archive — LAURA FONG PROSPER

ECLITTICA
EXERCISES OF COSMIC ATTUNEMENT AND TRANSITIONS

21 June 2024, Villa Romana, Firenze
5:33 am/midnight

On 21 June, Villa Romana celebrated the summer solstice with a series of exercises and resonances: performances, vocal interventions, garden workshops, installations, listening sessions, and live music by the artists of the house on via Senese 68, together with invited guests. On the longest day of the year, we paused, observed, and tried to re-attune to cosmic orders that are bigger than we are: The ecological devastation and the general crisis that we are experiencing right now in the world urge us to look beyond “our garden”, beyond our anthropocentric arrogance, and to re-pair a relationship with higher cosmic orders and rhythms that we seem to have impoverished throughout the centuries.

The Villa Romana Fellows, the garden residents, as well as guests such as Antonina Nowacka and nikoLFO with Laura Fong Prosper tuned us all into a full programme open to the public on the 21st of June in our garden.

The project was realised in collaboration with OOH-sounds e Nub Project Space.

Photos by Studio 900. Courtesy of Villa Romana, Florence

SUPERVISION: On Motherhood and Surveillance book feature. (2023)

Edited by Sophie Hamacher and Jessica Hankey (Orbits Editions) and printed by the MIT Press.

Millennial moms face many new challenges tied to techno-parenting, from the commodification of motherhood via "momfluencers" to the ethical implications of parental surveillance alongside the unattainable health and beauty standards circulated on social platforms like Instagram and Tiktok. Yet, for a generation reared on "oversharing," the confluence of digital selfhood with the labour of mothering has led to the demystification of previously unspoken reproductive struggles, like postpartum depression and pregnancy loss. In making public the nitty gritty of maternal caretaking and responsibility, there is the possibility of being unapologetic about the everyday mess that is our homes and lives when one is an Overwhelmed Mom.

BROKEN MACHINES AND WILD IMAGININGS Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany 2.6 - 9.7.2023

As part of the exhibition Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings, the JUNGE AKADEMIE has invited ten artists to develop their ideas, narratives and approaches in response to a world in which AI technologies are ubiquitous, challenging the Western cultural imagination and history of progress and calling into question problematic dualisms such as “natural” and “artificial”. By dealing with concepts in aesthetic terms, simulating scenarios and speculating on alternative futures, the arts are developing – in the context of the emergence of AI – their own aesthetic knowledge for investigating urgent issues in contemporary societies and the planet as a whole. In response to the fragile reality of machines and their extractivist logic, algorithmic violence and techno-solutionism, the artists are creating new poetic worlds and strategies of repair. They are developing alternative paradigms, historical narratives and ideas of AI, focusing on experiences, values and histories that have not (as yet) been given a hearing in AI development.

The exhibition title is loosely inspired by Sarah Sharma’s feminist Manifesto for the Broken Machine (2020). Here, broken technologies are voices of resistance, a cause of friction in the tech elite’s machine-like system. “Broken machines” develop a disruptive power as a result. They act as sources feeding new dynamics and untamed imaginations and even fostering alternative or anarchic forms of care and community. However, the artistic works are their own frame of reference and draw on a wide range of theoretical and fictional texts dating from the period since the early 20th century, thus expanding the temporal and geographical frame. Theoretical and poetic takes on colonialism, racism and technology – including works by Louis Chude-Sokei, Sylvia Wynter and Denise Ferreira da Silva – generate new readings of cyber theory and posthumanism. Techno-feminist approaches by Donna Haraway and Helen Hester and texts on eroticism and spirituality by Audre Lorde and others offer resources and impetus for aesthetic counter-projects. Criticisms of the idea of intelligence, as articulated, for example, by Reza Negarestani, make an appearance in the conceptual mappings, as do early works of science fiction by Mary Shelley and Stanisław Lem.

