EMERGED
At Brunnenstrasse 185
10119 Berlin

Curated by

KIRSTEN LLOYD

& AMY SALES

Performances

THURSDAY 3 APRIL

CATHERINE STREET

I’d make a deal with God

7.45PM

I’d make a deal with God combines a video installation with simultaneous live performance, juxtaposing recorded energetic physical activity with an entirely static live body. 

Depicting an act of destruction within the confines of a sparse white-cube gallery space, Street sets seductive imagery and repetitive rhythms against a futile act of endurance.  Polarities run throughout: recorded against live, active against still, deliberate against inadvertant.                   

As the work progresses the sound of the artist's strained breathing builds the tension as she becomes ever more exhausted and frustrated with the effort of demolishing a structure that the viewer can see presents no barrier at all.

Ben Ewart-Dean (camera)
Drew Wright (sound recording)
Produced with the support of the Stills Residency programme
www.stills.org

I’d make a deal with God
Video still 2007

I’d make a deal with God
Video still 2007

AGNES NEDREGARD

Closer to the Touch

8:00PM

Agnes Nedregard invites you to join the search for getting Closer to the touch: imagery and actions attempt to lure the possible out of the impossible in our absurd longing for true intimacy.

Nedregard’s work has its starting point in a bodily sensation or perception of the world. Whether it takes the form of live performance, video, sound, animation, sculpture or drawing, the work deals with various ways of researching approaches to performance as an artistic medium. She utilises improvisation and play to explore and respond to specific spaces and situations, making use of costume, props and the framing possibilities of the camera to create a dialogue between space, movement and psychologically charged imagery. Based on a language of movement drawing on a bodily memory of physical and mental experiences, her focus lies within the absurd, irrational and contradictory aspects of human life, and the concrete and real presence of the body in the physical world.

Closer to the touch is a development from two earlier works: Closer to me, presented at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow and Closer to breaking presented in Duncan of Jordanstone, Dundee.

Mirror Mirror
Performance 2007

Closer to me
Drawing and performance 2007

Exhibition

SATURDAY 26 &
SUNDAY 27 APRIL

NATHALIE DE BRIEY

12-6 PM DAILY

Artist Talk

SATURDAY 26 APRIL
5PM

Throughout the month of April Nathalie de Briey will be working in Brunnenstrasse 185. Her period in the gallery will culminate in an exhibition, which will be open for two days only - 26 & 27 April.

Nathalie de Briey’s work has been investigating ephemerality and touch; these ideas have been explored through diverse approaches, such as manufacturing ice which turns the viewer’s breath into visible frost on an object, putting wind into a gallery space, reconstructing vanished geological terraces out of rubber bands, and establishing a language between natural air phenomenon and air data from Antarctica.

The work shown in the gallery will build on Nathalie de Briey’s response to a period of research in Japan during which she worked within the archives of the Museum of Meteorology in Ebayama and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Artefacts found in the aftermath of the A-bomb such as bowls, cups, sake jugs – used in domestic setting and daily passed around a family table – have been twisted, distorted and broken through the shock of the blast and intense heat which reached 3000 to 4000 degrees Celsius. At 8.15 am on 6th August 1945 their function instantaneously changed from anodyne household objects to witnesses of a world changing event.

Hypocentre, Hiroshima 2008

Pickle bowl, Hiroshima 2008

EMERGED would like to thank the following:

GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL

GLASGOW SCULPTURE STUDIOS

STILLS GALLERY

Vlado Velkov & Jan Winkelmann

For further information contact KIRSTEN LLOYD via kirsten@emerged.net or AMY SALES via amy@emerged.net