Dear Friends of surveillance and better times!
!Mediengruppe Bitnik: Too big to Fail Too Small to Succeed
An intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich.
Reconaissance, media technologies and advertsing playfully probe the
blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power
from state to corporation.
3 Sep - 2 Oct
Private View 2 Sep 6.30-9pm
SPACE Courtyard and Mare Street Advertising Billboard
129 131 Mare Street, London E8 3RH
This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik's first UK solo
exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les
Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES
residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based
systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe
Bitnik describe their work as an 'explorative practice' to determine how
systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed.
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed is kindly supported by Swiss
Cultural Fund in Britain.
PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies
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+ 1. Tomorrow
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany - Exhibition !Hacking the City
Video Installation 'Chess for CCTV Operators'
from tomorrow (23.08.) on in the exhibition
16.07.2010 - 26.9.2010
http://www.hacking-the-city.org/
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+ 2. Opening coming Wednesday
Les Complices*, Zürich, Switzerland
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed
Opening - Wed, 25.8.2010, 18:00h
26.8.2010 - 18.9.2010
http://lescomplices.ch/
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+ 3. Opening Next Week
[ space ], London, UK
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed
03 Sep – 02 Oct 2010
Preview: Thursday 2nd September 6pm - 9pm
http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/
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Museum Folkwang, Essen,
!Hacking the City
16.Juli - 26.September 2010
Chess For CCTV Operators
Performance in the surveillance space of Essen, August 2010
Video 15'37''
For "Chess for CCTV Operators" !Mediengruppe Bitnik is in Essen for
three days in order to challenge CCTV Operators to a chess game. For
this purpose they trace surveillance signals, hijack them and replace
them with their own video signal, the chessboard. Thus the surveillance
monitor in the control room is taken over and turned into a game console.
With their invitation to play !Mediengruppe Bitnik breaks the power
structure of the surveillance situation - a subtle performance for a
single and specifically selected recipient.
http://www.hacking-the-city.org/
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Les Complices*, Zürich, Switzerland
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed
Eröffnung: Mittwoch, 25. August 2010, ab 18h
19h: Kommentar zur Finanzkrise von Kaspar Surber, WOZ-Redaktor
Ausstellung bis 18. September 2010
Do, Fr, Sa: 14 - 18h
Hinweis Veranstaltung: Following The Crisis
Donnerstag, 16. September 2010
15:30h: Les Complices*
19:30h: anschliessendes Essen im Les Complices*
Die Finanzkrise ausgelöst im Frühsommer 2007 durch die amerikanische
Immobilienkrise und eine weltweite kreditfinanzierte Massenspekulation
an den Finanzmärkten verursacht in der überhitzten Weltwirtschaft einen
Systemabsturz. Ein Absturz – so hoffen manche – der Raum gibt, um über
alternative Wirtschaftssysteme oder zumindest über Korrekturen des
gegenwärtigen Systems nachzudenken. Kaum zwei Jahre nach dem
Zusammenbruch der Grossbank Lehman Brothers schreiben die verbliebenen
Grossbanken wieder satte Gewinne, die Medien sprechen von Aufschwung,
die Grossbanken bleiben „too big to fail“ und können auch in Zukunft
spekulative Risiken eingehen, die sie ohne staatliche Absicherung nicht
eingehen würden.
Während eines Rechercheaufenthaltes in London im Frühjahr 2010 hat die
!Mediengruppe Bitnik das Finanzsystem auf sein parasitäres Potential hin
untersucht. Sie haben das Finanzsystem, seine Medien und Strukturen in
verschiedenen Feldversuchen unter die Lupe genommen, um festzustellen
wie sie in diese Systeme eingreifen und ihre Prozesse für eine
spielerische Intervention öffnen können.
Mit der Ausstellung «Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed», die
gleichzeitig in den Space Studios in London und bei Les Complices*
stattfindet, eignet sich die !Mediengruppe Bitnik mit den
psychogeographischen Mitteln des «Sich-Leitenlassens» den städtischen
Aussenraum der Finanzplätze Zürich und London an. Entstanden sind dabei
subjektive Beobachtungen, die mit den Mitteln der Observation die Spuren
der Krise im städtischen Raum suchen.
http://lescomplices.ch/
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Too big to Fail Too Small to Succeed
[ space ], London, UK
129-131 Mare Street
London E8 3RH
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed
03 Sep – 02 Oct 2010
Preview: Thursday 2nd September 6pm - 9pm
An intervention into the financial systems of London and Zurich.
Reconaissance, media technologies and advertsing playfully probe the
blind spots of the financial districts and question the shift in power
from state to corporation.
This is Swiss artist collective !Mediengruppe Bitnik's first UK solo
exhibition and is presented concurrently with an exhibition at Les
Complices in Zurich. It follows their three-month PERMACULTURES
residency at SPACE investigating the parasitic potential of media-based
systems against the backdrop of the financial crises. !Mediengruppe
Bitnik describe their work as an 'explorative practice' to determine how
systems can be subverted, interfered with and transformed.
Too Big To Fail / Too Small To Succeed
is kindly supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain.
PERMACULTURES Artists residencies: Media, technology & ecologies
http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/-mediengruppe-bitnik-too-big-to-fail-too-small-to-succeed
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Hope to see you!
!Mediengruppe Bitnik
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