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W.E.L.T.001–Apophenia

April 20 – May 15, 2018

Opening April 20  6-11.59 pm

Artists: Cindy Coutant, Alan Dunning, Benoit Ménard, Duncan Passmore, Adriana Ramić, Gonçalo Sena, Lisa Strozyk, Aldéric Trevel, Steven Warwick Curated by: Théo Pozoga, Karin Schlageter, Anna Siebold Presented at non-profit-space gr_und in Berlin-Wedding, W.E.L.T.001–Apophenia asks how we experience, organise and hence construct the reality that we perceive. The accumulation of vast amounts of information has produced a sort of sleeping archive that is lingering to be unravelled. At the same time we have gone from scarcity to overabundance, from collecting to analysing, from adding on to filtering, from research to pattern recognition, from enrichment to simplification. What mechanisms come into play when we attempt to decipher and make sense of the world? How do we decode, order and categorise incoming information? And what happens when we create systems and algorithms to take over these processes? W.E.L.T.001–Apophenia is a curatorial proposal that combines artistic positions from both music and visual art whilst taking a theoretical, multidisciplinary angle. A month-long exhibition (20.04.–13.05.2018) with nine participating contemporary artists; a release on vinyl with newly produced contributions by six contemporary musicians located at the interface of experimental and techno music; as well as a publication, all constitute the body of this project. Operating independently of each other, the three outputs provide varying access points and angles to the overall theme of apophenia. The term “apophenia” first appeared in the psychiatric field in the late 1950’s to designate the unmotivated seeing of connections accompanied by a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness. Today the term is applied universally to the tendency to perceive connections and meaning between unrelated things, and simply refers to the human brain’s tendency to create order in chaos, meaningfulness in absurdity, ease in struggle. The most common example for this tendency is pareidolia – the psychological phenomenon of recognising human or animal features in random constellations: puppies resemble chicken nuggets, buns look like nuns, and the Cydonia region of Mars has a human face sitting on its surface. In trying to make sense of the world, we superimpose a structure onto what we discern. We produce the reality that we experience and thereby continuously produce ourselves. Today, what occurs to us is endless: we find ourselves drowning in material, in a sea of data so vast that we need technological support in order to navigate this ocean. Nevertheless, the great variety of algorithms we develop carry the interpretative frameworks of the humans who generated them and can therefore only fail in their attempt to create neutral and objective tools. Struggling with these issues, the vast array of positions presented in the book, the record and the exhibition encompasses hijacking gestures, art of assemblage, automatic drawing, derivation and shifts of meaning, illusion and confusion, oil painting, low-res 720p images as well as ultra-bright 5K video. Apophenia, the first installment of W.E.L.T, was conceived by founding member Théo Pozoga, curators Karin Schlageter and Anna Siebold, as well as research assistant Jan-Philipp Siebold. The release of the book and the record will occur at the exhibition opening at gr_und. The record features compositions from: Broshuda (DE) Buttechno (RUS) Garrett David (US) Gregor Belibi Minya (FR) Hugues Rey (FR) Steven Warwick (UK)

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The Superusers - Mega Myriad Machine

The Superusers present “Mega Myriad Machine” - a sentient sculpture designed to emit sound and light beyond conventional dimensions. Featuring multiple projectors, quadraphonic sound, and a complex system of finely calibrated mirrors, this large-scale work explodes satellites of light into the gallery space, orbiting and engulfing the viewer in a newly born infinite digital cosmos. With a purposely splintered sculpture at the center of the void, layers of stuttering video projected unto its mirrored surfaces create reflections in every direction, which in turn propagate and interact with each other in a symphony of unpredictable and volatile motion. The result is a pulsating, self-multiplying, chamber-sized kaleidoscope of synaesthesia unconstrained by walls or gravity. “Mega Myriad Machine” will be open 6.-14. April 2018 at Gr_und, Seestraße 49, Berlin-Wedding. The opening and closing evenings will feature special performances from sound and visual artists reinterpreting the installation in real-time. 6. April – Vernissage – with performance from Mystech Prod & Xing Xing Xing. 14. April – Finissage – with performance from Kris Limbach.

