Can you imagine living in a place that was once an island?
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„THE BRIDGE“ Performance
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel und Scharaun + UOOORS + Bienal Tlatelolca
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Address
Inselstrasse 7, 10179 Berlin
Opening Hours
Thu 4 Jul, 6 - 9 pm
Exhibition
4 Jul - 18 Jul, 2024
Gallery hours
Fri - Sun, 2 - 6 pm
Contact: office(at) moeglichkeit-einer-insel.de
Participating artists:
Bienal Tlatelolca (MEX Artists): Daniel Noreña and Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Morelos León Celis, Balam Bartolomé, Antonio Monroy. UOOORS Collective (LA Artists): Ellen Friedlander, Fatemeh Burnes, Juri Knoll, Mei Xian Qiu, Poul Lange, Aline Mare, Neal Taylor, Michael Miller, Marjan Vayghan
Organised by Jaro Straub (Scharaun) and Stephanie Kloss (Die Möglichkeit einer Insel)
Image Video still: Morelos León Celis, COLMENA Video 7’55”, 2021
About
The exhibition „Can you imagine living in a place that was once an island?“ is the starting point of a series running over a period of three years beginning in Berlin in 2024, travelling to Mexico City in 2025 and concluding in Los Angeles in 2026.
The first installment in Berlin is initiated by the two Berlin based project spaces „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“ and „Scharaun“. The series has its kick-off event on Saturday, 29th of June with the Performance Night „The Bridge“, located in near vicinity of the space of „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“ on the pedestrian only Inselbrücke. The performances of the invited artists from Berlin, Los Angeles und Mexico City will use the runway of the bridge in public space as a platform to experiment with different formats of confrontations and display between the body of the performer and the architectural surrounding.
The main exhibition which will open five days later on Thursday, July 4th at „Die Möglichkeit einer Insel“ takes its title from a video by Mexico City collective „Bienal Tlatelolca“. The selected artists from Mexico City will be represented exclusively with video works documenting the historical layers of Mexico City and beyond. UOOORS collective from Los Angeles will be presenting nine artistic positions showing their different photographic approach in a special installation format. The images are challenging similar questions from the point of view of the urban sprawl, architectural transitions and the density of living in Los Angeles
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Location
Inselbrücke at Fischerinsel
Date & Time
Sat, 29 Jun, 7-10 pm
Participating artists:
Discoteca Flaming Star,
Marjan Vayghan, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Aaron Lang, Karol Tyminksi, Antonio Monroy
“THE BRIDGE“ Lineup
Discoteca Flaming Star (Berlin) In My Heart
7 - 10 pm
Marjan Vayghan (LA)
7 - 10 pm
Antonio Monroy (Mexico City) Deporte National Video, 3min
7 - 10 pm
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez (Berlin)
1 Compensation 2 Termination 3 Delivery performed by Aaron Lang (Berlin) 20min
7:30 pm
8:30 pm
9:30 pm
Karol Tyminski (Berlin)
8 - 10 pm
DIE MÖGLICHKEIT EINER INSEL
The artist-run project space derived its name from Michel Houellebecq's 2005 science fiction novel with the same name and its actual location down at Inselstraße in Berlin Mitte. In a gutted Plattenbau, one of the very last erected in former GDR, exhibition projects compiled by various curators and artists are shown in loose sequence. This special venue in the very center of Berlin offers artists a possibility to experiment with space, architecture, and urbanism apart from an omnipresent art market pressure and its immanent force for product placement. Currently funded by Sentat für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.
Bienal Tlatelolca
Bienal Tlatelolca is an artist run initiative that operates in Central de Maquetas (a model store in operation since 1956) in the Tlatelolco Housing Complex, an urban island-prototype, designed by mexican modernist architect Mario Pani. Since 2019, under the initiative of artists Antonio Monroy and Balam Bartolomé, Bienal Tlatelolca intend to question the concept of “biennial” as an area of speculation in opposition to a space of dialogue that can create knowledge. For the past four years, Bienal Tlatelolca has been unavoidably involved and interested in the social, political and historical events that took place in the area, from the Mesoamerican period to the present, which allowed the project to measure the importance of Tlatelolco as a social, economic and cultural exchange center, which was constructed and stands over ruins, in formal and figurative terms. Tlatelolco relates the destruction and reconstruction of Mexico and raises the architecture and construction of a Latin American identity.
UOOORS
UOOORS /yORz/ is a collective of visual poly artists practicing one or more disciplines. Members share an interest in the transformational and accessible nature of photography. The group’s collaborative projects focus on parallel and multiple means of expression, unpredictable overlaps, and social practices. UOOORS was conceived and organized by Fatemeh Burnes and Mei Xian Qiu.