ABOUT FREE CULTURE
Time:
CAMP: 28th of February-1st of March 2008, open to
all
Exhibition: 1st of February- 16th of
March. Opening hours for the
exhibition: Wednesday-Saturday 12.00-17.00
Place:
rum46, Århus Denmark (www.rum46.dk)
-a non-profit exhibition space
for
contemporary art and surrounding public space.
Organizers: Field Work (Lise Skou and
Nis
Rømer) in collaboration with rum46
The
culture that we all create should not be owned or privatized by
corporations. No idea comes from solitary confinement, but builds on
long traditions of free exchange, cultural production, everyday life
and lived experience. The instrumentalisation of art and
culture for economic gain is an invasion of our life worlds that needs
to be addressed and countered. We want culture that is free, critical,
counter productive, anarchistic, shared, sustainable, public and
participatory as well as recklessly entertaining. We will produce with
lust for life and dance on the graves of the bloodsuckers from the
creative class and the experience economy.
Free culture is not only a question of copyright but a wider issue of
access to commons like land, water and air. How can these resources be
distributed in a just way and how do we secure that the side effects of
our culture; scarcity and pollution is not once again just becoming
somebody else's problem.
Free culture is a 3 day camp in rum46. Events and talks will be mixed
with performance, production and group works. It will be a live-in
environment for cultural production, and exchange between academics,
artists, social movements and a participating audience.
Artists/participants:
Sine Bang (DK), Kayle Brandon (UK), Kristine Briede (Latvia), Adams
& Itso, Field Work (DK), Groupwork/Students from the Art
Academies (DK),
Andreas Wegner (D/AUS), Henrik Moltke (DK), Amy Balkin (US),
YNKB (DK)
Supported by The Danish Arts Council.
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