Today was the opening, and all went well.

I think it's rare that I've been involved in something so relaxed and well-organized. Everything came together to make something I think we are all proud of.

The New Fordist Manifesto

Exhibition Open 7 - 28 June 2013
Tuesday - Friday: 10:00-17:00
Saturday: 13:00-17:00

GEMAK, Paviljoensgracht 20-24, 2512 BP The Hague

Finnisage: 28 June, 16:00-19:00

Works by : Robert Blatt, Andy Ingamells, Ana Smaragda Lemnaru, Miguel Peres dos Santos, David Pocknee, Jeremiah Runnels and Leo Svirsky

The New Fordist Organization presents the results of its residency at GEMAK, Den Haag. Over the course of this residency, techniques have been developed for the mass-production of music, choreography, painting, film and sculpture in order to explore the economic, political and aesthetic nature of Fordist and Taylorist models of efficiency when applied to th arts.

New Fordism attempts to face the economic realities of contemporary art production by engaging in a radical re-reading of Gramsci and a re-appropriation of Fordist, Taylorist and Pavlovian theories and working methods. This theoretical assemblage is then articulated through the research-led methodology of The Institute Of ACES. The result is an affirmation of historiography as a creative discipline and a set of works which silently ponder on the nature of the creative act, cultural economics, and labor.

The New Fordist Organization is part of the The Institute of Applied Cultural Economics and Sociology and is a new collective of composers, visual artists and performance artists, set up to apply the principles of mass-production, industrialization and mechanized creation, pioneered by the American industrialist Henry Ford, to the visual and performing arts.

Flyer: http://aces.ricercata.org/gemak/02062013flyer.pdf

For more information about this project, see www.acesinstitute.eu or the blog for this project: http://aces.ricercata.org/index.php?gemak=blog.

For more information about this project, see www.acesinstitute.eu or http://aces.ricercata.org/index.php?gemak=blog.