Pole Shift, Berlin
Darri LorenzenMichael Jones McKean
Shane Hope
Xavi Hurtado
Damon Zucconi
Dexter Sinister
Brody Condon
Maurizio Bianchi
Shay Kun
November 02, 2008 – January 16, 2009
Opening: November 02, 2008 from 19:00 to 24:00
Project Gentili is pleased to present the group exhibition, Pole Shift (Berlin), opening the 1st of November, 2008 at 19:00 in Charlottenberg, Berlin. The exhibition vernissage, followed by performances and a late-night party, is affiliated with the VIP program of Art Forum Berlin and marks Project Gentili’s first exhibition in the city.
Pole Shift (Berlin) features major works by gallery and non-gallery artists proposing alternative axes of understanding. Titled by Damon Zucconi, “pole shift” refers to the hypothesis that under certain conditions a planet’s rotational axis will relocate - a notion confirmed by science and dramatized by popular fiction and new age cosmologies. In light of renewed popular interest in metaphysics, the exhibition foregrounds artistic investigations into self-projection, extra-dimensionality and alternative social schema.
Performance Program, Pole Shift (Berlin) | AIDS-3D, Darri Lorenzen
01 November, 2008 19:00 – 21:00
On the nature and future of existence
Icelandic artist Darri Lorenzen makes adjustments to enhance our sensitivity to place. For this performance, Lorenzen will tease out latent dimensions of the space. Berlin-based duo AIDS-3D forecast post-apocalyptic existence according to the technological promise. Famous on the internet, the duo’s rare performances involve technology, sexuality and industry-standard special effects.
Objecthood and theoretical physics: perspectives on forces and matter (lecture/panel)
02 November, 2008 19:00 – 21:00
Re-consider the nature of the world around you by digging deeper into contemporary perspectives on the age-old problems of object-hood, materialism and time, including perspectives from contemporary physics. After foundational presentations (graphics-aided) and moderator-guided panel discussion, the conversation will open to the floor.
Pier Luigi Tazzi (international curator, panel moderator)
Jochen Büttner (Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, research scholar)
Brody Condon (on self projection, and role play, artist)
Michael Jones McKean (on materialism and meaning, artist)
Matthias Staudacher (Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institut), physicist
Damon Zucconi (on reverse engineering, artist)
Pole Shift (Berlin)
Otto-Suhr-Allee 80/82 / 10585 Berlin / Germany / map
M45, X9, N7, U7 Richard-Wagner-Platz - enter on Warburgzeile
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