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3 June–29 July 2012
The Future Archive
Projects and contributions by: Maryanne Amacher, Luis
Berríos-Negrón, Muriel Cooper, Olafur Eliasson, Florian
Hecker, György Kepes, Richard Leacock / Jon Rubin, Amanda Moore, Otto
Piene, Micah Silver / Robert The, Aldo Tambellini, Urbonas Studio / Nader
Tehrani NADAAA, Markus Weisbeck
Curator: Ute Meta
Bauer
The exhibition project The Future Archive picks up
on artistic research projects of the 1970s and 1980s from the environment
of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), which was founded in 1967
by György Kepes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in
Cambridge / USA. The groundbreaking artistic approaches of a generation of
CAVS Directors and CAVS Fellows, such as György Kepes and Otto Piene,
influenced by Bauhaus and postwar modernism, were ahead of their time. Even
today, these radical ideas and collective projects of the so-called
Techno-Social Movement are the starting point for contemporary art
production. Along with historical and contemporary documentary material
from the environment of the CAVS, the exhibition brings together current
artistic and creative works. The Future Archive is an ongoing
visionary project and shows how artists, architects, and designers in their
interdisciplinary approaches adopt these historical standards and update
them with new issues. The visual communication of this "archive in
progress" draws on experiments by Muriel Cooper, designer and director of
the Visual Language Workshop (1975–1994) at MIT. The design of the
exhibition space refers to Aldo Tambellini's Electromedia-Performance
Black (1965) and Piene's light works. Other historical references in
the exhibition include the projects initiated by Kepes for the Boston
Harbor (1968–1970, 1973–1976) and the Charles River
(1971–1974), Maryanne Amacher's Ear Tone compositions, as well as the
multi-media installation Centerbeam (1977 / 1978) developed under
the direction of Piene, which was first shown at Documenta 6 (1977).
Parallel to the exhibition, video works by CAVS Professors and CAVS Fellows
from the collection of n.b.k. Video-Forum can be viewed. In this interplay
of past and future, the The Future Archive at Neuer Berliner
Kunstverein unfolds its potential, understanding the world as a complex
structure and challenge. The exhibition, performances, lectures, and
discussions show the historical significance of the CAVS for
interdisciplinary collaborations of artists today and fundamentally point
out the possibilities that are opening up at research-oriented academies
and universities and as a result, are consistently expanding our
understanding of art. In 2009 the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and
the Visual Arts Program merged to become the MIT Program in Art, Culture
and Technology (ACT) and Ute Meta Bauer served as Founding Director.
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with the MIT
Program in Art, Culture and Technology, School of Architecture and
Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Program
Saturday 2 June 2012, 8pm
Becoming Archive
Multimedia-Performance by Amanda Moore (Artist, Cambridge, ACT
Alumna)
Tuesday 12 June 2012, 7pm
The Future Archive:
Archival Practices
Conversation with Prof. Caroline A. Jones (Art
History, MIT, Cambridge), Prof. Sven Spieker (History of Art and
Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara), moderated by Sophie
Goltz (curator n.b.k.)
Tuesday 19 June 2012, 7pm
The
Future Archive: Environmental Form and Monumentality
Exhibtion
talk with Luis Berríos-Negrón (Architect, MIT Alumni,
Berlin), Erik Ellingsen (Co-director Institut für Raumexperimente,
Berlin)
Tuesday 26 June 2012, 7pm
The Future Archive:
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Conversation with Prof. Bernd
Kracke (President, HfG Offenbach, CAVS Alumni), Prof. Antoni Muntadas (Art
and Public Sphere, MIT, Cambridge, CAVS Fellow), moderated by Prof. Ute
Meta Bauer (MIT, Cambridge)
Tuesday 3 July 2012, 7pm
The
Future Archive: Visible Language Workshop
Exhibtion talk with
Prof. Markus Weisbeck (Graphic Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)
Tuesday 17 July 2012, 7pm
Directions in Kinetic Art in the
mid-20th Century
Lecture by Prof. Alexander Alberro (Art History,
Barnard College, Columbia University, New York), moderated by Helmut
Draxler (Art historian and critic, Berlin)
Sunday 29 July 2012,
8pm
Music-Performance
Florian Hecker (Artist, ACT Research
Affiliate, Vienna)
5 June–27 July 2012
n.b.k.
Showroom
Julieta Aranda
Curator: Sophie Goltz
In the work Multifamiliar (2012), specially developed for
the Showroom of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Julieta Aranda uses as a point
of departure a social studies textbook for children, titled Living as
Neighbors. The book—published in 1963—follows two families
of different racial background, in a story line that revolves around one of
the families moving into Starret City, the first low-income housing project
in New York. These architectural solutions to urban housing
problems—bulding complexes called Multifamiliares, Plattenbauten,
Projects—have in common both a formal grandiosity (brutalism), as
well as a patent disconnect to the realities of every day life within the
constructs that they propose. Aranda's installation establishes a dialogue
between the formal determination of housing projects, and the mundane
exchanges that take place within their grid.
Julieta Aranda
(*1975 in Mexico-City) works and lives in New York and Berlin. She studied
at School of Visual Arts, New York, and at Columbia University's School of
the Arts, New York.
Neue Berliner Kunstverein is financed
with funds from Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin with the support
of the Governing Mayor of Berlin—Senate Chancellery—Cultural
Affairs.
The Future Archive is made possible with the
additional support of:
MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology,
School of Architecture and Planning at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT)
Schering Stiftung
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein is partner of ARTE Creative.
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