INVITATION
KIOSK FOR USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
c/o KW Institute for Contemporary Art
A Life in Four Hours & Imaginary Geographies
Open Air Cinema in the courtyard of KW | Auguststrasse 69, Berlin, July 1 (Fri.) + 2 (Sat.), 2005
The KIOSK for Useful Knowledge is a permanently expanding archive of dialogues, interviews and autobiographies relating to "Narratives of places, cities, and territories." The archive is being produced in the form of live events staged for an audience and then documented and archived on DVD (archive catalogue 2003/2005: EvOST.: Raumkontrolle T1 - T6 / EvOST.: Lebenserzählungen T1- T5)
"A Life in Four Hours": Friday, July 1, 2005, 9pm – 1am.
Hans Ulrich Obrist talks, while Michael Diers listens.
"A Life in Four Hours" is a design for an urban experiment. Working through geographical stations in their personal biographies, contemporaries relate the stories of their life to a listener of their choice. The result is an autobiographical novel complying with a four-hour format. The narrator and the listener sit together in a closed room, while the audience follows the conversation over headphones and by video projection.
Hans Ulrich Obrist: internationally active curator and critic based at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, university professor in Venice, special correspondent of the magazine "domus," and editor-in-chief of "point d’ironie," which is published by agnès b.
Michael Diers: art historian, professor at the HfBK in Hamburg, and associate professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin
"Imaginary Geographies I: Corridors of Perception": Saturday, July 2, 2005, 10pm to midnight. Angela Melitopoulos & Ginette Verstraete (language: English)
"Imaginary Geographies" invites artists and other visionaries and practitioners in the field of travel and geographical research to use the KIOSK as a forum for talks delineated by the dialectic of the material and immaterial aspects of geography. "Imaginary" denotes the collective pictures and institutionalized knowledge systems acting as the basis for the representation of geographies together with the associated realpolitik and policies of identity. The dialogue between Angela Melitopoulos and Ginette Verstraete thematizes the "pan-European" infrastructures and different modes through which European territory is perceived by cultures rooted in diaspora and migration, e.g. along the corridor consisting of western Europe through the Balkans to Turkey.
Angela Melitopoulos, video artist, lives in Cologne. Her art relates to migration and mnemonic video-montage concepts. She is currently working on the Transcultural Geographies research project (www.tc-geographies.net).
Ginette Verstraete, Simone de Beauvoir professor for the history of ideas at Amsterdam University, the author of numerous publications on mobility and issues of cultural identity.
Admission free. Venue will shift to the exhibition hall in the case of rain.
KIOSK für nützliches Wissen is a project of Tulip House (Hannah Hurtzig / Anselm Franke) for ErsatzStadt
An initiative project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (until June 2005) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (as of July 2005).
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Further information:
Markus Müller I Maike Cruse
t: ++49 30 24 34 59 41 / 42
press@kw-berlin.de