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KMMN Kassel presentation during documenta 14

Thanks to the generous support of Instytut Adama Mickiewicza – Program Kultura Polska na Świecie – I was able to attend a presentation in KMMN with my ogoing project Digital nomads.

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More on Digital Nomads:

https://juliasokolnicka.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/digital-nomads/

Digital Nomads is a documentary film that is edited live in the cinema. The film is mixed live by the director presenting it, like a DJ would mix music. Digital Nomads is an archive of documentary portraits and impressions on cultural movements in the large, international metropolias. The director observes and interviews the new types of communities bonding in the english speaking generations brought up on internet. The narrative changes each time the project is presented, and as the archive grows the research enriches in new topics and locations. The original research project „Reality and Realness” that inspired the film was elaborating on digital intimacy and the use of cameraphones and content produced by the characters themselves in the documentary cinema. The camera follows underground culture in New York, Amsterdam and Berlin. Filmmaker and Philosopher Julia Sokolnicka tries to answer questions of how will the future communities look like and what are the challenges and peculiarities of authentic bonding in the modern western economy. The film emphasizes on importance of dialogue and conversation as a tool of intellectual exploration and the dichotomy of the real space of social interactions and the space of technology. The project is ongoing and will soon move to South-East Asia researching on alleged Neo-colonial communities of western creatives living and working in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, and the new Types of bonding through technology in China.

digital nomads project presentation

KMMN

With KMMN, the Kunsthochschule Kassel/School of Art and Design Kassel offers a student run participative platform for discussing, presenting and developing ideas and projects that directly touch upon the issues of learning, teaching, making and exhibiting art. KMMN can be read as ‘common’, as it provides a flexible structure for meeting and staging exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, talks or screenings within the rooms of the ‘Interim’ near the Kassel central station. KMMN stands also for ‘community’ – we provide information, and have a bar and a kitchen to create a convivial space for everyone. KMMN is, as well, derived from the German ‘Kommen’ (coming, arriving), an open invitation for individual students or groups to participate. We host projects from Athens, Geneva, Griffith, Zürich, and many other places so far, and are very interested to hear from anyone else who would like to contribute to the programme during the 100 days of documenta 14 in the summer of 2017. 
Eine Plattform der internationalen Begegnung und des Austausches während der documenta14 im INTERIM (Ausstellungs- und Projektraum der Kunsthochschule Kassel) vom 10. Juni 2017 bis 17. September 2017

Um diese internationalen und nationalen Begegnungen möglich zu machen, werden wir das INTERIM für die Laufzeit der documenta 14 in eine offene Kommunikationsplattform der Kunsthochschule Kassel verwandeln.

Der Ort wird KMMN heißen, eine offene und assoziationsreiche Formulierung, die das An-KMMN, und das Will-KMMN sein assoziiert, aber auch an das englische Wort COMMON (gemein, öffentlich, weit verbreitet) erinnert.

Studierenden und Lehrende haben dort die Möglichkeit Ideen rund um das Lernen, Lehren und Ausstellen zu diskutieren, vorzustellen und zu entwickeln. Es gibt bereits Anfragen von auswärtigen Kunsthochschulen die Interesse haben, im Rahmen der d14 mit der Kunsthochschule zu kooperieren.
KMMN stellt allen Gästen eine flexible räumliche Struktur zur Verfügung, um sich in den Räumen des INTERIM am Hauptbahnhof zu treffen und Ausstellungen, Workshops oder Screenings durchzuführen.

Die Zielsetzung des Projekts KMMN ist, einen temporären Ort der Kommunikation und des Austauschs zu etablieren und zur Verfügung zu stellen, der Lehrenden und Studierenden aus allen Studiengängen der Kunsthochschule Kassel die Chance gibt, ein nachhaltiges internationales Netzwerk im Kontext der d14 aktiv zu gestalten.

Zu Gast sind Projekte aus Athen, Zürich, Griffith und vielen anderen Orten, und wir freuen uns, von Anderen zu hören, die während der 100 Tage der documenta 14 im Sommer 2017 am KMMN Programm teilhaben möchten.

 

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