Sparwasser HQ presents:
'Architectures of Survival'
A project curated by Komplot for Sparwasser HQ
Torstraße 161, 10115 Berlin
http://www.sparwasserhq.de/
http://www.kmplt.be/v2
Opening : 3 April, 6pm 2008
Party: Scala, Friedrichstr. 112a, Berlin-Mitte (Oranienburger Tor), 11
pm
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djs: your body & sweat
Exhibition : 4 – 27 April 2008
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4 – 7pm and Saturday 2 – 6pm
With Agency, Jofroi Amaral, Rossella Biscotti / Kevin Van Braak / Bart
Schoonderbeek, Vaast Colson, Fabien Defendini, Delphine Deguislage,
Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Yona Friedman, Laure Gatelier, Agnès
Geoffray, Ella Klaschka, Nathalie Mertens, NG, Yan Renand, Kurt
Ryslavy, Studiobasar
Schedule for performances:
3 – 6 April, 2PM: Rossella Biscotti / Kevin Van Braak / Bart
Schoonsderbeek, 'The Good Life'
4 April, 6PM: Fabien Defendini
5 April, 6PM: Kurt Ryslavy, 'Introduction to a kind of architecture'
27 April:
2PM: Agency, 'Specimen 848 (Dannon Healthy Habit Cookbook)'
4PM: Studio Basar, lecture 'Evacuating the Ghost'
6PM: NG, 'Limits of Paradise' + Yan Renand, 'Moldiness'
7PM: Closing party: 'Bloody Sunday' with Miss Le Bomb, Dj T-ina
Darling, Dj Mellow Yellow + videos and magazines
INTRODUCTION:
The work of Hungarian French architect Yona Friedman (b. 1923,
Budapest, lives in Paris) is the starting point for this exhibition
with the title itself being a reflexive reference to Yona Friedman's
book of the same title, which looks at the precarious nature of modern
society and suggests creative strategies which could counter the
problems thrown up by hyper-consumption and capitalist modes of
spatial and social organization.
Friedman rose to prominence with his manifesto 'L'Architecture
Mobile' (Mobile Architecture) and his plan for a utopian city 'La
Ville Spatiale' (The Spacial City). His ideas led him beyond
architecture and into engagement with sociology, economics,
mathematics, information science, planning, visual art and filmmaking.
Today, his writings have become influential as architectural concepts
which take as their starting point the perspective of those existing
within capitalist economic model in a state of generalized poverty.
Yona Friedman proposed structures for the unpredictable, providing the
means and knowledge for people to determine, re-appropriate and re-
invent their own living environment beyond the normative functional
ability of new social forms to shape their own living spaces.
Relative to Friedman's method of reappropriating architecture as a
creative tool, through the creation of "do it yourself" manuals,
instructions and recipes, the exhibition will articulate the way in
which the actual creative process integrates the concept of survival
and mobility. Fundamentally, how the artworks 'survive' their original
context. The artists will deal with the 'traces' and 'remains' of
performances and actions. The "trace" being an area of investigation
privileged in the project.
One of the common material characteristics of the works exhibited is
"lightness" and economy of means. Whether they are constructed from
recuperated material, fabric, objects or paper or are audiovisual,
they are easily transportable and this allows improvisational
flexibility of creation and presentation, the participative and
performative aspects of the works being crucial within this context.
"All artists are alike. They dream of doing something that's more
social, more collaborative, and more real than art." - Dan Graham.
With 'Architecture Of Survival', we desire to create a certain
'critical distance' apropos artistic social utopian trains of though
and to revive the exhibition model in relation to the public.
With the support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, CGRI, VG, Romanian
Institute & Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Bureau des Arts
Plastiques/Culturesfrance - französische Botschaf
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