forum artists in public @ ts2 - disclosing the invisible: jill magid and heath bunting 25 Mar 2011 Location: Auditorium, The Temporary Stedelijk 2 Language: English Entrance fee: Museum admission Reservations: Reservation is mandatory. Recent developments surrounding the WikiLeaks scandal have shown that there is a lot of information that does not immediately reach the media and the public. In addition, due to new technologies and political changes the power structures in the public domain are shifting: governments, private organizations, the media and the public seem to be forced to rethink their roles and tasks. Both Heath Bunting and Jill Magid are preoccupied with the notions of power and control in their work, and the way in which (in)visibility and secrecy play a part in sustaining them. Buntings work explores the porosity of borders, both in physical space and online, and in a way searches for ways to undermine or elude the existing stuctures. Magid turns her focus to the tools that enable power structures: the secret services and the technology of control. What invisible information or secrets are there for the artist to reveal? And how does revealing them contribute to public discourse? What kind of strategies and media do artists use in transforming invisible power structures into visible logics of our contemporary society? Program 13.30 Introduction by Martine van Kampen (curator Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte, Amsterdam) 13.40 Lecture by Jill Magid 14.20 Break 14.50 Lecture by Heath Bunting 15.30 Q&A and discussion, moderated by Huib Haye van der Werff (curator NAi, Rotterdam) 16.15 End Biographies speakers: Heath Bunting is a contemporary British artist born in 1966. Based in Bristol, he is the founder of the site irational.org and was one of the early practitioners in the 1990s of Net.art. Bunting's work is based on creating open and democratic systems by modifying communications technologies and social systems. His work often explores the porosity of borders, both in physical space and online. In 1997, his online work Visitors Guide to London was included in the 10th Documenta exhibition in Kassel. An activist, he created a dummy site for the European Lab for Network Collision (CERN) and works to maintain a list of pirate radio stations in London. Bunting has been commissioned and exhibited at a range of venues including Tate, London; The ICC, Tokyo; The New Museum, New York, The Banff Centre, Canada; Lovebytes Festival, Sheffield; Art Teleporticia, Moscow; The Arts Council England; Proboscis, London; The Watershed, Bristol and DA2, London, amongst others. For SKOR Bunting is working on a commission that is a further elaboration of his The Status Project. It was presented in February 2011 at Transmediale in Berlin. Jill Magid was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1973 and lives and works in New York. Taking institutional structures, rules, laws, and language as her media, Magid has developed a largely performance-based practice in which she seeks to engage institutions of power on a personal, intimate level. For her installation The Evidence Locker she developed a close relationship with Citywatch (Merseyside Police and Liverpool City Council), whose function is citywide video surveillance, having them film her on several occasions during a 31 day stay in Liverpool. In the Netherlands she is known for her commissioned project for the AIVD, resulting among others in her installation and book Becoming Tarden. Magid studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge and was an artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. She has exhibited in various institutions around the world including the Whitney Museum in New York, Tate Modern in London, Stroom Den Haag, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Gagosian Gallery in New York, Sparwasser in Berlin and Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris and New York.

• Trefwoorden
  Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Activiteiten/Lezingen/Muziekuitvoeringen], Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam [Tentoonstellingen], monografie, beeld- en/of geluidsdrager
• Persoonstrefwoord
  Heath Bunting, Jill Magid