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Artist in Residence Niederösterreich

Erik Smith April - May - June 2021
In cooperation with Galerie Stadtpark

https://www.air-noe.at/en/artists/incoming-artists/2021/erik-smith

Kunstmeile Krems Betriebs GmbH
AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich
Museumsplatz 5
3500 Krems an der Donau AT

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Erik Smith  „Public Art"

Stadt findet Kunst
Berlin-Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Stadtraum, Dec 2020

„Public Art” ist ein Projekt, das an drei sich überlagernden Schauplätzen stattfindet: dem zu Fuß erfahrbaren Stadtraum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Instagram als einem digitalen Raum, und dem gedruckten Raum einer unprätentiösen Publikation mit Bildern und Karten. „Public Art“ nimmt improvisierte, unbeabsichtigte, manchmal temporäre Manifestationen von „Kunst“ im öffentlichen Raum in den Blick: z.B. zufällige Materialkonfigurationen mit überraschenden skulpturalen Qualitäten, verlassene urbane Konstruktionen, die als versteckte Denkmäler der Vergangenheit fungieren, und zufällige Formen oder Markierungen auf Oberflächen, die an die moderne Geschichte malerischer Abstraktion erinnern. „Public Art” weicht von traditionellen Vorstellungen dessen ab, was Kunst in einem öffentlichen Kontext ist oder sein kann. Das Projekt, welches ein Gleichgewicht zwischen Zufall und Intentionalität herstellt und erforscht, strebt nach einem Kunstbegriff jenseits der „offiziellen“Kunstproduktion. Erst in einem „expanded field“ (Krauss) uneingeschränkter Möglichkeiten legt Kunst ein Zeugnis über ihre Allgegenwart ab: Sie ist überall – man muss sie nur suchen.
 
Ab Anfang Dezember werden die Bilder von „Public Art“ täglich auf der Instagram-Seite @publicart_sfk gepostet. Eine limitierte Auflage von 500 gedruckten Künstler-Publikation mit Bildern und einer Karte samt Standort-Verzeichnis wird ebenfalls kostenlos an verschiedenen Distributionsstellen im Bezirk erhältlich sein (Informationen hierzu folgen in Kürze auf www.stadtfindetkunst.de und @publicart_sfk).

English:
“Public Art”is a project occurring across three intertwining sites: the urban (walking) space of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the digital space of Instagram, and the printed space of a modest publication of images/map. “Public Art”revolves around improvised, unintentional, at times temporary manifestations of “art”in public space: e.g. random material configurations with strong sculptural qualities, abandoned urban elements functioning as hidden monuments to the past, or accidental shapes or markings on surfaces reminiscent of abstract/minimal paintings or drawings. “Public Art”deviates from and challenges traditional notions of what art is and can be in a public context. It seeks a more simplified conception of art beyond the calcified avenues of “official” art production, one that exploits and strikes a balance between random occurrence and intentionality. It is in this “expanded field” (Krauss) of possibility that art lives, attesting to the belief that art is all around us, you just have to look for it.

Starting in early December the images of "Public Art" will be posted daily to the Instagram account @publicart_sfk. A limited edition of 500 printed artist publications with images of the findings and a map of thier locations will also be available free-of-charge at various distribution points around the district (information on locations to follow shortly at www.stadtfindetkunst.de and @publicart_sfk).

www.instagram.com/publicart_sfk
www.stadtfindetkunst.de

Stadt findet Kunst ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe des Fachbereichs Kultur Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf zur Förderung von künstlerischen Projekten im Stadtraum als Soforthilfe für Künstlerinnen und Künstler, unterstützt durch die Senatsverwaltung Kultur und Europa.


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20 | 20
Stadt | Zeit | Kunst
 
Ausstellung vom 19. August bis 2.Oktober 2020
 
20 | 20 - 100 Jahre Großberlin
Die Ausstellung und der begleitende Katalog richten den Blick auf die bildenden KünstlerInnen, die heute in Berlin leben und arbeiten. Sie zeigen ein Bild der Großstadt in einhundert Werken – Fotografie, Video, Malerei, Druckgrafik, Zeichnung – von urbanen Biotopen, Brachen und Individuen der Millionenstadt.
„100 Jahre Berlin – 100 künstlerische Arbeiten“ – der OPEN CALL an die KünstlerInnen ist aus dem wochenlangen Stillstand im Frühjahr diesen Jahres entstanden. Anstelle einer historischen Rückschau auf einhundert Jahre Stadtentwicklung, drängte sich die Notwendigkeit auf, der bildenden Kunst ein Forum zu bieten. Aus den Einreichungen hat die Fachjury 100 Werke von 58 KünstlerInnen ausgewählt. Diese Ausstellung soll ein Zeichen für die KünstlerInnen in der Stadt setzen und möchte ihnen die verdiente Sichtbarkeit zurückgeben.
 
Mit Werken von:
Acta, Kristin Albrecht, Murshida Arzu Alpana, Silke Bartsch, Hannah Becher, Matthias Beckmann, Thomas Behling, Barbara Eitel, Oliver Ferch, Caty Forden, Ulrike Gerst, Dagmar Gester, Monika Goetz, Andreas Göx, Simone Haeckel, Doris Hinzen-Röhrig, Hyojun Hyun, Petra Karadimas, Jakob Kirchheim, Andreas Koch, Evelyn Kuwertz, Etienne Lafrance, Katja Lang, Suzanna Lauterbach, Maja Linke, Ono Ludwig, mobtik, Diether Münchgesang, Fernando Niño-Sánchez, Thomas Nitz, Sabine Peuckert, Carolyn Prescott, Katja Pudor, Wolfgang Reinke, Benjamin Renter, Susanne Roewer, Karin Sakrowski, Melih Sarıgöl, Özlem Sarıyıldız, Sümer Sayın, Richard Schütz, Silvia Sinha, Ekaterina Skladmann, Erik Smith, Heike Steinweg, Marianne Stoll, Betty Stürmer, Birgit Szepanski, Frans van Tartwijk, Sencer Vardarman, Maria Vedder, Heidi Vogel, Volker Wartmann, Catrin Wechler, Arnd Weider, Seçil Yersel, Martin Zellerhoff und Edgar Zippel
 
Öffnungszeiten:
Mittwoch – Samstag von 14 bis 19 Uhr,
an Feiertagen bleibt das Schoeler.Berlin geschlossen.
Eintritt frei

Schoeler.Berlin

Wilhelmsaue 126 · 10715 Berlin

www.schoeler.berlin

info@schoeler.berlin


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FINALLY the FRAGMENTA book is here! Now for real. We promise.

Come join us for the launch of "FRAGMENTA - Art and Life in Public Space 2013 - 2018".

You get to see the overview of all events, a mind-blowing selection of Maltese headlines (we wished the headlines extended to 2019 at this point) and celebrate art and life. You can buy copies of the book if you missed the indiegogo campaign. Or pick up your pre-ordered copies. 

SUNDAY Dec 8th, 5 - 10pm at MAORI, Valletta.
TIME: Sunday, December 8th, 5pm - 10pm
Location: MAORI. Triq il-lanca, VLT 1820 Valletta

The event is free of charge and open to all.
Come any time between 5pm and 9pm. Bring your protest posters.

Since 2013, FRAGMENTA Malta has organized 25 art events and experimental exhibitions. 
https://fragmentamalta.com/

The book “FRAGMENTA 2013 - 2018. Art and Life in Public Space” is a treasure-trove of art, art in public space and fun and weird insider-information about Malta (even if you don't know Malta).

Design: Jon Banthorpe.
With texts by Fulya Erdemci, Sebastian Cichocki, Raphael Vella, Charlie Cauchi and Bettina Hutschek.

