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Next exhibition Synaesthesia
/ 4:
Translating, Correcting, Archiving Opening:
31.05.2013, 8 PM Synaesthesia / 4: Translating, Correcting, Archiving presents works by Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen (DK), Eva-Maria Bolz (D) and Andy Holtin (USA). The exhibition devotes itself to selected artistic strategies for decoding the phenomenon of synaesthesia. It is significant that all three artists experience different forms of synaesthetic perception. Since
2003, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, herself a synaesthete,
has created an extensive video archive of interviews about the
multi-sensory perception of synaesthesia that document the experiences
of individuals and at the same time make the unbridgeable gap
between this topic and the audience clear. Her project Why Is Green a Red Word? is comprised of interviews with synaesthetes and scientists, but also includes conceptual video works such as What the Hell does Purgatory Look Like? and drawings depicting the spatial imagination of number forms by different synaesthetes. Contemporaneous with the exhibition opening will be the publication of Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen’s artist book Why is Green a Red Word? The
project Der Innere Monitor, which Eva-Maria Bolz presents
at Art Laboratory Berlin, follows her subjective perception that
colours and letters form a specific code through which a text
can be translated into blocks of colour. Each letter corresponds
to a specific colour. When the artist deliberately uses texts
that contain intense colour descriptions such as Oscar Wilde's
The Rose and the Nightingale, she asks us not only to explore
the perceived differences, but also to experience the text through
the eyes of a synaesthete. In the exhibition Bolz will present
five selected texts in the form of large colour plates. In addition
to the colour plates, documentation is created in the form of
an artist book. Andy Holtin, Corrections, video still, 2009 Andy Holtin has grapheme synaesthesia, connected with a particular colour-number association. He sees numbers in specific colours, moreover, this is influenced by a partial red-green colour blindness, affecting certain nuances. In his video Corrections (2009) you can see how a hand colours in the numbers of different signs and nameplates in photographs. Corrections demonstrates the gap between the object and subjective sense perception as well as the personal impressions of the artist himself. By speeding up the video, the act of colouring in appears grotesque as the act of artist's hand achieves a form of slapstick. In his video Connections (2013) the artist examines the complications he experiences when objects share a colour with a particular number due to Holtin’s individual synaesthetic experience, creating an extended perceptual relationship. During
this final exhibition the synaesthesia series, Art Laboratory
Berlin will host an international interdisciplinary conference
"Synaesthesia. Discussing a Phenomenon in the Arts, Humanities
and (Neuro-)science" (5 & 6 July, 2013, Glaskasten
Theatre, Prinzenallee 33, next to Art Laboratory Berlin).
Presse:
Olga Shmakova With the generous support of:
Media
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23.3.2013 - 12.5.2013 Synaesthesia
/ 3:
History of the Senses History of the Senses deals with the phenomenon of synaesthesia from the point of view of art and media history. The two artistic positions refer back to different movements from the 20th Century giving Art Laboratory Berlin's four-part exhibition series on synaesthesia a historical component, whilst nevertheless dealing with contemporary issues. A Banquet for Ultra Bankruptcy, developed for Art Laboratory Berlin by Carl Rowe & Simon Davenport, forms the starting point for a series of performances followed by an exhibition. The overarching theme of synaesthesia provides a basis for the study of aesthetics, politics and participation, as well as for the reactions of the participants. A Banquet for Ultra Bankruptcy is made up of five performances for six guests. During a six-course menu selected foods are combined with images, sounds and scents. Each course is designed as an aesthetic experience, allowing the audience to participate in simultaneous sensations. The
work Circus 8 (1986/2008) by Sergio Maltagliati &
Pietro Gross consists of eight pieces and is based on Grossi's
HomeArt programs from the 1960s and 1970s, which automatically generated
sound. Maltagliati has expanded Grossi's principle with software
programs and added visual graphic variations. The visual data generated
by the computer approximates the graphic score for a sound composition.Whilst
the work Circus 8 adds a media historical dimension to Art
Laboratory Berlin's Synaesthesia series, it also brings an
important new component into the discussion: the computer as artificial
brain with its own form of digital synaesthesia.
