total joy,” a chaosmos journey of micro-physical mapping and mind-map of micro-desires. They are a journey as a cognitive concept and narrative future of a body, interwoven with Gregory Hari’s research materials, which displays the source of his movements and directions.

The artist situates himself on a yellow strip around one meter wide, where his performance takes place. He improvises ‘across seemingly exhaustive ground.’ It is a process of taking place – a particular place and a particular time. The performance transforms these temporal and spatial categories to a “threshold” that un-rolls an-other flexible and self-multiplying strip of impersonalized and individuated, self-constructed temporal and spatial relativity that constitutes a world yet to be explored. The artist’s performance starts from this particular coordinate of time and space where it takes place and places things in context. With this, the artist emphasizes a dependence of his performance on its specific chronotope (Bakhtin) that animates a process of ‘endlessly’ expanding its performative territory with the time of the body’s movements and the “time space” of the traveler who carries this place with themselves as they travel through it. A journey like a blank page.

Excerpts from the curatorial text by Dimitrina Sevova (PDF, 181KB).

This event and exhibition

17/03/2017

Today, 18:00h at Corner College:
Guest Talk of Programme in Curating CAS/MAS ZHdK
Tenzing Barshee: New Projects
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=97fd3828d94e99dfeceaa8b3b&id=019d785630&e=614f2be470

13/03/2017

Talk by Federica Martini: Pérruques, homers and pirate radios. Photo: code flow.

Tuesday, 29.11.2016
19:00h

Talk by Federica Martini: Pérruques, homers and pirate radios.

The « pérruque » is a tactic for diverting time from the factory work and indulge in creative no-profit labour. Like pirate radios, pérruques infiltrate production narratives with notions of desire and liberated time. Like quilts, the pérruques are a non-hegemonic class practice that is based on appropriation, storytelling and generosity. In resonance with Cora Piantoni's exhibition Buon Lavoro! Prose of The Day – Poetic Resistance at Corner College, in this talk the pérruque will play as a magnifying glass and a metaphor to read collaborations between artists and workers in factories in 1960s-1970s Italy. Focusing on proximities and correspondences between artistic processes, factory culture, and alternative radio strategies, context will be given to Gianfranco Baruchello, Gruppo N, Maria Lai, Olivetti and Italsider.

20:00h Conversation between Federica Martini, the artist Cora Piantoni and the curator Dimitrina Sevova, in the context of Federica Martini's talk and on the occasion of Cora Piantoni's personal exhibition Buon Lavoro! Prose of The Day – Poetic Resistance.

This event on our website: http://corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1480374000/1186

03/02/2017

It was an amazing book presentation, with great attention from the Zurich and Swiss designer community. The space at one moment was so crowded that it was difficult to get more people in. Have a look at the program of the publisher, Triest Verlag! And thanks so much to Maria and Miwa for their friendly support behind the bar!

Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland is not just another book that retells the success story of Swiss graphic design. It is a collection of eleven selected essays deriving from academic research that explores historical dimensions of graphic design in Switzerland – from producing it, to archiving and exhibiting it.

The book is also an endeavor to open up a space for graphic design history by providing new perspectives, ideas and tools that enable historical research in such a crucial field for Switzerland as graphic design and typography.

On this occasion, the editors Davide Fornari and Robert Lzicar and publisher Triest invite you to celebrate the launch of the book. A presentation of the book will be followed by a number of talks by contributors and sponsors on why they did support / contribute. The evening will end with a toast on the publication.

Program

19:00–19:10 Greeting: Kerstin Forster (publisher at Triest Verlag)
19:10–19:30 Presentation of the book: Davide Fornari, Robert Lzicar (editors of “Mapping Graphic Design History in Switzerland”)
19:30–19:40 Speaker 1: Sarah Owens (ZHdK and Swiss Design Network SDN)
19:40–19:50 Speaker 2: Marina Oliveira (Designer of Visual Essays, Graphic Designer, Zurich)
19:50–20:00 Speaker 3: Peter Vetter (Coande, ZHdK)
20:00–20:10 Speaker 4: Bettina Richter (Poster Collection, MfG - auf Deutsch/in German)
20:10–20:15 Questions & Statements
20:15–21:00 Apéro

Davide Fornari is associate professor at ECAL University of Art and Design in Lausanne, where he leads the research and development sector. He has previously been teacher and researcher at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.

Robert Lzicar is a designer, educator and researcher. At the HKB Bern University of the Arts, he is head of the MA Communication Design, researcher at the Department of R+D Communication Design, and professor of design history.

This event on our website: http://corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1485990000/1192

03/02/2017

Container City und Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V., Stuttgart. Presentation by Aaron Schirrmann about Container City. Photo: code flow.

This event is part of the exhibition

Theorem 4. Aesthetic Agency and the Practices of Autonomy
Part 1: Critique de l’économie politique de l’atelier d'artiste

Thanks a lot to Aaron Schirrmann and Lisa Biedlingmaier for the wonderful presentation and evening at Corner College!

Aaron Schirrmann (Architekt) und Lisa Biedlingmaier (Künstlerin und Kuratorin) berichten über den aktuellen Stand der Container City und die Arbeit des Kunstvereins Wagenhalle in Stuttgart.

Seit einer Woche laufen die Renovierungsarbeiten an der Wagenhalle, die in 2 Jahren wiedereröffnet werden soll.
Ein Ort an dem seit 2004, über 80 verschiedene Ateliers, Werkstätte, Proberäume und der Ausstellungsraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle ihr temporäres Zuhause hatten.

Der Kunstverein hat jetzt ein Interimsquartier auf dem Gelände vor der Halle aufgebaut. Die meisten Künstler und Kulturschaffenden sind vor Ort geblieben und arbeiten weiter in den ca. 140 Containern und einigen Sonderbauten.

images: Aida Nejad
photography: Ferdinando Iannone

This event on our website: http://corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1485385200/1196

03/02/2017

Preparation and opening of

Theorem 4. Aesthetic Agency and the Practices of Autonomy
Part 1: Critique de l’économie politique de l’atelier d'artiste

A group exhibition with Lisa Biedlingmaier, San Keller, and Maria Pomiansky in collaboration with Vadim Levin

curated by Dimitrina Sevova and Alan Roth,
curatorial interns Miwa Negoro and Swati Prasad.

Saturday, 21 January – Sunday, 19 February 2017

Opening: Saturday, 21 January at 18:00h
Finissage: Sunday, 19 February at 17:00h

Artist talks and other accompanying events to be announced.

Opening Hours
Wed/Fri 15:00h – 18:00h
Thu 16:00h – 19:00h

The exhibition/project will take place in two parts, of which this is the first:
Part 1: Critique de l’économie politique de l’atelier d'artiste
Part 2: Der Prozess / The Trial

This exhibition project on our website: http://corner-college.com/Veranstaltungen/1484953200/1194