'Collettivo UP'

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Visual lushness and luxuriance are the tools Marianne Vlaschits employs to contextualize new and ambitious forms of living, thinking and acting. Her cosmic video “Dance With Me” (2016) will be screened this Sunday at “warm lights travel on my ghostly hands”. Image: Marianne Vlaschits, Dance With Me, 2016, video still. Courtesy the artist

Screening 'Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands'

19.03.2017 curated by Karim Crippa Marianne Vlaschits, Naomi Bisley, Stefanie Sargnagel, Mary Reid Kelley, Jala Wahid

Screening 'Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands'

with Marianne Vlaschits Naomi Bisley Stefanie Sargnagel Mary Reid Kelley Jala Wahid curated by Karim Crippa 'Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands' Discourses around bodies, their roles as agents against oppression and their use as tools in artistic practices have been steadily growing over the past years. One of the first performances centering on the body I saw back when I was a teenager was VALIE EXPORT’s “Tapp- und Tast-Kino” (Tap and Touch Cinema), which stills seems tremendously fresh to me; as a weird kid drawn to more or less transgressive forms of expression, I also remember being infinitely fascinated by ORLAN and the experimentation she did on herself. ORLAN and VALIE EXPORT are pioneers, which may have consciously or subconsciously influenced the generation of artists that followed tremendously. For the screening at Schwarzwaldallee, titled “Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands”, I wanted to present works by artists who not only have incorporated bodies in their work, but who also deal with its absence, the longing for it, its beauty, and its place within finite or infinite space, leading to the questioning of various sets of norms. Reading Simone de Beauvoir again a couple of months ago, I realized the resurgence of oppressive, conservative and liberticide schools of thought and political systems can not only be opposed frontally, but also, if this makes sense, diagonally. How? I trust the artists selected can give better answers to that than me. The works of the artists are not necessarily political or outspoken answers to the proto-fascist reactionaries that currently try to reverse decades of progress through shady tricks; but as an ensemble, their practices, while singular and specific to each, manage to convey a sensory, subtle yet decisive argument against neo-biedermaier forms of regression. Many artists included have successfully made use of drama, humor and aesthetics not necessarily associated with “high culture”, shedding a different kind of light on body-related issues. Their approach to topics such as gender identity, physical safety and violence, poetry, regional or religious traditions, pop culture, speculative futurism, utopias or love (no name only a few) is a subtle and decisive one; it can bewitch the viewer without losing clarity. “Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands” aims to enable the viewer to immerse her- or himself in a kaleidoscopic, yet focused perception of engaged contemporary video works by a new generation of artists who don’t oppose the conceptual to the physical. Karim Crippa

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Karim Crippa, Author at sleek mag

Preview: Sunday, 19.03.2017 Screening in collaboration with Karim Crippa 'Warm lights travel on my ghostly hands' Some of Karim Crippa's wonderful observations and comments can be found here:

'Collettivo UP'

16.02.2017 – 11.03.2017 Urgent Paradise www.urgentparadise.ch 'Collettivo UP' is a proposal by Urgent Paradise presented at SWA. This project was initiated around the Whatsapp platform within which the octopus functions as a metaphor; with its 8 tentacles, (8 brains) connected to the bigger one in the head. The decentralized brains of the octopus is a way for us to think a non didactic organisation. T.2, T.5, T.7 and the others, are as many brains as we are, linked to this ensemble. Each of the brain should interact through his standpoint. We want to produce total confusion of identity that aims, later on, to re-establish that identity under a renewed contract. These different relations to the platform are a way to interact within or outside the space. 'Suddenly the color of her skin began to change, from a deep orange, she became white and the structure of her skin was reminding the tilled floor. T.3 reacted by urging T.5 to shut her brain down. T.5 was so weak it couldn‘t even respond. At one point, T.2 woke up as from an nightmare. It shouted very loudly and calmed down immediately. T.2 was a little numb and its movements were very slow. It unfolded its long arm until it hit a glass vase. As it was transparent T.2 began to touch it and really trying to feel. Donna Haraway speaks about the tentacular knowledge, about the knowledge through contact. That we don‘t need to understand and trying to grasp the whole but begin locally and precisely, through delicate senses.' You are invited to interact as an additional T. After the opening on February 16th, the platform will survive as an archive, archeology of our shared knowledge collected during the intervention. You are also invited on February 24th to come again to SWA or on the Whatsapp group, to listen to a conversation about the topic of the exhibition that will take place in Urgent Paradise, Lausanne. -> To be part of the Whatsapp group contact: urgent@urgentparadise.ch

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Last days! Urgent Paradise 'Collettivo UP' You can still join the Whatsapp group by sending your number to: urgent@urgentparadise.ch The exhibition takes place online and at Schwarzwaldallee www.schwarzwaldallee.ch/index.php/collettivo

Liste für ein besseres Wochenende - 20 Minuten Friday

Danke Friday Magazin für die Erwähnung: Heute Abend Livestream von UnPerfect Radio mit Octopus Drinks in der Schwarzwaldallee ab 18 Uhr

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Having an ‚Octopus Drink‘ together while listening to unperfectradio.ch at SWA -> 18:00 - 19:30 (a livestream from Lausanne)