Altes Finanzamt

CINE ALFINETE OPEN CALL

2012-01-30T10:28:00.000-08:00

Pretty Woman of Pablo Marte, Wednesday, Jan 25

2012-01-24T04:32:00.000-08:00

Pretty Woman, Exhibition and screening of Pablo Marte
Wednesday, Jan 25

Openning starts at 20:00
Screening starts at 21:00

Pretty Woman und andere Geschichten, ein Film mit Alexander Kluge (Pretty Woman and other stories, a film with Alexander Kluge)

64’ 15’’ - Color / B&N / Sound - 2011

German, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Russian

with Spanish subtitles

“A comedy in six parts full of excitement, suspense, logic, cruelty and madness like the fairy tales we tell children to help them through life until death”

“When I was a little girl my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would pretend I was a princess trapped in a tower by a wicked queen.

And then suddenly this knight on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword.

And I would wave.

And he would climb up the tower and rescue me.

But never in all the time that I had this dream did the knight say to me:

“Come on, baby, I’ll put you up in a great condo”.

(From the screenplay of Pretty Woman, by J.F. Lawton)

The film start from a premise of fiction: how would “Pretty Woman” (the famous movie with Julia Roberts) be, if it had been made by the German filmmaker Alexander Kluge?: Surely it would have been darker, and more ironic, chaotic and fragmented, than the original. But also a way to think about what was wrong before, between and after the Reunification of Germany.

In a conversation with Heiner Müller, Alexander Kluge asked him to say what kind of thing, animal, job, whatever... could Deutschland be. Heiner Müller answered: “just a pretty woman”.

Maybe it´s such a small world, just a coincidence, or maybe not. The first Pretty Woman was released in 1990, between the fall of the Berlin Wall - November 1989- and German Reunification, on October 3rd 1990. So, the main character, the pretty woman, who is played by Julia Roberts, has here an allegorical function and can be read in several ways. She can refer to a country, according the words of Heiner Müller, or also to the working-class, (she is a worker, a prostitute, undertaking the kind of work that the Left has excluded from their remit). Her circumstances represent the decadence of the class struggle and the entrance of the entire working class to consumerist society with its consumer worries and consumer happiness. Therefore, as historical context, in the film, the 90’s play the role of a black, broken mirror, in which the reflections provide the link with the consumer dimension of human relations... In this allegorical sense, she could be also a building - a Hotel, a 100 unit housing project, apartment blocks in soviet style, maybe a skyscraper or a great condo- but, definitely, a building... slated for demolition.

Although, of course, that was also the end of the 20^th Century.

2012-01-23T06:29:00.001-08:00

THE RESCUE OF THE EFFECTS - Notes for a Theory of the Reader

2012-01-13T11:31:00.002-08:00

// Opening: January 19, 20:00.

// Aditional opening hours: January 20 – 22, 15:00 – 19:00.

// General Public, Schönhauser Allee 167c, 10435 Berlin

In a landscape where reality has long ceased to be seen without the presence of auxiliary instruments, which constructs at the same time its registration and setting it up as an archive, the experience does not conform directly in contact with the world but as a mediated doppelgänger. In this type of situation we should not forget that each of the disseminating and accumulating structures that support the architecture of the information is itself a technology with a built-in ideological organisational criteria, of inclusion and exclusion.

This project is built from reflections on creative reading with an active attitude regarding materials from libraries, archives, collections or found-materials establishing with a critical fascination some series of narrative itineraries that discover hidden relationships from the intra-history, the creation of fictions and the infraordinary to practice a critical reading of their architecture, an anarcheology of the structures of knowledge and the everyday-life as well as an analysis of structures of consciousness formation.

This research tries to present projects that blur the boundaries between the practice of curators, historians, researchers, cultural producers and artists. Thus, located in this area of indistinct borders, it essays a significant rearrangement of the cultural materials that restate the questions to be undertaken, as well as the focus of interest. In fact, all the participating artists are engaged to or from several disciplines: in addition to the context of art itself, speak of their work also located in editing, research, music creation, educational programmes, curating, organising events and reflecting on exhibition spaces.

These are works that start at the same time questioning both the analysis of content as the actual means of implementation and presentation: devices, methodologies, materials selection, editing, exhibition strategies or building space.

With: Daniel G. Andújar, Sol Calero, Constant Dullaart, Embankment, Herzbeat hotel, Bettina Hutschek, Jeleton, Christopher Kline, Phanos Kyriacou, Regina de Miguel, Alexandra Navratil, Paloma Polo, Teresa Solar, Poderes Unidos and JODI.

A project by Lorenzo Sandoval
With the support of: Ministerio de Cultura de España, General Public, GlougauAIR, Altes Finanzamt, Raum für Projektion.
Collaborator: Spanische Botschaft

Filament Stanza, Literature Night!

