DIE CHEMISCHE REINIGUNG – cement installation (Berlin). ERIK SOMMER.

 

 

DIE CHEMISCHE REINIGUNG cement installation (Berlin)

ERIK SOMMER

http://erikjsommer.com/

MULTI KULTI CAFÉ.BERLIN

FINAL EXHIBITION OF BERLIN ART EXCHANGE 2016

Artistic synergy between Art Aia – Creatives \ In \ Residence and
the Institut für Alles Mögliche

Sunday 3rd July // 8 p.m. – 10 p.m.

Art-spaces Kanzlei and Zentrale, Schererstraße 9-11, 13347 Berlin

CARLO DE MEO
MATTEO GIUNTINI
FRANCO LOSVIZZERO
CHLOE SMITH
ADÉLA SOUČKOVÀ

Curated by Elena Giulia Abbiatici and Valerio Mazzetti Rossi

What are the boundaries of the mind? What is the state of the neutral mind, considering it something that extends to the whole body and not only coincides with the brain?
How do we think, memorize and conceive the world itself? Where does the image come from?

The intent of this Berlin Art Exchange is to deepen the mechanisms of action of our mind, naturally taking into account the influence of how techno-logos, inter-net, space of memory work on our minds and bodies. We are still wondering how they are able to transform the characteristics of our own nature, reformulating our modality to approach every aspect of life in a hybrid shape.

This hybrid and transparent space, as the production of the artists, is placed in anywhere Café Point. The latter, since its inception, continues to be the meeting point where different cultures, cult and sensitivities meet each other for an appointment, a simple “ hi” or the beginning of a new path.

“Maybe a coffee is what serves as a link, between subjects, allowing us to live in society, to be together, but since social relations are always ambiguous, since my thoughts divide as much as unite, and my words unite by what they express and isolate by what they omit, since my wide gulf separates my subjective certainty of myself, from the objective truth others have of me …”
(from 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle by Jean-Luc Godard, 1967).

There are many legends about the origin of coffee. The best known says that a shepherd named Kaldi led to graze goats in Ethiopia. One day they met a coffee plant and began to eat the berries and to chew the leaves. Once the night came, instead of sleeping, the goats began to wander with energy and liveliness never expressed before. Seeing this, the shepherd toasted the plant seeds such as those eaten by his flock, then milled them and made an infusion, getting the coffee.

The collective imagination of the artists in exhibition is contaminated with images, narratives, stories, listening, embedded memories or imaginary sensations. This Multi Kulti Café is the personal legend, the filter of their memory, the grain subjected to new and personal re-workings, in a suspension that is not a break but wants to be the trace of a dialogue.

We are an ongoing elaboration of past memories that we project into the future. Memory is a trace of a more or less recent past, which we store in our bodily experiences and what for various reasons we forgive or remove. At this neuro-scientific level, the hypothalamus is the seat of long- term memory, in which we impress our reminiscences, from where the man starts to construct reality creating new images and making them eternal. Fundamentally, there are two types of memory: an implicit (unconscious) one – emotional and automatic – and an explicit one, that we activate through a voluntary and conscious act. In the first case, it is a real intelligence of the body, which, without manifestations, emerges in the ways of doing, choosing, talking, moving on. This is the memory where the artists obtain from.

From this point, Franco Losvizzero‘s research begins with the aim at revealing the primal instincts, our hidden darkness, freeing the man from his mechanisms, reworking the practice of transcendental meditation, to which he was introduced since his childhood.

Adéla Součková, Czech artist, proceeds by written graphic symbols and stick figures to represent, following instinct, images and thoughts that appear to her mind, as in a web page, where several inputs coexist. It’s a thrust in rocky drawing, re-thought through virtual language.

Matteo Giuntini, as well, proceeds to give shapes to his ancestral and uncensored thoughts, creating some super-heroes without a story. The sincerity and mastery in capturing the essence constitute his original production, without masks or shadows, speaking to everyone silently.

Carlo De Meo, wandering, finds material that expresses in a re-use that is not recovery, but re-connotation of the elements in a chameleonic extension crossing the surrounding space.

The fluids faces of Chloé Louise Smith’s female portraits, her primitive graphic signs and her African nickname (Naku), are the natural path of a coffee bean, which is diluted together to all those possible and improbable human figures that we usually run into in a Café.

