Exhibitions
Friday, November 28, 2008, 8pm, opening, Part II
Candice Breitz / Inner + Outer Space
Four weeks after the successful opening of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin with video installations by the artist Candice Breitz, the second part of Inner + Outer Space begins on November 28 with the world premiere of the new work Him (1968-2008), in which Breitz interweaves 23 characters played by Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson from his forty year film career, and engages them in a dialogue with his various selves In so doing, the artist here returns to a method that she already used in 2005 for Father, also on view at the exhibition. A further video installation, Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon) (2006), which shows 25 music fans singing the record Plastic Ono Band by their idol John Lennon, completes the trilogy.
Candice Breitz / Inner + Outer Space
Four weeks after the successful opening of Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin with video installations by the artist Candice Breitz, the second part of Inner + Outer Space begins on November 28 with the world premiere of the new work Him (1968-2008), in which Breitz interweaves 23 characters played by Hollywood actor Jack Nicholson from his forty year film career, and engages them in a dialogue with his various selves In so doing, the artist here returns to a method that she already used in 2005 for Father, also on view at the exhibition. A further video installation, Working Class Hero (A Portrait of John Lennon) (2006), which shows 25 music fans singing the record Plastic Ono Band by their idol John Lennon, completes the trilogy.
Monday, December 1, 2008, 8pm, Montags Bar at FIEDRICHs with Megan Sullivan: Soirée de Paris
Megan Sullivan is an all-rounder. As a poet, a performer, a musician, a painter, a record company executive with her own label, j-bunnyrecords, co-editor of the magazine MAT, and an expert on horseback (the co-author of Die Hunterklasse, published by FN Verlag) she stages the world in a handmade all-round vortex. On this Monday evening, she will turn everything on its head with background noise and Roland Barthes according to the notes.
Friday, December 05, 2008, 8 p.m., Artist talk with Candice Breitz (Talk in English)
In her portraits, Candice Breitz examines the mass impact of pop culture. Her depictions of pop-music fans vacillate between the affirmation and satire of stereotypes, between social conventions and the creative potentials of expressing one's own identity. Her most recent piece, "Him", concentrates entirely on the actor legend Jack Nicholson and marks a radical expansion of the technical and psychological possibilities that portrayal offers as a genre. The artist gives an introduction to her work and raises questions as to the formation and representability of identity.
Friday, December 05, 2008, 8 p.m., "Representing Female and Male Prototypes in Film" (Talk in German)
With crooks, divas, heartbreakers, and housewives, Hollywood's film industry shows us constructed images of masculinity and femininity. But according to which rules do the shown figures represent reality, and to what extent do they subsequently shape role models? The participants set out on a critically reflecting journey into our memory of films and media.
Mit Candice Breitz (artist), Isabell Heimerdinger (artist), Alice Koegel (curator)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Koch (film theorist, FU Berlin)
