Dear Aacorners
I warmly second Mark whom I met in Belgrade too, and whose work is mazingly
precise and questionning both positions in art, economy, politics, ethics,
and transcultural identity.
Thanks Teike for being so active in connecting people, which I shouyld learn
to do!
By the way, I wish to thnak here another Marko, Marko Stamenkovic, aacorn
member who does a really good job in activemy making connections between art
and economy.
all the best to all friends
philippe mairesse
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teike Asselbergs" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 9:03 AM
Subject: Nomination of Mark Brogan to AACORN
> Dear Aacorners,
>
> In Belgrade I got to know this very interesting English artist called
> Mark Brogan. His background is in economics (Manchester University)
> and fine art/curating (at Goldsmiths). After moving to Belgrade Mark
> set up a business intelligence service firm (call-center) which is
> both an operating company (3 employees) and the topic of his artworks
> dealing with ethical and psychological effects of this line of work on
> himself and his employees from Serbia. Mark uses video and audio as a
> means to explore these issues.
>
> Apart from getting in touch with likeminded people, he would in
> particular like to get in touch with academics and artists that have
> done some work on the topic of
> call-centers/off-shoring//intelligence/semi-legal business activities.
> Since he started this type of work 2 years ago, he is interested to
> skype with you to talk about the positioning of his practice within
> the academic and artistic fields. He is available as a guest-lecturer
> on these types of activities.
>
> An example of his art work can be viewed on Dailymotion.com under the
> title 'the typical reject':
> http://www.dailymotion.com/videos/relevance/search/typical+reject/1
>
> His contacts are:
> [log in to unmask]
> [log in to unmask]
> mobile: +381 64 370 9660
> fixed: +381 11 369 0657
>
> Best regards,
> Teike Asselbergs
>
>
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