One of the most beautiful and meaningful old age myths is that one of Orpheus and Eurydice. Orpheus, which means darkness, makes a soul’s journey into the underworld to seek his beloved Eurydice. It is the rationality that goes to rethink the original creativity. Orpheus, turning back to Eurydice, with no trusting in her, has been condemned for the eternity, and stuck into a tension between the Apollonian and the Dionysian one, between the order of ratio and an intuitive knowledge.

Info: artaiafvg@gmail.com // info@i-a-m.tk // elena.abbiatici@gmail.com // valerio.rossiv@gmail.com

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The Institut für Alles Mögliche

The Institut für Alles Mögliche is an artistic project that, by using experimental means, sets about questioning, scrutinising and probing the institutionalisation and presentation of contemporary art. To this end project spaces are opened, events developed and various artistic practices tried out. These, mostly playful experiments deal with interrogations of the ‘art space’, the operatings of the ‘project space’ and ‘exhibiting’ often in an ironic manner.

The central concept is to develop spaces of possibility in which exchange and experiences can take place and space for artistic activity can come in to being. The project can be understood as an organism, as an artistic attempt to find niches and to implant a non-commercial program into the commercial structure of the municipal sphere. It is intended to formulate a notion, a proposal, an approach on how artistic collaborations, collective learning and cohabitation can be constructed. The project tries to create an alternative, which opposes the economic utilisation of art, the artistic pressure to produce and increasing standardisation.

Projects that are realized within the Institut are non–commercial and not market-orientated. We place great value on artistic practices and forms of expression that take place beyond art fairs and galleries. During our deliberately short events – the majority no longer than three days – experimental set-ups, unfinished concepts and playful approaches can be tried out and realised. The creations and projects that come in to being through these processes can work out uncannily but also fail spectacularly.

Director: Stefan Riebel // www.i-a-m.tk

Art Aia – Creatives \ In \ Residence

Art Aia- Creatives/ In/ Residence is a cultural center, a creative residency, located inside a farm in the Friulian countryside of Northern Italy, near the town of Sesto al Reghena in the province of Pordenone. Its aims are the cultural research and the artistic experimentation in the area, the circulation of information, the promotion of art and culture at a local and international level. Art Aia pursues exclusively cultural and artistic activities, guided by the idea that art can help to overcome the limitations and barriers place to communication still today, which in a way reduce imagination and creativity. For this reason, Art Aia is strongly committed to the promotion of exchange and collaboration between individual artists and groups of various nationalities and backgrounds. The Centre organizes and hosts different types of activities : the artists may reside at Art Aia during periods of study and work, develop new projects, create performances or audiovisual work, attend courses, seminars and workshops on different techniques, present their work within Festivals and exhibitions and carry out activities aimed to the development of their artistic skills and creative process. Art Aia is also an ecology center, immersed in the nature of the Friulan territory, where it is possible to get familiar with sustainable agriculture and innovative practices of eco-therapy. Over the past five years, one of the main activity of Art Aia has been the higher education, with courses taught by international artists, and the center is also willing to enlarge the proposals of projects to the various fields in a logic of resilience. Several groups have also been hosted in the structure to carry out creative residencies, aimed at the preparation of new art projects. The spirit of Art Aia is to develop creativity, understood as a cultural resource and potential for growth, within a natural setting where it is possible to establish a new relationship between humanity, art and nature.

Director: Giovanni Morassutti// www.artaiafvg.wordpress.com

BERLIN ART EXCHANGE 2016 – SELECTED ARTISTS

L’Institut fur Alles Mogliche di Berlino in collaborazione con Art Aia – Creatives In Residence presenta la lista dei vincitori della residenza artistica “Berlin Art Exchange 2016”.

Una giuria composta da esperti dell’Institut für Alles Mögliche e di Art Aia | Creatives In Residence nel rispetto dei criteri di valutazione del bando, che va dall’Idea progettuale: (30 punti) / Modalità di realizzazione entro la durata della residenza (25 p.)/ Coerenza con il progetto Berlin Art Exchange (15 p.) / Capacità comunicativa del progetto artistico (30 p.), con totale massimo di 100 punti, annuncia con soddisfazione i primi sei classificati (in ordine alfabetico):

ELENA GIULIA ABBIATICI – in qualità di curatrice (ITA)

CARLO DE MEO – (ITA)

MATTEO GIUNTINI – (ITA)

FRANCO LOSVIZZERO – (ITA)

CHLOE SMITH – (UK)

ADELA SOUCKOVA – (REP.CECA)

Gli artisti e la storica dell’arte saranno sostenuti dal centro culturale nel periodo della residenza per la realizzazione di opere inedite presso gli spazi dell’Institut für Alles Mögliche al fine di creare un ponte di scambi culturali tra artisti italiani, e gli ambienti di sperimentazione berlinesi. Giornate di ricevimento con “open studio”, incontri con studenti, curatori/galleristi e con il pubblico saranno scadenzati a partire dal 27 Giugno al 4 Luglio 2016.

