contemporary art and media
Directors Lounge at the art fairs.
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.
“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.
pictured: Hye Young Kim KR Unfulfilled Desire II blindness 21:00 2013
Performances at Berliner Liste.
One of the reasons to go to the fairs is the fact that you´ll always meet familiar faces. Like Ellen Kobe, performance artist who premiered her video Moma goes on at the very first Berlin International Directors Lounge back in 2005.
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.
For the full performance special at the Berliner Liste go here (german only)
Impressions from the Contemporary Art Ruhr, Directors Lounge booth in cooperation with Atelier Cross Art.
Impressions from the Contemporary Art Ruhr, Directors Lounge
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.
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 the contemporary 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
Public Fair Days
Saturday, May 31, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, June 1, 11 am – 7 pm
Entrance fee per day
8,- € / 6,- €
Map Zollverein
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How to get there
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More:
www.contemporaryartruhr.de
Program:
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
Impressions from the contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) , Nov. 2013
DIRECTORS LOUNGE DRIVES C.A.R.
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 both Kroatien 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
Artists (selection):
Julia Murakami, Joachim Seinfeld, Alan Smithee, André Werner
Directors Lounge at the contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) – the innovative art fair, November 1- 3, 2013
Zollverein World Heritage Site
Gelsenkirchener Strasse 181
45309 Essen
Public Fair Days
Saturday, Nov. 2, 12 am – 8 pm
Sunday, Nov. 3, 11 am – 7 pm
Map Zollverein:
download
How to get there:
Click hier
More:
www.contemporaryartruhr.de
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!
Read more and view the complete photo album
31. May – 2. June at the Zollverein world heritage site
It is a fine tradition that we present the C.A.R. Video-Lounge together with the C.A.R. media art fair. Next to works from participating galleries, our friends of Kroatien Kreativ and invited artists we will screen selected works from The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge.
contemporary art ruhr (C.A.R.) is an innovative and dynamic fair format. Since 2006 C.A.R. comes two times a year, as a media art fair in summer, emphasizing video and media art, installations, performances, environmental sculptures, multimedia projects and contemporary photograpy. In autumn with a more classical art fair for contemporary art – C.A.R. . covers the entire spectrum of fine arts and their most important current influences.
C.A.R. Videolounge 2013
Katharina Merten DE Speaking In Tongues 2:34 2012
Beata Obst DE Stroboskop B 2:48
Wei-Ming Ho TW Self-Destruction For Eternity 6:26 2011
Cornelia Eichhorn FR Ved´Ma 14:00 2012
Julia Charlotte Richter DE You Hear Something 7:47 2011
Lucie Mercadal DE Hafenpfütze 4:21 2012
Kroatien Kreativ 2013 curated by Ingeborg Fülepp
Nadija Mustapic HR An Afternoon Without Gravity 14:41
Marijan Crtalic HR
Directors Lounge Selection
Irina Birger NL Irina Birger Thinks Drawing Is Important 15:13 2010
Stefan Larsson JP 9 states of ambivalence 01:30 2012
Andre Chi Sing Yuen DE Sword-Sharpness of Expression 02:26 2012
Alessandro Amaducci IT Black Data 04:05 2012
Michael Higgins IE The Poorhouse Revisited 15:00 2011
Valentina Besegher Scotti IT Try Hard Johnny! 04:11 2007
Roger Deutsch US Prelude 07:15 2011
Eleonora Manca IT I Sing the Body Electric Borderskin 03:49 2012
Fabio Scacchioli and Vincenzo Core IT Spectrography of a battle 03:42 2012
Stephen Dirkes US The Offering 05:23 2012
Shaun Roberts US Dear Texas Highways 11:13 2009
Bernd Luetzeler DE The Voice of God 09:35 2011
Ana Rodríguez León ES Memorais 07:00 2012
Reed O’Beirne US Last of Our Kind 13:19 2012
Alessio Rutigliano IT Six triptychs 06:55 2012
Maximilian Schmoetzer and Fabian Heitzhausen DE The Conversation 03:24 2012
Artists presented at the DL Booth
Videos
Mihai Grecu and Thibault Gleize RO Glucose 07:18 2012
Takahiro Suzuki US Horizon 06:38 2012
Keren Zaltz IL Cradle 01:49 2011
Céline Trouillet FR SONG N°15/20 05:21/4:12 2012
Alan Smithee Are You Afraid 2012 loop
Pedro Ferreira PT Dance Dance Fire Dance 06:00 2012
Photography/Painting
Robert Carrithers US
Marijan Crtalic HR
Carola Goellner DE
Julia Murakami DE/JP
André Werner DE
pictured: ““I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then” by Julia Murakami, 2013 from the series “Once Upon A Time”, C-Print, Edition of 10, 6.7 x 9.6 inch (print) | 11.8 x 15.8 inch (framed), signed and dated on the front
© Julia Murakami