TODAY WE DON'T USE THE WORD DOLLARS
SUPERFLEX's artwork for One Day Sculpture involves the employees of Auckland's Karangahape Road branch of the ANZ bank. For a single day, Wednesday 27 May 2009, 09.00 - 16.30 all employees of the bank cannot say or use the word 'DOLLARS.' The staff must use other words of their own choice to explain themselves to customers and co-workers. If they break this pact they must pay a fine of $1 into a staff social fund. www.onedaysculpture.org.nz
Wednesday 27 May 2009, 09.00-16.30
Anz Bank, 312 Karangahape Road, Newton, Auckland
BURNING CAR MOVIE FREE ON THE PIRATE BAY
Burning Car is a film by Superflex in which a car is set on fire. The empty car starts to burn, the cabin is filled with smoke and fire, carpaint is bobbling, tires exploding. Towards the end the car is burned out completely.
"Burning Car" movie is available at The Pirate Bay in two versions:
H264 - high resolution
XviD - low resolution
Read more about Burning Car
THE PIRATE BAY
The Pirate Bay is currently on trial in Sweden. This is a trial not only against the people operating the website and the service it provides for millions of users worldwide.
It is a trial against a whole generation using the internet for what it is designed for; sharing knowledge, information and culture.
We learn, develop and evolve by copying. No laws, trials or convictions can stop that.
Info and updates on the trial:
http://trial.thepiratebay.org
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BLACKOUT
Superflex + Simon Starling, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark http://www.brandts.dk
FLOODED McDONALD'S - At South London Gallery, London
Flooded McDonald's is a film work in which a convincing life-size replica of the interior of a McDonald's burger bar, without any customers or staff present, gradually floods with water. Furniture is lifted up by the water, trays of food and drinks start to float around, electrics short circuit and eventually the space becomes completely submerged. Read more
If value, then copy
Exhibition dates: 25 October - 22 November
Curated by Brian Butler
Extract from handout at ARTSPACE:
The SUPERFLEX exhibition at ARTSPACE seeks to challenge the excessive ownership and control of ideas and visual culture through copyright, trademarks and intellectual property legislation. What happens to the value of an invention, object, concept or design when it is copied? Is this value enhanced and furthered or simply dissolved?
Lawyer and founder of the Creative Commons Lawrence Lessig says: "There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now."
The SUPERFLEX projects at ARTSPACE question the function and outcome of controlling intellectual property, but also offer ways to free up the system and escape its strictures. These projects occupy the space between an original and a copy; an in-between mode of working that has the potential to disrupt convention. A sense of humour is also an important part of this approach, and it may be that this sensibility wields the most political agency where the collective understands the capacity to change things through the lightness of play.
If value, then copy
Superflex solo show:
Exhibition dates: 25 October - 22 November
Curated by Brian Butler
Extract from handout at ARTSPACE:
The SUPERFLEX exhibition at ARTSPACE seeks to challenge the excessive ownership and control of ideas and visual culture through copyright, trademarks and intellectual property legislation. What happens to the value of an invention, object, concept or design when it is copied? Is this value enhanced and furthered or simply dissolved?
Lawyer and founder of the Creative Commons Lawrence Lessig says: "There has never been a time in history when more of our "culture" was as "owned" as it is now. And yet there has never been a time when the concentration of power to control the uses of culture has been as unquestioningly accepted as it is now."
The SUPERFLEX projects at ARTSPACE question the function and outcome of controlling intellectual property, but also offer ways to free up the system and escape its strictures. These projects occupy the space between an original and a copy; an in-between mode of working that has the potential to disrupt convention. A sense of humour is also an important part of this approach, and it may be that this sensibility wields the most political agency where the collective understands the capacity to change things through the lightness of play.
Copy Light
Copy Light consists of a workshop where a series of famous and popular lamp designs are fabricated and hung in the main gallery. Images representing iconic lamps such as the Billberry A338, the VP globe, the Bubble and Opera suspension, are photocopied onto transparencies and attached to a basic cubic lighting structure. These new lights are constructed and hung in ARTSPACE's main gallery gradually filling and illuminating the space over the span of the exhibition. Copy Light is seeking the borders between a copy and its original. Through this manufacturing process a copy of a copy turns into something new: an original lamp that communicates the problems of the current copyright system.
Level 1, 300 Karangahape Road, Newton
PO Box 68418, Newton, Auckland, 1145 New Zealand
phone +64 9 3034965 fax +64 9 3661842
artspace@artspace.org.nz
http://www.artspace.org.nz
Superflex at Prospect 1, New Orleans
Exhibition dates: 1.November 2008 - 18.January
For Prospect.1, Superflex present a new work titled WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE, WE BOUGHT OUR HOUSE. Using a real-life incident involving friends of theirs, the subtext of the work is the impact that the post-Katrina flooding in New Orleans had on the world economy. Anticipating a slow down in the housing market as a result of the catastrophe, Danish banks briefly dropped their interest rates for new mortgages, enabling the friends of Superflex to purchase a house in Denmark at a lower cost.
