Michal Murin

Altruism as Arttruism at Truth is ....

Truth is Concrete



http://truthisconcrete.org/participants/


A 24/7 marathon camp on artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art.
21/09 – 28/09/2012, Graz



What role does art play in the whirl of political, ecological and economic events? Must art help solve those problems that politics and society have ignored for so long? Should art be a social or political tool, can it be useful?

“Truth is concrete” is a 24-hour, 7-day marathon camp in the context of steirischer herbst festival 2012: around 150 artists, activists and theorists lecture, perform, play, produce, discuss, collect artistic strategies in politics and political strategies in art. All day long, all night long. It is a platform, a toolbox as well as a performative statement, an extreme effort at a time that seems to need some extreme efforts.

The camp takes the possibility of concrete truth as a working hypothesis and look for direct action, for concrete change and knowledge. Large or small scale, loud and aggressive, or intimate and careful. Obscure or obvious. An art that not only presents and documents but that engages in specific political and social situations – and an activism that not only acts for the sake of acting but searches for intelligent, creative means of self-empowerment.

PROJECT:

Michal Murin: Altruism as Arttruism

Between Social Curatorship and Artistic Curatorship

Social Work as Artistic Act, as Permanent Performance



Michal Murin (1963) launched this project in 2005 by first helping Milan Adamčiak in small ways. Using the processes of unstrained, ergonomic, nonconfrontational intuitive management, amateur banking, do-it-yourself dealership, spontaneous executive production, hobbyist real-estate brokerage, but also enthusiastic editorship, Murin has now – thanks to assistance from the artistic environment – spent seven years recreating an author who had disappeared from public view for 20 years, in the position of an important personality, based on his work and character. The project reacts to the absence of relevant functional systems in the post-Communist context in the social, but also artistic area. It emphasizes the preference of non-institutional activity, and confronts it with the dysfunction of institutions.



Murin offers his project of social help and altruistic act in an artistic context, but due to giving priority to the human element of help, he does not insist on the said context and does not view it as essential, nor does he vehemently proclaim it as his own. He adopts a dispassionate and resigned attitude towards opinions, limiting himself to specific situations, results and facts. He allows the flow of situations brought about, evoked and provoked by the project, including them in the meshwork of opinions and reactions.

CV:

Michal Murin (1963) is a project-oriented artist who works with conceptual art and performances. His theoretical focus is on new media, action art and sound art. He teaches at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, and the Faculty of Arts in Košice, Slovakia. His most recent project, Altruism as Arttruism (since 2005), aims at a long-term performance lasting several years: at an artistic and curatorial, but also social and curatorial act, whose climax – following Adamčiak’s homelessness period – was the provision of real estate for Adamčiak’s permanent use. Murin organizes Adamčiak’s exhibitions, presentations, and concerts, and their newest output are publications documenting Milan Adamčiak’s work.



Milan Adamčiak (1946) - Urspruenglig Violoncellist, später Musikwissenschaftler, Mitglied der Slowakischen Akademie der Wissenschafften /1972-1991/. Seit 1964 beschäftigte sich mit experimentellen Poesie und Musikalischen Graphik unnd war tätig auch als Aktionkuenstler. In 1974 war Teilnehmer an Darmstädter Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik. Nach 1989 inizierte Entstähung der Transmusik Comp. - ein offene Ensemble fuer Musikperformance mit seine gefundene und home made Klangobjekten. und hat Gesellschaft fuer unkonventionelle Musik mit Michal Murin und Peter Machajdík gegruendet. Als Kurator hat in Slowakischen Nationale Galerie mit persoenlichen Partiziipation von John Cage eine grosse Austellung seinner Partituren in 1992 präsentiert. In letzten Jahren war tätig als Performer und Installationskuensttler. Dank Michal Murins Initiativen ist seine ältere und neue Schaffen mehr kennengelehrt und akzeptiert.

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