[rohrpost] //// Mo, 1.3.2010 | 8pm | TALK__Solvej Helweg Ovesen | Anthony Marcellini | Karin Laansoo

[Sparwasser HQ]

SPARWASSER HQ presents
in collaboration with FEINKOST




///// Presentation talk
SPARWASSER HQ ARTISTS/CURATORS IN RESIDENCY 2009/2010

Solvej Helweg Ovesen | Anthony Marcellini | Karin Laansoo

Monday, March 1st, 8pm at FEINKOST
Bernauer Straße 71-72
13355 Berlin



Within the frame of the topic "public sphere-rhetoric/ offentlighed- 
retorik" we are delighted to welcome our two new residents Anthony  
Marcellini and Karin Laansoo. At the presentation they will talk  
about their projects that deal with the ultimate exchange between  
artist and audience in the making. These projects are both realized  
more as interventions, rather than as 'art event's. Also last years  
curator-in-residency Solvej Helweg Ovesen will present the work she  
did during her residency at Sparwasser HQ. Her work inspired us and  
she was part of the jury for "public sphere-rhetoric/ offentlighed- 
retorik". The last part of this year residency, the appointed 10 text  
writers, will be ready for publishing in the end of march. The  
residency program is here.




_______Anthony Marcellini //// Berlin, Open Your Windows!

Anthony Marcellini is an artist and writer, whose practice can be  
defined by an examination of the politics of the creative act. With  
his work he aims to create spaces where people come together to  
understand themselves in relationship with the world. While he  
utilizes many forms of communication and expression, his work  
primarily revolves around performance, gesture, speech and theater,  
because these are forms that deal most directly with our human behavior.
While in Berlin Anthony is presenting the project, "Berlin, Open Your  
Windows!" a research and performance-project taking place throughout  
several Berlin neighborhoods. Using apartments as semi-public spaces  
Anthony and an opera singer are presenting a series of musical  
declarations out the open windows of several flats. These arias are  
written to reflect the history, the dreams, the tribulations and the  
triumphs of each neighborhood.
Anthony Marcellini received his MFA in Social Practice from  
California College of the Arts in 2009. In 2008 he was a recipient of  
Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant and the Murphy &  
Cadogan Fellowship in the Arts. He is also a frequent contributor to  
the online journal www.artpractical.com. In 2011 he will present a  
new work as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Europe-wide arts  
festival. Currently he is teaching fellow through the Independent  
Study Course at Valand School of Fine Arts. For more information  
visit his blog.



_______Karin Laansoo //// Exploitation On Demand

"Producing an exhibition, for me typically involves extensive  
artistic research, writing, and collaborative dialogue over a long  
period of time. Mostly project and context dependent, my  
collaborations are inspired by unusual situations and often  
impossible-looking circumstances."

Karin Laansoo is a curator and writer, originally from Estonia and  
currently based in New York City. After receiving her MA in Art  
History from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2002, she has worked as  
a producer and Gallery Manager in Tallinn and in New York. In 2005  
she authored an award-winning book, 22+ Young Estonian Artists. Since  
2008 she has been the Director of PointB—an international artist  
residency in Williamsburg, New York. She also runs a single-work  
gallery called Monospace in her apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
At the moment, Karin Laansoo is researching the many expressions of  
exploitation, both in and around art. She just organized Art, Image,  
and Exploitation—an international conference at Estonian Academy of  
Arts in Tallinn. Her proposal for Sparwasser stemmed from that  
context. The project Exploitation On Demand is a series of public  
performances carried out by local volunteers in Berlin according to  
authors‘ instructions.

Learn more about the conference; about the open call and Monospace  
and about PointB.



_____Solvej Helweg Ovesen //// The World As a Stage

Solvej Helweg Ovesen, born in Denmark 1974, is a curator and author  
living in Berlin. She studied communication sciene (BA) at Roskilde  
University in Roskilde and cultural studies (MA) at, Copenhagen  
University, Copenhagen and succeeded her curatorial training at De  
Appel, International Curatorial Program, in Amsterdam 2003-2004. As a  
curator she worked e.g. for Sparwasser HQ, Berlin (2000-2002), bak,  
basis voor aktuele konst, Utrecht (2004-2005), Kunsthalle  
Fridericianum (2004-2006), Werkleitz Biennale 2006, Halle  
(2005-2006), U-TURN Kvadriennale für Gegenwartskunst, Kopenhagen,  
Århus und Møn (2006-2008). She is co-founder and editor of SUM, Eng- 
Dk Magazine for Contemporary Art based in Copenhagen and Berlin.
Selected publications: „Men in Black: Handbuch der kuratorischen  
Praxis“, Anthologie, 2004, ”Happy Believers: Werkleitz Biennale”,  
exhibition cataloque, 2006, ”Olafur Eliasson: det indre af det Ydre”,  
2007, ”U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art“, exhibition cataloque  
2008, ”The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer”, Kirstine Roepstorff,  
exhibition cataloque 2009, "The World as Stage", Diskurs Publication  
n.b.k., 2010.
In 2009 Solvej Helweg Ovesen was Sparwasser HQ curator-in-resident  
and invited by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin | Marius  
Babias, where she curated the exhibition “The World as Stage” and  
published a book within this frame, "Die Welt als Bühne", in the  
Diskurs Publikation series published by Walter König, 2010. The  
exhibition and publication is concerned with a critique of the  
concepts of 'performance' and 'performativity' in a neoliberal  
societal context, which will also be the topic of the presentation.








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