As part of of Do Not Touch - Collective Debrief at ACUD galerie w/ Ana Gzirishvili
Lectures by Cammack Lindsey and Sylvia Rybak ‘ON GHOSTS’
The yard can host a small audience, we kindly ask you to RSVP: galerie@acudmachtneu.de if you wish to attend. We will provide enough distance to keep each other safe. For the gallery visit, please bring your mask. In case you cannot make it, please let us know and we give the place to another person.
Installation by Ana Gzirishvili will be open on Thursday-Saturday (July 16th-July 22nd), 5 pm-8 pm and by appointment until July 15.
For the visit, please bring your mask.
ABOUT
Cammack Lindsey
The materialization of "ghosts" (a performative lecture)
Cammack Lindsey, from the ‘Research Centre on Color Space & Cyanobacteria Subjugation’, is the scientific-research processor of i.ruuu. Alongside their research, they compose solo/group musicals that stem from the transition period of opera into musical theater. Examining this space to redistribute stolen futures through performances, they work together with code, voice, sound, & the materialization of magic, ghosts and clouds.
Based in Berlin, they produced their first 8-hour musical with M.I/mi1glissé at Acker Stadt Palast in May 2017 and as of August 2019, premiered their musical, ∫ ( { } ) visible window at Creamcake’s Paradise Found at Ruine der Franziskaner Klosterkirche. Their works have been presented at KW, State Studio, HAU, Cafe Oto (London), Ars Electronica (Linz), RIXC Open Fields (Riga) and Encuentro Tecnofeminista (Mexico City). Their most recent musical composition was released with Quantum Natives in December 2019. Currently they are finalizing their masters in art and media at University of Arts Berlin, imagining a symbiosis of rebellious bodies and cyanotoxins from harmful algal blooms (both as results of industrialization)— and how this could be used in a social revolution to dismantle capitalism.
Sylvia Rybak
Digital Ghosts: Exploring Griefbots and Death in the Online (lecture)
Sylvia Rybak is a Berlin-based visual artist from Warsaw, Poland. A background in photography has allowed the artist to explore notions of dream theory and hypnagogic hallucinations with the use of surrealist compositions. Their more recent works include the use of digital mediums including 3D-renders, video and AI-apps in order to explore digital manifestations of psychological concepts. Through an examination of online phenomena such as avatars, chatbots and social media, the artist explores notions of identity, emotional first-aid, trauma and empathy in the online. Sylvia’s artworks and theoretical writings delve into technologies’ mirroring of the collective human psyche and it’s contribution to both the psychological healing and scarring of online users.
Do Not Touch Programme⠀
From June 25th w/ Pauline Canavesio
From July 9th w/APART Collective
From July 16th w/ Ana Gzirishvili
From July 23rd w/ Shirin Mohammad
From July 30th w/ Virgil B/G Taylor and Sam Richardson
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Invited artists will share their past video artwork and use it as an inspiration for personal reflection. Topics, narratives and themes present in the artworks prior to the pandemic, could, in this new historical framework, gain a new interpretation, perspective and power.⠀
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The installation of each artist/collective will be changed every week, giving us a possibility to come together on a regular basis. Every change will be accompanied by curated reading session or a lecture, which will happen in the open-air yard of ACUD MACHT NEU, following the social distancing restrictions and taking care of everyone’s concerns and inputs.⠀
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The reading programme will be announced continuously. Please, follow Acud Galerie for updates.⠀
DO NOT TOUCH is a spontaneous collaborative concept developed by Giulia Valenti and Paula Durinova⠀
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Installation design in collaboration w/ Diane Esnault ⠀