The Forgotten Pioneer Movement

— Guidebook

INDEX

PREFACEUlrike Gerhardt and Susanne Husse, p. 5

ESSAYSIeva Astahovska, Socialist past between history, imaginary

memories and cabinet of curiosities, p. 15

%RE�&SKHERSZM��Generation as a framework for historicizing the socialist experience in contemporary art, p. 24

ARTISTS0MRE�%PFVMOMIRÚ���T����ÕVMOW�%TEÿEMW��T����

bankleer, p. 441MX]E�'LYVMOSZ��T����

CORO Collective, p. 50Kasia Fudakowski, p. 54

Nicu Ilfoveanu, p. 56Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, p. 60

Snejana Krasteva & Peter Tzanev, p. 62Kate Krolle & Maya Mikelsone, p. 66

Marina Naprushkina, p. 70(SQEĤ�2SVIMOE���ŀIQ%X��T����

Alexandra Pirici, p. 76)PWOI�6SWIRJIPH��T����'PEYHME�6¹¢KIV��T����

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VIP, p. 90ŀIQ%X��T����

PROGRAMMESet #A, p. 96

Set #B - Appendix Collection + Floorplan, p. 99Set #C – The Pioneer Camp of ReVision, p. 104

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Annonces, p. 110

ESSAYS

Socialist past between history, imaginary memories and cabinet of curiosities

IEVA ASTAHOVSKA

Generation as a framework for historicizing the socialist experience in contemporary art

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ARTISTS

0-2%�%0&6-/-)2ÙÕ6-/7�%4%þ%-7BANKLEER

MITYA CHURIKOV

CORO COLLECTIVE

KASIA FUDAKOWSKI

NICU ILFOVEANU

WILHELM KLOTZEK & DAVID POLZIN

SNEJANA KRASTEVA & PETER TZANEV

KATE KROLLE & MAYA MIKELSONE

MARINA NAPRUSHKINA

(31%ģ�236)-/%���ŀ)1%8ALEXANDRA PIRICI

ELSKE ROSENFELD

CLAUDIA RÖSSGER

JULIANE SCHMIDT & ANNA TILL

SKILLS

VIP

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SET #A: PERFORMANCES

BANKLEER, KASIA FUDAKOWSKI, 72).%2%�/6%78):%��4)8)6�8>%2):��

KATE KROLLE & MAYA MIKELSONE, (31%ģ�236)-/%���ŀ)1%8��

ALEXANDRA PIRICI, ELSKE ROSENFELD, JULIANE SCHMIDT & ANNA TILL,

SKILLS, VIP

Guided by the cultural technique of the ‘psycho-drama’, SET #A reacts upon places in the former East and former West of Berlin to re-connect collective and individual trajectories of memory FEWIH�SR�XLI�ǾKYVI�SJ�XLI�I\�TMSRIIV��8LI�TIVJSV-mances activate instants and gestures of historical and political discontinuity, emphasizing their trans-formative momentum. The participating persons, objects and architectures become representatives for not yet articulated, opaque experiences.

SET #A: PERFORMANCES

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SET #B: EXHIBITION

0-2%�%0&6-/-)2Ù��Õ6-/7�%4%þ%-7��BANKLEER, MITYA CHURIKOV,

CORO COLLECTIVE, NICU ILFOVEANU, ;-0,)01�/038>)/��(%:-(�430>-2��

MARINA NAPRUSHKINA, '0%9(-%�6�77+)6��ŀ)1%8

During the exhibition, objects, styles and words that were unnoticed, negated or simply unknown in the context of “pOst-Western” transformation [MPP�FI�GSPPIGXIH�ERH�VIGSRǾKYVIH�EW�MRHI\MGEP�traces. In order to understand the processes of historicizing the socialist / post-socialist experi-ence beyond any mythologizing absorption, TFPM suggests new connections between that remote JYXYVI�ERH�WTIGMǾG�I\TIVMIRGIW�SJ�XLI�TVIWIRX��

SET #A: PERFORMANCES

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SET #C: THE PIONEER CAMP OF REVISION

PUBLIC SEMINAR

IEVA ASTAHOVSKA, NIKA AUTOR / 2);76))0�*6328��%+2Ù�&%+(ŀ-ĭ2%-8Ù�

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%2%�&3+(%23:-��%2',-�',)2+��KRISTINA LEKO & JONATHAN RYALL &

LISA SCHWALB, SOPHIE GOLTZ, +%0�/-62��-2+%�0Ã')��/6-78-2%�0)/3��6%7%�2%:-'/%-8Ù��1%68%�434-:3(%��

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MADALINA ZAHARIA AND OTHERS

The Pioneer Camp of ReVision is a public seminar including lectures, workshops, discussions, art-MWX�XEPOW��TIVJSVQERGIW�ERH�ǾPQ�WGVIIRMRKW��'S�SVKERM^IH�F]�GYVEXSVMEP�GSPPIGXMZI�?&03/A�ERH�EVX�LMWXSVMER�%RE�&SKHERSZMÊ��9RMZIVWMX]�SJ�&IPKVEHI ��The Pioneer Camp of ReVision addresses cultural theory ranging from the presence of the absent and the critical re-evaluation of socialist projects to the analysis of generational experience.

