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<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">You are warmly invited to:<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><font size="4"><b>EXHIBITION #11: DARK
HABITATS DARK ECOLOGY</b></font><br>SPEKTRUM | art science community, Bürknerstr. 12, 12047, Berlin, <a href="http://www.spektrumberlin.de" target="_blank">www.spektrumberlin.de<br></a><br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/darkhabitats" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/darkhabitats</a></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">/// PROGRAM<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
•
Thursday 8 June (dayticket 7-12euro up to your offer)<br>
18:30 |
Exhibition Opening<br>
20:30 | Walk with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/smelllabberlin/">Smell
Lab Berlin</a>: Collecting Smells<br>
21:00 | Participatory
performance by Jo Caimo / Marta Zapparoli<br>
<br>
• Friday 9
June (dayticket 7-12euro up to your offer)<br>
16:00 | Workshop on
Fermentation: (on registration:
<a href="http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/fermentation-workshop.html" target="_blank">http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/fermentation-workshop.html</a>)<br>
18:30
| Exhibition opens<br>
21:00 | Performances by Budhaditya
Chattopadhyay / TBA<br>
<br>
• Saturday 10 June (dayticket
7-12euro up to your offer)<br>
18:30 | Exhibition opens<br>
19:30 |
SeedBombing walk-lecture<br>
21:00 | Performances by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/valery.vermeulen.9">Valery
Vermeulen</a> / <a href="https://www.facebook.com/melodie.fenez">Mélodie
Melak Fenez</a>+Brian Kiel<br>
<br>
• Sunday 11 June (dayticket
5-8euro up to your offer)<br>
18:30 | Exhibition opens <br>
20:30 |
AV-performance by Nana MacLean & Lorenzo Colocci<br>
21:00 |
Closing Conference moderated by Matthias Fritsch
(free-entrance)<br>
<br>
_Program curated by Alfredo Ciannameo with
the support of Matthias Fritsch. Dark Habitats Dark Ecology is part
of the series Dark Society <br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%"><br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">/// CONCEPT<br></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
Human advancements and ecology
are not sharing the same nature. The planet did not evolve all those
Eras influenced only by our conceptions, and will not do that as well
when the truly post-human will follow the post-dinosaurs. But today,
the human factor is introduced in the ecological continuum through
conditions exploiting resources dictated by geo-economical and
geo-political dynamics: not privileging us above the way we think
about life, rather happening on its own way.<br>
Dark Ecology states
exactly this: the inner mechanisms of ecology are not intimately
depending by our cultural mystifications and they are based on
dimensions behind our human values, ethics, visions and so on; lying
in an ontological sphere with its own rules in which humans are not
the only relevant aspect even in a moment when their catastrophic
interventions risk the planetary collapse.<br>
In this dark
perspective, our culture about living-systems becomes one key-role
which must be discussed in order to better understand this alien
conditions of ecology. Artists share the responsibility to look into
this and tune their work on what can be defined: non-human agencies.
