Space/Time Berlin

04/10/2016

Don't miss out next monday's new presentation of Montag Modus: shatter potential, presenting three artists exploring the experience of chaos and entropy, with private audio tours, an immersive installation and a live noise-projection performance by hannsjana, Daniel Balint and Wolfgang Spahn.
https://www.facebook.com/events/629588707201190/

03/10/2016

Thanks for all the fantastic applications we got throughout the last few months! We will have a close look during the next weeks and get in touch with all artists soon!

03/07/2016

Our new call is out!

http://www.artconnect.com/profiles/space-time-berlin/opportunities/open-call-for-works-for-2nd-edition-of-space-time-berlin

Space/Time Berlin is a new platform for bringing together contemporary video and performance artists whose work focuses on affecting audiences’ experience of time. Presented as a series of events taking place across Berlin’s free arts scene, Space/Time challenges audiences to move beyond the thirty-...

30/04/2016

Join us tonight! It's Space/Time Berlin's final night! The last performance of tonight's program is a piece by Alexa Wilson & Oliver Connew – The Resistant Body Series

The Resistant Body Series is an ongoing generative succession of collaborative interventions, activations, creations, exchanges, and activisms of performance, video and writing around the idea of “the resistant body”. This particular work within the series began in 2016 at Entitle Conference in Stockholm, as a performance around the notion of privileged bodies and borders. One of the main focuses of this work is interrogating personal boundaries using the camera as a means of creating distance, control, and intimacy. The presence of a camera vastly alters dynamics between people and cultures in the form of spectacle and in/exclusion of social groups. The artists engage with these ideas through improvisation, movement, and text, incorporating live-feed projections to see how cameras control and alter behaviours, create power dynamics, and also provide the potential for intimacy and transformation.

The concept of the series does not distinguish the body as a singular entity, but includes also notions of “a body of people”, “a body of text”, “a body of water” , “a body of meaning”; how resistant bodies may interact, unite, exchange or clash with one another at this pivotal historical moment in which discourses around ecological, economic and socio-political sustainability move beyond catch-phrases and into action. In this sense, resistance is constructive, rather than simply contrarian.

30/04/2016

Thank you all for coming last night to the Acker Stadt Palast! We continue tonight with our last evening of Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art. The video piece of tonight is a work by Gili Avissar.
In "Dairy Videos", the artist presents a selection of his video library, which he has cataloged, classified, and arranged in a private index of videotaped raw materials from 1997 to 2015. The medium of video is the vehicle by which the artist explores and documents the objects created in his studio, activating and personifying them, objectifying himself through them.

The subject of Wild Yellow is the transformation of space, figure, and object. Working from the elements of his previous installation ,Urban Remains (2012), Avissar constructs a kind of playground, theatre stage, sheltering cave, or habitat–a place of artistic production. The film shows him costumed, appropriating the space through handcrafts, painting, and play. Like the space, the character is engaged in a constant process of transformation. His clothes, approach to objects, and relationship to the environment all vary, but not according to any discernible underlying system. In some scenes, the figure, objects and space form a self-contained, colourful artistic synthesis; in other scenes, this unity is broken up in order to draw attention to the mutability of the relationship structure. What is sought here is not clearly definable, but rather the communicative process that arises out of the human use of space.

29/04/2016

Join us tonight and tomorrow night for the last weekend of our inaugural program! Tomorrow night will be opened with a performance by Barbara Berti.

"I am shape, in a shape doing a shape" is a solo piece by the Berlin-based Italian dancer and visual artist Barbara Berti. In a free-flowing mixture of movement and language, of preconceived sequences and improvisation, Berti explores the interplay between the dancer and the spectators — an experiment in sensitivity where the slightest change in energy in the room may be picked up and amplified. The result is a performance full of quick shifts in atmosphere: from lyrical to humorous to matter-of-fact to philosophical.

Berti uses a system she began exploring in a duo piece called “Aoouuu”, developed in 2013-2014. In her research in these past few year she has been exploring the human body and mind, developing an approach to dance performance through a method that examines the effects of the hidden connection between the body, the mind and how those manifest in relation with an audience, started from a research in empathy.

Continuing on the question of ‘how creation of perception happens’, the relationship between visible and invisible, the imagination, the thoughts and the simultaneity of the senses can reinforce the communication and understanding.

Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art

28/04/2016

The last piece of Friday night's program Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art is a performance by Bjørn Haugen: The Typist: Purloined Letters

The Typist is a long-form piece of music for the Typatune, a toy chime constructed to teach children how to use a typewriter. The performance consists of a musician/secretary who “plays” The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, in keeping with Lacan’s interpretation of the same short story.

