2 pm, 1st part Guided Tour, Fluentum, Clayallee 174, 14195 Berlin
3.30 pm, 2nd part Guided Tour, Haus am Waldsee, Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin

Max. 20 people. Participation free of charge. The guided tours are held in German.
Registration at: info@fluentum.org

Live Stream shows videos, sculptures and installations that enter into a dialog with the stories and materialities of the exhibition venue. The group exhibition was created in an open exchange with five artists (Patricia L. Boyd, Jason Hirata, Nina Könnemann, Michael E. Smith and Matt Welch), who were invited to restage existing works in response to the Fluentum site.
Haus am Waldsee presents two parallel exhibitions by the American artist Jenna Bliss (*1984) and the Scottish painter Carol Rhodes (1959-2018). The use of temporally or spatially distanced perspectives that allow new angles on established narratives are characteristic of the work of both artists. By combining everyday observations, speculation and meticulous research, the two exhibitions create a space in which fact and fiction collide and the wider scope of structural human intervention becomes tangible.

In the framework of the reading series ‘a poetics’, authors Dimitra Ioannou and Ed Luker will read from their current works.

Dimitra Ioannou

In her reading ‘The New Present Tense,’ Dimitra Ioannou will compile a poetic assemblage comprising published and unpublished poems that respond to contemporary political and economic issues, contemplating language as a tool of propaganda, and suggesting ways of healing and resistance. She will read excerpts from her pamphlet ‘Electric Sarcasm’ and her forthcoming book ‘The Mink List.’

Dimitra Ioannou is a poet and artist based in Athens. In her work she experiments with narrative or anti-narrative forms in various media (writing, photography, publications). Her publications include the chapbook ‘Electric Sarcasm’ (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2020) and the experimental novella ‘Soy Sea’ (Futura, Athens, 2008). Her (video) poems and photos have been exhibited in both solo and group shows throughout Greece. Additionally, she is the founding editor at A) GLIMPSE) OF) press, co-editor of the bilingual journal ‘brossura’, and runs experimental writing workshops named ‘textlab’. Her books ‘Terminal Mimosa ‘ and ‘The Mink List’ are both forthcoming.

Ed Luker

Ed Luker will read poems from a collection in progress, tentatively titled ‘Sky Gazing’. These poems work through bird songs, sunsets, skylines, shimmering trees, pink hues, orange fire, and blue waters as the sites of affective transfer between Romanticist yearning and the ineluctable contradictions of late capitalism, as we experience it through technological mediation, ecological catastrophe, fascism, and war. His reading will attempt to enliven the lyric voice as a place of emotional movement, working through the tonal variations of the present.

Ed Luker is a writer and poet based in London. To date he has published two full length collections of poetry, ‘Heavy Waters ‘ (2019) and ‘Other Life’ (2020). He has recently published poems, prose, and critical essays in Poetry Project newsletter, Mubi Notebook, The London Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Frieze, Tank Magazine, Jacobin, and Plinth. He is currently working on his first novel, alongside a play and a new collection of poems from which he will read for this event.

Admission included in the exhibition ticket. There is limited seating capacity, so we would kindly ask you to arrive in advance.

Organised by Beatrice Hilke and Vera Lutz.