Come afferma il dir. artistico di Art Aia e regista Giovanni Morassutti:- Si svilupperà una fase successiva in cui 6 artisti tedeschi e altre eccellenze internazionali, saranno ospitati in Friuli Venezia Giulia a partire dal 2017.

L’appuntamento è per il 3 Luglio alle ore 20.00 con la mostra presso Institut für Alles Mögliche

Berlin-Mitte

Germany.

Our friend Sadya Mizan is launching the 5th Project of “URONTO”

URONTO is an artist community who are in a new way working toward documenting a sector of memories of old architectural existences through any discipline of Art. Basically “URONTO” Residential Art Exchange Program is a meeting place for creative individuals to work with a common theme and space, but in different languages. Visual artists, photographers, writers, film maker, architect, musicians and performing artists are only a few disciplines who will be participating at these gatherings, which will often take place in rustic landscapes, whether it be old, abandoned houses or camp out in rural communities and mostly to any soon-to-be dumped or finished place or natural atmosphere.

The aim of the program is to accommodate and sustain an organic environment for the artists to fall in rhythm with the natural sphere and project their insights amongst fellow artists, ultimately creating a reverberating atmosphere to inspire further projects.

“URONTO” works toward documenting the relation of time and space and the changes of spaces with time, through art practice of any discipline. Participants of each project are invited to portray the history, stories, myth, values or anything about the architectural structure or house or building chosen for every episode.

We do believe that every form of art is inter-related and also it has its own prosper strength individually indeed. Therefore we invite artist of any creative discipline to participate, so that we can have a unique documentation of the theme in enormous variation of artistic media. Where a writer might produce literary pieces or an article; an artist might prepare a painting or an installation piece while a musician may create a tune/number based on mood, history and atmosphere of the place.

Guideline of the project:

Venue: PK Sen Building, Sadarghat, Chittagong.

Date: 22-29 July 2016

Reporting Date: 22July 2016 at

Working dates: 23-28 July 2016

Open studio day: 29 & 30 July 2016

Fur further info click on the following link : https://www.facebook.com/notes/uronto-residential-art-exchange-program/open-call-5th-project-of-uronto-residential-art-exchange-program-2016-in-chittag/814524418678480

Artists in Residency open call in Armenia

TAI (Today Art Initiative) Artists in Residency – OPEN CALL
We are pleased to inform that the call for the Artists-in-Residence Program of TAI 2016 has been opened.
We look forward to receiving the applications of the international artists those who have enthusiasm for realizing their creative projects in Yerevan capital of Armenia.
Duration of residency
1-8 months
Disciplines, work equipment and assistance
-Visual art, performance art, music, architecture, urban art, literature, curatorial and cultural research, arts administration, art management, cultural leadership, and interdisciplinary art.
-Basic tools and art supplies.
-Logistic support and assistance for artists’ residency projects.
Accommodation
Private furnished room and shared kitchen in Yerevan.
Private or shared studio/room with hared kitchenette in Yerevan
Fees and support
Applicants are responsible for covering the residency fee that includes the studio rent, utilities and administrative support. TAI will provide letters for successful residents and support their applications (with needed documents) for external grants to cover the fee, travel, food, production and other costs.
No stipend or allowance for international artists for this period.
If an artist would like to have an exhibition during the residency,we will support logistic fee according to the proposal.
Expectations towards the artist
To join welcome party, field trip, artist talk, joint exhibition, open studio , presentation, discussions..etc.
Application information
You can send your Portfolio and project proposal (Max 700 word) to : tai.todayart@gmail.com
We look forward to having artists form different parts of the world.

Berlin Acting Masterclass with John Strasberg (February 13th – 17th. 2017)

BERLIN ACTING MASTERCLASS with JOHN STRASBERG at

Organic Creative Process for Actors. February 13th – 17th. 2017.

Deadline: December 15th, 2016

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BERLIN ACTING MASTERCLASS with JOHN STRASBERG
at
SOMOS ART HOUSE in BERLIN

February 13th – 17th. 2017

Organic Creative Process for Actors.

