Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto mit Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Vernissage - 31 August, 2012

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

Photo by Dave Hebb

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model.

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period.

Time & Technology

Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Opening: 31 August, 2012 8PM
Exhibition runs: 1 September - 14 October, 2012
Opening hours: Fri - Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment

Yasuhiro Sakamoto & Iñigo Giner Miranda, String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine, 2012 (sketch)

Dave Hebb, Monitor, 2010-12

 

 

 

 

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Embodiment of Time, which is part of the series Time & Technology, and opens at the end of August.

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model. This sound sculpture interprets the term music in the broadest sense as an organization of time, which not only creates purely tonal material, but also patterns of movement (rolling marbles, turning wheels, pendulums, etc.) and optical patterns (e.g. video), presenting a significant contribution to our understanding of the ever more complex relation we have to time in the 21st century.

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period. Hebb placed a computer monitor outdoors and over the entire year documenting the changes to the environment several times a week. Viewers are challenged to reflect on their individual relationships with nature and technology as well as how technology is effecting our experience of time.

Curated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz

With the generous support of:

  


Senate Office of Cultural Affairs - Berlin

Media partner:

 More at:http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm

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Embodiment of Time - opening 31 August, 2012

Next exhibition :

Time & Technology

Embodiment of Time.
Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda
Dave Hebb

Opening: 31 August, 2012 8PM
Exhibition runs: 1 September - 14 October, 2012
Opening hours: Fri - Sun, 2-6 PM and by appointment

Yasuhiro Sakamoto with Iñigo Giner Miranda, 
 String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine, 2012 (sketch)



Dave Hebb, Monitor, 2010-12

Art Laboratory Berlin is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Embodiment of Time, which is part of the series Time & Technology, and opens at the end of August. 

The Japanese artist and scholar Yasuhiro Sakamoto and the Spanish composer Iñigo Giner Miranda have developed the installation String Quartet without Strings for Four Loudspeakers and an Art Machine especially for the exhibition. The work transforms the complex time structures of contemporary and classical music into an acoustic-visual model. 

The American artist Dave Hebb deals with artifacts of industrial civilization in the form of photography, video and installation. His video installation Monitor, which will be shown at Art Laboratory Berlin, is a video and photographic documentation of an environmental intervention extending over a one year period.
(more information)

Curated by Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz

With the generous support of:

 
Senate Office of Cultural Affairs - Berlin

The Time & Technology series is made possible in part by a generous gift from Michael Schröder.

Media partner:

29 June, 7PM

kate hers Transmigration in Artistic Practice.
Screening and Presentation. 

Transmigration in Artistic Practice is a screening and artist presentation of three projects by the Korean-American artist kate hers, whose works in performance, video and other media deal with issues of language and identity.

Missing [7’55”] is a performative autobiographical documentary video which investigates the phenomena of Korean adoptees returning to the land of their birth and addresses the issues of belonging and transnational identity. 

Sex Education for Finding Face in the 21st Century [9’43”] is a provocative performance video made in Korea formed of two different footages. This harsh critique of the Korean society tries to frame the personal in broader politics and questions the status of the young unmarried pregnant women in the country. 

The work Das deutschsprachliche Projekt consists of two parts and deals with learning a new language and living in a foreign country. In the first part, made in 2008 the artist realized a rather extreme durational performance. The second part of the project [13’33”] is an ongoing one year interactive performance. The project tries to explore the notion of cultural identity through language. (more information)

10 May, 8PM
Palindrones:
Musical Transpositions for the Reversing Machine
Performance by Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski 


Works by Cage and others adapted for the output of the Reversing Machine plus new sound works by Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski. In conjunction with the exhibition Fantastic Time Machines and our current series Time & Technology Belinfante & Lewandowski will perform a series of sound works and actions using the Reversing Machine mechanism and attached devices.
In conjunction with the exhibition Fantastic Time Machines. 

all images copyright Art Laboratory Berlin 2012


Special thanks to Hauptstadt Kulturfonds and the Month of Performance Art Berlin.

Is the Desert Still the Desert in a Digital World?: 
Online performance with Gretta Louw

6 May, 2012 -
Gretta Louw, whose performance and exhibition Controlling Connectivity started off the current Time & Technology series will set up a live video link up between Art Laboratory Berlin and the Warnayaka Arts centre in Lajamanu, Australia, located in the remote central Australian desert.
Since March Louw has been taking part in a residency in Lajamanu teaching photography, video and new media to indigenous arts workers, as well as introducing them to online communication platforms. The culmination of this first program of new media training will be a real time link-up between Lajamanu and Berlin.
A live audience in Berlin will view a simultaneous performance streamed out of Lajamanu, captured by a number of webcams and presented as two large-format projections. The event will incorporate an eclectic and innovative mix of traditional dance and storytelling, as well as live VJing of documentation organised by Louw. The event will also provide and encourage the possibility of interaction and exchange between participants in both Berlin and Lajamanu. (more information)

In cooperation with the Warnayaka Art Centre and Month of Performance Art Berlin

 

Is the Desert Still the Desert in a Digital World?: online performance with Gretta Louw

6 May, 2012 1 PM

Gretta Louw, whose performance and exhibition Controlling Connectivity started off the current Time & Technology series will set up a live video link up between Art Laboratory Berlin and the Warnayaka Arts centre in Lajamanu, Australia, located in the remote central Australian desert.
Since March Louw has been taking part in a residency in Lajamanu teaching photography, video and new media to indigenous arts workers, as well as introducing them to online communication platforms. The culmination of this first program of new media training will be a real time link-up between Lajamanu and Berlin. 

