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JUNE 26 - AUG 15, 2017
4.2 ORLAN
THIS IS MY BODY... THIS IS MY SOFTWARE...
VISIT BY APPOINMENT ONLY
The first solo exhibition in Berlin of ORLAN, with 150 documents, photos, vidéos, books, multiples, artworks and documents from 1967 to 2017.
(curated by Frédéric Acquaviva)


AUGUST 16, 2017
4.2 ORLAN
THIS IS MY BODY... THIS IS MY SOFTWARE...

8PM
FINISSAGE
free entry
Films in english on ORLAN by Virgile NOVARINA and others



PAST


JUNE 23, 2017
4.2 ORLAN
THIS IS MY BODY... THIS IS MY SOFTWARE...

7PM
OPENING
free entry (create or donate)

8PM
Performance of Mats LINDSTRÖM : " Low Fidelity" (2016) for live electronics
Low Fidelity  explores the phenomenon in which electronic circuits are forced to work outside their normal range. The sounds are generated from electronic feedback  loops with saturated amplifiers.  The circuitry becomes the score and variations comes with the lack of control when the instrument start to behave unpredictable. The composition is not an attempt to recreate anything you could meet in nature…..
Low Fidelity was commissioned by choreographer Anna Koch/Weld with support from the Arts Council of Sweden.

Mats LINDSTRÖM



Mats Lindström works as a composer and a musician, often with strains of live-electronics and with live performance, intermedia, scenic elements and visual arts as a complement to the music He has worked both with music for theatre, radio art and dance. . Formerly an engineer in the electronics industry Lindström has designed and constructed a number of unique electronic musical instruments and apparatuses. During the 1990-ies he worked for the Fylkingen society, both as producer and as President. Since 2004 he is the Artistic Director of EMS, Elektronmusikstudion in Sweden.

8:30PM
Performance of ORLAN with Loré LIXENBERG : " Petition Against Death"
 
ORLAN



ORLAN is one of the most famous french artist internationally known.She creates sculptures, photographs, performances, videos, and videogames, augmented reality, using scientific and medical technics like surgery and biogenetic. Those are only mediums for her, the idea prevails and the materiality pursues.
ORLAN makes her own body the medium, the raw material, and the visual support of her work. It takes place as the “public debate”. She is a major figure of the body art and of “carnal art” as she used to define it in her 1989 manifesto.
Her commitment and her liberty are an integral part of her work. She defends innovative, interrogative and subversive positions, in her entire artwork. ORLAN changes constantly and radically the datas, which disrupt conventions, and “ready-made thinking”. She is opposed to the natural determinism, social and politic and to all domination forms, male supremacy, religion, cultural segregation and racism, etc.
Always mixed with humor, often-on parody or even grotesque, her provocative artworks can shock because she shakes up the pre-established codes.

Loré LIXENBERG



Loré Lixenberg is an experimental voice artist/composer and mezzo. She co-directs La Plaque Tournante and « CRU » Magazine in Berlin. Performed with experimental visual and sound artists like Stelarc, Bruce Mclean, Complicite & Simon Mcburney and composers such as Aperghis, Oehring, Turnage, Ligeti, Stockhausen, Furrer, Birtwistle, Brown, Ferrari, Oliveros, Acquaviva, Niblock, Broutin, Toop, Dufour… She recorded the first complete John Cage’s ‘Songbooks’ on CD for Sub Rosa and is now orchestrating the Nancarrow’s piano player studies for her own voice. Lixenberg also performs her compositions using hyper-extentions of the voice in pieces such as ‘Bird’, her series of “Singterviews (PANIC ROOM)” and her real-time political opera installation 'PRET A CHANTER'. She published an artist book ‘Memory Maps’ and a CD ‘The afternoon of a phone’ (£@B).
10PM
POLICE


JUNE 24 and 25, 2017
4.2 ORLAN
THIS IS MY BODY... THIS IS MY SOFTWARE...

12 - 7PM
OPEN FOR 48STUNDEN NK


JULY 2, 2017
8PM
free entry (limited seating)
In counterpoint to the ongoing exhibition on ORLAN, La Plaque Tournante will screen for the first time in Berlin

William ENGLISH “HEATED GLOVES”
experimental documentary (2015, 120', english speaking) about the uncompromising life of a radical, eccentric inventor, here explored through archival materials and 16mm film.



"Captain Maurice Seddon, an inventor and eccentric in the great English tradition, made electrically heated clothing for 'paraplegics, sclerotics, arthritics, rheumatics, the poor and landscape painters'. The details of his extremely modest, uncompromising way of life are here unpicked through a rich weave of incredible archival TV appearances from around the world (he featured on, amongst others, The David Letterman Show) plus very touching 16mm and mobile phone footage shot by friend and directorWilliam English. Heated Gloves evokes Two Years at Sea and Grey Gardens, whilst highlighting the codes of television reportage and remaining in and of itself very special and unique - just like its subject."
William Fowler



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