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Erich Berger Mari Keto Martin Howse
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October- 8 December 2019, Fri - Sun 2-6 PM
Opening 18 October 2019, 8PM
Artist Talk 19 October 2019, 5PM
Local Area Network (LAN). Workshop with Martin
Howse: 13 Oct and 10 Nov 2019
Our planet is not only made up of earth and rocks, but also of
a number of invisible forces that influence and shape the form
and viability of life. Radiation is not just a by-product of the
atomic age, but something that exists in the background of almost
every environment. In this exhibition, the work of Erich Berger
and Mari Keto is presented along with a workshop and forensic
exhibition by Martin Howse to open a dialogue between contemporary
culture and deep (geological) time and psycho-geophysics.
Erich Berger and Mari Keto's works examine the questions
of toxic and radioactive waste in our world today. Inheritance
is a precious family heirloom and consists of jewellery, which
are radioactive and therefore rendered practically and symbolically
unwearable. Together with an electromechanical device to determine
the remaining radioactivity, the jewellery is stored in a concrete
container which is build to endure over a vast amount of time.
With these items the story goes that each time the jewellery is
handed over from one generation to the next, the ritual of measurement
determines if the jewellery can finally be brought in use and
fulfill its promise of wealth and identity or if it has to be
stored away until the next generation.
Open Care proposes a speculative future where individual
families take responsibility for radioactive waste. The piece
includes an electroscope for measuring radioactivity, an electrostatic
charger and a storage disc for a small amount of nuclear waste,
to be passed down form generation to generation. By rendering
the huge timescale of radioactive decay into more meaningful units
of lifetimes these work open the question of collective care and
responsibility from a fresh perspective.
Martin's Howse's workshop and forensic exhibition, Local
Area Network (LAN), is a transdisciplinary, speculative investigation
of local fields and particles, energetic exchanges, towards the
hacking and re-routing of circulations and networks at all stacked
levels of local geological, environmental and technological "Umwelten".
LAN intervenes within the co-existent realms of algorithmic
entities, of the structures and infrastructures of computation,
and communication with the non-human entities of the earth (mycelium
and microbes).
With
the generous support of:
13 Oct and 10 Nov 2019, 11AM-6PM
Local Area Network (LAN) open workshop is a collective, speculative
investigation of local fields/particles, and energetic exchanges, towards
the hacking and re-routing of energy flows and networks at all stacked
levels of local geological, environmental and technological "Umwelten",
forking into a forensic exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin.
LAN works in the field - at sites along the Panke - and in the
lab, punctuating an ongoing exhibition of changing processes and prototypes,
examining the interface of data ecologies and the non-human through mapping,
measuring and intervening within local and specific energetic transformations,
entropic gradients and boundings of matters, materials and cultures.
LAN examines and identifies sites of execution, the places where
energetic transformations intersect with human infrastructure and agents
of abstraction and logic; intervening within the co-existent realms of
algorithmic entities, of the structures and infrastructures of computation,
communication with the non-human entities of the earth (mycelium, microbes).
For example, specific devices, developed in the course of collective workshops
will examine relations of computation and decay, perhaps logging the growth
of lichen and other parasitic fungi/forms on human infrastructures or
examining branchy dew formations of radioactive particles. Workshops and
devices will equally examine relations of the decay of particles, and
the extension of the nuclear/geological within the interiors of plants
and bodies.
The first workshop will take place at Art Laboratory Berlin on the 13th
October, the second on 10th November. For the 2nd workshop participants
should follow the AND operator!
Local Area Network (LAN) forms part of the exhibition Invisible
Forces opening at Art Laboratory Berlin on 18 October, 2019.
Photos from 13 Oct:
