Vision Forum (art organisation)

It grew from a series of events organised by Curatorial Mutiny in collaboration with KSM[1] at Campus Norrköping, Linköping University[2] in Sweden 2005–2007.

(Anti)Realism[4] brought together young contemporary visual artists based in Sweden, China, Great Britain, the Netherlands and France.

At the last meeting, the participants reformulated themselves into "OuUnPo" (Workshop for Alternative Universes), inspired by French literary group Oulipo.

[14] The node focused on alternative forms of communication and organised events in Paris, Nice, San Francisco and Melbourne working with art institutions like Villa Arson and CCA.

Curator Claire Louise Staunton carried out research which later lead to the creation of the temporary gallery "Inheritance Shenzhen"[15] in the Chinese region of Guangdong.

[17] They then travelled to Chandigar and as an outcome of this research the node presented an exhibition about British architect Jane Drew and the artistic work that flourished around her at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London in 2014.

In the introduction to the project in the catalogue Gerrie van Noord writes: "The Invisible Generation is a collection of artistic interventions that spread virally across the continents of our globe.

It used the artistic and curatorial network of Vision Forum as a platform to multiply and make its way into the perception of people in unexpected spaces of selected cities around the world.

The project takes its starting point in performative traditions, but focuses on practices and events that cross over into other time-based activities such as sound, film, video, literature, theatre and workshops and draws inspiration from other related fields such as journalism, fashion and design, but also from those further removed like mathematics and physics"[19]Since September 2011 Vision Forum organizes two international workshops a year in Östergötland in Sweden.

[24] The methodology builds on Deleuzian ideas about knowledge and creativity and has been developed in Vision Forum's nodes and networks, particularly in OuUnPo.