SPARWASSER HQ presents
in collaboration with FEINKOST

 
 

///// Presentation talk
SPARWASSER HQ ARTISTS/CURATORS IN RESIDENCY 2009/2010

Solvej Helweg Ovesen | Anthony Marcellini | Karin Laansoo

Monday, March 1st, 8pm at FEINKOST
Bernauer Straße 71-72
13355 Berlin

Within the frame of the topic "public sphere-rhetoric/ offentlighed-retorik" we are delighted to welcome our two new residents Anthony Marcellini and Karin Laansoo. At the presentation they will talk about their projects that deal with the ultimate exchange between artist and audience in the making. These projects are both realized more as interventions, rather than as 'art event's. Also last years curator-in-residency Solvej Helweg Ovesen will present the work she did during her residency at Sparwasser HQ. Her work inspired us and she was part of the jury for "public sphere-rhetoric/ offentlighed-retorik". The last part of this year residency, the appointed 10 text writers, will be ready for publishing in the end of march. The residency program is here.

 

_______Anthony Marcellini //// Berlin, Open Your Windows!

Anthony Marcellini is an artist and writer, whose practice can be defined by an examination of the politics of the creative act. With his work he aims to create spaces where people come together to understand themselves in relationship with the world. While he utilizes many forms of communication and expression, his work primarily revolves around performance, gesture, speech and theater, because these are forms that deal most directly with our human behavior.
While in Berlin Anthony is presenting the project, "Berlin, Open Your Windows!" a research and performance-project taking place throughout several Berlin neighborhoods. Using apartments as semi-public spaces Anthony and an opera singer are presenting a series of musical declarations out the open windows of several flats. These arias are written to reflect the history, the dreams, the tribulations and the triumphs of each neighborhood.
Anthony Marcellini received his MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts in 2009. In 2008 he was a recipient of Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant and the Murphy & Cadogan Fellowship in the Arts. He is also a frequent contributor to the online journal www.artpractical.com. In 2011 he will present a new work as part of the Exchange Radical Moments Europe-wide arts festival. Currently he is teaching fellow through the Independent Study Course at Valand School of Fine Arts. For more information visit his blog.

 
_______Karin Laansoo //// Exploitation On Demand

"Producing an exhibition, for me typically involves extensive artistic research, writing, and collaborative dialogue over a long period of time. Mostly project and context dependent, my collaborations are inspired by unusual situations and often impossible-looking circumstances."
 
Karin Laansoo is a curator and writer, originally from Estonia and currently based in New York City. After receiving her MA in Art History from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2002, she has worked as a producer and Gallery Manager in Tallinn and in New York. In 2005 she authored an award-winning book, 22+ Young Estonian Artists. Since 2008 she has been the Director of PointB—an international artist residency in Williamsburg, New York. She also runs a single-work gallery called Monospace in her apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
At the moment, Karin Laansoo is researching the many expressions of exploitation, both in and around art. She just organized Art, Image, and Exploitation—an international conference at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. Her proposal for Sparwasser stemmed from that context. The project Exploitation On Demand is a series of public performances carried out by local volunteers in Berlin according to authors‘ instructions.
 
Learn more about the conference; about the open call and Monospace and about PointB.
 

 
_____Solvej Helweg Ovesen //// The World As a Stage

Solvej Helweg Ovesen, born in Denmark 1974, is a curator and author living in Berlin. She studied communication sciene (BA) at Roskilde University in Roskilde and cultural studies (MA) at, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen and succeeded her curatorial training at De Appel, International Curatorial Program, in Amsterdam 2003-2004. As a curator she worked e.g. for Sparwasser HQ, Berlin (2000-2002), bak, basis voor aktuele konst, Utrecht (2004-2005), Kunsthalle Fridericianum (2004-2006), Werkleitz Biennale 2006, Halle (2005-2006), U-TURN Kvadriennale für Gegenwartskunst, Kopenhagen, Århus und Møn (2006-2008). She is co-founder and editor of SUM, Eng-Dk Magazine for Contemporary Art based in Copenhagen and Berlin.
Selected publications: „Men in Black: Handbuch der kuratorischen Praxis“, Anthologie, 2004, ”Happy Believers: Werkleitz Biennale”, exhibition cataloque, 2006, ”Olafur Eliasson: det indre af det Ydre”, 2007, ”U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art“, exhibition cataloque 2008, ”The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer”, Kirstine Roepstorff, exhibition cataloque 2009, "The World as Stage", Diskurs Publication n.b.k., 2010.
In 2009 Solvej Helweg Ovesen was Sparwasser HQ curator-in-resident and invited by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin | Marius Babias, where she curated the exhibition “The World as Stage” and published a book within this frame, "Die Welt als Bühne", in the Diskurs Publikation series published by Walter König, 2010. The exhibition and publication is concerned with a critique of the concepts of 'performance' and 'performativity' in a neoliberal societal context, which will also be the topic of the presentation.