<br>
Human habitat, on the other hand, is the synthesis between
ecology and culture which can help us to understand how we perceive
and shape the world. In it, we participate by voicing infinite
qualities of beauty and pre-announce future directions of staying
together in our even possible environment.<br>
Artists, in this new
phase of absolute imperative of innovation for a dramatic change,
find ways to envision their experience using knowledge and processes
borrowed from research in laboratories of biology, design,
cultivation, food, health, landscape, nomadism and urbanism. <br>
<br>
The
exhibition Dark Habitats Dark Ecology challenges artists and audience
to reflect on alternative ways to look into the state of
home-sustainability and shows examples in which technology and
science can reveal our human, specific way to impress upon the idea
of nature an always beautiful but ecologically problematic sense of
living.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:100%">
<br>
/// WORKS<br>
<br>
• Paul Seidler, Paul
Kolling, Max Hampshire: terra0 is a prototype of a self-owned
augmented forest. It is currently being set up at 52°27'39.8"N
13°50'22.9”E – 30km in the east of Berlin. The Project emerged
from research in the fields of crypto governance, smart contracts,
economics and questions regarding representations of natural systems
in the techno-sphere. It creates a framework whereby a forest is able
to sell licenses to log its own trees through automated processes,
smart contracts and blockchain technology.<br>
In doing so, this
forest accumulates capital. A shift from valorization through third
parties to a self-utilization makes it possible for the forest to
procure its real exchange value, and eventually buy itself.<br>
<br>
•
Michael Ang: Dune Field Modulator – installation is a set of
objects that use light as an intervention to change our perception of
landscape. The modulator is designed as a nomadic technology that can
be carried into the field. As you move through the landscape an
ephemeral light-space is created between you, the modulator, and the
environment. Dune Field Modulator was designed for the Gobi desert
sand dunes in Mongolia.<br>
Even in this remote territory all
landscape is mapped. By changing our interaction with the landscape,
the modulator makes it again an unknown and exploratory place. The
modulator can be seen as a tool for technological intervention that
mediates a direct spatial-body relationship between human, object,
and landscape.<br>
<br>
• Theresa Schubert: Morphological Twists
– Prints + video – condenses the most simple organisms to highly
complex philosophical questions. In the artistic research project
Growing Geometries I - tattooing mushrooms, fungi generate their
growth by processing organic material. Together with the treatment of
the mushroom with tattoo needles, their natural growth creates a
closer proximity to that of mankind than to that of plants. A natural
phenomenon is translated into a moment of critical analysis of
processes of growth with the simplest of means. Theresa Schubert's
tattooed mushroom are fruits of a deeper lying mesh whose growth can
take any shape or form based on devitalized organic material causing
revitalization. <br>
<br>
• Ivan Henriques: Microscope Light
Machine – installation. Millions of other living entities surround
us all the time and are vital to our well being and also for life in
the natural environment. However they exist in such a mode of being
that not only many of their behaviour escape human perception, but
their presence all together. <br>
Using optics techniques, a droplet
of water becomes a lens magnifying the biodiversity of microorganisms
from an specific location. When the water droplet is beamed by a
laser, It creates a microscope-live-cinema installation. The same
magnification from the microorganisms creates a holographic image in
the transparent trapezoid.<br>
This work is a step further in the
project Microscopic Chamber#1 that explores the huge biodiversity of
microorganisms which lives in water as phytoplankton, copepods,
diatoms, algae, amongst many other lifeforms fundamentally important
for human life. The installation Microscope Light Machine was
exhibited at the Brazilian Embassy in Tokyo from 7-9 of March 2017,
and was developed during the Project to Support the Nurturing of
Media Art Creators from CG-ARTS. <br>
<br>
• Matthias Fritsch:
Ecopolis – installation. The project focuses on developing a system
of an urban area that could be the habitat for most of earth’s
human population. Matthias imagines a sustainable way for a largest
number of inhabitants in order to preserve life on a steady level for
an infinite future on this planet. As the starting point of
developing urban planning he is focusing on the citizens’
sustainable daily routines and to support those activities he
develops open source tools like a living room humus generator that
will be presented in the show.<br>
<br>
• Acci Baba: Exodus –
video installation. An experimental film to explore behaviours of an
artificial system reaching the point of saturation. Central to the
work is the aesthetic combination of geometry and life, expressed by
collinear structure and living ants. The sugar water falls from the
sky, artificially creating ecosystem for ants to survive. Ants walk
along the infinite path, leaving pheromones for the others to follow.
Soon one of the ant chose to escape from the saturated system,
realising they have been walking on a infinite path. The others
followed and continued walking in to the void as they form an another
circular loop. Through the perspective of micro organism, the artwork
finds the relation between the viewers to reflect the formula
emerging from the hyper reality. <br>
<br>
• Marta Zapparoli:
Intervention with Antennas, Trans-world-receivers and Detectors.
