Today we received a nice surprise in the mail. Radmila Joksimovic, curator at Museum of Contemporary Art-Belgrade mailed us the catalogue for the Lecture Performance exhibition.

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The exhibition and catalogue was a collaboration between MoCA-Belgrade (Serbia) and Kolnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, Germany). It’s a very nice book so we’ve very pleased. Pinky and I spent the evening reading through a couple of the essays and looking at the work of the other artists in the show.

Introduction
Kathrin Jentjens, Radmilla Joksimovic, Anja Nathan-Dorn, Jelena Vesic

Ars Academica - the Lecture between Artistic and Academic Discourse
Jenny Dirksen

Doing Lectures. Performative Lectures as a Framework for Artistic Action
Marianne Wagner

A Piece about a Lecture
Vit Havranek and Boris Ondreicka

Performing Lecture Machine
Aldo Milohnic

Performance as Research and Production of Knowledge in Art
Ana Vujanovic and Jelena Vesic

Artists & other Lecturers/Performers:

Fia Backstrom
Walter Benjamin
Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz
Dan Graham
Andrea Fraser
Mark Leckey
Robert Morris
The Pinky Show
Piratbyran
Martha Rosler
Grupa Spomenik
TkH
V-Girls
Jeronimo Voss
Katarina Zdjelar/Jan Verwoert

This is fun. I will read the rest of the essays tomorrow.

Bunny

The extra-curricular conference Part II is now over. Special thanks to HR03, who accompanied us to Toronto to do all the human being stuff that’s generally expected at these things -  presentations, workshops, etc. He did a good job (*sound of clapping*).

Here is a list of the other participants who participated in Part II.

Center for Urban Pedagogyy (NYC, United States)
colourschool (Vancouver, Canada)
Dodolab (Waterloo, Canada)
La Lleca (Mexico City, Mexico)
Radical Education Research Collective (RERC) (Toronto, Canada)
The Pinky Show (middle of nowhere)
Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (Toronto, Canada)
Ultra-Red (London, UK)
Annette Krauss (Utrecht, Netherlands)

We also did a joint-presentation with Winnipeg-based curator Milena Placentile for extra-curricular Part I last month (we did that one via video conference - awkward! - probably won’t be trying that again until the technology improves…); the participants list is as follows:

Carmen Mörsch (Zurich)
Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández (Toronto, Canada)
Rodrigo Hernandez-Gomez (Toronto/Mexico City)
Andrew Hunter (Waterloo, Canada)
Michelle Jacques (Toronto, Canada)
Amos Latteier (Montreal, Canada)
Syrus Marcus Ware, Srimoyee Mitra and members from the AGO Youth Council (Toronto)
Darren O’Donnell (Toronto, Canada)
Milena Placentile (Winnipeg, Canada)
The Pinky Show (middle of nowhere)
Christine Shaw (Toronto, Canada)
Kim Simon (Toronto, Canada)
Stephanie Springgay (Toronto, Canada)
Daisuke Takeya (Toronto, Canada)
Maiko Tanaka (Toronto, Canada)
Xu Tan (Guangzhou, China)

A special, big thank you to Maiko Tanaka for organizing the whole thing. We hope you will come visit us soon.

Siya, the ice cream in the freezer is for you. xoxo

Bunny