“Supermoon” is a term, or more specifically, a branding, of relatively recent origin. It originated not from astronomy but astrology; first coined by an astrologer, who arbitrarily defined it as "a full moon which occurs with the moon at or near (within 90-percent of) its closest approach to Earth in a given orbit (perigee)."
Indeed, at 12 noon ET on this fifth Wednesday of August, the moon will arrive at perigee, its closest point in its orbit relative to Earth at 221,942 miles (357,181 km) away. And the moon will officially turn full 9 hours and 36 minutes later. Although a full moon theoretically lasts just a moment, that moment is imperceptible to ordinary observation, and for a day or so before and after, most will speak of seeing the nearly full moon as "full": The shaded strip is so narrow and changing in apparent width so slowly, that it is hard for the naked eye to tell whether it's present or which side it is.
This is also the second full moon in August; we witnessed the first on August 1st. Where did the first supermoon find you, and where will this second “blue” supermoon shine on you? I hope you enjoyed this month, bookended by full moons, because September will be B U S Y. Back to work, back to school, and, of course, Berlin Art Week.
a Book Launch, a filmed Performance-Lecture + a casual Artist Talk over drinks
7 pm Viewing of a performance-lecture filmed within the Berlin Natural History Museum's Bird Collection. //Premiere! 36 mins
8 pm Casual Artist Talk + a Q&A over drinks
Berlin's Naturkundemuseum feels like an almost infinite library of life on this planet. Its millions of specimens form a kind of cathedral of Taxonomy – an attempt to name, to categorize, and to 'box' all the entangled diversity of life. 'Explaining Taxonomy to a Bird' is a series of artworks that came out of a 6-month residency within the Museum's collections – specifically the museum's 200,000 dead birds.
At Changing Room two late outcomes from this research will be launched - a book and the Premiere of a performance-lecture filmed within the Museum's Historic Bird Collection. Both seek to destabilize and question some of science's bombastic certainties, and to reflect upon how humans have designated themselves as a category apart from all the other species they share their planet with.
Thilo Droste / Juliane Zelwies
Is happiness measurable? What decisions determine the course of our lives and our life plans? What external factors influence our lives? Thilo Droste and Juliane Zelwies are looking for answers in their collaborative exhibition FRAGEN ÜBER FRAGEN. They invite visitors to ask themselves questions from the World Happiness Report and thus become part of an experimental arrangement to define the happiness factor in the context of art and life on Berlin's Brunnenstraße.
Fri, 1 Sep, 19h opening at SCOTTY CROSSLIGHT Katinka Theis, Benedikt Terwiel, Charlotte Bastian Add to my map
CROSSLIGHT is a light that intersects the path of another light, illuminating what the first one leaves dark. It is meant to reveal a yet unlit perspective on a topic or an object and is indirectly shedding light onto something that can become a new source of knowledge. Katinka Theis, Benedikt Terwiel and Charlotte Bastian explore the transformation and perception of landscapes. Each individual approach can be understood as crosslightning its different aspects as much as the combination of the three positions is emphasizing differences in its comprehension. Light plays herein an essential role, both figuratively and literally. katinkatheis.de I benediktterwiel.info I charlotte-bastian.de
2 Sep-30 Sep 2023 SCOTTY
Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin
image: Charlotte Bastian, Plazuyu (Glocal Series #5b), 2023
Fri, 1 Sep 20h at Art Laboratory Berlin: Opening ARTIFICIAL CONSCIOUSNESS Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code
with an hour long-performance during the opening
HyungJun Park’s solo exhibition Artificial Consciousness. Exposing the Invisible: Data, Rendering and Code brings together three artworks, created in the last fifteen years. Park’s artistic exploration focuses on the relationship between machine and humans as well as humans and nonhuman beings. He connects and exposes nonhuman sensorial experiences through technological tools for human body experiences that mimic other perceptions.
WORKSHOP
HyungJun Park, Exposing Invisible: Data,Rendering and Code
23 – 24 September 2023
CURATORS
Tuçe Erel, Juha Lee
1 Sep-8 Oct 2023 Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin
HyungJun Park: I am an Artefact, 2012, mixed media installation, MRI scan, two-channel video, beeswax, acrylic panel, Aerogel, ultrasonic humidifier
Sat, 2 Sep 14-20h at Stay Hungry Zur Verkieselung des Stadtraumes 1- Die Vergangenheit Add to my map
with contributions by: Dennis Fuchs, Georg Scherlin, Stefanie Rübensaal & Anna Firmberger
4 pm: performative introduction and activation of the work by and with Georg Scherlin
6 pm: performance by Rübensaal & Firmberger
Location: Victoriapark Kreuzberg, in the upper most pool at the beginning of the waterfall (the one with the mini island) — Click here for exact location on maps
The intervention will be culinary accompanied by Mobile Menu #17- Kreuzberger Brotzeit
The first part of the series is dedicated to the artificial park and waterfall in Viktoriapark on the slopes of the Kreuzberg and its history and changes over time.