Exploring, discovering and listening below the surface of the audible
to other possibilities of what can exist in the space. Focusing on
the inaudible spectral site of the location where we are now - not to
dream or be elsewhere, but to understand that here and now happens as
a sonic reality which is constantly mutable. Catching these
frequencies using tools and devices like detectors, antennas,
receivers, and sending these signals into a vortex of information in
real time. Stimulating our senses from other sonic realities, which
constantly cross our bodies, interrupting our balance, polluting our
existence. Developing and recognizing different ways of perceiving
and listening beneath the audible. <br>
<br>
• Mélodie Melak
Fenez & Brian Kiel: Condensed and falling in drops - performance.
At the intersection of a sound installation and a performance, this
duo creates a resonating territory of frequencies. Standing waves,
physical boundaries of sound that can be felt as they pass through
you, sonically materialise the space between walls, physically
connecting all present. Amidst this atmosphere, plants attached
through an array of oscillators populate, develop and emphasise the
delicate stability of the territory. <br>
<br>
• Jo Caimo:
Koorvorming is a participatory performance. The audience is invited
to sing together following a prerecorded voice, which functions as a
musical score. The score is played over an array of custom made
earpieces. Participants are blindfolded. One ear is used to listen to
the score over the earpiece, while the other is closed with a
earplug, so while singing participants are unaware of what is
happening around them. Immediately after the performance every
participant receives a CD with the audio recording of the performance
and they can listen to it at home.<br>
<br>
Budhaditya
Chattopadhyay : Decomposing Landscape. To capture the essence, if not
the historical particulars, of the regions on the decay. We have
arguably entered the Anthropocene – ‘a new geologic era, defined
by unprecedented human disturbances over earth’s ecosystems’. In
this era, climatic integrity of natural, pastoral landscapes in
emerging economies like India is endangered. Diffusing the sonic
elements in the spatial practice of multi-channel moving image
projection the final outcome of the project includes an Ambisonics
sound composition and a multi-channel sound/video installation. <br>
The
works have been developed through a meticulous collection of
materials from various locations at India in extensive fieldwork
(2009-2011) supported by Prince Claus Fund Amsterdam. This collection
has been forming a digital archive to be used for realizing the
work(s). The project aims to delineate gradual transfiguration of the
developing societies in the wider public, using digital technology to
mediate engendered sites in contemporary art.<br>
<br>
• <a href="https://www.facebook.com/valery.vermeulen.9">Valery
Vermeulen</a>: Mikromedas – performance is a new data-driven
musical project in which compositions are elaborated using data from
space and deep space in a radically new way. In the project
compositions are produced using sampled radio astronomical data
coming from various sources e.g. data stemming from several
spacecrafts such as Voyager1 and Voyager2 or data originating from
various astrophysical objects such as pulsar stars (which might be up
to 22000 years old). Other sources that are used in the composition
process include synthesized sounds as wel as data feeds from
satellites turned into sound and music using newly developed
sonification techniques.<br>
<br>
• Benjamin Graf: Seedbomb.city
When activism turns business – Benjamin Graf uses the tactics of
seed bombing and guerrilla gardening for his business model. He says:
One seedbomb might not have an impact, but 1 billion do!<br>
Seedbomb
City brings more green into the city. Equipped with seedbombs and
seedpills they make guerrilla gardens on the way and beautify loose
grounds and bleak roadsides. Guerrilla gardening is also about
reclaiming the city and actively shaping it. A true "Green
Revolution"!<br>
<br>
• Margherita Pevere: Placenta is a
living sculpture with a hybrid body. A bacterial colony grows on
technological relics thanks to a pump that feeds nutrients and
moisture. This apparently functional system produces an excrescence
of microbial cellulose that progressively envelops the relics. The
ambiguous aesthetics of cellulose - recalling skin and body matter -
and its leaking materiality counter the engineered structure of
technological artifacts. A camera placed inside the excrescence
streams live images of the exhibition space and the audience as seen
through the layer of cellulose: at the beginning of the exhibition
images are clear, but become blurred as the cellulose thickens. Yet,
because cellulose is a translucent material, shades and lights are
still perceivable. The work critically reflects on the
inter-depedence between living systems, namely how non-human
identities radically inhabit and reappropriate man-made habitats. <br>
<br>
•
Nana MacLean: Silenscape – AVperformance. By manipulating and
interfering with earth’s metabolism, new bio-geological niches and
ecosystems are being created by humans in a dramatic way that never
existed before in earth history. Soil profiles contain layers of
fragmented, preserved plastics, concentrations of chemicals and
radioactive isotopes that are unique and characterizing of our times.