A live audience in Berlin will view a simultaneous performance streamed out of Lajamanu, captured by a number of webcams and presented as two large-format projections. The event will incorporate an eclectic and innovative mix of traditional dance and storytelling, as well as live VJing of documentation organised by Louw. The event will also provide and encourage the possibility of interaction and exchange between participants in both Berlin and Lajamanu. (more information)

In cooperation with the Warnayaka Art Centre and 





Month of Performance Art Berlin

Shlomit Lehavi in ZDF Heute Nacht (Wednesday 25 April 2012):

 http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/hauptnavigation/startseite/#/beitrag/video/1628122/heute-nacht-vom-25-April-2012

(Report starts at 10:38, portion on Shlomit Lehavi at 12:33)

Our ongoing exhibition Fantastic Time Machines continues through Sunday 29 April:

Time Sifter by Shlomit Lehavi is an interactive video installation which explores collective memory, collective forgetting and the relationship between mankind and technology. By means of touching the changing projections in the work the visitor creates her own narrative through the act of participation.

The other work in the exhibition, The Reversing Machine (A Theatre of Kairos and Chronos) makes use of a machine with a reversing gear box to create a mechanical palindrome, which in turn questions our sense and definition of time. The work alludes to the opposition of Kairos, the notion of opportune time to Chronos, the course of time. The Reversing Machine will remain in the gallery after the exhibition closes and can be seen until 12 May during the performances mentioned below.

Fantastic Time Machines until 29 April, 2012, Thu-Sun 2-6PM, Fri 27 April until 10PM (and by appointment)
(More information at http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-exh-archive.htm)


May Performances in conjunction with the Month of Performance Art

Sunday, 6  May, 2012  1PM

Is the Desert Still the Desert in a Digital World? by Gretta Louw (Performance)

Gretta Louw, whose performance and exhibition Controlling Connectivity started off the current Time & Technology series will set up a live video link up between Art Laboratory Berlin and the Warnayaka Arts centre in Lajamanu, Australia, located in the remote central Australian desert.

Since March Louw has been taking part in a residency in Lajamanu teaching photography, video and new media to  indigenous arts workers, as well as introducing them to online communication platforms. The culmination of this first program of new media training will be a real time link-up between Lajamanu and Berlin.

A live audience in Berlin will view a simultaneous performance streamed out of Lajamanu, captured by a number of webcams and presented as two large-format projections. The event will incorporate an eclectic and innovative mix of traditional dance and storytelling, as well as live VJing of documentation organised by Louw. The event will also provide and encourage the possibility of interaction and exchange between participants in both Berlin and Lajamanu. (More information at http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-event-14.htm)

In cooperation with the Warnayaka Art Centre 


Thursday, 10 May, 2012   8PM (Performance)

Palindromes: Musical Transpositions for the Reversing Machine (Performance)

Works by Cage and others adapted for the output of the Reversing Machine plus new sound works by Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski. In conjunction with the exhibition Fantastic Time Machines and our current series Time & Technology. Belinfante & Lewandowski will perform a series of sound works and actions using the Reversing Machine mechanism and attached devices. (More information at http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-events-archive.htm)

 
Saturday May 12, 2012  4PM

Subjective Time: Dreams, Drones, Flickers and Alpha Rhythms (Workshop)
Workshop with the artists Sam Belinfante & Simon Lewandowski: Talks, presentations and experiments with the Reversing Machine. The artists will offer the public a more intimate experience with their installation, including as series of additional actions and interactions, explanation as an queries into the nature of time and perception. (More information http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/html/eng-events-archive.htm)



Cooperation Partner: Month of Performance Art Berlin


Special Thanks to Hauptstadtkulturfonds and the Israeli Embassy in Berlin for supporting Fantastic Time Machines and Michael Schröder for his support of Time & Technology

Artist talk with Shlomit Lehavi 30 March, 2012

The Israeli born and New York based artist Shlomit Lehavi presents her video installation Time Sifter as a part of the exhibition Fantastic Time Machines. Shlomit Lehavi works primarily with new media and multi-channel video. Time Sifter explores collective memory, collective forgetting and time based media as a contemporary time machine. By means of touching the changing projections in her work the visitor is allowed a fascinating form of participation and interaction.
















photos courtesy Art Laboratory Berlin, copyright 2012

Fantastic Time Machines is supported by the German Capital Culture Funds and the Israeli Embassy in Germany.