With contributions/ art by: Jon Banthorpe, Gina Levante, Adrian Abela, Kris Van Dessel, Goele de Bruyn, Aksel Høgenhaug, Ritty Tacsum, Samir Ramdani, Jagna Ciuchta, Bettina Hutschek, Aiden Celeste, Stefan Nestoroski, Alexandra Pace, Hassan Khan, Teresa Sciberras, Roxanne Gatt, Erik Göngrich, Sandra Zaffarese, Aaron Bezzina, Christof Zwiener, Sonya Schönberger, Charlie Cauchi, Erik Smith, Darrin Zammit-Lupi, Karen Irmer, Anna Block, Sarah Maria Scicluna, Ryan Falzon, Sharon Kivland, Pippin Barr, Carl Gent, David Pisani, Karine Rougier, Kay Turner, Mario Asef 


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"PEACE - dont make me laugh
// You A Two Minute Brother"

ONE NIGHT GROUP SHOW

Spor Klübü

Freitag/Friday, 29.11.2019, 19:00

Künstler*innen/Artists:
Boris Abel, Michelle Alperin, Mario Asef, Matthias Bade, Jürgen Baumann, Thomas Behling, Jennifer Bennett, Hannes Berwing, Roland Boden, Manuel Bonik, Gunnar Borbe, Johannes Bünemann, Matthew Burbidge, Sonja Burbidge, Astrid Busch, Saskia Breitenreicher, Daniel Chluba, Chris Costan, Annedore Dietze, Meike Dölp, Knut Eckstein, Niki Elbe, Christel Fetzer, Sven-Ole Frahm, Tom Früchtl, Heike Gallmeier, Anne Gathmann, anna onno gatjal, Ingo Gerken, Monika Goetz, Kim Dotty Hachmann, Stephan Homann, Irène Hug, Henrik Jacob, Hubi W. Jäger, Uwe Jonas, Sven Kalden, Werner Kernebeck, Silke Koch, Karen Koltermann, Karsten Korn, Simone Lanzenstiel, Michael Lapuks, Niina Lehtonen Braun, Sabine Linse, Ingeborg Lockemann & Elke Mohr, Michael Luther, Mahony, Matthias Mayer, Paula Muhr, Leo de Munk, Berit Myreboee, Richard Neal, Joe Neave, Kirsten Palz, Kathrin Rabenort, Nika Radic, Maria-Leena Räihälä, Monika Rechsteiner, Benjamin Renter, Cornelia Renz, Regine Rode, Julia Rüther, Andreas Sachsenmaier, Katrin Salentin, Jochen Schneider, Iris Schomaker, Ann Schomburg, Olivia W. Seiling, Sandra Setzkorn & Emma Grün, Heidi Sill, Johanna Smiatek, Erik Smith, Sean Smuda, Elisabeth Sonneck, Gabriele Stellbaum, Stoll & Wachall, Max Sudhues, Alex Tennigkeit, Anja Teske, Thea Timm, Julian Villaret, Gabriele Volanti, Anke Völk, Linda Weiss, Bettina Weiß, Anke Westermann, Claudio Wichert, Markus Wirthmann, Sibylle Zeh, Gloria Zein, Christof Zwiener

Seit 2005 titelten Zitate vergangener Dekaden (meist aus den 1980er Jahren) die jährlichen One Night Group Shows im Spor Klübü. Dieses Jahr stehen zwei Zitate zur Verfügung, auf die die eingeladenen Künstler*innen Bezug nehmen können: "PEACE - dont make me laugh" und "You A Two Minute Brother". Beide haben ihren Ursprung Beginn der 1990er Jahre und kommen aus der afroamerikanischen Hip-Hop- bzw. Rap-Szene. "PEACE - dont make me laugh" ist die Anfangstextzeile des Songs "Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)" von Ice Cube‘s 1990 erschienenem Album "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted". Der Song richtet sich gegen ein durch Polizeigewalt geprägtes rassistisches Amerika. Im gleichen Kontext sind auch die Texte und die Musik von BWP a.k.a. Bytches With Problems verortet - mit dem Unterschied, dass sie aus einer feministischen Sicht heraus kommen und mit dem männlichen (Rapper-)Patriachentum mächtig aufräumen. Das Zitat "You A Two Minute Brother" stammt aus dem Song "Two Minute Brother" von BWP's ersten und einzigen (veröffentlichten) Album "The Bytches".

"PEACE - dont make me laugh" – transferiert man diesen Ausspruch in das aktuelle politische Zeitgeschehen, so könnte man es nicht besser ausdrücken. Nachdem sich das „Fake- oder Falschreden“ auf politischer Ebene mehr denn je etabliert hat, werden nunmehr kriegerische Absichten und Völkerrechtsverletzungen zu Friedensmissionen erklärt. Man braucht die handelnden Personen nicht nennen, denn ihr Stil ist - wie sie - nicht nur bekannt, sondern erzeugt auch kein Erschrecken mehr oder einen kollektiven internationalen Aufschrei. "You A Two Minute Brother". Nur wenige weibliche Hip-Hop-Musikerinnen haben es geschafft, ihren männlichen Kollegen in Sachen derber Songtexte mit verachtenden Ausdrücken gegen das andere Geschlecht ebenbürtig zu sein. Die „Bytches“ taten genau das und verkörperten dabei Gerechtigkeit, auch wenn sie das auf die gleiche vernichtende Art taten. In "Two Minute Brother" schlagen sie eine Kerbe in das Machogehabe und treffen die (vorgegebene) Männlichkeit an empfindlicher Stelle - beim Sex.

English:

Since 2005, quotations from past decades (mostly from the 1980s) have been the titles of the annual One Night Group shows at Spor Klübü. This year there are two quotes available to which the invited artists can refer: "PEACE - dont make me laugh" and "You A Two Minute Brother". Both have their origins in the early 1990s and come from the Afro-American hip-hop and rap scene. "PEACE - dont make me laugh" is the opening line of the song "Endangered Species (Tales From The Darkside)" from Ice Cube's 1990 album "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted". The song is directed against a racist America marked by police violence. The lyrics and music of BWP a.k.a. Bytches With Problems are also located in the same context - with the difference that they come from a feminist point of view and powerfully clear up the male (rapper) patriarchy. The quote "You A Two Minute Brother" comes from the song "Two Minute Brother" from BWP's first and only (published) album "The Bytches".

"PEACE - dont make me laugh" - if you transfer this saying into current political events, you couldn't put it better. Now that "fake or false talk" has established itself more than ever on the political level, warlike intentions and violations of international law are now being declared peace missions. There is no need to name the people involved, because their style is - as they are - not only known, but also no longer generates fright or a collective international outcry. "You A Two Minute Brother. Only a few female hip-hop musicians have managed to equal their male counterparts in terms of crude lyrics with contemptuous expressions against the opposite sex. The "Bytches" did exactly that and embodied justice, even if they did it in the same devastating way. In "Two Minute Brother" they make a notch in the macho behaviour and hit the (given) masculinity in a sensitive place - during sex.

Spor Klübü
Freienwalder Str. 31
13359 Berlin
Tel.: 0179-8593744
U8 Pankstr./S Bornholmerstr.
www.koloniewedding.de/sporkluebue


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2nd International Encounter of Objects and Walls: Miami Edition

Supplement Projects
11.24.2019

3:00PM - 6:00PM

with:

Frita’s Autonomous Department, Hugo Montoya, Ernesto Oroza, Bhavisha Panchia, Stephanie Wakefield, Radical Archives.

2nd International Encounter of Objects and Walls: Miami Edition is one of twelve satellite events initiated by Tlaxcala 3 (Mexico City) and the Institute of Endotic Research (Berlin) critically engaging with the 30th anniversary since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  Comprised of a film screening, a round table discussion, a listening station, and a documentary exercise in recipe recreation, the Miami edition hosted by Supplement Projects, will focus on the ways in which ideas of "progress" evolve, de-evolve, and change over time. This one day encounter invites participants to consider a “wall” as more than a physical or historical marker, but instead as a departure point to examine before and afters, insides and outsides, and ultimately the way in which ideas of progress are formed, clash, or are propelled forward and upward by power and hegemonic structures.

PROGRAM

3PM “Vaya a casa e infórmese sobre Bolivia” a film screening with Frita's Autonomous Department

4PM Documentary exercise in recipe reproduction from “Con Nuestros Propios Esfuerzos” and “El Libro de la Familia”
with Ernesto Oroza

4:30PM Group discussion led by Stephanie Wakefield on “Inhabiting the Anthropocene Back Loop”

5PM “AABBCCDV” (2012), 12” record by Erik Smith. Listening session with Radical Archives

Radical Archives is an exploratory platform that examines how archival artworks, records, and objects bear witness to cultural memory. According to Dutch archivist Eric Ketelaar, archival objects/records and their meanings are constantly in flux. He emphasizes that every interaction with the object is significant as these activations become inscribed in the record itself and are referenced in all future readings. Berlin-based artist,  Erik Smith's sonic work "AABBCCDV", considers how archival documentation occupies this realm of evidentiary value. Smith recorded the demolition of a building housing local arts organizations including Dimensions Variable, Locust Projects and other spaces in Miami in 2012 at a time when urban development and gentrification were radically changing neighborhoods. Smith chose to produce the record at a local factory in Hialeah through the technique of etching directly into a polycarbonate record which upon repeated playing destroys the surface of the record.  In this context Radical Archives offers critical possibilities for engagement, interpretation, and contextualization of community history.  As the artist concludes, “Conceptually this is actually desired since while listening to the demolition of the DV building you’re also listening to the disintegration of the record itself “.  

