Pause: Margaret Honda
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum

Daily from 6 to 9 pm
Entrance: 5 € (Onlineticket)
Tickets for the screenings throughout the weekend can be purchased at the ticket desk and online. The screening starts every 30 minutes. It is not possible to enter the installation throughout the screening.

Opening: 18 August 17, 7 pm
Margaret Honda in Conversation with Tenzing Barshee (Writer, Curator) and Anna Gritz (Curator)
20 August 17, 4 pm
Bob’s Pogo Bar
Free admission

With a screening of Spectrum Reverse Spectrum by Margaret Honda, KW Institute for Contemporary Art continues its new series titled Pause, envisioned as a punctuation of the on-going program through the presentation of singular artworks for a concentrated period of time in order to bridge relationships between the past, present and future.

Linking the summer and the autumn season at KW, the American artist and filmmaker Margaret Honda presents her film, Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (2014). The camera less film mines the entirety of the available colour spectrum of the 70mm print stock as a fluctuating entity between a physical, industrially produced body, and an elusive philosophical concept that reveals the gulf between the measurable and experiential. Moving gradually through the visible light spectrum from violet to red, then back to violet, the colours’ relative densities and durations follow those in the spectrum itself. The subjective effects of the film, causing each viewer to perceive the film differently, enhanced by the size and brilliance of its being in 70mm, make you aware of the act of watching and thus reminding you of the body you inhabit.

Margaret Honda (born 1961 in San Diego, US) received an M.A. in material culture and a B.A. in art history. Her work in sculpture and film has recently been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Künstlerhaus Bremen (DE) and Triangle France, Marseille (FR) and has been included in group exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and SPIKE, Berlin. Her films have been screened in the US and internationally, in museums and festivals including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Courtisane festival, Ghent (BE); REDCAT, Los Angeles; Berlin International Film Festival; Toronto International Film Festival; and BFI London Film Festival. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Curator: Anna Gritz
Assistant Curator: Cathrin Mayer

Exhibition Folder (PDF)

Interview with Margaret Honda and Anna Gritz (PDF)

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

Pause: Anthony McCall
Line Describing a Cone
27–30 April 17