FUNKENZUFLAMMEN „ABA 10+1 years artists research”
 

A book edited by Susanne Kriemann and Aleksander Komarov, designed by Tobias Wenig, published by Spector Books, 360 p, over 200 images, edition 500.

“Perhaps this book holds a place in a room, or in the text of another book; perhaps it is in the sound of radio tunes, or in the pc-mouse’s clicking through a blog. It rests for a moment, in between certainty and wonder, to encounter anew what has been edited over ten years; where one’s own voice challenges the noise of the city, where our good friend, the night, pioneered the sun, and sparks turned into flames “

photo credit: Vito Su Komarov

Zippora Elders is the Chief Curator (Head Curatorial department, including Education & Outreach) of the Gropius Bau in Berlin. She recently ended her position as director of Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen in the Netherlands, where she has since 2016 increased the visibility of this UNESCO heritage site as a thriving retreat for contemporary art and ecological exchange under the theme of Science Fiction and Enchantment, Healing, Fertility. In 2019 she also became Cocurator of sonsbeek20-24: On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies. Formerly she was curator at Foam, museum for photography in Amsterdam. Zippora studied Art History, Curatorial Practice and Museum Curatorship, with extracurricularly Public Administration and Philosophy. She made a number of thematic as well as solo exhibitions with among others Catherine Biocca, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Roe Ethridge, Rachel de Joode, Jan Robert Leegte, Ann Lislegaard and Katja Novitskova. She has been supervising, advising and teaching for various organizations in the cultural field, and was an editor and writer for magazines, catalogs and other publications. For the exhibition of sonsbeek in 2021 she worked closely with Sam Auinger, Ellen Gallagher, Violet Kudzanai-Hwami, Ibrahim Mahama, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Laure Prouvost, Farkondeh Sharoudi, Jennifer Tee, Willem de Rooij, Omer Wasim and many others. Recently she was a member of the jury for the municipal art acquisitions of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020) and the jury of De Appel curatorial programme (2021). In 2019-2020 she has set up and artistically led The Performance Show for Art Rotterdam.

Mattin is an artist, musician and theorist working conceptually with noise and improvisation. Through his practice and writing he explores performative forms of estrangement as a way to deal with structural alienation. Mattin has exhibited and toured worldwide. He has performed in festivals such as Performa (NYC), No Fun (NYC), Club Transmediale (Berlin), Arika (Glasgow) and lectured and taught in institutions such as Dutch Art Institute, Cal Arts, Bard College, Paris VIII, Princeton University and Goldsmiths College. In 2017 he completed a PhD at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of the philosopher Ray Brassier. Along with Anthony Iles he edited the book Noise & Capitalism (Kritika/Arteleku 2009). In 2012 CAC Brétigny and Tuamaturgia published Unconsitituted Praxis, a book collecting his writing plus interviews and reviews from performances. Anthony Iles and Mattin are currently in the final stages of editing the volume What is To Be Done Under Real Subsumption? (Archive Books/Mute). Urbanomic has just published this year his book Social Dissonance. Mattin is part of the bands Billy Bao and Regler and has over 100 releases in different labels worldwide. He is and currently co-hosting with Miguel Prado the podcast Social Discipline. Mattin took part in 2017 in documenta14 in Athens and Kassel.