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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
In this special seminar at Bard College Berlin, Renata Stih & Frieder Schnock will introduce their working methodology, based on the collaboration between art and science, with some of their site-specific interventions. They will explore how memory is formed and how it functions in public spaces and institutions by presenting some installations in urban space as well as in museums, defined by them as ‘containers and carriers of memory’.
By referring to collective memory and exposing particular aspects of historical and political circumstances, and by reinventing a visual and ethical language, Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock create social and artistic environments with fluid structures. Their decentralized memorial "Places of Remembrance in the Bavarian Quarter" in Berlin-Schöneberg is one of this public sculptures; it celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Stih & Schnock will also discuss their work dedicated to questions of identity, cultural mobility, and transnational exchange inside museums and collections with a particular reference to the exhibition "The German Connection — Raft with Stranded Objects," which is currently on view at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Missouri/USA. This work in the field of institutional critique is linked to a range of other projects, like the environmental sculpture “Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes” for the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, “Show Your Collection” with 16 museums in Munich and the public demonstration “The Art of Collecting” at the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst in Berlin.
Stih & Schnock are Berlin-based conceptual artists, exploring how memory functions in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in urban spaces. In their work they question the ambiguity and ambivalence of social sculpture and introduce how the intrusion of art in public space affects everyday life through their projects, which include: TIME ISLANDS, an art-in-public-space project for the Nelson-Mandela-School in Berlin (2011); the decentralized memorial Orte des Erinnerns / Places of Remembrance in Berlin--Schöneberg (1993), Einladung/Invitation – U2, Berlin Alexanderplatz. NGBK (1997/98), The City As Text (installation, archival research, publication) (2007), Jewish Museum Munich and the German Federal Art Foundation.
Information on participating / attending:
Keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Date:
12/13/2013 15:30 - 12/13/2013 17:00
Event venue:
Bard College Berlin
Platanenstr. 24
13156 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Art / design, Construction / architecture, Cultural sciences
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture, Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
11/26/2013
Sender/author:
Irina Stelea
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event45683
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