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26.1.2013-3.10.2013 Synaesthesia
/ 2:
Space and Perception Inquiries into the nature of Space and Perception are the basis of Art Laboratory Berlin's second exhibition in the Synaesthesia series. Synaesthesia, the experience of two or more sensory impressionsat the same time, is both an artistic paradigm and neurological phenomenon. Two installations by Madi Boyd and Carrie C Firman explore the connection between perception and experience of mind and body from a synaesthetic point of view. Madi Boyd is a synaesthete from Great Britain, whose artistic work focuses on perception and the brain. In collaboration with neuro-scientists, Dr. Mark Lythgoe and Dr. Beau Lotto, from University College London her work incorporates and combines installation, film and sculpture. Her recent project The Point of Perception explores how much information the human brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. Carrie
C Firman is an emerging electronic artist from the US. Her work
is inspired by studying and experiencing the crossing of senses.
She sees synaesthesia not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also
a fantastic world interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual
experiences.
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27.10.2012
- 16.12.2012 28
October, 2012, 4PM - Artist talk and workshop with Barbara Ryan
The
work of the Berlin typographer and artist Annette Stahmer
revolves around language, the relationship between voice and writing,
the act of writing, palimpsests and synaesthesia. The two videos
in the exhibition - A ist blau and Synästhetische
Bilder I - IV - show the artist's mother, a synaesthete who
connects vowels with certain colours.
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1.9.2012
- 14.10.2012 The
video installation Monitor by the American artist Dave
Hebb is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental
intervention extending over a one-year period. Hebb placed a computer
monitor outdoors and over the entire year documented changes to
the environment several times a week. His piece is played on old
computers and monitors and is inherently unstable, a common problem
of technology as it becomes obsolete. This self-reference is also
shown through the display of the video on the same type of monitor
that is the subject of the piece itself, which is presented more
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24.03.2012
- 29.04.2012 Opening:
23 March, 2012, 8PM The
British artists Sam Belinfante and Simon Lewandowski produced The
Reversing Machine (A Theatre of Kairos and Chronos) especially
for this exhibition. The installation alludes to the notion of Kairos
as opportune time, as opposed to Chronos, the course of time.
The work Time Sifter is by the Israeli born and New York
based artist Shlomit Lehavi who works primarily with new media and
multi-channel video. Her video installation Time Sifter explores
collective memory, collective forgetting and time based media as
a contemporary time machine.
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27.01.2012
- 11.03.2012 Opening:
27 January 2012, 8PM Navigating the Everyday presents works by plan b, the British artist duo Daniel Belasco Rogers and Sophia New, and is their first solo exhibition in Germany. Since 2003 and 2007 respectively, Daniel and Sophia have been recording every journey they make every day using GPS devices. Additionally all areas of their digital communication (e.g. mobile phone text messages) are evaluated and processed artistically. Their work represents an artistic research by means of a digital archiving of their movements. Over
the years this practice has become part of everyday life, a form
of private and personal 'sousveillance', in which the artists generate
their own data, thereby reflecting the approach of those private
and public agencies who collect all available data.
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25.11.2011
- 15.01.2012 Gretta
Louw: Controlling_Connectivity 14
January, 2012 3.30PM: Tour of the exhibition and Artists' talk
with Gretta Louw The
exhibition project Controlling_Connectivity by the Australian
artist Gretta Louw is a reflection of the latest forms of digital
communication. Her online performance (2- 12 November 2011) has
laid the basis for an exhibition which will include screen capture
footage, photographs and an installation. For 10 days the artist
was available 24 hr/day for discussions, emails, comments, or interviews
- of both private and professional nature - for any internet user
wishing to take part in the project.
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10.09.2011
- 16.10.2011 In VISIONS NYC - afterthoughts the Berlin-based artist and photographer Bärbel Möllmann has gathered a series of amazing portraits and interviews with New Yorkers from Summer 2001, recording their individual plans, goals and dreams, and from Summer 2002 recording their reactions to the events of the previous year. When
she began her unique artistic project in July 2001, Möllmann
could not have imagined the attacks on the Twin Towers that would
occur only two months later. The actual events of 9/11 are not directly
seen in the images, but rather felt as a historic turning point
in the interviews and photos taken both before and after September
11. The project is rather about individual New Yorkers and their
respective fates, which are brought convincingly near in these artistic
photographs and authentic interviews, which shows just how strongly
the city of New York and its residents changed in the aftermath
of September 11.