Exhibition running 6-14 April - Thursday to Saturday 4-7 pm

Installation by Jessica Comis and Scott Sinclair. http://thesuperusers.com/

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ActionScape #1

Saturday 24. April 8-10 pm

[seven performance artists]  [open session] [re-sculpturing space] [visual jam]   For the event, seven performance artists working within different disciplines engaging in an open session  to create ActionScape #1.   The structured and thematically focused interaction of instruments in a musical jam results in soundscapes. In a performance jam, musical instruments are replaced with the individual forms of performance practice developed by the participating artists. The soundscape turns into an ActionScape. Interdependent fragments of musical structures are replaced by interdependent fragments of action. This event is facilitated by ActionScape, supported by APA-B,  Paersche and gr_und www.apa-b.org www.paersche.org www.gr-und.de photo: (C) Hori izhaki

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JOURNALs 1988 – 2018 by Camilla Graff Junior

Sunday 25. March 7-8.30 pm

Camilla Graff Junior will in this performance reactivate her memory and revisit different moments of her life, emotions and thoughts together with the present audience. The project takes its starting point in an investigation of her old journals. The corpus consists of twenty-six handwritten notebooks conceived in Danish, her native language, from June 11th 1988 until today. Camilla Graff Junior is a Danish performance artist. Her projects are situated in the intersections between visual art, creative writing, narrative, feminist theory, archive and affect. Over the past twenty years she has conceived a number of solo and collaborative performances that have been performed in Europe, Africa, South America and the United States. She graduated in performance studies in 2007 and holds a double Master's degree from Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and from the University of Copenhagen.

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Car Tuning Techno Autobahn

Saturday 17th march 2018 - 6 pm - 4 am

IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU WIN BY A SECOND OR A MILE, WINNING IS WINNING. "Vin Diesel"

Car tuning techno Autobahn embraces everything that the modern car tuning scene has to offer. With : Karsten Pflum, DK (Hymen Records, Touched, Mindwaves Music, Ad Noiseam) https://soundcloud.com/karsten-von-pflum

 <¡mper‹ep+:ve-music>, PT (Live) https://soundcloud.com/imperceptivemusic //

RomanGHB  (Strictly Strictly) https://soundcloud.com/splitless-art/rmnrnm

Poperttelli  (Maturre) https://soundcloud.com/poperttelli

Maturre resident DJ's Object Sound Performance :

Till Baumann / the ritournelle project https://soundcloud.com/the-ritournelle-project http://heraudbaumann.com/p/07ritproject/ritproject.html   VJ : Samantha Stress

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Hackfleisch drawing competition 2018

Fri. 09 February - 6-11 pm

Winner receives a 50-EURO LIDL GIFT CARD

The still life will be made of "Hackfleisch" You must DRAW aspects or the whole Still Life provided All drawing materials and paper will be provided with 4 euro entry cost. EVENT IS FREE TO SPECTATORS! There will also be 3 runners-up that receive 10-EURO LIDL GIFT CARD We accept all drawing styles! Winner will be judged by 3 categories 1.Passion 2.Integrity 3.Innovation Come between 18-22:30hr to DRAW Winner announced at 23hr

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Amalgama Experience/ Transmediale Vorspiel

organized by Zona Dynamic

Sat. 27.01.2018 - 7-11 pm

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ZONA DYNAMIC invites::::: AMALGAMA is a collective audio-visual experience questioning the digital now, through the formation of an amalgamated field. It is an assemblage of 10 artist outputs, sharing a ground and a volume to create an immersive space welcoming and challenging its audience. „ Hello there! Are you online? I can hear us“. AMALGAMA is a fragile, and yet durable machinery, a cloud reflecting the new era state of mind. Breeding through a digitized system, advancing like a cyborg - a collector of post human signals, which is driven by an alternating playful control structure. AMALGAMA is an operation to experiment with the complexity and value of the digital moment. A blue carpet invites the artists to come together, to occupy this territory of artistic identity and its polydimensional projection and presence. Are we empowered, when in collective to understand this moment of performance as tool to overcome opaque content of representation? Can we trust the rendered and shall we go further to transform the past into the prospective to stage the truth? Live is not live - we just project and past is not past, if we stream it now::::: Artists: Willis Anne FELL Alan Gleeson Eliza Goldox Sabrina Gricourt Sungho Haku Holger Heissmeyer Kritzkom Infinite Livez Hannah Rumstedt initiated by ZONA DYNAMIC as part of the Transmediale Vorspiel program. https://vorspiel.berlin/ www.zonadynamic.com

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Gr_und hosts the French artist Alexandre Bavard, for 20 days in Berlin at the Artist run space, the following works will be exhibited under KONKRET1987.

