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4/6/2013

Living archive

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Within the framework of the festival LIVING ARCHIVE, KW Institute for Contemporary Art exhibits the results of the project LIVING ARCHIVE – ARCHIVE WORK AS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE. The project was initiated in das 2011 by Arsenal –- Institute for Film and Video Art e. V., and offered artists, curators and other researchers the opportunity to develop a contemporary approach to the archive over a period of two years.

The participants present their research and their responses to Arsenal’s collection with screenings, installations, collections of materials and performances. On view are artistic as well as academic approaches to the archive, founded 50 years ago and containing about 8000 cinematic works.

The exhibition shows examinations of found footage in form and content, as well as reflections on the archive as a medium and on archival processes. Susanne Sachsse for example scrutinizes, inspired by a record of Brecht’s DIE MUTTER at Berliner Ensemble theater from 1958, what “serious ladies” might actually mean. Stephan Geene shows in a performance and a film the failure of staging a performative act. Film theorist Sabine Nessel and her class accompany the documentary short film WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS SHOE (Les Blank, 1980) with footage, drawing connecting lines, providing background information and creating new relations. Martin Ebner translates films schematically into objects containing individual information on length and structure, and Florian Zeyfang engages with the image between the cut of two film shots.

The exhibition LIVING ARCHIVE is part of the festival of the same title, and is accompanied by a diverse events program.

Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art celebrates its 50th anniversary with the LIVING ARCHIVE festival. Over one month, project participants present the results of their two years of work in and with the archive. Apart from the exhibition at KW, the festival will include book and DVD presentations, film programs, performances, compositions as well as lectures and discussions inviting to a vital and critical lecture of film history at Arsenal.

The exhibition contains work and contributions by:
Filipa César, Madhusree Dutta & Ines Schaber, Martin Ebner, ENTUZIAZM, Stephan Geene, Angela Melitopoulos, class Sabine Nessel/FU Berlin, Johannes Paul Raether, Constanze Ruhm, Susanne Sachsse, class Hito Steyerl, Marc Siegel, Nicole Wolf & Nanna Heidenreich with Deepa Dhanraj, Ala Younis, Florian Zeyfang, among others.

LIVING ARCHIVE – ARCHIVE WORK AS CONTEMPORARY ARTISTIC AND CURATORIAL PRACTICE is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) and the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin. The cultural programs of KW Institute for Contemporary Art are made possible with the support of the Governing Mayor of Berlin – Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs.

Image: Marc Siegel, Ludwig Schönherr: Sonata für vier Fernseher (1968-1971)
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Press Contact:
Henriette Sölter
Phone +49 [30] 2434 5942
Fax +49 [30] 2434 5999
press@kw-berlin.de

Press Preview: Wednesday, 5.6.13, 11 h
Opening: Wednesday, 5.6.13, 17 h

KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststraße 69 - D-10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Wed – Mon 12 – 19 h
Thur 12 – 21 h
Tuesdays closed
Admission
6 € / reduced 4 €
Thursdays 19 – 21 h: 4 €
Groups of 10 or more:
per person 5 € / reduced 3 €

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