01/02/2013
Under Construction until summer 2013: Enough Room for Space HQ, BE
As a continuous support behind the different temporary projects, ERforS Head Quarters in Belgium provides a constant space for production, presentation and research, including two residency spaces and a work / presentation space.
19/11/2012
November 2012: JAMAN – DiARTgonale Special Edition #1
JAMAN – DiARTgonale Special Edition #1
Release in November 2012, as printed version and free digital reader
The magazine “JAMAN” (Bamum for “German”) spotlights encounters between Cameroon and the “West” during more than a hundred years. The art works, the poetic and scientific texts and the cartoons that have been specially produced for this issue challenge cherished notions of cultural authenticity. „JAMAN“ is the fist of a series of special editions, published by the European art organisation Enough Room for Space in collaboration with the Cameroonian artist journal DiARTgonale.
Digital edition see: JAMAN – DiARTgonale Special Edition #1
Download: JAMAN - DiARTgonale Special Edition #1
Paper Edition: Distribution points in Europe and Africa (this list will be frequently updated)
Order: 2,50 Euro + postal costs, contact erfors@gmail.com
French / English, 72 p., 26 x 20 cm
Launches so far:
23 November 2012: Presentation of Christian Hanussek and Annette Schemmel, Iwalewa Haus / Bayreuth University, Bayreuth, DE
17 December 2012: Presentation of Annette Schemmel, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE
More launches tbc.
Editors: Marjolijn Dijkman and Annette Schemmel
Production: Annette Schemmel, Marjolijn Dijkman, Amélie Bouvier
Designer: Indre Klimaite
Support: Arts Collaboratory (NL), Stroom (NL), IFA (DE)
Contributors: Christian Hanussek (DE), Salifou Lindou (CM), Nyemb Popoli (CM), Michaela Oberhofer (DE), Achille K Komguem (CM), Andrew Gilbert (UK), Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (DE, 1880 - 1938), Paul Hendrikse (NL), Louis-Marie Pouka-M’Bague (CM, 1910 – 1992), Anschaire Aveved (CM), Hervé Yamguen (CM), Dunja Herzog (CH), Garba Tanko (CM), Maarten Vanden Eynde (BE), Pascale Marthine Tayou (CM), Matthias de Groof (BE), Marjolijn Dijkman (NL), Nav Haq (UK), Annette Schemmel (DE), Jean Pierre Bekolo (CM)
29/08/2012
2012-2013: Enough Room for Space’s DiARTgonale Editions #1-3, CM
Newspaper stand in Yaoundé (CM)
Editors: Annette Schemmel and Marjolijn Dijkman
Production: Annette Schemmel, Marjolijn Dijkman, Amélie Bouvier
Partners: ArtBakery (Douala, CM), DiARTgonale (Maroua, CM)
Support: Arts Collaboratory (NL), Stroom (NL), IFA (DE)
Artists so far: Marjolijn Dijkman, Beate Engl, Nicolas & Rosa Eyidi, Andrew Gilbert, Christian Hanussek, Paul Hendrikse, Dunja Herzog, Achillekà Komguem, Salifou Lindou, Vincent Meessen, Alioum Moussa, Justine Ngaga, Nyemb Popoli, Louis-Marie Pouka-M’Bague, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Maarten Vanden Eynde, Hervé Yamguen
Other contributors so far: Michaela Oberhofer, Nav Haq, Anschaire Aveved, Matthias de Groof
Graphic designer: Indre Klimaite
Four years of discussions, artistic residencies, exhibitions and collaborations between Cameroonian and European artists in the framework of the project “Present Perfect” have led to a series of contemporary art magazines. Three magazines reflect on a specific South-North relationship: the past and the present of cultural import and export of Cameroon with the so-called West. DiARTgonale, a Cameroonian artist journal hosts this series. Each edition is headed by co-productions of Cameroonian and Dutch / German / Belgium artists and explores a specific subject matter in depth. The bilingual journals (FR/EN) are distributed as printed matter throughout Cameroon and Europe and as digital download as well as tablet application on the internet subsequently throughout 2012 and 2013.
The first publication “JAMAN” will be launched in November 2012.
The long-term project “Present Perfect” explores phenomena of cultural import and export in case-studies (new productions) with the tools of contemporary art. A continuous conversation with art professionals from Cameroon determined the geographical horizon of this project. Since 2009 a range of research travels, residencies, talks, events and exhibitions in out of Cameroon have organically shaped the project.
19/06/2012
10 - 24 June 2012: Residency of Justine Ngaga & Beate Engl, Munich, DE
The two conceptual sculptors Justine Ngaga (Douala) and Beate Engl (Munich) have started collaborating in the context of „Present Perfect“. Together they are developing a performance/sound installation entitled „Echo“ that deals with their respective working conditions as artists, with production and reception. Their collaboration builds on their hitlist of seminal texts from art theory. By means of props, such as reworked propaganda fabrics, they humourously explore various means of propagating these texts. Actors will ultimately interprete them in a performance that involves the props. Their sound-installation gets presented in a kinetic sculpture.
15/03/2012
16 and 17 April 2012: The Invisible Hand, Workshop, B-open, Bergen, NO
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Adam Smith
Location: HKS / Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, NO
Initiated by: Toril Johannessen (B-open) and Marjolijn Dijkman (ERforS)
Supported by: Bergen kommune, Stiftelsen Fritt Ord, Norsk kulturråd, Hordland fylkeskommune, NKVN and BKFH
Speakers: Richard Sheldon, Ove Jakobsen and Charles Esche
Public debate: 16 April 2012, Hordaland Art Centre at 19:00h.
Major contemporary thinkers keep repeating that it is easier to imagine the end of the world then the end of capitalism. Simultaneously, protest movements all over the world are exploring and evaluating the core principles of capitalism, believing there are alternatives. These movements make visible a dismay that has been almost invisible for a long time in the western world. In front of banks and financial institutes people express their discomfort with the way the financial world has control over daily life and politics.
In the workshop The Invisible Hand, we will explore the way Adam Smith (the first major theorist of what we commonly call Capitalism) has influenced contemporary rhetoric's around Capitalism. His term 'The Invisible Hand' has been used and appropriated by many speakers, with contradicting points of views, and it became an important metaphor in the discussions on the influence of the free market. Together with a historian and an economist, a group of artists will explore the roots of the capitalist way of thinking by discussing and researching Adam Smith and the way his ideas have influenced other thinkers. The group will be challenged to take a stand in the discussion and develop a response towards these rapidly emerging global issues.
Norway has a very special position in Europe at the moment. Due to its wealth there is not the same urgency to rethink the value system like there is in other European countries or the United States at the moment. Its wealth if not its welfare system seems to be secured for another few generations to come. How does this particular situation affect the way Norwegians think about Norway´s role in the global economy, not to say the global environment, as the Norwegian economy is heavily dependent on oil as a commodity?
The workshop will be in the form of a seminar group limited to 15 registered participants, plus a panel discussion with historian Richard Sheldon, economist Ove Jakobsen and curator Charles Esche in the afternoon. The panel discussion will be open for the public.