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Sparwasser Hq

Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Torstrasse 161
10115 Berlin Mitte
Telefon 0174-2577729
Email: mail@sparwasserhq.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi -Fr 16-19 Uhr, Sa 14-18 Uhr
www.sparwasserhq.de
aktuelle Ausstellung / current exhibition
vorausgegangene Ausstellung / previous exhibition

 

 

01.06. - 31.08.2003

on Tuesdays at 8 pm


Consequences of summer

dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

(the other days of the week Sparwasser HQ will be closed)

Sparwasser HQ invites you to our next dialog

Tuesday the 24th of June at 8 pm.

Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan and Teresa Seemann & David Galbraith

The artists will be in Sparwasser HQ to show and discuss their recent projects, which we will be able to view in the context of their earlier works.

Please scrool down for the artist texts.

The evening will be held in English.

Next dialog is on Tuesday July the 1th at 7.30 pm.

The invited artists are Ed Osborn and Annika Lundgren (performance)

 

Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan

We are originally from Rosario, Argentina, since 1994 we live and work in Manhattan. We arrive to Berlin in 2002 invited by the DAAD, as artists in Residence. We began working in collaboration in 1991. Our ideas are realized in drawings, models, objects and installations, and they intervened museums, cultural institutions and public spaces. Most of the times we focus in situations within the transitions and boundaries of the exhibition spaces.

 

Teresa Seemann & David Galbraith

David Galbraith and Teresa Seemann are a New York City-based art collaborative. Their collaboration started by merging sculpture and sound in tactile, phenomenological and sometimes interactive installations. Their dialogue and practice grew and developed into an unique body of work that combined cultural and perceptual ideas of space, body and technology presented through a variety of mediums including: architectural structures, drawings, paintings, graphic design, found objects, sound and sculpture. Currently they have been working with video that often in its final output takes the form of animation. However their techniques which involve the use of water-colors, photos, photo-copies and referential sound along with other analog mediums combined with the editing abilities of software and digital space are a continuation of earlier studies into new media, mediums, technology and perception. Galbraith & Seemann´s two-person shows have been at Innocence & Mystery, Berlin, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and the Soap Factory, Minneapolis. They have participated in group shows including ones at P.S.1/MoMA and Kunst Werke. Galbraith and Seemann have MFA´s from the California Institute of the Arts and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program together in 1996-97.

 

 

Newsletter for July and August

"Consequences of summer"
dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

June 1 - August 31: on Tuesdays at 8 pm

We are in the middle of a series of very interesting Tuesday evenings, meeting and getting to know the work and opinion of artists and art viewers in Berlin.

We are ready with the program for the next two months and would like to give you the opportunity to plan ahead by announcing the schedule:

E-mail invitations with artist statements will be send out to you in the days before every Tuesday.

See you on Tuesdays!
Sparwasser HQ.

 

Schedule:

8. and 15. July : Are cancelled. Sparwasser is traveling to Japan, planning for the future in collaboration with other artists organized initiatives.

 

The 22. July: Simon Starling and Michael Stevenson

Simon Starling

I am happy with the idea that my practice functions as a kind of parallel universe, perhaps operating in the realm of the out-moded or obsolete. Holding up a mirror to a contemporary reality. Investigating the roots of contemporary issues rather than the issues themselves. For example two projects from last year perhaps have an interesting relationship to contemporary ideas on globalisation but they look to earlier manifestations of this phenomena.

'Flaga (1972-2000)' involved looking at the history of the production of the Fiat 126 in Italy and Poland. This car was produced under two very different regimes over an exceptionally long period of time for a car. The small red 126 that I bought in Italy and drove to Poland would still fit body parts manufactured in 2000 in Bielsku-Bialej.

And 'Kakteenhaus', made at Portikus in Frankfurt, investigated the phenomena of the increasingly large Tabernas Desert in Andalucia, via the introduction of cacti into the region as props for the production of Spaghetti Westerns in the late 1960's.

I guess these objects and ideas are reinvigorated to serve as investigative tools for understanding today.

I engage with these ideas on a very human level. It's not polemical in any way. Both 'Kakteenhaus' and 'Flaga (1972-2000)' are essentially works about the flow of energy around the world, and that is really fundamental to what I doing.

