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SLOUGHT FOUNDATION 2008 Sixth Anniversary Annual Report Into the Open: Positioning Practice , U.S SLOUGHT FOUNDATION 2008 Sixth Anniversary Annual Report Into the Open: Positioning Practice , U.S. Pavilion,La Biennale di Venezia (2008) Photo by Ryan Reitbauer/Duggal Visual Solutions A nonprofit institution founded in 2002, Slought Foundation ('Sl-aw-t') is internationally renowned for its cultural activities. Culture means more than just preservation or presentation to us; it means the exchange of ideas, the creation of concepts. We work with communities in intimate and participatory ways, exploring new forms of practice and belonging. As a grass-roots institution, we value agility and the experimental dis - position. The name of our organization is derived from the word 'slough,' and gestures towards ecological metaphors of rejuvenation and rein - vention. In our first seven years, we have presented hundreds of exhibi - tions and educational programs internationally and in Philadelphia, operating at the forefront of curatorial innovation in North America. Our recent selection by the U.S. Department of State to represent the United States at La Biennale di Venezia (2008) is an enormous honor for our small West Philadelphia organization, and recognizes a new spirit of community activism and inclusiveness across the country. In the ab - sence of major public and private support for organizations that chal - lenge conventional wisdom, the local site and cultural practice are becoming newly empowered. In Conversation with Braco Dimitrijevic’s “The Casual Passer-By I Met at 3.01pm, Philadelphia, April 9, 2007” (2007) Braco Dimitrijevic’s “The Casual Passer-By I Met at 3.01pm, Philadelphia, April 9, 2007” at the University of Pennsylvania (2007) About the Foundation Slought Foundation ('Sl-aw-t') is a nonprofit organ - collaborations that enrich and expand our under - ization for the 21st century. Our mission is to high - standing of practice. Our planning process and pro - light inventive and interdisciplinary practice by gramming similarly emphasizes collaboration, collaborating with leading artists and architects in visitor interaction, and critical feedback as genera - an intimate and participatory environment. We en - tive principles, responding to concerns such as: courage new forms of sociability and activism How do cultures select what they mean by culture? through public programs that are purposely critical For whom and to what end do we protect, preserve and provocative; we invite audiences to consider and present culture in a globalized world? Can we criticality itself as a source of dynamism and en - mitigate conflict by promoting cultural dialogue and joyment. Rather than conceiving of our public as exchange? What should peripheral organizations homogeneous, we undertake each Slought Foun - aspire to in relation to the prevailing economic and dation project with the intent of establishing rela - educational focus of major cultural institutions and tionships with new and emerging publics. We seek funding platforms? Many of the individuals we to present a provocative curatorial agenda that re - present emphasize research as a fundamental com - sponds to the particular issues and challenges our ponent of their work, and they challenge us to re - communities face today, and we envision our ac - consider the politics of exhibition display and tivities as a bridge between different socio-eco - prevailing curatorial approaches by evading clear nomic and cultural communities. distinctions between artist, critic, and curator. Our primary activities in our Philadelphia location Join us in exploring and generating new forms of are complemented by international projects in cities sociability and activism and share information such as New York, Berlin, Venice, and Paris. Our about our activities with friends and colleagues. cultural offerings demonstrate our commitment to Look for coverage of Slought Foundation in na - contemporary cultural life, and the importance we tional and international media. place on cultivating cross-cultural and institutional Exhibition Selections 2008 - 2007 Into the Open: Positioning Practice Official U.S. representation at La Biennale di Venezia, 11th International Architecture Exhibition, with assistance from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the U.S. State Department Another Tomorrow: Young video art from the collection of the Neue Galerie Graz The Day You’ll Love Me (El Dia Que Me Quieras) Che Guevara and the films of Leandro Katz NORTH Territorial Agency | John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog Power Fields: Explorations in the Work of Vito Acconci SWITCHER SEX: Video Works from the Teutloff Collection Peter Weibel, Patricia Piccinini, Landau Sigalit, Jugren Klauke, Tracey Emin, et al. Ecstatic Truth: Documenting Herzog 'Documenting' Werner Herzog, Beat