[rohrpost] Donnerstag/Thursday in Z-inema

[Sparwasser HQ]

Sparwasser HQ Video screening  and newsletter

Sparwasser HQ presents

three trips to a new space
video and music at
Z-Bar Thursday 21st of November 2002 at 9. p.m.

Videos by Kim Collmer and David Krantz
Music by Matti Kallioinen [Abnormal Audio]

Sparwasser HQ invites you to take a trip through new spaces:
In his 3D animation entitled "What" the artist David Krantz whirls 
the viewer through the natural and philosophical history of mankind. 
The 3D effect and the symbolic characters presented make the signs 
and images of the video expand out into actual space, becoming very 
present. At the same time this very presence hightens the level of 
abstraction. Through the never ending story of human "Truths" passing 
before our eyes, the viewer is left with a certain feeling of 
insecurity. Pleasantly disturbing, "What" is a piece that, in a very 
humorous way, stresses our sense of "natural development".


Kim Collmer's video animation "Mercury Moon" evolves around a similar 
effect, though built up in the classical "cut and move" technique out 
of very simple materials, Collmer creates a not definable moon 
landscape. She plays with the perception of materials and 
proportions, distorting the fragile animation world through the use 
of electric blue lights.

Kim Collmer describes the piece as follows: Mercury Moon investigates 
the tension between regimented order and organic growth. Using 
certain tropes of science fiction such as a space station, alien 
landscapes, and a futuristic city, Mercury Moon presents the viewer 
with a place of magic and imagination. In this world, glittering 
plants can grow from lunar energy and cities can be reconstructed 
from ice formations.
Mercury Moon is a simulated reality that attempts to call its 
construct into our awareness. But through its realization it 
demonstrates its own internal logic - from growth to destruction, 
order to unrest. In a sense, this constructed reality is as real as 
any other, reflecting the attempt to visualize and control our own 
spaces. (Kim Collmer will be present at the screening)
http://www.olgacity.de/kimhome


Last but not least:
To all of you who missed the release concert by Matti Kallioinen at 
Z-Bar on the 31st of October: here is your second chance to get to 
know the music of Matti Kallioinen and Abnormal Audio. 
Starting the evening at Z-Bar with the playing (and selling) of his 
CD "Koncentrerad Saft" (concentrated juice). The music from his first 
CD shifts playfully between electronic smurf country and more obscure 
Nordic fairy tale like sounds.
Do not miss it this time!


What's next:

Sparwasser HQ Newsletter
November-December-January

Concert at Sparwasser HQ next Friday the 29th of November from 10 p.m.
Prins Esso (DK) and Osmund (D)
=46urther information next week.

"Let's crystallize" (Gabriela Albergaria, Morten Schelde, Celina 
Gonzalez Sueyro, Michelle Eistrup & Marika Seidler) prolonged to the 
14th of December
press release:  http://www.sparwasserhq.de/Index/HTMLnov2/HTMLEngA.htm


In January Sparwasser is looking forward to host the project 
Clockwise, an exhibition curated by Khaled Ramadan and Stine H=F8holt 
produced by NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) from the 
10th of January to 1st of March at Sparwasser HQ, Torstr. 161. 
Because of the extensiveness of the exhibition, part will be shown at 
Bergst=FCblPROJEKTE, Veteranenstr. 25, also in Berlin-Mitte.
=46or further information on Clockwise (and press material): 
http://www.nifca.org/clockwise



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=46ROM SPARWASSER HQ


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