Their work, a photograph is on display at the Lower 9th Ward Village in New Orleans, priced $20.000, equivalent to the amount that the couple saved. When sold, the money paid for the photograph will go towards purchasing construction materials ( such as plywood, lumber, roofing felt, paint, etc.) which will be displayed within the outlined area in the exhibition space. The materials will then be distributed by the Lower 9th Ward Village to families in the Neighborhood.
Address:
Lower 9th Ward Village:
1001 Charbonne Street
New Orleans,La 70043
For more info or to acquire the photograph,please contact Superflex or Prospect.1
Superflex: +45-28182070
Prospect.1: Robin Wallis Atkinson, +14794227305 or Ylva Rouse, +19172889494
For more info about Prospect 1 visit: http://www.prospectneworleans.org
SEPTEMBER 2008, BURNING CAR at The Sommerset house, london.
The exhibition "Wouldn't it be nice...Wishful thinking in art and design"
See lowres version of the film here:
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www.somersethouse.org.uk
SEPTEMBER 2008, TAIPEI BIENNIAL, TAIWAN
www.taipeibiennial.org, www.freebeer.org
NOVEMBER 2008, PROCPECT 1 NEW ORLEANS, US
www.prospectneworleans.org
BOOK RELEASE: "Self-organisation/Counter-economic Strategies" available on The Pirate Bay
We have published the book and are distributing it using the BitTorrent technology via the world's largest distributor of cultural content aka The Pirate Bay The Pirate Bay which gives a unique freedom to distribute content freely and with no access restrictions due to bandwith, censorship or other economic and political obstacles.
Get it here: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4151201
NEW FILM "BURNING CAR" AT DE VLEESHAL.
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Exhibition: De Vleeshal, Middelburg
BERLIN BIENNIAL 2008: COLLECT TO WIN A TRIP TO ZANZIBAR
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Exhibition: BB5
A FRANCHISE MODEL FOR CHALLENGING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
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Exhibition: Radical Software, Den Fri, Copenhagen
2007, Solo exhibition at Galeria Vermelho: FREE BEER - counter game strategies.
A new version of FREE BEER that will be displayed at the gallery Vermelho. It relies on a partnership with Cervejaria Germania which besides producing the beverage adjusting the recipe to the Brazilian palate, will also distribute the product.
The association between Germania and FREE BEER meets one of the prime objectives of the project, since it builds an open business, which, starting from a real product, questions the copyright system, in relation to intellectual property.
The FREE BEER will also be featured in the exhibition by a series of machines Counter-game strategies. In a game format, the machines, whose rules will be displayed next to them, simulate the fashion of the social economic system, with its production and distribution, competitiveness, collaboration, earnings and profit. These machines will be spread around the gallery and visitors will be able to handle them freely.
www.galeriavermelho.com.br
2007, The Art Gallery of Knoxville: COPYSHOP, Knoxville
The first franchise of Copyshop has opened at The Art Gallery of Knoxville, 317 N Gay St., Knoxville, TN 37917
Hours: Fri-Sat, 3-8PM
tel: +1 865 595 4401
www.theartgalleryofknoxville.com
www.copy-shop.org
ArtBasel 2007, Rebranding Denmark
Superflex is burning the Danish flag at international Art fair
At Art Basel in Switzerland Superflex is presenting a new work "Rebranding Denmark". The Work is a LED-display sign in movement - changing as the flames are burning the Danish flag.
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Palestinian Eurovision
The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has applied to the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for active membership and is thereby seeking participation in the 2008 Eurovision song contest. The motivation behind the application is a wish to contribute to the Eurovision tradition of creating positive cultural experience and to build a media infrastructure in Palestine.
Palestinian Eurovision is a cooperation between: PBC, Sabreen Association for Artistic Development, and Superflex. Read on
Free Beer and Counter-Game Strategies
Jack Hanley Gallery
395 Valencia Street, San Francisco, A 94103
December 15, 2006 - January 20, 2007
Anti-Piracy Machine, for 2 players
This machine models the noble struggle against counterfeit goods of all kinds. One player (the 'pirate') places bootleg material (represented here by potatos) into the marketplace (represented by the launching tube). The other player (the 'police') uses the subtle and finely-tuned instrument of the law (represented here by a hammer) to remove pirate material from circulation. Five points to the pirate for every potato missed, one point to the police for every potato hit.
