[rohrpost] Herzliche Einladung zu "Floating Rooms", Quiet Cue Berlin

[Heidrun Schramm]

Herzliche Einladung zur ersten Ausstellung in den neuen erweiterten Raeumlichkeiten
in der Flughafenstr. 38, 12053 Berlin.

Eroeffnung am Freitag, 08. Juni um 19 Uhr.

Floating Rooms at Quiet Cue – Marx / Petschatnikov / Wiese

Kristine Marx (NYC) - Video
Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov (Berlin/RU) - Objects, Paintings
Nicolas Wiese (Berlin/DE) - Sound

opening: 8th June, 19h
open on 9th and 10th: 14-19h

Finissage concert; June 10th, 8.15
Jim Campbell / the preterite (Berlin/USA) - cassette scratch orchestra
http://www.the-preterite.com/
and others (to be announced)

http://quietcue.blogspot.com/p/live-stream.html


Quiet Cue is pleased to present the first exhibition in the new expanded space.
The show Floating Rooms at Quiet Cue is a cooperation in the best sense: Individual artists separately developing works in different media to be brought together and to relate to each other, following a common idea – given physical spaces being transformed into spaces of memory, association, imagination, and fiction.

While video artist Kristine Marx (NYC) utilizes still images of the Quiet Cue rooms (which she never visited before the exhibition) to create a surreal visual time-motion, Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov (Berlin/RU) juxtapose their fountain objects with a series of small scale paintings that reconsider and re-interpret photographic representation of public spaces and their history. Nicolas Wiese (Berlin/DE), multidisciplinary artist and Quiet Cue co-founder/curator, supplies a sound installation constructed out of tiny acoustic fragments which were recorded on-site over a long time span, being spatially diffused and interfering with the others' works in a subtle manner.

As a creative lab for intermedia processes and cooperation, Quiet Cue celebrates its new spatial possibilities with this extraordinary show up to its core interest, and making a mark for its future ambitions.

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The works and the artists

Floating Room (Quiet Room), 2012, animated video, dimensions variable

This video work consists in part of reconfigured photographs and drawings of the gallery’s interior. Because I had not visited the site myself, I relied on emailed photographs and hand-drawn plans as my reference point. With these images, I imagined how to reconstruct the site adding my own associations in the gaps. The constructed imagery is then projected as a video back onto the gallery’s actual space. The fragmented imagery moves from photographic representations to a diagrammatic idea of space to open connections of forms (for example, when the moon turns into a hanging lamp). One point in the video is loosely linked to another. The piece always returns to the theme of an interior (both physical and psychological) in process, simultaneously being constructed and disassembled.

The video is silent. Because Quiet Cue generally hosts music performances, I wanted to have musicians as part of the piece. The element of chance is at work here, as the musicians will plan their performance without seeing the video, and the video was created without any particular sound in mind. 
Kristine Marx is a video and installation artist based in New York City. She has had solo exhibitions at Plane Space (New York City), Fringe (Los Angeles), Big & Small/Casual (New York City), and at the Berliner Liste with Herrmann & Wagner (Berlin). She has collaborated on several multimedia performance projects with composers Akemi Naito and John Supko and musicians Greg Beyer and Erin Lesser. She has received grants from Goethe Institut, The Mattress Factory, NYSCA, and The Experimental Television Center. In addition to working as an artist, Marx writes essays and reviews
on film for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art. She presently teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

