CECILIA PAREDES

http://www.ceciliaparedes.com/

Where are you from?

I was born in Lima, Peru but have lived most of my life out of my country.

What do you do?

I am a visual artist.

Your style in 3 words?

I interpret Nature.

What is your weakness?

Dogs.

What is your strength?

Perseverance.

What makes you different?

Nothing. I am regular person who chose a difficult job, that’s all.

Please tell me about your roots… When did you become an artist?

It all started for the love I have of Nature

You use your body for Art. How do you feel about this?

I feel great because nobody else has to suffer scrubbing off the paint of the skin except me.

Why does it become such an important part of your work?

I guess its because ist autobiographical.

What do you want to express when you disappear into the wall paper landscapes?

When doing this series of Landscapes, I have in mind the need of a person to identify with the place they live.

Having lived myself for so long in different places and having had to adapt, I talk about re-location and angst to be part of the landscape“

How do you think about your identity, does it matter to you?

Identity does matter.  I am an artist, wife, mother, daughter and teacher and I am the sum of my backgrounds, experiences and knowledge. I read in various languages, choose to listen to classical music and attend museums, that is who I am and departing from those experiences , I do my work.

Any show coming up soon?

Itinerant across Morroco with the Cervantes Institute of Spain.

THURSDAY 16.02

WHERE: Linien Str 40-L40 entrance

WHEN: 20:30 sharp! – tour starts from there
WHAT: SUB ROSA- tour around Rosa Luxemburg Platz with
WHO: Felix & Mumford
WHEN: 18.00 – 21.00
WHAT: Screening: Super NOVA
WHO: a bunch of scandinavian artists from the Northern Video Art Network
WHY: a chance to see films by artists working in the field of video, media art and experimental cinema within the framework of the exhibition “Jump Cut”
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/358551264168606/
WHEN: 20.00 – 23.00
WHAT: workshop
WHO: Nodus Labs – Networl Analysis and VIsualization
WHY: learn about viral marketing, trend propagation, successful promotion, social networks and Gephi software
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/183066918460693/
WHEN: 19:30
WHAT: What is an Image? Lecture
WHO: James Elkins
WHY: Theory Thursdays!
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/420/

FRIDAY 17.02

WHERE: Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sergels Torg 3 Kulturhuset, 111 57 Stockholm

WHEN: 11:00 – (19th February) 18:00

WHAT: SUPERMARKET 2012 – Stockholm Independent Art Fair
WHO: Hundreds of artists, 75 artist-run galleries and similar artists’ initiatives from over 30 countries.
WHY:  Performance art, photography, painting, video and more.
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/367610426587792/

WHERE: The Reading Room, Skalitzer Strasse 68
WHEN:  starts 19:00
WHAT: Book Launch of “Apeirophobia”
WHO: London based artists Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry
WHY: A short video screening followed by an informal discussion with the artists, as well as designer and co-editor James Langdon, and Dominique Hurth from The Reading Room

WHERE: 21.00 – 00.30
WHEN: Staalplaat, Flughafenstr. 38
WHAT: Dienstbar presents…
WHO: Animal Machine (PL) + Rovar17 (HU)
WHY: an evening of industrial noise and live electronics
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/129054663884390/

WHERE: Babylon Kino, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
WHEN: 23.00 – 01.00
WHAT: Videoart at Midnight
WHO: Omer Fast
WHY: “5000 Feet is the Best” (premiered at the 54. Venice Biennale) plus extra screenings
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/249718628436903/

WHERE: Tape Club
WHEN: 17 Feb, 23.59
WHAT: Tape closing party
WHO: Move D, DJ Highfish, Don Williams, Dor, Marc FM, Richard Zepezauer, Krsnskate, Yoni, San Gabriel, Quarion and Special Guest with special suprise live act
WHY: Tape is closing. For real. Finito. Kaput. Last party.