Courtesy Erik Smith, Women Artists Archives Miami (WAAM), and Dimensions Variable, Miami

Supplement Projects
El Portal, Miami, FL
http://supplementprojects.com/


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MOVEMENT l An Exhibition by PRESENT SQUARE

Werkhalle Wiesenburg
Opening: October 19, 2019, 6-9pm with ACIINTT - Wiesenburg, sound performance by artist Erik Smith at 8pm
Closing: October 26, 2019, 6-9pm with a live concert by Present Square at 8pm

Present Square is a music and art project by Lorina Speder and Milo Frielinghaus that introduces itself with music, video works and visual art. The focus of the project is the analog.

ACIINTT - Wiesenburg, sound performance, Saturday October 19 at 8pm 

Artist Erik Smith will perform ACIINTT - Wiesenburg, a live, half-hour “slow listening” session for the opening of the exhibition Movement at Werkhalle Wiesenburg, organized by Lorina Speder and Milo Frielinghaus. For the performance, Smith will mix various records on a series of five turntables that have been modified to play at drastically reduced speeds. The turntables form the central sonic component to his sculpture and sound-based, urban-archeological project Titanic (2013–19) centering on the transformation of a site in Berlin-Mitte, the location of a theater in the nineteenth century renowned for its performances of Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, a sprawling underground bunker during WW2, and the four-star Titanic hotel today.

ACIINTT, an anagram/remix of the original project title Titanic, is presented here as a stand-alone iteration of the project focusing exclusively on the sound, modified turntables and records. The slowing down of sound in contemporary music is a phenomenon associated with subgenres such as Hauntology, in which a decelerated remixing of old recordings, radio broadcasts and other sonic detritus creates a space for reflecting on the interrelationships between past and present. ACIINTT – Wiesenburg takes this approach to an extreme in its ultra-extended mash-up of nineteenth-century operetta and contemporary techno/electronica musical genres. Here, the disintegrating of music styles from contrasting eras creates a slow-listening experience for contemplating the disintegration and morphing over time not only of the Titanic site in Mitte but also the Wiesenburg itself, a former WW1 homeless shelter and repurposed ruin today. The legacy of both sites defines urban transformation as process of estrangement, dissolution and abstraction.

Werkhalle Wiesenburg
Wiesenstraße 55, Berlin
https://diewiesenburg.berlin/


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Save As

WAAM
September 28 — December 30, 2019

Save As is a group exhibition that examines the artists' archive as a site where cultural memories converge and are constructed. In recognition of Dimensions Variable's (DV) ten year anniversary, Save As will present a selection of records from DV's organizational archives alongside the individual studio archives of artists who have participated in exhibitions from the past to the present. All of the items in Save As - objects, ephemera, artwork, records, photographs, videos, flyers, and brochures - speak to the relational aspect of archives. In artist-run spaces, singular narratives become plural. As the title suggests, there are numerous possibilities inherent in the archive. Save As repositions the archive as a dynamic site where meaning is layered, constantly in flux and re-interpreted as each participant has their own reading of what these possibilities could be.

WAAM
101 NW 79th Street Miami, FL 33150
www.wearewaam.org


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Artist Talk + Performance with Erik Smith

Changing Room
Saturday September 28, 2019, from 4–6pm

Join us on for a conversation between artist Erik Smith and Changing Room initiator Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez. The discussion will center on both of Smith's works presented as part of the first installment in Changing Room's "Experiments in Disintegrating" series: ACIINTT – slow listening berlin, Smith's three-hour "decelerated" listening performance at Changing Room on September 20 and AABBCCDV, shown at Kunstpunkt Berlin within the framework of the exhibition re-space and still on view through October 13. Both works are representative of Smith's site-focused practice, which takes an urban-archeological approach to exploring specific transformations of the built environment. Central to this is the combining of sculptural and acoustic means to bring to light not only the specific histories embedded within the sites, as a return of the repressed or forgotten, but also to convey their dissolution over time as a consequence of urban development and renewal, forces currently at work remaking the cities and settings for Smith's projects here: Berlin and Miami. A shorter half-hour performance of Smith's ACIINTT – slow listening berlin will also be presented as a part of the talk.

CHANGING ROOM
Luederitzstr. 11
2nd yard groundfloor
13351 Berlin
www.changing-room.com

For further information please contact:
T. Echeverri Fernandez
+49(0)1623385709


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Experiments in Disintegrating I
Erik Smith: ACIINTT - slow listening berlin

CHANGING ROOM
Friday, September 20th, 2019
from 9 pm to midnight

Join us at Changing Room for ACIINTT – slow listening berlin, a live three-hour "decelerated listening" session presented by artist Erik Smith. For the performance, Smith will live mix various records on a series of six turntables that have been modified to play at drastically reduced speeds. The turntables form the central sonic component to his Berlin-based, urban-archeological project Titanic (2013–19), which explores the transformation of a site in Mitte from the nineteenth-century to the present day. Listeners are invited to come and stay for the duration of the performance or drop in as they please. Lights will be off and floor mats will be provided to facilitate extended listening. An artist's talk about the genesis of the project within the context of his site-focused work, as well as a shorter daytime performance, is also planned for Saturday, September 28, 4–6pm.

Titanic centers on the evolution of a site at Chausseestr. 30 in Berlin-Mitte, the location in the nineteenth century of a theater renowned for its performances of Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld, a sprawling underground bunker during WW2, and the four-star Titanic hotel today. Smith's salvaging of a large-scale wooden shelf from the bunker prior to its demolition in 2013 served as the starting point for the project, which reflects sculpturally and sonically on the site's complex identity and curious intersecting of eerily similar and highly evocative associations. Central to this are Smith's series of six modified turntables that live mix original Orpheus in the Underworld 78s with techno and electronica records at speeds as slow as four-to-six rpm, which abstract the original sonic material beyond recognition, generating new atmospheric forms recalling detonations or other subterranean soundscapes.

ACIINTT, a remix of the project title Titanic, is presented at Changing Room as a stand-alone iteration of the project focusing exclusively on the sound, modified turntables and records. The slowing down of sound in contemporary music is a phenomenon associated with subgenres such as Hauntology, in which a decelerated remixing of old recordings, radio broadcasts and other sonic detritus creates a space for reflecting on the interrelationships between past and present. ACIINTT – slow listening berlin takes this approach to an extreme in its ultra-extended mash-up of nineteenth-century operetta and contemporary techno/electronica musical genres. Here, the disintegrating of music styles from contrasting eras creates a slow-listening experience for contemplating the disintegration and morphing of the site over time, a process of urban transformation defined by estrangement, dissolution, and abstraction.

Erik Smith (b. Boston US, lives and works in Berlin) studied visual art and comparative literature in the US and Italy before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2003. Solo exhibitions include Errant Sound, Berlin; Counterpath, Denver; FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, Malta; Locus Solus, de Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam NL; Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin; DimensionsVariable, Miami FL; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions internationally including SculptureCenter, LIC, NY; BBB centre d'art, Toulouse, FR; Arsenic, Lausanne CH; Pierogi, Leipzig; Kunstpunkt, Berlin. www.eriksmith.de

CHANGING ROOM is a project space focusing on sound art and performance. The programming consists of interdisciplinary projects based on sound art, speech/voice, and movement and offers talks, performances, and deep listening sessions on a regular basis. CHANGING ROOM is situated in a former horse stable on Lüderitzstraße in Berlin Wedding's African Quarter, which will soon be renamed to Cornelius-Frederiks-Straße.

CHANGING ROOM
Luederitzstr. 11
2nd yard
13351 Berlin
www.changing-room.com

For further information please contact:
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
+49(0)1623385709


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RE-SPACE / Raum zurückholen
10 Jahre Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen
RE-SPACE / Take Back the Space
10 Years Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives


c/o KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN
Vernissage: 12.9.2019, 19 Uhr / 7 pm
Performance: Sergey Kasich „FingerRing technique (FrR) [Singuhr]
Ausstellung / Exhibition: 13.9.-13.10.2019
Opening hours: 13.-15.9.2019, 13-19 Uhr / 19.9.-13.10.2019, 15-19 Uhr

Cordula Prieser, Reto Pulfer und Dreams of Art Spaces Collected, ein künstlerisches Forschungsprojekt von Dorothee Albrecht, (Alf Löhr,) Andreas Schmid und Moira Zoitl für die Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK), sowie „10 Jahre Netzwerk“ (Archiv).

Beteiligte Projekträume und -initiativen / Involved Project Spaces and Initiatives:
A TRANS, Axel Obiger, BERLIN-WEEKLY, Camping Akademie e.V., Changing Room, Copyright, Frauenmuseum, Group Global 3000, HilbertRaum, hunger :: Offensive für Denkbilder und Kommunikation, mp43– projektraum für das periphere, oqbo – raum für bild wort und ton, Scharaun, SCOTTY, Spinner & Weber, Spor Klübü, Studio Baustelle, superbien!, Untergrundmuseum U144, when the image is new the world is new.