Materiality and temporality are also key elements in the work of Tin Wilke and Laura Fong Prosper: the artists look at phenomena like the degrowth movement, which advocates a reduction in the volume of consumption and production as a means to achieve greater social justice and environmental sustainability. Their aesthetical experiments focus on repurposing the structures and materials, that are by-products and waste of the modern project of “progress” and “development”. Possible paths toward sustainable futures built from the ruins of the Anthropocene are visualised and given concrete form using neural networks and biodegradable materials.

Broken Machines and Wild Imaginings should not be regarded just as a self-contained exhibition; it also provides insights into various artistic fields of research in which the ambiguities in AI discourses are being renegotiated on an ongoing basis. What can artists contribute to the discussion, and what do they want to contribute? What values do they call attention to? What languages and aesthetics remain?

AHORA GUARDAS LAS HUELLAS DE MIS PASOS, MAC Panamá (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá). New Acquisitions in the Museum's Collection 02.02 07.06.2023

Curatorial team: Juan Canela, Jennifer Choy y Liz Lasso

The exhibition "Now you guard the traces of my footsteps: New Acquisitions in the MAC Collection" brings together some of the works that entered the museum's Collection during the year 2022.

The curatorial team - made up of Juan Canela, Jennifer Choy and Liz Lasso - played with the first line of the poem "Al Cerro Ancon" that Amelia Denis de Icaza wrote in 1906: "You no longer keep the traces of my steps, you are no longer mine, idolized Ancon"... and that so many Panamanians have recited, as an allegory to the themes covered by the works created by the artists.

The exhibition explores the symbolic load of the struggles to recover the occupied territories, the heritage of the depopulated towns, the resistances in the face of adversities, the symbols of pride and the things that we cover with a veil.

VACIAR LA CATEGORÍA, MAC Panamá (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá). 02.02 07.06.2023

Vaciar La Categoría is an exhibition curated by Maya Juracán, Guatemalan troublemaker and activist. The exhibition is proposed as an antithesis of how women's bodies are supposed to be classified. It is well known that art made by women has always had a specific classification, stereotyping their visions or looks.

The proposal of this space is the freedom to empty the category, as a diversity of themes coexist for the exploration of different voices. An intergenerational encounter where works by 15 artists are presented that explore narratives such as territory, memory, resistance, diverse bodies, maternity and migration.

A space that seeks to generate a provocation through the rebelliousness of being a woman in art, from these Central American countries, and, in turn, recognizing that we walk from different paths but the key is to accompany each other.

ELUSIVE GROUNDS Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen, Berlin, Germany 7th - 29th October, 2022.

Laura Fong Prosper, Silvia Noronha, Niko De Paula Lefort, Tin Wilke und Matías Brunacci, Martin Schlecht (Mykologie)

Inspired by the elusive shapes, forms and forces of fungi, the group exhibition Elusive Grounds itself is a living organism, a sensing installation, which you are able to enter. There are sculptures growing from fungi mycelium, sonic fermentation processes and a complex relation-network of species. The hybrid exhibition format is a result of an intensive research phase, where artists Laura Fong Prosper, Silvia Noronha, Niko De Paula Lefort and Tina Wilke collaborated with the mycologist Martin Schlecht, in order to craft knowledge that mediates multiple sensual experiences and information around the communities of more-than-human entities.

The artistic research process invites the audience to take part in collaborative knowledge production around fungi. Entanglements of complex ecological processes are facilitated during the exhibition period.

Elusive Grounds seeks to connect the various forms of (more- than-)human knowledges like science, artworks, technological tools, sensors, sensual experience and situative experiments.We may learn how to change our human perspective on ecological crisis while entering the micro-worlds of fungi and the processes of living, dying and reviving.