What makes an artist? What makes him or her creative, going beyond technique? The answer is profoundly simple, the ability to be inspired, able to live spontaneously in the context of the character and the play(….).Real thoughts are simple, personal, profound, they come from what you sense and feel. They are more spontaneous. They are not correct, or intellectualized, and mechanical. Recognizing the difference, you think like a human being, putting yourself into the character’s shoes.

John Strasberg

Organic Creative Process for Actors. (February 13th – 17th. 2017)

The Masterclass is based on developing each actor’s Organic Creative Process, a deeply personal creative process based on developing a consciously, intuitive process that helps the actor to become deeply involved in the character’s world, transforming him or herself.
Good actors live in another world. Great actors live in another world as somebody else.
Actors will learn Involvement, dreaming, imagining, flashes of insight, understanding, and learning how to read and understand the script, which is what is important.
Technique is not a mechanical, linear process. Class feels like a rehearsal, more than a class. The Actors’ Studio was unique in the world, and my work continues to embody that love, passion, discipline, and dedication.

John Strasberg

TUITION

-Participant for the Organic Creative Process for Actors Masterclass
600 euro (including VAT 19%)
(limited number up to 26 actors )

-Auditor for the Organic Creative Process for Actors Masterclass
300 euro (including VAT 19%)
(limited number up to 25 auditors)

HOURS AND DATES

Classes will be every day from 12 pm to 5 pm – Monday through Friday . February 13th – 17th. 2017

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please send cv and headshot to artaiafvg@gmail.com before December 15th, 2016 . The admitted participants wil be notified via email by December 22nd, 2016.

GET IN TOUCH

For further information contact :
Giovanni Morassutti (0049) 15218465093

giovannimorassutti@hotmail.com
artaiafvg@gmail.com
somos@somos-arts.org

URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/166967513747137/

 The Masterclass is organized in collaboration with  SomoS Art Project Space

SomoS is one of Berlin’s best non-profit art spaces, it provides space and resources for presentation and production of the arts like a spacious exhibition hall, living ateliers and guest rooms, a multipurpose area; and coworking-, workshop- and media production facilities.
SomoS organizes its own cultural events and closely works with artists, organizers and curators to realize their projects in order to create an international open framework for innovative arts, exhibitions, education and creative cooperation.
http://www.somos-arts.org/

 

ECO-THERAPY : Walking meditation

Eco-therapy practices including outdoor walking meditation as a wonderful way to renew our contact with nature.  The key to the practice of walking meditation is mindfulness. Dwelling in the present moment, we are fully aware of our surroundings, of our breath, and the precious contact of our feet with the earth. . In walking meditation there is no destination. We walk in order to walk; we have already reached our destination; it is the here and now.The environment is ideal for people and it gives opportunities to develop self-esteem while giving an insight and experience of a rural way of life to benefit from being and working within a natural environment in the countryside.

Art Aia’s main streaming partner

Culture Agora is the main live streaming partner of Art Aia’s events.

Click on the following link to check the platform: www.cultureagora.info/en/home

BERLIN ART EXCHANGE :OPEN CALL TO EMERGING ARTISTS-BERLIN.

Art Aia – Creatives In Residence collabora con l ‘Institut fur Alles Mogliche di Berlino attraverso un programma di scambio di residenza artistica .

BANDO DI RESIDENZA ARTISTICA BERLINO

Berlin Art Exchange 2016

CENTRI DI RESIDENZA ARTISTICA IDEATORI DEL PROGETTO

Art Aia –Creatives / In / Residence

Sesto al Reghena (PN)

Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy)

https://artaiafvg.wordpress.com/

Institut für Alles Mögliche

Berlin-Mitte

Germany

http://www.i-a-m.tk/

SELEZIONE DI 6 GIOVANI ARTISTI/ COLLETTIVO.

I PROGETTI ARTISTICI

I progetti artistici presentati devono obbligatoriamente indagare il rapporto tra stili di vita, consumi, ambiente e natura agendo attraverso uno dei seguenti strumenti:

• Suono (forme musicali sperimentali o alternative realizzare mediante elaborazione originale di testi e partiture);

• Arti multimediali (grafica, fotografia, video, realtà virtuali);

• Corpo, movimento (teatro, danza, espressione corporea);

• Elaborazione testi originali (racconti, poesie, saggi brevi, opere letterarie);

• Arti plastiche (pittura , scultura, lavorazione del ferro, pietra…)

I PARTECIPANTI

I partecipanti devono essere artisti o gruppi di artisti .