SATURDAY 18.02

WHERE: Kosmetiksalon Babette, Karl-Marx-Allee 36
WHEN: 18.00 – 21.00
WHAT: BERLIN ART LINK 1ST YEAR ANNIVERSARY
WHO: DEVON ELISE ATKINS, CASINO PHIL, ANDY NO ANDY (Thieves Like Us)
WHY: One year (and a little bit) of the lovely BAL girls!
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/183881601713971/

WHERE: die Raum, Oderbergerstrasse 56
WHEN: 19:00
WHAT: Hello Everybody! Opening
WHO: Jytte Høy
WHY: a three dimensional poem in a tiny room
http://www.dieraum.net/index.php?/exhibitions/2012-0009-jytte-hoy/

WHERE: Grossbereenstraße 34
WHEN: 18.00
WHAT: die Quadratur des Kreises
WHO: L’Atelier – kunst(spiel)raum
WHY: exhibition opening with live performance by Johnny Haway and H.
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/166202970156424/

WHERE: DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM,  Tucholskystrasse 38
WHEN: 18.00 – 20.00
WHAT: Your History Is Not Our History
WHO:  Travis LARUSSON and Przemek PYSZCZEK
WHY:  the first solo exhibition of Canadian Berlin-based artist-collaborators
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/313939808641716/

WHERE: KW, Auguststraße 69
WHEN: 12.00
WHAT: You KIlled me First, the Cinema of Transgression
WHO: Karen Finley, Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Richard Kern, Lung Leg, Lydia Lunch, Kembra Pfahler, Casandra Stark, Tommy Turner, David Wojnarowicz, Nick Zedd
WHY: +18 because of the explicit violence and the high levels of perversion
more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/220113564748477/
+49 (0)30 75633769, info@bpigs.com

Who are you?

I’m Matthias. I’m a photographer.

Where are you from?

Born in Berlin, raised in Berlin and still living in Berlin.

What do you do?

I do photography.

Your style in 3 words?

Quiet. Minimal. Focused.

What is your weakness?

Perfectionism.

What is your strength?

Perfectionism.

What makes you different?

Never asked myself. Maybe this is what makes me different?

When did you discover photography?

I have been taking pictures for as long as I can remember. But I really discovered photography during my studies at the renown Lette Verein in Berlin.

What do you want to express through your images?

In most of my work there is nothing concrete I want to express. It is more that I want to experiment with perception in general. I’m trying to create new experiences. I understand my artwork like an incentive for others to deal with certain issues. General themes are linked to some of my personal interests like environment, architecture, politics and media.

How do you choose your projects and how long to you work on them?

Ideas on what and how to visualize come from here and there. I mean life is my daily input. There is so much to discover these days. Life is getting faster and faster. I have the feeling that almost everything is about growth. Therefore I sometimes love to pause and sort my impressions, so I can think about how to deal with all these inputs. I take notes on things I visually want to discover. Mostly I do not have a clear vision from the beginning, it needs to develop. During my photography studies it was like a preset interval: I created a new project at least every six months. Now I’m trying to liberate myself from that strong rhythm. I take the time that it needs.

Tell us something more about (un)defined space?

This series is an investigation of urban space. An investigation of our living environment.

Contrary to the daily natural perception of urban space, my artworks of the (un)defined space series offer a directed and focused view on our surroundings. They invite the beholder to critically and consciously face their environment. It is not about a mere documentation of our environment but rather the chance to question things and to create new experiences.

Anything coming up soon?

Actually I’m working on three different projects. One of the projects is almost in a stage where it is ready to be shown. I am also thinking about creating a little print publication with some of my works. But this is a new territory for me.

www.matthiasschade.de

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© Brook Andrew

By Ingrid Melano

Have you ever seen the movie The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus?  Directed by Terry Gilliam and written by Gilliam and Charles McKeown, the film follows a traveling theater troupe whose leader takes audience members through a magical mirror to explore their imaginations and present them with a choice between self-fulfilling enlightenment or gratifying ignorance.

Well something similar actually exists. Travelling Colony is a major new work by Brook Andrew, represented by Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, whose interdisciplinary arts practice travels internationally. For two decades this celebrated artist has been creating astonishing interventions into history through installation and interactive monuments, playfully seducing audiences into new ways of seeing compelling issues of race, consumerism and history.

Inspired by his Wiradjuri tradition, the circus and pop culture, this year he creates a cavalcade of dazzling hand-painted caravans in the huge industrial foyer of Carriageworks, Sidney Festival where one can enter each of the caravans in Travelling Colony and immerse himself in the stories of Redfern – its personalities, its struggles and its community.

