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Your Words Are Only Guesses:
an intersemiotic reading/screening of works-in-progress
Kunst Salon with Andi and Lance Olsen
Sunday, 22 April 2018
Screening: 22 – 29 April 2018
Throughout Berlin Gallery Weekend
Opening Hours: Wed – Sun, 1 – 7pm
@ MOMENTUM
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, Berlin
Following their exhibition in May-June last year, There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through, MOMENTUM is proud to welcome back Andi & Lance Olsen as Artists-in-Residence, 6 March -1 May 2018.
Unveiling for the first time their works-in-progress, Lance Olsen reads from his novel, My Red Heaven, about Berlin in 1927 and the rise of a deadly populism at the heart of a thriving center for artists, writers, and intellectuals. All fences seemed down, all possibilities open, and the future unimaginable. This novel-in-progress incorporates photographs of lost spaces around Berlin by Andi Olsen and Michael Kroetch.
Andi and Lance Olsen also screen for the first time a new video by fictional artist Alana Olsen. Set in the American desert, vYour Words Are Only Guesses investigates the toxic sublime using visual, textual, and sonic erasure as a metaphor for ecological dissolution. Your Words Are Only Guesses reflects Alana Olsen’s continued interest in desertscapes around the Great Salt Lake in Utah, and the erasure of that environment through human impact on the air, water and land. It is also about the complex act of reading, about trying to make self-conscious that which our culture has made invisible, about the consequences of reading one way rather than another. The screening will continue through 29 April 2018, throughout Berlin Gallery Weekend.
A work-in-progress, Your Words Are Only Guesses is part of a collaborative, multimodal installation by Andi & Lance Olsen entitled There’s No Place Like Time: A Novel You Walk Through
Your Words Are Only Guesses (HD video, work-in-progress) attributed to Alana Olsen
text by Lance Olsen
video by Andi Olsen
sound engineers: Juanfe Rehm, Tricone Studio, Funkhaus Berlin
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.
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