Mindpirates are pleased to present the recent film projects of Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin and Shezad Dawood. We will screen “Not in order of appearance” by Max Pinckers in collaboration with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, based on an idea by Shetareh Shahbazi, and ‘A Mistery Play’ and ‘Feature’ by Shezad Dawood.

Artists have been working in participatory ways for decades, going beyond the intimate experience of an individual viewer meeting a work of art for the first time and being moved in an extraordinary way.

One such artist is London-based Shezad Dawood, a visual artist who works in many media.

A Mystery Play (Shezad Dawood, 2010)

A Mystery Play is an atmospheric black and white short, of thirteen minutes in length, with the action (a lyrical interweaving of the plausible connections between the various characters and the city), intercut with the various stages of initiation incorporated into the architecture of the Legislative Building. The film builds to a final climactic scene, restaging one of the key stunts from Keaton’s classic 1928 Steamboat Bill Jr., where a house appears to spiral down to the ground in a storm, and Keaton steps through the door, thus bringing together the strands of architecture and screen magic.

The film was commissioned for Plug In, and features a score by Michael G Mills, the Wyoming-born composer who has been a former composer-in-residence with both the London Philharmonic and the Deal music festival.

Feature (Shezad Dawood, 2008)

Like much of Dawood’s work Feature engages with mythologies, (in)authenticity, multiple authorship and intercultural interpretations. It was conceived and filmed as a series of performances linked by an overarching narrative of The Battle of Little Big Horn, perhaps the most famous war between the Federal Government and Native Americans. The re-enactment departs from a traditional or revisionist interpretation as it takes on Billy the Krishna (a merging of Billy the Kid and Hinduism’s Lord Krishna), a Valkyrie opera singer and dead cowboys reawakening as zombies. The film deconstructs the Western film genre as it interweaves other fictional and factual characters. The relocation of the battle to a Cambridgeshire landscape further challenges the residual idea of authenticity and creates a new open-ended text that feeds back into a narrative dynamic – that of the process itself.

Not in Order of Appearance (Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Max Pinckers, 2011)
In collaboration with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Max Pinckers took up a challenge posed by the artist Setareh Shahbazi to make a film composed of all the fictional artists that have ever appeared in fictional films. This is only the beginning…

Shezad Dawood

Born in London in 1974, Dawood works across various media and much of his practice involves collaboration, frequently working with other artists to create unique networks around a given project or site. These networks map across different geographic locations and communities and are particularly concerned with acts of translation and restaging. For example, his collaborative film project, ‘Feature’ (2008), which relocated the action of a traditional western to the English countryside, slipping into other sub-genres such as the zombie-flick, and Wagnerian opera (and features cameos from artists Jimmie Durham and David Medalla), as well as South Asian god-flick.

Dawood is one of the winners of the 2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize. His work has been exhibited internationally, including as part of ‘Altermodern’, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Tate Britain, and the 53rd Venice Biennale (both 2009), and the Busan Biennale in Korea (2010). His further extensive exhibitions include interventions in cities such as Tangiers, Mumbai, Karachi, Hamburg, and Singapore. Projects include a solo touring exhibition opening at Modern Art Oxford in April 2012 and a solo exhibition at Parasol Unit, London (2013). He currently lives and works in London, where he is Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Experimental Media at the University of Westminster.

http://www.shezaddawood.com/
 

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

From 2000 to 2002 both were creative directors for Colours. The artists pursue a practice that interrogates the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography and film with critical rigor, thus investigating the limits and possibilities of photography in an age of image saturation. They explore worlds beyond the range of current reportage.
Based in London, together they have produced 5 photographic books; TRUST (2000) which accompanied their solo- show at The Hasselbad Center; GHETTO (2003) a collection of their work as editors and principal photographers of Colors magazine; MR. MKHIZE’S PORTRAIT (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid and accompanied their solo-show at The Photographer’s Gallery; CHICAGO (2006), an exploration of contemporary Israel, published by SteidlMACK in conjunction with a solo-show at The Stedelijk Museum; and FIG which will be published by SteidlPHOTOWORKS in 2007 with an exhibition at The John Hansard Gallery, UK.
Broomberg and Chanarin regularly teach workshops and give master classes in photography, as well as lecturing on the MA in Documentary Photography at LCC in London. They are the recipients of numerous awards, including the Vic Odden award from the Royal Photographic Society and continue to work for a number of magazines including The Guardian Weekend and The Telegraph Magazine.

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Lineup:
// Sneak-Thief (live)
// Stewart Walker (live)
// Easton West
// Visuals by Isabel Albertos Johnston

Neuroplayer’s first CD release, “Sneak-Thief – Mixed Feelings LP” will be available for purchase at the party in advance of its official release on June 1st.