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Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t. Curated and moderated by ?&03/A��-ZERE�,EREÐIO��%RE�/YXPIĤE��:IWRE�:YOSZMÊ ��GYVEXSVMEP�GSPPIGXMZI��>EKVIFLOCATION: District

11:00 8LI�ǾKYVI�SJ�TEVXMWER��JVSQ�the Yugoslav revolution to the memory on revolutionLecture and discussionGal Kirn (Postdoctoral researcher, Humboldt University Berlin)LOCATION: District

12:00From Youth Labour Actions to football hooligans: Youth socialization and politicization in socialism and transitionLecture and discussion2MOSPE�:YOSFVEXSZM��,MWXSVMER��[VMXIV��>EKVIF �LOCATION: District

�������������WEDDING SEMINAR OUTLET (crash course), Guided tourAnchi Cheng, Kristina Leko, Jonathan Ryall, Lisa SchwalbMEETING POINT: Walter-Röber-&V¿GOI��������&IVPMR

19:00Newsreel 55����QMR������ ��(MVIGXIH�F]��Newsreel front (Nika Autor, Marko Bratina, Ciril Oberstar, Jurij Meden)Film screening and discussion with Nika Autor (Newsreel Front) and all contributors of Everybody talks about the weather. We don’t.LOCATION: Analog Bar, Martin-3TMX^�7XV������������&IVPMR�Wedding

SET #C: THE PIONEER CAMP OF REVISION, PUBLIC SEMINAR

106

OCTOBER 4THLOCATION: District and Estrel Hotel

‘Vocabulary Lesson’ - Techniques of preposterous history in pOst-Western art and cultureModerated by Ulrike Gerhardt (PhD candidate, Leuphana 9RMZIVWMX]��0¿RIFYVK �ERH�Susanne Husse (Artistic Director, District)

11.00Revisiting Footnotes. Echoes of the past translated into presentLecture and discussion-IZE�%WXELSZWOE���-RKE�0ÄGI�(Curators, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga)

12:00 The Children from the Hotel America.Post-Communist Lithuanian Cinema from a postcolonial feminist perspectiveLecture and discussionRasa Navickaite (PhD candidate, Central European University, Budapest)

�������������Vinagi Gotov! Always ready!Snejana Krasteva (Curator, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow) & Peter Tzanev (Artist, Art Historian, Professor of Art Psychology, National %GEHIQ]�SJ�%VXW�MR�7SǾE �Workshop

19:00Performance (SQEĤ�2SVIMOE���ŀIQ%X�(see Set #A)

OCTOBER 5THLOCATION: District

Reconsiderations of the (post-)socialist experience Moderated by Ana &SKHERSZM���%VX�LMWXSVMER��University of Belgrad)

SET #C: THE PIONEER CAMP OF REVISION, PUBLIC SEMINAR

107

11:00Generation as a framework for historicizing the socialist experience in contemporary artLecture and discussion%RE�&SKHERSZM��%VX�historian, University of Belgrade)

12:00On the threshold of the futureLecture and discussionAnca Rujoiu (Curator, Centre for Contemporary Art 7MRKETSVI ��1EHEPMRE�>ELEVME�(Artist, London)

�����They don‘t know how to say it anymore. Notes on collectivity and collectivismLecture and discussion%KRÚ�&EKHŁMĮREMXÚ���ŀIQ%X��%VXMWX��GYVEXSV��ŀIMQMEM���Vilnius)

�������������Soviet Kitchen TableWorkshopMaya Mikelsone (Curator, Paris) & Kate Krolle (Artist, Riga, Lille)

19:00The Pioneer Camp of ReVision Farewell dinner

NOVEMBER 20TH LOCATION: District

19:00 and 20:00Performances VIP and Elske Rosenfeld (see Set #A)

21:00 Yugoslavia - How Ideology Moved our Collective Body(Serbia/France/Germany, ���QMR������ ��HMVIGXIH�F]��Marta Popivoda4VSHYGIH�F]��8O,�?;EPOMRK�8LISV]A��&IPKVEHI��0IW�Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, 4EVMW��9RMZIVWMX§X�HIV�/¿RWXI�&IVPMR��&IVPMR�NSSR�ǾPQ��&IVPMR

Film screening and discussion with Sophie Goltz (Curator, Hamburg and Berlin), Marta Popivoda (Artist and cultural [SVOIV��8O,�?;EPOMRK�8LISV]A��Berlin/Belgrade) and Ana :YNERSZM��8LISVMWX�SJ�performing arts and cultural [SVOIV��8O,�?;EPOMRK�8LISV]A��Berlin/Belgrade).

