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ARTUS DE LAVILLEON - I AM ENLIGHTENING YOUR LIFE
JIŘÍ KOVANDA - UNTITLED
JAN ŠERÝCH - CROSSWORDS
"EMERGING WOR(L)DS": June 2007 - October 2008
Communications, Contemplations and Confrontations
TEXTUAL AND WORD-BASED ART INTERVENTIONS ON BILLBOARDS IN THE HEART OF EUROPE
One of this year’s highlights is a one-year project featuring textual and word-based art interventions on billboards in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Entitled EMERGING WOR(L)DS, the project runs from June 2007 until June 2008.
Utilizing billboard spaces normally reserved for product advertising, corporate marketing, political campaigns and public service announcements, EMERGING WOR(L)DS is a platform for diverse art interventions, messages and statements, tackling a broad range of issues and subjects concerned with the complex social, political, corporate and cultural structures currently emerging within the context of the post-Cold War – and post 9/11 – world, as well as the way they influence the lives of individuals.
Artus de Lavilleon
I am enlightening your life
Jiri Kovanda
Untitled - "I love you"
Jan Šerých
Crosswords
Petra Feriancová
Untitled
Petra Feriancová
Untitled
Franco Angeloni
Land for Sale
Mario Chromý
Untitled
Zbyněk Balandrán
Untitled
Kimberley Rugg
Untitled
Societé Realiste
Untitled
Sandow Birk
Untitled
Guillame Desanges
Untitled
Bethan Huws
Cat
Bethan Huws
Mother
Anetta Mona Chisa
"SEZNAMKA"
Adam Pendleton
Koki Tanaka
Untitled
Detanico & Lain
New Roman Times
Vittorio Santoro
Bez názvu - Untitled
Guma Guar
"Podpis krvavého humanisty - Signature of a bloody humanist"
Isabelle Cornaro
Bez názvu - Untitled
Tomáš Vaněk
"Particip č. 39 - Particip 39"
Jonathan Monk
“Melanie Meffer-Rondeau works for Yvon Lambert in Paris”
Jiří Skála
"Helvetica"
XYZ
"Change"
Pode Bal
"Omlouváme se - We apologise"
Kendell Geers
"Fuck"
Kay Rosen
"Distinguishing"
Lisa Anne Auerbach
"Take Red Back"
Zbyněk Sedlecký
"BYTY"
Solange Fabiao
"THEY"
Solange Fabiao
Democracy Was
Rosario Antoci
Robert Šalanda
"Když ti život přináší..."
Jan Nálevka
"HYPERMARKET"
Adam Vačkář
YES/NO
Claire Fontaine
Komuna
Claire Fontaine
Komunismus
Freed from the constraints of two opposing ideologies and superpowers - and largely abandoning the old Right-Left divisions of the political spectrum - contemporary society on a global scale is experiencing a proliferation of new complex social, political and cultural structures, networks, patterns, hierarchies and alliances. These newly emerging structures are influenced as much by mass media, global information exchange and phenomena such as multiculturalism and the interweaving of global and local cultural and corporate artefacts, symbols and signs, as by global political and macroeconomic forces.
On a local urban level in Prague, EMERGING WOR(L)DS aims to explore the role and potentials of art and artists in influencing these newly emerging systems, networks and affinities. The project is open to diverse artistic approaches and strategies, from socially and politically engaged and motivated communications, through media-activist confrontations to contemplative reflections of everyday life.
Rather than using billboards dedicated to the project for its entire duration - performing the function of a public art gallery - EMERGING WOR(L)DS’ billboard artworks are interspersed among commercial advertising billboards, replacing corporate and political messages, modifying standard information flows and exploring new art-based narratives, vocabularies and syntax, becoming parallel markers, tags and signs in Prague’s urban environment.
Having largely completed the process of post-Communist social and economic transformation, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe now play an active role in the evolution and development of globally, regionally and locally emerging social, political and cultural phenomena. Although the old Communist system no longer exercises a hold on power, its remnants continue to influence society. In the Czech Republic, as well as Poland, for example, the archives of the Communist secret police are only now being made fully accessible to the general public and this may yet have serious social repercussions.
EMERGING WOR(L)DS runs in synergy with other Tina B. projects and is be fully web-supported. Each month, the EMERGING WOR(L)DS section of the Tina B. website provides maps of the city with locations of the current billboard artworks on show, allowing visitors to explore the city landscape while searching for art.
Artists that have participated so far:
• Kendell Geers (South Africa)
• Jonathan Monk (UK)
• Kay Rosen (US)
• XYZ (Slovakia)
• Jiří Skála (CZ)
• Pode Bal (CZ)
• Guma Guar (CZ)
• Tomáš Vaněk (CZ)
• Vittorio Santoro (Zurich)
• Isabele Cornaro (Paris)
• Anetta Mona Chisa (Rumania/Slovakia)
• Zbyněk Sedlecký (CZ)
• Robert Šalanda (CZ)
• Jan Nálevka (CZ)
• Adam Pendleton (US)
• Adam Vačkář (CZ)
• Rosario Antoci (Italy)
• Solange Fabiao (Brazil)
• Bethan Huws (UK)
• Koki Tanaka (Japan)
Press Release, April 19, 2007
THE FIRST FIVE BILLBOARDS
Press Release, June 26, 2007
BILLBOARDS part 2
BILLBOARDS part 3
BILLBOARDS part 4