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SYNAPSE – Das Internationale network of curators at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
www.synapse.info

open call for workshop(7.-10.September) for newcomer curators at HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT Berlin. deadline: 31.5., theme: art and science

http://www.synapse.info/open-call/

From Asia, you can see Europe…

http://soundcloud.com/lauriebellanca/ypal-openspace-mp3

Hopefully you were there Elsa!

I suppose there is also a video of this round table done by the theater: maybe Anne G  you can help us?

translation round table YPAL 18 12 10

…that We had in Reims, and it can be nice to keep a memory of them as well…

calendrier ypal 4

Here you can find different elements we collected/gathered…we will organise it well but wanted to call for your participation to feed this collection with your eventual notes/remarks/texts… Thank’s!

questions to begin with

The 8 questions 17 dec

réflexions microtables

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Remember our first encounter….

in french: pourypal

in englishkp pourypal EN

Here are some notes taken during the first discussion we (kom.post) had in the Studio in order to work with all of you. As we wanted to propose you an other way to introduce yourselves to each other: not under the mere principle of Identity card (I come from…I am…years old…), we thought that it would be interesting to do this exercise ourselves as well!

Indeed, during these 3 Days in Reims, we all took, temporally, a shared and common identity: the “spectator”. This is the common denominator of this process and ground of research we really started to activate all together in December. But, more than trying to build a strong and consensual group under it, we found more interesting to, from this common given, call for the differences and singularities.

Spectator yes, but what kind of spectator I am?

What made me as a spectator? What are the references, the readings, the things watched… which really formed my eyes and made of me this unique spectator at the same time when they transformed me in an essentially “sharable” individual who can communicate and be understood by all these other very unique spectators…

Same and differences…

And this balance of common and singular identities is even more important not to forget and to always put in question when our main place of residence is Europe: where subjects are, precisely under a same identity (european) but with so may differences important to preserve as well!

And this was precisely our aim of the 3 days: not to “think about Europe” “places of art in Europe” in a very abstract way, but to find from our direct experiment and situation, some info, line of debates, questions…

And this is sure that “the contemporary spectator” taken as a participant, as someone invited to interact with a proposition he attends and receives with other persons, has a lot to say about the place and possibility of a citizen today.

Yes I am invited, but do I really have the tools for participating fully? Am I thought as subjective or already put in a place, predefined by the Big Others (cultural policies for example…) that I can’t do more than fulfill? How can I really feel involved in this experiment? How can my voice be heard, not as a “new actor” but really as a spectator: the one who is a part of the artistic experiment and all its ephemeral communities, who is curious about art and wants to follow it, to learn about, without obligation to practice it as well?

All these questions of “spectator” are obviously full of political connotations very important to take into account when the political “stage” of the play here, is following the same tendance as contemporary living art: a desire for more participation and inclusion of the supposed “watchers”, taken as a multitude of singularities…

Sure that 3 days were not enough to dig all this problematic but, all the archive collected here in such a short time, is much more than stimulating and a big probe of necessity of this project to go on and on!

discussion YPAL-kom.post15 déc

As It was an intern discussion this is for the moment in french: but open for any spontaneous translations that YPAL knows so well how to wake up (not only Elsa can take this occasion…) thanks!

Invented by kom.post but to be spread around by all of you!
As the YPAL Bruxelles are starting to do!
Plan of a shared factory Reims

Hello everybody, I hope everybody managed to come home before Xmas..

I just saw that all the information (including the personal information like birth date etc.) comes up on google search. Is there a possibility to put the Profiles part in a more private part of the page? I would appreciate this very much.

All the best from Germany,

Nora