Manual CC - Manual in Action Event and Open Call for Artists
(2008 04 02 15:37)
uqbar (Dorothee Bienert, Dortje Drechsel, Marina Sorbello, Antje Weitzel) and Marianna Dobkowska (Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw) invite artists and audiences to participate in the Manual Creative Commons project.
Manual CC is a Creative Commons license game - it can be replayed in any chosen configuration, in any place and at any time. Manual CC is a set of game manual-scenarios, composed of “instructions for beginners and advanced users”, that have been submitted by artists on special cards, all of which are of the same size. During the exhibition, the cards are placed together with copies of the original instructions, which can be picked up and collected by visitors. Following the manual instructions, the visitors can, inside or outside the gallery, recreate the artists’ projects, which are single player or group games.
The number of participants, both artists and “users”, is constantly growing. So far, over seventy artists were involved. A selection, curated by Marianna Dobkowska, has been on show at uqbar from April 3-18, 2008. More than 35 artists took part in the open call, further contributions are possible till the closing of the exhibtion on May 17.
Terms of artists' participation:
1...... The artist is supposed to send the instructions on how to complete his work.
2...... The instructions, as a drawing or a handwritten text, should be sent in A5 format to uqbar address.
The remaining terms as well as other information can be found in the enclosed PDF version of the invitation.
On April 25, from 6 p.m. on the opening at uqbar gives the opportunity of playing together with others. Extra games by Wilhelm Sasnal and Barbara Stock will be on display.
Manual CC began as a project by a group of 12 curators within the framework of the Curatorial Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland in cooperation with Kronika in Bytom, where it was presented in September 2007.
A new edition in the form of an exhibition will take place at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, April 24 - May 22, 2008.
At uqbar projectspace Manual CC will be presented in uqbar in two stages:
- April 3 to April 18: the presentation of the new Manual CC edition
- April 25 to May 18, the results of the open call will be on dispay
On April 25 at 6 p.m. the second Berlin edition of Manual CC will be opened and the visitors are invited to realize the old and new games.
Artists, articipating in Manual CC so far:
4!, Mark Aerial Waller, Paweł Althamer, Vasil Artamonov & Alexey Klyukov, Anatka Barczewska, Zbyněk Baladrán, Kuba B±kowski, Bas van Beek, Anca Benera, Sarmen Beglarian, Sanford Biggers, Tomek Bierkowski, Rahim Blak, Agnieszka Brzeżańska & Marek Raczkowski, Karin Bühler, Yane Calovski, Martin Conrads, Holly Crawford, Agnieszka Chojnacka, Hubert Czerepok, Jiří David, Oskar Dawicki, Marjan Denkov, Christoph Draeger, Stanisław Dróżdż, Drumlander/ Louis Blackburn & Angelo Vermeulen, Elshopo, Pola Dwurnik, Samuel Francois, Marcius Galan, Rainer Ganahl, Haimo Ganz, Ingo Gerken, Simon Goldin & Jakob Senneby, Leszek Golec & Tatiana Czekalska, Ryszard Górecki, Henry Grahn, Marek Glinkowski, Grupa Whitney Houston: Paulina Ołowska & Bartek Przybył & Aleksander Wawrzyniak, Małgorzata Jabłońska & Piotr Szewczyk, Jesper Jargil, Łukasz Jastrubczak, Olivier Kosta –Thefaine, Jiří Kovanda, Justyna Köke, Elżbieta Krajewska, Anna Krenz, Igor Krenz, Paweł Kruk, Wojtek Kucharczyk, Agnieszka Kurant, Piotr Kurka, Robert Ku¶mirowski, Dominik Lang, Maciej Landsberg, Jan Löchte, Sara MacKillop, Agnieszka Małecka, Anna Mandoki, Katarzyna Marszewski, Christian Mayer & Yves Mettler, Asier Mendizabal, Mirzlekid, Nuria Montiel, Bartek Mucha, Jacek Niegoda, Anna Niesterowicz, Txema Novelo, Nick Oberthaler & Julien Diehn, Parfyme, Dan Perjovschi, Ben Petersen, Robert Rumas, PGR ART, Raketa, Wilhelm Sasnal, Jadwiga Sawicka, Jochen Schmith, Maciej Sieńczyk, Janek Simon, Jiří Skála, Kateřína Šedá, Škart, Bruno Steiner, Rudolf Steiner, Kamen Stoyanov & Vasilena Gankovska, Paweł Susid, Superflex, Tomáš Svoboda, Grzegorz Sztwiertnia, Lucia Tkáčová & Anetta Mona Chisa, Karl Tuikkanen, Tomssa, Tomáš Vaněk, Joanna Warsza, Olav Westphalen, Franziska Wicke, Adam Witkowski, Julita Wójcik, Patryk Zakrocki, Honza Zamojski, Grzegorz Zgraja, Florian Zeyfang
Participants in the Open Call (so far):
Guido Affini, Stefka Ammon and Veronike Hinsberg, Volkan Aslan, Nancy Atakan, Riccardo Benassi, Davide Bertocchi, Luca Bertolo, Alessandro Bosetti, Gaia Bartolini, Giacomo Bazzani, Chiara Camoni, Cinzia Cozzi and Bernardo Giorgi, Dina Danish, Elenia Depedro, Valentino Diego, Pia Fuchs (german ID von Patricia Reed), Francesco Gagliardi, Monika Goetz, Agnieszka Gonsowska and Mali Uysal, Gruppo Estraneo Permanente (Eleonora Papapietro), Catherine Hemelryk, Chris de Lutz, Alessandro Piangiamore, Karl Heinz Jeron, David Maroto, Marisa Maza, Sal Randolph, Marco Raparelli, Mario Rizzi, Marco Schmitt, Scirocco Plot (Julia Steinmann and Daniela Fromberg), Judith Siegmund, Jacklyn Soo, Roland Stratmann, Malgorzata Szandala, Anna Tautfest