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+ C O N S T A N T N E W S L E T T E R
+ This is the newsletter of Constant
+ Organisation for art and media
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+ August 2020
+ English version
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+ In this newsletter:
+ 16/07-15/09 Open Call: Bureaucracksy
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+ ongoing:
+ 25/06-20/12 DiVersions v2 // 7 installations + guided tours (on-line)
+ 23/07-20/09 Constant sponge (Constant vitrine)
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What: Open Call: Bureaucracksy
When: Deadline 15 September
Between 7 and 12 December 2020, Constant organises the work-session
Bureaucracksy. This work-session investigates the governance of
techno-social systems through the prism of bureaucracy. The execution of
rules is an essential element of computation, of digital
infrastructures, and of the societies that they operate with. Critical
practices of listing, naming, filtering, tool making, care and sharing
require that some books are kept.
Initiatives around Free/libre, Open Source software for example insist
on producing transparent procedures and thereby contribute to the
creation of commoning structures, collective resources and addressing
the Conducts of Code. The work-session invites artists and activists to
share imaginations of counter-accountancies and -accountabilities, of
how to engage with paperwork, systemics and logistics.
The session takes place in Hacktiris, the shared workplace that Constant
and many other artists and cultural organisations use in the center of
Brussels. As the former headquarters of Actiris, the Brussels Regional
Employment Office, the building has an infamous history of paperwork
itself.
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What: DiVersions v2 // 7 installations + guided tours (on-line)
Where: [removed]
When: From 25 June to 20 December
In seven on-line installations, artists show how digital collections of
cultural institutions could welcome very different and even opposing
views. Decolonial and intersectional perspectives call for a rethinking
of on-line cultural heritage. What if we would arrange otherwise, invent
material ways to move with data and listen to metadata’s uncertainties?
The installations in the on-line exhibition were first shown in De
Pianofabriek in October 2019. On the basis of reflections and
discussions among the artists and with visitors, this second version of
DiVersions has been completely reworked.
With: Collection of uncertainties (Marie Lécrivain, Colm o’Neill),
Sketchy recognition (Michael Murtaugh, Nicolas Malevé), When organic
trees meet the data tree (Anaïs Berck), Material Journeys Through Other
Realities (Phil Langley, Mia Melvær), The weight of things (Cristina
Cochior), A new fire ceremony (Zoumana Meïté, Martino Morandi),
Diff3r3ntVversionsArePOSSIBLE?!. (Z.)
Scenography: Mia Melvær and Cristina Cochior.
Guided tour: Tuesday 2 September 15:00-16:00, find us here:
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as a group on other dates, please contact: DiVersions is a project initiated by Constant, Association for Art and
Media, in collaboration with UGent – Department of Educational Studies,
Department of Educational Studies, Werkplaats immaterieel erfgoed,
VIAA/PACKED – Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed, RoSa – Kenniscentrum
voor gender en feminisme. The second version of the DiVersions
publication will be published in December 2020.
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What: Constant sponge
Where: Constant vitrine, Rue du Fortstraat 5, 1060 Saint-Gilles
When: From 23 July to 20 September
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (/pəˈrɪfərə/; meaning “pore
bearer”), are a basal Metazoa (animal) clade as a sister of the
Diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of
pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting
of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells.
Digital snapshots, audio recordings, screen grabs, video clips, radio
programs, posters, publications, mindmaps: for 20 years dribs and drabs
of digital detritus have washed ashore the various servers of Constant.
Over the last three years, Constant collaborated with Michael Murtaugh
and Martino Morandi on the ’sponge’, an ecosystem of tools to index,
link, and rewrite these digital materials to tell (new) stories of more
than two decades of activities. Resulting playlists are shown in the
Constant aquarium (aka window).
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+ Constant is supported by:
+ Departement Cultuur, Jeugd, Sport en Media van de Vlaamse Overheid
+ Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
+ Fonds Maribel Social / [removed]
+ Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest
+ Dienst Nederlandstalige aangelegenheden van de Gemeente Sint-Gillis
+ Wallonie-Bruxelles International
+ Services du Gouvernement Francophone Bruxellois
+ Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
+ Creative Europe Programme of the European Union
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