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This event is for open minded souls. Contort gives electronic musicians an opportunity to do something different and play records you don’t hear in a normal club environment. Feed your ears with ambient, IDM, drone, noise and experimental techno. Ed Davenport (live experimental set), Alex Tsiridis (Prologue), Evirgen (live, Prologue), Samuel Kerridge (live), Opium Hum, Kkoee (live). Visuals by Easton West.

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For the MONTH OF PERFORMANCE ART – BERLIN, Mike Hentz creates an installation of 200 square metres surface area as the centerpoint of his performance. The performance itself – a chaotic cacophony of colour, music, scents, objects and action – invites the audience to discover the core idea and script.

Except the name Tableau Vivant, Mike Hentz performances evoke little association with the historical definition of Tableaux Vivants – those live depictions of famous paintings or sculptures made popular in the late 18. century. Hentz works are more of a process-oriented happening and pool of existential test arrangements.

Participants:
Matsuyama Yuko, Pipe Lange, Sergey Kleyn, Karen Boehne, Melanie Marx, Daniel Herrmann, Veronika Schuhmacher, Daniel Nechvatal, Gerard Couty, Rotraut Pape, Jennifer Mulinde, Nina Vitanova, Ninon Liotet, Kissing Couples, Mike Hentz and the Mindpirates

Schedule:
Saturday, May 26th 2012
6pm – 12pm: Tableau Vivant
12pm: Baby of Control
1am: DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess

MIKE HENTZ
Mike Hentz (Juli, 2. 1954 in New Jersey, USA) is an international graphic designer, photographer, musician and performance artist.
As professor he tutors at diverse art schools world wide and keeps himself busy with mediaart mainly. Hentz a trained violinist, was trained at the music-theater in Paris before he engaged himself in performance art in the late seventies. Living in Düsseldorf at the times, he co-founded the performance group “Delta Minus t” and recorded the album “Death Opera”. In the eighties he was significantly involved in the 3. “Padlt Noildlt” festival in Graz, Switzerland and held several visiting professorships at the “Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg” besides being an actor at the operahouse in Frankfurt.
In 1980 he was co-founder of “Frigo” and “Radio Bellevue” as well as the “European Media Art Lab“. In the nineties he developed and produced several TV projects for cable and satellite such as “Van Gogh TV” and “Piazza Virtuale” as well as “Universcity TV”.
Furthermore the taught at the institute for art and technology in Moscow, Russia at the university in Riga, Lettland. Hertz also worked for the polish television in Warsaw, where he created a concept for media art. From 2003 to 2008 he taught intermedia creation.

www.mikehentz.com

BABY OF CONTROL
Where does the music end and the performance start? Baby of Control is an emotional fireworks, a colourful bouquet of folk music, popular songs. A paper maché dream dipped in LSD including vanished eurodance anthems, high pitched rap and disco-core.
Baby of Control is a student collective operating out of the Offenbach/Frankfurt area.

http://vimeo.com/babyofcontrol

DJ MARCELLE
Marcelle is an internationally renown DJ, celebrated for her very own style – an ecclectic mix of underground sounds – from dubstep and experimental electronica to world music, techno, leftfield hip hop and many more. “She transforms everyone’s idea of how to dance and feel great” (New York Gig Review)

www.anothernicemess.com

WEEK 2: MAY 7th – 13th

Wednesday, May 9 / Doors 8pm, Film 9pm
ALL ABOUT EVE
The greatest cat fight ever committed to celluloid, All About Eve pits a fiery Bette Davis as aging Broadway star Margo Channing against doe-eyed “fan” Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter), an ambitious schemer ready to claw her way to the top. Nominated for 14 Academy Awards and winner of 6, Bette Davis gives the best performance of her career.

Friday, May 11th / Doors 11pm
LIVING ROOM: DIMENSIONAL II
Our friends Dimensional are back from Sweden with another jam packed night. Ashez Riot, Douwe Smit, Ludvig Gustafsson and Kim Sandgren will all play back-to-back

Ashez Riot (Son of Cataclysm, Dimensional / Berlin)
Is a dude and a true camel rider. His music, like his camels, shift in size, matter and function. A chunky funky house sound can perhaps describe him (somewhat) but styles will be blended and enriched. Ashez has thrown some parties, for example this one, and funky times are what matters.

Ludvig Gustafsson (A.T.V. Phantom Whistle, Dimensional / Amsterdam)
His first public live appearances were after releasing the single Marginal back in 2001. From then on he played the clubs and bars he would come across. After topping his graphic design skills in Amsterdam, Holland. He later returned to Sweden and recorded and released the long awaited Phantom Whistle Forest Law 12″ (clone.nl) as a part of the production outfit A.T.V. Dropping ear drumming tracks, no tags neither labels, he’s something you didn’t hear for a while.

