va dee natland sb?

Now the difficult part comes... so... what is Natland SB?

Natland SB is initiated in Bergen Norway and run by Hilde N (the director managing) and Sluik R (a disposable curator). The issues it exposes, items it presents are collected from their immediate surroundings.

Natland SB continues a thought and questions a quote made popular by German architect Mies van der Rohe: less is more. Natland SB agrees and suggests to add in this century: but how much.

Natland SB dismisses todays trend of a future recyclable and sustainable society as a modern indulgence to ease the soul. Natland SB investigates the decomposability of contemporary art forms meanwhile contributing to clarify the fact art is the only stable science humans have.

Natland SB started as an online gallery showing daily objects they and their neighbors want to get rid of at the communal waste facilities of a housing estate just north of Paradis. In this compound was conveniently enough already a nail in the wall. Natland SB simply started to hang the rejects on this nail, photograph and publish them.

Natland SB also organizes happenings like seminars and meetings of the rectangular table. Natland SB furthermore gets involved into other outdoor matters like a gallery on site or the temporary participation in so-called artistic dialogs.

One effect of the Natland SB activities is less visual rubbish around some places. This might be in the end the biggest contribution. Natland SB is without sorrows.

Vem er Sb Natland?

fifth manifest - table and the view

The rectangular table in Fonte Nuova is ready for the 2nd Natland SB meeting on 31.10. Tonight the chimney will be cleaned. To prevent crouds: there are 7 chairs and 3 spare beds. The weather is excellent. They call it Estate di San Martino in this area. Oh what a views we might have. Actually Natland SB biggest worry is there will be too much view.

fifth manifest - global directions

Natland SB ha sempre ragioni!

Some deleuzians say it is not an issue of the right answer but always about a good question, mmm. So Natland SB is getting ready for the second rectangular table.

Yes the postmodern Arte Povera found us this time a villa outside of the walls of Rome! Here we start with making a pencil point again and again and discuss the honesty of the materials. We teach in silence. Your flexibility is asked for. Less is a bore? Let us show what to do. Let us show what the hell went wrong! But flexibility is not enough anymore: how much less is more is ready for a next step. We are.

There is no individualistic artform. And Mies already said that it is all about the proportion of things, the proportion between the thing, often there is nothing but still there is a proportion. In Benito’s fraziones we find the clarity and discipline. We do not accept any longer that the stupid are the (new) loud. We know that philosophy dislikes discussion because it has something better to do: Trotzdem and despite and with and thanks to Jannis? Yes?

So we meet this time in Fonte Nuova (new well) on the last sunday of October in 2010. The first winterday according to those who rule clocks. Call it fatal romanticism but we are not giving in. We are not throwing the towels, merely bricks! Knights get on your horses there is a battle to fight.

Meetingpoint: Villa Settembrini in Fonte Nuova on Sunday, starting 11 in the morning on the 31 of october 2010.

Contact for further details: postnatland@gmail.com

fifth manifest - first announcement

The 2nd Natland SB Meeting Around a Rectangular Table in 2010 will be held in Fonte Nuova (Lazio, Italy) on sunday 31 October 2010. You can contact us for more information.