[rohrpost] TRANSIT LOUNGE 09

[miriam mlecek]

TRANSIT LOUNGE 09

An ongoing, experimental
project the TRANSIT LOUNGE has,
since 2006, evolved through many different formats to continually explore the
potentials of interdisciplinary collaboration. 

TRANSIT LOUNGE returns to Berlin
in 2009 as a partner event of transmediale.09 DEEP NORTH, in the unique position, as artists from the south, to
comment on the festival’s themes. Inspired by these theme, the curators
question what has been the underlying theme of the project since its inception
– transit – asking:

 

What happens when movement becomes difficult? When
escape from (or to) home becomes impossible? 

The limitations on
global travel that will come about due to the change in availability of
resources, subsequent shifts in the political and social environment and rising
costs become the inspiration for a transnational residency project where
everyone stays home, an intense exploration of local contexts directed through
communication with distant collaborators. 

 

TRANSIT LOUNGE 09 is a series of 3 parallel
online conversations, between artists in Berlin and others from cities in
Australia, the South. Here, dialogue is not restricted to verbal communication
but includes the exchange of images, sounds and video media. With participants
drawn diverse backgrounds issues of translation and mistranslation obviously
emerge, magnified by the nature of digital communication, as the nuances of
body language are lost, and time differences undermine the utopia of instant
global communication. 

The exchange will
eventually be traced and translated via installations, presentations and
performances into the space and at the K1 Salon at the HKW.

 

Curators: Miriam Mlecek and Somaya Langley

Artists:
Anna Tautfest. Debbie White, Lady Gaby, Gracia&Louise, Jordana Maisie,
Miriam Mlecek, Muse-Me, Nick Mariette, Steve Smart
Haus der Kulturen Der Welt , John-Foster-Dulles Allee 10 10557 BerlinPresentation: 1st of February 2009 2pm K1
Wonderbar studio, Wienerstrasse 45 Berlin-KreuzbergExhibition Opening: 28th of January 2009, 6pmExhibition: 29th of January-  3rd of February 3-6pm



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