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

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

Map Zollverein:
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How to get there:
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More:
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pictured: “Helga and Hildegard”, 2013 by Julia Murakami

Directors Lounge Screening:

Gabriel Lyons Loeb
Poems & Trampolines

Thursday, 31 October 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2

10115 Berlin-Mitte

Gabriel Lyons Loeb is in love with pixelation and other digital artifacts as other artists are with the “Wabisabi” of Super-8, and the illuminating technical flaws of “spaghetti-style” developed small gauge film. For years now, he has used an old mobile phone camera to explore his surroundings and the media. He combines his poetry with video “blow-ups”, either coming from his own footage or from footage appropriated from the internet. One may ask if it is his love for a specific aesthetic, or if it is an artistic-bohemian gesture to use the cheapest material and a look that we usually regard as an internet-related shortcoming. It may be both, however, there may be a third motivation: in his final years at university he studied the effects of endless repetitions of footage he found on youtube and other transformative experiments, mainly by exposing himself. As earlier avant-gardists and pop-Artists such as Bruce Conner and Andy Warhol already found out, repetitions have a changing effect on our cognition and psyche.

His film “you smell good now” the longest film in the presentation may have a similar effect on the mind, even if not by repetition. It is a semi-narrative, semi-documentary style blow-up of 176x144px footage of Ann Arbor in winter. Shot during his partner’s three day visit, the film occurs in his favorite places. The fictive characters explore the town in an adolescent flaneurship sometimes becoming a passage à l’acte. In other parts of the film, they seem to conceive spontaneous lines of poetry from their experiences.

“wintersgarden” is another film shot in winter time, this time all around the place where he has lived for a year in Berlin-Neukölln. This time, it is a fuzzy portrait of “Körner Kiez” in winter colors and the chance-encounters on his walks. It uses another technique we know from analog filmmakers: it is edited in-camera, but then combined with big letters that for the viewer may or may not come together as a winter poem. The program will be completed with a number of poetry related films, some of which the author made on demand as part of a service previously offered through his website.

Gabriel Lyons Loeb will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

http://gabrielloeb.com/

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Directors Lounge Screening:

ANJA DORNIEDEN & JUAN DAVID GONZALEZ MONROY
From Eye to Mouth, from Mouth to Eye

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy have dedicated themselves to avant-garde film and work together for several years, strictly with 16mm and Super-8.

At the same time they often address society-related questions in their films, with phenomenas ranging from the relation between hypnosis and psychoanalysis, from the nostalgia about East-German puppet houses, to spatial imaginations connected the term private sphere. As members of the Labor Berlin, they have created their own facilities to develop film, but also produce 35mm copies of some of their films. Working with film for them also means to extend the possibilities of single film projection towards a layering of projections, which becomes a performance by itself, in former days also called Expanded Cinema.

Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Thursday, 26 September 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2
10115 Berlin-Mitte

Artist Links:
http://www.ojoboca.com/

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 Directors Lounge Screening:

Chris Henschke

Experimental Capture

Thursday, 29 August 2013

21:00,Z-Bar

Bergstraße 2,10115 Berlin-Mitte

Chris Henschke was artist in residence at the Australian Synchrotron in 2007-2008 and 2010, and his work has been much influenced by the desk to desk collaborations with scientists since then. Lately, he was also invited to the famous CERN in Switzerland, which hit the news for the probable discovery of the Higgs boson. Henschke sees many similarities between the work of artists and scientists, but he also sees a mayor difference in the perception of experimentation: “empirical science is based upon observation and measurement of repeatable experiments; however, in a phenomenological sense every experiment and observation is unique.”

In his work, Henschke on one hand documents his experiences at the Synchrotron, and combines it with visual observations and re-edits the footage in experimental ways. On the other hand, he started to do his own experiments with high voltage with a diversity of objects. Third, and possibly another way of experimentation, he plays electronic music and creates visuals that combine camera images with effects driven by the music.

