Celebratory opening of Curating Degree Zero Archive in Bergen. Our first guest and one of our main collaborators, Dorothee Richter, will give a presentation about her and Barnaby Drabble’s work collecting the Curating Degree Zero Archive, its history, aims and future.
Rakett will give an introduction to the upcoming two-week program of events, talks, concerts, and shortly present our ideas and plans for the presentation of Curating Degree Zero Archive in Bergen.

Surprise-soup will be served by todays chef at Cooking Degree Zero.









About Dorothee Richter | www.curatingdegreezero.org

The archive is open to all visitors to come by and dive into, Welcome!
Screenings of selected videoworks from the Curating Degree Zero Archive will be presented by the hosts during the opening hours.

At 16:00 a meal inspired by the Aquarium will be served by todays chefs.

Espen Sommer Eide has since he started with his musical project Phonophani (in 1998) investigated different musical-aesthetical ideas somehow concerned with melancholy and how music connects with various affects in the listener. Lately, he has been occupied with building
instruments both for his solo performances and also for performing together with the group Alog.

At 18:00 this afternoon, he will demonstrate some of his latest creations both by explaining a bit about how they function and also with a short improvisation on the instruments. The instruments are all working with memory in different ways, by recording and playing back the sounds in patterns that mimic the way the human memory functions. Also the parts making up the instruments are themselves a collection of vintage xylophones and loudspeakers. The musical result is pure memory music – the most sad and melancholic music imaginable.





About Espen Sommer Eide | Phonophani

The archive is open to all visitors to come by and dive into, Welcome.
Selected soundworks from the archive will be presented during the opening hours.

At 16:00 a meal inspired by the view will be prepared outside and served by todays chef.

The archive is open to all visitors to come by and dive into, Welcome.
Selected slideshows from exhibitions in the archive will be presented during opening hours.

Yvette Brackman will introduce her ongoing project Common Knowledge, which is an association between three parties – Yvette Brackman, a group of indigenous craftspeople in the village of Lovozero on the Kola Peninsula in Russia and Camper Shoes, an international shoe company. In initiating a collaboration between indigenous people and advanced capitalist production, Yvette Brackman has initiated a framework which highlights the problematics of producing a product intended to satisfy cultural, sustainable, artistic, traditional and economic requirements.

The Onsdags Seminar lecture is in co-operation with Øystein Hauge and Bergen National Academy of Art.

About Yvette Brackman

This evening you are invited to join a talk alongside the preparation of a meal which is the first part of artist Geir Tore Holm’s project Medical Meal. Holm will during cooking, introduce the ingredients of this meal, which all contain healthy qualities for our body and the environment. This will be continued by a conversation between Yvette Brackman and Geir Tore Holm, with the starting point in the closest surroundings and continuing through their ideas, thoughts and questions connected to each of their projects, Common Knowledge and Sørfinnset skole/ the nord land.

This event is located outdoors, on the top of the city mountain of Bergen. Remember to bring warm clothes and something warm to sit on.
Either follow the main path and take a walk up the mountain or use the funicular to the final stop. There you will find signs leading you to Skomakerdiket.

Please see directions on map
Funicular transport
Don't get lost, contact Rakett

About Geir Tore Holm and Yvette Brackman | Sørfinnset Skole

We have the honour to host the seniors on the Norwegian sound art scene, BallongMagasinet. They are invited to elaborate around their recent publication Lydboka (Soundbook) and the mediation of sound art through this textual formate. By presenting selected sound works from both their own and the Curating Degree Zero Archive, they will introduce a variety of their ideas, thoughts and projects associated to curating, archiving and presentation of sound art.

Ballongmagasinets Lydbok is to be included in the CDZ archive.

Todays chef is inspired by the traditional Norwegian cuisine, concisting of sheep and cabbage.

About Ballongmagasinet | www.ballongmagasinet.com

This date we have the honour to host an event in three parts, and all in collaboration with the Bergen based artist-duo Sex Tags. First part is a presentation by Sex Tags and Franz Pomassl on their recent collaboration named Skeleton, which is an edit project based on audio material created in 1996 by Pomassl.
The Austrian sound-artist will also include a talk on his and Anna Ceeh’s record label Laton, meant to release experimental electronic music and sound-art, with focus on former Sovjet countries.

Vienna based sound artist Franz Pomassl works with the perception of sound, both conceptual and physically, with his projects that range from infrasonics sound installations, conceptual minimal techno releases and development of electro-acoustic machines and devices. Pomassl is engaged in the deconstruction and expansion of familiar ways of hearing with his installations that often are experienced aural, he explores where the acoustic reception lies, based on infra and ultrasound.

Skeleton (MANIA 10) will be released on 12" vinyl by Sex Tags Mania during the event and will be be included in the Curating Degree Zero Archive.