KONKRET1987 Alexandre Bavard

Residency from the 5th December 2017 to the 22nd December 2017 Exhibition from the 22nd December 2017 to the 20th January 2018 Opening 22nd of December 2017 - 6-10 pm Mit der freundlichen Unterstützung des Bureau des arts plastiques des Institut français und des französischen Kulturministeriums / Avec le soutien du Bureau des arts plastiques de l’Institut français et du Ministère de la Culture  / With the kind support of Bureau des arts plastiques | Institut français Germany and the French Ministry of Culture KONKRET1987 Alexandre Bavard “Happy New Fear” slips loosely over anarcho tongues, as Christmas trees are piled up and barricade the bank doors, crackling lightly. The wild heat of the flames doused in petrol: smoothly lock onto the pine-scented aftermath of a revolt. The sweat-dripping bankers throw bills out of the window to fuel the furnace below, calling themselves the enlightened masses - someone always has to die in a revolt, and for novelty sake let it be the oppressor, who fuels their own fires in a fit of suicidal martyr-like ecstasy: 2018. Alas, this is neither a premonition nor a fact, this is merely a mutation of a common string of words that are uttered every year by thousands of people on the stroke of midnight. In a hope, they will shed or detach themselves from a previous lived time frame, usually the past 365 days.

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Alexandre Bavards new work implicitly rallies the notion that the human subject is always too late. The metaphorical alarm clock went to snooze and the homo sapiens overslept. Warm in slumber until they were rudely awoken, snatched from their coma’s by the aftermath of a nemesis’s dreams. Be it, global warming, rent increases, a refugee crisis, a misogynistic president or a police state: the list can go on forever, there are thousands of ways to wake the human race. Panicked and unpunctual, they run to the shower. Cold, half asleep but for a second: present. The moment the water hits their back, the revolt has just passed, as they reach for the soap, the enemy strikes, they are powerless as the trap was placed long ago. Soaping themselves off, the  leftist climax shot its load (too late again). Inside the gallery, A Mummies cloaked eye rests on a blood drained Zombie’s cheek, a Doll’s pert lips and an Ape-like nose can be found jammed into Frankenstein’s fists. Glowing in radioactive colour fields, on heavy duty stakes. Thousands of permutations of mythical human horror’s fill the void, of a sanitary white cube. Surgically restyled by the artist, these figurines depict the riot that never begun. The food chain is decided by the artists god-like material complex and laymen aesthetics. A late dystopia, cooked up by the evolution of the economy and the crimes and terror of any modern democracy. Romanticism and kitsch horror is the script of Bavard’s revolt, a nostalgia for an unrealised Fan Fiction Realism is mouthed in the silent screams of the insurrection that is laid out it front of the viewer. Past, Present, Future wrapped up in one cheap resurrection, doused in sentimental sci-fi allure, the perversion of time is key to understanding his work. “Cogito ergo sum” another three-word popular phrase, romantic yet now redundant within the age of the smart object, smart city, smart world and smart sex. These words are universally: futuristic, no longer are they merely limited to the human subject  - “I think therefore I am” is applicable to all. Inside his white cell; Alexandre Bavard mutters with a wry smile “ but you can change nothing” Text by Penny Rafferty Alexandre Bavard

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The Berta VOL. 6

We're pleased to announce that gr_und will host the next Berta Vol. 6 Participating artists Jorge Chamorro: http://jorgechamorro.es/tipo/arte/ Kevin Ldk.: http://kevin-luedicke.de/ Marcos Mangani: http://marcosmangani.tk/ Johannes Mundinger: http://jmundinger.de/ Luz Peuscovich: http://cargocollective.com/luzpeuscovich Rallitoxart: http://www.rallitox.org/ St. & St.: https://st-and-st.blogspot.de/ Curated by Camille Cousin and ELi Cornejo. Organized by Arnejo Corata, Juan Arata & Eli Cornejo. The Berta returns to Wedding, to gr_und, an active space for the materialisation of curated concepts. Thanks to it's team for the trust and support. Special guests will share the night with us: the talented and versatile Matilde Keizer hosting the event and Dácil Granados, a.k.a Playa Chica Dj, playing her sparkling and fun music sets through the night. There will be also a bar with snacks and drinks, an art lottery. A perfect plan for sharing a lovely Sunday, come! If you want to be part of the art raffle and become sponsor of the artists and this project then GET YOUR TICKET: http://thebertaartraffle.com/new-index/ Art Raffle-Finissage: 3rd December, 5 pm -10 pm Exhibition Opening: 24th Nov. 6pm-10pm. Runs till 3rd Dec. 2017 - Opening hours: Thur - Sat ​4pm - 7pm For further information visit: FB Event www.thebertaartraffle.com

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Dark_Side of the Tour Closing

