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With Performing Encounters, District Berlin presents two salons at the interface between art and science
District Berlin
Bessemerstraße 2-14, 10103 Berlin
www.district-berlin.com
(Berlin, 26 February 2015)
With Performing Encounters: We cannot have a conversation about something whilst it remains unseen? by curator Yvonne Reiners on 5 March and 17 April District Berlin presents two salons at the interface between art and science. In her series that develops across several art spaces since 2014, curator Yvonne Reiners re-interprets the classic salon as a space for performative knowledge production and as method of artistic research through curating.
Within the framework at District two transdisciplinary phenomenons of art and science production will be explored. Content-wise DYI-Bio and post-net aesthetics overlap in many ways: Do-it-yourself-biohacking only became possible through the democratization (open content) of web content – vice versa DYI bio artists of the web 2.0 bring back the network community back to the analogue realm for instance.
On 5 March from 5pm Performing Encounters with Howard Boland/ C-LAB London, biologist Rüdiger Trojok and interdisciplinary biologist and creative Brian Degger is about DYI Bio, bio hacker and art practice. The workshop by Howard Boland is 15€; registration at hello@performingencounters.de.
On 17 April from 5pm the salon addresses the internet as democratizing medium with Ben Vickers/ unMonastery as well as the artists Sebastian Schmieg and Jonas Lund. Registration for the workshop by Ben Vickers at hello@performingencounters.de.
Yvonne Reiner’s Performing Encounters continue the series of workshops and acts Curatorial Practices: Fields and Techniques which District dedicates to the exploration of current tendencies, questions and methods of curatorial work initiated by Susanne Husse and Michaela Richter in 2014.
More information on the District website.