The artists are zooming in on the microbial cultures, which only exist in the form of communities. Media artist Laura Fong Prosper’s work ‘lamellae, pores and teeth’is an interplay between scientific observation, technological synthesis and sentient beings. The CCTV installation was developed in a playful act with her son and creates itself during the interaction with the audience. Listen to fermentation processes with Tin Wilkes and Matías Brunaccis sound installation Habitat of airless co-creation – a multi-species live composition: extracted data morphing into sounds, tapping into the fungal networks. A living sculpture where sensors, algorithms and microorganisms create unique ephemeral voices. In For aurality mycelia, Niko De Paula Lefort is setting up a hybrid microFM-mycelium ecosystem that amplifies vibrational fields from slight impulses of the mycelium to the movements of the visitors in the gallery to atmospheric changes. The work attempts to light up environmental consciousness and mediate multi-species interconnectivity. Silvia Noronha translates the nouveau discoveries of fungal symbiosis and communication abilities into a visual installation Fluid channels that makes reference to the occult time scales and magnitudes.

Elusive Grounds is hosted by “Raum für Drastische Maßnahmen” in Berlin Friedrichshain. The gallery is holding space for this unique temporary learning and sensing platform. During the exhibition period mycological workshops, experiments and educational trails actively challenge the ostensible binaries of art and science. Elusive Grounds is more than an exhibition, it is a possibility to transgress our human-centred view and become part of a pluriverse where symbiotic chaos is drawing us in and spitting us out again.

text: hooops, Elisa Pieper & Astarte Posch

FRONTEIRAS, Fundação Cultural BADESC, Florianópolis, Brazil, 19, 20, 21, 22 June, 2022

Curated by Francela Carrera

Their works interweave personal accounts with pressing social issues such as migration, pandemic isolation, sexual harassment at work, and domestic violence. The artists also reveal their emotional dynamics, gender and class identity, and other experiences that they live from their geopolitical contexts.

PARÉNTESIS, RELATOS DESDE LA INCERTIDUMBRE Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 17th - April 27th, 2022

La exposición Paréntesis. Relatos desde la incertidumbre, es fruto de la convocatoria homónima lanzada en 2021, y muestra en Argentina 43 proyectos artísticos de los 18 países en los que está presente la Cooperación española a través de la Red de Centros Culturales (AECID), la Academia de España en Roma y el Centro de Formación de Cartagena de Indias (Co).

Paréntesis. Relatos desde la incertidumbre ofrece un amplio espectro de reflexiones personales y colectivas, que relatan las plurales experiencias de la pandemia en distintos contextos geopolíticos. Estos proyectos artísticos – de Latinoamérica, Guinea Ecuatorial y España – nos aproximan a las incertidumbres de un tiempo presente atravesado por las crisis políticas, sociales y económicas derivadas de la excepcional situación global vivida por la pandemia y abordan el complejo horizonte existencial post-COVID desde los territorios de la estética, la poesía y el discurso crítico.

Miedos, denuncias, pero también esperanza y perspectivas de futuro asoman en estos 43 relatos desde la incertidumbre. Narrados con distintos lenguajes y formatos que pasan por la fotografía documental, la novela gráfica, las bitácoras, los paisajes sonoros, el guion teatral y la poesía entre otros.
Tienen especial relevancia las piezas audiovisuales en las que disciplinas como las artes escénicas, la danza contemporánea y las prácticas performativas han sido adaptadas al dispositivo pantalla con sugerente habilidad, transmitiendo toda la intensidad y conflicto de los cuerpos.
El equipo curatorial para la selección de obras de la convocatoria y el montaje expositivo estuvo formado por la curadora Suset Sánchez y las gestoras culturales Nur Banzi y Macarena Pérez.

RÉSEAUX MONDES exhibition in Centre Pompidou Paris, France February 23 - April 25, 2022

