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fun, media
Dec 7, 2011
Naraelle Hohensee
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Student Exhibition night!

On Tuesday we held our exhibition of student work at the Adalbertsrasse apartments. Each student installed his or her work in one of the apartment spaces, along with an artist statement explaining the piece. Then we all wandered around and enjoyed their creations, just like at a real art opening.

Everyone helped out with setup, including a lovely spread …

… and the student projects were inspiring! Each one revealed a unique and interesting response to Berlin. (Shown here: Annie’s audio project and Robert’s flip book.) Several guests joined us for an evening of wandering through the building, listening to a spoken-word and music performance, and enjoying being together!

 

media, seminars
Oct 25, 2011
Naraelle Hohensee
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An afternoon with Mark Curran

Artist and educator Mark Curran spent an afternoon sharing his work with us on Monday. Focused around issues of labor, his photographs, interviews, journals and the resulting installations speak directly to many of the issues we’re wrestling with in our course. He took us through the process of utilizing ethnographic techniques to document and participate in various environments, as well as how he presents his work in a multi-media format. Mark’s work is gripping in its own right, but since I’m asking the class to document their own experience of Berlin using media-based methods informed by ethnography, his talk was very applicable to their work for the course. Several of them expressed how moved, inspired and encouraged they were by his presentation.

Mark’s most recent project centers around the strip mining industry in Cottbus in former East Germany. You can read more about the project here. And here’s a clip showing the installation of the project in a recent exhibition in Portugal:

an installation of EXTRACTS FROM EDEN/AUSSCHNITTE AUS EDEN a project by Mark Curran from Mark Curran on Vimeo.