Bublitz gGmbH is pleased to welcome Gabriel, the third artist in the exclusive cosmogonic circle of Thesaurós.
Gabriel is a libertine, dancer and jester. He was born in Holland in the late 1960s. After an injury ruined his career as a dancer, he dedicated himself to following the traces of his own person. He abandoned his alter ego and became an artist to whom, it must be said, the prophetic proclamation is not alien...
Ghasimi's seven hour-long piece The letter of politics or rules for kings is embedded within a larger show with approximately 30 performers – The Kings. This in turn is the climax and concluding event of the exhibition Insights into fleeting lives developed by Barbara Caveng and Dachil Sado, which has been running at the Museum of European Cultures since the beginning of the year.
With her title The letter of politics or rules for kings, Ghasimi chooses the call of her Persian compatriot Nizam al-Mulk (1018 – 1092 AD), this greatest amongst the grand viziers, who headed the Seljuk empire for several generations. He also wrote a book about statesmanship, which apparently influenced Macciavelli, the title of which Ghasimi has borrowed; a manual about governance and thereby about clever strategy.
At the same time, Ghasimi's performance is the second prelude for Mnemosyne. A prelude for a goddess of the future – the word 'memory' also stems from her – and a reminder that culture is always a phenomenon of dispute, syncretic crystal, a result of untold dialogues.
UTC 7 HOURS PARALLEL PERFORMANCE, 01. July 2017, from 1pm
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Mnemosyne is a ten-year, pan-European and civic project. It is a new way of considering exhibitions, memory policy and culture at a time of the greatest threat since the Second World War. Initially launched 3 years ago as an exhibition project, Mnemosyne has now become a nexus for the most diverse protagonists (universities, schools, [technology] companies, human rights NGOs and museums among others).
The project derives its name from the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, from which the word memory also stems. The basic assumption of Mnemosyne. In search of the European identity is that without (shared) memory, no (European) identity can be formed. This applies to each individual, as well as to collectives, states and unions.
Just as talking about oneself reveals a person's identity, communities, too, create their identity by means of narratives. This occurs through memories with a national, or, in the particular case of Europe, a pan-European reference being passed on. Europe lacks these broad, common, positive narratives.
The multimedia exhibition, research and mediation project presented here is embarking on a search for just those ideas and stories of a common European self-image, which recognizes the differences of the various national states and vaults over them. It would like to invite people to identify with Europe and joyfully exclaim: Yes, I’m a European! Yes, I can gladly identify with these values and with this community! In this sense, the Mnemosyne project follows a historical-political aim.
A complex visualization of cultural history involving the newest technology and oldest myths will give rise to a new combination of historical narrative, art exhibition and participatory project.
On this 9th of November several things take place. One of those is the 3rd celebration within the exhibition Engel mit Sphinx Gesichten.
On the tar the instrumentalist of classical persian music Elshan Ghasimi-Schindele welcomes us in duet with Alessandro Rauschmann. The performance artist who is better known as the URBANIST.
Please feel invited to create this joint ritual together.
Bublitz & Michal Martychowiec.
Engel mit Sphinx Gesichten // Xenien 1
MMS2 Claudiusstr. 6, 10557 Berlin, Germany
and in the entire Hansaquarter
until the 9th of November
We are happy to invite you to the second celebration within the exhibition Engel mit Sphinx Gesichten (Sphinx faced Angels). Reason of the celebration is the inauguration of the stone ‚Der Kommende Gott‘ (The Coming God) at the exhibition space Dzialdov in Berlin. (Other stones have been installed in the following ateliers and studios: Martin Bothe, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Jaromir Hladík, Fabian Knecht, Markues and since 7 october at the studio Michael Müller).
It is an addition to Dzialdovs exhibition Heidegger stinks, like always a comment and another experiment with the ‚historical readymade‘ which Bublitz and the artist Michal Martychowiec are working on.
The exhibition text of Dzialdov reads as follows: „On 23 September 1966, and then again on 17–18 June 1968, the photo journalist and Filmmaker Digne Meller Marcovicz (*1934; †2014) took a series of photographs of the philosopher Martin Heidegger, published two years after the philosopher’s death in 1978.
The remaining copies of the original and only print run of the Stuttgart Verlag Fey edition have recently been returned from the distributors because they smell.
This exhibition is dedicated to the historic residue of printed matter and its subsequent metamorphosis into an olfactory trail.
The remaining 900 copies of the book will be given away on a first come first served basis in exchange for a voluntary donation.“
Digne Meller Marcovicz visited Heidegger on the occasion of an interview by the magazine Der Spiegel. In this interview, published 10 years later, the philosopher is being quoted with „only a god can safe us“. This is a direct reference to the poet Friedrich Hölderlin and Heideggers life-long dialogue with him. Friedrich Hölderin is summoning the ‚Coming God‘whose existence is yet to be proved and revealed.