10h special video program curated by david quiles guilló celebrating the 5th edition of the wrong biennale, for réseaux-mondes by marie-ange brayer and olivier zeitoun, at galerie 4, centre pompidou paris from february 23rd to april 25th, 2o22

babak ahteshamipour, dovile aleksaite, andreja andric, aujik, _blank, jonas blume, mit borrás, maja bosnic, banz & bowinkel, peter burr, john butler, cachopou, piero chiariello, the swan collective, armin copp, fred cosci, patricia detmering, andrew deustch, jana doell, manja ebert, ornella fieres, getrüda gilyte, ben grosser, franziska harnisch, daniel hengst, kathrin hunze, shusaku kaji, ian keaveny, mark klink, nicole kouts, sabrina labis, rachel lamot, solimán lópez, alexandre louvenaz, jonathan mccabe, a.bill miller, lauren moffatt, sarah oh-mock, falk mueller, joao pedro oliveira, pixelord, dani ploeger, alla popp, léa porré, laura fong prosper, david quiles guilló, enrique radigales, sabrina ratté, julia charlotte richter, jaime de los rios, franz rosati, anke schiemann, clemens schöll, theresa schubert, dagmar schürrer, robert seidel, jorge sellés, letta shtohryn, liudmilla siewerski, quentin smirhes, lolo & sosaku, eric souther, marija šumarac, michael borras aka systaime, ivonne thein, ivana tkalcic, manuel tozzi, daniel vacas peralta, philipp valenta, das vegas, fernando velázquez, tina wilke, małgorzata żurada

NO OCEAN BETWEEN US exhibition at ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY, Philadelphia, PA, USA, January - May, 2022

"No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & the Caribbean, 1945–Present," an exhibition that explores the art of Asian diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The exhibition features approximately 65 works of modern and contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists of Asian descent, including painter and printmaker Wifredo Lam; installation artists Carlos Runcie Tanaka and Eduardo Tokeshi; painters Manabu Mabe and Tomie Ohtake; and video artist Laura Fong Prosper, among numerous others. The works included range from paintings and works on paper to installation and new media.

The exhibition is organized around Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Panels within the exhibition provide brief descriptions of Asian diasporic communities and cultures in these countries as well contexts for the histories of migrations from China, India, Indonesia, and Japan. Global forces such as colonialism, plantation labor, and war shaped the courses of Asian migration to Latin American and the Caribbean.

FRENCH FRIES MAGAZINE FALL/WINTER ISSUE (2021-2022) feature

Written by Matthew Burgos

HEY UNIVERSUM – a (poster) exhibition in public space in Berlin

ARTISTS
Rula Ali, Nacer Ahmadi, Miguel Buenrostro, Kristen Cooper, D’Andrade, Laura Fong Prosper, Christa Fülbier, Tirdad Hashemi, Ziyad Hawwas, Halim Karabibene, Nicolás Kisic Aguirre, Zoltan Kunckel, Sam Madhu, Irina Novarese, Ramin Parvin, Yaser Safi, Ruba Salameh, Özlem Sarıyıldız, Uli Westphal, Bora Yediel

HIER&JETZT:Connections (HUJ:C) extends its art space to the streets of Berlin with the group exhibition hey Universum. The show features posters designed by 20 cross-cultural artists displayed throughout the city’s urban spaces.

Posters are inserted into the everyday circumstance, utilizing commonplace advertisement poster walls as platforms to engage the public with offerings, messages and questions that speak to the artists’ viewpoints on an array of topics pertinent to the world today. The approach fosters opportunities for passersby to rethink and reenvision ‘our’ universe within the local landscape.

ARTIST TALK with LAURA FONG PROSPER (PA) & IRINA NOVARESE (IT)

Wednesday, November 10th 2021, 7pm in the Kantine of B.L.O. Ateliers – Kaskelstr. 55, 10317 Berlin

ELEKTROKONFERENZ 2021

LAB30 FESTIVAL, AUGSBURG

The first Augsburg art labs were also the nursery of the electro-conferences. These jam sessions in the field of experimental and electronic sound production give sound and visual artists a platform for interacting with each other and exchanging ideas.

For the 20th Augsburg Art Lab, the stage of the abraxas House of Culture will once again crackle, rustle, tingle and whizz under the artistic direction of art sponsorship award winner Sebastian Giussani. He is bringing together a mix of established and also lesser-known musicians and sound artists whose unconventional and experimental use of instruments is in the foreground. Participants include the Institute for the Loss of Performance and Contemplation, Daniel Door, Tobias Grewenig, Laura Fong Prosper and NikoLFO.

