B+LA+M
Kurt-Kurt + POIETO PROJECTS + Medialabmx
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Address
Lübecker Straße 13, 10559 Berlin
Opening
Thu, 27 Jun, 6–9 pm
Lecture-Workshop
Wed, 3 July, 6 pm by POIETO PROJECTS (in English)
Exhibition Dates
27 Jun - 12 Jul, 2024
Visit
Fri-Sat, 4-7 pm and by appointment
Finissage
Fri, 12 July, 6 - 9 pm
Participating artists:
POIETO PROJECTS: Carey Crooks, Christine Meinders. Medialabmx: Leonardo Aranda, Dora Bartilotti, Valeria Valdez. Kurt-Kurt: Bruno Nagel, Pfelder, Simone Zaugg
Image
Respirar juntxs, © Edgar Gómez-Cruz 2020 - 2022
About
The exhibition B+LA+M, brings together the project spaces POIETO PROJECTS from Los Angeles, Medialabmx from Mexico City and Kurt-Kurt from Berlin. They present artistic positions that are representative of their work as project space initiators, curators, artists and bridge builders between art, everyday life, neighborhood and constantly changing socially relevant topics.
Medialabmx, POIETO PROJECTS and Kurt-Kurt are united by the close observation and questioning of our everyday actions, which becomes the starting point and driving force for artistic collaborations, interventions and multimedia installations. Not detached, but on the ground and in dialog with artists, the neighborhood and the art-specific audience, they take up local issues in order to consciously locate themselves in the community, to sharpen the view of the details on site, but also to open the perspective to and from the outside in order to perceive and reflect on art in a larger and international context.
The changes in local, national and global politics, in society and in the media require unprecedented artistic interventions, collaborations and the development of new strategies. The aim of the joint exhibition by POIETO PROJECTS, Medialabmx and Kurt-Kurt is to develop and explore these together in a dialog based on art, to overcome resistance and to exploit potential by bringing together artists from different media and disciplines.
The exhibition is kindly supported by Stadtteilkasse Berlin-Mitte
and expofair GmbH Berlin
About the exhibited works
Respirar juntxs by Leonardo Aranda, Dora Bartilotti, Valerie Valdez
Medialabmx, Mexico City | www.medialabmx.org
Respirar juntxs (Breathing Together) is a participatory art project that addresses fundamental questions of convival living and working and translates them into metaphors of collective walking and breathing as a potential path for social change. At the heart of the project are gas mask-like objects, normally associated with war or violence, but here redefined through their hybridization with an aesthetic influenced by contemporary Latin American culture.
The aim of these convivial devices is to activate the neighborhood and develop new ways of collectively inhabiting the city and maintaining networks of care in society.
Formally, the masks, made together with young people, are interactive sound devices that generate an amplified common frequency when users breathe in order to coordinate breaths and bodies.
La has visto...? by Dora Bartilotti | Medialabmx, Mexico City | www.medialabmx.org ( 2021 - 2022 ) Concept and realization: Dora Bartilotti, Technical direction: Leonardo Aranda, Video: Geo Vallejo
La has visto...? is a participatory artwork that addresses a poetic gesture of searching for the absent compañeras (colleagues/friends) who were victims of forced disappearance in Mexico. The performative work is based on the search itself, alluding to expressions and gestures that occur in the search processes for the disappeared victims. In this way, it also alludes to the problem of the gender perspective. The project consists of three interlinked phases: First, a participatory phase in which an attempt is made to gather a multitude of voices around the question La has visto...? in a sculpture consisting of countless strips of fabric. In a second part, the sculpture becomes an interactive textile interface that carries the strips and amplifies the voices. And finally, the electronic textile object is activated in a series of actions in public space and encourages interaction with people.
(WINNER OF THE ARS ELECTRONICA AWARD 2022)
Art Search by Viv Pitter, Sarah Cheung, Laila Brown, Karina Lopez, Saizami Tripathi, Anna Cho-Son | POIETO PROJECTS x Feminist AI Cohort 2021-2022, Los Angeles| www.feminist.ai | www.poieto.com
Art Search frames ML and facial recognition as both artifacts and as archaeological tools. Using phenotypic matching the project explores bias in existing computer vision systems like DeepFace, while continuing to craft and source its own archival training data.
Feminist AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all. The research and design group creates spaces where unheard voices can gather to build tech together that is informed by cultures, identities and experiences. They engage with intersectional feminism to spotlight our stories, inventions, designs and leadership, and to co-create more equitable futures.
Transforming Transmissions by Carey Crooks, Chris Hebert, Christine Meinders, Keri Paniagua | POIETO PROJECTS, Los Angeles | www.poieto.com
Transforming Transmissions is a generative sound sculpture that addresses urgent issues such as ownership, copyright and co-determination. This project explores AI and communication through the dynamic evolution of sounds as they move from transmission to reception, evolving within a generative sound system. How is the message distorted by transmission and how does this change our understanding of ownership, copyright and creativity?
Tagesschau by Bruno Nagel, Pfelder and Simone Zaugg
Kurt-Kurt, Berlin | www.kurt-kurt.de
The shop window of the Kurt-Kurt project space becomes a "cinema", but also a display between inside and outside, art space and public space, project and neighborhood. A "mini-cinema" will be built in the project space with two rows of cinema chairs on a raised platform. Visitors sit on cinema chairs in the project space and look out through the shop window onto the street. The neighborhood and real life become a film. At the same time, the daytime show also takes place when people passing by look through the display into the room. The viewers become the viewed. In this way, the reality of Lübecker Straße also becomes a cinematic image and links the feedback of neighborhood and local, public issues with global experiences.
Kurt-Kurt
Kurt-Kurt | Kunst und Kontext im Stadtlabor Moabit is an art project that explicitly deals with exemplary selected situations in the urban space of Moabit and in Berlin, consciously locating itself here and sharpening the view of the details on site as well as opening the view to and from the outside in order to perceive and reflect on art in a larger and international context. Kurt-Kurt examines, pursues and illuminates strategies and developments in the examination of the public and urban space. The interventions and presentations of the Kurt-Kurt project are a place for exchange and encounter between art and everyday life, urban space and project space, model and reality and always also between international art audiences and neighborhoods/residents as well as between artists and art recipients.
POIETO PROJECTS
POIETO PROJECTS cultivates sympoiesis ("participation") and ethos ("character") at the local level in the community and brings together artists, researchers and technologists to equip them with knowledge and tools to shape a creative and responsible approach to AI in the future. The collaborative and connective approach allows for local, private learning while enabling a shared presence across physical boundaries. The resulting projects break down the traditional distinctions between viewer, artist and artwork and dissolve the boundaries between interaction, participation and authorship.
Medialabmx
Medialabmx is a project space in the La Merced neighborhood of Mexico City dedicated to investigating and exploring the connections between art, neighborhood, technology and politics. Its work focuses on the use of new media and its intersections with politics, participation and citizens in direct exchange with the neighborhood.