Media art videos, especially non-narrative works, faces a big challenge. Often neglected by the film festival circuit, they remain invisible in the art world, ignored as non-marketable works of no commercial value for the art dealers.
Thus, we’ve established cooperation projects, namely with the C.A.R. (contemporary art ruhr), that present such media art alongside the art fairs in dedicated supporting shows. Presentations that make many unseen and unheard works of art visible while encouraging the often limited dialogue between the art world and the cinematic realm.
Meet us at the Berliner Liste, the fair for contemporary art, during the Berlin Art Week, September 18 to 21, 2014. We´ll screen a selection of silent single-channel installations from DL X, the 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge. Artists include Maria Björklund, Erdal Inci, Hara Katsiki, Hye Young Kim, Alan Smithee, Julia Murakami, Shinkan Tamaki and Andre Werner. Photography by Julia Murakami is on display at the booth of our good friend Calla Mar.
playlist:
Alan Smithee | Julia Murakami Lost Masterpieces #1 (red) 2010 Alan Smithee are you afraid of…, 2012 Erdal Inci TR Pictogram 1,4s 2013 Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II blindness 21:00 2013 Erdal Inci TR Camondo Stairs 0,4s 2013 Hara Katsiki Starseed 2012 Erdal Inci TR Flood of Light 1,4s 2013 Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | community 2014 Erdal Inci TR Hieropolis Amphitheatre 1,4s 2013 Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | necessity 2014 Erdal Inci TR Taksim Spiral 0,8s 2013 Andre Werner DE Yeosu Mandala | territory 2014 Shinkan Tamaki JP Passages 2013 Maria Björklund FI TKihi-Kuhi2011
Directors Lounge booth G1.34 first floor Calla Mar booth A 0.43 ground floor
The BERLINER LISTE will be held September 18 to 21, 2014.
Opening: Wednesday, September 17 from 6 pm, Postbahnhof and Fritz Club
Fair location: Postbahnhof, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, 10243 Berlin
Entry: Day ticket 13 €, Concessions 9 €, both including brochure
pictured: Alan Smithee | Julia Murakami Lost Masterpieces #1 (red) 2010
“This alternate fair is by now the oldest event of the Berlin Art Week, still smoking the competition.” pK.
The BERLINER LISTE will be held September 18 to 21, 2014.
Opening: Wednesday, September 17 from 6 pm, Postbahnhof and Fritz Club
Fair location: Postbahnhof, Straße der Pariser Kommune 8, 10243 Berlin
Entry: Day ticket 13 €, Concessions 9 €, both including brochure
pictured: Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II blindness 21:00 2013
At the opening night of the Berliner Liste, Sept. 17th, 7:20pm, she´ll give a guided tour entitled “Welcome”. A tour with a twist as Ellen will use the art fair space to introduce you to the Sanssouci Palace, interweaving time and space.
Or Fried Rosenstock, a regular at Directors Lounge during the last years, who performs the same day from 7pm on. His work “Ich kenne das Land wo die Zitronen blühen” is based on the famous line from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novel Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre “Knowest thou where the lemon blossom grows”.
Contemporary interventions with a classical background.
C.A.R. Network III, the innovative art fair, 9 July – 1 August 2014
Opening Reception: 9 July, 5 pm
Gallery On, B1 Young-chung Bd. 69 Sagan-dong Jongno-gu Seoul 110-190 Korea
Directors Lounge, the Berlin-based platform for contemporary art and media, presents selected single channel works at Gallery On, Seoul during the C.A.R. Network III. The looped installations range from classic short animation to gif-based online works and interactive processing, giving a glimpse into new tendencies of motion-based media art.
With video works by Sandra Becker01, Erdal Inci, Hara Katsiki, Hye Young Kim, Julia Murakami and Stephan Hilpert, Alan Smithee, Andre Werner
A special lecture inside the C.A.R. Video Lounge: Digital storytelling, an introduction of RFID books that trigger interaction through the flipping of pages. Presented by Dr. Regina Francken, FKI Berlin and Sandra Becker, medienwerkstatt Berlin.
