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14/3/2002

Expect the World

Sparwasser HQ, Berlin

moi non plus
Contemporary Art from Portugal

"Expect the World" is an exhibition, video programme and conference of Portuguese artists taking place in Gallery Sparwasser Hq, Z-bar, Parkhaus Treptow and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (please see addresses and dates below).
The show presents a generation of Portuguese artists who grew up after the 1974 revolution in Portugal, in the 80's: a period when the Social Utopia was destabilized, when internationalization manifested itself through pop culture and television.

Hence the title "Expect the world - moi non plus" is implying an ambivalent experience of societal "change" as well as an existential stance. It seems that the reaction to be traced in these contemporary works is an intense tension, aesthetically expressed.

The participating artists live and work in Lisbon, Berlin and New York:
Rui Toscano, Rui Valério, Carlos Roque, "Tone Scienstists" , Eva Mota, Nuno Cera, Catarina Simões, Ines Pais, Filipa Cesar, Alexandre Estrela and Ana Pinto. In "Expect the world" an unsettling feeling of loss and melancholia is present in the work of the Tone Scientists who display the scenario of a band (displayed on video) build up as an energy outlet.

In the video by Eva Mota (EVA). Mota uses her body as material in a set up with strong references to renaissance painting.

"Expects the World" also has escapist elements as Nuno Ceras long exposure photography of the night sky turned into a dreamy image of eternity or Alexandre Estrelas video projection "THE NAILS FEEDBACK" (nails) multiplying the image of nails in the wall till they, as visual phenomenon, appear as smoke.

Ana Pinto presents a video piece of visuals slips from one indoor or urban space to another, never letting the viewer settle in an environment.

Filippa César investigates and creates situational realities in which a random group of people meet and react to on one another in the urban space in her video works.

Concepts of loss in relation to authentic experience and access to the core of meaning production are present in these video works what also counts for the installation by Catarina Simões, in which she places a mirror ball in the center of an action film projection. The main action is dispersed in thousands of little images cast on the wall in the cinematic environment.

Coming down to more profane activities The IP Foundation (by Ines Pais) in an independent way undertakes lifestyle activities as shopping, cooking and the production of fanzines as well as electronic music (IPzines).

Curator: Ana Pinto
Production: Solvej Ovesen and Estelle Blaschke

Sparwasser HQ: Torstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Phone: +49 (0) 30 2180 3001
Press-preview: 15.03.02 at 12 am
Opening 15.03.02 at 7 pm,
16.03.-15.04.2002, Wed - Fri: 4-7pm and Sat 2-6 pm

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Parkhaus Treptow: Puschkinallee 5, 12435 Berlin, Phone: 030 533 7952
Opening 19.03.02 at 8 pm, 20.03.-20.04.02, Wed - Sat: 3-7 pm
Hi#3 Video Screening organized by Alexandre Estrela

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Video programme und conference:
Z-bar Kino: Bergstraße 2, 10115 Berlin, Phone: 030 2838 9121
Video programme part 1, 16.03.02 at 9 pm

Künstlerhaus Bethanien: Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Phone: 030 616 9030
discussion with Delfim Sardo, Alexandre Melo, Fernanda Maio,
Francisco Vaz, Pedro Lapa, Nuno Faria and Ana Pinto
Video programme part 2, 17.03.02 at 8 pm
Video programme part 2 (re-run), 18.03.02 at 9 pm

Kontakt: Parkhaus Treptow, Phone: +49 (0)30 533 7952 (Monica Krüger)

Thanks to: Ute Tischler, Lise Nellemann, Christoph Tannert, IAC, Fundacao, Calouste Gulbenkian, FLAD, GRI, Geier-Tronic, Botschaft von Portugal, Instituto Camoes, und Rui Boavista Marques & ICEP-Portugal

Locations:
Sparwasser HQ: Torstraße 161, 10115 Berlin, Phone: +49 (0) 30 2180 3001
Parkhaus Treptow: Puschkinallee 5, 12435 Berlin, Phone: 030 533 7952
Künstlerhaus Bethanien: Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Phone: 030 616 9030

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