Lecture

The Berlin Sessions:
Julieta Aranda on Anri Sala

Dates

Wed, 21.06.17

Time

19:00

Venue

Studio, KW Institute for Contemporary Art

Admission

free

Anri Sala employs moving images and their soundtracks to probe historical ruptures and failures of language. He explores non-verbal modes of expression through narratives or ideas that can be shared through music or pictures. This distance from a ‘logical’, direct, language-based understanding, opens the door to multiple perspectives, and interpretations. His work encompasses video installations, sculptures, photographs, performances, and movie scores.

Julieta Aranda is an artist whose multidimensional practice deals with a range of themes including circulation, mechanisms, and the idea of a “poetics of circulation”; the politicized subject or the possibility of politicized subjectivity; the perception and use of time; and one’s power over the imaginary. Projects take the form of printed media, installation, video, and community organizing.

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.