♦ MPA-B PROGRAMME: May 26th ♦

A few projects on today’s programme, are wrapping up. Don’t miss the chance to see them. With a city map and some planning you can enjoy a little bit of each! But first, let us introduce you the new projects of the day:

Dovrat Meron’s curated series Beyond Commemoration continues with an intervention to the site of the Holocaust Memorial, titled SMALL QUESTIONS FOR LARGE PLACES by artists Valeria Schwarz & Maik Kerner (17:00-19:00). In this intervention, Valeria Schwarz will explore the boundaries between the terms monument (Denkmal) and memorial (Mahnmal). She will raise the visitor’s awareness to the conventions and behavioural codes evoked by the memorial. While Maik Kerner, as a kind of guardian of site specific consciousness, will discuss with the visitors the rules of the memorial and whether their behaviour within this semi-public place is appropriate or not.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/dovrat-meron.html

As part of the ongoing WATCHING A CAT WATCHING A MOUSE HOLE exhibition, lecture and performance series at Weissensee Kunsthochschule, today there will be a lecture (in German, 17:00, free entrance) titled “To Be Real – Performance und Performativität” with curator Viktor Neumann.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/may161.html
www.kunsthalle.kunsthochschule-berlin.de

Today sees also a new phase in artist Dolanbay’s 4 day-long space intervention at Grüntaler9 (15:00-21:00 – 2€) titled UNTITLED SINGULAR ACT, in which the artist is examining the Singularity of an act within the mode of his artistic practice.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/teena-lange.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/395103353936627/?fref=ts

And now, on their final day we have….

PANIK FOR BRUNCH (11:00-13:00 – 2€) + PANINK FOR OPEN FLOOR (15:30-18:00 – 2€) close their series of brunches and interactive performances today, with a networking session with the PAN Vienna group and guests, during which “you will get closer for a while, learn from each and look at how performance art positions itself in networks and how it uses, converts, sabotages and de-constructs networks”. Panik takes place at L’Atelier Kunst(spiel)arum in Kreuzberg.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/pan-vienna.html

PIC – PIECES IN CHAIN, an event around Performance Art, Documentation and Scores curated and organized by Bassano Bonelli Bassano, Barbara Marcel, Camila Rhodi, Maicyra Leão and Vera Sofia Mota, and featuring different artists each day, finishes today at Altes Finanzamt from 16:00 to 23:00.
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/may23.html

WORKS ON PAPER, a series of Sunday performances curated by and hosted at Momentum, which for the past three weeks has brought together international artists based in Berlin to use paper both as form and as content; not as a blank slate upon which to create, but as a dynamic building block with which to create, closes today with Kate Hers, “7 Drawings, Twenty-eight Kisses” (17:00 – 17:45) and Joyce Clay, “Book II” (18:00 – 19:00)
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/may5.html
http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e65fb0966d947fed1f941f36a&id=4bf0c1e6d1

LIVE ART REVIEW (17:00-22:00 free entrance) part of the month-long curated series (CON)TEMPORARY SPACE-TIME, where performances are followed by a conversation between artists and performance art practitioners, also closes its programming today. See 林其蔚 Lin Chi-Wei, 湯皇珍 Tang Huang-Chen, 吳逸中 Effie Wu, 瓦旦

烏瑪 Watan Wuma and Barbara Lázara performing and then interviewed by Stefania Angelini (curator and initiator of L’atelier-kunst(spiel)arum), Márcio Carvalho (visual artist, performance artist and curator of CO-LAB Editions), Cat Robertson
(artist, a curator at Tate Britain/Modern and Fine Art Professor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London), Bronie Dickson (visual artist, critic and media specialist, London) and Allegra Solitude (artist and curator of Liebig12, Berlin)
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/lan-hungh-yun-ting-hung–i-chen-tsou.html
https://www.facebook.com/events/491655077571632/?fref=ts

And finally, tune in tonight from 22:00-23:00 and follow Mike Hentz’s final RADIOSHOW PERFORMANCE on REBOOT.FM, a broadcast for theoretical discourses, outlines of what performance art could be, as well as statements on the subject, set to sound samples of musical pieces and debates. You can listen to Mike here:
88,4 MHz in Berlin & 90,7 MHz in Potsdam and online: reboot.fm
More information here:
http://www.mpa-b.org/mike-hentz.html