Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Berlin. Show all posts
Textfiles of Desire @ Transmediale 2013 BWPWAP
Had the honor and the pleasure of contributing to this panel that took place today in Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Was fabulous
Also it's a good excuse to feature this video here (again)
Also it's a good excuse to feature this video here (again)
NIX NIX NIX NIX, Friday 24.2.12 @100GRAD
A little shtick we're doing with another Berliner jew, on this weekend's "100 degree" festival. Featuring some song, dance, death, Wittgenstein and something white.
James is coming
My dear friend Lady James Unsworth is coming all the way from London to stay in the kitchen and also do an exhibition at this place in Neukölln
MEAT/ING in the Internet - Tomorrow at Pornfilmfestival Berlin!
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PARTY
This will be a nice one: we are DJing with the lovely Tatiana Saphir aka DJ Obstsalat this weekeknd. If you're in Berlin - come to shake your ass
Mud wrestling action
Here are some pix that the talented Doro Tuch took at the mud wrestling that happened in the lunapark
Lunapark Berlin: the story in moving images
The crazy lunapark weekend is behind is and now we're already into new adventures. Here's some (pretty shitty, iphone quality) stuff from there that maybe give some notion of how it felt:
The frogs:
Maya's Dinosaur speakers:
Keren Hulahooping in the bushes:
Maya trying to make the train work after it broke down:
The last catastrophe clock:
People dancing around the burned out man:
I can also write a lot of words about what happened there, but I'm already late to the second day of the Casino project, which is the third project in this internship I'm doing here. So here's just some pix of the wonderful rainbow that came on the first day:
The frogs:
Maya's Dinosaur speakers:
Keren Hulahooping in the bushes:
Maya trying to make the train work after it broke down:
The last catastrophe clock:
People dancing around the burned out man:
I can also write a lot of words about what happened there, but I'm already late to the second day of the Casino project, which is the third project in this internship I'm doing here. So here's just some pix of the wonderful rainbow that came on the first day:
Preparing the Catastrophe Clock
Here's a couple of videos I took yesterday when Maya and me installed the Catastrophe Clock at the Lunapark, for the festival that starts today. It works very funny there and I'm curious how the whole thing will be.
Ghost Machine
"Ghost Machine" is the video walk Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller made for HAU1 in 2005, and is now running again, this time with personal iPods instead of cameras. It's one of these very rare occasions when art actually becomes what the dodot (sorry for the Israeli term, it's very hard to translate. maybe "aunties" will do...) would call "an experience". And yet I loved it. It's super simple (you are instructed to walk through the theater which was also a film set, seeing in your iPod screen very theatrical and highly stylized scenes that took place in the empty space you're standing in right now). Somehow, there's really a haunting magic in it just like the title implies. Here's the link to the piece in the couple's website and here's another installation they made called "Killing Machine":
Announcing the 1st Berlin Mud Wrestling Championship!!!
Here's the mail that I sent today to some performing friends, about the championship that we're organizing at the end of the month. Feel free to use it as an open call! We need you to really make it work!
Ladies und Gentlemen, dear people who make/think of/care about art,
Ladies und Gentlemen, dear people who make/think of/care about art,
Haven't you always dreamed of "taking it outside" with your best friend/lover/work partner/mom/granny/dog?
Now you have a chance to make your dream a reality and make performance history!
We are thrilled to announce the 1st ever Berlin Mud Wrestling Championship, brought to you by Ariel Efraim Ashbel and Jan-Sebastian Suba!
The championship will take place during the last day of HAU and SCBLM's exciting Luna Park event @ Spreepark, at the end of next week.
In a plastic pool filled with the finest bio-mineral mud available this side of the rhine, pairs of participants will be given the option to fight their loved ones and try to win the exclusive title of the best mud wrestling couple ever!
The championship will take place on Sunday 29.5.11, from 14:00 - 19:00, and participating wrestlers will also get a free pass for an additional day of the event, during which we will conduct Telekinesis workshops trying to make the big ferris wheel move, DJ at the english village for the "Dorf Disco" party, hang out, drink beer and watch the big wooden man that Showcase is building burn to the ground! (german) Info about the event is down here in the attached.
So, if you'd like to take part in this groundbreaking experience, all you have to do is email your name contact details (email address & telephone no.) to arielefraim.ashbel@gmail.com and we will contact you and fit you in the schedule. You are also welcome to forward this to anyone you think could be interested in getting involved!
PARTY FOR YOUR RIGHT TO FIGHT!!!
gracefully yours,
Ariel & Subi
Night Light
Some reflections on oldschool light devices in a couple of bars
Roses, Berlin:
Dalston Superstore, London:
Dalston Superstore, London:
Lunapark Berlin @ Spreepark
So many people are asking me how's it going with work and what it is exactly that I'm doing here these days. I will try to answer.
The main thing that Showcase is working on at the moment is the construction of a 6-8 meter high man that will be build gradually during three days by themselves and volunteers and then burned down on the end of the third day.
As part of this internship here, the HAU curator Stefanie Wenner introduced me to the Showcase guys and they suggested I go to one of the guided tours given in the place (it's the only way to legally get in there now) and see if I have any ideas to do something there. Below are some of the pix I took on that tour. So we went there - I'm not switching to the royal plural, nor I'm referring to the voices in my head, it's the good old annoying couple talk again - and came up with many ideas, most of which were of course way too expensive or dangerous; for example, to create a bumping cars ride with electric wheel chairs - this has to happen at some point!
