BLATT and 3:AM proudly present two evenings of Offbeat fun in Berlin:
Joining us on December 8th at 9pm will be Heidi James, Travis Jeppesen, Gaby Bila-Gunther, Helena Prince, and Mike Haef. The evening will be capped off with a performance by Brother John & Sister Jane. All this will get underway at Lady Gaby’s new space Wonder Bar, Wienerstr. 45. On December 9th at 9pm, Heidi James, Lewis Forever, and Jeff Tarlton will be guests of FUEL night, hosted by Lady Gaby. This event will take place at Trödler Bar, Dresdner Str. 123. (Both events are free.)
Berlin is also hosting an exhibition about re-enactment in contemporary art which includes Tom McCarthy and Rod Dickinson’s Greenwich Degree Zero installation. A chapter from McCarthy’s Remainder appears (both in English and German versions) in the exhibition catalogue:
History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art
November 18, 2007 - January 13, 2008
Artists: Guy Ben-Ner, Walter Benjamin, Irina Botea, C-Level, Daniela Comani, Jeremy Deller, Rod Dickinson, Nikolai Evreinov, Omer Fast, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Heike Gallmeier, Felix Gmelin, Pierre Huyghe, Evil Knievel, Korpys/Loeffler, Robert Longo, Tom McCarthy, Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger, Collier Schorr, Tabea Sternberg, Kerry Tribe, T. R. Uthco & Ant Farm, Artur Zmijewski.
“The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself focuses on current strategies of re-enactment in contemporary art and presents the positions of 22 international artists. Re-enactments have become more and more popular in recent years. The re-creation of historical battles or important events seem to exert a fascination particularly because they provide the opportunity to gain a different entry into history by re-experiencing it. In contemporary art there has been an increasing number of artistic re-enactments. Unlike popular historical re-enactments artistic re-enactments do not simply affirm what has happened in the past, but question the present by taking recourse to historical (often traumatic) events that have left their traces in collective memory. Because history and memory are seldom directly experienced but more often mediated through media, re-enactments also represent an artistic interrogation of media images. They try to scrutinize the reality of the images, while at the same time pointing towards the fact that collective memory is essentially mediated memory.”
First posted: Friday, December 7th, 2007.
