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YOOOHOO PANORAMIC INTERCHANGE CLARIFICATION

Yes, everybody should send in a sketch of their work by June 17th and develops the work according to their own plans...

Still, it is necessary to keep in mind that there actually is a point of departure for both the conference and the exhibition. this is not a secret. the dynamics of the project have taken us further ...but the point of departure, which we should take into consideration is...

SHORT VERSION:Artists, that is teachers and students, from the Art Academies of Reykjavik, Vilnius, Stockholm and Bergen will be meeting for workshops in the respective cities, places, landscapes and countries to look at, study and learn, to create a dialogue, to research and develop artistic works related to the idea of the panoramic in the context of a nordic and baltic cultural, social, geographical and historical backdrop.

FOR LONG, elaborate and inclusive VERSION http://panoramicinterchange.blogspot.com/2009/10/project-description-and-schedule-on.html


So, thank you Mathijs for sharing the observations, discussions and thoughts you and the others had while still in Reykjavik. Actually there weren't so many conclusions in these remarks, rather they were valuable observations that could contribute to the further forming of the works, the discussion, the exhibition design and title.

And thank you again, exhibition group, for reminder on date

Another suggestion for a title, which would incorporate and expand on all of the title suggestions so far

Watch out, look out, move back and forth to create space, crossroad, cafe de paris, crossroad.........woo
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towards the exhibition

Concerning our approach towards the exhibition.
During our extra days in Reykjavik we, from Bergen, had a nice talk about this and made an attempt to put some things down.
In the discussion that is going on I feel that we are drifting away from the core, at least not towards it. It feels to me that we are talking about things before clarifying what we have so far.
How do we react on the subject of this program? From what or where do we work? What is the material for our work?

As we know the interests, works and approaches are very different in our group. But by answering these questions we came to one big division inside the whole group.
If we keep the intentional program of the Panoramic Interchange course as our subject we found two/three layers within our group in which we all manoeuvre.
We discussed the two ways to create a panoramic (of any kind) point of view:

Zooming in, - this could mean to grab a detailed subject in the course itself.
We thought of
Baldwin’s research on the KUNO institute
Dillans focus on view furniture
Sindri’s interest in the people participating in the course
some of us focus very much on what they seen/experienced in the course

Zooming out, - here we thought how some of us use material from outside of the course
Café Paris
Lina’s installation
Gabi’s George Bush metaphore

Off course not for everyone it is so clear in what category they fit. Or maybe I don’t even want to call it categories. We just figured that this, especially in relation to creating a panorama, was a clear division to position us in.
What could we do with this?
This could be a way to divide the space, locate the works and create a theme around it. We could also see it as a general thing and work from here.
In the symposium there as well is zooming in/out a present subject (?)
I wonder what your response to this is?
We from Bergen hope to find a solution that does not need such a grand construction around one of the participants’ works (Bryndis, Dillan) and hope to let these works develop by the person itself instead of becoming the visual for the entire show.

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