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Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Alan Affichard, Helin Alas, Armin Lorenz Gerold, Keto Logua, Anna Lucia Nissen, Tamen Perez, Zac Langdon-Pole, Philip Poppek, Gabriel Säll, Elif Saydam, Stefanie Schwarzwimmer
22 February–11 March 2018

Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic

In anthropological terms, emic is used to describe the perspective of a member of a social group, from within the societal structure itself and from the position of the subject. The term etic relates to the perspective of the outside, that of the observer, the external, the detached. The title of the exhibition implies the inseparable distinction between parts and positions; they need each other to be understood.

Two screens and seven cigarette packages. A container as a carrier and an ensemble of seven ready-to-eat onions. A start up food deliverer on his last tour. Somewhere else, a volcano erupting in the dark of the night. Around the corner a Swedish scientist that spends his days trying to capture a meteorite. Someone forever graduating. Besides that: a five year plan of what to accomplish overlapped by a helium balloon. In what language is the story told that you are listening to? In the backroom a finger is lifting up a city scenery similar to the way you try to get rid of, to scrape off chewing gum from below a chair that you have been sitting on for far too long. The feeling of a brain-freeze after eating too much ice cream way too fast, the pain suddenly making you conscious of the nature and form of your low skullcap. Staring at the screen of a smartphone you see a plate mysteriously rotating on its own axis. Below the shelves: three aluminium toolboxes, dispersed throughout the room. In them you find different constellations of objects not knowing what they are equipping you for. Is this what you would take with you in case you need to leave the place you are in now? A heavy copy of a piece by Brancusi – the Head of a Sleeping Child – or a newly printed version of The Algerian’s Flowers by Marguerite Duras and a replica of the earrings that the Queen wore once while wandering aimlessly down the aisles of Buckingham Palace. Maybe you would organize it in a red binder and call it The Story of S or Book of Mules; most importantly, The Book of Rules but only the first two pages. How many ways are there to write an A, a. ahm. Maybe close to 109 ways? We do a last round through the rooms and on our way to the door, just as we are about to leave – an ancestral flower on a steel shelf.

The exhibition is accompanied by a publication with contributions by Alan Affichard, Helin Alas, Maurin Dietrich, Armin Lorenz Gerold, Keto Logua, Anna Lucia Nissen, Tamen Perez, Zac Langdon-Pole, Philip Poppek, Elif Saydam, Stefanie Schwarzwimmer/Andrea Popelka

A project by BPA // Berlin Program for Artists, curated by Maurin Dietrich.
Further information: berlinprogramforartists.org


Events in the framework of the exhibition:

11 March 2018, 6pm

Alan Affichard: Alice Huet plays drums over From 88 to 108
Ä bar, Weserstr. 40, 12045 Berlin

17 March 2018, 9pm

Armin Lorenz Gerold: Scaffold Eyes
Live stream audio play read by Armin Lorenz Gerold and Doireann O’Malley
streaming link via arminlorenz.net

31 March 2018, 5pm

Philip Poppek: a for apple – 26 illustrations for a post-factual alphabet (2018)
Reading/Screening


Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Philip Poppek, c (from the group of works a for apple), 2017 - ongoing
Anna Lucia Nissen, ((((((0)))))), 2018; Anna Lucia Nissen, Monday, Tuesday, …, 2017
Anna Lucia Nissen, ((((((0)))))), two channel HD video, stereo sound, 15´00”, 2018
Anna Lucia Nissen, ((((((0)))))), 2018; Anna Lucia Nissen, Monday, Tuesday, …, 2017
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Tamen Perez and Elif Saydam, Wasabi candle, 2018
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Zac Langdon-Pole, Paradise Blueprint (sample roll), 2017
Zac Langdon-Pole, Residuals (a), 2018
Keto Logua, Aluminum shelf, 23x25x2.5 cm, 2018
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Tamen Perez, Cloaca 1, Acrylic on linen, 55 x 45 cm, 2017 (Photo: Dan Ipp / Between Bridges)
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, Silent Revolution, 3D Animation, Sound, 1’40”, 750 x 1334 Pixel (iPhone 7), 2018
Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, Silent Revolution, 3D Animation, Sound, 1’40”, 750 x 1334 Pixel (iPhone 7), 2018
Philip Poppek, d (from the group of works a for apple) UV LED Prints on archival cardboard, 65 x 48 cm, framed, 2017 - ongoing
Zac Langdon-Pole, De Gentenaar, 7th February, 2018, 40 x 57 x 0.5cm (spread), 2018
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Armin Lorenz Gerold, Generic Head/Wave Form (Logo for radio station), Neon lamp, ca. 50x50x10 cm, 2018
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Gabriel Säll, Cosmic Contact, Video interview with Birger Schmitz, Professor in Geology at Nuclear Physics, Lund University, 11 minutes loop, 2018
Zac Langdon-Pole, Residuals (b), 2018
Elif Saydam, View from bed (Book of Rules), Oil on linen, 21 x 30 cm, 2017
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Helin Alas, thirty to thirtyfive, poster prints, magazine cover, photo print, silicone mold rubber, wooden shelf, 181 x 124 x 45 cm, 2018
Helin Alas, thirty to thirtyfive, poster prints, magazine cover, photo print, silicone mold rubber, wooden shelf, 181 x 124 x 45 cm, 2018
Helin Alas, thirty to thirtyfive, poster prints, magazine cover, photo print, silicone mold rubber, wooden shelf, 181 x 124 x 45 cm, 2018
Elif Saydam, View from bed (Book of Rules),2017; Elif Saydam, The Story of S, 2018; Elif Saydam, Fictive Kinship: Book of Mules, 2018
Berlin Program for Artists II: emic etic
Elif Saydam, The Story of S, 2018; Elif Saydam, Fictive Kinship: Book of Mules, 2018
Armin Lorenz Gerold, Delays (Graphic audio novel), 2018
Armin Lorenz Gerold, Delays (Graphic audio novel), 2018 (Photo: Dan Ipp / Between Bridges)
Philip Poppek: a for apple

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