Lecture

The Berlin Sessions:
Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers

Dates

Wed, 04.10.17

Time

17:00–19:00

Venue

Studio, front building, 1st floor

Admission

free

The Berlin-based artist duo Dellbrügge & de Moll has made the intricacies of architectural memory a key preoccupation of their practice. In the early 1990s the duo produced the journal below papers together with art critic Thomas Wulffen: over the course of a residency at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, four issues were produced as “a fusion of artistic practice and theoretical production.” This edition of The Berlin Sessions allows the participants to delve into a material history of KW, reaching back to the early days of the institution. What-if scenarios naturally beckon.

As part of REALTY, this session is a first attempt to assemble piecemeal the institutional memory of KW. Over the decades, a number of contributors have devoted time and effort to the topic at hand. Each of them pursued a distinct perspective that more or less ignored its precedents. Beginning with the help of Dellbrügge & de Moll and other actors, the aim is to build a relevant narrative, which may mature into an explicit, collective position over time.

Part of project: REALTY

The project REALTY focused on the role of contemporary art in recent histories of gentrification. These days, it seems one artist, one venue, one model after another is being unmasked as being part of the problem. But we will not be discussing art’s shortcomings yet again. Instead, REALTY asked how art’s international playing field can be put to better use. It insisted on moving beyond critique, and towards an attempt at productive models, however vague or naive. The KW leg of REALTY kicked off in October 2017, with a series of public lectures, workshops, and screenings. The project was conceived by Tirdad Zolghadr, KW’s Associate Curator, and commissioned by KW and Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern.

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Curatorial Assistance: Sabrina Herrmann

REALTY was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.

Overview
2017–2022

Book launch Tirdad Zolghadr with Christopher Roth
11 May 22

Ethics as Authorship – A Preliminary Study of Institutional Power Structures
18 December 18

Perma-usage: the case of ZK/U
8 Dezember 18

STATECRAFT
14–18 November 18

SPACECRAFT
8–13 November 18
Larissa Fassler

Emotional Blackmail
2–12 November 18

Gentrify GIF/Realty
23 June 18, 12 pm

Resolution 3: Municipalism (Tehran)
22 April 18, 5 pm

Open Heart Surgery
9 April 18, 2 pm

2nd Working meeting: Kunstbloc and beyond
4 April 18, 6 pm

Resolution 2: Triple TV Propaganda
18 March 18, 3 pm

Resolution 1: Don’t Move!
17 March 18, 3 pm

Workshop
5 October 17, 2 pm

Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras: Flag Wars (2003)
5 October 17, 8.30 pm

Hausgeist
3 October 17, 6 pm

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.