#1 | #2 | IFFR#33
| #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 Munchen | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 The Interviews | #11 | #12 Berlin edition | #13 Dresden ausgabe | #14 | #15 | #16 Copenhagen export | #17 IFFR | #18 Riga-web radio | #19 Models for Conceptual Art | #20 The Swiss Issue | #21 aktie-editie | #22 Rotterdam Art Map1 | #23 Bruxelles edition | #24 Portscapes web-radio | #25 Writing About! Douala | #26 Rotterdam Art Map 2.0 | #27 Post-Soviet Caucasus Reader | #28 Budget Cuts in NL | Traveling the World | send us an email

Fucking Good Art Odyssey: travelling Europe and the rest of the World



The last four years we have been traveling through Europe to make issues of Fucking Good Art. Our odyssey started in October 2004 in München (FGA#6), then to Berlin (FGA#12 - 2006), Dresden (FGA#13 - 2006), Copenhagen (FGA#16 - 2007), Riga (FGA#18 web-radio summer of 2007), Basel and Zürich (FGA#20 - 2008), and São Paulo (October 2008) + November 2009. Tbilisi in Georgia (FGA#27), and from January to May we travelled in Italy for the research for our new big book Italian Conversations - Art in times of Berlusconi, that will be presented in October in Nomas Foundation Rome.
^


Rome_Nomas Foundation
From January to May 2011 we travelled in Italy in the company of 7 different Cicerone’s, knowledgeable guides, for the sake of curiosity and learning. Our pelgrimage was not to expose ourselves both to the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance. But to explore as aprentice tourists and non-academic researchers the contemporary artistic, social and political scene in times of Berlusconi. We started in Rome after a pleasurable dinner at our mecenas, and ended in Palermo, passing through; Florence, Bologna, Milan, Viganella, Turin, Rivoli, Lecce, Matera, Bari, Saint Maria di Leuca, Napels, and Gibellina.
Fucking Good Art - Italian Issue will be presented at Nomas Foundation in October.

Tbilisi
July – October 2010 residency GeoAIR.
The GeoAIR residency program is a self directed residency program, that offers primarily curators and culture producers the opportunity to base themselves in Tbilisi, Georgia and use this location as a starting point to build networks, meet artists, cultural institutions and curators from the Caucasus region, and develop and deepen their knowledge and research of the Caucasus context. The residency is supported by Fonds BKVB / The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture.
GeoAIR Art Residency Team:
Sophia Tabatadze
Nini Palavandishvili
Kirsten Leenaars
Sophia Lapiashvili
http://geoairresidency.blogspot.com

São Paulo

First contact with Brazil and São Paulo through a residency at FAAP in October 2008 during the São Paulo Bienal.
Second contact: we were in São Paulo again in November 2009 for another residency of one months from Nov. 5 – Dec. 3 2009 to work on a new Fucking Good Art publication / The São Paulo Reader. This time our residency was in Vila Madalena and our guest house Atelie Novo.
More news to come soon.


Brussel
A 3 day project at aLAB, a new project space in Brussels run by curator Veronique Vaes and artist Bernd Kleinheisterkamp. Presentation with 2 video projectors for text and image, and a sound compilations of conversations and sound-bites of the city took place on Sunday May 17 2009.


^http://bxllab.blogspot.com

Zurich – The Swiss Issue
Residency at the legendary BINZ39 in Zurich for four months from December 2007 – April 2008. This as a preparation for The Swiss Issue – a field study on art and the art market. It has been made at the introduction of the curators Miriam Varadinis and Alexandra Blättler of the Kunsthaus Zurich for the exhibition Shifting Identities taking place from 6.6 – 31.8 2008. During the four months of our residency at BINZ39 we interviewed artists, designers, curators and collectors about art and the market. We asked writers for critical reflections on the art world and its existing model. We also asked artists for visual and textual contributions.
We had one question that we wished to pose to everyone: do you think the current hierarchical model works? And this usually led to a second question: is it possible to conceive another model?
www.kunsthaus.ch
www.shifting-identities.ch
^

Riga – web radio
Showroom – a project space whitout a space from Switzerland run by Egija Inzule and Tobias Kaspar – invited different art projects and organisations from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands to participate in the group exhibition 'Matilde'. Site-specific installations, video and performances filled a one-week programme from August 17 – 25 2007.
For three weeks we had a residency at Singalong – an art hotel and residency in Andrejsala to do research for our web radio project On-Air. The idea was to broadcast a daily show via the internet and a short range FM transmitter with conversations on art, interviews, radio walks, kitchen talks, audio works and conceptual radio projects.
www.showroom.st
^


Basel – residency
Residency at IAAB for three months from October – December 2007. IAAB is an international exchange and studio programme and has seven studios in the trinational region of Basel and currently arranges exchanges with ten partner organisations abroad. One of the partners is Kaus Australis Rotterdam. This is why we could go there.
www.iaab.ch
www.kausaustralis.org


Copenhagen – FGA#16 Export + Domestic edition
Invitation by the curators Johanne Loegstrup and Katharina Stenbeck from PUBLIK to participate in the show How Do You Belong – 5 projects in public space in Copenhagen.
www.publik.dk
^


Dresden

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.


Berlin – International edition

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.


Munchen

They're not scared of you. They're scared of what you represent to 'em.


Colophon
Fucking Good Art HQ – Rotterdam / Berlin
Editors – Rob Hamelijnck and Nienke Terpsma
Webdesign – catalogtree.net
Webmaster – Guy Lux
First issue December 2003
Email – mail[at]fuckinggoodart.nl

Fucking Good Art is an editorial project for research in art. We are interested in ethnography and oral history, documentary and new modes of journalism, counter cultures and sub cultures, Civil Society, self-organisation and DIY (do-it-yourself) strategies, art and activism, resistance, other models than art market, globalisation in art, post-darwinism, and ecology. We have a participatory strategy and are by nature highly sensitive to the context we are in.

Special editions (in other European cities):
2004 - München edition (A3)
2005 - The Interviews (pocket book)
2006 - International edition/Berlin (pocket book)
2006 - Dresden edition (A3)
2007 - Kopenhagen edition (booklet)
2007 - Riga (web-radio edition)
2008 - The Swiss Issue (pocket book)
2009 - Portscape ON_AIR (web-radio edition)
2010 - Tbilisi – Caucasus Reader (online)
2011 - The Italian Conversations – Art in Times of Berlusconi (magazine) Out in October 2011