International Festival


Capitalism! BRNG IT ON, 2007

Neumarkt-Galerie, Neumarkt 2, Mon–Thu, Sat 7:00 am – 9:00 pm, Fri 7:00 am – 10:00 pm

International Festival (initiated 
in 2004 by Tor Lindstrand and Mårten Spångberg) is an open, trans-disciplinary platform for projects that make use of certain performative methods in order to involve their audience in an active process of negotiating institutional contexts. For the European Kunsthalle they have developed 
a work entitled “Capitalism! 
BRNG T ON.” It will consist of 
a weekly cheerleading performance in the event area of the Neumarkt Galerie shopping mall, a container featuring the European Kunsthalle symbol, set in the public space, and a free publication from leftover stock 
at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. In bringing together these different groups and communications media, International Festival investigates questions such as: who is a part of the post-public, and what are the practices that create its space. Their “model for tomorrow” is based on the temporary, liberating appropriation of existing structures.