WHAT HAPPENS WHEN NOTHING HAPPENS?

Unrealized ideas from Montreal

Participating members Veronique Malo and Emily Mennerdahl of The
Independant Study Group (ISG) invites you to participate in an exhibition
that will take place in the spring of 2009 at Gallery Rotor at Valand
School of Art in Gothenburg, Sweden.

We want to know more about the process that takes place in preparation of
making, the process that happens before an object of art is conceived. We
are not looking for finished work. We want unedited ideas, processes,
everything and all that comes before the final production. Searching,
classifying, studying, memorializing, categorizing and the archiving of a
grand idea.

The importance does not lie in what will be but in what is.

We prefer simplicity over complexity.

We want to show the development of ideas for something that can not or
perhaps will not ever be conceived.

What:
Proposals/manifestos/sketchbooks/index
cards/videos/powerpointpresentations/scripts/writing/maquettes/photocopies/
eventscores/drawings/large/small.......

How:
volume, transparency, sequences, variations, stasis, irregularity,
thinking, loosing, forgetting, compiling, ordinary, desires, wishes,
hopes……

Who:
Montreal based artists exploring media ranging from performance to drawing,
installation to photography, film to video, sculpture to sound and so on.
We are interested in inter media, in what happens when different media
intersect.

We are also looking for short videos less than 2 minutes : an idea,
unedited, an action, a concept.
Technicality or videos : please insert color bars at the beginning

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HOW TO APPLY : Deadline January 31st 2009

- send email to independantstudygroup@gmail.com

- description artistic practice 150 words
- bio 50 words
- description of proposed idea (material, size, concept) 150 words
- link to website if appropriate
- up to 10 images of works, and process (what you would present), jpeg low
resolution to be received by email

- for the videos : send low resolution of the video by email or link to it on
the web, we will ask high resolution to be send by mail if the work is
accepted.
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ISG video and sketches collection
We encourage the artists that will participate to donate the work for the
evergrowing ISG art collection. We will preserve the works and eventually produce a
publication. If the work is presented again, we will ask permission to the artist.

How the hell are you supposed to know how the universe functions

- Lawrence Weiner

Ideas can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually
find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.
For each work of art that becomes physical there are many variations that do not.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

The words of one artist to another may induce an idea chain, if they share the
same concept.

- Sol Lewitt

ISG is a group of research that critiques research, that finds

alternative ways of researching, of studying. The study of the
unstudied, the cracks, the in between, the forgotten. ISG is
convivial, is inclusive. ISG has many branches, it manifests
itself through a space. It reinvents itself with the place. ISG
is nomadic. ISG is public, it is informal, it is workshops
about the forgotten, seminars on the unseen. ISG reinvents
itself in new places. Studies the place itself from a different
perspective.

independantstudygroup@gmail.com