target: autonopop

Has something fundamental changed in the art world in the last few years?
Or, let's say: since the '70s, since the outset of western capitalism's ongoing crisis? Have mechanisms set in that narrow the range of what artists/critics/curators
can do?

«target: autonopop» answers yes to all these questions and takes aim at the commercial art gallery circuit, its products, and the somewhat less (overtly) market-oriented art-institutional context. Safe generalizations that spare people's feelings and preserve confortable arrangements are not on the agenda; instead:
a regularly updated process in which art is 'consumed' in a different way.

«target: autonopop» examines the articulation between the market/gallery and institutional spheres, their cooptational and coercive instances, their aversion to any critique which has real consequences.

Visual, social, and historical investigations supplement a project which is not merely theoretical: to retrace and critique the art-circuit's tacit dogma of ambivalence and non-oppositionality. On the curatorial and production level, «target: autonopop» has been fostering and generating activity which avails itself to exactly those 'unartistic', unambiguous and frontal means when necessary, be it in an art or
a non-art context.

6/9-8/12/ + 8/23-25/2007

target: autonopop presents: «unlimited liability», multiples from over seventy collectives, writers, artists, filmmakers, music labels, and publishers
(Norderstr. 71 ug, Hamburg)

1/12/2007

Tobias Still, Rahel Puffert and Michel Chevalier open a round of discussions on various, non-binding, topics: «target: autonopop open mic.» (Trottoir, Hamburg)

10/12/2006

"Quadrophonischer Kunstkopf": the Diedrich Diederichsen Listening-Room, activated and debated with Michel Chevalier and Jörg Hochapfel
(Blinzelbar, Hamburg)

10/1–31/2006

«target: autonopop» at the XVth Biennale de Paris

6/10–7/2/2006

target: autonopop presents: «unlimited liability», multiples from over fifty collectives, writers, artists, filmmakers, music labels, and publishers
(Norderstr. 71 ug, Hamburg)

4/19–23/2006

«atelier target: autonopop», applied art criticism workshop with
Michel Chevalier, Jérôme Guigue, and Éric Létourneau
(La Générale and various public locations, Paris)

1/6/2006

Tobias Still, Rahel Puffert and Michel Chevalier open a round of discussions on various, non-binding, topics: «target: autonopop open mic.» (Trottoir, Hamburg)

6/29–7/2/2005

«atelier target: autonopop», applied art criticism workshop with Michel Chevalier (Le Local and various public locations, Montréal)

4/16–31/2005

«target: autonopop» magazine at the exhibition Des éditeurs têtus pour des auteurs tenaces (Apocope, Marseille)

4/9/2005

«target: automopop presents» with intoduction, Jérome Guigue´s space pégant, and concert: Christoph de Babalon and Four Door Fist (Atelierfrankfurt)

1/15/2005

Michel Chevalier, Rahel Puffert and Tobias Still invite the public to take part in «target: autonopop open mic.» (Trottoir, Hamburg)

1/12–2/13/2005

«the Diedrich Diederichsen Listening-Corner» at the 18th Stuttgart Film Winter

11/13/2004

Berlin-release of the «target: autonopop» magazine and concert: uri geller, für diesen abend (Blumen, Berlin)

7/10/2004

«target: autonopop magazine» release party and concert: Jörg Hochapfel and Sarah Seidel (Buttclub, Hamburg)

4/2–4/2004

«A Visit to Nagel´s» at the Soft Logics conference (Künstlerhaus Stuttgart)

1/15–2/1/2004

«Everything is Pop», «Da kann ja jeder kommen» Michel Chevalier, «Target Studio» Jean-Baptiste Farkas (featuring Jérôme Guigue, Dunkelheit); in concert: Tumorchester, Chad Popple, für diesen abend; conference: Franco Kroschewski, Rahel Puffert,
Tobias Still (Westwerk, Hamburg)

contact: m@targetautonopop.org

"...so bored with the Kunstmarkt" –
target: autonopop 2004-08
radio FSK (Hamburg)
2-5PM, March 15, 2008

This show features interviews with participants and outside observers, as well as experpts from our FSK special in January 2004 and our (often heated) 5 "open mics." Last but not least!: live recordings from Christoph de Babalon, für diesen abend, Tumorchester, Chad Popple, Sarah Seidel/Jörg Hochapfel, Dodo Schielein/John Hughes, Four Door Fist, uri geller, Bagio.
REQUEST LINE WILL BE OPEN!!

Let’s remake the world III
22-24 February, 2008

YNKB
Baldersgade 70 st tv
2200 Copenhagen N

Denmark: Copenhagen Free University, Henning Frimann, Kristine Ask, Learning Site, Mette Kit Jensen, Mogens Otto Nielsen, Nis Rømer, Nikolaj
Kilsmark, Nynne Haugaard, Parfyme, Pia Rønicke, YNKB
US: Brett Bloom, Claire Pentecost, Keith Stern-Pirlot, Sarah Lewison
Canada: Kirsten Forkert
Germany: Michel Chevalier
Sweden: Cecilie Wendt, Johan Tiren, Maria Karlsson, Peter Dacke, Public Globality Gardens, Runo
Lagomarsino (the production unit)
Scotland: New Social Art School
England: Jamie Stapleton
Italy: Elisabetta Saiu

«target: autonopop open mic.»
Friday January 11, 2008
8 PM

trottoir
Hamburger Hochstraße 24
(near Hein-Köllisch Platz)
20359 Hamburg

Tobias Still, Rahel Puffert and Michel Chevalier open a round of discussions on various, non-binding, topics, such as:

"May one play with 'HartzIV-artists'?"
"Discussions and other fashions"
"Does art need art-schools?"
"Can art survive?"
"Is there a (natural) limit to progressiveness?"
"Feminism?"
"How much of the pragmatic can art bear?"
"Can photos of flowers be homophobic?"
"Can gays be flower-phobic?"
"Is the as-yet undiscovered function of art—ipso facto the indigestible remains of rationalization processes—that of a collection-station for the cognitively disabled?"
"Hamburg Art Center: a new director in 2008, or an alternative model?"
"Prestige"
"How it's shrinking! ... from Politics to Micropolitics to Nanopolitics"
"Leaving the artworld... so that galleries and collectors can continue to call the shots"
"Gatekeepers"
"Anguish about a negative state of affairs is converted into rage against the person who is pointing it out."

Extensive
«target: autonopop» documentation in the new XV. Biennale de Paris catalogue
www.biennaledeparis.org
free catalogue pdf here