Pretty Woman of Pablo Marte, Wednesday, Jan 25
Pretty Woman, Exhibition and screening of Pablo Marte
Wednesday, Jan 25
Wednesday, Jan 25
Openning starts at 20:00
Screening starts at 21:00
Screening starts at 21:00
Pretty Woman und andere Geschichten, ein Film mit Alexander Kluge (Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge)
64’ 15’’ - Color / B&N / Sound - 2011
German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian
with Spanish subtitles
“A comedy in six parts full of excitement, suspense, logic, cruelty and madness like the fairy tales we tell children to help them through life until death”
“When I was a little girl my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would pretend I was a princess trapped in a tower by a wicked queen.
And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword.
And I would wave.
And he would climb up the tower and rescue me.
But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me:
“Come on, baby, I’ll put you up in a great condo”.
(From the screenplay of Pretty Woman, by J.F. Lawton)
The film start from a premise of fiction: how would “Pretty Woman” (the famous movie with Julia Roberts) be, if it had been made by the German filmmaker Alexander Kluge?: Surely it would have been darker, and more ironic, chaotic and fragmented, than the original. But also a way to think about what was wrong before, between and after the Reunification of Germany.
In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner Müller answered: “just a pretty woman”.
Maybe it´s such a small world, just a coincidence, or maybe not. The first Pretty Woman was released in 1990, between the fall of the Berlin Wall - November 1989- and German Reunification, on October 3rd 1990. So, the main character, the pretty woman, who is played by Julia Roberts, has here an allegorical function and can be read in several ways. She can refer to a country, according the words of Heiner Müller, or also to the working-class, (she is a worker, a prostitute, undertaking the kind of work that the Left has excluded from their remit). Her circumstances represent the decadence of the class struggle and the entrance of the entire working class to consumerist society with its consumer worries and consumer happiness. Therefore, as historical context, in the film, the 90’s play the role of a black, broken mirror, in which the reflections provide the link with the consumer dimension of human relations... In this allegorical sense, she could be also a building - a Hotel, a 100 unit housing project, apartment blocks in soviet style, maybe a skyscraper or a great condo- but, definitely, a building... slated for demolition.
Although, of course, that was also the end of the 20th Century.
THE RESCUE OF THE EFFECTS - Notes for a Theory of the Reader
// Opening: January 19, 20:00.
// Aditional opening hours: January 20 – 22, 15:00 – 19:00.
// General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin
In a landscape where reality has long ceased to be seen without the presence of auxiliary instruments, which constructs at the same time its registration and setting it up as an archive, the experience does not conform directly in contact with the world but as a mediated doppelgänger. In this type of situation we should not forget that each of the disseminating and accumulating structures that support the architecture of the information is itself a technology with a built-in ideological organisational criteria, of inclusion and exclusion.
This project is built from reflections on creative reading with an active attitude regarding materials from libraries, archives, collections or found-materials establishing with a critical fascination some series of narrative itineraries that discover hidden relationships from the intra-history, the creation of fictions and the infraordinary to practice a critical reading of their architecture, an anarcheology of the structures of knowledge and the everyday-life as well as an analysis of structures of consciousness formation.
This research tries to present projects that blur the boundaries between the practice of curators, historians, researchers, cultural producers and artists. Thus, located in this area of indistinct borders, it essays a significant rearrangement of the cultural materials that restate the questions to be undertaken, as well as the focus of interest. In fact, all the participating artists are engaged to or from several disciplines: in addition to the context of art itself, speak of their work also located in editing, research, music creation, educational programmes, curating, organising events and reflecting on exhibition spaces.
These are works that start at the same time questioning both the analysis of content as the actual means of implementation and presentation: devices, methodologies, materials selection, editing, exhibition strategies or building space.
With: Daniel G. Andújar, Sol Calero, Constant Dullaart, Embankment, Herzbeat hotel, Bettina Hutschek, Jeleton, Christopher Kline, Phanos Kyriacou, Regina de Miguel, Alexandra Navratil, Paloma Polo, Teresa Solar, Poderes Unidos and JODI.
A project by Lorenzo Sandoval
With the support of: Ministerio de Cultura de España, General Public, GlougauAIR, Altes Finanzamt, Raum für Projektion.
Collaborator: Spanische Botschaft
With the support of: Ministerio de Cultura de España, General Public, GlougauAIR, Altes Finanzamt, Raum für Projektion.
Collaborator: Spanische Botschaft
Filament Stanza, Literature Night!
Thursday, January 12
Filament Stanza
Literature Night with Jeroen Niewland and Christophe Siebert
Filament Stanza
Literature Night with Jeroen Niewland and Christophe Siebert
Links:
Jeroen Niewland
Christophe Siebert
Doors open at 21:30
Reading starts at 22:00
PHILOSOPHICAL FOOTBALL! WORLD CUP Semi-Final and Final
Philosophical Football World Cup - Semi-finals and Final
www.phifa.blogspot.com
Playing:
(Results of the quarter finals: Italy vs Norway, 2 - 1; USA vs Northern Ireland, 1 - 2; Portugal vs Germany, 0 - 1; Australia - Iceland, 1 - 1 (1 - 2 in penalties).
www.phifa.blogspot.com
Meanza (ITA)
Thermann (GER)
Sordal (ICE)
Cunningham (NIR)
(Results of the quarter finals: Italy vs Norway, 2 - 1; USA vs Northern Ireland, 1 - 2; Portugal vs Germany, 0 - 1; Australia - Iceland, 1 - 1 (1 - 2 in penalties).
doors open at 21:15
matches start at 21:45
matches start at 21:45
The Springs of the Flood
a chapter of Gradations of Time over a Plane
by Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela
From the 25th of November until the 17th of December at Matador PR in Altes Finanzamt
BOOK LAUNCH: GIORGOS VASILOPOULOS BY ANONYMOUS AUTHOR EDITIONS
Thursday, November 17
Giorgos Vasilopoulos by Anonymous Author Editions
More info about this apparently-new-somewhere-based publisher "Anonymous Author Editions" at:
Talking about/Reading excerpts of Giorgos Vasilopoulos: Bryn Chainey, Cristian Forte, Eirik Sordal, filipe dias De, Gaelle Kreens, Joana Bertholo, Jochen Thermann, Marta Leite and Mario Gomes.
Limited edition of 30 copies (15 in english, 15 in portuguese)
Doors open at 21:00
Round table starts at 21:30
there will be voku, for those that would like to have dinner!
EXHIBITION AT MATADOR PROJEKTRAUM
Friday, November 4
Sculptural Divide. Nicolas Wollnik and Georg Parthen
Opening
In their 2-person show "sculptural divide" Nicolas Wollnik and Georg Parthen present new and recent works. Despite their different processes and treatment of the photographic medium both artists share common strategies in in claiming and transforming spatial and sculptural qualities in their work.
Nicolas Wollnik was born in 1978 in Leverkusen. Georg Parthen was born 1977 in Wiesbaden. They studied in Essen at the Folkwang School of Art and currently run the project space Minken & Palme.
Nicolas Wollnik was born in 1978 in Leverkusen. Georg Parthen was born 1977 in Wiesbaden. They studied in Essen at the Folkwang School of Art and currently run the project space Minken & Palme.
Doors open at 20:00