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institute
of international visual arts
SOFT SEASON
the danger museum
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September - 27 September 2002
TheSpace@inIVA, 6-8 Standard Place Rivington Street London EC2A
3BE UK
Wednesday - Friday, 12noon - 6pm
Tuesday 3 September, 6pm - 8pm |
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The Danger Museum is a visual arts organisation that is everything
the museum is not: mobile, temporary, ever-evolving and funny.
Since 1998, DM has been travelling to various locations around
the world, constantly re-adapting and changing its form to create
a diverse and incisive body of visual arts projects. Working
from Norway, Japan and Singapore, DM's current directors Tien
Wei Woon, Oyvind Renberg and Miho Shimizu say their aim is to
'adopt personal, flexible and direct methods for the exploration
and distribution of ideas.'
DM aims to challenge the core values of the art institution,
hoping to fill the gaps where the art museum fails. DM sets
up dynamic networks and systems of exchange between artists,
thereby tackling the inertia of the official institution. DM's
projects create meeting points for artists from all over the
world, and it is this constant flow of ideas and strategies
that keeps DM firmly outside the mainstream visual arts agenda.
DM's projects for inIVA's Soft Season include an online publishing
house, chatrooms, webcams, interviews, a library networking
project, museum shop, aRt cafe by Dream Products Co. and a specially
produced DM newsletter. The Danger Museum presents four separate
projects in TheSpace@inIVA:
Week 1: 4th September - 6th September
2002 Alex Villar - Upward Mobility: a film begun in New York
and continued in London, investigating the relationship between
architectural space and the body.
Week 2: 11th September - 13th September
2002 Kyong Fa Che: flea-market style account of travelling in
Singapore. Plus: The Artists' Village: art collective from Singapore
present recent projects.
Week 3: 18th September - 20th September
2002 Matze Schmidt & Sebastian Stegner: two German artists use
the space for 'real.-Mapping', an ongoing research project that
creates a global map of social life.
Week 4: 25th September - 27th September
2002 Re-analysing the Danger Museum.
the danger museum is part of inIVA's soft season September -
December 2002 Soft is inIVA's new season of visual arts projects,
bringing together a diverse selection of international artist-curated
exhibitions and events. Soft is an exploration of networking,
exchange, mobility and interaction, and the season presents
these activities as viable strategies for contemporary art production.
Crucially, Soft aims to expose the elastic and fluid nature
of current visual art practice.
For further information, visuals and updates please contact:
Stuart Croft (Press) / Natasha Anderson (Marketing) / Melanie
Keen (SOFT curator): tel: +44 (0)20 7729 9616 email: institute@iniva.org
web: www.iniva.org
inIVA is funded by the Arts Council of England and London Arts
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