FAIR - self made matches
something about self organisation in the field of visual art

organized by:
Sabine Mohr
c/o Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. Weidenallee 10b
D -20357 Hamburg Germany
e-mail: BineMohr@aol.com
www.artgenda.com

SYMPOSIUM and presentation platform for artist run spaces and projects

Participants: MUUry Helsinki/Finland, ROOM 46 Aarhus/Denmark, N55 Copenhagen/Denmark, SUBBAU Göteborg/Sweden, The Pineapple Project Room Malmö/Sweden, UNITED NET-WORKS Stockholm/Sweden, KONSTAKUTEN Stockholm/Sweden, BY THE WAY GALLERY Bergen/Norway, OFFICYNA SZCZECIN Poland, MULTIKULTUURIMAJA Tallin/Estonia.

Fair will offer a presentation platform for artist run spaces and artist initiatives of the participating artgenda cities inside the artgenda Center. Since the artgenda center will be frequented by all artists and artgenda visitors throughout the festival in June. Fair could function as a "by the way" informationpool for everybody who wants to know something about artists selforganisations in the artgenda cities (Aarhus, Bergen, Copenhagen, Gdansk, Göteborg, Helsinki, Kaliningrad, Kiel, Malmö, Riga, Rostock,Stettin, Stockholm, St. Petersbourg, Tallin, Turku, Vilnius.

Since Artgenda 2002 in Hamburg is a project of and by artists-projects Fair provides a frame of references to similar organisational forms working throughout the artgenda region.

How this will be done:

Fair provides technical a.o. facilities as: Internet access, slide projectors, videobeamers and guarded exhibitionspace - for artist run spaces of the cities to open some kind of branch - presentation. Infos could be : Catalogues, pressreleases, posters, postcards, flyers,written pamphlets, programmes, small artworks, multiples, fotos etc. every kind of documentation. During a one day symposium, lectures will focus on 4 different themes:

1. Alive - survive : Stories and histories of how and why artists organize themselves.

2. What's the profit of non-for-profit ?- survival strategies in contemporary art.

3. Parallel worlds - artists working in a metacontext - what happens to their individual artwork.

4. Who and where is the "underground"?- Different models of artist selforganisations