A Banquet for Ultra Bankruptcy

Performances by Carl Rowe & Simon Davenport (23.03 - 24.03)

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Photo (C) Tim Deussen

Opening of Synaesthesia/ 3: History of the Senses 

with works by Carl Rowe & Simon Davenport, Sergio Maltagliati & Pietro Grossi

"A Banquet of Ultra Bankruptcy" / performance by Carl Rowe & Simon Davenport

"Circus 8" by Sergio Maltagliati & Pietro Grossi (in the back room)

"Circus 8" by Sergio Maltagliati & Pietro Grossi

Artist talk with Madi Boyd 10 March, 2012 at 3PM
in connection with the exhibition
Synaesthesia / 2: Space and Perception
Madi Boyd
Carrie C Firman

Madi Boyd and  'The Point of Perception'. Photo Courtesy Art Laboratory Berlin

 
In her artist talk Madi Boyd will discuss her artistic work including "The Point of Perception" from the current exhibition. In addition to the topic of synaesthesia, she will also talk about the importance to neuroscience and other relevant fields in her artistic practice.

'The Point of Perception', installation photo,Photo courtesy of Art Laboratory Berlin

'The Point of Perception'.Photo © by Amin Akhtar

Regine Rapp in the installation 'The Point of Perception'. Photo © by Amin Akhtar

Art Laboratory Berlin Awarded Prize for Berlin Project Spaces

We are pleased to announce that Art Laboratory Berlin is one of the winners of the first Prize for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives in the Field of Visual Arts awarded by the Berlin Senate Office of Cultural Affairs.

The award honours the commitment and work of those operating project spaces and initiatives. 
 "The award serves" according to the Senate Office of Cultural Affairs, "to support them, to secure the existing diversity and to make the activities of art project spaces and initiatives in Berlin more visible."

The prize ceremony took place on 27 February, 2013 and was awarded by Berlin State Secretary of Culture André Schmitz.

 

Madi Boyd Point of Perception 
(video courtesy of the artist)

Opening of "Synaesthesia/ 2: Space and Perception" with works by Madi Boyd & Carrie C Firman

Madi Boyd "The Point of Perception" 2009/13 (installation view)

 

 

"The Point of Perception" (installation view)

Christian de Lutz and Madi Boyd

ALB Team: Anastasia Shavlokhova, Chiara Cartuccia, Chiara Massari Von Aschenbach and Olga Shmakova

Carrie C Firman and Christian de Lutz

Carrie C Firman "Synexperience" 2010/11 (installation view)

"Synexperience" (installation view)

 

 

"My Synesthetic Library" by Carrie C Firman

Synaesthesia/2: Space and Perception

Madi Boyd
Carrie C Firman

Opening: 25.1.2013, 8 PM
Exhibition runs: 26.01. - 10.03.2013
Open: Fri-Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment. Open on 30 and 31 January during the Transmediale 13.


Inquiries into the nature of Space and Perception are the basis of Art Laboratory Berlin's second exhibition in the Synaesthesia series. Synaesthesia, the experience of two or more sensory impressionsat the same time, is both an artistic paradigm and neurological phenomenon. Two installations by Madi Boyd and Carrie C Firman explore the connection between perception and experience of mind and body from a synaesthetic point of view.

 Madi Boyd, The Point of Perception, installation, 2009/13

 Madi Boyd is a synaesthete from Great Britain, whose artistic work focuses on perception and the brain. In collaboration with neuro-scientists, Dr. Mark Lythgoe and Dr. Beau Lotto, from University College London her work incorporates and combines installation, film and sculpture. Her recent project The Point of Perception explores how much information the human brain needs in order to know what it is looking at. It is an art experience and scientific arena about vision. The installation uses moving image and built environments to confuse depth perception and is designed to act specifically on the human eye and brain to create a space of uncertainty. A newly developed version of the project will be presented at Art Laboratory Berlin with the addition of sound and colour. The idea is to assign musical notes and colours to specific points in the gridded space, in order to explore perception of geometric space and sound.

  

















Carrie Firman, Synexperience, installation 2010-11
 
Carrie C Firman is an emerging electronic artist from the US. She is a synaesthete and her work is inspired by studying and experiencing the crossing of senses. She sees synaesthesia not only as a sensory phenomenon, but also a fantastic world interface, responsible for completely unique perceptual experiences. Her current work encourages its participants to reconsider their perception as an entirely unique phenomenon, helping them to come to the realization that even most basic level of perception differs widely between otherwise similar individuals. Firman's installation Synexperience as well as her interactive digital work My Synesthetic Library invite viewers to share in her own unique perceptual experience of the world.
-Regine Rapp & Christian de Lutz (curators)

Synaesthesia/ 2: Space and Perception is part of the reSource 003: P2P Vorspiel of the transmediale 2013  and CTM.13.

With the generous support of:



The Synaesthesia series is supported in part by a generous gift from Michael Schröder.


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Art Laboratory Berlin Awarded Prize for Project Spaces

We are pleased to announce that Art Laboratory Berlin is one of the winners of the first Prize for Art Project Spaces and Initiatives in the Field of Visual Arts awarded by the Berlin Senate Office of Cultural Affairs.

The award honours the commitment and work of those operating project spaces and initiatives. "The award serves" according to the Senate Office of Cultural Affairs, "to support them, to secure the existing diversity and to make the activities of art project spaces and initiatives in Berlin more visible."

The prize ceremony takes place on 27 February, 2013 under the auspices of State Secretary for Culture André Schmitz

A complete statement from Art Laboratory Berlin on the award can be found at: http://www.artlaboratory-berlin.org/assets/pdf/ALB_statement_for_prize_DE_ENG.pdf

Time and Technology at Mutamorphosis

Photos from the Time and Technology panel at Mutamorphosis. A Tribute to Uncertainty. 7 December 2012

Photos courtesy of CIANT