Educational programming, AKI-2, Enschede [1999]

Paperbags filled with various items to guide students through the two-day workshop / Debra Solomon's presentation / the early morning breakfast

Re-writing the real: a two day guide to use and abuse, AKI2, September 17-18 1999

Re-writing the real is an age old practice with its roots in art and artifice. This program was a two day sampler of just what strategies have been deployed to use and abuse the real in order to create "artefictions" out of artefacts. From Baudrillard’s musings on simulacra to Situationists plots to bring about détournement we looked at past and present tactics of manipulation, subversion, intervention and assimilation. The program was a multi-sensual extravaganza with video screenings, lectures/presentations, meals and handy-crafts. The focus was on that preciously delicate moment when the ordinary becomes the extraordinary.


schedule with a list of speakers taken from the original printed menu: (numbers refer to an item in the paperbag

Friday, September 17

13:30     Welcome (items no.1 + 5)
introduction to the day
        coffee and survival packets distributed
        instruction

14:15    Dis-orientation (item no.2)
workshop with Renee Kool

19:00    Entree to enter (item no.3)
dinner where Riek Sijbring will be introducing key working vocabulary words as we delve into the meal.

20:30    appropriate + manipulate (item no.4)
Video marathon curated by De Geuzen: including works from the likes of George Barber, Fischli and Weiss and the Bureau of Inverse Technology
in preparation for “simulation” a late night screening of the post-modern classic Blade Runner


Saturday, September 18

10:30     coffee plus “seal-O-matic” self-representation (item no.5). This will be the time to briefly familiarise yourself with each others work and ideas in preparation for the afternoon workshop.

11:00    Debra Solomon and the living.org. Debra will be charting the adventures of her Digi-persona in the virtual world.

12:30    Situationist Soup (item no.6)
Renee Turner will be investigating the following questions: Who are the Situationists? What did they do? And why are there ideas so seductive now?
featuring scenes from: Guy Debord’s classic film, Society of the Spectacle plus some insights into the post-situationist movement

14:00    Arjen Mulder gives us his basics on Baudrillard. From simulation to the death of the real, Mulder will be plotting an A-Z of the Frenchman’s rantings and ravings (item no.7).   

17:00    Transform (item no.8)
Celebration Dinner
Femke Snelting
tales
masquerade

21:00    end: Future (item no.9)
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