Bjørn Erik Haugen has an MA from the National Academy in Oslo 200. He works mainly with sound, sculpture and video installation, taking a conceptual approach where the idea of the work comes before the material, media, or mode of expression. His current practice concerns itself with the impact of screen-based media on our perception of reality. His work probematizes and questions the power that these screens exert in society.

27/04/2016

Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art

The first Live Performance of Friday night's program is Exp., a collaborative project by Gosia Lehmann, Jacob Eriksen, Maryna Makarenko and Lukas Grundmann.

Exp. is a live audio-video exploration of the motion of matter through space and time. Using time-based media, the artists experiment with the impermanence of materials and the consequences of physical transformations, bringing these themes into the context of new media. Reflecting on sound and image, physical properties, and the “non-tactile” character of digital media, they endeavor to map short lasting processes and changes. Applying aesthetics similar to their previous work, the work takes an deliberate, analytical approach to heighten viewers’ awareness and alter their perception. Through stimulating forces with industrial instruments exp. reflects on the relationship between nature and human-made replicas.

Watch a trailer of the artists’ previous collaboration, Subliming: https://vimeo.com/101508850

Jacob Eriksen is a sound artist, electronic music producer, and music theorist, born in Denmark, currently living and working in Berlin.
Lukas Grundmann is a sound artist, producer and DJ. He studied Cultural Studies and Digital Media in Lüneburg (Germany), where he also began working with Synthesizers at the European Live Electronic Centre. His work includes sound installation, performance, live-improvisation, composition for radio and dance, as well as theatre.
Gosia Lehmann is a London-Berlin based visual artist working primarily with moving image. She uses diverse tools, combines analogue techniques with digital media, plays with the potential of spaces including interactions with the viewer’s perception in order to provoke site-specific experiences.
Maryna Makarenko is a photographer and video artist working between Berlin and Kyiv. After receiving her BA degree in Public Relations she moved to Germany to study Visual Communication at University of Arts Berlin, where she learns the techniques of moving image.

26/04/2016

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26/04/2016

The third video piece presented on the last weekend of our inaugural festival program is Samuel Moncharmont's "O". Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art

O is a short film which distills the operatic form into a climactic one-act spectacle with only three protagonists: a singer, a musician, and a dancer.

Samuel Moncharmont was born in France in 1981, near Lyon. He is a musician, sound producer and visual artist, whose work frequently engages with the body in motion, often through defined, enclosed, spaces. His musical practice is shaped by rock, punk, and noise music, having toured internationally with bands Bâton Rouge and Daïtro. He draws influence from minimalism and conceptual art in both his visual and audio art. Repetition and minimalism are recurrent elements in most of his work, which is frequently developed using schematic drawings, identifiable to choreography notation describing minimal melody in motion.

25/04/2016

Our second video piece on this Friday night Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art is the world premier of Yasmin Davis` "Following You Following Myself".

Following You Following Myself is a single-take performance in which the artist walks in place on a treadmill and, with every breath, activates the camera’s movements, transforming it from a documenting instrument to a human presence–perhaps with sinister intentions.

Yasmin Davis is an Israeli filmmaker and video artist living and working in Tel Aviv. She is a graduate of the Beit-Berl School of Art, B.A and MFA programs. Her recent work has focused on the idea of “home” and the realms of the routine and the familiar with minimal means, and with hardly any use of human presence. Davis uses the choreography of the camera’s movement, the change of light in rooms, the actions taking place in them with everyday objects. She utilizes the natural soundtrack of locations to instill life in the inanimate, blurring the line between the living and the still, the active and passive. Location becomes a reflection of an emotional state of those living and operating within it.

23/04/2016

Opening the final weekend of Space/Time Berlin 2016 // Video and Performance Art at Acker Stadt Palast on Friday night, we have a piece by Berlin-based artist, Christy Langer!

Equilibrate is an audio-video work using field recordings collected at the Kölner Dom. With a stop-motion-animated pendulum of light acting as a visual avatar for the 24-ton St. Petersglocke, the resonant sounds and oscillating lights create a sense of disassociation amidst a ritual din.

Christy Langer (b.1980) is a Canadian artist graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCADU) in 2003. Her practice combines elements of sculpture installation, sound, print and animation, thematically focused on natural experience, her body of work mediating the transition from tactile to visceral exchange with the viewer. In parallel to her arts practice, she has worked in conjunction with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC), Toronto Animated Image Society (TAIS), and as an instructor at Le musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario.

21/04/2016

Thank you dear taz. die tageszeitung for this great article! See you all tonight in Kreuzberg!

20/04/2016

Tomorrow in Kreuzberg! Join us for an evening with Jennifer Gustavson's durational performance for video, I Love You.