I TERMINI E LE MODALITA’ DI PRESENTAZIONE DELLE CANDIDATURE

Gli artisti devono presentare i loro progetti artistici attraverso le modalità seguenti :

Guida alla candidatura

Inviare la seguente documentazione via posta elettronica ad artaiafvg@gmail.com nell’oggetto specificare “Berlin Art Exchange 2016 ”

Il seguente materiale e’ da inviare entro e non oltre il 15 Maggio 2016

– Scheda sintetica descrittiva in formato PDF dell’opera che si intende realizzare ( Obbligatoria)

–  Liberatoria dei dati Personali ( Obbligatoria)

– Breve curricula artistico tutto debitamente sottoscritto ( Obbligatorio)

– Link contenente immagini, foto, video e qualsiasi altri strumento idoneo a descrivere e contestualizzare il progetto artistico proposto (facoltativo)

LA VALUTAZIONE

I progetti artistici presentati saranno valutati da una giuria composta da esperti dell’ Institut für Alles Mögliche e da Art Aia | Creatives In Residence nel rispetto dei seguenti criteri, per un totale massimo di 100 punti:

Qualità dell’idea progettuale: innovatività, originalità, realizzabilità, sostenibilità (Da 0 a 30 punti)

Modalità di realizzazione entro la durata della residenza (Da 0 a 25 punti)

Coerenza con il progetto Berlin Art Exchange (Da 0 a 15 punti)

Capacità comunicativa del progetto artistico (Da 0 a 30 punti)

La giuria qualora necessario, si riserva la possibilità di acquisire ulteriori elementi informativi dai partecipanti.

I SELEZIONATI E IL PREMIO

Gli artisti selezionati si aggiudicano una settimana di residenza artistica ( 27 Giugno- 3 Luglio 2016)  presso 2 degli spazi ( http://www.i-a-m.tk/zentrale-facts.html + http://www.i-a-m.tk/kanzlei-facts.html ) dell’Institut für Alles Mögliche di Berlino finalizzata alla realizzazione del progetto artistico proposto . Tali produzioni dovranno essere realizzate in pieno coordinamento con i promotori del presente Bando.

Gli artisti selezionati si impegnano altresì a contribuire alla piena riuscita del progetto partecipando ad alcune azioni complementari:

− Incontri formativi (skype) di avvio del progetto

− Documentazione del proprio lavoro artistico sviluppato durante la settimana di residenza a Berlino.

− Incontro con gli artisti dell’Institut für Alles Mögliche in Residenza Artistica ad Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence nel 2017 (laboratorio / workshop partecipato dove gli artisti selezionati condivideranno la loro esperienza a Berlino con gli artisti dell’Institut für Alles Mögliche.

CONDIZIONI ECONOMICHE

– L’ Alloggio e’ coperto al 100% dall’Institut für Alles Mögliche.

– Il viaggio andata e ritorno e’ a carico degli artisti

– Il vitto per la durata della residenza e’ a carico degli artisti

– Non e’ prevista alcuna fee per gli artisti coinvolti nel progetto

ACCETTAZIONE DELLE CONDIZIONI

I partecipanti sono garanti dell’originalità del progetto artistico proposto e Partecipando alle selezioni accettano le condizioni del presente Bando.

INFORMAZIONI SUPPLEMENTARI E CONTATTI

Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence.

Sesto al Reghena ( FVG )

Responsabile del Progetto

Giovanni Morassutti (0049)15218465093

artaiafvg@gmail.com

 

ART AIA IS LOOKING FOR PARTNERS IN BERLIN

ART AIA – Creatives \ In \ Residence is looking for a partner is Berlin in order to create cross-disciplinary exchange between artists, scholars and practitioners, as well as the outcomes of their individual and collaborative work that may include projects, symposia and exhibitions according to conceptual frame. We expect that these interdisciplinary exchanges at the international and local levels will foster both short and long-term ties.
For this purpose, Art Aia will offer fellows optimal working and communication structures. Various spaces will be available for production, exhibiting, exchange and leisure, including the Art Aia guests house , the Art Aia studio , the garden , the Multi purpose and  Performing centre (in progress), the Art Aia rehearsal space, the surrounding garden and the fields where specialized productions and installations can be realised.

For more info write to artaiafvg@gmail.com