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MICHAL MARTYCHOWIEC – EMPIRE STREAM / LINK

MICHAL MARTYCHOWIEC – EMPIRE STREAM / LINK

Dear Readers,

Now the time has come, on this historic day, November 3rd, 2020 at 8:15 am, Empire begins.

Please click on the photo to watch the stream.

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MICHAL MARTYCHOWIEC – EMPIRE LAUNCH 3rd OF NOVEMBER

MICHAL MARTYCHOWIEC – EMPIRE LAUNCH 3rd OF NOVEMBER

Dear Readers,

Tomorrow, 3 November, a performance by the ever-popular rabbit Josephine Beuys will be launched - as a satellite of the current exhibition Josephine, entering the maze in Berlin. This work of art will be simply called Empire and lasts from 8:15 CET until the end of the internet.

Martychowiec gives the following statement:

"In this video citing the famous underground experimental film by Andy Warhol (Camera Jonas Mekas), Martychowiec constructs a perpeutal political statement combining a historical quotation and his own visual and symbolic language.

The question of freedom remains paramount, perhaps more than ever, in the contemporary landscape. The simple, just over 8 hours long film Empire is drawing a metaphor on freedom, power structures and their nature."

Interior of the current exhibition ©Stefan Hähnel

Interior of the current exhibition ©Stefan Hähnel

"One could say attachments to land, to home, dwell deeply in all of us who inherited these attitudes from the early settled farming societies. Settled (immovable) life offers security – through an unchanging place, routine, foreseeable source of food, etc. Exploration and the unknown with their potential promises are replaced with security of basic needs fulfilled. Thus the ‘cage’ on one had could be understood as a frame imposing various existential, ethical, systemic frameworks and on the other hand, offering protection and sense of security."

Exterior of the current exhibition ©Stefan Hähnel

Exterior of the current exhibition ©Stefan Hähnel

"What does it all, however, mean to the modern contemporary man? More, because the mean of control has become so sophisticated, so that those subjected to it, perhaps, lack even the basic awareness of being part of that system. Is Josephine ‘aware’ of being caged at all? Does the guaranteed supply of daily necessities suffice to prevent any need of venturing out of the ‘comfort zone’?"

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Gott lacht III: Change of date and place (4th October, 3 pm in Thesaurós in Berlin)

Gott lacht III: Change of date and place (4th October, 3 pm in Thesaurós in Berlin)

Bublitz. Thesaurós. Uhlandstraße. Programm 2020

God laughs. The secret polytheism of our time.
Theme 3:

The Last Man and the First God

Dear reader,

the next event of the lecture and discussion series Gott lacht will be postponed from 23 September to Sunday 4 October 2020 at 3 p.m. The theme and subject of our upcoming meeting remains the ‘last man and the first god’. The venue is the Bublitz. Thesaurós. at Uhlandstrasse 147 in Berlin.

The conversation begins with a guided tour through the current exhibition Nachricht vom letzten Menschen [Message from the Last Man] by Michal Martychowiec and a concert by the classical Persian musician Elshan Ghasimi. A detailed description of the event can be found in the email we sent to you on the 7th of September or here.

The event is free of charge. Please register at [email protected].

Add to you calendar.

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