Pause: Ericka Beckman
Super-8 Trilogy
18–21 January 18

 
<p>Ericka Beckman, <em>The Broken Rule</em>, 1979, Super-8-film</p>

Ericka Beckman, The Broken Rule, 1979, Super-8-film

 

Opening: 17 January 18, 7 pm

 

Ericka Beckman in conversation with Anna Gritz (Curator at KW)

21 January 18, 5 pm

Venue: Studio, Front building, 1st floor

Free admission

 

To launch the first exhibition season of 2018, KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents the installation Super-8 Trilogy (1978–81) by the experimental filmmaker and artist Ericka Beckman as part of its Pause series. Pause focuses on individual works, which acts as a content-related hinge between the program’s main focuses, connecting and complementing them.

 

Super-8 Trilogy consists of the films We Imitate; We Break Up (1978), The Broken Rule (1979) and Out of Hand (1981), which defy classical narrative structures and follow a choreography developed through the artist’s engagement with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget (1896–1980). Piaget shaped research on the cognitive development of children, primarily in the field of developmental psychology, and took the view that cognitive development is accelerated by interaction with the environment.

 

The three films explore the possibilities of play with surreal, dreamlike sequences and try to negotiate the processes of the memory, the mind, and the psyche, which are triggered when we process images. For this Beckman uses strict patterns of colors, shapes and motifs—related to each other by repetition and through game structures. The artist was connected to the so-called Pictures Generation, which dealt with the convergence of art with mass media such as film, television, and magazines between 1974 and 1984.

 

Curator: Anna Gritz

Assistant Curator: Cathrin Mayer

 

 

Part of project: Pause series

The Pause series of KW Institute for Contemporary Art allowed for an ephemeral yet deep engagement with a single artwork in order to draw and question relationships between the past, present, and future. A Pause acted as a punctuation of KW’s regular program by presenting an artwork for a short period of time in between exhibition cycles, working with this state of in-between. Pause projects were predominantly commissioned or reworked pieces that shifted between or even merged the disciplines of performance, installation, video, and sonic work.

 

Overview

2017–2024

 

Pause: Billy Bultheel & James Richards

Workers in Song

7–9 June 24

 

Pause: The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group
25/27 August 23

 

Pause: Alexis Blake

Crack Nerve Boogie Swerve

27–29 January 23

 

Pause: Lydia Ourahmane
sync
1–2 October 22

 

Pause: Tobias Spichtig
Die Matratzen
19–23 January 22

 

Pause: Michele Rizzo

REACHING

1–3 October 21

 

Pause: Archivio Conz Collection

Broken Sounds / Remote Music—Prepared Pianos

16–19 January 20

 

Pause: Every Ocean Hughes

Help the Dead

24–25 August 19

 

Pause: Emma Hedditch

+49 30 243459-53

18–19 May 19

 

Pause: Jimmy Robert (After Ian White)

Joie noire

19–20 January 19

 

Pause: Evelyn Taocheng Wang

What is he afraid of?

27–30 September 18

 

Pause: AA Bronson

Garten der Lüste

26–29 April 18

 

Pause: Margaret Honda

Spectrum Reverse Spectrum

18–20 August 17

 

Pause: Anthony McCall

Line Describing a Cone

27–30 April 17

 

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Ericka Beckman, <i>Super-8 Trilogy</i>, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, <i>Super-8 Trilogy</i>, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, <i>Super-8 Trilogy</i>, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, <i>Super-8 Trilogy</i>, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, <i>Super-8 Trilogy</i>, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling
Ericka Beckman, Super-8 Trilogy, Installation view at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2018, Photo: Frank Sperling