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jeudi 28 octobre 2010

An Artist Talks with Djane Butterfly 21.10.2010, Tacheles

 
Interview with Parvaneh part one

Djane Butterfly is an Persian artist, living in Germany since 20 years.

She discovered her passion for music during a trip to India in great parties that she went to. Alone in Hamburg, she first practised playing and spinning for two years.Later she has played in many famous clubs and travelled through Europe.
In Berlin she has spinned in Trésor, Matrix and Kit Kat, among other places, and has a great experience of the  90' club scene.
After giving birth to her child, she studied sounddesign  and started to produce tracks herself, and is now working currently on her third album. She collaborates with an American singer living in New York, who records at the moment takes for her new productions. And also with her partner, Ken Mutant, an Sweedish singer and producer, who often performs live with her.
She decided to take a manager, to promote her career, he is searching for a label and  for places to play in the future. She is invited next season to play in the Middle East, and dreams of playing her music around the world.
She is ambitious and hard working, and has experienced also of difficulties in Berlin with her past label, that did not promote her work.
Butterfly realizes therefor how important the label and contract you have can be...

She is now doing also photographic collage works,  and helps develop the new space called "The Office", were she is Djane resident on  sundays.
She plans to schedule some afterhour parties and hopes to play more freely her style. She likes Free style as much as faster beats, but there will be possibilities to hear all sorts of different  new sounds, that she will share with us, come by and check it out yourselves!!!
"Das Büro"/"The Office", 1st floor Kunsthaus Tacheles, Oranienburgerstrasse 54/56, Mitte, Berlin

samedi 16 octobre 2010

Ramona Welsh , An Artist Talks, 7th October 2010, Tacheles.

Ramona Welsh is a very shy and sensitive artist. She shared with us her animation film Adam und Eva and the film called Paradies, which is the second part, filmed with actors and dancers.  Both projections are very beautiful and touching.
These films can be viewed again during the open studios, please check the program.

She was born in Berlin Mitte and her father was a film producer and director in the DDR. She grew up with cameras and actors around her and  made her first film at the age of 16 with a  Super 8 camera.
She went to New York in 1995 for a year to study Film making, thanks to a scholarship, that she recieved.

She has a great talent for drawings and her line is fresh and light. The characters she creates are simple and almost seem to be drawn with one single line. In her process of creating, she draws first these characters to  help her build up the stories she constructs, and then  films.

She likes to explore universal themes , such as love, motherhood and also biblical images, that belong to our common occidental memory.

Her work is very impressive because you almost feel that it could have been done by a child. It give the illusion that it is all very simple, and that is always a true  sign for pure talent.

The feeling left after viewing is soft and lingers on, you feel like seeing them again and again.




 
Interview part one

An Artist Talks, Miriam Wuttke, 23.09.2010, Tacheles, Berlin


Miriam Wuttke is a very exciting artist . She expresses herself through different media,  painting , installation and performance.
She studied  at first abstract painting at the art sudents league, then art therapy in combination with fine arts. Thus  her work is exploring continuously human behaviour and feelings. Her performances show her great and very precise knowledge of interioration of illnesses and obsessions. She builds the performance around a character that she impersonates for as long a  time as necessary, to allow the subject she is studying to evolve and devellop.


Miriam Wuttke



It is a process in which she observes attitudes and patterns. She is wondering about social behaviours and structures, and uses a character to build a close study of them.
With her latest character Silver Silver Silver, a bondage wrapping performance,  she explores the feelings of beeing trap and then liberated from images and stereotypes. It is interesting to recall also the fact that she had to wear a corsette to enhance her spinal court, as a child, and can compare experience from the past and the perfomance.

She is always searching inside of herself and outside in her surrounding to strenghthen the impact of her message, that is a strong social and political critisism of a over fludded culture of images and a certain form of decadence in violence and beliefs. 

silver@colorsproject.com
dr_planckulture3000@hotmail.com
http://www.haase-plankk.com
http://miriamwuttke.de









Miriam Wuttke  part one








An Artist Talks, Alexandr Rodin July 1st 2010, Tacheles,Berlin

Photo Petrov Ahner
Alexandr Rodin, famous Bielorussian artist, talks about his childhood and life in the soviet union before the collapse of the regime. Today the Bielorussians still have political circumstances, that make artists struggle to create and  make survival a little more complicate. 
And yet there is a special solidarity between these artists, precisely because of those particular political characteristics.
Global Warning is an ongoing Project, it is mostly a great series of paintings, some of them are monumental, and also a series of performances, where Alexandr Rodin becomes a mysterious Monk or Gourou dressed in black carrying strange animals with him.
 The complexity of his works is amazing and his compositions take  you  through a journey into his imaginary worlds: construction and deconstruction, life and death, darkness and light, all opposites interact, herein to challenge the viewer and his senses. The paintings conspire  to make the viewer react and discover new boundaries, inside himself and around him. 
The artist has  a deep concern for environemental and political issues and you can follow these demonstrations of life force, were energy is  constantly present throughout all his paintings and they are a Global Warning.
www.flickr.com/a-rodin
aleks.rodin@mail.ru


 

An Artist Talks September 2nd 2010 Adler A. F.

