HfK Bremen’s Temporary Spaces Class starts the semester with a Berlin excursion including links to the history of the wall, Cold War nostalgia, iconic spatial sites, and local social housing debates, as well as the specific codes of party and club culture alongside the cancel button. The role of the artist, ongoing culture wars, the gentrification of art institutions, and alternative modes of making things public are also part of the discussion. Rather than treating Berlin-Moabit/Wedding and Kreuzberg/Neukölln merely as an itinerary, the Temporary Spaces Class frames these two migration hubs as an interconnected mind map.
Today’s artists are highly mobile, challenged to reformulate their work rapidly for each new context. As if attending a summit, participants are invited to select a digital .zip file or a lightweight carrier bag to bring with them, considering new formats of exchange.
The Temporary Spaces Class takes the Berlin excursion as an opportunity to address a central question that haunts contemporary artistic practice: How do I carry my practice with me, introduce it to peers and professionals, and relate to a new context in a short time?
And their guiding motto is Auto-Fiktion (Autoportrait).
Pickle Bar will serve as an open studio, where invited professionals will focus on individual works and exchanges with the participants.
Temporary Spaces is led by Prof. Aslı Serbest. Invited guests include María Inés Plaza Lazo,Mona Mahall, and Dalia Maini.
Participants: Ayşen Kocakabak, Chen (Kaung Thu), David Wahrenburg, Jisu Kim, Josefine Kröll, Nija (WeiNie), Olivia Mueller, Paul Stümpel, Sena Kızılcık, Thru (Seulwoo Choi), Yoonyeong Lee
This public discussion is part of the Moabit/Wedding itinerary of this Berlin excursion. On November 22, the Temporary Spaces Class will take over the editorial office of Art of the Working Class, located in Kreuzberg/Neukölln neighborhood for presentations and discussions (18:00 Arts of the Working Class, Communal Space Schillerpromenade 10, 12049 Berlin).
Language: English
Doors open at 17:30. Event starts at 18:00