Regarding Terror: The RAF Exhibition
Accompanying program of events
We would like to inform you of the accompanying program of readings and talks by the featured artists, discussion evenings, and film screenings at the Arsenal Cinema in Berlin.
The program opens with artists' readings staged in cooperation with the Sophiensaele and will take place from March 7 to April 12, 2005, at the venues Sophiensaele and KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The entrance fee per reading is 4 Euro.
Further details on the discussion evenings and film screenings will follow shortly.
Monday, March 7, 2005, at 9 p.m. (Sophiensaele)
Johannes Stüttgen
talk
Joseph Beuys: "Kunst = Kapital" / Art = Capital
Joseph Beuys, from 1961 to 1972 professor for sculpture studies at the Düsseldorf College of Art - dismissed without notice in 1972 for admitting all interested parties to his class and ignoring the selection policy for limiting the number of his students - played a decisive role there in co-initiating the political struggle against the established system. As opposed to the Marxist class struggle theory and its optional use of violence, which the RAF also appealed to then, his basis of action embraced a broadened understanding of art.
Johannes Stüttgen, born 1945, lives and works in Düsseldorf. Student of Joseph Beuys at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, teacher and artist, 1987 Omnibus für Direkte Demokratie in Deutschland, numerous seminars, lectures and publications on the augumented art concept.
Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 9 p.m. (KW Institute for Contemporary Art)
Erin Cosgrove
reading
The performance artist Erin Cosgrove uses the genre of the romantic novel to satirically examine cultural myths and ideologies also present in the production of so-called "trivia culture". In her latest book, published in German, Die Baader-Meinhof-Affäre , Cosgrove tells the story of a young woman whose classmates at an exclusive east coast university lead her into the secret world of Baader-Meinhof followers by way of an RAF-oriented student group.
In cooperation with the publisher blumenbar Verlag, Munich
Erin Cosgrove, born 1969 in St. Paul, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles.
Solo exhibitions (a.o.): Capitalism Must Fund Its Own Demise!, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (2004); A Heart Lies Beneath, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (2003); The Baader-Meinhof Affair, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (2003).
Group exhibitions (a.o.): 100 Artists See God, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Fransisco; Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2004); Auto-repeat, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (2004); Pulp Art, Brooklyn
Museum of Art, New York (2003).
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, at 9 p.m. (Sophiensaele)
Sue de Beer / Alissa Bennett
Performance / reading
In her video installation based on the "shootings" in American high schools, Hans & Grete (Text: Alissa Bennett), Sue de Beer examines the personality structures of American youths and views them in relation to RAF protagonists. In the lecture Love Will Tear Us Apart , Sue de Beer and Alissa Bennett refer directly to this work. They further develop imaginary worlds of images and violence from the protagonists' monologues to a dialogue on the phantoms of today's youth.
Sue de Beer, born 1973 in Tarrytown, USA; lives and works in New York and Berlin. Einzelausstellungen (u.a.): Black Sun, Whitney Museum, Altria (2005); The Dark Hearts, Statements, Basel Miami, presented by
Sandroni Rey Gallery (2004); Hans & Grete, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2003/04). Gruppenausstellungen (u.a.): The Whitney
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York (2004); SCREAM, Anton Kern Gallery, New York; travelling to The Moore Space, Miami (2004).
Alissa Bennett is a young writer based in New York. She has just completed her first novel, 'As Distance Shifts'. Bennett has also written texts for two de Beer video installations: Hans & Grete, a video installation from 2002, currently on view at Kunst Werke, and 'Disappear Here', a short video included in the 'Scream' exhibition at Anton Kern Gallery. Other Bennet texts have appeared in 'Frozen Tears', published out of Cabinet Gallery in London, 'Into the Abyss', a short collection of texts from artists and writers, self-published by Adam Putnam, and has written catalogue essays including a short piece on Bjarne Melgaarde
for the 'Scream' exhibition.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, at 9 p.m. (Sophiensaele)
Theo Ligthart
talk
Waldgang/Spaziergang The Berlin-based artist Theo Ligthart from the Netherlands stages the "Totalen Widerstand - Kleinkriegsanleitung für Jedermann / Total Resistance - Guerilla Warfare for Everyman" (Major H. von Dach) and "Rambo - First Blood" as a power point presentation. Ein Spaziergang für Waldgänger / Retreat into the forest.
Theo Ligthart, born 1965 in Drachten, Netherlands; lives and works in Berlin.
Solo Exhibtions (a.o.): REALISMUS (Another Attraction of the Theme Park „avant garde“), atelier asphyxia, Berlin (2004); SPIELfilm director’s cut (an exhibition), Zoo Palast, Berlin (2004); Terminator... , Galerie Play, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien (2003). Group Exhibitions (a.o.): Reserve der Form, Künstlerhaus Wien (2004); ars electronica, Linz (1998); Festival der Künste. EC 4/5 Verdi, (mit Valentin Arens), Kunstmuseum Luzern (1997).
Monday, April 4, 2005, at 9 p.m. (Sophiensaele)
Bruce LaBruce
talk
In his 2004 film The Raspberry Reich , Canadian filmmaker and photographer Bruce LaBruce uses as his main theme the phenomenon of adapting attitudes and fashions from left-wing movements of the 1970s, essentially of the RAF. The Raspberry Reich reflects the sexual ambivalence and contradictions of these movements. His film - a criticism of "terrorist chic" - deals with the revival of media-transported and staged images as logos and slogans in the arts and fashion. Bruce LaBruce will discuss the making of his film.
With kind support of the Embassy of Canada
Bruce la Bruce, boren in Southampton, Canada; lives and works in Toronto. Films: The Raspberry Reich (2004); Skin Flick (1999); Hustler White (1996); Super 8 ½ (1994); No Skin Off My Ass (1991).
Tuesday, April 12, 2005, at 9 p.m. (Sophiensaele)
Bettina Allamoda
Bettina Allamoda with Claudia Basrawi and Ted Gaier:
Christian, Hanns Martin, and I
While Bettina Allamoda broadens the documentation of her performance Vom Happening zum Deutschen Herbst (1992/2005) for the Sophiensaelen, she discusses with guests the ambivalence between historic events and their attempted reappraisal. Through the selection and arrangement of materials from documents and eye-witnesses, do we not take part in the events of the past? What is the responsibility of history? And who is subject to its evaluation?
Bettina Allamoda, born 1964 in Chicago; lives and works in Berlin. Solo Exhibitions (a.o.): Nation Building, Zwinger Galerie, Berlin (2004), Institute du Monde Arabe/Showroom, Zentrum für Kunst & Mode K&K, Weimar (2003); ready-to-wear/colonial, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (2001). Group Exhibitions (a.o.): Überreichweiten – DDR als Material in der Kunst, ACC Galerie Weimar (2004); nebengeräusche/windstöße, Kunsthaus Dresden (2003); Come-In – Interieur als Medium in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Wanderausstellung bis 2007 (2003).
Venues
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69
10117 Berlin
www.kw-berlin.de
Sophiensaele GmbH
Sophienstrasse 18
10178 Berlin
www@sophiensaele.com
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Markus Müller I Maike Cruse
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