Events
Artist’s talk on the themes of colour and space with Katharina Grosse and Louisa Hutton
Presentation: Anke Hervol
30 September, 7 pm, online
Composer Peter Ablinger references the exhibition “Nothingtoseeness” with a piece for Roma n Opałka from the cycle Voices and Pi ano. For Opa łka , voice and sound are a lwa ys pa rt of his work process, intera cting with the pia no.
Re ality a nd perception a re also the subject of philosopher and composer Br andon La Belle’s The Invisible Semina r, which exa mines stra tegies of invisibility and questions the duties and powers of appea ra nce. Ca n invisibility be a discursive, creative ta ctic? These and other questions will be explored in conversa tion.
Introduction: Anke Hervol
Piano: Nicolas Hodges
Lecture-performance: Brandon LaBelle, The Destituent
Artists’ talk, presentation: Julia Gerlach
In German and English
7 October, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Free access with exhibition ticket of the day
Artists’ talk in the exhibition with Ulrike Draesner and Karin Sander.
Presentation: Anke Hervol
28 October, 7 pm, online
Cesc Gelabert performs a solo by Gerhard Bohner
Gerhard Bohner’s (1936–1992) dance solo Schwarz weiß zeigen (Showing Black and White), which premiered at the studio on Hanseatenweg in 1983, is an artistic experiment on the nature and limits of the dancer in space and a systematic exploration of the laws of body and stage.
In an exploration of the space created by stage designer Axel Manthey (1945–1995), Bohner designed a choreography in which the dialogue between choreographer and dancer is abstracted by showing movements and the relationship between the dancer and five objects. Catalan dancer Cesc Gelabert has reconstructed Bohner’s solo works over decades, most recently the Bauhaustänze in the Bauhaus Year 2019. As a performative reference to its current exhibition, “Nothingtoseeness – Void/White/Silence”, the Akademie der Künste will be showing the adaptation of Schwarz weiß zeigen for the first time since 2010 as part of the Autumn Members’ Meeting.
13 November, 8 pm, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Literary works are already represented in the exhibition “Nothingtoseeness – Void/White/Silence” in the form of commenting postcards, artworks and installations. But nothingness, void, the colour white and silence are well-known topoi in literature itself.
Cécile Wajsbrot, Lothar Trolle, Ulrike Draesner, Michael Krüger and Timm Ulrichs read from their own works and literary history on these themes and talk about them.
Presentation: Robert Kudielka
25 November, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Experimental Films Curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit
“You cannot apply the principles of painting to a medium that is not painting.” (Paul Sharits). Film has laws of its own, but along with the other arts in the period around 1960 it searched for certain “zero points” that didn't revolve around nothing, but the whole.
This three-part film programme, curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit, includes works from the period between 1958 and 2021 – by Stephanie Barber, Yves-André Delubac, Hollis Frampton, Jorge Lorenzo, Ernst Schmidt Jr., Aldo Tambellini, Joyce Wieland and many more. It also offers rare insight into Gregory Markopoulos’s cinematic life’s work ENIAIOS (1947–91), presented by the film artist Robert Beavers.
Film programme curated by Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit
Film ENIAIOS (excerpts); director: Gregory Markopoulos
Alexander Horwath and Regina Schlagnitweit in conversation with Robert Beavers
In German and English
4 December, from 5 pm, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Programme:
Part 1 (5 pm)
Jorge Lorenzo 1/48’’ (2008) 35 mm, colour, sound, about 1 min
Viktoria Schmid A Proposal to project (2016) 16 mm, colour, sound, 2 min
Peter Kubelka Arnulf Rainer (1958-60) 35 mm, b/w, sound 7 min
Stan Brakhage Mothlight (1963) 16 mm, colour, silent, 4 min
Ernst Schmidt jr. Weiß (1968) 16 mm, b/w, silent, 1 min 20 sec
Aldo Tambellini Black Trip (1966) 16 mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
Ernst Schmidt jr. Filmreste (1965-67) 16 mm, b/w, sound, 10 min
Aldo Tambellini Black Trip 2 (1967) 16 mm, b/w, sound, 3 min
Joyce Wieland Handtinting (1967/68) 16 mm, b/w & tinted, silent, 6 min
Paul Sharits T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G (1968) 16 mm, colour, sound, 12 min
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives
Break
Part 2 (6:30 pm)
Morgan Fisher Projection Instructions (1976) 16mm, b/w, sound, 4 min
Hollis Frampton Surface Tension (1968) 16mm, colour, sound, 9 min
Yves-André Delubac Le Chant des signes (Song of Signs) (1972) 16mm/Digital, b/w, sound, 17 min
Gustav Deutsch Film ist mehr als Film (1996) 35mm, colour, sound, 1 min
Stephanie Barber Another Horizon (2021)16mm/Digital, colour, sound, 9 min
Jorge Lorenzo On the Road by Jack Kerouac (2013) 35mm, b/w, silent, 14 min
Break
Part 3 (8 pm)
Artist Talk with Robert Beavers, filmmaker and co-founder of the Temenos Archive where, among other activities, the restoration and preservation of ENIAIOS is being conducted. (In English)
Gregory Markopoulos Bliss (1967) 16 mm, colour, sound, 6 min
Gregory Markopoulos ENIAIOS (1947-91) 16 mm, colour, silent. Complete duration of the work: 80 hours
Excerpt: 2 reels, ca. 50 min [long version of Bliss and Portrait of Alberto Moravia]
The exhibition is open until midnight on 4 December
The evening programme focuses on three international composers and sound artists, whose works are presented for the first time at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin: Crys Cole, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Philipp Sollmann
The live performers respond conceptually to the exhibition theme Nothingtoseeness, combining electronic, acoustic, haptic and perceptual audio processes, while referencing their diverse musical biographies in an evening of exploratory sonic imaginations.
11 December, from 7 pm, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten