Publication
Together we will play records, talk and listen to versions of the work we have done and will do. The session will be somewhere amongst a spiral retelling and its planetary reverberations, an echo without a cause, a thunder-strike and its soundwave riding the ionosphere, a protest refrain, a knock warning, a Palestinian radio jingle, a dub, a peri-acoustics, a cease and desist siren, a new year’s broadcast. Tune in, stop by.
Link to the first broadcast: https://soundcloud.com/user-854660269-405465536/radio-earth-hold-colonial-voice
Radio Earth Hold is organised by Rachel Dedman, Lorde Selys and Arjuna Neuman, commissioned as a collateral project of Qalandiya International, and supported by the Serpentine Galleries.
It traces echoes between the anti-occupation movement in Palestine and anti-racism movements in the North American context. It examines British Mandate radio as a colonial instrument in Palestine, and Israeli control of Palestinian telecommunications as part of the architecture of occupation. It connects these to the birth of Mni Wiconi during the Standing Rock protests, radical midwifery practices, and the acousmatics of sound in the womb.
Broadening beyond political struggle to the phenomenon of ‘natural radio’, Radio Earth Hold’s research addresses how electromagnetic radiation functions at a bigger-than-planetary scale. How might natural radio and acousmatic sound—reverb without a cause, or echo without a source—offer a model for reorganising relationships between the individuals and the world? What solidarity emerges from the recognition of our participation in the transmission of planetary sound?
Radio Earth Hold is commissioned as part of the collateral program of Qalandiya International IV, and supported by the Serpentine Galleries, London.
Louis Henderson is a filmmaker who is currently trying to find new ways of working with people to address and question our current global condition defined by racial capitalism and ever-present histories of the European colonial project. The working method is archaeological. Henderson has shown his work at places such as; Rotterdam International Film Festival, Doc Lisboa, CPH:DOX, New York Film Festival, The Contour Biennial, The Kiev Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, SAVVY Contemporary, The Gene Siskell Film Centre, Gasworks and Tate Britain. His work is in the public collection of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques, France and is distributed by Lux (UK) and Video Data Bank (USA).
Photos by Benjamin Busch
Wednesday, December 5, 19:00
Between Pages A Publication
Encounter with Zahra Rashid
In October 2018, Zahra Rashid exhibited at Künstlerhaus Bethanien after 10 months of practice in a studio there.
Through Between Pages A Publication, Zahra Rashid will share that experience in a conversation with Zoya Honarmand.
Zahra Rashid (b.1987 in Tehran, Iran) mainly works with drawing. Lately, she has been practicing reproduction and multiple representations through different mediums.
Rashid earned a BA in Visual Communication from Tehran University of Art in 2012 and completed her MFA studies in Medium and Material Based Art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in 2015. She participated in Künstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program in 2018 supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Photos by Benjamin Busch
Wednesday, September 26, 16:30-18:00
Encounter with Bisagra
Tangent to their project Fashion Week at Kinderhook & Caracas (22.09–20.10)
Bisagra is a platform that functions as a meeting point in the fragmented world of the visual arts in Lima, creating connections between its different manifestations, as well as other areas of research and creation. Heir to the previous experiences of some of its members on collective work, Bisagra seeks to embrace and circulate ideas, projects and experiments that share our interest in flexible exchanges with a critical and humorous spirit.
Bisagra is a project of Andrés Pereira Paz, Eliana Otta, Florencia Portocarrero, Iosu Aramburu, Juan Diego Tobalina and Miguel A. López.
If you would like to know more information about Fashion Week please visit: www.kinderhook-caracas.com
Photos by Benjamin Busch
Tuesday, September 25, from 18:00
Elymus Repens at Bar Babette
With contribution by TIER.space
A proposal by Lucile Bouvard
Silva Agostini, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld (Very) — Kathrin Sonntag
Benjamin Busch, Lorenzo Sandoval (TIER.space) — Alice Morey
Susanne Kriemann (ABA) — Graham Kelly
Adrien Missika (Belo Campo) — Sâadane Afif
Lin May Saeed (Center) — Emmanuelle Castellan
Maik Schierloh (Autocenter) — Marie Reinert
Hagen Schümann (Åplus) — Philip Newcombe
End of September, Bar Babette will have to leave its legendary building on Karl-Marx-Allee. Over its 15 years of existence, it has become an institution and a gathering place for the many crossing communities of Berlin’s art scene.
In this phase of change and transition, the exhibition Elymus Repens pays a homage to Bar Babette’s relentless artistic activism and furthermore to the vivacity and diversity of Berlin’s off-space flora. The show will gather Berlin-based artists, who have created spaces to initiate dialogues and give visibility to the works of other artists. It will focus on their works as well as on their role as curators, initiators or art activists. Each of them are solicited to invite another artist, who they have previously shown or want to show.
