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Four guests had been chosen to make presentations due to their professional skills, interests and experience. Each of them had been invited to bring to Riga 5 titles (books, publications, magazines etc.), which are crucial for their own practice or which in their opinion might be essential for the library of a contemporary art space. Books will be integrated in the Kim?\u00a0<\/em>library and after the event will be available for public. Amongst the audience a few personally through Kim? selected people were present in order to create a more focussed and participative atmosphere. These people also had been asked to write about the event for documentary reasons.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Guests: <\/p>\n Responsible curator: <\/p>\n Programme: <\/p>\n February 18 <\/p>\n February 19 <\/p>\n Maja Wismer about the idea of the workshop:\u00a0Starting point for the workshop “How to Act in the Middle of the Sentence?” was the idea of an art writing workshop, focussing on Northern Europe. From this conceptual discussions developed about more general approach towards written material – use of written material. The question arose: Who uses written material and how? This seemed to make even more sense in connection with the newly established Kim?\u00a0library \/ reading room open for public. The library \/ reading room as a social space and an integral part of Kim?\u00a0and Kim?’s aim to establish itself within the local context are part of the concept to invite four guests to contribute their working material (books, printed matter) to the library. To leave traces in the library, that will attract other users.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The library as a social space and the books as a social space – both of them function with time gaps. In order to allow social encounters the books don’t need to be read at the same time. This can, in the Derrida sense, also happen in different moments (even spread over centuries), and still it is some kind of sharing, when people read the same books. It is the aim of the workshop to focus on the spatial dimension of books, to not simply treat them as titles in a list, but to connect them with social moments, with people talking about them, opening them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One very important change from the initial invitation to conceive an art writing workshop is the shift from the focus on two dimensional text towards three dimensional options on how to use text or printed matter in general. (Thinking that writing comes from reading…)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another aspect, in the last few years so many \u201creading lists\u201d etc. have been circulating within the context of the fields of contemporary art, I think it’s quite important to \u201copen\u201d the books again. Not just mentioning the titles, but bringing back the objects, the books. It is for this that these four guests have been invited to bring \u201ctheir\u201d books, talk about them and leave them for somebody else to open.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The workshop “How to Act in the Middle of the Sentence?” was held in the Kim? library, Maskavas str. 12\/1. Admission is free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2217 Idea about the title of the workshop comes from lectures on writing by Guna Kalni\u0146a in Lukabuka<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks for support to: State Culture Capital Foundation, Kulturkontakt Nord, Goethe-Institut Riga, Embassy of Sweden in Riga, The Danish Culture Institute, airBaltic, Studija, \u00bc Satori","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On February 18 and 19 Kim? Contemporary Art Centre and art historian and curator Maja Wismer had invited to attend workshop on the topic of writing – “How to Act in the Middle of the Sentence?”\u2217. It focused on how to use written material, the institutional role of a library and reading room that are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-past-events","category-kim-events","category-past-events"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\nEmma Kihl, visual artist, based in Stockholm
\nElisabeth Klement, graphic designer, based in Amsterdam and Tallinn
\nJudith Schwarzbart, art theoretician and curator, based in Copenhagen
\nManuela Schlumpf, curator and writer, based in London and Z\u00fcrich<\/p>\n
\nMaja Wismer, art historian and curator based in Basel and Stockholm<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 17\u00a0Arrival of the guests
\n19.00\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Opening of the exhibitions of Kaspars Podnieks, M\u0101rti\u0146\u0161 Ratniks and “Harald Szeemann:
\nDocumenta 5” (from ICI series \u201cExhibition in a Box\u201d) in\u00a0kim?<\/em>\u00a0galleries<\/p>\n
\n10.15 – 10.30\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Registration
\n10.30 – 11.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Introduction by Maja Wismer and Zane Onckule
\n11.00 – 13.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0First presentation and discussions
\n13.00 – 15.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch and conversations
\n15.00 – 17.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Second presentation and discussions<\/p>\n
\n11.00 -13.00 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Third presentation and discussions
\n13.00 – 15.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Lunch and conversations
\n15.00 – 17.00 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Fourth presentation and discussions
\n19.00\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Closing of the workshop<\/p>\n