Die Ausstellung zum Thema „re-space – Raum zurückholen“ zeigt künstlerische Produktionen und versucht, einen Bogen zu schlagen, die Vergangenheit aufzuspüren, die aktuelle Situation darzustellen und Visionen für unsere Freiheiten in der Zukunft zu entwickeln. Es geht um eine Gegen-Bewegung, die die Vielfalt unserer Szene erhält, ebenso wie um die Frage nach der Notwendigkeit und den Möglichkeiten der Selbstbestimmung von Kunst und ihre Sichtbarmachung in der Stadt heute.

The exhibition re-space – Take back the Space attempts to draw an arc back and trace history, to present the current situation, and to develop visions of our artistic freedom in the future. It is about a backlash that the plurality of our scene has come to, as well as the fundamental questions of the possibility and necessity of the autonomy of art and how it is displayed in the city today.

Die Events rund um die Preisverleihung der Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa werden organisiert vom Netzwerk freier Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen.
The events around the prize ceremony held by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe are organized by the Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives.

KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN
Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin
http://www.kunstpunkt.com/


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anders Platz

KungerKiezInitiative e. V.
Eröffnung: Freitag, 06.09.2019, 18:00 - 21:00 Uhr
Ausstellung 07.09.-29.09.2019, Do-So, 16:00-19:00 Uhr

Teilnehmende KünstlerInnen:
Max Cramer – Silvia Lorenz – Dorota Lukianska – Karin Kerkmann
Peter Müller – Gabriele Regiert – Sonya Schönberger – Erik Smith
Margund Smolka – Hein Spellmann – Yvonne Thörnkvist – Ommo Wille
Eva AM Winnersbach – Christof Zwiener

Im Rahmen des Projektes:

DER PLATZ
Geschichten um einen ehemaligen Todesstreifen in der Berliner Innenstadt
Ein Projekt vom KungerKiezInitiative e. V.
6.-29. September 2019 (Galerie KungerKiez) und 21.10.-18.12. 2019 (VHS Treptow-Köpenick)

Publikation – Dokumentarausstellung mit Film+Talk+Führung  – Kunstausstellung „anders Platz“

6.000 Quadratmeter Treptow an der Grenze zu Neukölln – Hier wurden Gärten gepflanzt und abgerissen, eine Mauer gebaut und abgebaut, ein Biotop wuchs heran und wurde wieder abgeholzt. Die Kunst zog ein, Kamele kamen, die Hunde, der Müll. Es wurde gestritten, ein Schild aufgestellt und dann ein großes Haus gebaut.

„Der Platz“ – Das sind Geschichten von BewohnerInnen der Bouchéstraße in Neukölln und Treptow, deren Straße plötzlich in zwei Hälften geteilt wurde und die nach der Maueröffnung wieder zusammenwachsen sollte, von MitarbeiterInnen des VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, die in einer ehemaligen Pianofabrik täglich aus dem Fenster auf den Todesstreifen blickten, einer Ateliergemeinschaft, die sich nach Maueröffnung in der alten Pianofabrik gründete und inmitten des plötzlich attraktiven Geländes um seine Existenz kämpfen musste, eines kleinen Zirkus‘, der jedes Jahr hier residierte, der ADAC-Luftrettungspiloten, die oft hier landeten, eines ehemaligen Grenzsoldaten, der auf dem Gelände seinen Wehrdienst geleistet hatte, und vielen anderen …

Zum 30. Jahrestag der Grenzöffnung zwischen Ost- und West-Berlin am 9. November 2019 möchten wir, der KungerKiezInitiative e.V. und KünstlerInnen des Atelierhauses Mengerzeile, mit einer Publikation, einer Dokumentar- und einer Kunstausstellung einen Beitrag zum Nachdenken über die Veränderungen der Hauptstadt durch die Teilung und das erneute Zusammenwachsen leisten.

Das Projekt „Der Platz“ beleuchtet die historisch-politischen Ereignisse um Teilung und Wiedervereinigung mit Schwerpunkt auf Berlin und macht anhand von Berichten aus persönlichen Erfahrungswelten die Geschichte hautnah spürbar. Ausgangspunkt ist ein Areal zwischen Bouchéstraße, Harzer Straße und Mengerzeile, das von 1961 bis 1989 zum Sperrgebiet zwischen Ost- und West-Berlin gehörte.

Wenn es um die Berliner Mauer geht, wird meist der Fokus auf Berlin-Mitte gesetzt: Die Bernauer Straße, Checkpoint Charlie oder East Side Gallery sind allgemein bekannt. Wir lenken den Blick auf einen weniger prominenten Schauplatz zwischen den Bezirken Treptow und Neukölln – wo weit über ein Drittel der etwa 43 Kilometer langen innerstädtischen Grenzmauer verlief –, der einen außergewöhnlichen geschichtlichen und kulturellen Hintergrund bietet.

KungerKiezInitiative e. V.
Außenraum: Mengerzeile 1-3 Bouchéstraße 37
Harzer Straße
12435 Berlin (Alt-Treptow)
https://kungerkiez.de/


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Erik Smith - Displacements

Errant Sound 
Opening: April 24, 7– 10pm
Exhibition: April 25 – May 15, 2019
Opening Times: Thurs–Sat, 3–7pm and by appointment

Displacements presents selected works by Berlin-based, American artist Erik Smith that highlight his use of sound and other sculptural means to evoke the atmospherics and dynamics of place. Featured at Errant Sound’s new space is a survey of projects developed over the past several years from various contexts including Berlin, Miami, and most recently Denver, US. Smith’s site-focused practice evolves out of the physical exploring, salvaging and/or excavating of urban contexts and often employs found objects and sound as points of departure for reflecting on the spatial, cultural, and historical dimensions of given locations.

Included in the exhibition is a selection of audio and sculptural works from three different projects/contexts focusing on Smith’s interest in transitional sites as agglomerations of competing uses and meanings. His most-recent project Ghosts (2018) revolves around the visual and acoustic trope of the flicker in evoking the precarious status of a gallery building and former 1950s-era auto repair shop located in a long-depressed neighborhood of Denver, CO. For Titanic (2016-), inspired by the salvaging of a wooden shelf from a bunker in Berlin-Mitte, a series of modified turntables creates a dark, acoustic atmosphere that alludes to the site’s eerily associative, contrasting phases: a German theater famed for performances of Jacques Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld in the nineteenth century; a sprawling underground bunker during WW2; and the recently opened 4-star Titanic hotel today. And finally AABBCCDV (2012), which centers on the demolition of an artist-run space in Miami FL, recorded and produced as a 12” record edition and shown together with reconfigured sculpture-artifacts taken from the building prior to its destruction.

The exhibition presents the projects not in their entireties, but stages core elements of each alongside one another, thus providing a trans-contextual overview of Smith’s use of sound in relationship to his sculptural aesthetic. The title Displacements refers to the artistic process of disturbing, translating, or abstracting source materials to resonate on symbolic and metaphorical levels, creating in viewers an altered awareness of the underlying conditions that define place. It also alludes to the processes of urban change and redevelopment, where the physical transformation of the built environment entails a shifting or transposition of urban identities. With Smith, sound and sculpture intermix to produce a kind of hybrid atmospheric space for contemplating the complex status of transitional sites characterized by impermanence and slippage.

Erik Smith (b. Boston US, lives and works in Berlin) studied visual art and comparative literature in the US and Italy before moving to Berlin, Germany in 2003. Solo exhibitions include Counterpath, Denver; FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, Malta; Locus Solus, de Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam NL; Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin; DimensionsVariable, Miami FL; Kapinos Galerie, Berlin; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. His work has also been shown in numerous group exhibitions internationally including SculptureCenter, LIC, NY; BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR; Arsenic, Lausanne CH; Pierogi, Leipzig; Kunstpunkt, Berlin. www.eriksmith.de

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This exhibition is the first in a series of exhibitions presented under the heading Visual Approach to Sound, which aims to reflect on sound from the perspective of visual art. For this series, visual artists are invited to present works that are based on the forms and methods of visual art but which are also defined by a central acoustic aspect.

Visual Approach to Sound is conceived and organized by Mario Asef for Errant Sound Berlin.

Errant Sound
Rungestraße 20
10179 Berlin
www.errantsound.net


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5 Years of FRAGMENTA

FRAGMENTA
Sunday, Dec. 16th, 2018
6 - 10 pm


FRAGMENTA celebrates 5 years of existence and invites you to join. We will show FRAGMENTA-fragments of all projects realized between 2013 and 2018 in form of a retrospective exhibition. It is time for a celebration! 

FRAGMENTA is proud to present all projects realized between 2013 and 2018 in form of a retrospective exhibition. Archive material from the past 5 years by FRAGMENTA artists will be on display. Expect videos, live performances, anecdotes, jokes, surprises, fireworks and bangs. 

On this occasion we will also present an experimental publication.