Closing: Fri Nov 17th 7-10 pm Secret Shots, audiovisual performance: 8.30 pm Secret Shots Kris Limbach and Scott Sinclair present Secret Shots - an exploration of expired formats in a search for sense between the frames. In this audiovisual performance, Limbach's super8 manipulations mutate with Sinclair's video glitchery to make a uniquely actual cinematic document existing neither on tape nor in data. As a kind of visual incineration set to a machine-dictated soundtrack, Secret Shots portrays the surface appearance of cinema, however without identifiable characters or plot resolution. In their place are only lost transmissions and scratches in time. Secret Shots a molecular view from the cutting room floor. Dark_Side of the Tour With Installations Jia-Jen Lin Scott Sinclair Exploring the dark side of our subconscious through disconnected memories and bad signals that produce pixelated tunes in the form of nightmares leads the way to bifurcations into the unknown. Why not take an alternative sightseeing tour to merge the border of the individuals and transform the path into an irreplaceable sensory experience? Rays of lights follow complementary perspectives distinctly along a spatial Bokeh around , transparency connects lives that intervene around as encounters of seasonal souvenirs and waiting to be brought to intimacy.

Curated by gr_und Jia-Jen Lin http://jiajenlin.info/ Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore humanity’s experience of displacement, self-consciousness and loss and how memories change with modified experience and new events. Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin attended National Taiwan Normal University for a BFA in Western Painting and received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has participated in artist residencies at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; L’Estruch, Spain; Water Mill Center, New York; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan. She's currently artist in residence at GlogauAIR. Scott Sinclair http://www.halftheory.com/ Scott Sinclair is an audiovisual artist working in sound, video, performance, and installation. Using a highly interdisciplinary approach, Scott creates brutalist and humorous collages of audiovisual media incorporating elements such as computer music, cracked video art, found objects, custom-made costumes, and improvised performance. His work is often concerned with the over-stimulation of these elements to bring about states of intensified noise delirium. As a performer, Scott is known for his highly energetic and unpredictable performances which are often equal parts brutal avant-garde and equal parts low-brow trash. His concerts have found audiences on many tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia, and North America. Scott currently performs in the audiovisual groups Botborg and The Superusers, and his solo noise-karaoke project Company Fuck. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. FB Event

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The Berta VOL. 6 We're pleased to announce that gr_und will host the next Berta Vol. 6 Art Raffle-Finissage: 3rd December, 5 pm -10 pm Exhibition Opening: 24th Nov. 6pm-10pm. Runs till 3rd Dec. 2017 - Opening hours: Thur - Sat ​4pm - 7pm Participating artists Jorge Chamorro: http://jorgechamorro.es/tipo/arte/ Kevin Ldk.: http://kevin-luedicke.de/ Marcos Mangani: http://marcosmangani.tk/ Johannes Mundinger: http://jmundinger.de/ Luz Peuscovich: http://cargocollective.com/luzpeuscovich Rallitoxart: http://www.rallitox.org/ St. & St.: https://st-and-st.blogspot.de/ Curated by Camille Cousin and ELi Cornejo. Organized by Arnejo Corata, Juan Arata & Eli Cornejo. The Berta returns to Wedding, to gr_und, an active space for the materialisation of curated concepts. Thanks to it's team for the trust and support. Special guests will share the night with us: the talented and versatile Matilde Keizer hosting the event and Dácil Granados, a.k.a Playa Chica Dj, playing her sparkling and fun music sets through the night. There will be also a bar with snacks and drinks, an art lottery. A perfect plan for sharing a lovely Sunday, come! If you want to be part of the art raffle and become sponsor of the artists and this project then GET YOUR TICKET: http://thebertaartraffle.com/new-index/ For further information visit: FB Event www.thebertaartraffle.com

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Dark_Side of the Tour

Opening Sat Oct 28th 7-10pm (live performance 8pm)

Closing Fri Nov 17th 7-10pm (with live set)

Exhibition from Oct 29th - Nov 17th

Opening hours Thursday-Saturday​ ​4-7pm

With

Installations

Jia-Jen Lin

Scott Sinclair

Live performances

curated by Agnieszka Szablikowska of Raczej Gallery

Mikołaj Tkacz

Łukasz Trusewicz

CHCE (eng. WANT / WISH / FANCY) - Olga Dziubak & Barbara Gryka

Bad signals. Disconnected memories. Pixelated images form into nightmares and lead us to explore the dark side of our unconscious. An invitation to bifurcations inside the unknown.

Why not take an alternative sightseeing tour to find the border of the end of Knowingness and transform that path into an irreplaceable sensory experience?

Rays of light illuminate distinct complementary perspectives along a spatial Bokeh. Transparency brings lives together like seasonal souvenirs, waiting to be brought to intimacy.

