Urban Research At Directors Lounge
Program 3: Activismo Experimental: Artists Involved!
Saturday, 18 February, 18:45h
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Directors Lounge at Naherholung Sternchen
Berolinastraße 7, 10178 Berlin / Mitte
In recent years, art has become increasingly political, again. The societies around the globe and even in Europe and the United States seem to wake up from the rigidity of the paralysing West-East conflict, and its aftermath, when there seemed to be no alternative to economic liberalism. Some artists take amazing risks to do public actions, others try to subvert written or unwritten laws in more subtle ways, however, in many ways, the society has become the material again for artists to experiment with. Furthermore, the cheeky and anarchist stance many artists have developed may have an influence on how the freedom to speech, which seems to be in jeopardy again, will be interpreted and used in the future.
- Cesy Leonard, DE, Schuld. Die Barbarei Europas, 16 min 00, 2011
- Eduardo Srur, BR, Bandit Bull, 3 min 22, 2010
- Russell J. Chartier, US, Confined, 3 min 34 Daniel, Künzler, AT, Inside Pockets Of The City, 13 min 17, 2011
- Diane Nerwen, US, Up On The Farm, 16 min, 2011
- Vladimir Turner, CZ, Dum Z Karet, 2 min 36
- Sheldon Brown, US, The Scalable City, 4 min 04, 2007
- Matt Grau, DE, Lachen in der U-Bahn, 2 min 59, 2011
- Eduardo Srur, BR, Attack, 3 min 34, 2004
- Brandstifter, DE, Ein kleines Stück Papier, 10 min 00, 2008
77 min
Opening of the special exhibition in the screening theatre:
Brandstifter DE Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011
Exhibition with lost and found sheets of paper
The installation "Asphaltbibliotheque Berlin 2011" at Directors Lounge works together with the screening of Brandstifter's documentation of his long term concept "Ein kleines Stück Papier" for Urban Art Research, displaying the gathered remains from Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg, Lichtenberg, Mitte and Neukölln from the "lost&found art research tour Hannover-Berlin" Easter 2011 as a brief sample of his huge collection that he archives from public space since 1998.
The Poetry of Papers "The Asphaltbibliotheque shows how poetic and many-layered artistic reordering can make an idea that is simple in itself. Brandstifter understands how to charge the profane with the poetic, and in so doing to provide playfully anarchic inspiration to conceive the everyday world as a freely formable work of art." (Martin Büsser, art critic, author, publisher, Testcard/Ventil Verlag)
Find more infos on the films and the program at:
http://www.richfilm.de/DL2012/framesUrbanResearch.html
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012
9-19 February 2012
open daily from 18:00
daily program, screening, installations, bar, lounge and music
doors free until 10 pm
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