s23x - system 23 eXodus

s23x creeps its way to trg republica with only centimeters left on the sides

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:54:46 +0100

s23x creeps its way to trg republica with only centimeters left on the sides

"While it was stationed in Bolzano during the summer, it was left with some spray cans inside. When..."

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:17:37 +0100

“While it was stationed in Bolzano during the summer, it was left with some spray cans inside. When we arrived again, we had noticed that someone had taken these and spraypainted the outside of the bus. I a very ugly manner I have to add. Now, as artists we had several choices in this situation. We could have kept the spraypaint, talking about how the people now had truly interacted with the art. But this would have been to fetischise authenticity. What we did I think was much better, we also remodified the bus. Removed some paint, added other, filled in some earlier paintings and generally made it look much better from our point of view. In this way we claimed just the same control over the art as the people with the spray cans had claimed. It was only our position as artists that made it possible to do this after the exhibition was closed and therefor have the final “word”. The artist has an information advantage over the public in relation to the art.”

- Monki commenting on Copyriot, regarding the cliché of “art in public space”

Vladans photos from Trg Republica

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:16:32 +0100

Vladans photos from Trg Republica

Regarding the cliché of “art in public space”

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:00:58 +0100

Regarding the cliché of “art in public space”

Posing in from of by the pirate bus. Photo: Dario Omerdic

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:38:00 +0100

Posing in from of by the pirate bus. Photo: Dario Omerdic

Public performance and play completed in the middle of the middle of Belgrade, featuring an orthodox...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:23:00 +0100

Public performance and play completed in the middle of the middle of Belgrade, featuring an orthodox priest, mix tapes, the bus, Vlidi in the Kopimi folk costume, three flute-playing men in Serbian folk costume, video screening, ourselves in white costumes, and loads of children copying us, and ourselves copying them, etc.

Total success!

(Pictures and video to come soon.)

Images from the trip so far...

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:17:18 +0100

Images from the trip so far...

Status update:

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:42:08 +0100

After a long journey from Ljubljana and some problems at the serbian border we are now parked in the middle of the middle in Belgrad. Tonight the bus will open for the public so if you are in Belgrad, come to Trg Republica tonight!

s23x in Trg Republica, Beograd

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 12:38:38 +0100

s23x in Trg Republica, Beograd

Glitch report from Ljubljana

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:57:52 +0100

Glitch report from Ljubljana

Photo

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:48:05 +0100

Videos - Live and Archived

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 20:14:00 +0100

Videos - Live and Archived

S23x evaluating S23M: second fragment

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:53:42 +0100

It wasn’t that we left S23M in Bolzano. We left as S23M, a deterritorialized project, leaving the bus behind.
One conclusion is that S23x must be at hand with the bus, or it will degrade.
Now, let’s reterritorialize it!

S23x evaluating S23M: first fragment

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:51:00 +0100

I think that our arival and our presence at the opening weekend easily made up the best contribution to Manifesta7 (or at least to the Ex-Alumix part). Since then, however, the bus as an object has degenerated into a crap piece of art. Still the video screened inside the bus is still, as an art video, definitely one of the very best at the whole exhibition – and the immediate context for the video screening (the middle part of the bus’ main room) is great, almost uncomparable to the rest of the inside, the outside, or the totality.

Autumn talk, part 4: The method of Kopimi

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:54:55 +0100

Autumn talk, part 1: Why copyright is now about tools, not works
Autumn talk, part 2: Bass and place, meaning and abundance
Autumn talk, part 3: Greyzone communities
Autumn talk, part 4: The method of Kopimi
Autumn talk, part 5: Afterthoughts

The anxious search for a solution might be necessary to trigger the process of moving on. But at a certain point the process always demands that this anxiety is unconditionally left behind. Now our main task can’t any more be to give more answers, to create more “content”, or to invent fresh business models. Much more relevant than drawing up blueprints for how stuff should work in the future, is to here and now try out new ways to put all existing content into context. The general problem is abundance, not scarcity. What counts in the end is action, not access. We are co-developing a method known as kopimi. It is about affirming the will to copy and to be copied. It is about accepting copying as something active and selective, not just a repetition of the same. It is, at the same time, about exploring that which can not be copied, that which slips away, and to enjoy it as it slips away. It is about valuing the very process of copying, while recognizing that no copy will be identical. Mutations always happens when as a copy is connected to another place and another time. Kopimi is an imperative – copy me! – not a theory. Thus it has no real origin, but is said to have emerged from a dance. When it is defined, it is always by means of selecting and copying definitions of other phenomena, letting these definitions mutate. That kind of processes is probably the only “alternative” to copyright that kopimi can propose – an alternative not for individual “artists”, but for artistic practice at large. Of course, answers will be formulated, “content” will be created, and business models will be invented. Don’t worry. From the perspective of kopimi, however, this comes merely as a side-effect to something much more crucial: The quest for ways to integrate the infinite abundance of information into our finite lives.

CrazyQ live

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:39 +0200

CrazyQ live

toa

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:32 +0200

toa

Dubmood live

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:27 +0200

Dubmood live

sur pensionär på semester i spanien

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:22 +0200

sur pensionär på semester i spanien

impish+altemark

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:01:18 +0200

impish+altemark