Chris Henschke will be present for Q&A. Curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr

Artist Links:

http://www.topologies.com.au

http://sacrit.blogspot.de/2010/11/chris-henschkes-synchrotron-art.html

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RomanIstanbul
Director: Özgür Akgül
60 min, turkish with english subtitles
German premiere

Wed 14 August 2013,9pm

The film invites to watch and listen to the music of Istanbul.

Romanistanbul provides an insider view onto the current music scene of the megacity on the Bosporus with the example of a number of musicians who fuse traditional turkish music with current tunes, and who are member of the Roma minority in Istanbul: Ismail Tunçbilek, Orhan Sallıel, Göksun Çavdar, Hüsnü Senlendirici, Aytaç Dogan, Hasan Gözetlik, Mustafa Uysal (Kasık Mustafa), Cüneyt Sepetçi and Sercan Çalanlı (Arap).
At the same time a wonderful music film that allows the music to tell its own story, the film also gives the musicians a voice to tell their story and their engagement with music. Their commitment to music, to the tunes of Istanbul is also connected with their identity and the struggle of the Roma to be accepted as a part of the contemporary society. The film thus also mirrors the rapid changes, and current movements of this city between the promises of a global city, an expanding music scene and different cultural identities.
The director will be present for Q&A.

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Film Links:
http://www.romanistanbul.info/
http://film.iksv.org/en/film/287
www.studyokolektif.com

Part of the exhibition „Exploring Istanbul"
http://istanbulausstellung.wordpress.com
http://www.richfilm.de/currentUpload/1-framesExploringIstanbul.html

http://www.richfilm.de/filmUpload/1-framesRomanistanbul.html

A project by
Photocentrum am Wassertor
vhs Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
http://www.fotokurs.info/
with support of
Städtepartnerschaftsverein Kadiköy e. V.

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Monika Rechsteiner
Reality Check

Thursday, 25 July 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Monika Rechsteiner’s films are metaphors of spaces, which unfold over the time of their viewing.

Firstly, they seem to be long panorama travels over photographic stills. This unfamiliar and possibly uncanny reduction seems to go against expectations of movement and depth in films. However the camera travels further onto different picture planes and different points-of-view. The films present frames and skeleton constructions of buildings, unfinished ruins or uncanny city panoramas, which seems to unfold from the inside. At the same time, the written or spoken discourse leads towards a completely different level. While discussing art and the production of art, or the unfolding ticker-news about Fukushima in 2011, we still are lead to a self-reflection of our perceptions. The realistically recorded and presented spaces thus turn into metaphors, into mental constructions. The program presents more well-known pieces such as „To Be Continued“ (about Tokyo-Fukushima) and „Wie von Selbst“ (As If By Itself), but also less known short works that originated in Super-8 and digital video.

Artist Links:

http://www.echtzeitverdichtung.org

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Directors Lounge Screening:

Txema Novelo
Visions from Mexican Underground

Thursday, 27 June 2013
21:00
Z-Bar
Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin-Mitte

Txema, artist from Mexico who just finished his Emare Residency in Bourges will present his newest video „Still Movie“, and a selection of his works related to Vale Vergas Discos, his music label involved with Mexican underground music.

Txema usually works with 16mm or super-8 and each of his films is related to a music piece starring the musicians. However, unlike commisioned „music videos“, these films show the artist’s visions for the tunes, the videos taking up a life and a story for themselves, and mixing urban life, images of nature and mythology. „Still Movie“ will be presented for the first time in Germany, as work-in-progress with 4 of 5 planned chapters of tribute to Walter Schmidt a largely influential first generation Mexican punk musician. Txema Novelo: ‘I share the same church as Dan Graham: „Rock’n Roll is my religion“’

The artist will be available for Q&A.

Artist Links:
http://www.valevergasdiscos.com/

http://yau.com.mx/artists/txema-novelo

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“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!

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

Impressions from the C.A.R.

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