 

Michael Stevenson

Representing New Zealand at the Venice Biennale, the Trekka, the only ever 'home-grown' car becomes a complex metaphor for national identity. Cultural aspirations are placed side by side with the belated production of a motor car.

Designed as a simple agricultural utility vehicle, the Trekka and its peculiar production scheme are closely linked to the protectionist trade policies that characterised New Zealand in the 1960s.

The whole concept of this unusual car was to fill a niche in the then tightly regulated New Zealand economy. The Trekka was in fact based on a chassis and motor sourced from the Czechoslovakian car manufacturer Skoda. 'Free Western enterprise' bartering with a Communist Bloc country at the peak of the Cold War is but one of the anomalies the Trekka's story highlights.

New Zealand anticipated a leading role for itself in the event of cold war end game, it would be the island of survival, the only first world country to remain completely untouched. Government planning, which at the time favoured self-sufficiency and import substitution overlapped with such thinking.

The 29. July: Oliver Zwink and Julika Gittner.

The 5. August : Curators Night - Manray Hsu and Montse Badia

The 12. August : Annika Eriksson and Nezaket Ekici

The 19. August : Peter Spillmann and Heman Chong

The 26. August : Laura Bruce and Rui Calçada Bastos

Subject: Dialogue on August the 12. at 8 pm

Sparwasser HQ has the pleasure to present our program to you:

 

"Consequences of summer"

dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

June 1 -August 31: on Tuesdays at 8 pm.

(the other days of the week Sparwasser HQ will be closed)

Sparwasser HQ invites you to our next dialogue

Tuesday the 12th of August at 8 pm.

Nezaket Ekici (performance / presentation of works / dialogue)

Nezaket Ekici will be in Sparwasser HQ to perform, show and discuss her recent projects, which we will be able to view in the context of her earlier works.

Please scroll down for the small artist text.

cv's is on the page http://www.sparwasserhq.de/talk/talks.htm

The evening will be held in English.

See you on Tuesday !

 

Next Tuesday August the 19th at 8 pm

Peter Spillmann and Heman Chong.

 

Nezaket Ekici

Artist statement

The idea, the thought, the draft are the bases for the execution of my artwork. Ideas come from everyday life situations, social and cultural atmospheres. Then the idea expresses itself in the performances and installation art. As well as this, I use the body as a means of expression.

The artistsic idea is expressed using the body alone, as part of the installation and within the context of an audience. The subjects I deal with are time, movement, space, material, body, action/interaction. I try to create works of art that leave for the viewer, free space for associations and new possibilities. I take a special situation from everyday life and without illustrating this one for one; I place it into a new context. I aim to create art where all of the elements are connected together to form a whole work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk)

http://www.ekici-art.de

 

Sparwasser HQ has the pleasure to present our program to you:

"Consequences of summer"

dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

June 1 -August 31: on Tuesdays at 8 pm.
(the other days of the week Sparwasser HQ will be closed)

 

Sparwasser HQ invites you to our next dialogue
Tuesday, August the 19th at 8 pm

Peter Spillmann and Heman Chong.

Peter Spillmann and Heman Chong will be in Sparwasser HQ to perform, show and discuss their recent projects, which we will be able to view in the context of their earlier works.

Please scroll down for the small artist text. cv's are on the page http://www.sparwasserhq.de/talk/talks.htm

The evening will be held in English and German.

See you on Tuesday

Next Tuesday August the 26th at 8 pm
Laura Bruce and Rui Calçada Bastos.

 

Heman Chong

Heman Chong will in his talk include his project "MurMur", which is to find at the Venice Biennale (Singapore Pavilion) this year. He will also talk about his upcoming project for Ars Electronica, which opens in September in Linz.

Heman Chong showed two projects in Sparwasser in March and April, the press releases are to find under
"Lost (Found Tracks)" http://www.sparwasserhq.de/Index/HTMLma03/HTMLEngA.htm and
Heman Chong and Isabelle Cornaro: "The End of Travelling" (Trip to Asiatown and Back) http://www.sparwasserhq.de/Index/HTMLma03/HTMLEngA2.htm

He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2003) in Berlin.

