[rohrpost] 'Architectures of Survival', opening and party April 3.

[Sparwasser HQ]

Sparwasser HQ presents:

'Architectures of Survival'
A project curated by Komplot for Sparwasser HQ
Torstraße 161, 10115 Berlin

http://www.sparwasserhq.de/
http://www.kmplt.be/v2

Opening : 3 April, 6pm 2008

Party: Scala, Friedrichstr. 112a, Berlin-Mitte (Oranienburger Tor), 11  
pm
p.s.party of the project spaces artnews projects, program, sparwasser hq
djs: your body & sweat

Exhibition : 4 – 27 April 2008
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 4 – 7pm and Saturday 2 – 6pm

With Agency, Jofroi Amaral, Rossella Biscotti / Kevin Van Braak / Bart  
Schoonderbeek, Vaast Colson, Fabien Defendini, Delphine Deguislage,  
Simona Denicolai & Ivo Provoost, Yona Friedman, Laure Gatelier, Agnès  
Geoffray, Ella Klaschka, Nathalie Mertens, NG, Yan Renand, Kurt  
Ryslavy, Studiobasar

Schedule for performances:
3 – 6 April, 2PM: Rossella Biscotti / Kevin Van Braak / Bart  
Schoonsderbeek, 'The Good Life'
4 April, 6PM: Fabien Defendini
5 April, 6PM: Kurt Ryslavy, 'Introduction to a kind of architecture'

27 April:
2PM: Agency, 'Specimen 848 (Dannon Healthy Habit Cookbook)'
4PM: Studio Basar, lecture 'Evacuating the Ghost'
6PM: NG, 'Limits of Paradise' + Yan Renand, 'Moldiness'
7PM: Closing party: 'Bloody Sunday' with Miss Le Bomb, Dj T-ina  
Darling, Dj Mellow Yellow + videos and magazines


INTRODUCTION:

The work of Hungarian French architect Yona Friedman (b. 1923,  
Budapest, lives in Paris) is the starting point for this exhibition  
with the title itself being a reflexive reference to Yona Friedman's  
book of the same title, which looks at the precarious nature of modern  
society and suggests creative strategies which could counter the  
problems thrown up by hyper-consumption and capitalist modes of  
spatial and social organization.

Friedman rose to prominence with his manifesto 'L'Architecture  
Mobile' (Mobile Architecture) and his plan for a utopian city 'La  
Ville Spatiale' (The Spacial City). His ideas led him beyond  
architecture and into engagement with sociology, economics,  
mathematics, information science, planning, visual art and filmmaking.  
Today, his writings have become influential as architectural concepts  
which take as their starting point the perspective of those existing  
within capitalist economic model in a state of generalized poverty.  
Yona Friedman proposed structures for the unpredictable, providing the  
means and knowledge for people to determine, re-appropriate and re- 
invent their own living environment beyond the normative functional  
ability of new social forms to shape their own living spaces.

Relative to Friedman's method of reappropriating architecture as a  
creative tool, through the creation of "do it yourself" manuals,  
instructions and recipes, the exhibition will articulate the way in  
which the actual creative process integrates the concept of survival  
and mobility. Fundamentally, how the artworks 'survive' their original  
context. The artists will deal with the 'traces' and 'remains' of  
performances and actions. The "trace" being an area of investigation  
privileged in the project.

One of the common material characteristics of the works exhibited is  
"lightness" and economy of means. Whether they are constructed from  
recuperated material, fabric, objects or paper or are audiovisual,  
they are easily transportable and this allows improvisational  
flexibility of creation and presentation, the participative and  
performative aspects of the works being crucial within this context.  
"All artists are alike. They dream of doing something that's more  
social, more collaborative, and more real than art." - Dan Graham.

With 'Architecture Of Survival', we desire to create a certain  
'critical distance' apropos artistic social utopian trains of though  
and to revive the exhibition model in relation to the public.


With the support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, CGRI, VG, Romanian  
Institute & Mit freundlicher Unterstützung vom Bureau des Arts  
Plastiques/Culturesfrance - französische Botschaf