WITH: 
JonBanthorpe, Gina Levante, Adrian Abela, Kris Van Dessel, Goele de Bruyn, Aksel Høgenhaug, Ritty Tacsum, Samir Ramdani, Jagna Ciuchta, Bettina Hutschek, Stefan Nestoroski, Alexandra Pace, Hassan Khan, Teresa Sciberras, Roxanne Gatt, Erik Göngrich, Sandra Zaffarese, Aaron Bezzina, Christof Zwiener, Sonya Schönberger, Charlie Cauchi, Erik Smith, Darrin Zammit-Lupi, Karen Irmer, Anna Block, Sarah Maria Scicluna, Ryan Falzon, Sharon Kivland, Pippin Barr, Carl Gent, David Pisani, Karine Rougier, Kay Turner, Mario Asef

This is a one-time event only

FRAGMENTA has been supported by Valletta 2018 - European Capital of Culture and is part of the Cultural Program since 2016. The event is free of charge and open to all.  No dogs allowed (sorry, dogs).

FRAGMENTA
Scouts Association of Malta, Headquarters. 
E.S. Tonna Square,
FRN148 Floriana
https://fragmentamalta.com/

 
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„ÄRMEL AUFKREMPELN ZUPACKEN AUFBAUEN!"
ONE NIGHT GROUP SHOW

Spor Klübü
Freitag, 30.11.2018, 19.00 Uhr

Künstler*innen:
Boris Abel, Sonja Alhäuser, Mika Andersen, Robert Barta, Matthias Beckmann, Thomas Behling, Hannes Berwing, Antje Blumenstein, Pedro Boese, Gunnar Borbe, Saskia Breitenreicher, Johannes Bünemann, Matthew Burbidge, Astrid Busch, Alexander Callsen, Till Cremer, Rolf Czulius, Nataly Dietz, Knut Eckstein, Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Niki Elbe, Frederik Foert, Monika Goetz, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Ben Greber, Thomas Grötz, Lise Harlev, Alekos Hofstetter, Stephan Homann , Birgit Hölmer, Sonja Hornung, Irène Hug, Hubi W. Jäger, Jakob Jensen, Thomas Jocher, Uwe Jonas, Klaus Jörres, Sven Kalden, Silke Koch, Karen Koltermann, Karsten Korn, Simone Lanzenstiel, Julia Lazarus, Lichtstrahl & Bleiche, Simon Lindhardt, Sabine Linse, Ingeborg Lockemann und Elke Mohr, Christine Lohr, Frank Maier, Gerhard Mantz, Matthias Mayer, Stefanie Mayer, Wolfgang Mayer, Ulrike Mohr, Peter Müller, Paula Muhr, Leo de Munk, Berit Myrebøe, Kirsten Palz, Manfred Peckl, Kathrin Rabenort, Thomas & Renée Rapedius, Maria-Leena Räihälä, Benjamin Renter, Cornelia Renz, Jiannis Savvidis, Katalin Schaak, Olivia W. Seiling, Johanna Smiatek, Erik Smith, Elisabeth Sonneck, Anne Staszkiewicz, Gabriele Stellbaum, Vassiliea Stylianidou mit Justice for Zak / Zackie Block Berlin (queer activists from greece and Soli Tsoli group), Stoll & Wachall, Max Sudhues, Anja Teske, Peter Torp, Chryssa Tsampazi, Micki Tschur, Kata Unger, Julien Villaret, Gabiela Volanti, Anke Völk, Florian Wagner, Christine Weber, Linda Weiss, Anke Westermann, Barbara Wille, Markus Wirthmann, Michaela Zimmer, Christof Zwiener

Nach einem Jahr Aussetzen kommt sie nun wieder, die One-Night-Group-Show im Spor Klübü. Und nachdem seit 2005 zehn Exemplare dieses Ausstellungsformats Zitaten aus den 1980er Jahren gewidmet waren, werden sie nun auch aus anderen Dekaden kommen. Den Beginn dieser Öffnung bestreitet Franz Josef Degenhardt mit dem Zitat „Ärmel aufkrempeln - zupacken – aufbauen“ aus dem Jahr 1968. Viele Alben, aber nur wenige Singles hat er zu Lebzeiten veröffentlicht. „Vatis Argumente (Ärmel aufkrempeln-zupacken–aufbauen)“ war seine erste Veröffentlichung als Single (später auch als Maxi-Single erschienen).

Das im Lied festgehaltene Gespräch führt „Vati“ nicht etwa mit Rudi Dutschke persönlich, sondern es wird erzählt aus der Sicht des Kindes als imaginäres Gespräch. In einer emotionalen Rede preist „Vati“ seine Leistungen und Errungenschaften im Abgleich mit Dutschke und seinesgleichen. Idealtypisch beschreibt der Text die generationsbedingten unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Perspektiven einer Eltern-Kind-Beziehung zu Zeiten der linksgerichteten Studentenbewegungen der 1960er Jahre. Armer und fleissiger Aufbauer versus Revoluzzer, Scharlatan und Faulenzer. Er - „Vati“-  hat so unglaublich Recht, denn letztendlich hat er den Grundstein dafür gelegt, dass andere nun ein freigeistiges Leben führen können und zu allem Überfluss dann auch noch „klugscheissen“. Klingt eigentlich korrekt, aber leider bemerkt „Vati“ nicht, dass er inhaltlich nicht viel zu bieten hat und mit seiner rückwärts gerichteten und verklärten Sicht auch völlig alleine steht bzw. eher Verachtung als Lob erntet. 

Was bedeutet das damalige Gespräch eigentlich für heute? Ist es immer noch das gleiche generationsbedingte konfliktgeladene Phänomen, oder lässt sich das heute gar nicht mehr so eindeutig lokalisieren? Weil es etwa diesen „Vorsprung“ der jungen Generation, diese frische neue Ernsthaftigkeit im Umgang mit Gesellschaft und Politik, die im Grunde automatisch zu einer engagierten Haltung führen muss, nicht mehr gibt? Fehlen die großen Impulse dafür? Gründe hat bzw. hätte man ja ausreichend, sogar mehr denn je, oder?  Was wären „gesunde“ Anzeichen für eine Wiederholung dieser Geschichte von 1968? Cool bleibt jedenfalls „Vati“ trotzdem. Ärmel hochkrempeln – zupacken – aufbauen. Das klingt wirklich cool!

Foto: Matthias Mayer

Spor Klübü
Freienwalder Str. 31
13359 Berlin
Tel.: 0179-8593744
U8 Pankstr./S Bornholmerstr.

www.koloniewedding.de/sporkluebue


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Erik Smith - Ghosts

Counterpath
Opening: Friday November 2, 2018
Exhibition: November 3 - 30, 2018

With his exhibition Ghosts, opening at Counterpath on Friday, November 2, 2018, at 6pm, and on view through November 30, Berlin-based, American artist Erik Smith focuses on the material traces of history and memory specific to the Counterpath site and surrounds of Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood, reconfiguring and collaging these to generate “new ambiances and new psychic possibilities” (Debord) for reconsidering the legacies of the area and its present-day meanings.

A temporary excavation of Counterpath’s outdoor lot exposing the former location of a buried oil tank, a long-defunct 1950s street lamp located in front of the building made to flicker at night, and a series of found/discarded furniture collected around the city, painted black, and embedded with speakers emitting the droning and crackling sounds of a flickering fluorescent light form the central sculptural and sonic components of the exhibition. In combination they establish a dichotomy between present and past, positive and void, inside and outside, gallery space and the lot surrounding the Counterpath building, a former auto repair shop built in 1954 and revamped as an exhibition and cultural venue in 2015.

The title, Ghosts, points not only to the partial reanimating of the site’s past identity but also to the many vacant and derelict commercial buildings of this portion of East Colfax Avenue, an area long associated with transience, drug addiction, and prostitution. Smith documented these structures and other abandoned homes while canvassing the area for materials and images, his form of “walking research,” creating a visual archive that reflects psychoanalyst and author Christopher Bollas’s assertion, in his essay on architecture and the unconscious, that “each city has its ghost towns.” These images are presented in the back room in the form of a video slideshow and paired with a dark ambient audio track created by Smith in his Berlin studio, adding a further layer of estrangement to a portrayal of the city at odds with the popular vision of economic boom times.

Themes of urban disaffection also resonate in another large-scale work installed inside the gallery: a series of black 3×5’ vinyl flags, sewn partially together to form a semi-contiguous whole, are presented as an abstract, non-functional domestic element spanning the main wall of the space. The black flags, a symbol rooted in anarchist movements of the nineteenth century, along with the void of the dig and the droning and crackling of the flickering light, allude not only to the precarious reality of neighborhoods, buildings, and domestic objects at the end of their use cycle but also the current political and social unease hanging over society at large. Ghosts are dead buildings as well as the death of ideals around community and a sense of shared destiny today.