Jia-Jen Lin

http://jiajenlin.info/

Jia-Jen Lin creates images of the human body and its surroundings as a reflection of our psyche. Drawing from personal experience and observations, Lin uses sculpture integrated with photography, video, and performance to portray the ongoing negotiation between our latent desires and the manipulated realities in which we find ourselves. Hybrid cultures, shifting identities, and the relationships between our physicality and psychology are subjects Lin has investigated since 2004. Her recent projects explore humanity’s experience of displacement, self-consciousness and loss and how memories change with modified experience and new events.

Jia-Jen Lin is a Taiwanese artist based in New York. Lin attended National Taiwan Normal University for a BFA in Western Painting and received her MFA in sculpture, installation, and multimedia from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She has participated in artist residencies at International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York; L’Estruch, Spain; Water Mill Center, New York; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska; and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Exhibitions include Queens International 4, Queens Museum; Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, South Korea; Young Artist Discovery, Art Taipei; and Manufractura, Hangar Art, Barcelona. She has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, Sculpture Space, Franconia Sculpture Park, National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, and Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.

Scott Sinclair

http://www.halftheory.com/

Scott Sinclair is an audiovisual artist working in sound, video, performance, and installation. Using a highly interdisciplinary approach, Scott creates brutalist and humorous collages of audiovisual media incorporating elements such as computer music, cracked video art, found objects, custom-made costumes, and improvised performance. His work is often concerned with the over-stimulation of these elements to bring about states of intensified noise delirium.

As a performer, Scott is known for his highly energetic and unpredictable performances which are often equal parts brutal avant-garde and equal parts low-brow trash. His concerts have found audiences on many tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia, and North America. Scott currently performs in the audiovisual groups Botborg and The Superusers, and his solo noise-karaoke project Company Fuck.

He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Mikołaj Tkacz

https://www.facebook.com/zespolWSZYSTKO/

https://vimeo.com/nikolaitkacz

Mikołaj Tkacz born in 1991 in Poznań. For years he was focusing on drawing comics, but later he started making music and experimental films. In his works he is focusing mainly on exercising narration and telling about things using abstract means of expression and humor. Poetic of his early works is well described a comic book „Nobody’s Adventures” in which the viewer goes through the empty rooms by 40 pages. In last years Mikołaj focused on musical project EVERYTHING in which he is concentrating to put everything in fact.

Now he is working on rap album called „Pro-nothing” and he is ending recording dance album „I am dancing for myself”. Moreover, he is working now on a concept of his project in which he will be making „exhibitions by chance”.

Łukasz Trusewicz

https://trusewiczlukasz.wordpress.com/

B. 1984. He graduated from the faculty of Sculpture and Performing Art on University or Arts in Poznan. Combines his sculptural practice with ephemeral potential resulting from the experience of performance art. Interested in both the role of the group and the individual spectator in the process of shaping an artistic action or object and the issues of social reception of art. Author of the projects created with the involvement of local communities - sculptures, objects, performative installations, urban interventions. In performance activities he mostly analyses the specific contexts of a chosen space. He refers to its social and urban problems or to local potential of historical memory. The artist is also a creator of cultural and social projects. He’s originator of the initiative of the Open Zone of Culture in Poznan whose aim is to create a cultural - artistic district in the Łazarz neighborhood of Poznań using the local potential of the space and cooperation with other initiatives, and in addition the city dwellers and the authorities. Author of international social sculpture project - babelproject.eu. He is also the originator and one of the curators of the Raczej Gallery & Perfex in Poznań - which presents and promotes performance art through local and international contacts. Board president of the Open Zone of Culture Foundation.

Chosen artistic activities: Iamesh Ephemeral Art Meeting, Księgarnia/Wystawa, Cracow, Poland, 2016; Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm 2016; solo show, City Art Gallery in Kalisz, Kalisz 2015; PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL MALAMUT, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 2015; PERFO! , Haihara Art Centre , Tampere Finland 2015; performance Skål, Performance Art Links Stockholm , PALS Play Tag Part1, Stockholm Sweden 2015; Month of Performance Art Berlin, 2013-15, PAO Festival 2014, Oslo, Norwey 2014, Body Plasticity Live Art Exhibitio, Beijing, China 2014.

