[NetBehaviour] Addendum: AFTER THE PROJECT IS BEFORE THE PROJECT IS

[CONT3XT.NET]

Yes, we decided to close CONT3XT.NET by January 2012 and we didn't change
our opinion. Anyhow, we would like to invite you to an exhibition - the
final one, really. Please read this newsletter as a kind of addendum to our
activities over the past six years. Bye bye, again.

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AFTER THE PROJECT IS BEFORE THE PROJECT IS
http://cont3xt.net/blog/?p=5641

Location/date:

DEPARTMENT FOR EVERYTHING ELSE [ABTEILUNG FUER ALLES ANDERE]
c/o Projektraum Artacker, Kuenstlerhaus am Acker! e.V.
Ackerstrasse 18, 10115 Berlin/Germany
http://www.a-a-a.cc

Opening: Friday, June 22, 7 p.m.
Duration: June 23 - June 26, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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WITH ART PROJECTS BY Maria Anwander, Ruben Aubrecht, Miriam Bajtala,
Michael Kargl, Miriam Laussegger and Eva Beierheimer, Barbara Musil and
Karo Szmit, Joerg Piringer, Arnold Reinthaler, Stefan Riebel - as well as
with an authorised pirate copy of a text by Boris Groys

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"Accordingly, this mode of project formulation is gradually advancing to an
art form in its own right whose significance for our society is still all
too little acknowledged. For, regardless of whether or not it is actually
carried out, each project in fact represents a draft for a particular
vision of the future, and in each case one that can be fascinating and
instructive." (Boris Groys)

The exhibition "After the Project is Before the Project" comes from a
circular project completion in which a potential new beginning is inherent.
After six years of collaborative practice (editorial, curatorial and
artistic) and after the continual - if not always linear - process of
conception, planning, communication and compilation of the sub-projects
within a common idea, the exhibition is drawing on the archive of the
CONT3XT.NET collective. A selection of art works will be shown that
contributed to the successful course of the collective project in that the
artists - during the various production phases - integrated themselves into
the structure of the collective and, by means of art, reflected the
respective exhibition theme at a higher level.

Both the content as well as the formal and material general conditions of
project-based production in a contemporary artistic environment are up for
discussion. What are the fundamental preconditions for the development of a
project? What restrictions does the context of art necessarily prescribe?
The temporal and local elements of art production are as important as the
different relations between the producing and receiving subjects as
determining factors in the course of the project or the modalities of
project communication in the field of tension between failure and success,
in which every artistic production is embedded. Thus it concerns a process
that leads to a project and that - as the actual project - is the theme in
the exhibition "After the Project is Before the Project".

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Maria Anwander
http://www.maria-anwander.net

Ruben Aubrecht
http://www.rubenaubrecht.net

Miriam Bajtala
http://miriambajtala.klingt.org

Michael Kargl
http://michaelkargl.com

Miriam Laussegger
http://www.miriamlaussegger.com

Eva Beierheimer
http://www.worte.at/evabeierheimer

Barbara Musil
http://derstandard.at/1259281291252

Karo Szmit
http://www.karoszmit.blogspot.co.at

Joerg Piringer
http://joerg.piringer.net

Arnold Reinthaler
http://reinthaler.org

Stefan Riebel
http://www.stefanriebel.de

Boris Groys, Die Einsamkeit des Projekts
http://cont3xt.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groys-einsamkeit.pdf

Boris Groys, The Loneliness of the Project
http://cont3xt.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/groys-loneliness.pdf

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Bye!
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