OPENHAUS 19/06/2014
Open Studios, performances and installations
Artists in Residence are: Asha Bee Abraham, Luca Forcucci, Sheraz Khan, Jan Körbes, Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen, Octora Permana, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Raegan Truax, Jaro Varga, Mudi Yahaya, Studio Osk, Ana Mendes, Jesper Aabille, Sumugan Sivanesan and Tessa Zettel
7pm-7.30pm: Sound Walk - Sheraz Khan
7.30pm-8pm: Stories aus Moabit - Asha Bee Abraham
8pm-9pm: Performance - Raegan Truax
Asha Bee Abraham - Die Insel
Asha Bee Abraham - Die Insel
7pm-7.30pm: Stories aus Moabit
The story of the city is written not by the historians or the travel bureaus. It is written and told as its people interact with its places through the simplicity of everyday life. We construct the sounds and the sights of the city with our busking and street art; We give it personality by exchanging smiles, stealing kisses and slamming car horns; We draw the lines on the map through our paths to work. Our stories build the city, brick by brick, paragraph by paragraph.
Die Insel is a 4-month participatory art and human ecology project. An ongoing interactive mapping process is collecting data to create a printed Moabit tourist map for locals to explore their own neighbourhood. All attendees are encouraged to contribute by flagging the places of significance and insignificance to them around Moabit.
Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen - Untitled (Titled)
Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen - Untitled (Titled)
For the open studio at ZK/U I plan to develop a research-based project with the working title Untitled (Titled). This investigation is a continuation of my exploration on the ideological construction of multiculturalism and its internal mechanisms. The two-folded project will take the shape of a text-based installation and an artist book, which aims to make visible the uneven cultural and linguistic translations that immigrants perform when moving to a new country with the hopes of revealing some of the assimilative strategies and the limits of multiculturalism, as constructed in the West. More specifically, I plan to conduct interviews with individuals who went through processes of changing their name from their native tongue to a Westernize equivalent.
Sheraz Khan - Texture / Tone
Sheraz Khan - Texture / Tone
7.30pm-8pm: Sound Walk
As the culmination of a four month residency exploring sensory translations, I will be presenting "Te/to", a device that translates the texture of the ground into a sound composition. Through the act of translation of senses (from texture to sound), Te/to brings out the diversity of forms and experiences felt through the ground while questioning our normally limited conscious sensory engagement with it. In addition, I will present my last set of "Notes on Texture": a series of postcards and a texture map of Moabit.
Jan Körbes - SILO CITY
Jan Körbes - SILO CITY
Experimental living concept in the context of mobile and dynamic architecture
Scheveningen, The Hague, Netherlands, realization March 2013
First Mobile Location Berlin-Moabit, Germany, July 2013
As a contraposition to the standard perception of architecture and as a reaction to a dynamic life as garbage architect and international 3D troubleshooter, I developed a dynamic and mobile living structure from a grain silo and a selection of local waste materials. Various simple but logical technical systems enable the silo to be almost independent of civilization, e.g. the shower which works on 5 liter circulated water. In order to look from a different angle at the standard way of living, I started to live with my daughter in the experimental house, which we moved to Berlin at the end of july 2013. The 'silo city' project in Berlin questions the general dynamics in housing and public space, inviting contrasting groups of society to experience the other side of mobility and architecture, from doctors to lawyers, through workers and gardeners to politicians and musicians.
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
Ditte Lyngkær Pedersen
For the Open Haus at ZKU in June I plan to show some work-in-progress for example from the project “Laughter”, which I am preparing for shows in the fall here in Berlin and in Cyprus. “Laughter” is a sound and photography project based on reenactments of an old Japanese photography from 1956 of a group of 5 people laughing uncontrollably. The project tries to find out what was so funny at the time of the capture. But no one in the picture remembers and the photographer does not want to speak about the past. So the project tells another story from contemporary Japan through hand written letter exchange with an old woman in Tokyo during the last 5 years.
Octora Permana
Octora Permana
During my stay in ZK/U i explore uniform, military uniform. For this project, I was intrigued by the dark past history of my country, Indonesia, engaged with military and individual. I am re-questioning the military as one of the vital institutions in society which were an universal phenomena (it was in every society) carrying with it a paradox in the context of humanity.
Raegan Truax
Raegan Truax
8pm-9pm
Weight, gravity, quiet unraveling
A performance experiment by Raegan Truax
Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan
Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan
Tessa Zettel and Sumugan Sivanesan are working together on a project that investigates urban beekeeping in relation to dual crises in European economic systems and bee ecologies, in the context of Berlin’s post-reunification development as a multicultural ‘creative’ capital.
At the ZK/U Openhaus, the artists are interested to discuss with you share economies, interspecies relations, bee science, local food production and the histories and possibilities of beekeeping in this city.
SOIL SOUP
SOIL SOUP
A side project by Heather Pringle and Nienke Van Pijkeren
From 6pm on.
SOILSOUP is an exchange event that looks at daily waste products and soil. Ever wondered what to do with all your food waste? Come along and find out how it can help your dead soil! We invite you, our neighbours, residents and curious visitors to stop by for an information and material swapping session!
SOILSOUP is a project developed by a collaborative group of artists and individuals who explore the value of waste products in soil remediation processes. Looking at natural cycles of food consumption and waste production, SOILSOUP experiments with composting and Terra Preta methods. We also offer a few free take-away treats for your soil, and your stomach!