Several Attempts at Sewing the Borders of Quebec as interpreted by a Romanian Tailor in Italy
September 2nd, 2010 by nkatz22
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Several Attempts at Sewing the Borders of Tibet as interpreted by a Romanian Tailor in Italy
September 2nd, 2010 by nkatz22
Several Attempts at Sewing the Borders of Transnistria as interpreted by a Romanian Tailor in Italy
September 2nd, 2010 by nkatz22
Several Attempts at Sewing the Borders of Ethiopia as interpreted by a Romanian Tailor in Italy
September 2nd, 2010 by nkatz22
“Hinterland” Valentina Curandi – Sibylle Hofter – Nathaniel Katz
August 19th, 2010 by nkatz22
“Hinterland”
Valentina Curandi – Sibylle Hofter – Nathaniel Katz
August 28th – September 26th.
Dada Post, Nordbahnstraße 10, 13409 Berlin, Germany
info@dadapost.com
The colonization of Berlin by a steady influx of artists from all over the world has resulted in a consequence where Berlin has become a new global center for contemporary art. Hinterland is a collaborative project consisting of one Berlin Based artist, and two artists living and working in Italy, one of which is from the United States. The latest result of their endeavors is “Hinterland”, a collaborative project that considers the previous history of (Kunstraum) Dada Post as a site of globalization, which was the more than 100 years old König Smoked Fish Factory.
The current Berlin art scene is intensely focused on the present, but it is not historically amnesiac. Hinterland is a site specific-complex of works that reflects upon local production in relation to the forms of globalization imagined by past generations. The former König Smoked Fish Factory, is represented by a recreation of Mr. Erich König’s upstairs conference room, which is relocated to a factory area downstairs that have been recreated as an art gallery. “Hinterland” can be both the silence behind the front and an economic base for warfare (originally it is a military term). Presently, our location in the Berlin-Reinickendorf district is mistaken for a variant of the silence in a hinterland, much like the former socialist version of Brandenburg. In the artificial economies of the Cold War, the East Berlin factories represented economical hinterlands, by creating a socialist version of an egalitarian utopia. While in West Berlin, the economy was propped-up by West-German government, and the West in general. Within a special kind of West Berlin melancholy, fish smoking was a strong local tradition – of bourgeois utopia.
Howard McCalebb
The Artists:
Valentina Curandi and Nathaniel Katz
Curandi and Katz are interdisciplinary artists, their practice is
realized in performance, video, and collaborative events.
http://nkatz.org
Sibylle Hofter
Sibylle Hofter is a Berlin based visual artist exploring film, text, site-specific sculpture, installation in public space, and photography. She is also a Curator of various projects, and co-founder of Büro Schwimmer, and initiator of Schwimmer Image Agency. Her working process usually includes extensive research on extra-cultural fields.
www.hofter.de www.buero-schwimmer.de
DIRECTIONS By S-Bahn:
S-1 (Direction Oranienburg) and S-25 (Direction Hennigsdorf), to the Schönholz station,
If you take the S-Bahn be sure to exit at the Schönholz station –
not the Wollankstrasse station.
www.dadapost.com
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New Natives at Kaunas in Art
July 9th, 2010 by nkatz22
New Natives will be screened at Kaunas in Art, in Kaunas, Lithuania from July 2 to July 10.
Glob (e) Scape
July 3rd, 2010 by nkatz22
Our video “Making Aliyah” and the artist book “Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands” Will be on exhibit, opening today at the Moscow Biennial for Young Art, in the exhibition «Glob (e) Scape» curated by Daria Pyrkina at the Design Center ARTPLAY on Yauza, Syromiatnicheskaya. st., 5/7
Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands
June 22nd, 2010 by nkatz22
The artist book that V and I sent to Moscow for the biennial.
Several Attempts at Drawing the Borders of Homelands and Promised Lands, 2010
A series of blind contour line drawings attempting to draw the borders of non-existant, unrecognized, wished for, or hoped for Homelands and Promised Lands.
“Learning How to Milk a Cow from my Father” at Sherwood Festival
June 8th, 2010 by nkatz22
“Learning How to Milk a Cow from my Father” will be included in the Sherwood Festival as part of a selection of video art by the Fondazione March in Padova. The theme for the screening is “Territorial and Conceptual Dimensions”
“New Natives” at cameraVideo, Fondazione March
May 6th, 2010 by nkatz22
Our video New Natives/New Commune has been selected for screening as part of cameraVideo at the Fondazione March, contemporary art foundation in Padova.
As part of the selection it will also be screened at the LOOP festival in Barcelona this month, the Kaunas In Art festival in Lithuania in July, and theTina B. contemporary Art festival in Prague in October.
Screenings are also being arranged in Berlin, Milan, Genoa, Venice, Bucharest and South Korea!