Sparwasser Hq
Offensive für zeitgenössische Kunst und Kommunikation
Schwedterstrasse 36 A
10115 Berlin Mitte
Telefon 0174-2577729
mail@sparwasserhq.de
Öffnungszeiten: Mi -Fr 16-19 Uhr, Sa 14-18 Uhr
www.sparwasserhq.de
vorausgegangene Ausstellung / previous
exhibition
//// BERLIN OPEN YOUR WINDOWS
by Anthony Marcellini
"The moment finally arrives...Oh, come, don't be late."*
Berlin, Open Your Windows is a project using open apartment
windows as platforms for a series of temporary public declarations.
From these windows a trained opera singer will project sung declarations
in German regarding the city of Berlin to the passersby below.
These declarations are being presented from apartments in several
distinct neighborhoods throughout Berlin: Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain,
Mitte and Prenzlauerberg. The content of each declaration is
based on details specific to each neighborhood; drawn from interviews
with tenants, news stories, historical and literary references,
and the artist's own personal impressions and reflections on
this city.
Each performance will begin exactly at the stated time. It
will last no longer than 5 minutes. Each performance will only
be presented once.
SCHEDULE
Thursday, February 25th: Kreuzberg
Address: Lausitzer Straße 12, 10999
Performance: 16:00
Friday, February 26th: Friedrichshain
Address: Weserstraße 25, 10247
Performance: 18:30
Friday, February 26th: Mitte
Address: Linienstraße 131, 10115
Performance: 24:00
Saturday, February 27th: Prenzlauerberg
Address: Kastanienallee 73, 10435
Performance: 15:00
Berlin Open Your Windows has been made possible through
a residency at Sparwasser HQ.
Thank you to Emily Dirks for lending your sonorous voice.
*Susanna's recitative and aria from Le Nozze di Figaro
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
SPARWASSER HQ presents
in collaboration with FEINKOST
///// Presentation talk
SPARWASSER HQ ARTISTS/CURATORS IN RESIDENCY 2009/2010
Solvej Helweg Ovesen | Anthony Marcellini | Karin Laansoo
Monday, March 1st, 8pm at FEINKOST
Bernauer Straße 71-72
13355 Berlin
Within the frame of the topic "public sphere-rhetoric/
offentlighed-retorik" we are delighted to welcome our
two new residents Anthony Marcellini and Karin Laansoo.
At the presentation they will talk about their projects that
deal with the ultimate exchange between artist and audience in
the making. These projects are both realized more as interventions,
rather than as 'art event's. Also last years curator-in-residency
Solvej Helweg Ovesen will present the work she did during
her residency at Sparwasser HQ. Her work inspired us and she
was part of the jury for "public sphere-rhetoric/ offentlighed-retorik".
The last part of this year residency, the appointed 10 text writers,
will be ready for publishing in the end of march. The residency
program is here.
Anthony Marcellini //// Berlin, Open Your Windows!
Anthony Marcellini is an artist and writer, whose practice can
be defined by an examination of the politics of the creative
act. With his work he aims to create spaces where people come
together to understand themselves in relationship with the world.
While he utilizes many forms of communication and expression,
his work primarily revolves around performance, gesture, speech
and theater, because these are forms that deal most directly
with our human behavior.
While in Berlin Anthony is presenting the project, "Berlin,
Open Your Windows!" a research and performance-project
taking place throughout several Berlin neighborhoods. Using apartments
as semi-public spaces Anthony and an opera singer are presenting
a series of musical declarations out the open windows of several
flats. These arias are written to reflect the history, the dreams,
the tribulations and the triumphs of each neighborhood.
Anthony Marcellini received his MFA in Social Practice from California
College of the Arts in 2009. In 2008 he was a recipient of Southern
Exposure's Alternative Exposure Grant and the Murphy & Cadogan
Fellowship in the Arts. He is also a frequent contributor to
the online journal www.artpractical.com. In 2011 he will present
a new work as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Europe-wide
arts festival. Currently he is teaching fellow through the Independent
Study Course at Valand School of Fine Arts. For more information
visit his blog.
Karin Laansoo //// Exploitation On Demand
"Producing an exhibition, for me typically involves
extensive artistic research, writing, and collaborative dialogue
over a long period of time. Mostly project and context dependent,
my collaborations are inspired by unusual situations and often
impossible-looking circumstances."
Karin Laansoo is a curator and writer, originally from Estonia
and currently based in New York City. After receiving her MA
in Art History from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2002, she
has worked as a producer and Gallery Manager in Tallinn and in
New York. In 2005 she authored an award-winning book, 22+
Young Estonian Artists. Since 2008 she has been the Director
of PointB-an international artist residency in Williamsburg,
New York. She also runs a single-work gallery called Monospace
in her apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
At the moment, Karin Laansoo is researching the many expressions
of exploitation, both in and around art. She just organized Art,
Image, and Exploitation-an international conference at Estonian
Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Her proposal for Sparwasser stemmed
from that context. The project Exploitation On Demand is a series
of public performances carried out by local volunteers in Berlin
according to authors' instructions.
Learn more about the conference; about the open call and Monospace
and about PointB.
Solvej Helweg Ovesen //// The World As a Stage
Solvej Helweg Ovesen, born in Denmark 1974, is a curator and
author living in Berlin. She studied communication sciene (BA)
at Roskilde University in Roskilde and cultural studies (MA)
at, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen and succeeded her curatorial
training at De Appel, International Curatorial Program, in Amsterdam
2003-2004. As a curator she worked e.g. for Sparwasser HQ,
Berlin (2000-2002), bak, basis voor aktuele konst, Utrecht
(2004-2005), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (2004-2006), Werkleitz
Biennale 2006, Halle (2005-2006), U-TURN Kvadriennale
für Gegenwartskunst, Kopenhagen, Århus und Møn
(2006-2008). She is co-founder and editor of SUM, Eng-Dk
Magazine for Contemporary Art based in Copenhagen and
Berlin.
Selected publications: "Men in Black: Handbuch der kuratorischen
Praxis", Anthologie, 2004, "Happy Believers:
Werkleitz Biennale", exhibition cataloque, 2006, "Olafur
Eliasson: det indre af det Ydre", 2007, "U-TURN
Quadrennial for Contemporary Art", exhibition cataloque
2008, "The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer",
Kirstine Roepstorff, exhibition cataloque 2009, "The
World as Stage", Diskurs Publication n.b.k., 2010.
In 2009 Solvej Helweg Ovesen was Sparwasser HQ curator-in-resident
and invited by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin |
Marius Babias, where she curated the exhibition "The
World as Stage" and published a book within this frame,
"Die Welt als Bühne", in the Diskurs Publikation
series published by Walter König, 2010. The exhibition and
publication is concerned with a critique of the concepts of 'performance'
and 'performativity' in a neoliberal societal context, which
will also be the topic of the presentation.
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