So what we're left with are three main things, that we are now working on trying to see what it takes to get them to happen properly:
the Catastrophe Clock
The Catastrophe Clock is a sound installation Maya and me made, which was first presented at an outdoor exhibition in Holon's Center for Digital Art in 2007. It's actually very simple: once an hour, exactly on the hour, a soundsystem plays a recording of screaming people, when the number of the screams heard tells the time: at one o'clock one scream, at two two screams etc. When we did it it was quite cool because it gives a very basic service to the people around and at the same time disturbs them in a funny way. In the context of the luna park it can be even more relevant, as this is actually something that happens quite often when you attend an operating Luna park; these screams that appear every now and then from a scary attraction somewhere, so it can not only tell the time but also function as a little "ghosty" action, maybe reminding the audience how this place sounded like. The speakers will be located on one of the beautiful dis-functioning roller coasters (see pix below). That is, if the budget and limited technical options will allow us to do it...
a Silent Disco Party
The guys from showcase want to have a "silent disco", a party where people dance with personal headphones. It's gonna happen inside a tunnel in one of the old rides, but unlike the classic version of this event, the music will be Schubi and me DJing. Each person at audience will be able to switch between our two channels: heavy beats, hip hop classics and filthy pop (moi), or white trash, 80's rock, disco and filthy pop (the Schub). This wasn't our idea but a task we got from them and accepted happily. If everything will happen according to plan and Maya will make it here for the Lunapark, we'll also get a third channel for her, which for sure will be great.
Telekinesis courses
Those who know me well knows I'm very interested in supernatural shit like seances, Parapshychology, and other phenomena of similar problematic nature. When I was in the tour in the Spreepark I remembered a work by my friend and great artist Sofia Hulten, which made couple of videos where she's trying to move objects using Telekinesis techniques she learned from a tutorial book. Here you can see a still from one of these videos. Developing the idea further, Schubi and me decided to do Telekienises courses to the public at the Lunapark. We will explain Telekinesis, it's history and techniques, and then with the people we will form a "concentration camp" - a place in the park where people assemble to concentrate together - and try to make the big ferris wheel move using nothing but our minds. Considering the fact that the wheel tends to move when it's windy, I think this activity will be super nice.
the 1st Berlin Mud-Wrestling Championship
Last but not least, and continuing the line of creating opportunities for people to use the place and enjoy it, we are going to announce at the last day of the Lunapark happening the first Berlin Mud Wrestling championship, where friends, family, lovers or just strangers can get in the arena and feed each other mud! Here are some wonderful examples:
And here are some pix I took in the tour:
So what we're left with are three main things, that we are now working on trying to see what it takes to get them to happen properly:
the Catastrophe Clock
The Catastrophe Clock is a sound installation Maya and me made, which was first presented at an outdoor exhibition in Holon's Center for Digital Art in 2007. It's actually very simple: once an hour, exactly on the hour, a soundsystem plays a recording of screaming people, when the number of the screams heard tells the time: at one o'clock one scream, at two two screams etc. When we did it it was quite cool because it gives a very basic service to the people around and at the same time disturbs them in a funny way. In the context of the luna park it can be even more relevant, as this is actually something that happens quite often when you attend an operating Luna park; these screams that appear every now and then from a scary attraction somewhere, so it can not only tell the time but also function as a little "ghosty" action, maybe reminding the audience how this place sounded like. The speakers will be located on one of the beautiful dis-functioning roller coasters (see pix below). That is, if the budget and limited technical options will allow us to do it...
a Silent Disco Party
The guys from showcase want to have a "silent disco", a party where people dance with personal headphones. It's gonna happen inside a tunnel in one of the old rides, but unlike the classic version of this event, the music will be Schubi and me DJing. Each person at audience will be able to switch between our two channels: heavy beats, hip hop classics and filthy pop (moi), or white trash, 80's rock, disco and filthy pop (the Schub). This wasn't our idea but a task we got from them and accepted happily. If everything will happen according to plan and Maya will make it here for the Lunapark, we'll also get a third channel for her, which for sure will be great.
Telekinesis courses
Those who know me well knows I'm very interested in supernatural shit like seances, Parapshychology, and other phenomena of similar problematic nature. When I was in the tour in the Spreepark I remembered a work by my friend and great artist Sofia Hulten, which made couple of videos where she's trying to move objects using Telekinesis techniques she learned from a tutorial book. Here you can see a still from one of these videos. Developing the idea further, Schubi and me decided to do Telekienises courses to the public at the Lunapark. We will explain Telekinesis, it's history and techniques, and then with the people we will form a "concentration camp" - a place in the park where people assemble to concentrate together - and try to make the big ferris wheel move using nothing but our minds. Considering the fact that the wheel tends to move when it's windy, I think this activity will be super nice.
the 1st Berlin Mud-Wrestling Championship
Last but not least, and continuing the line of creating opportunities for people to use the place and enjoy it, we are going to announce at the last day of the Lunapark happening the first Berlin Mud Wrestling championship, where friends, family, lovers or just strangers can get in the arena and feed each other mud! Here are some wonderful examples:
And here are some pix I took in the tour:
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| the fabulous ferris wheel |
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| a lost dinosaur, there's quite a few of them wondering around the park |
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| rusty cart in one of the dried water rides |
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| the elephant is drowning and the swans do nothing to help |
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| the Schub (right, big head in fur hat) looking at the wheel |
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| kitsch, but the wheel is so photogenic! |
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