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29.04.2011
- 26.06.2011 Round table discussion Al Tahrir: The Day After, 1 May, 2011, 3PM My
Dreams Have Destroyed My Life. Some Thoughts on Pain was first
conceived by the artists during a common artist residency in Taiwan.
Both artists had lost brothers in respective conflicts in their
countries of origin. Al Fadhil has lost two brothers to the wars
in Iraq. One brother died in the Iran-Iraq war. Fadhil's father,
as the parent of a 'martyr,' were granted an audience with the dictator
Saddam Hussein, which was documented with a photograph.
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22.
01.2011 - 13.3.2011 Opening:
21 January 2011, 8PM The American artist Sol LeWitt (1928 - 2007) was an influential figure in minimalism and is considered one of the most important representatives as well as co-founder of American conceptual art. The term "conceptual art" goes directly back to LeWitt: "If the artist carries through his idea and makes it into visible form, then all the steps in the process are of importance. The idea itself, even if not made visual, is as much a work of art as any finished product. All intervening steps - scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed works, models, studies, thoughts, conversations - are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product." (Paragraphs, Artforum, June 1967) LeWitt's
intensive artist books production was extremely versatile: he used
different designs and formats as well as varied techniques from
color lithography to offset printing. Finally the phenomena of reproducibility
was part of the concept: "Also, since art is a vehicle for
the transmission of ideas through form, the reproduction of the
form only reinforces the concept. It is the idea that is being reproduced."
(ibid.)
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30.10.2010
- 28.11.2010 Stardust Boogie Woogie Tania Antoshina, Mo Foster, Marcela Iriarte, Christian de Lutz, Jane Mulfinger, Bob & Roberta Smith, Jessica Voorsanger. curated by Francesca Piovano Opening 29 October 2009 8PM Finnisage:
26 November 2010 8PM Stardust Boogie Woogie When Andy Warhol declared that everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, he probably didn't realized how true that was going to be. It is no longer necessary to have a particular talent, nowadays absolutely any one who is prepared by whatever means to be entertaining, can become a 'celebrity'. Then mass media, along with popular culture, will see that celebrities are consumed as spectacle giving them a package of meanings that has nothing to do with their intrinsic value. To
explore the issues of celebrity cult and modern heroes and to put
them in a multifaceted international context, the exhibition Stardust
Boogie Woogie has brought together 7 artists from different
countries and backgrounds. Their work is around the notion of stardom
and its related lifestyle (Jessica Voorsanger, Jane Mulfinger, Marcela
Iriarte), of socialist personality cults (Christian de Lutz, Tania
Antoshina) and of popular culture (Bob & Roberta Smith, Mo Foster).
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28.8.2010
- 26.09.2010 Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic - Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots Opening:
27 August 2010, 8PM The
exhibition Wunschgarten: Wild Urban Offshoots is a collaboration
by the artists Alex Toland and Myriel Milicevic and part of the
series Artists in Dialog. Both work on the border between
art and life and environmental sciences. Together they have chosen
the immediate area around Art Laboratory Berlin (the Soldiner Kiez)
as a place to investigate interactions between the local human population
and urban flora and fauna. The exhibition functions as a laboratory
for the production of maps, drawings, models and prototypes. Wunschgarten
is a series of dialogues: between the artists and the local community,
between city dwellers and nature, between urban planning and urban
wilderness. Toland considers the project 'habitat hacking' and Milicevic
describes the project as 'reconstructing cross-species life worlds'.
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29.05.2010
- 27.06.2010 Artists in Dialog 2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2 Heidi Hove & Jens Axel Beck Opening:
Friday, 28 May, 2010, 8 PM The
exhibition 2-1/4-n/2 x 21/4-n/2
by the Danish conceptual artists Heidi Hove and Jens Axel Beck is
the first exhibition in our new series Artists in Dialog.
