has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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Corpus Collective Manifesto
* The Corpus Collective are: Ektoras Binikos (USA/GREECE) William Brovelli (USA) Avi Rosen (ISRAEL) and Anna Viola Hallberg (SWEDEN). FERALISM is our approach to work in which individual boundaries are blurred and personal content, be it physical or intellectual, is unleashed to move through an exchange of hands, moving it from a static domesticated state to an active feral state, thus opening it up to numerous creative possibilities through a metamorphosis or mutation within the frame of the collective. A work or idea that is bound by copyright is considered a domesticated work, serving only a specific scope and is useless to an artist working under Feralism. The Progression of art will supersede the necessity for such rigid guarding of an image or idea. Corpus Collective will utilize the concept of appropriation towards the evolution of image and/or idea. Every artist working within the collective must relinquish fully his/her contributing work or concept to the ownership of the collective. However, artists are not bound to create work solely for the collective, and are rather encouraged to retain their individual practice and career, parallel to the collective. Corpus collective projects will be documented via video and extended into the realm of performance. The Corpus collective is a conceptual and process-based endeavor, exploring in an open and unrestricted way (within the frame and guidelines of the collective) the creative process in a "gestalt" power sharing format, which aims to establish a vortex of creative energy and ideas that will challenge the notion of the singular creative voice and practice, by multiplying that voice throughout a collective effort. CC-2008
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- Biography
As a collective we have staged several guerrilla actions across New York City as a way t o engage the public in something unexpected including: "Protest", "Drink Now, Talk Later!", and "The Corner in the Middle of the Room"
As individual artists we have exhibited throughout the United States and abroad with venues including: The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; The Sharjah Arts Museum in UAE; Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa AZ; as well as numerous galleries and Art Fairs.
- Exhibitions
The Corpus collective video “Rebranding (With) in Flatiron” has been selected for inclusion in the upcoming WOOLOO.ORG - REBRANDING ACTS exhibitions in Prague and New York!
Starting on September 25th, the video piece will be screened daily as official part of TINA B. - The Prague Contemporary Art Festival taking place in Prague, Czech Republic from 25th of September to 15 October, 2008.
In New York, the video is furthermore included in the exhibition Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding taking place at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons/ the New School from October 15th, 2008 to January 30th, 2009.
The video piece can be seen in these two locations, as well as online at WOOLOO.ORG.
(This project was conceived and executed by: Ektoras Binikos, William Brovelli and Vincent Como.)- Announcements
PAN-DEMONIUM Exhibition
...including video work by the CORPUS COLLECTIVE
Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: AC Institute [Direct Chapel]
Street: 547 W. 27th St, 5th Floor - #519-529 & North Alcove
City/Town: New York, NY
The exhibition will include visual/text-based/sound/video/installation works by over 50 international multimedia artists, including video work by the CORPUS COLLECTIVE.Pan-demonium:
September 3rd - October 10th, 2009
Opening Event: Thursday, September 10th, 6-8pmThings extra and other (details and excesses coming from elsewhere) insert themselves into the accepted framework, the imposed order. The surface of this order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
?Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, trans. S. RendallPan-demonium resonates with the current global political, ecological and economic situation—one in which the hegemonic forces of order have been overwhelmed by a dynamic of chaos and disorder, turning the world 'upside-down'. Maybe Pan-demonium offers a metaphor for a critique of global capitalism and its 'devils'—its pan-demons—in all their guises (pan-demics included?). Or perhaps it conjures up collective creative forces for political challenge and the re-inscription of Pan in contemporary mythology?
AC Guest Curator, Bricolagekitchen, invited visual, sonic and written responses to some of these ideas and questions. Bricolage has various histories and contexts—from Claude Levi-Strauss on anthropology to Steven Connor on postmodern culture. John Cage’s explorations of indeterminacy and the polarities of randomness/order have an obvious relevance here. Michel Serres’ ideas on noise, clamour and cacophony and Michel de Certeau’s leaky ‘sieve order’ also lurk behind the concept of the project. Serres writes about ‘fuzzy logic’, but ‘mess’ is increasingly being cited as a new paradigm in research methodology and is being transposed to other disciplines and creative practices.
Through an exploration of the multiple meanings, interpretations and understandings of Pan-demonium, this exhibition hopes to open up political as well as its aesthetic potentialities. It brings together an assembled cacophony of over 50 contemporary artistic responses and global voices gleaned via the web in a panorama of sound, text, visual and moving imagery, celebrating the affective power of disorder and noise. Pan-demonium explores the ideas of randomness and mess through the adoption of bricolage in a makeshift bricologue of interactive presentation and responses.
"JUST DO IT" VIDEO PROJECT We are the Corpus Collective based in New York City. We invite you to participate in our generative video project "Just do it", initiated by ?William Brovelli and Avi Rosen. We hope this project will start viral Playlist. ? It's simple, use our videos (Base videos) as a foundation to extend this project through appropriation. (Add your content and post)--- TO PARTICIPATE: http://www.youtube.com/user/corpuscollective ...Just do it! *MEMBERS: Ektoras Binikos,William Brovelli, and Avi Rosen.