CHCE (eng. WANT / WISH / FANCY)

Olga Dziubak & Barbara Gryka

https://www.facebook.com/chcechcechce

https://chceteam.tumblr.com/

Olga Dziubak

https://olgadziubak.tumblr.com/

Barbara Gryka

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Performance art team CHCE is founded by two female polish emerging artists. At July of 2016 Olga Dziubak and Barbara Gryka met each other in the apartment at Czerniakowska Street in Warsaw. Their friendship from high school and love for performance art is appeared. Using a thread is connected those two personalities in performance art. CHCE use new media, the aesthetics of pop culture and contemporary ways of communication. CHCE team wants to create something more than visual image. Artists are focused on critical view for communication tools and cameras in the contemporary society. Olga and Barbara mostly spend time together online. They talk about position of young artist in the art world and function of art institutions at these times. CHCE dreams of better prosper of artists in the society.

Olga Dziubak currently lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She graduated on MA in Multimedia Art in Art Academy in Szczecin and BA on Painting in University of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland.

Barbara Gryka based Warsaw, Poland. She study on 2nd year on MA in New Media Art in Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw.

Performance program curated by Agnieszka Szablikowska of Raczej Gallery

Raczej Gallery

https://galeriaraczej.wordpress.com/

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Raczej Gallery is an independent Gallery founded in 2011 in Poznan, Poland. From the beginning we’re focused on the promotion of the performance art. We mainly present the actions of young artists as well as renowned performers. Significant for us is to show the diversity of ephemeral arts. Within 6 year we presented about one hundred artists from all around the world, both in Poznan and abroad (as a part of international co-production projects.) We collaborated among others with Month of Performance Art in Berlin, Supermarket Independent Art Fairs in Stockholm, Performance Art Oslo, Performance Art Stockholm and a lot of other organizations. We organize performances, workshops, talks, festivals, concerts etc.

From 2014 Gallery have a new bigger space (Perfex) in Poznan and from 2016 has been developing its residency program by inviting artists to live in gallery’s new residency space and to create projects based on longer stays. Curators and founders of the Gallery (Agnieszka Szablikowska – Trusewicz & Łukasz Trusewicz) are also creators of ‘Open zone of the Culture” in Lazarus district in Poznan – an initiative focused on collaboration of different organizations in aim to create a cultural district.

Agnieszka Szablikowska - Trusewicz

Graduated from the Poznan University of Art (Specialty: Criticism and Art Promotion). She is a co-founder, coordinator and curator at the Raczej Gallery in Poznan. She also organized projects that resulted in Poznan new performance space – Perfex which is now a space of gallery Raczej events. Activities of Raczej Gallery are also connected to the local context with Artists in Residency program - invited artists live and create in urban areas of Łazarz district. She co-curated international projects as a part of Month of Performance Art 2014-2015 in Berlin, Performance Art Oslo Festival 2014, Performance Art Lin Stockholm in Fylkingen, Stockholm. She is one of the initiators and main coordinator of the Open Zone of Culture in Poznan as well the Vice President of the Open Zone of Culture Foundation. From 2015 she is involved in developing Pireus – Incubator of Culture in Poznan created as part of cross-sectoral cooperation, where currently she works as a coordinator of events.

She is interested in performance art especially in the context of public space and in revitalization through cultural activities especially created in collaboration with local communities.

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CORE REMISSION

Maximilian Arnold, Marco Bruzzone, Stefan Behlau, Zander Blom, Jessica Groome, David Gaupp-Maier, Nicholas Pittman, Johannes Mundinger, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Duncan Passmore, Mickael Marman, Marlene Stark and Jonas Schoeneberg.

Musical Score by Kashev Curated by Penny Rafferty

Opening 30th September 6-10pm Running 30.09 - 26.10

Opening hours Thursday-Saturday 4-7pm gr_und Seestrasse 49, Berlin 13347 ______________________________________

anon: abstraction is an objective for life patterning anon: production is what oils the gesture of the social anon: YOLO <3

*** Abstraction as a hyper material enables a meta existence of motion, CORE REMISSION will

unpack this notion through the mediums of painting and techno.

Abstraction modulates reality, yet to enact it collectively it requires a physical field. The architecture of clubs and galleries often offer this territory. A public cube is always a place of latent potentials: near visibility, against almost constraint. One could liken these sites of collectivity, i.e. the club, the gallery, the cinema to voluntary prison cells for those seeking a moment of abstract hyper density outside of their constructed reality.

YOLO often comes to mind when I think of abstraction. Thousands of novel or risky acts becoming reduced to a universal (un)unique after sound: YOLO. This neo-word, YOLO is both coltish and euphoric, as is any scene slang. The word seems to have hijacked both yellow and hello, mashing them into a hyper density gesture. A bold linguistic action. It renders both a moment of adrenaline and resignation into a cute contemporary cipher. The act requires a desire to become YOLO. Desire must bleed between life and the abstract. Knotting into turbulence, ruptures, and autonomous functioning cells to be able to exist.