Both are interdisciplinary artists, whose practice includes sculptural
objects and installations as well as architectural, spatial and
social interventions. A point of convergence in their work is a
focus on daily life and the public and private spaces that we daily
travel through. Their work examines how we navigate and organise
ourselves in the world. Through simple and diverse manipulations,
the daily and the recognisable are brought out of their regular
condition.
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24.04.2010
- 22.05.2010 Opening:
Friday, 23. April 2010, 20 Uhr The
exhibition project OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican
Border is an artistic platform with five positions, exploring
the cultural overflow, overlap and tensions in the border region
of Southern California and Northwest Mexico. The artists come from
Los Angeles and Mexico City.
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28.11.2009
- 07.02.2010 Azin
Feizabadi, Gilbert & George, Christian de Lutz, Triple Candie Opening
27 November 2009, 8PM Creative Rights. On Appropriation, Copyright and Copyleft investigates questions concerning the use, re-use and misuse of images and information in the contemporary art world from artistic, legal, political and philosophical viewpoints. Since the late 1970s appropriation of images and information by such artists as Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince has become a common and accepted technique, part and parcel of postmodernism's critical approach. Indeed it follows a tradition that goes back through pop art and nouveau realisme to Dada and cubist collage. Not without ethical, aesthetic and legal controversy, a number of law cases involving appropriation seems to have increased in recent years involving artists such as Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey. The exhibition Creative Rights consists of three parts: The exhibition with four artistic positions, the Creative Rights Library with extensive material on the presented artists and other recent law cases as well as a workshop on the theme of copyright.
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02.10.2009
- 15.11.2009 Opening:
2. October 2009, 8PM The exhibition Seized by Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) and the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) is the third part of our series Art and Law. The exhibition documents the FBI raid on the house of CAE member Prof. Steve Kurtz in May 2004, following the death of his wife Hope. In the weeks prior to the raid Steve and Hope Kurtz had been preparing for an exhibition examining GM agriculture at Mass. MOCA. An emergency worker of the fire department responding to Steve Kurtz's 911 call found materials in their houserelated to the upcoming exhibition suspicious and informed the FBI. The raid, conducted by FBI-officers wearing hazmat suits, and blocking off a half block radius of the home, caused much media attention. (more Information) |
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30.05.2009
- 28.06.2009 Filmscreening:
On Media Reality The Prague based artist collective Ztohoven use their work, often interventions in public space, to scrutinise the creditability of mass media and advertising. In their action Media Reality, which took place on 7 June, 2007, they ‘hacked’ into the Czech weather channel ČT 2 and added the image of an atomic explosion to the live image of a mountain valley. The channel pressed charges under laws against “indecent behavior” and the “diffusion of false information”. In two separate legal actions members of the group were acquitted. At the same time, Ztohoven were awarded the first NG 333 prize for contemporary art from the Prague National Gallery, in connection with Media Reality Besides showing the work Media Reality and related court documents, Art Laboratory Berlin will present the German premiere of the film On Media Reality, which documents the legal and artistic aftermath of the action. The film’s director Vladimir Turner will be present at the opening on 29 May.(more information)
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21.02.2009
- 29.03.2009 Lecture by Maksim Neroda (CAT): 22 March 2009, 5PM The
CAT (Contemporary Art Terrorism) collective from Novosibirsk
creates situations in public space, which lay bare the absurdity
of the way in which political power functions. Unprepared passers-by
were drawn into the process of creating critical artistic statements.
For organizing a May Day monstration - a counterpart to a classical
May Day demonstration - in which marchers carried individual banners
with apolitical, often poetic or non-rational slogans, the artists
were sentenced to pay a fine. The exhibition Monstration
shows video works and documents of the public reaction by means
of legal documents and mass media reviews.
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29.18.2008
- 04.01.2009 The
exhibition revolves around issues of design, of the construction
of surfaces we are surrounded by in everyday life: from textiles
to texts, to street and city. One of the underlying intentions of
the exhibition is to reflect on how these formal constructions organize
our behaviour, give our lives a scheme, a program, and on the sedimentation
of ideology in forms.
