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AIR Berlin Alexanderplatz
Today

RADIO SALON

 

with
Rhona Mühlebach, Andrés Villa Torres, Alexei Kuzmich

 

 

Live streaming

 

Tue. Dec. 15th, 2020, 16:00-17:00

 

via Cola Bora Dio
and broadcasted via Freie Radios – Berlin Brandenburg:
88,4 MHz in Berlin
90,7 MHz in Potsdam

Rhona Muehlebach (CH/UK)

We will be listening to 20 minutes radio-piece put together by our current resident from Switzerland Rhona Mühlebach. We will take you on an audio open studio visit in Berlin Grunewald. Rhona Mühlebach has written a short narrative in which different threads of her recent research are woven together, and presented as a short radio play. It is an unfinished audio sketch of her new video-piece which she is working on during her residency here in Berlin. By trying out the written language, taking it into one’s mouth, the rewriting of it begins immediately. After the play, we will be listening to the song “The Stillness” by Lafawndah. The idea of an auditive open studio appears again: Rhona Mühlebach has chosen this song as it was often playing in her studio and something resonates between the song, her reading and the narrative she has written. [removed]

 
Andrés Villa Torres (MEX/ CH)

In this short radio essay, Andrés Villa Torres suggests that the excessive speed at which information travels is pushed mainly by private economic interests. These private affairs are targeting the speed at which information can be mined and traded from every aspect of human life. At this accelerated pace, full automation and cloud computing will become ubiquitous in the next decade, enabling all sorts of new technology-enhanced social consumption and exploitation. Thus, the electrosmog surrounding us will increase and social-exploitation remains unquestioned – unless we start putting a price to our data-productive activities and start reclaiming e-smog free air spaces. Is there anything left to say regarding the so-called “users” in 2020, who are actually humans, citizens, workers, and have lately been abused as a raw commodity by the information economies?
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Alexei Kuzmich (BLR)

For the radio show Alexei Kuzmich will present an interview with Aleksander Komarov on the subject of political actionism. Komarov is an artist, born in Belarus, who practised the art of actionism when he was a student in Minsk. The “audio work” uses YouTube search inserts for Belarus and Germany on 9 August 2020, when the presidential election was taking place in Belarus. Actionism is not detached from context and environment and at the same time the media environment acts as a quasirepresentational system, reproducing an aesthetic statement in an engaged political field depending on the direction and vectoring of regional politics.
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Rhona Muehlebach (CH/UK)

 

 

Residency Sep 2020 – Feb 2021
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My work develops out of everyday relationships with, and attractions to humans, animals, objects or places that I consider companions. The will to understand this attraction – emotionally and not rationally – and the relation between the companions and myself leads to the work. I have moved from a traditional narration-based cinema practice into a fine art practice consisting of video, audio and text. My cinema background inspires the formal choices I make in my work. Nature and science documentaries, and how we discover the world through them, have been very influential in my work over the last years. In my practice I manipulate the forms and technical traditions of TV documentaries and big budget cinema work in order to create uncanny versions of them.
Supported by Prohelvetia
 

Image:  Rhona Muehlebach

 

Andres Villa Torres (MEX/ CH)

 

Residency Sep 2020 – Feb 2021
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Active in the fields of “new” media, computer and algorithmic arts. Andrés explores issues from politics, society, philosophy, media and technology through artistic practice and research. Andrés works mostly with algorithms, computational processes, data, signals, public space, sound, light, live coding and the web.

Supported by Prohelvetia

 

 

Image:  Andres Villa Torres, 2021

 

Alexei Kuzmich (BLR)

Residency: 1 Now– 31 Dec, 2020

 

On polling day in the Belarusian presidential elections on 9 August 2020, the performance artist Alexei Kuzmich undressed himself at his local polling station in Minsk, sticking his polling card — which he’d emblazoned with a phallus — onto his bare chest. He tied a blindfold over his eyes. For a few moments, he spread his arms wide, as if crucified, shocking electoral observers. It was part one of his performance, “I Believe or the Philistine World of Political Animals”. “For me, this performance was about the belief in democracy, our ignorance of the circumstances in which we elect leaders, and the demagoguery used by politicians,” Kuzmich told The Calvert Journal. “I made a parallel between politics, democracy, and the archaic principle of choosing the domineering male in a tribe — hence the sketch of a phallus.” Security forces chatted to him in the courtyard outside the polling station, but quickly let him go.
Supported by Goethe-Institut

 

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Anna Dasović (NL)

Residency Sep 2020 – Jan 2021
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Anna Dasović’s artistic practice is focused on the rhetorical structures that make genocidal violence visible, and those deployed to obscure the politically inconvenient aspects of such conflicts. What are representations of such extreme violence intended to communicate despite their original intentions? What ideological narratives do such representations participate in on a structural level? The production and use of (visual) documents are examined in their quest for truth finding or the social and/or political perceptions they seek to form, while simultaneously exposing their legislative and archival inability to cope with trauma caused by violence. Here, the archive serves both as a physical place for these documents and a metaphor of collective humiliation and remorse.

Supported by Mondriaan Fund

 

Image:  Anna Dasović

#76 Salon hosted by Magali Dougoud

past

 

The Womxn Waves I-II-III 

Oct 8, 2020
Schwedenstraße 16, 13357 Berlin, Germany

All the womxn’s bodies that crossed the rivers and canals of the city of Berlin are connected with each other. They were killed there, died, or only passed through these liquid spaces and together they grew into an original memory that connects distant pasts and potential futures. In this new narration a population has emerged from this violence and loss: the Womxn Waves.

 

 

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Image: Magali Dougoud: Still from the video work: The Womxn Waves I, 2020

 

 

#75 Salon 
hosted by Joris Perdieus

past

 

Sep 19, 2020, 17:00
Schwedenstraße 16, 13357 Berlin, Germany

 

Immersive Installation.
Room A: The Healing Room

You are invited into a dark room. You enter it by yourself. Inside you are immersed in a healing sound. You are immersed in a healing wind. You are there for a while. To discover the rocks.

The installation is A result of the research Joris conducted on nonvisual atmospheric and scenographic actors in his artpractice

 

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Image: Room B, during the Salon, 2020, Berlin

 

 

#74 Salon 
hosted by Igor Sevcuk 

past

 

Mapping a transnational memory: the case of person [removed]
Aug 26, 2020, 17:00h Schöneberger Ufer 57, Berlin, Germany

 

Three fields of materials – voice recordings, textual references, and retraced photographs – interrelate with a case of transnational memory. The person marked as [removed] is a migrant worker from Banja Luka, who disappeared in Berlin in 1974. Next to the interviews with [removed]’s children, some other – real and imagined – personalities are also introduced to the case.

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Image: Igor Sevcuk 

 

 

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