[rohrpost] Artist Talk: »COLLABORATION: REAL LIFE AND MEDIATED EXPERIENCE«

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»COLLABORATION: REAL LIFE AND MEDIATED EXPERIENCE«

ARTIST TALK WITH PHIL COLLINS (KUNSTHOCHSCHULE FÜR MEDIEN COLOGNE),
DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN (AKADEMIE DER BILDENDEN KÜNSTE VIENNA) AND
SABINE ECKMANN (MILDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM)

28.06.2014 // 17:30 Uhr - 19:30 Uhr
Vierte Welt: Adalbertstr. 96, 10999 Berlin

THE PUBLIC EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY THE GRADUATE PROGRAM
(DFG-GRADUIERTENKOLLEG) »VISIBILITY AND VISUALIZATION« (UNIVERSITY OF
POTSDAM) IN COOPERATION WITH THE COLLABORATIVE SPACE »VIERTE WELT«

The University of Potsdam?s Graduate Program »Visibility and
Visualization | Hybrid Forms of Pictorial Knowledge« invites you to an
artist talk with Phil Collins, Diedrich Diederichsen, and Sabine
Eckmann. Collaboration: Real Life and Mediated Experience takes
Collin?s practice of engaging various local subjects and communities
as its point of departure to discuss the artistic yet also social
meaning and political valence of collaborative practices in art,
theory, and everyday life. Be it that Collins invites people to
develop their rolls of 35mm film free of charge in exchange for the
right to incorporate select images into his Free Fotolab, or that he
sets up a phone booth in one of Cologne?s homeless shelters allowing
everyone to make free calls based on the condition that the
conversations be recorded and potentially appropriated anonymously for
the artist?s work, Collins often draws on collaboration as a means for
artistic engagement. In doing so, he is very aware of the potentially
exploitative and exposing quality of such practice; yet, he
deliberately pushes this effect in order to further reflect upon the
power dynamics at hand. Important aspects of his works further concern
processes of mediatization, the specifics of different media formats
and their place in popular culture.

Talks and discussion will be in English.

ARTIST TALK with:
Dr. Sabine Eckmann is William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator at
the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St.
Louis. Her research interests are 20th and 21st century art, art and
politics, medium aesthetics, and critical theory. Her exhibition
catalogs and publications include, among others, Sharon Lockhart:
Lunch Break I,II,III (2010, 2011, 2014), Ghost: Elizabeth Peyton
(Hatje Cantz, 2011), Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures (Abrams,
2009), Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany
(Hatje Cantz, 2007) and Exiles and Emigrés: The Flight of European
Artists from Hitler (LACMA, 1997). Her latest exhibition and catalog
In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations (2014)
investigates semi-documentary formats as they relate to trauma in
contemporary video art:
http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/exhibitions/9156

Phil Collins makes use of music and pop culture such as film
melodramas, reality TV, talk shows and karaoke to explore social
situations and transcend definitions of language, social status and
locality. Over the past decade, Collins has developed projects in
Iraq, Palestine, Serbia, Turkey, Indonesia, Colombia and Germany for
which he has cooperated intensively with local communities.
Complicating both the myth of aesthetic autonomy and the fantasy of
art as in itself political, his films, photographs, installations and
live events employ the documentary tradition and elements of popular
culture to establish an immediate and at times humorous connection
with participant and viewer. Collins is based in Berlin and Cologne,
where he is a professor of video art at the Kunsthochschule für
Medien. His works are held in significant public collections such as,
among others, Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York;
and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Recent solo exhibitions include
Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2013); Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of
Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); British Film Institute, London (2011);
Tramway, Glasgow (2009); Dallas Museum of Art (2007); San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and Tate Britain, London (both 2006).
http://www.kerlingallery.com/artists/phil-collins/selected-exhibitions

Diedrich Diederichsen is professor of theory, practice, and mediation
in contemporary art at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna.
His research interests include pop music as a model for
conceptualizing contemporary culture, the ?third culture industry?,
net cultures and entertainment architectures, neo formalism as well as
Martin Kippenberger and his time. He writes frequently for Texte zur
Kunst, Artforum, Die Zeit and other journals. Among his most important
book publications are Sexbeat (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1985),
Eigenblutdoping (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2008), The Whole Earth
(Sternberg, 2013) and Über Pop-Musik (Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 2014):
http://diedrich-diederichsen.de

LOCATION:

Vierte Welt: Adalbertstr. 96, 10999 Berlin
Kottbusser Tor, Berlin-Kreuzberg (first floor gallery accessible via
exterior staircase)
--> for more information about the gallery: www.viertewelt.de



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