Kim Sandgren (Dimensional, Vivid Bros / Stockholm)
It really hasn’t taken Kim very long to make himself all but ubiquitous on the Stockholm electronic music scene! Just a few years has seen Sandgren get involved with this burgeoning healthy scene in every way. From spinning at great clubs, bars and parties, with the likes of luminaries such as Cosmo Vitelli, Pete Herbert, Serge Santiago, Black Devil Disco Club, Dirty Sound System, and Johan Afterglow, to enriching the scene further by arranging and hosting nights with other great international talent such as Daso, Ripperton and The Dirty Sound System.

Sandgren himself has seen international action, working parties in Paris alongside Maurice Fulton and Dirty & Pilooski…impressive stuff! All managed with a mature sense of the underground scene and its dark and dirty rhythms. Kim plays across genres like the best…working the room from disco to deep house to techno and back again with a flawless grasp of the dance floor dynamic.

Saturday, May 12th / Doors 10pm
ALPHAWESEN
Featuring music by Marius Krickow, Aline Magnier, Nicolas Castle, Maecki and Bahar & Tüla.

WEEK 3: MAY 14th – 20th

Wednesday, May 16th / Doors 8pm, Film 9pm
ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN
Mindpirates are pleased to present the recent film projects of Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. From 2000 to 2002 both were creative directors for Colours. The artists pursue a practice that interrogates the documentary and ethnographic traditions of photography and film with critical rigor, thus investigating the limits and possibilities of photography in an age of image saturation. They explore worlds beyond the range of current reportage.

Friday, May 18th / Doors 10pm
LIVING ROOM: FRACTURE
The special Living Room is the finissage celebration for Fracture, the most recent exhibition in the Mindpirates Projektraum. Hosted by Ralf Schmerberg, both a Mindpirate and participating artist.

Saturday, May 19th / Doors 11pm
NEUROPLAYER RELEASE
Neuroplayer is a new record label featuring the raw electro-funk and analog electronics of Michel Morin aka Sneak-Thief. Also performing are Stewart Walker, Easton West and special guests.

Sunday, May 20th / Doors noon!!!
CONTORT 2
This event is for open minded souls. Contort gives electronic musicians an opportunity to do something different and play records you don’t hear in a normal club environment. Feed your ears with ambient, IDM, drone, noise and experimental techno. Ed Davenport (live experimental set), Alex Tsiridis (Prologue), Evirgen (live, Prologue), Samuel Kerridge (live), Opium Hum, Kkoee (live). Visuals by Easton West.

WEEK 4: MAY 21th – 27th

Wednesday, May 23th / Doors 8pm, Film 9pm
WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
A film by Lynn Hershman Leeson. In the 1960s, women artists formed Women Artists in Revolution (WAR), a coalition to cope with exclusion from museum exhibitions, art journals, educational literature and historical documentation. The cost of this exclusion is still felt today. In 2006, even after the success of women artists such as Barbara Kreuger, Shirin Neshat and Cindy Sherman. A poll of taken of Whitney Museum patrons found that most couldn’t name at least three women artists.

Through intimate interviews, art, and rarely seen archival film and video footage, !Women Art Revolution reveals how the Feminist Art Movement fused free speech and politics into art that radically transformed the culture of our times.

Saturday, May 26th / Doors 2pm, After Party 11pm
TABLEAU VIVANT
For the Month of Performance Art Berlin, Mike Hentz will create a 200sqm. surface area as the centerpoint of his performance — a chaotic cacophony of colours, music, scents, objects and actions. The performance invites the audience to discover the core idea and script. Following the performance Mike Hentz and Mindpirates present a celebration featuring Baby Of Control and DJ Marcelle.

WEEK 5: MAY 28th – 31th

Wednesday, May 30th / Doors 8pm, Film 9pm
FILMMAKER’S NIGHT
Come enjoy a film made by one of Berlin’s many talented filmmakers. There will be a question and answer session with the director after the film.

Thursday, May 31th / Doors 8pm, Film 9pm
MUTATIONSKLUB
200-DOF (200 Degrees of Freedom) is a collaborative effort between Berlin based filmmaker Markus Wambsganss (Kaliber16) and Tannhäuser Sterben & Das Tod (Editionmutation/Altin Village & Mine). The film deals with the topic of humanoid robots and machine vision. It will be released later in 2012. Experimental sound art performance by Annie Goh and Mari Matsutoya using glove sensor Instruments. Musical performance by NHK yx KOYXEи aka Kouhei Matsunaga.

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