2012-01-10T11:01:00.000-08:00

Thursday, January 12
Filament Stanza
Literature Night with Jeroen Niewland and Christophe Siebert

Links:

Jeroen Niewland

http://transversalinflections.wordpress.com/

Christophe Siebert

http://www.konsstrukt.blogspot.com/

Doors open at 21:30

Reading starts at 22:00

PHILOSOPHICAL FOOTBALL! WORLD CUP Semi-Final and Final

2011-12-12T05:02:00.000-08:00

Philosophical Football World Cup - Semi-finals and Final
www.phifa.blogspot.com

Playing:

Meanza (ITA)

Thermann (GER)

Sordal (ICE)

Cunningham (NIR)

(Results of the quarter finals: Italy vs Norway, 2 - 1; USA vs Northern Ireland, 1 - 2; Portugal vs Germany, 0 - 1; Australia - Iceland, 1 - 1 (1 - 2 in penalties).

doors open at 21:15
matches start at 21:45

2011-11-20T09:11:00.000-08:00

The Springs of the Flood

a chapter of Gradations of Time over a Plane

by Mariana Caló & Francisco Queimadela

From the 25th of November until the 17th of December at Matador PR in Altes Finanzamt

+ info: http://marianacalo-franciscoqueimadela.blogspot.com/

THE PORTABLE BOOK FAIR!

2011-11-17T03:31:00.000-08:00

BOOK LAUNCH: GIORGOS VASILOPOULOS BY ANONYMOUS AUTHOR EDITIONS

2011-11-07T07:19:00.001-08:00

Thursday, November 17

Giorgos Vasilopoulos by Anonymous Author Editions

More info about this apparently-new-somewhere-based publisher "Anonymous Author Editions" at:

www.anonymousauthoreditions.blogspot.com

Talking about/Reading excerpts of Giorgos Vasilopoulos: Bryn Chainey, Cristian Forte, Eirik Sordal, filipe dias De, Gaelle Kreens, Joana Bertholo, Jochen Thermann, Marta Leite and Mario Gomes.

Limited edition of 30 copies (15 in english, 15 in portuguese)

Doors open at 21:00

Round table starts at 21:30

there will be voku, for those that would like to have dinner!

EXHIBITION AT MATADOR PROJEKTRAUM

2011-11-03T03:50:00.000-07:00

Friday, November 4

Sculptural Divide. Nicolas Wollnik and Georg Parthen

Opening

In their 2-person show "sculptural divide" Nicolas Wollnik and Georg Parthen present new and recent works. Despite their different processes and treatment of the photographic medium both artists share common strategies in in claiming and transforming spatial and sculptural qualities in their work.

Nicolas Wollnik was born in 1978 in Leverkusen. Georg Parthen was born 1977 in Wiesbaden. They studied in Essen at the Folkwang School of Art and currently run the project space Minken & Palme.

Doors open at 20:00

PHILOSOPHICAL FOOTBALL!

2011-10-26T06:49:00.000-07:00

This Wednesday, October 26

Philosophical Football is back!

The beginning of season 2011/2012 with the European Championship, playing Adam Cunningham (NIR), Eirik Sordal (ISL), Jochen Thermann (GER) and Filipe Dias De (POR). Two semi-finals and a final in this night.

Doors open at 21:15, Matches start at 21:45.

www.phifa.blogspot.com

The Institute of Exploratory Ology Presents: FIELD STUDIES

2011-10-19T01:36:00.000-07:00

19th of October

The Institute of Exploratory Ology Presents:
FIELD STUDIES

Developed in an open format, this public presentation proposes a reflection on the productive role of certain human sciences dedicated to the study of actions and thought-processes within particular groups of the past and in the present time.

... In articulating this analysis we propose a series of works that suggest the creation of an "exploratory ology." Evoking some of the areas between encyclopedic appropriation, ethnomusicology and taxonomy, we envision a journey through the transforming potential of cognitive narratives, the perception and psychological state of bodies in the middle of a forest of signs.

Research, displays, and demonstrations conducted:

FIELD STUDIES by Sol Calero and Christopher Kline

NOTHING IS LEFT TO TELL by Emanuel Almborg

-20:00- SA by B.R.

-21:00- CARGO REPORT by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha

-21:30- Snakebraid

Curated by Lorenzo Sandoval

FILAMENT STANZA

2011-10-10T06:16:00.000-07:00

Thursday, October 13

Filament Stanza

literature night

presents
Magali Bonelli-Bassano
+
Shane Anderson

doors open at 21:00
reading at 21:30

MATADOR PROJEKTRAUM

2011-08-31T06:18:00.000-07:00

October, Thursday 6th

MATADOR PROJEKTRAUM presents "Field Studies"

"Inopia CRG: Case 0" by Antonio R. Montesinos

Exhibition

Openning: next Thursday 6th, 20:00

The suggested intervention belongs to the series I define as inopias, which consists of the recreation of different urban models in the form of scale models and dioramas.

When planning the representation of a certain space, a diagram, cartography or a diorama we usually pursue to represent reality. The series Inopias poses something very different as it tries to use these types of representation in order to stage and restore possible fictions. Such fictions do not attempt to build up ideal utopias or models where to self-reflect, but subjective micro fictions: personal ways of seeing reality. Thereby a little scene is posed on each Diorama, a small narrative fiction combining both real and made up data.

On this particular occasion, we attempt to work from the layout of Cañada Real Galiana, a large, illegal settlement of sixteen kilometers and 40,000 residents from four different ethnic communities, located in the area around Madrid. The interest for this illegal settlement comes from some models of town construction that can be found there, which are likely to be called emergent or bottom-up and cast doubt upon the traditional approach to urban planning.