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- Art, Science, and the Oceanic World
- Rachel Mayeri
Art Laboratory Berlin invites the audience to meet Los Angeles based artist Rachel Mayeri and her newest artwork R/P FLIP R.I.P., with its European premiere in this solo exhibition. Join us for the Berlin opening on Fri, 26 September at 8 pm (the artist is present). It is an experimental new video work about the R/P FLIP, which stands for Research Platform FLoating Instrument Platform (1962-2023), the world-famous nautical rarity that flips 90 degrees to become a live-in buoy for studying the ocean. The FLIP was designed for stability to study acoustics in a turbulent ocean, yet ironically the interior is fluid, built for living both in horizontal and vertical orientations. In the artwork, performers activate the FLIP’s architecture as a playground for disorientation: floors become walls, and doors become holes. Intercut with military and oceanographic films, the FLIP film becomes a platform for conceptual flips: landlubbers encountering the alien world of the ocean, and of oceanography’s shift from militarism to ecology. Commissioned for the Getty-sponsored Southern California landmark show PST Art: Art & Science Collide, created by artist Rachel Mayeri, R/P FLIP R.I P. is currently presented as a three-channel video installation at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego, California. Read more
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FERMENTING TEXTILES
- Weaving Together Traditional Craft, Anthropology, Microbiology, and Art
- Adama Séré, Laurence Douny, Regine Hengge, Pauline Agustoni, Satomi Minoshima
Fermenting Textiles is a unique trans-disciplinary research and exhibition project that puts active matter at the center: it connects anthropology, microbiology, and art through the engagement of artisans, anthropologists, scientists, and artists, as well as more-than-human actors. Fermenting Textiles explores the fermentation of textile in mud and plant material to produce complex dyeing for various use – from traditional hunter shirts in Burkina Faso to kimono silk dyeing in Japan. In each case the process is artisanal and has fascinating traditional uses and meanings. Both cases make use of natural chemical and biological processes to create unique aesthetic and medicinal results. Read more
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Queer Sonic Fingerprint
- Transdisciplinary Research
- Isabel Bredenbröker and Adam Pultz
How do bodies sound? And how can a group of cultural belongings in an ethnological museum collection resonate in unexpected queer kin relations? In their interactive multichannel sound installation Queer Sonic Fingerprint, sound artist Adam Pultz and anthropologist Isabel Bredenbröker speculatively imagines non-normative relations around cultural belongings in ethnological museums and beyond. The installation amplifies the collection‘s materiality through sonic fingerprints—that is—the reflections of a body’s unique acoustic characteristics. In a transdisciplinary encounter with sound processing and evolutionary computing, dynamically changing fingerprints bring selected parts of museum collections to life in a multichannel sonic ecology.
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Colour Topographies
- Artistic Research
- Käthe Wenzel
Site-specific colours combine colour and location, as a type of topographical perception through local colour. What colour producing plants and minerals can be found in this place, and how can they be perceived and understood through colour? Plant knowledge is knowledge of place. This project explores topics of plant blindness, urban ecology, mapping, bio-invasiveness and migration as well as Zero Waste, Queer Ecologies and Interspecies Cooperation. Read more
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Art and Text I
- Farkhondeh Shahroudi
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. Her work indeed functions like a series of hyperlinks between art and text, between tradition and technology.
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Art and Music III
- Two Songs
- Viktor Alimpiev
Viktor Alimpiev 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.
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Art and Music II
- 3-ROOM-CONFERENCE. A Live Performance with an Exhibition
- Tiefenrauschorchester
The performance project 3-Room-Conference is an artistic communication in three different spaces. The artists communicate with one another by means of different media in their own specific forms…
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Art and Music I
- Video Works
- The artist group PG
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”.
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