Opening Thu 28th March 6pm: Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt Berlin

Bed Manners at Kunstpunkt Berlin
A
project by Daily Lazy & frontviews
Opening
Thu 28th March 6pm
With:
Dafni Barbageorgopoulou, Carsten Becker, Henning Bohl, Dominik Bucher,
Gastarbeiter 
on
the Planet, Vassilis H, Nico Ihlein, Johanna Jäger, Stelios Karamanolis, Tula
Plumi, 
Max
Schaffer, Peter Strickmann, Kostis Velonis, Moritz Wehrmann, Lily Wittenburg
Performance by Peter Strickmann 7th
April at 5 pm
During the Mellow Toes listening session
Peter Strickmann will present parts of his long run Schnarcharchiv (Snoring
archive). This audio-collection consists of various kinds of conserved fatigue.
Kunstpunkt
Berlin, Schlegelstraße 6, 10115 Berlin-Mitte
29th
March – 14th April 2019
Fri
– Sun 3 – 7 pm
With
the Slumber filter, images on Instagram can be transformed into milky veiled
illusions.
The
state between waking and sleeping has collectively inscribed itself as a
nebulous blur. The
existential dichotomy of sleeping and not sleeping, which is brought together
in the state of slumber, encompasses far more aesthetic approaches and artistic
forms of confrontation than the strategies of fogging. Sleep and slumber touch
on questions about the body in space, sensitize us to everyday environmental
materials such as light, and affect rituals and life rhythms. Our individual
sleep is not detached from social structures. How and when we sleep, as well as
techniques of falling asleep, are deeply rooted in cultural processes and they
are terretoritum of biopolitical conflicts. Against this background, the
conditions of sleep change parallel to social change. New ways of life generate
other possibilities of sleeping and this in turn changes the spaces and places where
we can let ourselves fall, dream and escape from self-control.
The
exhibition BED MANNERS brings together contemporary positions that take up metaphors
and states of slumber. Materials such as mattresses, body states such as lying and
spaces such as the hotel room appear in new contexts. References to surrealist strategies
and echoes of prehistoric camps and shelters are taken up as well as discourses
that question sleep as a purely anthropological category. Isn’t an archive something
else than a bedroom for things and how does a butterfly exhausted from death struggle
regenerate?
Curated
by Charlotte Silbermann
With
the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund (Greece), Kunstpunkt Berlin,
Netzwerk
freier
Berliner Projekträume und -initiativen