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The Market
Przemysl, Polish Ukranian border 1995

trade market

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The Market
Przemysl, Polish Ukranian border 1995

Trade

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End Date

19 Aug 2001

Start Date

16 Jun 2001

Location

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

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On the eastern edge of 'old europe' lies a deregulated strip astride the Polish Ukrainian border. And it is here that traders, traffickers and smugglers from all over the previous Soviet Block congregate. It was formerly the first zone with access to a convertible 'hard' currency.

In the early years of 'free' trade -the 1990's- these fledgling merchants brought their own belongings to sell; after accumulating a small amount of capital they progressed to supplying goods made from their home states - hopelessly cast tractor parts, blunt saw blades, terrible plastic bowls and the like. The outward flow of home-made products and the resulting exchange of currency, slowly enabled the production and distribution of local goods to be replaced with the manufacture of commodities already available in markets further west.

Tentative ribbons of trade hardened into complex supply chains; small objects with a high unit price - software, audio CD's, DVD's, watches, 'branded' or electronic goods are favored; all those things where there is a lot of value in a small space.

In keeping with the texture of this border zone, the market in Przemysl -as though in a caricature of all markets everywhere- only deals in surrogate goods, nothing is ever as it seems. All manner of 'brand', 'label' or copyright designs are available, some closer to the authentic examples than others. Stolen software code and unauthorized cloning, jostle with 'Mike' trainers and 'Addidos' sports clothing, as subtly altered branded goods merge with the carelessly copied. And the market, like the goods it trades, is provisional. Regular merchants hire the 'sharks', lockable corrugated steel containers to store, display and sell goods from. Novice tradeers utilise the display space offered by unfolding a camping bed, their stock stored in bags made from nylon grain sacks, and the whole 'shop' is attached to trolley wheels with elastic 'bungee' straps; the essence of trade encapsulated.

For all its rudimentary nature, the market in Przemysl collapses down two of the architectural models bequeathed to Europe by its classical heritage. The forum, a space intended for the exchange of goods and services is the root of the commerce itself, by conducting trade in a little used football stadium the market also appropriates the amphitheatre, the space of public spectacle. And it's here that Przemysl excels, it unconsciously connects the ancient roots of trade, with its modern incarnation as popular entertainment.

Buy the book/catalogue Trade: Wares, Ways and Values in World Trade Today Published by Scalo, Germany ISBN 3-908247-53-5 at Artwords

and visit Fotomuseum Winterthur

Meshwork Market

admin — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:35:10 +0100

Meshwork Market
Nowa Huta 2024

Nowa Huta

admin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:31:10 +0100

The factory
Nowa Huta, Cracow Old Europe 2016

Meshwork Markets

admin — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:27:08 +0100

IndustrialtownFuturism: The Return of Meshwork Markets

Amended transcript of a lecture delivered to the Meshwork of Marketeers, Cracow middle-europe 16th October 2049, and is released under a Creative Commons: Attribution ShareAlike v2.5 License

IndustrialTownFuturism

admin — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:36:49 +0200

Sub-Title

100 years of Wolfsburg and Nowa Huta

End Date

14 Nov 2006

Start Date

10 Dec 2005

Location

Kunstverein Wolfsburg - Lazia Nowej Theatre Nowa Huta, Cracow

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Curated by Jakub Szreder and Martin Kaltwaser

As part of a group of artists, researchers and academics, we have been invited to research and imagine the future centenary of these two industrial towns.

Both towns evolved from the middle of the last century, and both were planned completely around the image and function of the factory. Since 1939 Wolfsburg has been the home and global headquarters of theVolkswagen Group, and since 1947 Nowa Huta grew around the formerly Lenin and now Sendzimira steelworks.

The Fordist-factory has dominated these towns.

So for industrialtownfuturism we turned our attention to the archaic social formation of the informal market. The future disappearance of industrial or monopolized trade elsewhere, will enable ‘street’ markets to reassert themselves; like a virus suppressed by the bodies immune system, markets are always awaiting the optimum conditions to flourish. A market is not designed as an aesthetic object, and yet there is a beautiful logic of practice: markets are self-regulating networks that evolve a familiar structure from heterogonous parts.

Markets endure.

An integral Industrualtownfurturism symposium included contributions from sociologist and urbanists; Wulf Tessin, Jaroslaw Urbanski, Albrecht Goschel, Ewa Charkiewicz, Arno Paulus and Maciej Gdula.

view the catalogue as a PDF file IndustrialTownFuturism

The exhibition is in two parts

Part 1 was exibited at the Kunstverein Wolfsburg

Part 2 was exibited at the Laznia Nowej Theatre Nowa Huta.

At the opening of the exhibition in Nowa Huta we performed a lecture. Here is the amended transcript of The return of Meshwork Markets delivered to the Meshwork of Marketeers, Cracow Middle-Europe 16th October 2049.

Meshwork Local Pavilion

admin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:36:12 +0100

Meshwork of Marketeers
Local Pavilion, Nowa Huta, Middle-Europe

Museum Futures

admin — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:30:13 +0200

This is a draft transcript of the 2058 centenary interview with Ayan Lindquist, it will be printed in a heritage publication, the History Book as part of Museum Futures commissioned by Moderna Museet in Stockholm Sweden.

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Interior: The common room, Moderna Museet v3.0
A beautiful lounge, comfortable seating, local lighting, graduated windows with breathtaking views of the sea.

The Executive of Moderna v3.0: Ayan Lindquist, an attractive young woman, a person of colour, is waiting to be interviewed in real-time from Guangzhou, in the Asian Multitude network.

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admin — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:26:01 +0100

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