http://kristinemarx.net/ 

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The twins Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov (*1973, St. Petersburg) work as an artist duo in the border region between painting and installation. After finishing their education in the United States and in France they have participated in numerous international artists' residency programs throughout Europe.
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov are represented by Wagner+Partner Gallery. They have taken part in such international art fairs as Arco Madrid, Art Cologne, Art Karlsruhe and Vienna Art Fair. The Petschatnikovs have shown their work in such art institutions as: the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Mainz, Künstlerhaus Wien, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Wagner+Partner Gallery, Berlin.
Their most recent project is currently on view in Beton 7 Art Center in Athens. Solo exhibitions are planned in Kunstverein Muensterland and in Heike Strelow Gallery in Frankfurt in 2012-2013. They are recipients of Aleksander Reznikov Award 2009 in Vienna, Studio-grant of the Berlin Senat 2010, the Kunstfonds Work-stipend 2012.
Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov live and work in Berlin.
Statement
The Petschatnikovs choose to focus on seemingly insignificant phenomena that are part of our daily lives. With imagination and wit, they manage to tease out new and surprisingly profound perspectives on the everyday world; they find the extraordinary within the ordinary.
Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov are not sociologists, their methods are not those of documentarians, their motives not those of field researchers. Rather, they look for their motifs as they stroll through the city and collect, and the photographs they take while doing so become the basis for the painterly or sculptural engagement with the objects. It seems that these  calculatedly focused images and installation-like stages achieve associative spaces thanks to the disparity of their media. A narrative level thus comes into being, and spaces open up that want to be filled with one’s own stories, memories, and ideas. The Petschatnikovs also emphatically invite the viewer to make connections between their various  projects, as between the various media that they utilize.

The project for Quiet Que - is a series of seven water fountains (a week long cycle).
Each fountain is a still life as well as a place. Recognizable domestic objects covered with painted ceramic tiles, integrated into geometric interiors and accompanied by a water feature are ironic commentaries on the aesthetic of swimming pools, shower rooms and other public spaces. In the installation for Quiet Que, a comparison is being drawn between the interior character of table fountains and the series of miniature oil paintings on velum, documenting foyers of 24 stations of the Berlin's U8 subway line. During the time of the GDR, the U8 line went through both the eastern and western sectors of the city. Seven stations located in the east were closed to the public for almost 40 years and became known as ghost stations. Miniature paintings and kinetic sculptures create a labyrinth of brightly colored rooms filled with  subjectively perceived stories of Berlin’s past and present.

http://petschatnikov.de/ 

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Float/Scatter, 2012, multi-source sound installation

This sound work consists of processed and collaged recording fragments. All the recordings have been taken in the Quiet Cue studio space during the last two years - many different musicians and instruments, different microphones
and different spatial settings, different occasions like rehearsals, concerts, tests and research.
Similar to Kristine Marx' treatment of visual information in the Floating Room video, Wiese's sound installation transports the 'memory' of the Quiet Cue space back into
the space itself. The crucial difference is the fact that Marx has never visited the space; thus her artistic appropriation is that of an outside perspective. Wiese, on the other hand, knows the space very well – it's his own studio and venue/gallery. The sounding memory particles cannot be separated from his own personal memory. Therefore he unfolds a subjective audio portrait, which has grown over a long period of time and will automatically stand in multi-directional relation to the guest artists' works in this exhibition.

Nicolas Wiese is an audiovisual artist, designer and composer/performer of electroacoustic music. He is working in Berlin-Neukoelln since 2006.
Wiese creates works in various media and formats, for different contexts – installation and spatial performance, contemporary electronic composition, relational music, graphic art, radio and experimental film. 
Performances, installations/exhibitions, and film/video screenings
have taken place at (selection): 
Berlinische Galerie / Berlin, REM series / Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Weezie Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig, Festival SONIKAS / Madrid, De Witte Zaal / Ghent, Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht / Vienna, Galerie Hunchentoot / Berlin, Imprimerie / Basel, Hunt Gallery / St. Louis, USA, Miden Video Art Festival / Kalamata, Greece, Haus am Luetzowplatz / Berlin, Hafriyat Karakoy / Istanbul, Wohlfahrt / Rotterdam, Raum 2 / Mannheim, Museum for Arts and Craft / Hamburg, ETH Digital Arts Week / Zurich, Duotone Arts Festival / Kelowna, Canada, Altera! Festival / Avellino, Italy, Hoerbar / Hamburg, SKAM / Hamburg, Atelier Mommen / Brussels, British Film Institute / London.

http://nicolaswiese.com/