Berlin
Reality Remixed
Students from Wilhelm-von-Siemens-Gymnasium have been collecting sounds and images inside Marzahn’s famous prefab concrete tower blocks, creating a media archive of their own reality. Using the tower blocks as an urban screen in combination with a multi-channel speaker system, this participatory community project turns the buildings themselves inside-out, culminating in an audiovisual performance lead by an MP3-player-based urban game. Reality Remixed serves as a platform for young people from Berlin-Marzahn to explore and challenge different perceptions of reality.
EMILY C. VÖLKERS
Emily C. Völker (Lilly Lotus) is a moving image artist and creative director currently residing, working, and studying in Berlin. She has created videos. VJ-ed and run workshops for the BBC, tenantspin FACT, A MAZE.,Tate Liverpool, Mercy, and many other organisations, bands, and artist collectives. As a community artist she has been designing and directing a diversity of participatory projects since 2002. Her work has been shown at Elektronentoto and Lab.30. At the moment she is doing a very exciting MA in European & Experimental Media Studies at Potsdam Universtiy, which, surprisingly has a lot to do with Quantum Physics.
ALEXANDRE DECOUPIGNY
Alexandre Decoupigny is a sound artist and musician, whose strength lies in the diversity of his output and his poetic imagery. His practice includes audio-walks, installations and performances based on what he defines as sound and social-practice. He created and showed his work at NGBK Berlin, FACT Liverpool, The Bluecoat Arts Centre, MNK Midt Nordisk Kunst Festival, Sonic Arts Expo. Alexandre has held workshops and worked in Art, Music and Community related project since 1999. In his music he regularly tours with his one man electro folk band The Plastic Bags.
Participating Students from Wilhelm-von-Siemens Gymnasium:
Jeanette Bollich, Dinh Thi Phuong Anh (aka Philly), Nils Berliner, Nadja Ganser Alexej Braun, David Albrecht, Jenny Gellner, Julia Brychzy, Felix Gaarz, Advije Blakqori, Philipp Reibert, Astrid Sirith Ernst, Steven Rathmann
| Berlin | Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB) | 10. 09. 2010 | 20:30 |
Office Cleaning
Analogous to baroque trompe-l’oeil murals, the projection allows us to look into an illusory room behind the outer facade: a fictional window that draws the attention to hidden, but essential, activities that mostly occur out of public perception. A peephole is opening in the city night.
Nika Radic is an artist and works in different media. Her main topic is the limits of possible communication: what is it that we can really understand in everyday communication but also in art. She has done several works that used facades and walls in public space that opened the wall into an imaginary space beyond.
This allowed the viewers to 'peep' into the building and see something that is going on inside… even if it was only an illusion.
| Berlin | Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB) | 04. 09. 2010 | 21:00 |
Us and that Darn Dialectic
Artist: Thomas Willis
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Apparently paradox situations out of the daily human life, a jittery in between, open and closed eyes: A non-linear stop-motion film made from opposing terms. They are randomly juxtaposed, and combined with portraits of people living in the Schöneberg neighbourhood.
Photographer: Sebastian Heise
www.batah.de/wirunddieverflixtedialektik
The Mood Gasometer
Artists: R. Wilhelmer, J. v. Bismarck, B. Maus
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
The Gasometer is a megalomaniac barometer of the city: Hidden face-to-recognition cameras measure the average state of minds of passers-by. Their moods will light up above the city, transformed in colours, forms, and symbols.
www.fühlometer.de; www.richardwilhelmer.com; www.juliusvonbismarck.com;
Metamorphic Spirit
Artists: Yuka Oyama and Becky Yee
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Stress, information overload, the capitalist way of life: How do we sustain our mental health? Animal masks out of recycled materials are created in a participatory dialog with neighbours, representing their individual survival strategies in the jungle of the city, and lighting up the sky to inspire confidence.
Animare
Artists: Wendela Loman, Benjamin Frenzel and Frederic Gmeiner
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Interactive video projection for the shop-window of SAP Berlin. As people in the street passing by the windows, the actors inside the screens start to continue drawing paintings in correlation to the movements of the pedestrians.
Moving Memories
Artists: Yvonne Weber, Sabine Haerri, Holger Frei and Dennis Radtke
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Saved impressions, culminations of occurrences from the media facade’s memory: They will be condensed into a subjective picture that is exposed to the process of forgetting. Four different interaction criteria control the photographic recordings of movement in the surrounding space.
Metamorphic Spirit
Stress, information overload, the capitalist way of life: How do we sustain our mental health? Animal masks out of recycled materials are created in a participatory dialog with neighbours, representing their individual survival strategies in the jungle of the city, and lighting up the sky to inspire confidence.
Macht Nichts
The two simple German syllables 'MACHT NICHTS' appear on the screen. When reading them closely, an ambiguity of meaning shines through. A stunning German wordplay unfolds, a double meaning, which is staggering but hard to translate: on the one hand 'MACHT NICHTS' could mean 'it does not matter, it’s not so bad', on the other hand it could be the imperative 'don’t do anything' or 'do nothing'. However, these words could also just be the nouns 'power' (Macht) and 'nothing' (Nichts).
Clemens Wilhelm is a multi media artist. He combines photography, video and performance in his projects, which are often collaborations with audiences. Public space is his hunting ground - on the street, in the gallery or in the net. His work revolves around concepts of individuality and the individual’s interactions with society: the development, representation and expression of the self. Another focus is the creation of meaning through language.
He studied Fine Arts, Philosophy and English and was awarded 'Meisterschüler of Prof. Candice Breitz' at HBK Braunschweig in 2009. This was followed by a one-year-residency grant by KSN Northeim, Niedersachsen.
Nightscreen – Gasometer
The Nightscreen-Gasometer is located in the south of Berlin. With an expanse of 660m² it is Europe’s biggest LED media facade. The LED net is attached to two top rings of the steel frame in an altitude of 80m, visible far beyond the Schöneberg district at nighttime. The orientation of the screen, operated by Megaposter, mainly is directed towards the city motorway interchange connected to the new regional and intercity railway station Berlin Südkreuz of the Berlin Circle Line (Ringbahn).
The listed Gasometer building is located in the Südkreuz area of the development programme “Urban Redevelopment Project West”, financed by the Federal and State governments. The steel construction can be seen from far away and is the landmark and striking symbol of the Schöneberg district. It is located in the former industrial estate of the Gasag among various railway tracks in the Rote Insel (Red Island) neighbourhood. The plan is to transform the Gasag-estate into a “European Energy Forum” with shops and office buildings, hotels, restaurants, a private university and a park.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_Insel
http://www.stadtumbau-berlin.de/Suedkreuz.1528.0.html