Have a look of the chat with the artist through the link below!

Sydney Festival

“In Edith Karlson’s sculptural practice, animals and men are the main protagonists. Her often large-scale sculptural pieces produced by means of mixed techniques  show a variety of characters, from colorful dogs to naked humans. However, these never stand alone as mere representations, but are composed into intricate installations. Like in the old mythologies, the creatures in Karlson’s works are tied into tangled interaction, as if telling their own modern day folklore and legends. The work on show at SlaM, Drama is in your head (2011), is the latest of Karlson’s productions, originally shown at the Stalker festival in Tallinn past summer. Compared to her previous works, the piece strikes as more stripped down and rough, exposed industrial materials creating a lab-like atmosphere. While the black dog located on the periphery of the installation resembles the large-scale animals in Karlson’s previous works, the centerpiece of the work represents human body in a completely different way. Here, man is dismantled: wooden planks support huge brains from which streams of blood are continuously flowing into various-sized industrial buckets. Reducing the subjective evaluation of human intellect and emotions to mere biology, Drama is in your head reminds us that objectivity is often perceived in purely rational scientific terms. It also warns of the fact that the flesh and blood that constitute humans—when separated from the unexplained and the unreasonable—amount to little more than a laboratory.”

This exhibition is called FABRICATORS. A fabricator is someone who makes things. He or she might be an engineer, a welder of a bridge-maker. James Capper, Alex Chinneck, Luke Hart and Sam Zealey are interested in how things are made, how they function and the properties of materials. The result for the viewer is the possibility of new ways to think about sculpture. Capper, Chinneck, Hart and Zealey are challenging our perceptions of sculpture, and pushing its boundaries.

The artists are thinking about ways to develop innovative sculpture using fabrication components, combined with their personal artistic practice. They are opening up their sculpture, and its audience, to a world that not only references art, and its traditional language, but also non art-related practices. James Capper sheds light on industry processes, Sam Zealey on science and engineering, Alex Chinneck on architecture and Luke Hart on cutting edge materials and science. All of the sculptures are technically highly complex and sophisticated, and accompanied by deep cerebral concerns.

The artists exhibiting in FABRICATORSare constantly problem-solving; creating sculpture that can suggest answers to spatial concerns, and, in doing so, pose new questions. These artists are investigating the relationships between humans and the physical structures and tools that we interact with on a daily basis. One aspect of this investigation is the exploration into the different possibilities of materials, including their molecular make-up, physical properties and applications.

By using cutting-edge technology, materials and processes these artists have transformed the fabrication of their sculpture to achieve the extraordinary from the ordinary.  They have done so in surprising, and often witty, ways. The works are demonstrations of artistic developments and evolving experimentation into the form and function of sculpture. The ideas present in the works constantly lead each artist onto thinking about their next piece.

These artists are highly influenced by fields and disciplines outside of art, partaking in processes and methodologies that one would not consider as conventional art practice. The individual artists are curious and eager to learn about industry, machinery, engineering, architecture, pioneering technological advancement and science. And, in doing so, reveal work that is arguably influenced more by industry than the history of art. As an extension of this, we can see that the practice of these artists does not solely revolve around a physical studio but appears topically and intellectually integrated into the world outside of the studio.

Text: Alma Zevi/ Images: courtesy of Hannah Barry Gallery.

Fabricators

Jan 28- March 3, 2012

Hannah Barry Gallery

Unit 91, 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, SE15

His E-Shop is launched TODAY- check it out!

www.etiennederoeux.com/

Who are you?

Etienne Deroeux

Where are you from?

FRANCE

What do you do?

I design clothes and accessories under my own name

Your style in 3 words?

discrete Luxury

What is your weakness?

My German is really bad

What is your strength?

Being young and willing to stay so for a long time.

What makes you different?

Limiting my production to 100 copies per garments, ensuring made in France, quality focused clothes for my costumers and using only naturals materials in my collections, makes my work different.

How did it all start?

After several experiences, I realized the the condition to my freedom of expression and creativity was – to be my own boss and to launch my own label.

How did you come up with the name?

This is me.

Tell us more about Etienne Deroeux?

The winter Collection is about to be ready, so I hope it will be well received by our growing audience.

