Pause: Margaret Honda
18–20 August 17
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.
Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
Margaret Honda, Spectrum Reverse Spectrum, 2014, 70mm film, aspect ratio 2.2:1, color, silent, 21 minutes, film still
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.
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
7–9 June 24
Pause: The Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group
25/27 August 23
Pause: Alexis Blake
27–29 January 23
Pause: Lydia Ourahmane
sync
1–2 October 22
Pause: Tobias Spichtig
Die Matratzen
19–23 January 22
Pause: Michele Rizzo
1–3 October 21
Pause: Archivio Conz Collection
Broken Sounds / Remote Music—Prepared Pianos
16–19 January 20
Pause: Every Ocean Hughes
24–25 August 19
Pause: Emma Hedditch
18–19 May 19
Pause: Jimmy Robert (After Ian White)
19–20 January 19
Pause: Evelyn Taocheng Wang
27–30 September 18
Pause: AA Bronson
26–29 April 18
Pause: Ericka Beckman
18–21 January 18
Pause: Anthony McCall
27–30 April 17
Pause: Margaret Honda is part of the project Point of Departure: Willem de Rooij, Lucy Skaer and is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.