Presser The Ways to Post History: A Braco Dimitrijevic Retrospective featuring The Casual Passer-By I Met at 3.01 pm, Philadelphia, April 9, 2007 German Video Art from the Kunstmuseum Bonn: Joseph Beuys to Today Joseph Beuys, Klaus vom Bruch, Jochen Gerz, JurgenKlauke, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhöfer, Sigmar Polke, Mar - cel Odenbach, Carl Otto Paeffgen, Ulrike Rosenbach, Jan Verbeek SLOUGHT IN BERLIN / The New Epistemology William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Gunetr Brus, Hélène Cixous, Braco Dimitrijevic, Fred Forest, et al. Art and Society: The Work of Fred Forest 2006 - 2002 Primal Secretions: A GuntreBrus Retrospective Guy Debord: 'The Arts of the Future will be radical transformations of situations, or they will be nothing' Tactics: Early Video Works by Dennis Oppenheim, 1970-1974 CONFLICT: Perspectives, Positions, Realities in Central European Art Marina Abramovic, Braco Dimitrijevic, Nebojsa Seric Soba, Michael Milunovic, Danica Dakic, Maya Bajevic, et al. Vera’s Room Maria Chevska, Hélène Cixous Comicology: The New Magical Real Marc Bell, Charles Burns, Dame Darcy, Kim Deitch, Anders Nilsen, Ron Rege, Jr. Hermann Nitsch, Die Aktionen : 1962-2003 The Revolt of the Bees, Wherein the Future of the Paper-Hive is Declared With the University of Pennsylvania Rare Books and Manuscripts Library Sun Ra meets Napoleon: Fragments of the Alter-Future Sun Ra, Giovanni Belzoni, Jean-François Champollion Arakawa + Gins: Architecture Against Death Non-Retinal: David Stephens’s Kovert Konflagration Kovenant Cities Without Citizens: Statelessness and Settlements Rosenbach Museum Holdings, Gans and Jelacic Architecture, Lars Wallsten, Katrin Sigurdardottir Détente: Russian Contemporary Art in Video Format Oleg Kulik, Leonid Tishkov, AES (Tatyana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny Svyatsky), Olga Stolpovskaya Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting / Oct 05 - Jan 11, 2003 Jasper Johns, Sol Le Witt, Gerhard Richter, Alexander Calder, Oskar Kokoschka, Josef Albers Into the Open: Positioning Practice , U.S. Pavilion,La Biennale di Venezia (2008) Photo by Ryan Reitbauer/Duggal Visual Solutions Featured Project: Into the Open: Positioning Practice (2008) The exhibition Into the Open: Positioning Practice, the official U.S. representation at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, was co-organized by Slought Foundation in 2008 and high - lighted the means by which architects reclaim a role in shaping community and the built environment, to ex - pand understanding of American architectural practice and its relationship to civic participation. The exhibition received over 120,000 visitors and was praised extensively in the international press, including The Herald Tribune and The Guardian . Into the Open: Positioning Practice explored how architects, urban researchers, and community activists are meeting the challenges of creating new work in response to contemporary social conditions and ad - dresses factors challenging traditional methods of architecture, such as shifting socio-cultural demo - graphics, changing geo-political boundaries, uneven economic development, and the explosion of migration and urbanization. At the same time, it advocated for an expanded conception of architectural practice and responsibility. The sixteen practitioners included, all of whom actively engage communities in their work, demonstrated multifaceted responses to social and environmental issues. Into the Open: Positioning Practice was organized by Slought Foundation, in collaboration with PARC Foun - dation, and with The Architect's Newspaper as media partner. It was presented by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C. Educational Programming Selections 2008 - 2007 Beyond the Act: After the Biennale Emiliano Gandolfi, Teddy Cruz, William Menking, Aaron Levy Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in America Hermann Nitsch, Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Osvaldo Romberg, Andreas Stadler, et al. Reversible Destiny - Declaration of the Right Not to Die: International Arakawa + Gins Conference/Congress Shusaku Arakawa, Madeline Gins, Dorothea Olkowski, Arthur C. Danto, George Quasha + Chuck Stein, Don Ihde, Shaughan Lavine, Shaun Gallagher, Stanley Shostak, Trish Glazebrook, James Harithas, et al. City Girls, Flappers, and Feminist Film Theory | Seminar by Laura Mulvey SLOUGHT A PARIS | la maison rouge, fondation antoine de galbert, avec Sciences-Po Hélène Cixous, Braco Dimitrijevic, Fred Forest, et al. FROM WORD TO ACTION TO ARCHITECTURE | Public Nuisance Vito Acconci, Annette Fierro, Liz Kotz, Alan Licht, Christine Poggi, Frazer Ward, Matthew Witkovsky, et al. Is there a world beyond media? Art as a rewriting program Peter Weibel On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation In Defense of Sloth: Eclectic
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