I also developed my first shoes (together with Isabel De La Roche) and first accessories for this new collection, I hope it will find its public too that it allows me to carry on with new objects. Finally I’m willing to include the development of exclusive fabrics for the next seasons, in accordance with the guiding principles of my brand.

Anything coming up?

I am launching a web shop TODAY, where you’ll be able to shop all the basics from the spring summer collection.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Travelling around to source new and rare materials for the collections and starting a menswear line. Where, it doesn’t really matter.

www.etiennederoeux.com/eshop

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WEDNESDAY 01.02.

WHERE: Naherholung Sternchen, Berolinastraße 7
WHEN: doors 21:00, music 22:00
WHAT: Teengirl Fantasy and Butterclock
WHO: hosted by Shameless/Limitless
WHY: you don’t have to be a teenage girl to dance to this
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WHERE: Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
WHEN: 21:00
WHAT: Ctm. 12 The Ghost in the Machine
WHO: Joshua Light Show, Supersilent with Stian Westerhus
WHY: The combination of Manuel Göttsching, Oneohtrix Point Never and Supersilent makes each concert an overwhelming multimodal experience.
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WHERE: Mindpirates Vereinsheim, Schlesische Strasse 38, 3HH
WHEN: 19.30 – 22.30
WHAT: Fim Night: Buckaroo Banzai
WHO: samurai, aliens, cowboys,  crazy german scientists…
WHY: “The film is a cross between the action/adventure and science-fiction movie genres, and also includes elements of comedy, satire, and romance”

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THURSDAY 02.02.

WHERE: Büro BDP, Emserstr. 43
WHEN: 19:00
WHAT: Exhibition Opening, Wordpharmacy
WHO: Morten Søndergaard
WHY: As an artist and writer Morten Søndergaard know how to make excelent use of words in a different way. For the exhibition ‘Wordpharmacy’ he playfully intertwines the structure of language with the healing principles of various medicaments.
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WHERE: St. Gaudy Cafe, Gaudystr. 1
WHEN: 20:30
WHAT: Rage into the Night: Sand Journal and St. Gaudy Letters Society
WHO: Donna Stonecipher, Elvia Pyburn-Wilk, Clare Wigfall, Jan Wagner
WHY: a monthly showcase of Berlin’s literary talent
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WHERE: Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Linienstraße 227
WHEN: 19:00 – 00:00
WHAT: CUT&PASTE, design battle.
WHO: Platoon Cultural developments
WHY: A contest with young talented designers transforming daily work into performance with showing on the screen what they can do with their Wacom-Tablet.
Tickets €10,- but we got 2 free tickets for the first two who will send us an email to info@bpigs.com saying “I WANT TO I WANT TO  I WANT TO”
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WHERE: Salon Populaire, Bülowstraße 90
WHEN: 20.00 – 22.00
WHAT: BEHAVING DIFFERENTLY!
WHO:  Société Réaliste (Fe­renc Gróf and Jean-Bap­tis­te Naudy)
WHY: a se­ries focus of lectures focusing on art eco­no­mies organized by Inter Flugs

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FRIDAY 03.02.

WHERE: Club Midnight, Kurfürstenstraße 35
WHEN: 19:00 – 22:00
WHAT: Can’t Complain. Video installations and sculptures
WHO: Dafna Maimon
WHY: His sculpture works are direct descendants from the science fiction absurd extension of the Hitckcokian theme Big Dumb Objects. Or shorter: BDO. If you still have a clue where this is about you might like to have a look or if you don’t have any clue, it might surprise you.
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WHERE: Figge von Rosen Galerie, Potsdamer Str. 98
WHEN: 19:00
WHAT: Exhibition Opening Arbeitsrhythmus
WHO: Ignacio Uriarte
WHY: It was love at first sight for Ignacio’s work and me. And so is for the most viewers I think. “Uriarte developes his artworks with utensils of the banal office world. Through the repitition of casual gestures and the decontextualisation of the used materials he generates works which refer formal- and contentwise to the Minimal and Conceptual Art of the ’60s and ’70s. The exhibition is focused on the soundinstallation ASDFGHJKLÖ. in which the musician Blixa Bargeld declaims rhythmically the letters ASFGHJKLÖ with varying intonation.” (Blixa Bargeld is what time machines should be invented for…On Repeat!)
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