Sat Sept 2nd, 14h Opening in Neuwerder, Brandenburg YOU ARE HERE 9. Biennale LANDschafftKUNST @landschafftkunst
with collectif blitzbereit, Emma Pidre, Christin Kaiser, Shelley Tootell, Marion Orfila, Wendelin Kammermeier, Lilly Urbat, Lukas Liese, Lion Sauterleute & Oded Yones Niclas Riepshoff, Benedikt Terwiel, Finja Sander, Fabian Anselm Orasch, Zhenru Liang, Niklas Apfel, Daniel Hölzl, FOOOL, Paingel Official, Carl luis
WHERE EXACTLY: Atelier Ulrike Hogrebe, Kastanienweg 8, 14728 Neuwerder HOW TO GET THERE: It will surely be worth the 1,5 hours drive ;)
Or you take your bike on the train to Friesack and ride on from there. Also there is a bus from Friesack to Neuwerder. IN CASE YOU WANT TO STAY OVERNIGHT: You can come with your camper or bring a tent. Please, let @spoilerzone know beforehand, so they can find a nice place for you.
Sun, 3 Sep 13-18h at Jägerschere Opening: Was hast du für große Ohren Add to my map
featuring the work of Sujatro Ghosh, Julia Kissina, Corinna Theuring, Puck Verkade
Zoomorphism, the depiction of that which is human through the lens of that which is animal, is arguably as old as art itself. The history of art furnishes us with many iconic examples. However, a standout one has to be Charles Le Brun’s Physiognomic Heads, those 17th-century drawings that to this day disturb us with their casual collision of form and psychology. This association of animalistic features with human psychological traits has become deeply encoded into our culture; we find it in children’s literature, in advertising, in Netflix fantasy series. Some contemporary artists are, however taking Zoomorphism in another direction, rejecting simplistic psychologies and looking instead at the critical and political uses of Zoomorphic imagery. This new exhibition at Jägerschere gives us a chance to look at what some of those possibilities are.
For questions on how to get there or any other questions please contact: Nick Crowe, jaegerschere@gmail.com, 0157 5134 2755
3 Sep-1 Oct 2023 Jägerschere, Gallery for Contemporary Art
Wiepersdorf-Dorfstr. 17
14913 Niederer-Fläming
Sun Sept 3rd, 7pm back in Berlin and Klosterruine PERFORMANCE by Erika Landström
A gas station outside a small town in a rural area. Sundown. Upon returning to attend the funeral of her father, a woman who left town many years ago arrives to have a flat tire changed.
FLAT TIRE is the second play in the trilogy CONTROL I’M HER. While the first play, Holders (2020), took non-verbal improvisation exercises and the gradual introduction of spoken language as a starting point, FLAT TIRE aims for the reverse.
Written and directed by Erika Landström @puppetlandslider
Workshopped and performed by Arthur Chruszcz @karolaschneemann , Tess Sahara @tesssahara, and Steven Warwick @sweetie_darling_bebe
Stage and costume in collaboration with Daniel Malone
Music by Bob @carryon__luggage
Invited by Juliane Bischoff @__julianebischoff Klosterruine Berlin
Klosterstr. 73a
10179 Berlin
Photographed in 2019 at Uferstudios, Berlin, “Chimera'' plays on perception and imagination. The bodies of Julia and Siri - uncanny in their resemblance - are a projection surface where individuals influence how parts of the body combine to form unusual organisms. Upon closer inspection, the Chimera dissolves back into a recognisable collection of disconnected limbs. In the manner of the mythological Greek Chimera, the two figures in the black space of the photographs merge together at bizarre angles. The boundary of the individual is blurred and absurd creatures are formed. The incorporation of dance and extreme physical proximity differentiates these photographs from his previous work. Intuitive and emotionally driven, “Chimera”’ is a testament to the transformative potential of human connections that goes beyond verbal communication.
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HEUTE LEIDER NICHT staged by SIMON MULLAN and featuring performance, installation, sculpture, and multi-media artworks by EKATERINA BURLYGA, ZUZANNA CZEBATUL, ED DAVENPORT, DANIEL HOFLUND, SIMON MULLAN, EKATERINA PRONINA, ALONA RODEH, MORITZ STUMM, and HELGA WRETMAN. The selected Berlin-based artists address the time of identity-finding, teenage dreams, subculture, and a sense of belonging with clubs, community, and culture.
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