 

Peter Spillmann

Meine künstlerische und kulturelle Arbeit ist thematisch ausgerichtet und projektorientiert. Die unterschiedlichen Projekte entstehen meistens im Austausch und in Zusammenarbeit mit KünstlerInnen und TheoretikerInnen, in wechselnden Konstellationen und in Bezug auf einen bestimmten inhaltlichen und sozialen Kontext. Dabei haben sich im Laufe der Zeit drei Themenfelder ergeben - die kulturelle
Konstruktion von Landschaft, symbolische und rituelle Dimensionen der Ökonomie und Institutionskritik bzw. selbstverwaltete kulturelle Praxis - innerhalb derer alle Projekte an denen ich bisher beteiligt war oder die ich initiert habe, ansetzten. Für mich steht nicht der Werkcharakter der Kunst im Vordergrund, sondern vielmehr ihr inhaltliches und gesellschaftliches Potential. Daraus ergeben sich strategische Überlegungen zu aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Funktionen von Kunst, KünstlerInnen und Kultur und ein kritisches Verhältnis zu den darin agierenden Institutionen und Subjekte einerseits und andererseits Initiativen, eigene Arbeits- und Diskurs-Zusammenhänge aufzubauen und zu stärken.

Ausgehend von drei ganz unterschiedlich angelegten Projekten "Klöntal" (1996), "Route Agricole" (2002), "Backstage" (2004), die alle etwas mit Imaginationen und Begehren im Zusammenhang mit Landschaft und Natur zu tun haben, möchte ich Überlegungen zu Kontext und Strategien einer thematischen kulturellen Praxis anstellen und die eigenen Positionen und Interessen darin befragen.

 

 

 

13. - 22.09.2003


Unwetter

 

please scrool down for the English version

Unter dem Begriff Unwetter arbeiten KünstlerInnen, AktivistInnen und TheoretikerInnen zusammen an nicht akademischer Wissensproduktion. Katalytisch wirkte das einjährige, Ideas Lab und Thinking and Doing Documenta, zu dem Sarat Maharaj im Rahmen seiner Gastprofessur, 2001/2002 an der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, eingeladen hatte.

Sarat Maharaj schlug das deutsche Wort "Unwetter" als Modell für den Kollaps binärer Oppositionen vor. Von Un-wetter zu sprechen ist ja eigentlich absurd, es müßte Schlechtwetter heißen. Unwetter ist ein Wetter das nicht-Wetter genannt wird. Wie ein Unwetter verwirbeln globale Umbruchsituationen bisher benutzte Wissenssysteme. Die dadurch sich öffnenden Räume werden von uns durchstreift und erkundet. Beziehungsfelder zwischen Einzelnen, Projekten, Ideen und Material aller Art werden experimentell bearbeitet. In wechselnden Formationen, einzeln zu fünft zu hundert (Netzwerke), gehen wir dabei praktisch und theoretisch vor. So entstehen verschiedene Projektstränge. Entsprechendes Material wird in Boxen gesammelt. Aus unterschiedlichsten, auch peripheren Perspektiven, untersuchen wir Zeichen des Umbruchs, Konfliktfelder und Krisenphänomene, neu entstehende Gefüge, usw. Unwetter funktioniert äquivalent zu Wetterformationen.

Das Basisformat von Unwetter ist das Discursive Picnic, das verschiedenste Kontexte zum wechselseitigen Austausch als fortlaufenden Prozess, verbindet. Wir laden zu physischen und intellektuellen Picknicks ein, die als Potluck funktionieren, bei denen jeder Gast und Gastgeber zugleich sein kann. Wir kommen an, wir packen die Unwetter-Thermoboxen aus, wo Ideen "cool" gehalten werden, tauschen aus, verändern, packen ein und ziehen weiter, in verschiedenste Richtungen, um uns erneut zu treffen, irgendwo. Vom 13. - 22. September entwickelt Unwetter in Sparwasser HQ eine Folge temporärer diskursiver Sets und Situationen, präsentiert die Boxen und ihre Inhalte in immer wieder neu bearbeiteten Zuständen und lädt zur Teilnahme ein. Die Eröffnung ist am 12. September um 20:00 Uhr.

Am 20. September findet ein Discursive Picnic in Sparwasser statt, zu dem wir einladen Essen und Trinken mitzubringen.