A fantastic playground for the evolutionary potential of an actual
dystopian man-created landscape is performed live in a mixed media
set up in which image and sound are opening a dialogue between a
speculative future and actual scientific data.<br>
<br>
• Smell
Lab Berlin Smell Walk – Collected Smells. Smell is something that
we use on a daily basis but whose meaning and significance often
evades our 'enlightened' human nature. Our reactions to smells are
just that: reactions. To smell something remains still an act of
injesting and incorporating the source into our bodies, and to that
we remain decidedly sensitive. With this smell walk, we will wander
through the neighbourhood with our noses open, to sensitize ourselves
to an aspect of our minds which we may not be conscious of and to see
the highly urbanized human-scape of Neukölln through a perspective
picturing our habitat in a new light.<br>
<br>
• Fermentation
Workshop by Denkwerkstatt NAHrungswandel (on registration:
<a href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fspektrumberlin.de%2Fevents%2Fdetail%2Ffermentation-workshop.html&h=ATNVLwTTd0AoTcJ5xLN8bA-z_A7qgd1XithYElEB15S9BtqTQ918WcXpRc0cTROucLfssLaTgF_ttzZA3nzHG44Pd4xGw7YNUudubXF6MbeXqRRK0ZgrRArv-eYoS6lrig&enc=AZM-aZ8oKrarhA57mKw0Pu1SFgBp4DhiXGIwYwtIp9F8JJ_BKtre6hOeWHlmqXbUaxE&s=1" target="_blank">http://spektrumberlin.de/events/detail/fermentation-workshop.html</a>).
Discover the rich and diverse possibilities of this old conservation
technic and start experimenting yourself. We will give you a brief
introduction into the world of fermentation and its potential for
health, sustainability seasonal and regional food consumption. In the
second part we will show you how easy and rich food fermentation is.
In the end of the workshop you will have your own self made jars of
fermented organic vegetables. <br>
<br>
• Maria-Leena Räihälä
& Manuel Bonik: Morgenvogel Real Estate / intervention. The
relationship between birds, architecture and art is the subject of
Morgenvogel Real Estate, an artistic real estate company in Berlin
that enthusiastically brokers birdhouses. Whether the builders admit
it or not, new Berlin architecture is hostile to birds. Wherever you
look, you'll find smooth surfaces where no robin can find a home.
Still they have established themselves in the diverse facades of
Berlin, and want to keep doing so, since it’s become more and more
difficult in other places. The countryside – so-called "nature"
– is covered with monocultures. If one wants to become a lucky
bird, he’d better go to the city. Berlin, you should be happy that
such immigrants are still perched in your city!<br>
<br>
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CLOSING CONFERENCE moderated by Matthias Fritsch: <br>
<br>
moderated
by Matthias Fritsch: Artists are invited to discuss further their
work as well as their current research offering an inside of the
constellation of artistic approaches on the topic of the
exhibition.<br>
<br>
• Ivan Henriques: Hybrid-forms of Symbiosis
between Tech and Nature<br>
• Andrew Müller: Eat insects to Save
Capitalism?<br>
• Morgenvogel: Birds and Architecture /
intervention & lecture<br>
• Smell Lab: Smell-mapping in
urban-scape<br>
• Matthias Fritsch: Daily routines for a
sustainable City</p>
<br><br></div>Best regards, Lieke Ploeger<br clear="all"><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">SPEKTRUM | art science community<br>
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