transmediale 2K+12

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, Berlin

Incompatibility is the condition that arises when things are not working together. Given the current worldwide crises, be they political, financial, technological or environmental, it may seem as if incompatible elements are everywhere. Ironically, it is the supposedly ever-more compatible media-scape that renders such crises visible. Where do incompatibilities arise and how are they integrated in a world-order predicated on convergence, but also leading to divergence?

The festival includes exhibitions, competitions, conferences, film and video programmes, live performances and a publication series called 'transmediale parcours'. Moreover it cooperates with club transmediale (CTM), which deals with electronic music and club culture.

Website: http://www.transmediale.de/

Image: Joshua Light Show, http://www.flickr.com/photos/transmediale/6719822889/

CTM.12 – SPECTRAL

Various venues, Berlin

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials.

The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January to 5 February 2012. As always, CTM runs parallel to and in cooperation with Berlin’s festival for art and digital culture, transmediale, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2012.

In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival’s theme by pursuing questions concerning art, theory, and music.

Ghosts Off the Shelf is an exhibit created by the curator, art critic, and architect Thibaut de Ruyter at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, and explores the artistic use of the exponentially growing capacities of technical archives and their “inherent ghosts”. The exhibit opens on 27 January as part of Vorspiel, a comprehensive partner program within which a number of independent Berlin art, music, and media spaces will present their activities.

Website: http://www.ctm-festival.de/

Image: Festival logo taken from http://www.ctm-festival.de/press-info/download-files-images.html

Vorspiel

Art / sound / digital culture at 21 venues across Berlin

transmediale and CTM's Vorspiel is a pre-festival program where over 20 partner venues invite you to a series of exhibition openings, performances, artist talks, and special events that take place beyond   the main venues of either festival.

Vorspiel will take place on the weekend prior to both festivals, from Thursday 26 – Sunday 29 January 2012, at independent organizations, galleries, project spaces and other venues across Berlin. The Vorspiel program partners have been selected by transmediale and CTM   according to one of the following criteria: content that relate to the in/compatible and/or Spectral thematic frameworks of the festivals, key collaboration partners, and high artistic quality. Experience some of Berlin's best experimental arts, music and sound via this unique, pre-festival weekend.

Website: http://www.ctm-festival.de/vorspiel/about.html

Image: Vorspiel's venues, http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214881510027978113040.0004b4112e9583bf93a9c&msa=0

Tracing Mobility
Cartography and Migration in Networked Space

Exhibition, Symposium and Open Platform
24.11. – 12.12.2011
Opening 23.11.2011 | 19 h

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
D - 10557 Berlin

The exhibition is a continuation and a further exploration of an ongoing dialogue that seeks to descry the cultural aspects of our mobility, the future of our mobility and the new spaces thus created or altered as a consequence.

Through the positions of sixteen international artists from various backgrounds, such as visual art, new media art and performance, the show is a provocative staging of the role electronic networks play in transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance. In a variety of formats or platforms, such as installation, video, performance, painting, ‘Apps’, maps and open-source collaboration, these artists’ projects visualise a current of developing strategies lobbying for a position of awareness, observation and engagement within the sovereign as well as restrictive field of our ‘new’ spatial condition(s) and conditioning.

Within that (or outside of that), unravel many questions and provocations: How shall we understand, or rather, how can we even enunciate, the new space that arises in the convergence of online and offline? ; What does this do to one’s perception of time and space? ; When every corner of the earth is mapped and within one’s digital grasp, how is one’s physical and conceptual sense of distance and space affected? ; How does the omnipotent presence of our virtual mobility effect the movement of a body in a landscape and what does it indicate? ; How does the ubiquity of mobile technology and its media alter our own mobility?

Participating artists and their projects:Frank Abbott (GB) – Muscle / Aram Bartholl (DE) – Dust / Neal Beggs (GB/FR) – From our house to the summit of Europe – Side B. / Heath Bunting (GB) – Status Project / Janet Cardiff / George Bures Miller (Kanada) – Road Trip / Miles Chalcraft (GB/DE) – At End of Road / Simon Faithfull (GB/DE) – The Electrification of Dark Peak (a proposal); Going Nowhere / Going Nowhere 2; Limbo, An expanding Atlas of Subjectivity / Yolande Harris (GB/NL) – Navigating by Circles; Taking Soundings; Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding ( Folke Köbberling & Martin Kaltwasser (DE) – IFA / Landon Mackenzie (Kanada) – Houbart’s Hope (Green), Hope Advanced, Hope Dasht; Vancouver As the Centre of the World / Open_Sailing (FR/JP) – Protei plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (GB/DE) – The re-drawing of everywhere we've been in Berlin since 2007; Five Years of text messages mapped onto the duration of the exhibition / Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL) – / Gordan Savicic (A/NL) – Constraint City – The pain of everyday life / Mark Selby (GB) – Camera Explora / Michelle Teran (Kanada/DE) – Folgen

Website: http://www.hkw.de/de/top/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilung_68084.php

Image: Simon Faithfull – Going Nowhere 2

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Trackers

Gaîté Lyrique, Paris
September 30 - November 13, 2011

First personal show in France for the mexican-canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmers and his interactive installations placing the visitor between playful excitement and fear of the oppressive automatisms.

http://www.gaite-lyrique.net/en/programmation/event/rafael-lozano-hemmer-trackers

Image: Maxime Dufour Photographie

Frances Stark - My Best Thing

Moma PS1, New York
October 14, 2011 - January, 2012

Frances Stark (American, b. 1967) is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer whose work explores image-making and the written word. Known for her works on paper that often reference the acts of drawing and writing, Stark also makes videos, sculptures, and live performances that are suffused with self-doubt, speculation, and vulnerability. She regularly draws from popular culture, literature, and her own personal life, often exploring expectations and assumptions about gender that inflect her identity as a woman, artist, teacher, and mother.

http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/342

Image: Frances Stark. Film still from My Best Thing. 2011. Courtesy the artist and Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Galerie Buchholz, Cologne and Berlin; Marc Foxx, Los Angeles; and greengrassi, London.