New works by Julia Murakami will be shown for the first time at the c.a.r. media art fair
From Berlin straight out to the Ruhr, home to Germany’s concentrated multi-millions and “contemporary art ruhr,” a concentrated display of all that is here and now (and beyond) in the world of media art. C.A.R. spreads its considerable wings regularly, reaching a global tally of urban art-zones, but invites to its home turf in this bi-annual gathering of innovative thinkers. Directors Lounge has become a regular-as-clockwork contributor to the more daring summer fair, exporting its international imports and making the trip in person to see visitors through its specially curated mélange of onscreen marvels. The flicks selected join of a temporary world of razor-sharp installations, performance, photography and more, fodder for the wide-awake mind. With contributions from DL partner Cross Art (Zurich-Berlin) and more, a feast of film awaits at World Heritage Site Zollverein in Essen. Directors Lounge cordially invites you to electrify your senses.
Directors Lounge at the Car Video Lounge (Auditorium) with works by Engin Kilicatan, Tokomburu / Ion Papaspyrou and Zisis Kokkinidis, Zaoli Zhong, Hussen Ibraheem, Benedikt Kruger, Sebastian Lörscher, Xaver Xylophon, Aitor Marín Correcher, Jonathan Seyer, Jonathan Rescigno, AUJIK, Francesca Fini, Naren Wilks, Alberto Diaz Lopez, Hee-Seong Han, Hara Katsiki, APOTROPIA , Dimitris Argyriou, Studio Twins / Caroline Fayette & Chloé Guerbois, Elvira Bukowski, Gerard Freixes Ribera, Karl F. Stewart, Eleonora Manca, Michael Betancourt, Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl, Mateo Grubisic, Haruka Mitani and Michael Lyons, Dunja Donassy and Bernd Wendt Artists presented at the DL Booth: Videos by Peter Freund, Erdal Inci, Hye Young Kim, Mirco Magnani, Alan Smithee, Shinkan Tamaki Photography / Paintings by Stefanie Anastase and Claudia Köhn, Jackie Baier, Julia Murakami, Karin Schranz, André Werner
Special lecture Sun 3pm: Digital storytelling , an introduction of RFID books that trigger interaction through the flipping of pages. Books by Sandra Becker and Bego Santiago presented by Dr. Regina Francken, FKI Berlin
Directors Lounge at thecontemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) – the media art fair,May 30 – June 1, 2014 Zollverein World Heritage Site
SANAA-building, Areal A, Hall A35, Gelsenkirchener Strasse 209, 45309 Essen, Germany
Official Opening Friday, May 30, 8 pm
Public Fair Days Saturday, May 31, 11 am – 7 pm Sunday, June 1, 11 am – 7 pm
Engin Kilicatan TR Chastity 03:55 2012 Tokomburu / Ion Papaspyrou and Zisis Kokkinidis GR I Am Not Here Now 09:30 2013 Zaoli Zhong CN A Dangerous Question 05:35 2012 Hussen Ibraheem LB Typo 07:00 2013 Benedikt Kruger, Sebastian Lörscher, Xaver Xylophon DE Zyklus I, 01:40 2011 Aitor Marín Correcher ES Lovearthcam 03:21 2013 Jonathan Seyer US Carbondale Mall 03:21 2013 Jonathan Rescigno FR Corengrato 10:00 2012 AUJIK JP/SE anxOxna 04:55 2014 Francesca Fini IT White Sugar 13:00 2013 Naren Wilks GB Fear & Delight 03:20 2013 Alberto Diaz Lopez ES Stringless 15:00 2013 Hee-Seong Han DE Triangle Circle Square 07:53 2011 Hara Katsiki DE OPIUM 01:55 2010 APOTROPIA IT Single # Double # Triple 10:00 2013 Dimitris Argyriou GR One Line 03:40 2013 Studio Twins (Caroline Fayette & Chloé Guerbois) FR The Island Where I Come From 03:10 2013 Elvira Bukowski EE Siberia 05:00 2013 Gerard Freixes Ribera ES The Parting Dance 03:00 2013 Karl F. Stewart DE Video of Shadows . Title A B or C 07:00 2013 Eleonora Manca IT Chrysalis Room 03:00 2013 Michael Betancourt US The Kodak Moment 02:00 2013 Kim Collmer DE/US The Conversation, 03:30 2013 Ingeborg Fülepp and Heiko Daxl Lost City, 03:13, 2011/2013 Mateo Grubisic Allusion 01:20 2014 Haruka Mitani and Michael Lyons JP 恋愛の大饗宴 (Banquet of Love) 06:30, 2014 Dunja Donassy and Bernd Wendt HR"Vivat – Sie möge leben" 4 min 2011
