BYGG REC 2009
Bygg Rec was a collaboration between Local A. artists Jenny Berntsson and Felice Hapetzeder and Tensta Konsthall. Two art projects of different nature, method and technology created a base for the project in co-operation with the young people. The workshop included sessions on contemporary art and teaching in basic training in filmmaking techniques.
The project worked with young people who participated in art production and simultaneously learned how to work with moving images in workshop form. The participants had opportunity to develop an understanding of contemporary art and were given voice to interpret their reality by learning how to make a simple storyboard, script, interview techniques and dramatize moving images.
The workshop's purpose was to help young people build self-esteem, sense of place, developing skills and social interaction beyond the limits of diversity.
The result of Bygg Rec, the films of the participants and documentation will be included in the exhibition part of Record Construct Istanbul.
Bygg Rec is funded by Swedish art grants committee and Stockholm Cultural council - Jalla!
KLINIK 2011
Intermediate courses for artists are often focused on a specific practical technology. Moreover, they are expensive and / or institution-bound. We believe that there is a need for alternatives. Many artists have a particular need to develop their theme and to get an honest opinion and input during their work process. You might have worked on similar issues for years and feel that you are starting to get stuck. Or maybe you are on to something new, but don’t really afford the time and effort because you are afraid of losing what you have. This is why Clinic exists. At Clinic artists who want to develop their creative projects in small groups, meet to give and receive constructive criticism. The promise of Clinic is that no outside observer will watch, there will only be equal project owners. The aim is to develop an understanding of each other’s artistry and process, unconditionally and with as little of hierarchical prestige as possible, and then help each other forward. An important aspect is that the project managers (Local A.) are exposed to and enjoy the same opportunity to critique as the others. (The hierarchy of the group is flat, but the project leaders remain responsible for the whole.)
LEAVE EVERYTHING
The new art project of Local A. To Leave Everything, is about the border between culture and nature. We have taken this as a starting point and want to explore what happens if you relate to ideas about getting close to nature or to leave the life you have to live another, still only planned one. Another way of Leaving Everything is to redefine life and achieve personal fulfilment through childbearing / rearing.
How is it that we have created this relationship with nature through culture? How come our culture creates an urge from itself to nature? Is it even possible to leave everything we call culture, the context we have, and find another one where we feel freer to be the ones we want to be? Thoughts like these can sometimes be near at hand in the socially vulnerable and economically frail situation, in which artists often find themselves. The working conditions of artists are in many ways different from others’ and one sometimes wonders whether it is possible to continue to work at the premises which society offers. For artists there is always the possibility of professional suicide, a change of path as a last resort for a more decent life. In Leave Everything we examine what this notion of freedom really may mean on a personal, professional and cultural level. We do it by meeting other artists in Clinic and bringing the draft for Leaving Everything as a question to them.
KLINIK ISLAND 2011 in cooperation with The Lost Horse Gallery and Drifa Freyju Og Ármannsdottir in Reykjavik.
with suppport from
SKAPANDE SKOLA / TUSEN BILDER 2011
A thousand pictures is a project for schools initiated by Felice Hapetzeder.
Moving images create identity. Give voice. Thousand Images is a workshop that teaches a cinematic approach and allows young people to produce 20-second films about their life.
They can legitimize a lifestyle and a way of acting and speaking. Moving images tell us of the protagonist and his / her reality, put the spectator in his / her place. This gives voice to those who master the medium. Knowledge also provides a critical awareness of how other films influence. The workshop will help to convey this. In the workshop we explore the language of film inspired by propaganda. How would you describe yourself as powerfully as possible in 20 seconds? The usage is everything from changing the world to capturing the perfect job interview! We assist practically, provide information, inspiration, tools, and show examples. The attendants will be working on their short films individually or in groups.
RECORD CONSTRUCT 2010
Pesentation
Record Construct is a collaboration between Local A. and Istanbul 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe. Two developing art works by Jenny Berntsson and Felice Hapetzeder together with youths living in Istanbul constitute the base for the project.
The workshop will address attitudes towards environmental issues and housing conditions triggered by Cupola Construction. The youths are provided possibility to develop an understanding of contemporary art and given a set of tools for communication: They will learn how to make a simple story board, script and dramatise moving images. They experience the difference between being the one performing an interview and being the interviewee. They are free to shape their own ideal story in moving images and encouraged to tell a story from their lives. In the finalized artwork by Hapetzeder interviews will be intertwined with the young peoples own dramatized stories produced under tutelage of the workshop. This material will be shown in interplay with the architectural sculpture Cupola Construction.
Common to works by the artists is a commitment to issues relating to time and place. Hapetzeders’ continued project Limits of forgiveness is about how events, which you have not even experienced yourself, still affect you through parents or other influences during your growth. Berntssons’ Igloo Construction II is about the process of construction and decay, in the city as in nature. Where Jenny Berntssons’Cupola Construction works physically with the participants to build something tangible, Felice Hapetzeders’ Limits of forgiveness acts into the past and present on a mental level, engaging the participants to share their story in his video work. The maps, which are delineated by the works are complementary and cross-fertilize.
Record Construct is supported by the Portable art section of Istanbul 2010 Cultural Capital of Europe, the Swedish Institute, Consulate General of Sweden Istanbul, Iaspis, STEP beyond mobility fund, European Cultural Foundation and Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse.
