Lichtspiele

 

5 April 18, 8.30 pm
Bob’s Pogo Bar
Booking required. Please RSVP at bobspogobar@kw-berlin.de

Enter at own risk

 

Leon Filter:
MUMMYTHEDADDY

 

Performance Lecture

 

<p>Leon Filter, <em>MUMMYTHEDADDY,</em> 2018</p>

Leon Filter, MUMMYTHEDADDY, 2018

 

MUMMYTHEDADDY is a performance lecture that deals with fathers, war, and memory. Artist Leon Filter reimagines the structure of family legacy in a story about intimate perspectives on and political questions of communication, as well as speculating upon reasons for the breakdown of that very communication.

 

Unfolding within Lichtspiele’s cinematic setting (a place Filter describes as an environment “for the receiving of images and the display of desires”), MUMMYTHEDADDY is based on a collection of anecdotes told by his forefathers. The artist examines how these anecdotes construct subjectivity in favor of traditional family structures—structures that cast queer subjects as life-long bachelors while their partners fill the role of a best friend. Filter asks why subjectivities are primarily valued for their reproductive potential with the least possible alteration, instead of engendering new originals divergent to the lineage.

 

MUMMYTHEDADDY carves out space for identities that refuse to be normalized into a family-friendly format, seeking instead to articulate degenerative propositions related to dementia, as well as a divestment from personal claims on reproduction.

 

Leon Filter is an artist and writer based in Berlin and Rotterdam. His work—tree bending, father research and model building—materializes in different states of video, drawing, performance, and text, as well as their supporting settings and collaborations. Oriented towards documentary relations, Filter focuses on the processes through which images (and their afterimages) create relations, as well as how they enforce or deny access towards their subject as a way to deal with present conditions.

 

 

 

Part of project: Lichtspiele

Lichtspiele was KW’s new intimate screening and performance series based at Pogo Bar. Taking place at the beginning of each month, this monographic program presented works in dialogue with the artist and audience.

 

Curator: Mason Leaver-Yap.

 

Overview 

2017–2018

 

The Wooster Group:
Rumstick Road
6 December 18

 

Jamie Crewe:

Bucolic Coda

1 November 18

 

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:

Gestures

1 March 18

 

Kat Anderson’s Episodes of Horror:

Gudo: A Wounded Spectacle, mit Skye Skyetshookii

1 February 18

 

A Farewell to Progress

7 December 17

 

Brett Story:

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016)

2 November 17

 

Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras:

Flag Wars (2003)

5 October 17

 

Evan Ifekoya:

She was a full body speaker standing tall in the corner of the room, “West ​End ​Angel ​Of L​ove T​eacher ​For ​My ​It ​Girl” plays in the background 

6 July 17

 

Ellen Cantor:

Pinochet Porn

7 June 17

 

MYSTI:

I might simply drift past you… a hiccup in purple… a careless cocksuck with no contact info… memory without name.

11 May 17

 

Will Holder

”The activity of framing a performance and the intentions that accumulate around that activity produce a certain anxious kind of mode. and I became bothered by that / by the flurry of activity that tends to make so many things.”

6 April 17

 

Charlotte Prodger:

BRIDGIT

9 March 17

 

Jamie Crewe:

Potash Lesson

9 February 17

 

 

Lichtspiele