We can at this point likened desire to a scripted life scenario and abstraction as the overlay of all possible realities of the plot. Eventually, the script will turn into clandestine gossip, and we all know gossip is more stimulating than life.

An exhibition or set list by its very nature is temporary and queer, much like gossip thus it remains a functional proposition. Be it a colour field or a re-verb the process of abstraction is ultimately an extension of the customary room with a view, a suicide of the now, a stage-death that just stood up for the encore.

#YOLO

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Maturre Radio

15 September 2017 _ from 7 pm

Maturre Radio is a fortnightly music show streamed Live from Gr_und Artist run space. Every shows are broadcasted via Facebook live, recorded and published on Mixcloud and gr_und website.

Archived shows are free to listen and download.

Maturre Radio hosts musicians, music labels, DJ’s, live artists, diggers, sound performers...

Maturre Radio, invites the following artists for a night of music, experiment, and more :

phrase: cycle (trio) #2 William “Bilwa” Costa, Monica Gentile and Carolin Jüngst https://williambilwacosta.com Scott Sinclair https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/6x5dwr/who-is-company-fuck Kajuku https://soundcloud.com/kajukuuu Khmgnff (Micromod music) Live Poperttelli (Maturre)

FB Event

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Summer performance_art

19th - 20th August 2017

Saturday 19.08, 4pm _ Performance Sunday 20.08, 12pm _ Performance

Performance Art + swimming pool + BBQ + cocktail + beer.

With :

Poncili Creacion https://poncilidad.tumblr.com/

"Poncili Creacion" is a group that generates performatic and audiovisual experiences that sprout from their interactive sculptures. Their sculptures and installations are always accompanied by a performatic act that incorporates experimental dance, manipulation of objects and interaction with the public.

APA-B aka Association for Performance Art Berlin https://apa-b.org/

Very active performance art people in Berlin: APA-B, members and +guests!

M4P aka Manual for Performer http://manual4performer.blogspot.de/

By following and giving Instructions to make a Performance :

Everybody is welcome to bring any performance instructions and anyone can pick up to perform! This time, swimming pool edition!

Lisa Stertz http://lllss.tumblr.com/ https://vimeo.com/lllss

Ruth Pulgram http://ruthbiene.tumblr.com/

Lady Gaby https://apa-b.org/members/lady-gaby/

Lars Crosby http://www.openspace32.de/

Jörn J. Burmester http://www.joernburmester.de/

Anja Ibsch https://anja-ibsch.jimdo.com/

____gemelos2000 http://www.gemelos2000.de/

T . I . T . S http://titstheartist.com/

Stephanie Hanna http://www.stephaniehanna.de/

LAN Hungh http://www.lanhungh.tk/

Enjoy the summer, enjoy performance art !

Facebook event

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22.07 2017 7-10 pm Radio Broadcast by Pauline Payen +keywords will be revealed

Yann Vanderme http://yannvanderme.com/

Pauline Payen http://www.paulinepayen.net/

Elana Katz http://www.elanakatz.eu/

ssmidd http://www.gedankenschmied.net/

“The majority of gallery visitors are art enthusiasts, casual visitors and vernissage guests - in other words nice-to-have visitors - and collectors and art professionals form only the minority” of the public. (M. Resch, Management of art galleries, 2015)

According to the report of GmbH 2017, more than 70% of the exhibition visitors are less interested in the presented artworks and their concepts or in an exchange with artists than in the probability to meet curators and galerislts that can push their career; not to mention the possibility of getting cheap drinks.

These facts make us, curators, think twice about which artists and works to present in a proper conceptual direction, in order to create a meaningful and coherent group exhibition.

The serious question we might ask now is what makes an exhibition more meaningful than another? According to which criteria should an art show be evaluated? The numbers of visitors? The profit of the sales of drinks at the bar and of artworks? The feedbacks from art critics and audience? The smile on the curators’ faces?

In the group show “keywords_required” we propose to artists, art lovers, collectors and nice-to-have visitors to question what motivations lead the public here and what information they receive. To evaluate the meaningfulness of the exhibition, we selected a list of conceptual keywords that permitted us to set up a sample of artists who are likely to reuse and reinterpret them, to find out if these are transmitted to the public.

This project has been supported by Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques.

Radio Broadcast by Pauline Payen of her new edition of The Voyager Radio Show, with interviews and sounds by human art-visitors.

The Voyager Spaceship has landed in a human-art gallery in Berlin, in July 2017. During the vernissage, art visitors and human artists exchanged words and sounds in the Spacheship that turned out to be a recording device. Here is the edited result.

