DiscLab | Research & Criticism

DiscLab | Research and Criticism has been appointed as fellow of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, The Eight Climate (What Does Art Do?). DiscLab together with other fellows will engage in questions of value, continuity, and scale in the forum, “To All the Contributing Factors," curated by Binna Choi and Maria Lind.

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DiscLab | Research and Criticism is happy to be a partner platform for the Future Generation Art Prize 2017.

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the Pinchuk Art Centre have opened the Application Procedure for the fourth edition of the Future Generation Art Prize 2017. Eligible artists wherever they work can apply until 11 September 2016 at the competition’s website: http://www.futuregenerationartprize.org/en.

DiscLab | Research and Criticism is part of Transactions in the Field Archive Exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, a showcase of works by individuals and organizations working around notions of participation, community, citizenship and various publics. The exhibition is at LostGens' Contemporary Art Space and is open until November 29.

Other participating artists and organizations include:

Alecia Neo Alex Lee Alice Ko Art Lab Ova Buku Jalanan Caique Tizzi Chen, Guan-Jhang Djuwadi (Taring Padi) DiscLab | Research and Criticism Eda Beran Long Laput Sape’ Kelab Elaine Ho Wing-Ah Haymann Oo Herman Mendolicchio Jakob & Manila Lee Cheah Ni Lee Chun Fung (Woofer Ten) Lim Paik Yin Lostgens’/ Petaling Street Community Art Project Makhampom Foundation Misako (Enoa-Ru & Nora) Okui Lala Rika Aki (Teshimano Mada) Susanne Bosch Tey Beng Tze (Findars)

DiscLab | Research and Criticism is thrilled to announce the selection of its flagship program Waiting Sheds Cooperative Study and Research Program as one of the recipients of DOEN Foundation’s multi-year grant through Arts Collaboratory. Joining a network of rigorous, translocal artistic and research-oriented organizations and platforms operating across the globe, the approval of DiscLab’s long-term program provides an opportunity for the organization to continue and sustain its initial activities to be expounded with and attached to diverse issues and participants who are working on parallel fields. DiscLab hopes that the support of an external organization will facilitate a productive and progressive approach of engagement with local and regional infrastructures in intensifying and determining ways of working together to address issues that Waiting Sheds struggles to deal with.

DiscLab expresses its utmost gratitude to all individuals and organizations who have supported its program and members in the past three years. With this development in DiscLab’s structure, we hope that we continue to share this commitment and to enable a community—which might always come in parts and never as a whole—that critically reflects and acts on its context through arts and other allied fields of resistance and imagination.

“Waiting Sheds is an itinerant, cooperative studies program and practice-based research immersion that relocates the encounter of theories, facilitation of discourses, and transposition of knowledges at the intersection of state, market, alternative and non-public infrastructures. […] Waiting Sheds is a proposal-in-action with two founding intentions: to react to the complacency of educational programs and to the calcification of collaboration as frameworks of knowledge production; and to constitute a sustainable support group for independent intellectual and artistic endeavors.”

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The first phase of Waiting Sheds titled “Organizing Virtualities” was realized under the First Lucban Assembly: PAMUMUHUNAN (Waiting for a capital) in May 2015, organized and funded by Project Space Pilipinas and curated by DiscLab | Research and Criticism. Former lecturers of Waiting Sheds include Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, Ade Darmawan, Antariksa, Clara Lobregat-Balaguer, Elaine W. Ho, Clara Cheung, and Tammy Ko-Robinson. The remaining phases of Waiting Sheds Cooperative Study and Research Program will unfold in 2016 until 2017.

DiscLab's An Auto-Corrected Journal of Printing Properties is available at the New York Art Book Fair. Drop by at our publisher's booth (The Office of Culture and Design/Hardworking Goodlooking) to secure a copy.

"As we initially squatted online, we started collaborating with private and public institutions and local and international individuals and groups to realize projects. The relationship is not generally interdependent. The structure is not akin to a rainforest. Our work is like building a garden between anthills. Strains of radical embeddedness are liminal, however,forming around the edges of frustration and imminent exhaustion. [...]

[...] This printed version hopes to show that knowledges—whether through art, culture or a contemporary—are always made and never natural; and that making and doing with knowledges is an infinite task of submissions, of turning in and returning to." - Editor's note

Available at artbooks.ph:

[ http://artbooks.ph/products/an-auto-corrected-journal-of-printing-properties ]

DiscLab's An Auto-Corrected Journal of Printing Properties, published by The Office of Culture and Design, is now available at Printed Matter in New York.

[ https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/42687 ]

If you're in Berlin and find yourself at A Public Library, scan and/or read the sole copy of DiscLab's book An Auto-corrected Journal of Printing Properties (published by The Office of Culture and Design) in Europe. Just ask the awesome people of A Public Library to lend you the book with pandas, failed images and some critical notes from the Philippines.

DiscLab is excited to announce the fourth iteration of Squatting Knowledges in Munich!

Held at Studio Klaus vom Bruch, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München on June 28, Squatting Knowledges' fourth iteration is titled Franchising (Asking Same Questions Twice).

Two more weeks to catch the three-part dialectical exhibition Systems of Irrigation in Lucban!

Lecture and workshop session by Ade Darmawan (Ruandgrupa) for the Waiting Sheds Cooperative Study Program at the First Lucban Assembly on Saturday | May 16, 2015.