SET #C: THE PIONEER CAMP OF REVISION, PUBLIC SEMINAR

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0MRE�%PFVMOMIR��The Tree for My Father 1983-2014, 2014, photography, 100 x 100 cm, p. 40

ÕVMOW�%TEÿEMW��V (Pioneers), ������SMP�SR�GERZEW�����\�100 cm, p. 41

bankleer, sleepy hollows, 2014, Wiener Festwochen / Into the City 2014, p. 46

Mitya Churikov, Untitled, ������GERHPI�WXERH��[E\��EPYQMRYQ�����\����\����GQ��p. 47

CORO Collective, Vocabulary Lesson, video still, 2009, p. 52

Kasia Fudakowski, Untitled #2, 2014, photo collage, T����

Nicu Ilfoveanu, :EPIVMGÆ��Eau de Vie��������TMKQIRX�TVMRX�SR�,ELRIQ¿LPI������\�����GQ��T����

Wilhelm Klotzek & David Polzin, /03>-2�3JǾGI�JSV�Display Solutions (Büro für Präsentationslösungen), 2014, photo: Gabriel Rossell Santillan, p. 59

Maya Mikelsone & Kate Krolle, Soviet Kitchen Table Workshop��������JVSQ�the workshop Revisiting Footnotes at LCCA Riga, p. 65

Marina Napruschkina, We are Belarus, 2007, poster print, variable dimensions, T����

IMAGE CREDITS

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Domaš Noreika, Circulation Verkehr ƗƍƕƅƋ�GMVOYPMEGMNE, 2014, performance, from the series Fut(o)urism, photo: )KPÚ�%QFVEWEMXÚ���1YWIYQ�%MOEW�ŀEHS�0MZI��T����

Alexandra Pirici, Delicate Instruments Handled With Care, enactment of emoticons, 2014, performance, photo: Andrei Dinu, p. 75

Elske Rosenfeld, She turns her head, she lifts the pen, screenshot from the TIVJSVQERGI��������T����

Claudia Rößger, Konstellation 06, 2012, gouache on paper, ���\����GQ��TLSXS��9[I�;EPXIV��T����

SKILLS, Der Aufbau, 2012, Performance, HAU Hebbel am Ufer / Kampnagel Hamburg, photo: Boris /VEQEVMG��T����

Peter Tzanev, Introspection, 2014, white ink on photo, 7 x 15 cm, p. 64

Anna Till & Juliane Schmidt, Inscribed Rituals - Bodies in Politics. Pioneers of Marzahn, workshop, 2014, photo: .YPMERI�7GLQMHX��T����

VIP, +IRYPPX��2YPPMǾIH , 2014, video installation, copyright VIP, p. 92

ŀIQ%X��Imagining the Absence, video still, 2014, TLSXS��)KPÚ�%QFVEWEMXÚ���1YWIYQ�%MOEW�ŀEHS�0MZI��T����

The Forgotten Pioneer Movement —Guidebook

Published on the occasion of the project The Forgotten Pioneer Movement at District Berlin, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, October 2 – November 29, 2014.

Curators: Ulrike Gerhardt and Susanne HusseProject Management: Emma HaughAdministration: Andrea Caroline KepplerCommunication: Tabea HamperlProject Assistance: Janine HalkaCuratorial Assistance: Natalia Raaben, Phuong Phan

Edited by Ulrike Gerhardt and Susanne HusseCopyediting: Kate WhitebreadProofreading: Janine Halka, Tabea Hamperl, Andrea Caroline Keppler, Kate Whitebread Essays: Ieva Astahovska, Ana &SKHERSZMÊ8I\XW��(ERMIP�*EPF���(�*�����������50, 66, 90, 94) , Ulrike Gerhardt/ 9�+������������� ��7YWERRI�,YWWI���S.H. (70), Andrea Caroline Keppler / %�'�/����� ��7RINERE�/VEWXIZE���7�/��(62), Natalia Raaben (N.R.), Anna 7EFVMRE�7GLQMH���%�7�7����������������� Graphic Design: Pieterjan Grandry - www.modem.ws

Publisher: Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2014

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