Cultural memory is created through events: through projects and their publication, through archives, through publications, etc. Only in the representation of events is a final, congealed and static state attributed to them. The fundamental eventfulness is to be taken into account in the project.
Compilations and archives are based on networks, on connections, on rope teams and are also subject to a certain degree of chance. In their manifestations, they appear completed and solidified, the selection and compilation final.
In various ways, the projects attempt to show a new openness of events: the compilations go back to different initiators, the archives remain unfinished, the actions eventful, the networks open.

“Schritte” - Take away stickers by Marion Bösen
Thematically, the stickers revolve around the overlapping of the public and the private, the underlying questions are:
To what extent is every private action determined by images conveyed by the media?
How much potential for resistance lies in the deviation from the ideal image?
The works are conceived as take-away stickers, they can be taken out of the gallery space and
and can change and complement the cityscape or private interior at any location.
The stickers infiltrate public and private spaces and thus suggest a re-appropriation of power through images.

Collective JukeBox initiated by Jerome Joy
Collective JukeBox is an open, free audio “workspace” that has been in operation since 1996. The project has taken various forms from the beginning - from audio compilation (DataBase) and audio intervention group to the development of a networked music machine project with the concept of a “cooperative system server” in parallel to the actual “sound system” buttons. In a state of continuous development, the project offers various public and “work” buttons that are “connected” to an autonomous and self-managed database (as audio storage). The development system is similar to the principle of groupware. The database suggests audio content from the cooperative system (“materialized” by the server machine) to the user. This content can be extended to other mediatized playgrounds: to streams of audio patches and modules (using max/msp, jmax and other audio programs or open software), to text and “ perhaps later” image streams. The content depends exclusively on the participants, whether they are identified or remain anonymous, whether they act intentionally or unintentionally.
http://collectivejukebox.org/ ↗
http://jukebox.thing.net/ ↗
http://homestudio.thing.net/ ↗

Of the artists at KünstlerHaus, Astrid Nippoldt and Petra Klussmeyer are involved in the Collective Jukebox.

PROGRESS, THE CITY AND WORK
Video program/video library compiled by Florian Wüst
The video programme Der Fortschritt, die Stadt und die Arbeit (Progress, the City and Work), selected for Bremen, shows a reflection on the social transformation of urban spaces and the rationalization of industrial production in terms of both content and visuals. The nervous pulse of technological and infrastructural progress in the 20th century is juxtaposed with insights into life stories, working realities and visionary potential for action. With films by Karel Doing (NL), Sandrine Dryvers (B), Sandra Lahire (UK), John Smith (UK) and Lou Ye (China). After the one-off screening during the opening on June 13, the films will remain in the exhibition as a video library and can be viewed individually by visitors.

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