REVOLTING SPINES AND SHIVERING CHAINS Exhibition in Galerie in Turm, Berlin 2021

Curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer

Bodies that care, bodies that are cared for. Trapped in structural dependencies, we hover in limbo in airless space with our technological armour and prostheses. We breathe concentrated oxygen until our breath rattles and our lungs burn.

Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains investigates embodied forms of resistance against social norms that judge and hierarchise bodies. How are dominant notions of health and care put into question? Might it be possible to establish a radical care for oneself and each other that withdraws from the logic of prevailing values, and that does not only serve to reproduce the labour force?

Our bodily fluids are transformed into gravitational waves. They build and build, creating a shared force which breaks on intergalactic shores, generating new worlds.

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Revolting Spines and Shivering Chains is the fourth part of the exhibition series MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on self/care, labour and solidarity curated by Linnéa Meiners and Jorinde Splettstößer.

Credits: © Eric Tschernow

MEMORIES OF OTHER POSSIBLE FUTURES 2021

From our ancestors view we revitalize the Utopian ideas that we found inside of found footage from a donated 16 mm film archive and bring them to life within a virtual reality. In this hybrid installation abandoned dreams of the future become virtual reality, document and fiction intersect and merge into a speculative vision of alternative realities, creating semi-fictional extensions of perspectives and alternative historical narratives.

VR installation by Tina Wilke, Matías Brunacci and Laura Fong Prosper with the collaboration of Lucía López García-Montejo

Video and Photo Documentation by Ben Plefka

Voice Over Nina Sang

Supported by BBK Berlin

Credits: © Ben Plefka

VASOS COMUNICANTES EN EL MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE PANAMÁ PARA FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2021.

Curadores Gladys Turner Bosso y Pancho López

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WeTransfer’s WEPRESENT feature

29.06.2021

by Sophie Haigney

https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/story/laura-fong-prosper/?fbclid=IwAR300-j8PuXnEXfQqyYpKOp4TdRWmiGzbk9p6_52XYCaSK63of6uQsTtZ7E

CLUSTERED MINDS MKV Online Exhibition @ The Wrong TV

Organized by medienkunstverein (mkv)

In cooperation with The Wrong TV

Duration: May 5 to June 6, 2021

The mkv presents the works of its members on the stream of The Wrong TV. Focusing on digital culture, the video works show different visual worlds dedicated to the themes of the (post)digital age. Critical engagement with the digital and its diversity of perspectives permeate the moving image, highlighting its influence on our times. Creating a different reality, new representations of places, nature, body, materiality and narrative space emerge in Clustered Minds.

with works by

Dovile Aleksaite, Banz & Bowinkel, Jonas Blume, Ornella Fieres, Laura Fong Prosper,

Patricia Detmering, Jana Doell, Manja Ebert, Getrüda Gilyte, Franziska Harnisch,

Daniel Hengst, Kathrin Hunze, Sabrina Labis, Sarah Oh-Mock, Lauren Moffatt,

Dani Ploeger, Alla Popp, Julia Charlotte Richter, Anke Schiemann, Clemens Schöll,

Theresa Schubert, Dagmar Schürrer, Liudmilla Siewerski, The Swan Collective, Ivonne Thein,

Manuel Tozzi, Philipp Valenta, Tina Wilke

INTERLOCK #2 NULL ISLAND

Organized by medienkunstverein and raum on demand

Duration: March 3 to 28, 2021

At: raum on demand (Alte Münze), Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin

The medienkunstverein (media art association / mkv) is testing new exhibition formats to open other experiential spaces for art outside of classical art contexts. In cooperation with raum on demand, the mkv presents twelve works by its members in the former gatehouse at Alte Münze in Berlin. As a temporary workspace for Berlin artists, the raum on demand is reinterpreted as an art venue.

On a weekly basis, the mkv members realize four exhibitions, creating a space to examine topical themes. Through the spatial restriction of the space, individual works interact.

