[spectre] Tonight 16. August 19-22:00 >>>TONI CRABB 7 steps 6 legs>>>Raum 3 Berlin

[Alena Williams]

UPCOMING FINAL EXHIBITION OF SPRING / SUMMER VIDEO SERIES

Raum 3, Ziegelstrasse 20, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

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TONI CRABB  7 steps 6 legs: video & wait in drawing

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16.- 21. AUGUST 2005

ERÖFFNUNG: DIENSTAG, 16. AUGUST 2005, UM 19-22 UHR

We are pleased to present a recent work by Toni Crabb, a 
Barcelona-based artist, who is primarily working in drawing, but who 
also uses video as a means of exploring the temporal aspects of line. 
Over the period of six months last year, she made a documentation of 
butterflies in a tropical arboretum located in Empuriabrava, Spain. 
Although the resulting video depicts the perfect moment of 
transformation when a butterfly emerges from its chrysalis, the 
sketchbook of drawings that she produced while waiting for the 
butterflies to emerge, also represents a study in the metaphorical 
implications of waiting and expectation. The soundtrack of the piece is 
an interpretation by the performance group Discoteca Flaming Star of 
Patti Smith’s “Fireflies"-- a song that Crabb describes as a kind of 
“countdown, steps." For her, the drawings and the soundtrack represent 
a wandering towards and away from the literal subject of the video; it 
is intended to introduce a kind of seriality critically linked to the 
event’s unfolding.

Both the video and drawings will be on view until Sunday, 21. August.

Toni Crabb is a Zimbabwean artist based in Barcelona. Crabb received 
her degree in Fine Art in Madrid in 1995. Her work has been shown at 
the Galería T4 in Barcelona, Innocence & Mystery in Berlin, Galería 
EGAM in Madrid and the Gallery Delta in Harare.

This exhibition is the final installment of IN ABSENTIA, a film and 
video series curated by Alena Williams.

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CONTACT AND HOURS

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Raum 3, Ziegelstrasse 20, 10117 Berlin-Mitte (S-Bhf Oranienburger 
Strasse)

Mo-Sa: 14-18 Uhr, So: 16-20 Uhr
T: +49 (0)30 26329577
M: +49 (0)176 235 949 26
http://www.bootlab.org/raum3

Raum 3 is the project space of Bootlab e.V., a non-profit organization, 
which hosts a number of groups and individuals working on media related 
projects.


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: alena at bootlab.org