Goodbye Wittgenstein
25 July – 5 August 2016
Goodbye Wittgenstein is
an international exchange programme between artists and academics from qujOchÖ in Linz, Austria and artists
selected by A3 Project Space in
partnership with BOM (Birmingham Open
Media), UK.
Participants
in the programme take the relationship between the Austrian born philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein and David Hume Pinsent from Birmingham as a starting point
for a series of projects that will happen in Linz and Birmingham during 2016. The
projects respond to Wittgenstein’s early text ‘Notes on Logic’ which was
dictated by Wittgenstein in 1913 during a visit to see David in Birmingham.
‘Notes in Logic’ is notably the predecessor of what is considered to be one of
the most important philosophical texts of the 20th Century,
‘Tractatus Logico Philosophicus’.
The
first phase of the Goodbye Wittgenstein programme is a visit to Birmingham from
qujOchÖ artists Verena Henetmayr, Thomas Philipp and Andre Zogholy who will be
in residence at BOM from 25 July to 5 August 2016. Using BOM as their base they
will be enacting and documenting a series of public interventions at places
that are connected to the life of Wittgenstein and Pinsent, including; Town
Hall Birmingham and the original sites of Selly Wick House, the family home of
the Pinsents on Lordswood Road in Harborne and the Berlitz School of Language on
Paradise Street where Wittgenstein dictated “Notes on Logic” to a German
speaking stenographer.
The
residency includes public events at BOM on 28 July and 4 August and will
culminate in a presentation of their interventions at Stryx as part of Digbeth
First Friday, 5 August.
Related
Events:
Wittgenstein and the Linz / Birmingham
connection
28
July, 6.30 pm
BOM
free
Artists
Verena Henetmayr, Thomas Philipp and Andre Zogholy from qujOchÖ
who are participating in the Goodbye Wittgenstein
international exchange will talk about the development of their projects.
Writer
Mike Johnston has written extensively about Wittgenstein’s relationship with
Birmingham and will talk about his visits to see Pinsent between1912-13. Along
with artists Emily Warner and Trevor Pitt, they will talk about the projects
they are developing for their forthcoming residencies at Atelierhaus Salzamt,
Linz in November 2016.
Clayton
Shaw will talk about a set of placements run by SAMPAD that took place at Ars
Electronica Festival, Linz for artists and practitioners working with young
people who have a desire to enhance their skills and knowledge of the use of
digital products and technology within their work.
Darryl
Georgiou will talk about working at the Futurelab as part of his artist residency at the Ars
Electronica centre in
Linz, Austria during July - September 2014.
The
presentations will be followed by the chance to informally network and build
more connections between Birmingham and Linz.
Logic, Love & Kaiserschmarrn
4
August, 7.00 pm
BOM
free
qujOchÖ
will talk about their work at the interfaces of art, politics, society,
technology and science. They will show what it feels like to enter a wellness zone together with the famous French philosopher Michel Foucault, how to burn 21 million pounds on a Brazilian beach and why
almost no one in Austria knows anything about ‘Sound of Music‘. Moreover they
will serve super sweet Austrian Kaiserschmarrn & Zwetschkenknödel to the
audience.
Goodbye Wittgenstein, qujOchÖ
5
August, 6.00 pm as part of Digbeth First Friday
Stryx
Artists
Verena Henetmayr, Thomas Philipp and Andre Zogholy from Linz, Austria will present outcomes of
their residency at BOM including traces of their interventions in public spaces
in Birmingham connected to the relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein and his
close friend from Birmingham, David Pinsent.
Supported
by:
Supported by Austrian Cultural
Forum London, The Austrian Federal Chancellery - Arts and Culture Division, The
State of Upper Austria,The City of Linz, A3 Project Space, BOM (Birmingham Open Media)
and Stryx.
Links:
http://digbethfirstfriday.com
http://www.linz.at/kultur/salzamt.asp
http://mikeinmono.blogspot.com
http://emily-warner.com
http://www.podprojects.org
http://www.peteashton.com
http://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wittgenstein-linz-birmingham-art-project
http://www.kunstforum.de/nachrichten.aspx?id=11973
http://www.linz.at/kultur/salzamt.asp
http://mikeinmono.blogspot.com
http://emily-warner.com
http://www.podprojects.org
http://www.peteashton.com
http://www.britishwittgensteinsociety.org/wittgenstein-linz-birmingham-art-project
http://www.kunstforum.de/nachrichten.aspx?id=11973
