Sweet 60s Glossary Meetings and Lectures
Literature Museum Tbilisi /
Glossary Meetings originally started as a loose series of gatherings. Local and international experts as well as students develop an atlas of terms and paths by which late modernism and the neo-avant-garde reached the respective cultural contexts and the languages of various cities and regions. On this occasion, tranzit.at and Urban Reactor work with VERSATORIUM, a group of poetry translators linked to the Institute of Comparative Literature at the University of Vienna, local students, scholars and translators, as well as international experts, on a critical and experimental exploration of multi-layered structures and ethnically inhomogeneous landscapes – landscapes for translators on the outskirts of Europe.
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Sweet Sixties. Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-garde
book launch at Vienna Secession, 26. 2. 2014, 7 pm /
The stories and spirits of a parallel avantgarde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon.
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Sweet Sixties book launch & SKYPE presentation
New Museum, NY, February 8, 4 pm /
Special guests: Lesley Ma, Yehuda Safran
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Biennale di Venezia: an agenda
Discussions, Venice /
Visual art production at International Events and on the Alternative Scene: a possible dialogue? Cultural production in times of financial constraint. Production, Networking, alternative cultural policies. What is going on and what can be done to improve? The conditions of work in Venice during the Biennale
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Sweet Sixties: Avant-gardes in the shadows of the Cold War
lectures and conference / sweet 60s / mumok, Vienna /
MODERNITIES TRANSMOGRIFIED
In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from india to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the Southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity; forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star-maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains.
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Sweet Sixties: Tales and Morals
exhibition / Galerija Nova, Zagreb /
The exhibition Sweet Sixties: Tales and Morals is a part of a long term project which explores the heritage of parallel modernisms of the 1960s in relation to their current geopolitical, economic and cultural implications and potentials, with emphasis on post-socialist, Middle Eastern and African context.
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Parallel Modernities: On some travelling agendas of late Modernism in the shadow of the Cold War 1960s
conference / sweet sixties / Ashkal Alwan, Beirut /
Location: Home Workspace - Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
Dates: January 28th — 30th, 2013
During the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the Southern hemisphere are replete with the spirit and forms of Modernity. Forms that transmogrify, and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star-maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains.
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SOVIET MODERNISM 1955 – 1991. UNKNOWN STORIES
exhibition / sweet 60s / AZW Vienna /
The Architekturzentrum Wien writes architectural (hi)stories: ‘Soviet Modernism 1955 – 1991. Unknown Stories’ explores, for the first time comprehensively, the architecture of the non-Russian Soviet republics completed between the late 1950s and the end of the USSR in 1991. The research and exhibition project shifts the Russian-dominated perspective and focuses attention on the architecture of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Krygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan The Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
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Parallel Pop – Orientalist Modernisms
conference / sweet sixties / Istanbul /
“Parallel Pop – Orientalist Modernisms” is the title of the seminar discussing these issues. This seminar is organized in the framework of the exhibition “A Kind of Electricity Appeared in Outer Space: Musical Turkey in the 1960s” as part of the project “Sweet Sixties.” It will try to analyze various aspects of the emergence of different new folklore and urban cultures since 1960 (like Arabesque, RABIZ, Novokomponovana muzika, Etnophonie, etc.) and their adaptation in the entertainment culture as well as their impact on social and political transformations.
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A kind of Electricity Appeared in Outer Space, Musical Turkey in the 1960’s
exhibition at DEPO, Istanbul /
DEPO begins the new season with a documentary exhibition and a series of talks: “A kind of electricity appeared in outer space.”
Derya Bengi from the editorial teams of Roll, Express and Bir + Bir magazines is the curator of the exhibition aiming to understand the transformation Turkey went through in the 1960s by following in the footsteps of music.
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Sweet 60s lecture
Sweet 60s lecture at DEPO Istanbul /
In September 2012, DEPO will host an exhibition curated by Derya Bengi from the editorial teams of Roll, Express and Bir + Bir magazines, attempting to understand and redefine the transformation Turkey went through in the 1960s through the production in the field of music.
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Sweet Confusion Yerevan
conference / sweet sixties / Yerevan /
Sweet Confusion is a conference project that comparatively explores Armenian and Turkish cinematography of the 60s. The conference attempts to reread the socio-political and cultural paradigms of two geopolitically estranged situations, which throughout the 1960s were in the process of self-defining and self-positioning themselves by determining and shaping the “other” through the complex correlation of cultural and political systems.
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Sweet Confusion
conference / sweet sixties / Istanbul /
Sweet Confusion is a conference project that comparatively explores Armenian and Turkish cinematography of the 60s. The conference attempts to reread the socio-political and cultural paradigms of two geopolitically estranged situations, which throughout the 1960s were in the process of self-defining and self-positioning themselves by determining and shaping the “other” through the complex correlation of cultural and political systems.
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Aspirations, Tensions and Failures of 1960s' State Cultural Policies
Sweet 60s / seminar /
The seminar deals with the issues of cultural policies and state representation as viewed through the phenomenon of large-scale exhibitions, biennials and film production from the 1960s and 1970s.
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meeting Sweet 60s
panel discussion /
May 13th, at 1pm
Room M20, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
The participants will give an insight in their practice in regard to the project „Sweet 60s“ as well as a contextualisation within contemporary practices which will open up into a general discussion.
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THE CITY DEVELOPMENT, CONTEMPORARY ART AND
Sweet 60s / A Note of Residency in (DEPO), Istanbul /
In December 2010 Yoshi Fajar Kresno Murti from Indonesia spent two weeks in residence at Depo in Istanbul in the frame of Sweet 60s.
The residence was made possible through the cooperation with the IVAA - Indonesian Visual Art Archive.
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RED THREAD
presentation /
RED THREAD has dedicated it's second issue to "Sweet 60s". The presentation takes place on October 13th 2010 at 6.30 pm in Istanbul.
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RED THREAD editorial meeting
WHW, Zagreb /
Accompanying the SWEET 60s project is the publication of an issue of the online magazine RED THREAD in June 2010.
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Introduction
SWEET 60s
is a long term experimental curatorial, scientific and educational research project that investigates hidden territories of the revolutionary period of the 1960s regarded from contemporary artistic and theoretical perspectives
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