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Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain and University of Luxembourg present

other possible worlds – proposals on this side of utopia

an international post-master programme at Casino Luxembourg (Luxembourg) from 17–31 July 2011

in continuation of Other Possible Worlds – Proposals on this Side of Utopia, a curatorial project of the New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK), Berlin, from 30 April–13 June 2011

with the workshop leaders: Dorothee Albrecht, Paul DiFelice, Berit Fischer

inaugural symposium on Monday 18 July 2011 from 10 a.m.–7 p.m. featuring presentations by the participating artists and the organisers, as well as two guests lectures by a member of the raqs media collective (monica narula, jeebesh bagchi or shuddhabrata sengupta) marjetica potr?

opening on Saturday 30 July 2011 at 5:00 p.m.

From 17 to 31 July 2011, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain and the University of Luxembourg will organise this year’s edition of the Art Workshop, an international post-master residency programme based on the theme Other Possible Worlds – Proposals on this Side of Utopia, addressing twelve young international artists.

The Art Workshop 2011 represents a continuation of the curatorial project Other Possible Worlds – Proposals on this Side of Utopia organised by the New Society for Visual Arts (NGBK, www.ngbk.de) in Berlin from 30 April – 13 June 2011.

Since 1998, the Art Workshop has been aiming at creating an international forum for encounters, research, reflection, discussion and the study of contemporary art for young artists. Public lectures are organised along with theoretical and practical workshops lead by professionals.

This year’s workshop leaders are: Dorothee Albrecht (artist, freelance curator, lives and works in Berlin, Germany), Paul di Felice (curator, editor/publisher, teacher at the University of Luxembourg) and Berit Fischer (freelance curator, lives and works in Berlin, Germany). This year’s guest lecturers are: a member of the Raqs Media Collective (Monica Narula, Jeebesh Bagchi or Shuddhabrata Sengupta) and artist and architect Marjetica Potr?.

Other Possible Worlds – Proposals on this Side of Utopia, Workshop aims at opening a space for multiple projects suggesting and testing other realities of life and other “Weltvorstellungen” (world visions) from small-scale artistic tryouts to larger social experiments. It questions the role of art projects, art spaces and self-organised academies and labs in imagining a world beyond a purely economic globalisation. The globe is the common denominator, an international shared communal space of reference. Cultural differences, economic and ecological changes and processes of levelling are urgent global issues the workshop will deal with. The subject of the Art Workshop 2011 refers to the potentialities of art as described by Sarat Maharaj. He points out that art does not only mean transmitting knowledge pre-established by the institutional discourse of systematic disciplines, but that art produces knowledge normal reasoning has difficulties to deal with. In the course of the workshop an “Other Possible Worlds – Dictionary” will be worked out as well as further material brought in by the participants as cosmos of terminologies and fields of references. Each artist will select and examine what s/he considers to be interesting, useful or meaningful. With this collection of ideas, concepts, models, terms, projects, kits and modes of acting, the participating artists will strive to create outlines for other possible worlds.

Deadline for applications is: 23 February 2011.

For more information, criteria, terms and conditions, please visit: www.artworkshop.lu.

We would kindly ask you to forward this e-mail to artists you know and who might be interested in participating in the this year’s Art Workshop.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.

Anne Reding and Fabienne Bernardini (on maternity leave) workshop coordinators

— Anne Reding Publics anne.reding@casino-luxembourg.lu

Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain 41, rue Notre-Dame / B.P. 345 L – 2013 Luxembourg T (+352) 22 50 45 F (+352) 22 95 95 www.casino-luxembourg.lu www.artworkshop.lu