The exhibition series title INTERLOCK refers to the process driven structure of the exhibition created through the collaboration of its members. Further, it references how existing free spaces within Berlin's cultural landscape are occupied to promote independent initiatives. Over the period of the exhibition, the works in raum on demand are freely accessible at any time via the outdoor space, regardless of opening hours.

Photos by Tina Wilke

NO OCEANS BETWEEN US, SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART, San Antonio, TX, USA, February 12, 2021–May 09, 2021

"No Ocean Between Us: Art of Asian Diasporas in Latin America & the Caribbean, 1945–Present," an exhibition that explores the art of Asian diasporas in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The exhibition features approximately 65 works of modern and contemporary art by Latin American and Caribbean artists of Asian descent, including painter and printmaker Wifredo Lam; installation artists Carlos Runcie Tanaka and Eduardo Tokeshi; painters Manabu Mabe and Tomie Ohtake; and video artist Laura Fong Prosper, among numerous others. The works included range from paintings and works on paper to installation and new media.

The exhibition is organized around Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. Panels within the exhibition provide brief descriptions of Asian diasporic communities and cultures in these countries as well contexts for the histories of migrations from China, India, Indonesia, and Japan. Global forces such as colonialism, plantation labor, and war shaped the courses of Asian migration to Latin American and the Caribbean.

CLAUSTRO (EXHIBICIÓN COLECTIVA) CENTRO CULTURAL INTERNACIONAL, FEBRERO 2021

SINθ MAGAZINE, ISSUE 17, NOV. 15, 2020

Conversation with Laura Fong Prosper

by Jiaqi Kang

London, UK

PDF of the Interview here

Entrevista para el CENTRO HACEDOR DE FUTURIDADES MATERNALES

5 NOVIEMBRE, 2020 por Luisa Fuentes Guaza

ASIAN DIASPORIC VISUAL CULTURES AND THE AMERICAS, VOL.5, NO.1-2, SPRING 2019

Imaging and Imagining the Chinese Caribbean: Jeanette Kong, Maria Lau and Laura Fong Prosper

by Sean Metzger

University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

PDF of the Publication here

NORMALIDADES EXTENDIDAS (ONLINE EXHIBITION BY GALERÍA GRID PANAMÁ) 2020

https://gridgaleria.com/normalidades-extendidas-laura-fong-prosper/

RITUALES DIARIOS (ONLINE EXHIBITION BY ARTE NÓMADA PANAMÁ) 2020

https://www.artenomadapty.com/rituales-diarios

Online view of the video piece “Mater” in Arte Nómada’s website

ALTARES (ONLINE EXHIBITION BY ARTE NÓMADA PANAMÁ) 2020

https://www.artenomadapty.com/altares

*Online view of the video piece “Mantra” in Arte Nómada’s website*

TENSION OF HUMAN LIFE 7./8./9. 03.2020

eine Ausstellung über das Spannungsspiel der Herzen //
"Tension of Human Life – The Heartbeat and Myocardial Contraction“

curated by Maria Hinze, with Kimberley de Jong und Jason Sharp,
Laura Fong Prosper, Nele Brönner, Aidan Girt, Gambletron, Nick Kuepfer,
Carola Schimek, Philippe Leonard and others.

Opening March 7, 2020 7 pm

Kimberley de Jong and Jason Sharp will premiere the dance piece
"the day the wild cried".

www.mariahinze.com

www.kimberleydejong.com

www.philippe-leonard.com

www.laurafongprosper.com

Location: Meinblau e.V. Projektraum Berlin

“Animal Print” Exhibition View in Meinblau Projektraum 2020 — “*Animal Print*” Exhibition View in Meinblau Projektraum 2020

FESTIVAL FÉMINA 2019

Location: Centro de de Ciudad del Saber

Panamá, Panamá

FAMOUS GRAPES SESSIONS // 02

Location: ACUD MACHT NEU

Berlin, Germany

VJ show for Niko de Paula Lefort

Niko de Paula Lefort performing “Aurality” in ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin in November 2019 — *Niko de Paula Lefort* *performing “Aurality” in* *ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin in November 2019*

“Planetary Landscapes” Documentation in ACUD MACHT NEU

WOMEN ARTISTS’ PROGRAM SHOWCASE

Location: Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.

