Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to invite you to the exhibition 2^-1/4-n/2 x 2^1/4-n/2 by the Danish conceptual artists Heidi Hove and Jens Axel Beck – the first exhibition in our new series Artists in Dialog.

Each exhibition in Artists in Dialog will take the form of a discursive examination between two artists, whose work has a common point of contact (e.g. in aesthetics, theme or process). The exhibition will be based around each artist interacting with the other's artistic position. It is our intention that their artworks come together not through a series of traditional curatorial (and hierarchical) decisions, but that the artists, working together, find a specific form of display for their own and each other's works. Thus, this form of exhibition as dialog will present an additional phenomenon: both artists will take part intensively in the curatorial aspect of the project, breaking down traditional barriers between artistic and curatorial production.

The exhibition title 2^-1/4-n/2 x 2^1/4-n/2 is the formula for calculating the dimensions of the paper sizes in the ISO A series. At Art Laboratory Berlin the A4 will be the basic element for building up the exhibition. Literally speaking, the exhibition space will take form as a laboratory and office setting, where the artists will gather material and information from the Internet. Different materials will be printed out and copied on A4 paper. Both artists will go through each other's pile of papers and choose material for presentation. Their working progress will begin in the week before the opening (28 May) and continue in the days thereafter.
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Exhibition views from
OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border
http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-17.htm


works by Michelle Chong, Luis G. Hernandez and Ed Gomez.
(All photos in this post by Tim Deussen/ fotoscout.de)


Find Yourself Here, by Michelle Chong
(also at http://michellechong.com/findyourselfhere/)


Americanista, by Ed Gomez


Los, by Luis G. Hernendez


Caution: the Freeway Interventions by Camilo Ontiveros


Caution: the Freeway Interventions by Camilo Ontiveros


TRANS-poster by Michelle Chong


Tijuana Girl Crossing by Katya Gardea Browne


Tijuana Girl Crossing by Katya Gardea Browne


(All photos in this post by Tim Deussen/ fotoscout.de)

Artist talk with Michelle Chong from 25 April, 2010
now on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWqSeej-JYc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mlnwv9IpgM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjgjNikCs-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSuwPotn-kU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0xdVvU542Y

Talk by Michelle Chong, 25 April, 2009


OFF FENCE. Art on the Californian-Mexican Border is an artistic platform with five positions, exploring the cultural overflow, overlap and tensions in the border region of Southern California and Northwest Mexico.

The artists from Los Angeles and Mexico City each deal with the theme of the border and its effects on Mexican and Mexican-American identity in uniquely different ways. Michelle Chong and Luis G. Hernandez produce prints and net.art works which investgate ethnic identity from a linguistic perspective. The video and photography work of Ed Gomez and Camilo Ontiveros artistically reflect the political and economic impact of cultural disruption and division. The video work of Katya Gardea Browne processes physical and geographic structures and reflects the formal aspects of borders as such. (more Information...)

Exhibition view (left, Trans-poster 2010, Michelle Chong, right, Caution: the Freeway Interventions, 2005, Camilo Ontiveros)


Exhibition view (left, Americanista, Ed Gomez, 2008, right Los, 2009 Luis G. Hernandez)


Caution: the Freeway Interventions, Camilo Ontiveros, 2005


Caution: the Freeway Interventions, Camilo Ontiveros, 2005


Exhibition view (Tijuana Girl Crossing, 2008, Katya Gardea Brown)


Exhibition view (Tijuana Girl Crossing, 2008, Katya Gardea Brown)


Exhibition view (Find Yourself Here, 2009, Michelle Chong)

OFF FENCE. Art at the Californian-Mexican Border
Vernissage 23 April 2009


Michelle Chong and Regine Rapp ( From Here to There, 2010, by Luis G. Hernandez in background)










(background Tijuana Girl Crossing by Katya Gardea Browne, right, TRANS Poster, Michelle Chong)