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MOMENTUM AiR
6 March – 1 May 2018
KUNST SALON
Your Words Are Only Guesses:
an intersemiotic reading/screening of
works-in-progress
Artist talk: 22 April 2018
@ 3pm to 5pm
Listen here the podcast of the talk >>
Screening: 22 – 29 April 2018
Opening hours Wed – Sun, 1 – 7pm
@ MOMENTUM
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin
ARTIST STATEMENT – RESIDENCY PROJECT:
We are proud to welcome back Andi & Lance Olsen after their MOMENTUM exhibition in May-June 2017: There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through.
During their Residency, Andi and Lance Olsen will expand their collaborative multimodal installation There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through by creating a new video by fictional artist Alana Olsen. Set in the American desert, Your Words Are Only Guesses will investigate the toxic sublime using visual, textual, and sonic erasure as a metaphor for ecological dissolution.
Lance Olsen will continue work on his novel-in-progress, My Red Heaven, about Berlin in 1927 and the rise of a deadly populism at the heart of a thriving center for the artists, writers, and intellectuals. All the fences seemed down, all the possibilities open, and the future unimaginable. The novel will incorporate photographs of lost spaces around Berlin taken by Andi Olsen and Michael Kroetch.
MORE INFORMATION:
CLICK HERE for EXHIBITION: There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through > >
Andi Olsen is an assemblage, computer-generated collage, and experimental video artist. Her videos have been exhibited in such venues as the American Visionary Art Museum (Baltimore) & Greenhouse Berlin (Germany), & have screened at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, Mütter Museum (Philadelphia), Revolving Museum (Lowell), & at literary and artistic events in Banff, Cologne, Munich, Paris, Rouen, Szeged, Warsaw, & across the United States. Her art has been exhibited & published around the country & abroad. Her ongoing solo project, Hideous Beauty, is a Cabinet of Wonders composed of short videos, assemblages, & collage texts exploring the idea of monstrosity & the generative possibilities inherent in the processes of decay.
Lance Olsen is author of more than 20 books of and about innovative writing. His short stories, essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in hundreds of journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is known for his experimental, lyrical, fragmentary, cross-genre narratives that question the limits of historical knowledge. In 2015-2016 he was a guest of the D.A.A.D. Berlin Artists Program. In 2013 he served as the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Berlin Prize in Fiction Fellow at the American Academy also in Berlin. A Guggenheim and N.E.A. fellowship recipient, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and governor-appointed Idaho Writer-in-Residence from 1996-1998, as well as a Fulbright Scholar, he is professor of innovative narrative theory and practice at the University of Utah.