Artist Adler A.F. is a strong character women who transforms trash into poetical and lyrical monsters and animals and tries to tell us stories about our environment and our social systems. In many ways i find there is a Jean de La Fontaine way, when one see the sculpture of a horrible insect who is in fact an investor...
Her Art
There is a powerfull expression in all her works, who testify of how much we waste and destroy in this today consummer society, and that feeds her with all the material necessary to her creations. Her success is such, that she has for the first time, worldwide, founded a
Trash Art Museum, giving to this movement in art the  place it deserves.

contact: adler@up-art.eu
www.up-art.eu
www. up-art.kiev.ua
www.berlinerkunstkontakter.de/flash/kw4008/trashmuseum_cut.htm

An Artist Talks Alejandra Borja and Jana Taube, October14th 2010, Tacheles, Berlin.

Artists Alejandra and Jana Taube came to talk about their collaboration since four years around the project Intransitos. This collaboration produces both photographic works and performance art, and side by side, they improve their dialogue with the viewer.
Alejandra is from Columbia, and has a particular experience, around emigartion and movements of population, due to the violence and presence of the mafia in her home country.
Jana came to Berlin 10 years ago and has been working as an artist since 6 years. She has skills for phography that she explores in abstract works she produces, in series, in collaboration with Alejandra.
Together, they met the same difficulties, in a new town, big like Berlin, and came to a conclusion, we are not alone!
From there, starts the Neukoelnimports a platform of foreing artists, living and working in Berlin.They discovered there are 160 different nationalities in Neukoeln!!!
Jana is very aware of the difficulties artists entcounter, when German is not their mothertoung, and helps them find the advice and help need, to construct their careers and find support for their creative projects.

Clearly there is a social and political view in the process but, Neukoelnimport does not claim to be from any specific political party. Alejandra and Jana are more interested in the human side of the relationship with artists, and  support the self-devellopment and  artistic projects.
Four years ago they started to curate a sector of the 48 hours Neukoeln, and still keep on growing with a network of 70 artists.

The next Neukoelnimports 2010 exhibition," Borders, Fronteras, Grenzen", will be in The Tacheles Arthouse Gallery, on the 13th and 14th of November 2010, with Perfomance art, video, painting and installations. They will also be happenings with musicians and singers.

 On the following thursday, the 18th of November 2010, a forum we be held during  " An artist talks", and we will explore further the theme of the exhibition," Borders, Fronteras, Grenzen".

Please check the Kunsthaus Tacheles November program. 

www.intransitos.de
www.neukoellnimport.de

for the videos:
http://neukoellnimport.de/0info/Dyoutube.htm
for the photos:
http://www.myspace.com/janataube











vendredi 15 octobre 2010

An Artist Talks September 30th 2010, Amaru Cholango

It was a priviledge to meet Amaru Cholango, a simple man, an artist with wisdom and  great knowledge.

He has so much to say about his work that you don't really feel the need for questions and in a funny way he anticipates the questions you would have had with   very precise and detailed answers, about the way he works and the energy he puts into his installations and exhibitions.
He is from Ecuador and his family lived in a traditional way and their belief is Chamanism.
He learnt this practise  and its rituals from his mother, who had  herself, learnt from her father, and he, from his ancestors, and so forth and so on.

The concepts of transmission of knowledge and beliefs are constantly present in Amaru Cholango work and he tries to test the viewer into exploring his own possibility to choose and decide for himself.
What is good and what is bad, what is true and what is a lie, what is religion what is not... This continuous dialogue is taken, seriously, like a mission, to educate and give awareness to  the young and old generations, who have lost belief and contact to the elements of nature surrounding us.

He is always connected to his inner self and knows how to seek the best way to transmit a message to the people.
His works are both mystical and political, on each level,  he shows the behaviour of mankind, his attitude towards nature and the destruction he  causes to civilisation with the excuse of industrial devellopement.





 www.amaru-cholango.com


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qcSKhn0AU