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"Escape Vehicle no.6"

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I had a great time last weekend during our ‘Performing Spaces’ workshop at Castle Bröllin. It showed that Anette and Miles had a very good hand in selecting and combining artists for the upcoming project. In the beginngin all of us introduced ourselfes and presented our work.

Simon Faithfull did show a video of the live event “Escape Vehicle no.6” one of my favorite pieces on that weekend. It is just amazing. I’ve often seen movies of cams mounted on a small rockets or similar filming from above. But having this plain chair ascending in almost earth space view is just hilarious. (The whole journey took about 90 min. he says)

Escape Vehicle no.6 started as a live event developed from the previous balloon film 30km. The live audience first witnessed the launching of a weather balloon with a domestic chair dangling in space beneath it. Once the apparatus had dissapeared into the sky they then watched a live video relay from the weather balloon as it jouneyed from the ground to the edge of space (30km up).

Now presented as a non-live video work, the footage shows the chair first rush away from the fields and roads, ascend through clouds and finally (against the curvature of the earth and the blackness of space) begin to disintegrate. The chilling nature of the film is that the empty chair invites the audience to imagine taking a journey to an uninhabitable realm where it is impossible to breath, the temperature is minus 60 below and the sky now resembles the blackness of space.

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July 10th, 2008 at 1:34 pm

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More hardware music

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July 9th, 2008 at 8:58 pm

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Trockenbau

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Today I went to the new gallery area right behind HamburgerBahnhof (looks a bit like the wrapped Reichstag) to take a look at the Shilpa Gupta exhibition at BodhiBerlin/Volker Diehl.

During this excursion I found again Dieter Lutsch with his installation Trockenbau at Jarmuschek+Partner. I like his simplicity style.

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July 9th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

We’re famous

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And more Google map marker conquer public space. Hmm … is this just a poster from the shop owner or a advertisment campaign by Google? I thought they are not running campaigns? Are you famous because you are on google map? I doubt that.

Anyway, Berlin is going to be famous too. The Google car with 6 digi cams on the roof for Google Streetview has been spotted in Berlin. A big discussion on the privacy issue (take care of your cats!) has started already.

Ok, let s have some messages, signs and posters ready for Google …

Hey, this is going to be a huge ‘screentshot’ of Berlin streetart 2008. Let’s get to work …

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July 8th, 2008 at 10:33 am

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“256² “

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256² from Aram Bartholl on Vimeo.

“256²” is a piece which I performed mid May 2007. Finally I found time to reedit the video documentation of this urban intervention.
Pics and more text at the project page.

In the movie I am marking with chalk the first sim (Second Life land unit, 1 simulator = 256m²) of NewBerlin at Berlin Alexanderplatz. The famous TV tower of Alexanderplatz is right in the middle of the virtual representation of Berlin which Tobias Neisecke and Jan Northoff started in Second Life a year ago. Today NewBerlin has at least 8 sims and is still growing.

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July 7th, 2008 at 7:47 pm

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Two similar designs

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(found at Bröllin, DE)

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July 6th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

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Google Images

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via Yorit

Thx for the link Peter!

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July 6th, 2008 at 4:08 pm

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Private vs. Public

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Hey! My shortcut!
(A fresh fence on former Berlin Wall strip found on Bernauerstr. Berlin)

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July 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm

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Residency

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Anette Schäfer and Miles Chalcraft the curating team of Trampoline are developing an exhibition project called “Performing Space” for 2009. A handful of artists (including me) are invited to join for a 4 day Artists’ Residency at Schloss Bröllin in the country side near Berlin the upcoming weekend. In serveral presentations and workshops we will discuss the topic, our work and possible ideas for the exhibition in 2009.

Participating Artists:

Heath Bunting (UK)
Michelle Teran (CAN/DE)
Simon Faithfull (UK/DE)
Folke Köbberling und Martin Kaltwasser (DE)
Plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE)
Aram Bartholl (DE)
Frank Abbott (UK)
Esther Polak (NL)
Joanna Warsza (PL)

Steering Group:

Miles Chalcraft (Berlin)
Trampoline/Radiator Festival, curator and project initiator, artist
Anette Schäfer (Berlin)
Trampoline/Radiator Festival, curator and project initiator
Mirjam Struppek (Berlin)
curator of Urban Screens, Melbourne and Berlin, urbanist, researcher
Ela Kagel (Berlin)
curater and producer, member of public art lab berlin
Jennifer Davy (Berlin)
artist, critic, and PhD candidate European Graduate School
Kuba Szreder (Warsaw)
curator, PhD candidate

International Project Partners:

Netherland’s Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Susanne Jaschko, Kuratorin
Bec Zmiana, Warsaw
Bogna Swiatkowska, Kuratorin
Radiator Festival, Nottingham
Anette Schäfer, Miles Chalcraft

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July 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

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Top Shot Helmet

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And another cool project by Julius von Bismarck. The Top Shot Helmet gives you a 3rd person view on yourself via a ballon cam from above. The pictures and the movies are great. The shiny white ball ‘replacing’ his head and the athmosphere of the scene reminds me of Kubricks 2001. Somehow his headless performance has also some connection to Mark Jenkins headless homeless sculptures. His alienated acting causes a lot of reactions in the public audience.

All details on the Top Shot Helmet project site.

Related projects: Avatar Machine, First Person Shooter ( Blake Fall-Conroy)

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July 1st, 2008 at 8:47 pm

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