About Franz Pomassl and Sex Tags | www.sextags.com | www.laton.at

As the second part we proudly invite to a very special concert experience delivered by Franz Pomassl. The location will be announced to a pre-reserved guestlist only (limited to 20 persons)

To make an reservation and join this list (limited to 40 persons)
please contact (+47) 48296349 or info@sextags.com

About Franz Pomassl and Sex Tags | www.sextags.com | www.laton.at

At last but not least on this fast rolling three wheel, Sex Tags Mania throws a party to celebrate their newest release with Pomassl, Skeleton!

The crew of Austrian originated and label network operators, will this evening meet up to battle on the turntables, an event where today’s exploring pioneers of new electronic music and future experimental sounds are at play. Put your dance shoes on and turn up the bass!











About Franz Pomassl and Sex Tags | www.sextags.com | www.laton.at

Living Catalogue is the continuation of The Go-Between - an series of 10 artist projects in the Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam. The six curators will be gathered in the formate of their Living Catalogue, and give a talk on their challenges, experiences and the artist projects that all in all was a three month ongoing process.
Instead of choosing to document this exhibition in the formate of a printed matter, the curators wish to, in collaboration with the artists, to open up a dialogue and continue thinking, discussing and debating the ideas, challenges and expansions of collaborative curatorial practice and art in public space. Curating Degree Zero Archive in Bergen is honoured to be the first venue to host the Living Catalogue, which then will travel to De Appel art center in Amsterdam (3rd October) followed by Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven. During 2007 Living Catalogue will also be presented in Chile, Argentina and Los Angeles amongst other venues soon to be added.

We will be located at Bryggen, the wharf of Bergen, which is a reminder of the towns importance as part of the Hanseatic League's trading empire from the 14th to the mid 16th century. This night is kindly supported by Stiftelsen Bryggen.


About the participants | The Go-Between

The archive is open to all visitors to come by and dive into. Selected works from the archive will be presented during the opening hours and the hosts will be available for help to navigate through the archive. Comfortable chairs for long hours of reading are also available.

At 16:00 Todays chef serves heartshaped waffles with goat cheese, Welcome.

Bik Van der Pol's projects engage with functionality and site sensitivity, concerned with interaction at an institutional and intimate, local level. They engage with revitalization of memory in the present and with questions of knowledge, thus creating the necessary potential for a dialogue and an ever reforming discourse through which they develop an understanding of situations that surround us. They aim to improve situations, add what is missing, highlight what is in the dark and to open rather than close. Their working method is based on co-operation and they use this as a platform for various kinds of communicative
activities. Exploring and activating such platforms is one of the main threads in their work.









About Bik Van der Pol | www.bikvanderpol.net

In order to constantly generate action, to try to find solutions (real or imaginary) we sincerely believe in the huge potential and positive impact of not expecting anything: not expecting change, not expecting fame, not expecting respect, not expecting love, not expecting hate, not expecting... A lot of changes depend on the talent for making exciting and unexpected discoveries entirely by chance. When one has no expectations beforehand, one may be able to have freedom of action and sensitivity towards each situation.

The only important thing is to create-in a very precise, but at the same time improvised manner-the situation where open communication can flourish, a situation that builds trust and generates circumstances where intelligent critisism and support can contribute equally to change.

Exerpt from Changing the System Unexpectedly by Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol, Nifca Issue: Changing the System? Artists talk about their practice (1999).



About Bik Van der Pol | www.bikvanderpol.net

Anne Szefer Karlsen shows the video work "Failed, Emerging and Young" (2004) by Flávia Müller Medeiros, where the artist asked curators to talk about three different terms by which artists are defined.

Marte Johnslien takes her recently published book Showgrounds as a point of departure when she is asking - if it is possible to make the art world more inclusive to non-western artists by highlighting eclectic features of our history, and thereby challenging our cultural identity and concept of cultural authenticity?









About Anne Szefer Karlsen and Marte Johnslien | www.martejohnslien.com | www.szefer.net

Last day of Rakett presents Curating Degree Zero Archive in Bergen!
Today our Rakett archive-fanzine will be released. The fanzine features texts by Tone Hansen, Steffen Håndlykken, Hjørdis Kurås, Hanne Mugaas andPower Ekroth, besides a introduction by Rakett. The texts evolve around questions connected to the collaboration between artists and curators and their use of archives. The event will include a conversation with Steffen Håndlykken who has contributed with the text Curating Degree Zero as seen through a window. He will present his collaborative work the artist group the Institute of Colour and their exhibition and summer academy Scramble for Survival. The publication is made possible in co-operation with CTRL+Z Publishing in Bergen.

Welcome!

About the participants | Ctrl+Z | Scramble For Survival