Berlin, Germany

For the 10th time, Arsenal is presenting works made by grant-holders of Berlin’s cultural department’s “Funding program for women artists in film/video”. What should be underlined is the event’s open form and the fact that many of the works are still in the process of becoming. A space will be created to discuss the artistic approaches in a joint discussion. The inscription of an artist’s signature in the decisive selection of a medium of expression, the subtle approach to familial and social upheavals, the questioning of ascribed roles, the conscious transgression of traditional narrative forms in the performative exaggeration or the rejection of dramatic form are just some of the themes emerging.

Program

September 25, 7 pm, Followed by a discussion with Kerstin Cmelka and Mario Mentrup
DIE ANGREIFBAREN Kerstin Cmelka and Mario Mentrup Germany/Austria 2019 OV/EnS 115'

September 26, 7.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
DAS VERLORENE GESICHT Anna Steinert Work in progress 12'
THE HUNGRY WAY (AT) Moana Vonstadl Work in progress / excerpts 15'
RUSSIA TODAY Annegret Sachse Work in progress 32'

September 27, 6.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
ANFANG ENDE HIER JETZT Gisela Weimann Work in progress Videoclips and Stills 15'
KARUSSEL / BAGATELLE / FÜR P. Helga Fanderl S8 to 16 mm ca. 9'
NACHT AM KANAL / SCHNEEFALL / WEISSE BLUMEN / WILDGÄNSE Helga Fanderl S8 to 16 mm ca. 7'

September 27, 8.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
Retrospective Maria Lang
FAMILIENGRUFT – EIN LIEBESGEDICHT AN MEINE MUTTER Maria Lang FRG 1981 16 mm 10'
ZÄRTLICHKEITEN Maria Lang FRG 1985 16 mm 28'
MARIA UND DIE WELT Ute Aurand G 1995 16 mm 15'

September 28, 6.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
3-Farben-Licht
CAPSICUM Deborah S. Philips G 2008 16 mm 11'
IM GRÜNEN BEREICH Deborah S. Philips G 2017 16 mm 14'
DIACOLLAGEN AUS DER „BLAU PERFORMANCE“ Deborah S. Philips ca. 5'
SONNTAG FÜR SONNTAG (EIN PERFORMANCE-STÜCK MIT VIDEOPROJEKTION FÜR SOLO-KIND UND DOPPELKINDERCHOR) Hajnal Németh 20'

September 28, 8.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
PERSICHE BRIEFE Jana Papenbook Work in progress 5'
WHERE HE WAS BORN Laura Fong Prosper Work in progress 30'
FREMDES SELBSTBILD (AT) Pantea Lachin Work in progress 30'

September 29, 4.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
WEEKS OF SAND, MONTHS OF ASH, YEARS OF DUST Rita Macedo Work in progress 19'
COYOTE’S BURDEN BASKET Heike Baranowsky G 2018 2'
WOSA (COYETE’S BURDEN BASKET) Heike Baranowsky G 2019 35 mm 10'
YOU WANT IT DARKER Sarah Oh-Mock Work in progress 20'

September 29, 6.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
FAKE Maja Classen Work in Progress 15'
HYDROMANIE Gudrun Krebitz Work in progress 20'
POOL:LOOP Christine Lang Script-Reading 20'

September 29, 8.30 pm, Followed by a discussion with the filmmakers
FLORENCE Rachel Alliston Work in progress 30'
TEMPORAL SHIFTS Clara Jo Work in progress 30'
HORIZON ZERO DOWN Marita Neher Work in progress 30'

Further information about the program:
https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/calendar/single-view/calendar/2019/september/28/article/8015/3004.html