 

Eröffnung am 12. September 20:00

Sonder-Öffnungszeiten:

Mo - Fr. 16:00 - 20:00

Sa, So 14:00 - 18:00

19./20. September auch bis 23 Uhr geöffnet, wärend der Open Weekend

des Kunst Mitte Nords http://kunstmittenord.de

Am 20. 09. wird ab 17 - 23 Uhr ein "Discusive Picnic" in der Galerie

als Potluck veranstaltet (jeder kann was zum Essen mitbringen)

 

2002

Discursive Picnic_Kassel

Unwetter-Summer-of-2002-Tour

- Vienna, Wiener Sezession

- Belgrade, Museum "25th May" (Museum of National History of Yugoslavia)

- Malmö, Critical Studies, Kunstakademie

Unwetter Walk_Berlin

 

2003

Dis-positiv

Discursive Picnic_Landschaftspflegehof e. V

Commodified Picnic

To Hike to the East

Ringbahnpicnic

G.U.N. Oslo, Oktober 2003

 

English version

Sparwasser invites to the exhibition project

"Unwetter"

Opening September the 12. at 8 pm

September 13. - 22.

Event: At September 20th between 5 and 11 pm we invite for a

"Discusive Picnic" (do bring some food)

Special opening hours:

Mo - Fr. 4 - 8 pm Sa, Su 2 - 6 pm

September 19./20. open to 11 pm

during the Open Weekend, Kunst Mitte Nord http://www.kunstmittenord.de

Under the term Unwetter artists, activists and theorists work together at non-academic knowledge production. The catalyst for this was the one year long Ideas Lab and Thinking and Doing Documenta, Sarat Maharaj offered as part of his guest professorship tenure at Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2001 and 2002. Sarat Maharaj proposed the German word "Unwetter" as a model for the collapse of binary oppositions. In a way, to talk of "Unwetter" is actually absurd.

Literally translated, Unwetter would mean nonweather, when in actual use it means inclement weather. Like an "Unwetter", global upheavals swirl around the knowledge systems that previously where in place.

This opens up spaces that we stroll through and investigate. Interrelationships between individuals, projects, ideas and material of all kinds are worked on in an experimental mode. In shifting formations, from one, to five, to one hundred (networks), we proceed through practical and theoretical means. Different project threads develop. The resulting material is collected in boxes. Out of different, even peripheral perspectives, we research the indications of change, conflict, crisis, newly emerging structures, etc. Unwetter functions equivalent to weather formations.

The basic format of Unwetter is the Discursive Picnic which connects different contexts into an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. We offer invitations to a both physical and intellectual picnic that functions as a potluck, where each participant can be both guest and host at the same time. We arrive, we unpack the Unwetter-Thermobox, where ideas are kept cool, we exchange, alter, repack and move on in different directions, to meet somewhere again. From September 13th - 22th, Unwetter develops in Sparwasser HQ a sequence of temporary discursive sets und situations, presents the boxes and their contents in ever changing conditions, invites participation. The opening reception will be held on September 12th at 8 pm. on September 20th a Discursive Picnic will take place in Sparwasser, to which we invite all to bring food and refreshments.

 

2002

Discursive Picnic_Kassel

Unwetter-Summer-of-2002-Tour

- Vienna, Wiener Sezession

- Belgrade, Museum "25th May" (Museum of National History of Yugoslavia)

- Malmö, Critical Studies, Kunstakademie

Unwetter Walk_Berlin

 

2003

Dis-positiv

Discursive Picnic_Landschaftspflegehof e. V

Commodified Picnic

To Hike to the East

Ringbahnpicnic

G.U.N. Oslo, Oktober 2003

 

 

 

 

Künstlerpräsentation:

 

Dienstag
2. September um 20 Uhr
Joanna Rajkowska,
"Let the Artist Live -Formal Promise-"

Teil des programs
"Consequences of summer"
dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

 

Künstlerpräsentation:

Artists talk

Tuesday September the 2th at 8 pm.
Joanna Rajkowska,
"Let the Artist Live -Formal Promise-"

from the program
"Consequences of summer"
dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

 

Artists talk

 

 

 

Artists talk

Dienstag, 2. September 2003 um 20 Uhr
Joanna Rajkowska,
"Let the Artist Live -Formal Promise-"
Teil des programs
"Consequences of summer" - dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures

Tuesday September the 2th at 8 pm.
Joanna Rajkowska,
"Let the Artist Live -Formal Promise-"
from the program
"Consequences of summer" - dialogues on artistic production and contemporary cultures


 

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