Space/Time Berlin at PROJEKTRAUM NAUNYNSTR

I Love You is a 170-minute long video document of a durational performance exploring the relationship between authentic expression and the demands of emotional engagement. Predicated on the artist’s biographical experience of never directly expressing love as a speech act, the performance consists of Gustavson repeating the titular statement as an embodied and meaningful act. As she approaches the point of physical and emotional exhaustion, the potential violence of emotional engagement reveals itself through the repetition of an innocuous but fraught statement of affection.

Jennifer Gustavson received a BFA in Photography from Illinois State University and an MFA in Studio Art from NYU. She has exhibited in New York City and Brooklyn, NY; Baltimore, Maryland; Chicago, Illinois; Danielson, CT; Santiago, Chile and Berlin, Germany. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

16/04/2016

Vising us from Athens for tonight's Space/Time Berlin at FLUTGRABEN e.V., Spyridon Kouvaras and Giorgos Kouvaras will create a live audio-physical-video echo of their 2015 performance of Opus I # temporality, originally performed at Owl Art Space Gallery in Athens.

Opus I # temporality is a choreographic installation in movement, which approaches the scenic space like an exhibition hall. Using time as an abstract canvas, the piece examines the tragic, poetic, and political body in space, focusing on the interdependent relationship between perception, time, and subjectivity. This organic collaboration between body, music, and the work of 15 visual artists.

Video by Vlassis Stathoulias
Art works curated by Alexandra Nasioula and Sofia Kyriakou

Synthesis 748 Company was established in May 2008 in Paris, France, by dancer and choreographer Spyros Kouvaras. Powered by the National Dance Center of France and the French Ministry of Culture, the company has an international course over the years. Spyros Kouvaras’ works have been exhibited and performed in theaters, galleries, museums and festivals in various countries including France, Germany, Greece, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Argentina and Colombia. The Company has received warm reviews and has been referenced in international contemporary art publications. Since 2015, Synthesis 748 is also based in Athens, Greece.

15/04/2016

Stefan Demming will present his piece Videoloopmachine tomorrow! Space/Time Berlin at FLUTGRABEN e.V.

Stefan Demming is a visual artist focusing on the video, installation and public intervention. In his live performance sessions, the artist takes short sequences of found video footage and manipulates them live to reveal unexpectedly rhythmic and melodic compositions. Under repeated viewing, otherwise unremarkable moments take on unexpected meaning, actors become virtual singing sculptures, and inexplicable narratives begin to emerge.

His research and related projects develop into performative spaces. Their dramaturgy is often made of light and audiovisual events. As spaces of experience, they provide the opportunity for discoveries through uncertainty and sensitizing, following a logic of the poetical. Among his projects were “The smallest show on earth 2”, travelling show on circus as place of work and of amusement as well as “Plantation”, a series of inflatable vegetables and flowers that grow and decline in public space.

His latest project “Dropping in on farmers” (together with Daniela Schlüter) is an approach to question landscape, the work of farmers and agribusiness in a rural area with an industrialized agriculture. Shows were held in-situ on farms and featured an exhibition, public talks, video installations and collaborations with farmers such as printmaking with tractor driven rollers.

Stefan is the recipient of the German Videoinstallation award, the Bremen young artists’ prize for fine arts, the OLB­media art award at the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück as well as grants from CBK Rotterdam and the DAAD. He graduated in History and Fine Art in Bremen where he did another studies in audiovisual composition within fine art and received his MFA in 2006 as a “Meisterschüler” of Jean François Guiton. Stefan Demming lives and works in Berlin and in the Münsterland, Germany.

14/04/2016

The video piece, presented this Saturday at Space/Time Berlin at FLUTGRABEN e.V. is by New York artist Peter Clough.

In My Room is a 70-minute film beginning under the sheets of the artist’s bed, then following him on an obsessively self-documented journey through his bedroom, which has been inexplicably occupied by a large wooden scaffold. Shot with fifteen cameras placed both on the artist’s body and around the room, the abundance of digital perspectives invites the viewer to enter the dissociative space of lucid dreams and the performative space of q***r identity.

Peter Clough was born in Boston in 1984 and raised in Northfield, Minnesota. He received a BA in Studio Art from Grinnell College in 2006 and an MFA in Studio Art from the Steinhardt School of Culture and Education at New York University in 2009. Clough has presented work in New York at the Center for Performance Research, Dixon Place Theater, Microscope Gallery, Southfirst Gallery, the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, and MoMA PS1, as well as Open Lot in Nashville, The Custer Observatory in Southold, Weird Shift in Portland, Peres Projects in Berlin, Konkuk University and The House of Collections in Seoul, The Monty Video Space in Antwerp, Off/off Cinema in Ghent and Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo. Clough’s work has been featured in the New York Times and Time Out magazine. Clough lives and works in Brooklyn.

www.peterclough.com