Listen to The Voyager Radio Show here: http://www.paulinepayen.net/projects/the-voyager-radio-show/

Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, documentation form long duration performance

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group exhibition

 01-22.07 2017 - Thu-Sat 4-7 pm

 vernissage 30.06.2017 - 7 pm - performance by Elana Katz

finissage 22.07.2017 - 7 pm - performance by Pauline Payen

 “The majority of gallery visitors are art enthusiasts, casual visitors and vernissage guests - in other words nice-to-have visitors - and collectors and art professionals form only the minority” of the public. (M. Resch, Management of art galleries, 2015)

According to the report of GmbH 2017, more than 70% of the exhibition visitors are less interested in the presented artworks and their concepts or in an exchange with artists than in the probability to meet curators and gallerists that can push their career; not to mention the possibility of getting cheap drinks.

 These facts make us, curators, think twice about which artists and works to present in a proper conceptual direction, in order to create a meaningful and coherent group exhibition.

The serious question we might ask now is what makes an exhibition more meaningful than another? According to which criteria should an art show be evaluated? The numbers of visitors? The profit of the sales of drinks at the bar and of artworks? The feedbacks from art critics and audience? The smile on the curators’ faces?

In the group show “keywords_required” we propose to artists, art lovers, collectors and nice-to-have visitors to question what motivations lead the public here and what information they receive. To evaluate the meaningfulness of the exhibition, we selected a list of conceptual keywords that permitted us to set up a sample of artists who are likely to reuse and reinterpret them, to find out if these are transmitted to the public.

Yann Vanderme http://yan.vanderme.free.fr/

Pauline Payen http://www.paulinepayen.net/

Elana Katz http://www.elanakatz.eu/

ssmidd http://www.gedankenschmied.net/

This project has been supported by Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques.

Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Office -HD Video - 2017 - 08:35 min installation : cardboard

Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Office -HD Video - 2017 - 08:35 min installation : cardboard

View of Yann Vanderme’s installation „You broke my cheese in two»

View of Yann Vanderme’s installation „You broke my cheese in two»

Yann Vanderme - You Broke My Cheese In Two - Of ce -HD Video - 2017 - 08:35 min (detail) - installation : cardboard

Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, Long duration performance

Elana Katz - un _ shadowed, 2017, documentation form long duration performance 

Pauline Payen - Spaceship, A performative installation - Unknown materials - 2017- (with the complicity of Kevin S. Morrison)

Pauline Payen - Spaceship, A performative installation - Unknown materials - 2017- (with the complicity of Kevin S. Morrison)

Pauline Payen - FragtMorgenWieder - Decorative-fountain, mini speaker, soundtrack - 2010 

ssmidd - SPACE ENTER - print - 84,1 x 118,9 cm - 2017

ssmidd - SPACE ENTER - print - 84,1 x 118,9 cm - 2017

ssmidd - GROUND – 2017 – mixed media - ca 45x35x20 cm

ssmidd - GROUND – 2017 – mixed media - ca 45x35x20 cm (detail)

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WASTEBAND presents WORLD WIDE WASTE #1

WASTEBAND presents WORLD WIDE WASTE A night of extravaganza!

15th 2017 - from 7 pm

gr_und, Seestr. 49 13347 Berlin-Wedding          

Trailer https://vimeo.com/220154697 8 Pm: “The wandering” An Opera by Ken Shakin with: Donna Lee, soprano Felipe Balieiro, tenor Hemi Levison, baritone https://youtu.be/wnCZEMHbpqg 9 pm: Viriya Lynch (concert) https://viriya.bandcamp.com/releases https://solenegarnier.com/viriya-lynch-galerie/ 10 pm: Don Idiot (concert) https://donidiots.bandcamp.com/releases DJ PΘLA RΘÏD https://www.instagram.com/pola__roid/ Voiding by the House of Void MC: Anita Drink Win Prizes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Voidinginthevoid DJ Jemek Jemowit http://www.jemek.net/ DJ Elet https://www.instagram.com/elet/ Dj Szmata https://soundcloud.com/djszmata Dj Poperttelli (Maturre) https://soundcloud.com/poperttelli WASTEBAND INTERLUDES With WSTBND founding members: Kevin Morrison - Zabo Chabiland https://soundcloud.com/wasteband http://www.zabo-chabiland.com/ WSTBND Petit beurre by Ma Pâtissière https://mapatissiere.blogspot.de/ Wolso do nails...     Suggested donation: €5

Pictures by Galya Feierman