With special sound performances by Din Virulent and Michael Lowe

Counterpath is also inviting a host of local businesses, both active and recently closed, to attend the opening and discuss the neighborhood (please write to counterpath@gmail.com to sign up).

Erik Smith grew up in Colorado and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, since 2003; this is his first exhibition in Denver. Solo exhibitions include FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018, Malta; Locus Solus, de Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam NL; Errant Bodies, Berlin DE; Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin; Die Raum, Berlin; DimensionsVariable, Miami FL; Kapinos Galerie, Berlin; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. He has also shown his work in numerous group exhibitions internationally including SculptureCenter, LIC, NY; BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR; Arsenic, Lausanne CH; Pierogi, Leipzig; Kunstpunkt, Berlin. www.eriksmith.de

Image: 7 Star Motel, East Colfax Avenue (Erik Smith)


Counterpath
7935 East 14th Ave
Denver, CO 80220

http://counterpathpress.org/


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Erik Smith - Psychoarcheology

FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018
Sunday October 15th
2pm - 6pm only


FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018 invites you this coming Sunday, October 15th, 2017, between 2 and 6pm, to an art-event in Gudja, Malta to discover “Psychoarcheology,” a project in the form of a temporary excavation by artist Erik Smith.

Drawing on psychogeography and urban archeology, this trans-disciplinary, “psychoarcheological” project is conducted on a field close to the Chapel Ta Loretu, looking out on the airport runway. This site was identified by overlaying a network of “ley lines” onto maps of the island based on the location of existing archeological sites and prominent geological features. The project seeks to produce potential new discoveries as well as an altered awareness of the contemporary landscape and its relationship to the ancient past. Visitors will receive a free copy of a publication of selected map drawings and documented sites.


Guy Debord defines psychogeography as “the study and manipulation of environments to create new ambiences and new psychic possibilities.” “Psychoarcheology” mines a similar vein but focuses instead on the effects of the past on environments in creating new ambiences and new psychic possibilities. Debord’s view of geography is deeply intertwined with the concept of the dérive, the Situationist practice of passing through urban areas while observing “the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment on the emotions and behavior of individuals.” Psychoarcheology also takes a phenomenological approach to exploring geography, particularly in employing inventive strategies for altering one’s awareness of the surrounding environment, but rather than emphasizing the surface of urban space, it seeks to understand and reveal the depths.

Ley lines are supposed straight alignments of prehistoric temples, megaliths, and significant geological features. Originally associated with ancient trackways or paths in the landscape, some claim that such lines and their points of intersection resonate a special psychic or mystical energy capable of affecting consciousness. Psychoarcheology takes up this phenomenon, mapping the points of intersection between alignments of known Neolithic temples, dolmen, and menhir across Malta in a quest to identify new sites for investigation and excavation. Part science, part pseudo-science, the project employs competing methodologies and ways of interpreting the world, alluding to the limits and blind spots inherent to both and calling into question what is knowable in an age of increasingly quantified experience.


Erik Smith (US) studied comparative literature and art in the US and Italy and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany since 2003. Selected solo exhibitions include Locus Solus, de Appel Contemporary Arts Centre, Amsterdam NL; Errant Bodies, Berlin DE; Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Berlin; DimensionsVariable, Miami FL; Kapinos Galerie, Berlin; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. His work has also been presented in numerous group exhibitions internationally including SculptureCenter, LIC, NY; BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, FR; Arsenic, Lausanne CH; Pierogi, Leipzig; Kunstpunkt, Berlin. 

www.eriksmith.de

FRAGMENTA is open to all public and free of charge and is supported by Valletta 2018 – European Capital of Culture.
This event is made possible through the generous support of the Gudja local council.

FRAGMENTA/Valletta 2018
Ta'Loretu Chapel
Triq Hal-Far
Gudja, Malta
 

https://fragmentamalta.com/



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"The Real Estate Show Extended/Berlin"

KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN
Öffnungszeiten / Opening hours:
Mi.–Sa. / Wed.–Sat., 14:00–18:00
03. 06. – 24. 06. 2017
Eröffnung / Opening: Fr. / Fri., 02. 06. 2017, 19:00


Gruppenausstellung zum Thema "Gentrifizierung, Immobilienspekulation und der Ausverkauf der Stadt" /
Group exhibition on the subject of "Gentrification, Real Estate Speculation and Selling out the City"
Kuratiert von / Curated by Matthias Mayer


Künstler*innen / Artists:
Boris Abel, Volker Andresen, Astali/Peirce, Matthias Bade, Sheila Barcik, Fides Becker, Roland Boden, Gunnar Borbe, Saskia Breitenreicher, Alexander Callsen/Boris Jöns, Till Cremer, Nataly Dietz, Knut Eckstein, Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Annette Erlenwein/Anja Weber, Xenia Fink/ Jinny Yu/Guillermo Trejo, Ingo Gerken, Robert Gfader, Monika Goetz, Mariola Groener, Vanessa Henn, Alekos Hofstetter, Birgit Hölmer, Becky Howland, Irène Hug, Institut für kosmische Architektur, Uwe Jonas, Silke Koch, Pia Lanzinger, Julia Lazarus, Jens Christian Madsen, Antje Majewski, Matthias Mayer, Stefanie Mayer, Peter Mönnig, Oliver Möst, Alan Moore, Morgenvogel Real Estate (Maria-Leena Räihälä & Manuel Bonik), Paula Müller, Joseph Nechvatal, Daniel Permanetter, Kathrin Rabenort, Monika Rechsteiner, Benjamin Renter, Kirstin Rogge, Adrian Schiesser, Alexander Schippel, Richard Schütz, Olivia W. Seiling, Eva Seufert, Erik Smith, Elisabeth Sonneck, Gabriele Stellbaum, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Caro Suerkemper, Anja Teske, Anke Völk, Gabriela Volanti, Linda Weiss, Anke Westermann, Maja Weyermann, Ina Wudtke, Sibylle Zeh


Programm / Program:
Podiumsdiskussion / Panel discussion + Performance
Sa. / Sat., 03. 06. 2017, 18:30


Podiumsdiskussion mit Mitgliedern der New Yorker Ausstellung "The Real Estate Show" von 1980
/Panel discussion with members of the New York exhibition "The Real Estate Show" of 1980
Mit / With: Becky Howland, Peter Mönnig, Alan Moore, Joseph Nechvatal
Moderiert von / Moderated by Howard McCalebb (Dada Post, Berlin)
(auf Englisch/in English)


Performance:
"Inner City Wars against the Poor", Ina Wudtke aka T-INA Darling


Ausstellungsführungen / Guided tours:
Sa. / Sat., 10. 06. 2017, 16:00
Sa. / Sat., 17. 06. 2017, 16:00

KUNSTPUNKT BERLIN
Schlegelstr. 6, 10115 Berlin

http://www.kunstpunkt.com/


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Rebellion

SCOTTY
Ausstellung 29.04. bis 10.06.2017
Eröffnung am 28. April 2017, 19 Uhr

Mario Asef, Mona Babl, Charlotte Bastian, Nina Kluth, Robert Lanz, Daniela Lehmann Carrasco, Brian Morrow, Funda Özgünaydin, Michael Pfisterer, Alexandra Schlund, Nadja Schöllhammer, Daniel Seiple, Erik Smith, Kerstin Stoll, Katinka Theis, Andrea Übelacker, Sandra Wrampelmeyer

(English version below)
Wie zeigt sich Rebellion? Was kann und was soll Rebellion?
Wogegen rebellieren? Und wie? Kleine Andeutung oder große Aktion? Mit großem Ernst oder auch mit Witz?


Das Ausstellungsprojekt zum Thema REBELLION verbindet die Notwendigkeit und Lust zu rebellieren mit der Idee der Kraft der Subversität in der künstlerischen Arbeit.
Gründe zu rebellieren, gibt es genug: Verkrustetes Denken, Konformität, die "Gesetze des Marktes", Hass und Gewalt, Separatismus, die Zerstörung der Umwelt, die Missachtung der Würde von Mensch und Tier… Die Liste ließe sich unendlich fortsetzen.
Die Kunst versucht, in ihrer eigenen Sprache die Realität anders oder eine andere Realität abzubilden, um etwas Neues sichtbar zu machen.


SCOTTY präsentiert die Arbeiten von Mario Asef, Mona Babl, Nina Kluth, Robert Lanz, Daniela Lehmann Carrasco, Brian Morrow, Funda Özgünaydin, Michael Pfisterer, Alexandra Schlund, Nadja Schöllhammer, Daniel Seiple, Erik Smith, Kerstin Stoll, Katinka Theis, Charlotte Bastian, Andrea Übelacker und Sandra Wrampelmeyer. KünstlerInnen, die auf sehr unterschiedliche Weise reflektieren, wogegen oder wofür es wert ist, zu rebellieren. Wie Auflehnung aussehen kann, auch mit welchen Auswirkungen.

