Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

Leisure, Discipline and Punishment
HEADLINES
Four organizers of international biennials in four European countries
together select eight artists
produce eight new works of art with moving images
place art with moving images in the public space
choose unconventional, energetic urban locations for the purpose
by doing so, give this art a social impulse
show the eight works of art as part of their events.
The coordinator and co-organisers all hold a biennial as a major event in which the moving image art plays an important role. They interpret the concept of ‘moving image’ in the broadest sense: video art, artworks incorporating film, installations with movement, light art in motion, etc. They believe this sort of art lends itself extremely well to public spaces and helps to establish direct contact with the public at large.
CURATORSHIP
Four curators make up an artistic committee with Jacob Fabricius, curator of Contour 2013, as the coordinator. His associates are: Lorenzo Fusi (curator Liverpool Biennial), Edi Muka (curator Göteborg Biennial) and Anne Barlow (curator Bucharest Biennial). The curators will work together to develop the concept and, on the basis of that, choose 8 artists. Each artist will be asked to make a new work. Each organisation will coach and produce two of them.
CONCEPT
Instead of using energy to bring people to the exhibition, the works of art will be taken to the people, put down in the midst of people, namely in places where they live, work, relax, reflect, etc. Art will become part of the city’s energy.