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24.10.2008
- 16.11.2008 Tour
of the exhibition: 02 November 2008, 3PM
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30.08.2008
- 28.09.2008 Artist's
talk: 31 August 2008, 5PM
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30.05.2008
- 29.06.2008 Artist's
talk: 14 June 2008, 5PM
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29.03.2008
- 04.05.2008 Artist's
talk and workshop:
29 March 2008, 5PM Contemporary Art already long ago turned away from a solely anthropocentric point of view. Currently in Science Art, it is concerned, among other things, with ecological phenomena and is investigating the existence of newly emerging life forms; Art and Science have been combined. The Kaliningrad based artist Dmitrij Bulatov views the contemporary art scene as a kind of petri dish of living material for his investigations. Coming from his own artistic experience he has investigated this sphere and explored its dynamics and spatial vectors. In connection with his scientific research and artistic practice, Bulatov has staged an active evolutionary dramatisation of ‘post-biological’ forms whose paradoxical development may completely change our idea of the surrounding world. (more)
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26.01.2008
- 2.03.2008 Workshop
with Denisa Kera (curator): Curating New Media: 27.01.2008 5 PM The Czech new media art scene could be characterized by a latecomer strategy which in recent years is turning its disadvantages into a source of advantage. As video art and other trends from the 1980s and 1990s were never strong in the Czech art academies, young artists feel free to experiment and often develop very promiscuous relations to different traditions, trends and technologies. (more)
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23.11.2007
- 6.01.2008 Artist's
talk: Sunday, 06 January 2008, 5pm
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28.9.2007
- 28.10.2007 Art
and Text II Christian
de Lutz has worked as a photographer and visual artist since moving
to Europe in 1994, after having worked in painting and video in
New York during the late 1980s and early 1990s. During these years
de Lutz has built up a considerable photo archive, which he has
used as the basis to create his current images. The original analogue
photographs have been processed through digital imaging software;
some information has been taken away, while new information has
been added. In the last seven years the artist has increasingly
worked at the periphery of image and text. By means of a digital
montage of photography and source code or algorithmic texts his
pictures have generated a palimpsest-like layering of pictorial
and literary signs.
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31.8.2007
- 23.09.2007 Art
Laboratory Berlin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of book
art, drawings and a digital work by Farkhondeh Shahroudi as part
of the series Art and Text.
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June- 22 July 07 Viktor Alimpiev, whose work Summer Lightings was shown at the 4th Berlin Biennale in the Former Jewish Girls' School, combines different artistic fields in his cinematic work: visual arts, music, theater and dance. In his films he has worked with the human body and more recently with song and speech. During the 2005 Venice Theatre Biennale he directed the play We're Talking about Music in Italian language together with Marian Zhunin. In Linz in 2006 he created the video Wie heisst dieser Platz? in German. (more information)
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May - 17 June 07 The 3-Room-Conference is a performance project, which was organized by the Berlin Tiefenrauschorchester especially for the rooms of the artspace Art Laboratory Berlin. In connection with his painting Inbetween (2001) and his film projection Cloud Pieces (2005) Leo Königsberg will realize a sound collage on his space cello. This audiovisual production will be taken further by the live act by Christian Glass' electronic acoustics. The dance performance by janusz de woyciechowski, in relation to his film Titania (1970), which will be projected in the art space, will develop this interdisciplinary experiment through the human body in movement. (more information)
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March 07 - 20 May 07 The Group PG was founded in 1998. It now consists of Ilya Falkovsky, Alexey Katalkin and Boris Spiridonov. PG is a play on words that can be interpreted differently, for example as “Criminal Group”, “Hydrant” or “Hand Grenade”. The group activity is multifunctional. It publishes its own magazines and postcards, releases musical albums, makes comics and performances. (more information)
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'pre-opening'
23 February 2007 A documentary
film by Nicola Hochkeppel A 1960's and 70's West German vacation idyll. The Hubert J. Wagner family of Cologne – all nine of then – trapped between the „simple life“ romanticism of camping and the educated middle-class ideal of classics-based scholarship. Tax consultant Wagner, the arch-catholic clan patriarch, suffers no amendments to his meticulous plans for the rigorous summer pilgrimages. Using the family's home-movie footage (1965 – 1975), the documentary film LEARNING BY CAMPING also chronicles a chapter of German social history during the heyday of the flourishing welfare state.(more information) |
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