Begleitet wird die Ausstellung von abendlichen Veranstaltungen im SCOTTY-Projektraum, wie Filmscreenings, Musik-Acts, Performances.

Film: "Art War" am 29.04., 20:30 Uhr
Gallery Weekend: Sa und So, 29.04./30.04.2017: je 14-19 Uhr


Performance 11.05.17, 20 Uhr
+ Film: "flüstern & SCHREIEN" 11.05.17, 20:45 Uhr


Mehr Informationen und weitere Veranstaltungen auf unserer Website.

(English version)
How is rebellion manifested? What can and should rebellion be?
What is there to rebel against? And how? With a small gesture or a major action? With utmost seriousness or with wit?


Centered on the theme of REBELLION, this exhibition project combines the necessity and desire to rebel with the notion of the artwork's subversive power.
There are plenty of reasons for rebelling: entrenched thinking, conformity, the "laws of the market," hate and violence, separatism, environmental destruction, disregard for the dignity of man and animal...the list could go on and on.
Employing its own language, art seeks to portray reality differently or to depict another reality in order to bring something new to light.


SCOTTY presents the work of artists who reflect on rebellion in a wide variety of ways, on what is worth rebelling for or against. On what rebellion might look like, and what impact it might have.

The exhibition is accompanied by evening events at the SCOTTY project space, including film-screenings, music acts, and performances.

Duration exhibition: : 29 April – 10 June 2017
Opening: 28 April 2017, 7 pm
Gallery Weekend: Sat and Sun, 29.04./30.04.2017: 2 - 7 pm

Film: "Art War" 29 April, 8:30 pm
Performance 11 May, 8 pm and
Film: "flüstern & SCHREIEN" 11 May, 8:45 pm


Image credits:
© Brian Morrow, Untitled (detail)

SCOTTY
Oranienstr. 46
D 10969 Berlin

http://www.scottyenterprises.de/rebellion/


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"Inglan Is A Bitch"
ONE NIGHT GROUP SHOW

Spor Klübü 
Eröffnung: Fr., 25.11.2016, 19 Uhr


mit: Boris Abel, Michelle Alperin, Volker Andresen, Caroline Bayer, Fides Becker, Antje Blumenstein, Gunnar Borbe, Sabine Bokelberg, Sascha Boldt, Tanya von Barnau, Ben Cottrell, Rolf Czulius, Nataly Dietz, Thomas Draschan, Knut Eckstein, Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout, Niki Elbe, Frederik Foert & Olivia W. Seiling, Kathrin Ganser, Ingo Gerken, Robert Gfader, GODsDOGs, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Mariola Groener, Hlynur Hallsson, Pablo Hermann, Marie von Heyl, Irène Hug, Annika Hippler, Thomas Jocher, Uwe Jonas, Sven Kalden, Silke Koch, Karsten Korn, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Joke Lanz/Simon Parfrement, Daniela Lehmann-Carrasco, Christine Lohr, Matthias Mayer, Stefanie Mayer, Paula Müller, Leo de Munk, Joe Neave, Rainer Neumeier, Florence Obrecht, Kirsten Palz, Axel Pahlavi, Manfred Peckl, Maria-Leena Räihälä, Benjamin Renter, Cornelia Renz, Römer + Römer, Ann Schomburg, Richard Schütz, Michael Schultze, Stefanie von Schroeter, Amelia Seymour, Raaf van der Sman, Johanna Smiatek, Erik Smith, Elisabeth Sonneck, Anne Staszkiewicz, Max Sudhues, Gabriele Stellbaum, Sarah Strassmann, Jaro Straub, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Maki Takano, Alex Tennigkeit, Anja Teske, Thea Timm, Peter Torp, Julius Weiland, Linda Weiss, Anke Westermann, Sibylle Zeh, Michaela Zimmer, Oliver Zwink

Seit 2005 initiiert Spor Klübü-Macher Matthias Mayer eine Reihe von Gruppenausstellungen, die sich thematisch mit Zitaten aus den 1980er Jahren beschäftigen. Jetzt bereits zum zehnten Mal veranstaltet, hat er KünstlerInnen aus seinem Umfeld aufgerufen, dieses Jahr Arbeiten zum Zitat von Linton Kwesi Johnson von 1980 "Inglan is a bitch" für die "One-Night-Ausstellung beizusteuern. "Inglan is a bitch" vereint Musik, Literatur und Politik und ist Titel von LKJ's Textsammlung (erschienen London 1980) sowie Songtitel (Album "Bass Culture", Island Records 1980). Geboren in Jamaika und in seiner frühen Jugend nach England übergesiedelt wird Linton Kwesi Johnson Poet und Musiker. LKJ hat das Genre "Dub-Poetry" mit ins Leben gerufen. Er kreiert seine eigene Sprache aus Jamaican Creole, Jamaican English und English English. Er vertritt die Stimme der Arbeiterklasse und thematisiert die fortdauernde Unterdrückung der Immigranten in der englischen Gesellschaft seit der Kolonialzeit. Obwohl seine Dichtung für ihn im Vordergrund steht, ist er ein weltweit bekannter und erfolgreicher Reggae-Musiker. Im Juli 1989 spielt er beim bekannten Loreley Summer Jam-Festival (vormals Reggae Sunsplash-Festival) mit weiteren Größen der Reggae-Szene (Jimmy Cliff, Black Uhuru, Osibisa, Ltd. Stitchie, Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Wailers, Inner Circle).

Liste der vergangenen Gruppenausstellungen in dieser Reihe mit den dazugehörigen Zitaten:
2005 "Very Sporty Jack" (aus Jim Jarmusch's "Down by law"), 2006 "U can't touch this" (Song von MC Hammer), 2007 "Sllörrrrr wip wop wop (aus Charles Bukowski's "Fuck Machine"), 2008 "Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler" (Joseph Beuys), 2009 "Nelson Mandela must fe free" (Free Mandela-Kampagne), 2010 "Stranded in The Future" (Song von Kim Fowley), 2012 "Cocaine – blows my brain.." (aus der 1980er-Szene), 2014 "IWF Mördertreff" (Demonstrations-Slogan, Berlin 1988), 2015 "You knee them in the chin..." (aus "War Story" von George Starbuck, verwendet von der Musikgruppe "Schaumtüte").

Spor Klübü

Freienwalder Str. 31
13359 Berlin-Mitte (Wedding)

www.koloniewedding.de/sporkluebue

 
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July 19, 2016


Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX
Lives of the Most Excellent Artists, Curators, Architects, Critics and more, like Vasari's book updated. The Art World Demystified, Hosted by Brainard Carey


http://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/erik-smith/


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FROM THE ARCHIVE
LOCUSSOLUS: ERIK SMITH

DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE
10 Mar — 10 Apr 2016

In 2007, Erik Smith fused the work of artist James Lee Byars with underground Black Metal music in his installation in the Appel arts centre. During the opening performance Black Metal band Sammath integrated a text from a sound piece of Byars from 1995 live into their own composition. From March 10th until April 10th the Appel arts centre presents a videoregistration of this special performance.

Correspondence from de Appel archive by James Lee Byars with first Appel director Wies Smals is currently on display in an exhibition about the artist in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

DE APPEL ARTS CENTRE
PRINS HENDRIKKADE 142
1011 AT AMSTERDAM
THE NETHERLANDS

http://deappel.nl/


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« Freux Follets »

BBB centre d'art
du 3 février au 16 avril 2016
vernissage | mardi 2 février |19 h
entrée libre et gratuite | du mardi au samedi 14 h-19 h
 
Dimitris Foutris, Michael Gumhold, Yuki Higashino, Julien Langendorff, Per-Oskar Leu, Andrew McLeod,  Steven Shearer, Julien Sirjacq, Sindre Foss Skancke, Erik Smith, The Bells Angels, Erik Tidemann, Torbjørn Rødland, Gisèle Vienne

Elodie Lesourd, commissaire invitée sur une proposition de Cécile Poblon

Elodie Lesourd est invitée par le BBB centre d'art à jouer le rôle de commissaire d'exposition. Pour faire suite à ses recherches, elle choisit le Black Metal comme opérateur de discours. Après avoir parsemé son travail plastique de référents inhérents à cette culture, elle approfondit l'analyse des rapports entre le Black Metal et l'art contemporain sous plusieurs formes : d'une première ébauche d'exposition collective « Svarte Sirkel » en 2007, à l'écriture d'un texte « Le Baptême ou la mort : Le Black Metal dans l'art contemporain, naissance d'une nouvelle catégorie esthétique » (écrit fin 2011 et publié début 2013) et d'autres collaborations avec le journal américain Helvete, l'élaboration de l'édition du journal CS consacré à son rapport au mouvement a définitivement scellé son lien au sujet. Ainsi « Freux Follets » s'annonce comme la mise en forme de ses réflexions et tente de montrer la force d'un tel télescopage.

