interventions, transforming public space at platoon kunsthalle
Monday, 18 March 2013, 8pm
For those who missed the program III of Urban Research at The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge , here is another chance at another fine location.
more and more artists chose to create art in public space, use it as a public stage, or try to actively change it. an “invisible performance”, invisible, because it has not been publicly announced, may not physically change a place, however it may change the ideas of how to use public space in general.
Filipe Afonso’s film Televisao is a (secret) filming of private spaces, where nothing more happens than the nightly projection of a television screen, and he questions the differences between public and private sphere. Laura Kissel records a specific situation. “Window Cleaning” in Shanghai shows two facade-cleaners, who become public performers with their high-up activities, but also possible unwanted witnesses of private scenes. Kika Nicolela confronts people in places where usually no cameras are allowed, and where instead surveillance cameras always record.
Gabrielle de Bayon, Signe Theill and Nuno Escudeiro use urban spaces for their performances changing the concept of common uses of public space. Katze und Krieg actively engage with their surrounding. Here, it is not the authorities, interfering, but the crowd, not tolerating a slow-down in the public rush. And it is again, Vladimir Turner together with Vojtech Fröhlich and other artists, who hijack commercial billboards, turning them into other, more public use.
Kunsthalle Platoon Berlin
Schönhauser Allee 9
10119 Berlin . Germany
U2 Senefelder Platz.
Entrance: 5 Euro
Urban Research is a film and video program curated by Klaus W. Eisenlohr for Directors Lounge 2013.
Kika Nicolela (BR): Don’t! (2010)
Philipp Hartmann (DE/AR): Entre despacio y por favor no haga ruido! (2012)
Nuno Escudeiro (PT): Pass by… (2011)
Kollektiv Graukarte (AT): Transforming a Non-Place (2011)
Eduardo Srur (BR): Bandit Bull (2010)
AKIZ (DE): Painting Reality (2010)
Laura Kissel (US): Window Cleaning in Shanghai (2011)
Signe Theill (DE): The new Middle (2010)
Gabrielle Le Bayon (FR): Image of a City (2011)
Julia Dick und Katharina Sandner katze und krieg (DE): Die Abenteuer
von Sissi und Sissi (2012)
Vladimir Turner (CZ): Osviceni / Enlightenment (2012)
Jan Simanek, Vladimir Turner, Vojtech Frohlich, Ondrej Mlady (CZ):