pictured: Julia Murakami, “Vim and Blinkie, 2014” Erdal Inci “Hieropolis Amphitheatre”, 2013, Alberto Diaz Lopez “Stringless”, 2013
Joachim Seinfeld: “Late Breakfast With Joseph Beuys” from the series Save The Day
ARHEO 29 by Vladizlav Knezec (Kroatien Kreativ)
Julia Murakami: “Helga and Hildegard” and “I can’t go back to yesterday because I was another person then”
Andre Werner “Untitled”
Joachim Seinfeld: Bowie in Berlin “Bahnhof Zoo” and “Schlosshotel Grunewald”
“Zappelphilip” by Sandra Becker01 (medienwerkstatt)
Directors Lounge is, as most by now know, a motor that is always running, transporting off-centre art of various descriptions to various destinations. Continuing this aesthetic assault, DL is revving up to leave its parking space in Berlin this week to head out to the megalopolis Rhine-Ruhr. At C.A.R. (otherwise known as “contemporary art ruhr”), DL will be presenting a cache of buffed efforts, arresting works fuelled with visual and aural alchemy, some of which will be in the form of fitting film excursions highlighting the artistic process, taken from the 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge earlier this year. The brakes are off, and there is no rear-view mirror.
All of this will unfold on the 1st floor (above ground floor), stand A12, next to bothKroatien Kreativ, which already unleashed some of its light-and-sound wizardry at DL9 in February, and partner Medienwerkstatt Berlin, another luminary force at the same event, our annual core occurence. There will be much to steer the senses. Even if you aren’t one of the 11 million+ living in the area, it is, after all, maybe nothing more than a highway away. And the Autobahn has no speed limit.
See you at C.A.R.!
With films by (selection):
Nadav Assor Coms Device (Esotropia Conversations I), Cade Bursell Salt Lines, Wuttin Chansataboot Visual Element, James Cho Bubble, Nuno Escudeiro A Dance Dictionary, Ian Haig Skin Freak, Nam Le Untitled (Rope) and Untitled (White Man & Paper) , Céline Masson “Que Je Sois Médusée”, Jeremy Moss The Sight, Monika Rechsteiner Hikikomori, Sylvia Schwenk A Shared Space, Karl F. Stewart K20, Yuichi Suita How Beautiful Japanese Morning Is, Takahiro Suzuki Horizon
Directors Lounge at thecontemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) – the innovative art fair, November 1- 3, 2013 Zollverein World Heritage Site Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181 45309 Essen
Official Opening: Friday, November 1, 2013, 8 pm, V.I.P.-Preview: 6 pm
Public Fair Days Saturday, Nov. 2, 12 am – 8 pm Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 am – 7 pm
pictured: “Helga and Hildegard”, 2013 by Julia Murakami
“Basquiat”, 1980 by Robert Carrithers
Here are some impressions from the Contemporary Art Ruhr, May 31 – June 2, 2013 in the Sanaa building at Zeche Zollverein. Besides being at the C.A.R. video lounge, we were present at our booth directly at the entrance. Thanks to Silvia Sonnenschmidt and Thomas Volkmann, the organisers of the C.A.R. and all visitors and friends for making it a great time!
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