BBB centre d'art
96, rue Michel-Ange | 31200 Toulouse
Exposition collective05 61 13 37 14 | contact@lebbb.org | www.lebbb.org
entrée libre et gratuite du mardi au samedi de 14h à 19h



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Bar Babette, Berlin DE
January 28, 2016


Berlin Collective is pleased to present, “On Site in 16 Cities”, A Group Exhibition consisting of International Artists new works produced specifically for this project.

This project was inspired by Jim Jarmusch’s film, “Night on Earth”, 1991. Night on Earth is a 1991 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It is a collection of five vignettes, taking place during the same night, concerning the temporary bond formed between taxi driver and passenger in five cities: Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome, and Helsinki.

For this project, each artist was asked to find a location in their city that has a particular meaning to them, create a work in response to that location, photograph it in that exact place, and lastly print it in the format of 10’’x10’’ to give a unified look to the works as if to have a voyeur experience of peering into the space. All of the works have titles and a one-sentence explanation by the artist of their piece. The individual projects are linked to 16 cities at the same time and connect the artists to their different ways of addressing their particular selection of locations.

ARTISTS: 1. Berlin, Silvia Lorenz, Mira O’Brien, Katrin Kampmann , Bonnie Begusch, Stephan Brenn, Henrike Daum, Vanessa Enríquez, Jesse Farber, Aleksandar Alexis Knowlton, Wolfgang Krause, Adi Liraz & Sanija Kulenovic, Katharina Lüdicke, Sven Stuckenschmidt, transstruktura, Ulrike Mohr, Tomoko Mori, Konrad Mühe, Johannes Rodenacker, Sabrina Schieke, Sonja Schrader, Aleks Slota, Erik Smith, Max Sudhues, Eva AM Winnersbach & Cornelia Bördlein 2. Amsterdam, Dennis Tremalio 3. Pennyslvania, Gwendolyn Kerber 4. Sun Valley, Idaho, Nicole Kohn 5. Minot, North Dakota, Wednesday Kim 6. NYC, Judy Mauer, Elena Lyakir, Pablo Carpio , Denise Triezman, Alice Garik, Sky Kim , Margaret Edith Arial, Marcie Kaufman 7. London, Sonia Barrett, 8. Alyssa De Luccia, Jestrovic Jamesdin, Grace Euna Kim, Melbourne, Kate Shaw, 9. Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jennifer Danos,10. Paris, Susan Shup, 11. Washington, D.C., Eve Hennessa, 12. Italy- Carlos Solito 13. Taichung, Vincent Cy Chen 14. Los Angeles, Tm Gratkowski Malado Baldwin , Burton Machen 15. Houston, Terrell James, 16. Sydney, Australia, Brad Robson

http://berlin-collective.blogspot.com/

 
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"You knee them in the chin..."
ONE NIGHT GROUP SHOW

Spor Klübü 
Eröffnung: Fr., 27.11.2015, 19 Uhr


mit:
Boris Abel, Sonja Alhäuser & Heike Kati Barath, Mika Andersen, Volker Andresen, Sheila Barcik, BEWEGUNG NURR & Christine Weber, Antje Blumenstein, Roland Boden, Gunnar Borbe, Cisca Bogman, Sascha Boldt, Iwona Lili Borkowska, Matthew Burbidge, Sonja Burbidge, Astrid Busch, Alexander Callsen, Alexine Chanel, Rolf Czulius, Nataly Dietz, Chris Dreier, Knut Eckstein, Laurence Egloff, Niki Elbe, Xenia Fink, Frederik Foert & Olivia W. Seiling, Tom Früchtl, Robert Gfader, Massoud Graf-Hachempour, Mariola Groener, Thomas Grötz, Armin Häberle, Stephanie Hanna, Pablo Hermann, Marie von Heyl, Birgit Hölmer, Claude Horstmann, Irène Hug, Hervé Humbert, Henrik Jacob, Uwe Jonas, Sven Kalden, Stefan Kaminski & Alex Tennigkeit, Silke Koch, Susanne Kohler, Simone Lanzenstiel, Simon Lindhardt, Martin Löhr, Christian Macketanz, Jens Christian Madsen, Frank Maier, Matthias Mayer, Stefanie Mayer, Paula Müller, Paula Muhr, Leo de Munk, Julia Oschatz, Kirsten Palz, Martin Pfahler, Katrin Plavcak, Maria-Leena Räihälä, Benjamin Renter, Cornelia Renz, Regine Rode, Kirstin Rogge, Julia Rüther, Alexander Schippel, Mira Schnedler, Jochen Schneider, Sonya Schönberger, Iris Schomaker, Ann Schomburg, Richard Schütz, Eva Seufert, Heidi Sill, Johanna Smiatek, Erik Smith, Elisabeth Sonneck, Max Sudhues, Gabriele Stellbaum, Sarah Strassmann, Vassiliea Stylianidou, Susa Templin, Anja Teske, Ryan Thayer, Thea Timm, Chryssa Tsampazi, Micki Tschur, Kata Unger, Anke Völk, Gabriela Volanti, Gabriel Vormstein, Heike Walter, Linda Weiss, Michael Witte, Sibylle Zeh, Francis Zeischegg, Christof Zwiener, Oliver Zwink


Seit 2005 initiiert Künstler und Spor Klübü-Projektraumbetreiber Matthias Mayer eine Reihe von Gruppenausstellungen, die sich thematisch immer mit Zitaten aus den 1980er Jahren beschäftigen. Diese Zeit war für den damals jungen und heranwachsenden Künstler prägend und so knüpfen die Zitate aus Kunst, Film, Literatur, Politik und Gesellschaft an das an, was er miterlebt und teilweise verehrt hat.

"You knee them in the chin..." ist ein Zitat aus der ersten Strophe des Gedichts "War Story" des amerikanischen Dichters George Starbuck. Matthias Mayer spielte ausgangs der 80er in der Musikgruppe "Schaumtüte", dessen amerikanischer Sänger, ein in Deutschland stationierter Soldat, diese erste Strophe für den Song "4th of July" einsetzte. Es ist ein Anti-Kriegstext, der die Handlungen und Abläufe, die Lügen und Grausamkeiten des Krieges eindrücklich zu Tage bringt. Im Gedicht von Starbuck folgt auf "You knee them in the chin..." "to drive the dog-tag in". Dies beschreibt eine normale Kriegspraxis bei gefallenen Soldaten. Man rammt den Toten ihre "Hundemarke" (Metall-Erkennungsmarke) mit dem Knie ins Kinn zwecks späterer Indentifizierung.

Liste der vergangenen Gruppenausstellungen in dieser Reihe mit den dazugehörigen Zitaten:
2005 "Very Sporty Jack" (aus Jim Jarmusch's "Down by law"), 2006 "U can't touch this" (Song von MC Hammer), 2007 "Sllörrrrr wip wop wop (aus Charles Bukowski's "Fuck Machine"), 2008 "Jeder Mensch ist ein Künstler" (Joseph Beuys), 2009 "Nelson Mandela must fe free" (Free Mandela-Kampagne), 2010 "Stranded in The Future" (Song von Kim Fowley), 2012 "Cocaine – blows my brain.." (aus der 80er-Szene), 2014 "IWF Mördertreff" (Demonstrations-Slogan).


Spor Klübü
Freienwalder Str. 31
13359 Berlin-Mitte (Wedding)
Tel.: 0179-8593744
U8 Pankstr./S Bornholmerstr.
www.koloniewedding.de/sporkluebue


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What is the sound of protest?

errant bodies
6-8th November 2015
Vernissage: Friday 6th November,
6-9pm
performances and talks start at 7.30 sharp

A performative evening and temporary exhibition
Curated by Joseph Young

Featuring contributions by:
Raghed Barakat/ Helgard Müller/ Nicodemus/ Thomas Stern, Vincent Chomaz, Israel Martinez, Sybella Perry, Harry Ross, Stan Back & The Noise Glam, Lorenzo Tripodi, Symeon Yovev, Fred Dewey, Janine Eisenächer, Troy Mighty, Lars Müller, Michelle-Marie Letelier & Maria Verónica Troncoso, Erik Smith, Linda Weiss.


Does the sound of a coffee machine in a an artisan coffee shop signal a resistance towards the globalisation of the high street and is the sound of birdsong a protest against urban development? Brighton (UK) and Berlin based artist Joseph Young continues his investigation into artistic utopias, revolutionary moments and social struggle to uncover some of the unlikely forms that the sound of protest might take. Via invitation and an open call Joseph has selected a number of artists to collaborate with him in this short investigation; starting with a field recording and workshop weekend and ending in a temporary exhibition and performance event.

More details at www.artofnoises.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1494094090919780/


errant bodies
kollwitzstrasse 97 berlin 10435
www.errantbodies.org








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