Lecture

The Berlin Sessions:
AA Bronson on Elijah Burgher

Dates

Wed, 08.02.17

Time

19:00

Venue

1st floor Front building KW

Language

en

Admission

Free entry, limited capacity

‘In Canada, where I come from, there are Vancouverites, Winnipegers, Torontonians and Montrealers. Identity is determined at birth, or perhaps by where one went to school. Identity is geographical. But in Berlin, certain kinds of artists, makers of culture, are assembling from around the world, and how do we describe this modern migration? On the anniversary of my fourth year in Berlin, I talk about Elijah Burgher, who has been here for one year. Elijah’s work, through painting and drawing, emerges from his life with magic, music, ritual, and sex. I first met Elijah on Fire Island, that gay mecca outside New York, where we collaborated on a ritual painting in the Magic Forest. But now I try to see Elijah through the lens of Berlin, as a queer refuge, as a place of isolation, interruption and perversion, that is to say freedom, and transformation.’ (AA Bronson)

Part of project: The Berlin Sessions

Since February 2017, KW Institute for Contemporary Art organized a series of monthly public talks in collaboration with various institutions and organizations located in Berlin. The series entitled The Berlin Sessions explored the fabric of cultural producers in the city by inviting one Berlin-based speaker to give a presentation on another cultural producer that he/she/they find inspiring. The goal of the lecture series was to highlight the work of Berlin-based creatives from the perspective of their peers; to map connections between the various producers and fields and to strengthen the existing networks between locally based artists, authors, musicians, performers, researchers and other creative producers.