Cool Memories - Modes of Recall
SCHAU FENSTER + LIBERTINE + Sucesiva
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Address
Lobeckstraße 30-35, 10969 Berlin,
Opening Hours
Sat, 29 June, 7 - 11 pm
Contact: jan(at) kanyakage.com
Participating artists:
BOYD, DEB, Taewon Heo, Paul Kolazinski, Anna Libertine, Hendrik van Meckenem, Fernando Gress Muñoz, Hana Nue Ødegaard, Juni Aranda Rubli, Alicia Valladares, Doctor Von
About
SCHAU FENSTER shows artists from LIBERTINE (Los Angeles) and from Sucesiva (Mexico City)
Memory is the result of the process of remembering. It is the faculty of the mind by which information is stored, encoded, and retrieved. If the past could not be remembered, it would be impossible for language and relationships to be formed. Individual and collective memories are often changed and distorted forming a larger memory pool, much like a computer system. Unlike a computer, most humans can't remember every single thing, so memories are usually fuzzy perspectives on incidents that have already happened and have caused emotions or/and cognitions that could materialize in a possible future.
In the 80s at the height of his career, Baudrillard's book "Simulations" became the inspiration for the NeoGeo and Pictures generation which profoundly transformed the art world from a conceptual, abstract, performative enterprise to one of exchangeable objects. It is at this point in time that Baudrillard visited America and transformed himself into the poet of "Cool memories." To have lived through this time is to recall the still innocent excitement at the beginning of the "end of the world," compared to todays total matrix of simulation and virtuality. What is left of "Art" forty years after the end. What do we remember?
SCHAU FENSTER
SCHAU FENSTER is located in Berlin-Kreuzberg. A 25 meters long window front - hence the name, which translates DISPLAY WINDOW. Since August 2010 SCHAU FENSTER has exhibited more than 180 group shows in a monthly rhythm. Director Jan Kage invites the curators who are mostly artists themselves. Thus more than 1.800 artists’ works were displayed in the last 13 years. Not one particular style or fashion is served. The program is eclectic. It's the attitude that counts.
LIBERTINE
LIBERTINE is a Gallery, Guild, and Atelier introducing and exploring a network of new concepts and methods — aesthetic, economic, political, analytic and otherwise. Each exhibition is site-specific, designed by the artist and/or collaborating LIBERTINE curator.
The Guild initiates a community of singular creators, reprising the original artisan-entrepreneur guilds of the mercantile era. Their approach revives the methods of Fluxus and other 60s-70s movements exploring new forms of collective and general economy.
The Atelier incorporates limited edition multiples, including books, prints, designs, and other objects. These items are a major part of the production of LIBERTINE, making significant work available to a larger collector audience while elevating overly-reproducible works to the status of a limited object.
Sucesiva
We are an interdisciplinary, self-managed project that seeks to activate from collaboration with artists, independent spaces, workshop leaders and academics from all over the country and Mexico City. Our purpose is to generate new explorations and investigations around contemporary Mexican art in an open and alternative presentation to the traditional exhibition format. We present an opportunity of professionalization for new emerging artists, enriching each creative proposal from relational, collective, speculative and critical perspectives.