We at little berlin are proud to announce our first office residency due to take place starting Monday, June 27th through July 29th, 2011 at the art gallery in City Hall under the Department of Alternative Affairs. We will be sharing office space with Extra, Extra and FluxSpace. Visit the Department of Alternative Affairs online for more information. Office hours are Mon-Fri 10-4pm. Please come to visit. Many projects affiliated with the Department of Alternative Affairs are already in motion and will be cataloged online at the DAA’s website throughout the month. Opening Reception, Friday, June 24th 5-7pm, business casual attire recommended.
This exhibition is made possible by the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy.
Thursday, June 30th, 2011, little berlin will be hosting an exhibition from The Print Center’s Artists In Schools Program, No Vacancy. We are excited to show our support and view the artwork of these high school students, you should be too.
“The Print Center’s award winning Artists-in-Schools Program (AISP) will present an exhibition of student work from the 2010-2011 school year at Little Berlin. The exhibition will feature work by Philadelphia high school students made in collaboration with teaching-artists at Kensington Culinary Arts, Martin Luther King, Parkway School for Social Justice and South Philadelphia High Schools. NO/VACANCY investigates questions of environment, architecture and portraiture in Philadelphia neighborhoods affected by economic crisis, school privatization and other changes in the built environment of the city.”
- printcenter.org
Opening reception
First Friday, June 3rd 6-10pm
Little Berlin presents an exhibit of works produced or informed by pre-institutional culture making experiences.
Established in our peripheries are bumbling excess, intimacy, play, teen angst, and the seductive allure of rock stars.
Curated by Leslie Rogers. Accompanying performance writings by Kate Kraczon.
Vince Finazzo
Jacob Lenker
Personal Pain
Vabianna Santos
Jonathan Santoro & Leslie Rogers
John Sinclair
Ken Suwabe
Hannah Walsh
Sophie White
*Awards for Excellence presented by Zac Palladino
Performance Series @ Vox Populi’s Performance Space
*dates TBA
Edward (Ted) Carey, CREATION BOOM SQUAD
Chris Golas, Meat Slicer & Stripper Pole
Beth Nixon, Antipodal Goatlegs
No Face, The Beautiful Refrigerator is Empty
Personal Pain
PuppeTyranny, The Mouth Show 2:2 Many Mouths
Joanna S. Quigley
Ric Royer, Despair, Despair, Despair
John Sinclair, Now We are Twenty-Three: a retrospective
Tonight at 7pm artist Carl Diehl will be giving a lecture on his Metaphortean Research.
“An official, if speculative, genealogy of Metaphortean Research to be presented at Little Berlin gallery in Philadelphia on Saturday May 28th. Arriving at the end of the current exhibit of Very Amateur Society of Science and Technology, this Metaphortean presentation will include several nused and emergent Metaphortean pursuits, including the audio-visually augmented para-lecture version of Polterzeitgest.”
After the lecture celebration will commence.
What a month it has been for VASST.info. Read more about this exhibit using the title of the show in your browser. Also be sure to check out the digital catalog for a more ordered reference to each piece in the exhibit. The digital catalog for VASST.info was made possible using Treesaver, an open source javascript framework enabled using html and css. An easy to follow step by step process is available on github, which for those not familiar, github is a social coding network. The beauty of the internet is it’s ability to share information and educate all those willing to learn, for free. VASST.info mirrors this sentiment.
Thank you Breadboard’s David Clayton & Dan Schimmel for expanding the gallery space and inviting little berlin to exhibit. Art spaces should cross pollinate, thrilled to have the opportunity.
Thank you to Peter Crimmins and Carolyn Beeler at Newsworks.org for their inquisitive article and interview. The interview investigates the relationship of art and science pairing artists, Angela McQuillan & April Aguillard with their lecturer, Camille McQuillan. I suggest that after listening to this podcast, you check out Camille McQuillan’s lecture.
VASST.info/lectures/Bioethics from little berlin on Vimeo.
Thank you to all the artists/participants in VASST.info:
Artists at Little Berlin
Angela McQuillan & April Aguillard
Annette Monnier & Gerik Forston
Jake Kehs
Jong Kyu Kim & James Weissinger
Kristen Neville-Taylor
Lisa Murch
Artists at Breadboard’s EKG Project Space
Brandon Joyce
Daniel Wallace & Derek Frech
Jamie Dillon
Sam Cusumano
The lectures in VASST.info helped not only further the conversation, but I hope inspired the community about all that free education stuff I’ve been going on about. Last, but most definitely not least, thank you to these educators.
(in order of appearance)
Allen Crawford
Camille McQuillan
Benjamin Warfield
Jae-Won Shin
David Williams
Carl Diehl
Come out and celebrate with us tonight and THANKS!