The celebration starts at 7pm at Dzialdov. Maybachufer 43, 12047 Berlin and is part of:
Bublitz & Michal Martychowiec. Engel mit Sphinx Gesichten // Xenien 1
until the 9th of November 2016 Th - Sa, 3 - 7 pm
MMS2 Claudiusstr. 6, 10557 Berlin, Germany
and in the entire Hansaquarter
www.dzialdov.de
www.bublitz.org
www.mms2.info
A big thank you goes out to our friends from Steinzeit for providing the raw materials.
After a year of research journey Bublitz is back to public. Five years ago we started the cycle Handlungsbereitschaft - Draft of a generation at the end of history which approached, the now omnipresent, question of identity and which drew a psychogramm of the generation being born between 1980 and 1990. The new point of interest and focus is a question deriving directly out of this endevor. How can modernity be bridged? Which forms will the next (European) Renaissance take?
The new exhibition cycle Xenien starts with the exhibition Engel mit Sphinx Gesichten. Developed, curated and emanated from the work of Michal Martychowiec.
Since we came to the decision not to associate any-more with the insipid term of 'Opening' we are all the more happy to invite you to the first celebration this Sunday at Claudisstraße with a conceptual as musical broadening by AXE APE. Furthermore we are also happy to introduce our new colleague Nils Fock.
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So now the plan is fixed! Who would have expected that suddenly everything would be moving so fast?? Elshan Ghasimi made a suggestion, I gratefully accepted: She wants to set 38 objects from the estate of El Arbi Bouqdib into music. She wants to translate them into her own subjective and beautiful language of Classical Persian Music. In dialogue with uncertain pasts.
The objects/souvenirs/relics – how should I call these memorial stones? – will be ’staged‘ by Michal Martychowiec. The objects, their symbolic qualities form a polyphonic chorus that speaks of Bouqdib’s life. As a curator working with such diverse artists as a Persian musician and Martychowiec, an intellectual interrogator of 20th-century art, it is my concern to bring these different modes, possibilities and qualities into a common form.
For this, however, we need a new concept … The idea of the concert exhibition just popped into my head. After all, Ghasimi is giving concerts and is composing for objects. So, Concert-Exhibitions. Ephemeral and permanent …
Yes, it’s a huge question how a life can (and should!) be told. And I am happy (and a bit relieved even) that this long story of Bouqdib, his life, his time, his person and his work begin with music. After all, what could be freer as an approach? Almost like a dance and very volatile.
Our concern is the poetic reconstruction of the past. Truth and Fiction (Dichtung und Wahrheit) like good old Goethe said.
I am very happy to supervise and curate this project!
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Inge Buck & Elshan Ghasimi: „Was bleibt“
Berührt und inspiriert von dem zweisprachigen Gedichtband „Unter dem Schnee“ der Lyrikerin Inge Buck, übertragen ins Persische von Madjid Mohit, hat die iranische Musikerin und Komponistin Elshan Ghasimi eigene Kompositionen geschaffen. Die poetische Bilderwelt, die Rhythmen und Metaphern hat sie auf dem persischen Saiteninstrument Tar in eine kongeniale musikalische Sprache übertragen.
Ein poetischer Dialog zwischen Lyrik und Musik, zwischen Orient und Okzident, zwischen den Gedichten von Inge Buck und den musikalischen Interpretationen von Elshan Ghasimi: „Die Töne kommen zu mir, ganz natürlich wachsen sie, wenn ich die Gedichte lese.“
Ein Bogen zwischen den Kulturen wird gespannt. Im Dialog und in der Stille zwischen persischer Musik und deutschsprachigem Text entstehen vor dem inneren Auge der Hörer aus Zeilen und Tönen Welten: über Stadtlandschaften und Natur, Jahreszeiten und Lebenszeit, über Vergessen und Erinnern, über Krieg, Exil und Flüchtlingsheim, über die Sprache der Bücher und die Aufbewahrung von Verlorenem in einem Gedicht.
Elshan Ghasimi und Inge Buck, zwei Künstlerinnen aus unterschiedlichen Kulturen, Sprachen und Generationen begegnen sich in ihrem Zusammenspiel: die Texte öffnen sich zur Musik, die Musik zu den Texten.
Konzert-Lesung am 30. August 2018 in Bremen
Beginn 19 Uhr
Buchhandlung Leuwer | Am Wall 171 | 28195 Bremen
Konzert-Lesung am 3. September 2018 in Berlin
Beginn 20 Uhr
Lettrétage | Mehringdamm 61 | 10961 Berlin