Space Station: On Enabling, Production and Display

web address: http://www.0047.org/exhibitions Commissioned by 0047 (http://www.0047.org/) and developed by nOffice (Markus Miessen, Ralf Pflugfelder and Magnus Nilsson; http://www.noffice.eu/) and 0047, Space Station is a spatial social experiment that invents a system and methodology in order to renegotiate the relationship between art production, the exhibition and its spatial envelope. In recent decades reflections on how presentation and mediation confer meaning to artistic practices have evolved beyond the limits of historical and theoretical realms. Increasingly, practitioners have become preoccupied with the consideration of presentation forms. Artists have injected administration, mediation, and interpretation facets into the scope of their practice. Presentation forms have expanded to include lectures, film screenings, and interventions. Exhibition sites have been transformed into spaces of production and inhabitation. Understanding exhibition space as a medium in its own right, Space Station challenges models of presentation, mediation and archiving, and promotes the perception of architecture as an active device capable of probing and altering institutions and political conditions. Space Station is centered around a series of sixty-hour long residencies that take place within nOffice’s conceived and designed Space Enabler - an installation that incorporates various functional elements and reconfigures 0047’s gallery space. During this period, artists will not only work within but also completely inhabit 0047, concentrating their time within the gallery and shifting the center of their life to the institution. Each resident will be free to occupy the gallery as they wish, and after their departure will leave behind traces of their presence – but not before hosting a moving out party. Residencies: #1 nOffice: March 23-25 / Moving–out party: March 25, 7pm #2 Tone Hansen: April 8-10 / Full weekend program #3 Institute for Colour: April 27-29 / Moving–out party: april 29, 7pm #4 Jesper Alvær: May 11-13 / Moving–out party: may 13, 7pm #5 Can Altay: May 25-27 / Moving–out party: may 27, 7pm