CHILE INTERNATIONAL II
2022. With contributions by: Colectivo Caput, Gonzalo Castro Colimil, Daniela Catrileo, Chawak, Elicura Chihuailaf, Mariairis Flores / Diego Parra, Valeria Fahrenkrog, Constanza Hermosilla, Barbara Marcel, Eva-Christina Meier, Galería Metropolitana, Dani Negri, Claudia Pacheco Araoz, Leonardo Portus, Radio Humedales, Danny Reveco, Alejandra Rojas del Canto, Maristella Svampa.
Edited by: Valeria Fahrenkrog, Eva-Christina Meier, Galería Metropolitana. Graphic design: Ernst und Mund, Leipzig.
In cooperation with nGbK Verlag.
2022. With contributions by: Colectivo Caput, Gonzalo Castro Colimil, Daniela Catrileo, Chawak, Elicura Chihuailaf, Mariairis Flores / Diego Parra, Valeria Fahrenkrog, Constanza Hermosilla, Barbara Marcel, Eva-Christina Meier, Galería Metropolitana, Dani Negri, Claudia Pacheco Araoz, Leonardo Portus, Radio Humedales, Danny Reveco, Alejandra Rojas del Canto, Maristella Svampa.
Edited by: Valeria Fahrenkrog, Eva-Christina Meier, Galería Metropolitana. Graphic design: Ernst und Mund, Leipzig.
In cooperation with nGbK Verlag.
Through massive protests, Chilean civil society succeeded in 2019 in initiating a comprehensive transformation process in the country. Since then, protagonists from the arts and culture have taken an active role in the social discourse on social participation, feminism and climate justice. „Chile International II“ presents artistic positions, collective practices, and current debates from different regions of the South American country. The bilingual volume expands on these with positions from Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil.
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DESILHA 3
2021. Book organized by Michelle Sommer and Lívia Flores with the participation of Aline Besouro, André Leal, Barbara Marcel, Andreas Doepke and Tom Nóbrega, Cecilia Cavalieri, Denilson Baniwa, Diambe da Silva, Flora Dias, Ismar Tirelli Neto, Juliana Fausto, Luiza Baldan, Mabe Bethônico, Mayra Martins Redin, Micaela Cyrino, Raquel Versieux and Sandra Benites
2021. Book organized by Michelle Sommer and Lívia Flores with the participation of Aline Besouro, André Leal, Barbara Marcel, Andreas Doepke and Tom Nóbrega, Cecilia Cavalieri, Denilson Baniwa, Diambe da Silva, Flora Dias, Ismar Tirelli Neto, Juliana Fausto, Luiza Baldan, Mabe Bethônico, Mayra Martins Redin, Micaela Cyrino, Raquel Versieux and Sandra Benites
Rocks are inert elements produced deep in the earth's crust, a product of the deep time of geology. When they emerge, they are transformed by human action and converted into the materials that are the basis of our society. How can we access the stories that are deposited in the mineral layers on which we walk every day? How can we tell the stories inscribed in the stones, in certain places, in the paths we trace? These are some of the themes and questions that guided the presentations by Mabe Bethônico, Claudia M. Plens, Flora Dias, Barbara Marcel and Tom Nóbrega at the 3rd Seminar on art and city research_DESILHA 2021: MINERAL LANDSCAPES, revising and displacing these mineral landscapes in different ways, making visible the subterranean layers that compose the present. Now, the essay “canário azul: 5 fragmentos” (blue canary: 5 fragments), by Barbara Marcel, Andreas Doepke and Tom Nóbrega is part of the publication resulting from the seminar.
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BLUE CANARY
2021, Berlin / Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz. Original essayistic text written in collaboration with the geographer Andreas Döpke, to be published in the book THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION, as part of the series intercalations 6, co-published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
2021, Berlin / Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Harz. Original essayistic text written in collaboration with the geographer Andreas Döpke, to be published in the book THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION, as part of the series intercalations 6, co-published by K. Verlag and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
The project GOLDEN TONE comes from a research on the historical, cultural landscape of the western Harz Mountain region of Germany, where many of the mining technologies of mineral soil extraction were first developed and then exported to the whole world. The essay reflects on the intersections of past, present and future of this anthropogenic landscape, through the particular history of breeding, training and trading of Canary birds in the region.
"...a queer refrain, populated with both acoustical lines of flight and the sorrows of captivity, wherein the reader-as-exhibition-viewer learns that the minor science of ornithology is as preoccupied with the flirtations and allopreening of avifauna as it is with their taxonomical domination."
THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION. With contributions by Ari Bayuaji, Bik Van der Pol, David Bonter, Bertolt Brecht, Lêna Bùi, Mark Dion, Andreas Döpke & Barbara Marcel, Anne Geene & Arjan de Nooy, Sophia Gräfe, Mary Ellen Hannibal, Lisa Hirmer, Nina Katchadourian, Anna-Katharina Laboissiere, Anaïs Nin, Megan Shaw Prelinger, Bruno Schulz, Anna-Sophie Springer, Frank Steinheimer, Anna Tsing, Etienne Turpin, and others.
