Mapping Berlin: Collective Narration on Imaginary and Emergent. Project by Berlinerpool

Image: Sencer Vardarman Demolished Quarters Berlin – detail 100x120cm, 2017 Digital Print Mounted on Forex.

It is with great pleasure we inform you about our next collaboration with BERLINERPOOL and GALERIE WEDDING – RAUM FÜR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST.

Walk with the artist book launch and two walks will be part of the program. Please check below for details.

MAPPING BERLIN
Collective Narration on Imaginary and Emergent Spaces
07.07.2017 – 12.08.2017
Opening 06.07.2017, 7pm
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GALERIE WEDDING
Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Müllerstraße 146 – 147, 13353 Berlin 
galeriewedding.de

EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Roland Fuhrmann, Michael Johansson, Margret Holz, Christine Kisorsy, Katrin von Lehmann, Sara Wallgren, Marcelina Wellmer, Sencer Vardarman

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS
Rebecca Agnes, Stefania Migliorati and Ame Zek

Mapping Berlin is an exhibition and program of events where individually constructed systems for mapping space, time and urban history are showcased and discussed by eleven Berlin-based artists, extending an invitation to the public to participate in the making/editing/publication of a »Collective Memory Atlas« during the exhibition.

How is the image of a city constructed? Who is the author of the large collection of oral, textual and visual data meeting in it? Can cities be read? If so, who holds control over their interpretation?

This exhibition departs from the idea of cities as spatial archives embracing a multiplicity of meanings, juxtaposed narratives and shifting hierarchies, highlighting eight artworks echoing this metaphor while underlining a tension and resistance to the rules of classification and codification flattening the city and its scales of representation. The artistic proposals open spaces for new interpretations; a dialogical context in which present, imaginary and emergent histories/narrations are collected, visualized, remembered and also erased from our daily lives.

The curatorial strategy of this project reflects on the method of cultural mapping as a cultural inquiry and as an inherently interdisciplinary research phenomenon: a combination of hybrid, mixed, multimodal or alternative discourses using the map and its associated texts as legitimate forms for academic and public inquiry, cultural advocacy, and knowledge mobilization. [1]

Mapping Berlin is a concept developed by Andrzej Raszyk and evolves from previous projects around the subject of data and history visualization researched by theBerlinerpool Arts Network curatorial team (Andrzej Raszyk & Paz Ponce).

[1] Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry, Ed. Nancy Duxbury, W. F. Garrett-Petts, David MacLennan, 2015  (p. 22)

 

PROGRAM 06.07.2017, 7pm Opening – Dr. Ute Müller-Tischler, Kunst und Kultur, Bezirksamt Berlin-Mitte, Andrzej Raszyk, Berlinerpool, Sonusurbis Sound-performance by Marcelina Wellmer. 28.07.2017, 7pm Book presentation Walk with the artist  Project of Associazione 22:37 initiated by Rebecca Agnes, Zara Audiello, Roberta Coletto and Stefania Migliorati with contributions from Iva Kontić, Irina Novarese, Stephanie Schairer, Dragan Strunjaš, Viola Thiele, Paolo Barlascini and Dada. 04.08.2017, 2pm In all directions Walk with Stefania Migliorati. 05.08.2017, 2pm Displaced Monuments and Disappeared Places Walk with Rebecca Agnes. 10.08.2017, 7pm Artist talk – Collective Narration on Imaginary and Emergent Spaces Sonusurbis II Sound-performance by Ame Zek.

 

The project is realised with kind support of the Senate Administration for Culture and Europe, the Exhibition Fund and the Exhibition Remuneration for Municipal Galleries and in cooperation with Associazione 22:37.The technical solution (social wall) for Collective Memory Atlas is provided by Sparkle.

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