Reflecting the permanent disappearance and growth of off spaces and a selective view, the selection presented includes new and long-established initiatives, as well as former off spaces that have played an important role in the development of the city’s art scene.
Location:
Bar Babette
Karl-Marx-Allee 36
10178 Berlin
Saturday, July 14, 19:00
Elena Tejada-Herrera, Videos from This Woman: Performance Documentation 1997-2010
Book presentation by Florencia Portocarrero
Elena Tejada-Herrera is a leading figure of feminist performance and video art that opened an area of inquiry and action almost unexplored throughout the history of Peruvian performance: the assertion of the artist’s body in its sexual, racial and social otherness or specificity as a vehicle to critically intervene in the public space and break the silence and fear imposed by the dictatorial regime in Peru in the late 90s. In 2001, awarded with a grant from the Virginia Common Wealth University, the artist moved to the United States. The immigration process profoundly affected her practice and led her to use video-performance as a solitary form of artistic and citizen affirmation.
Videos from This Woman: Performance Documentation 1997-2010 is the first critical and long-overdue revision of the work of Elena Tejada-Herrera and results from the exhibition of the same name that took place at Proyecto AMIL (Lima, Peru, 2016). Edited by Florencia Portocarrero, the publication compiles the work of Tejada-Herrera through an extensive portfolio specially created by the artist and includes unpublished essays by: Portocarrero; the artist Armando Andrade Tudela; and the curator Miguel A. López. The book also presents a dossier of texts by the artist (originally circulated as an independent edition in 1999) and a conversation between Tejada-Herrera; the visual anthropologist Karen Bernedo; the artist Claudia Coca; and the performer, teacher and cultural promoter, Lorena Peña. The design of Videos from This Woman: Performance Documentation 1997-2010 is the outcome of a collaboration between vm& estudio grafico and the artist.
Florencia Portocarrero is a researcher, writer, and curator based in Lima. She received her BA in clinical psychology at the Catholic University of Peru, where she also earned an MA in psychoanalytical theory. From 2012–13 she participated in the De Appel Curatorial Program in Amsterdam and in 2015 completed an MA in contemporary art theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. Portocarrero’s writings on art and culture regularly appear in contemporary art magazines such as Atlántica Journal, Artishock, and Terremoto. During 2017/2018 Portocarrero was a grant holder of KfW Stiftung’s program ‘Curators in Residence: Curating Connections’ in collaboration with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. In Lima she works as a public program curator at Proyecto AMIL, and is a co-founder of Bisagra, one of the few independent art spaces in the city. She recently edited Videos From This Woman: Performance Documentation 1997–2010, a monograph on the work of the artist Elena Tejada-Herrera.
Photos by Benjamin Busch
We will celebrate our first event this coming Wednesday, June 6th at 19:00 with the launch of the latest OnCurating issue, no. 36 ‘Spaces of Anticipation’, with contributions from Antonia Alampi, BAR Project (Juan Canela, Andrea Novoa, Verónica Valentini), Luis Berríos-Negrón, Sol Calero, Binna Choi, Céline Condorelli, Valentina Desideri, Jonatan Habib Engqvist, Doris Krüger and Walter Pardeller, Teobaldo Lagos Preller, Alex Martinis Roe, Christian Nyampeta, Justo Pastor Mellado, Manuel Segade and Alec Steadman, and edited by Lorenzo Sandoval and Emanuele Guidi.
This issue developed from a research project by Lorenzo Sandoval and Emanuele Guidi that looks at artistic and curatorial practices so as to explore the role and potential of artistic and cultural institutional models. So far, Spaces of Anticipation has taken the form of a symposium with the same title at EACC (Castellón, Spain); the research exhibition Making Room. Spaces of Anticipation, and a second symposium and workshop both at ar/ge kunst (Bolzano, Italy). The term ‘anticipation’ aims at proposing an affirmative approach to the research as intends to elude the use of ‘post-isms’ and ‘future-ism’ terminology, which have been largely employed as parameters to discuss present conditions and their responsibilities.In these terms Spaces of Anticipation aims at gathering practices and relations able to ‘re-territorialize’ existing models of institutions through a genuine ‘desire of becoming’ by acting within present and unexpected conditions.
Various books and printed matter from contributors to this issue of OnCurating will be arranged in the space to expand the contents and trajectories of the publication. A special fermented drink will be prepared by artist Daniel Salomon.
June 6 at 19:00
The Institute for Endotic Research
TIER.space
Donaustr. 84
Berlin 12043
Photos by Benjamin Busch