Click here for more info on the book THESE BIRDS OF TEMPTATION
Click here for more information on the project GOLDEN TONE.
The video installation has recently been part of the exhibition Birds & Buoys at Bärenzwinger Berlin, between April and June 2021.
Click here for more information on the exhibition BIRDS & BUOYS.
FIRE, FAÍSCA, FUNKE
Vernissage: 25.05.2019, 7pm
Exhibition dates: 26.05 - 16.06, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays or by appointment.
Vernissage: 25.05.2019, 7pm
Exhibition dates: 26.05 - 16.06, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays or by appointment.
The exhibition brought together works by Marina Camargo, Ana Hupe and Barbara Marcel, Brazilian artists living in Berlin. Their researches reflect on the gravitation of the idea of Centre, departing from Southern Hemisphere: relations of power elucidated in cartographies; extensive monocultures; colonial archives; and religious syncretisms in Brazil today. Manioc as a meeting point between Brazilian and African cultures in Europe is celebrated in a collective work with the participation of Senegambia, a West African food restaurant, located on the same street as Mario Kreuzberg Gallery's. The collaboration is shown in a video that documents an exchange of receipts made with manioc, cooked together in Senegambia's kitchen.
Cartography as a study of narratives of spaces and power relations permeates the works of Marina Camargo. Cartography expanded beyond its original function, being transformed into other visual narratives that question the objective data that forms the maps. The representation of the Southern Hemisphere appears in the erase action of a school map of Brazil that shows the regions of extractive exploitation and also in a sound work constructed from the political borders of South America.
Ana Hupe presented three works on the universe of Santería, Afro-Cuban religion with Yoruba origin. The guiding concept of the works is that of syncretism, which happens when the hidden creeds of two or more regions or religious traditions intermingle.
The port of Santarém (Pará-BR), dominated by the multinational Cargill since 2003, is the theme of the work 'BR 163 Cuiabá-Santarém' by Barbara Marcel. The packaging of products used in the processing of soybeans, upcycled into market bags in the market for manioc flour, are grouped together in one installation.
Mario Kreuzberg Gallery is a project space organized by Manuela Morales (Chile) and Santiago Mac Auliffe (Argentina) since 2015, at Reichenbergerstrasse 48 since July 2018, with focus on Latin-American Art.
THE ENDOTIC READER N.1
2019, Reader with contributions by participants hosted at TIER - The Institute for Endotic Research. Contributors: Linda Zhang, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Vanessa Gravenor, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Repec Segroeg, Lorenzo Sandoval, Barbara Marcel, Biko Mandela Gray, John Holten, Louis Henderson, Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, Benjamin Busch, Ayami Awazuhara.
2019, Reader with contributions by participants hosted at TIER - The Institute for Endotic Research. Contributors: Linda Zhang, Nelly Y. Pinkrah, Vanessa Gravenor, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Repec Segroeg, Lorenzo Sandoval, Barbara Marcel, Biko Mandela Gray, John Holten, Louis Henderson, Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein, Benjamin Busch, Ayami Awazuhara.
The endotic is a subtle but powerful tool to generate a situated practice of an institution. It is subtle because it looks to the imperceptible of the everyday life, to the visible but hidden details of the space and gestures of bodies around us. It rescues the astonishment from the forgotten obvious, trapped by its naturalization. It is a powerful tool because it leads us to read and listen to our surroundings, always looking from unexplored stances. From this immanent display, the very local traces a priceless threshold from which to approach the complex global. In its well-known methodology, Oulipo—the group to which Georges Perec belonged—was a great pioneer of crossing knowledge fields in order to practice a critical fascination. They developed a system in which constraints were an efficient driving force, merging mathematics, literature and artistic positions. These constraints can be translated from writing to cultural practice to think about spatial design, funding or ways of cooperation, looking for more sustainable practices.
To celebrate TIER’s first year at Donaustrasse 84 in Berlin-Neukölln, we published the first reader on the topic of the endotic, The Endotic Reader N.1. It brings together contributions by some of the participants we hosted over the year, as well as people we look forward to inviting to the space. The contributions explore some of the paths that the Perecquian word offers, as a way of approaching the territory of complexity that we live in and through. The topics explored in the reader range from a meditation on the practice of dis-othering to a reflection on trauma and on to thoughts on the future of reading.
This celebratory reader, available digitally as well as in the physical form of a limited, handmade print edition, is one of the first results of TIER’s collaboration with ON/OFF, whose Risograph machine, part of the Guerrilla Printing Press, we are hosting at the space.
Click here to read more on Barbara Marcel's contribuition: SEVEN CROSSROADS: A Berlin walkshop ramble
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