*Corpus collective proudly announces our new member: Anna Viola Hallberg of Sweden!
- Biography Anna Viola Hallberg is a lens based artist working with video, sound and photography often in the format of installations. Hallberg has a BA from Stockholm University with focus on Cinema and Curatorial Studies. In 2008 Hallberg recieved an MA in International Museum Studies from University of Gothenburg, writing her thesis on contemporary art in museum exhibitions outside the paradigm of the art institution. Hallberg has worked both in experimental documentary film as well as in advertising in the US (New York) and Sweden. Since 2004 Hallberg has collaborated on three major installations with Annica Karlsson Rixon. With yet three more projects planned in the timeframe of 2009-2011.
In her practice she investigates issues of power relations, politics/poetics of visual representation and history writing. The group and group identity are central matters. The works are often presented in spatial installations interlocked with seminars or workshops. Hallberg has a special interest for civil liberties and issues of democracy. In an ongoing project she explores how it has been carried in public space especially the tension in between order and disorder, as well as functionality and uselessness linking contemporary society and the Renaissance. The two disciplines, Museum Studies and contemporary art are not to be regarded as separate entities rather as aspects of the public space being examined. From a museum studies perspective general issues of access and collecting are of interest as well as the transition between contemporary art and heritage concerns from both Cultural and Natural perspective. Highlighting conditions and criteria’s for contemporary art in such a context. Central to all work is the constructing of legacy via oral history and visual imagery into public memory.
Exhibitions Film/Video works--------------------------------------------Consolation, (slides, digital)
*Take Action! 83 Ways to Change the World at Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden, Jan 17th, 2008 - April 19th, 2009
Rancorous Call, DV/DVD (with Björn Perborg)
* Urban Jealousy,The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Belgrad, Serbia, April 3rd 2009 -* Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Berlin, Germany 20 Nov.2008 - 7 Dec. 2008
* Urban Jealousy, The 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Curated by Serhat koksal and Amirali Ghasemi, Istanbul, Turkey, 2008
* Art Video Screening, Örebro, Sweden, April 2008
* Art Outside ~ Making the revolution happen, Austin TX USA, March 2008
* Galleri 54, Göteborg, December 2006
* One Minute Film Festival, Toronto, CA, November 2006
Volgograd International video festival Forward»2018, Volgograd Museum of Graphic Arts, Russia, 2008
State of Mind, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2008
State of Mind, Rosphoto, St Petersburg, Russia, 2008
State of Mind, in Talking Loud - Sayin Something, Gothenburg Artmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2008
Resonance, installation & conversations, photography/HDV(with Annica Karlsson Rixon)
* Resonance, Rosphoto, St Petersburg, Russia
* Today Tomorrow Forever, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, 2006
Today Tomorrow Forever, Göteborgs Konsthall, 2006
Today Tomorrow Forever, Uppsala Konstmuseum, 2007Street Expressions - St Petersburg, 16.02, Take Action - 83 ways to change the world
Museum of World Culture, Göteborg, January 2008-TBAState of Mind Prologue, HDV/DVD (with Annica Karlsson Rixon)
Inside Out - Open air exhibition, European Championship of Athletics, August 2006
Stockholm Pride, Open air exhibition,Stockholm Pride August 2006
Vårsalongen/Springsaloon, Liljevalch, Stockholm, 27 January – 18 mars 2007My Left is Your Right - The politics of participation and circulation of identity politics in public space.
Netherlads Media Art Institute, Video Votex, January 2008 (Program selection)
Abramovic & Ulay, Communist Body/Fascist Body, 1979, 41'40'' (sound, colour)
Joan Jonas, Leftside rightside, 1974, 7'37'' (sound, b/w)
Mona Hatoum, Roadwork, 1985, 6'45'' (sound, b/w)
Dedo, Our Flag Is Going Forward Too (tapeversie), 1983, 11'54'' (sound, colour)
Klaus vom Bruch, Das Schleyerband, 1978, 61'25'' (sound, colour)
Martijn Veldhoen, Public Spaces,2006, 10'53'' (sound, colour)
Programming from the Collection at NMAICurator for a day at Netherlads Media Art InstituteMelancholy & Absurdity, (curator with Björn Perborg)
Astrid Göransson, 2005, Borås Art Museum, Borås, 2005Space Invaders - Agents Disarming Public Space, (curator with Björn Perborg)
Reza Parsas Johan Grimonprezs and Ulrike Meinoff, Borås Art Museum, Borås, 2005Artist Clothing #2, (curator with AC Ulrika Gunnarsdotter)
Annee Olofsson, Charlotte Åberg, Lena Malm, Allen Gubersic and founder of AC Ulrika Gunnarsdotter, Centre Culture Suedois and Rendez Vous 2004 Paris, FRRetrecks unSUNg City, Video installation, (curator with Dorotea Flodin)
Jane Alexander, Stephen Hobbs, William Kentridge, Brett Murray, Robyn Orlin and Rodney Places, Fotografins hus, inauguration exhibition, Stockholm 2003
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