Projects 2004

Magazine Summit

19 - 22 March 2004
Suomenlinna Island
Helsinki, Finland

As part of the ongoing process of institutional evaluation, NIFCA will offer a platform to landscape the current critical art magazines in the region, and to discuss the strategical positioning of the contemporary magazine not only in terms of location, but also of discourse as well as the economic and political frameworks of production in this regard. A number of art magazines and critics are invited, primarily from the Nordic region, to discuss which frameworks the geographical location are offering or even forcing upon a magazine. How is a particular scope or vantage point to be constructed – from a particular place or context, or rather from a specific position or methodology? Where lies the interest for a magazine in creating a particular scope or field of interest derived from their geographical location? What are the specific properties of a ‘local’ or ‘regional’ magazine compared? What are its particular publics, and how is this different from more generalist and perhaps centralist art magazines?

To assess and perhaps broaden this range of topics and questions magazines are invited, which are developing new approaches in (re)considering their geographical location in terms of producing a discursive, critical field, placed in a reflexive relation to the their surroundings, notions of readers and readerships, economy and conceptions of art and the artworld.


Invited Magazines: Cabinet (US)/Sina Najafi, Glänta (S)/Nils Olsson, Journal for Northeast Issues (D)/Monika Wucher, kunst.ee (EST)/Heie Treier, Øjeblikket (DK)/Karin Hindsbo, Site (S)/Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Springerin (A)/Georg Schöllhammer, Taide (FIN)/Taava Koskinen, and Texte zur Kunst (D)/Clemens Kruemmel, UKS (N)/Matias Faldbakken.

In addition the editors the independent critics Jonas Ekeberg (N), Halladór Björn Runólfsson (ISL), Lena Seraphin (FIN), and Astrid Wege (D/A) participated.

The summit was hosted by NIFCA curators Nina Möntmann and Simon Sheikh.


READ MORE from the report "NIFCA: An Art Institution as a Copractising Institution? - Concepts and Ways of Implementation" by NIFCA curators Nina Möntmann and Simon Sheikh (Pages 9-13)