ART AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE IN COGNITIVE CAPITALISM

Capturing the Moving Mind, ARS 06 Kiasma Rear Window 20.4.-2.7.2006.

In September 2005 a meeting took place in the Trans-Siberian train. It gathered a pack of people
... artists, economists, researchers, philosophers, activists who were interested in the new logic
of the economy (knowledge economy, attention economy, biopolitical economy), the new forms of war 
and politics (war against terrorism) and in the new cooperative modes of creation and resistance
(precariarity, terrorist cells)... together in a space moving in time. Spatially moving bodies and
bodies moving in time (through nine time zones) created an event, a meeting that not really 'was'
but 'is going on'.

Capturing the Moving Mind exhibition tells about this organizational experiment. The exhibition at
the Kiasma Rear Window is part of the ARS 06 exhibition. It weaves a connection between art and
politics, between art as an act of resistance and economy as production of life. Today our
thinking and emotional abilities, our imagination and subjectivity are increasingly put to work in
economic production. That is why the question of art as an act of resistance and creation of new
forms of autonomous and good life – a life in which our ways and acts of living are always about
the possibilities of life – intervenes directly at the core of this enterprise. The question of
experimental life and the critique of capitalism must today be seen as one.

“At stake here is an experiment in counter-modulation… Capturing the Moving Mind is a performance
of movement, an experiment with percepts and affects, with thought, action and relation... It is a
theatre of the future.” – Brian Holmes, art critic, Paris and New York

Opening of the Exhibition 20.4. 17:00 - 20:00, Kiasma Theatre and Rear Window
17:00-18:30 The Trans-Siberian project as a Work of Art. Artists tell about their works.
18:30-19:00 Publication of the A Map to Postfordist Life, www.m2hz.net
19:00-20:00 Opening of the Exhibition, cocktails, questions, interviews

Participating artists: Leena Aholainen (Paris), Susan Allen (Los Angeles), Steffen Böhm (London),
Elly Clarke (London), Bracha Ettinger (Tel Aviv), Gwylene Gallimard & Jean-Marie Maudet (Paris),
Bernardo Giorgi (Siena), Helen Grace (Sydney), Luca Guzzetti (Genova), Klaus Harju (Helsinki),
Natilee Harren (Houston), Adam Hyde (Amsterdam), Andy McCoy (Helsinki), Linda McKie (Glasgow),
David Rose (Lontoo), Minna Tarkka (Helsinki), Joram Ten Brink (London), Maria Whiteman (Berlin).

Curators of the Exhibition: Tuula Karjalainen, Marja Sakari, Akseli Virtanen, Jussi Vähämäki

The Web of Capturing the Moving Mind http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/5-X/5-Xindex.htm

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