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︎︎︎Flux I bell sTRUcTURs
projects curated by
Harm Lux  till May 2022

︎︎︎Bring in Weight

— a critique on populism

Info & Concept
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Berlin,                      Dec. 2019
Maribor,                    Feb. 2020
München,                Aug. 2020
Zürich,                     Apr.  2022
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︎︎︎Curatorial Course
2021/2022






Mark

Curatorial thoughts “Mäandern:::meander”
Harm Lux



Last year, I re-read James Joyce's "Ulysses", touched on parts of Henry Thoreau's "Walden", Goethe's "Forest Poems" in order to re-read „Three Windows" by Robert Lax. Goethe regularly left his house and sought the silence of the forest to sensitise his senses, Thoreau built his habitat in nature when he was young (28) and Robert Lax settled near Skala (Patmos) in his old age. They lived a simple, contemplative life. Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom meanders through Dublin for 18 hours; observations, sensations and thoughts mingle, mind and soul leave much open, in limbo, but this is also the birth of the "Stream of Consciousness".

If we combine Goethe's, Thoreau's and Lax's sensations with James Joyce's urban meanderings - and connect this with ourselves and the present, what can emerge?


We are initiating an artistic project in which we ask ourselves: How do the subjects react (by strolling in aimless, sensitising time-outs) to the processes of our time? What grows in us as a result? How do we reflect and react to social vibrations?
Do we only interpret them - ! - or do we also enable new ideas and other perspectives (and cartography). Here also in awareness; how does social and individual sensitisation develop when the virtual is seen as an essential future orientation, what do these mean for new forms of empathy (and for care and love)!


The texts of Goethe, Joyce, Thoreau, Lax and Cees Nooteboom (Berlin Notes), that which is felt by the soul and described by the intellect, say how essential small, subtle observations are that shed light on what at first glance has no meaning. Meandering, a purposeless activity, supports inner peace, acts as a sensitising potential that refines the senses and thus also social awareness.
We bring these two aspects together in this project





The timeline and working method:



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Berlin, 22 July to 7 August
Bringing the meandering experiences to Berlin
as a fermentation


(not as a final work of art),  to present them to the public,
during 11 evenings, outside in the public spaces or collaborative art spaces.



Collaborative process on site in Berlin


During the day, the participants will work alone as well in groups.
One group will reflect on the inputs from the previous evening, consider what these mean for the  visualisation, how the thoughts (accompanied by sketches, images, sounds, smells etc.) can best animate the artistic fabric and what preliminary meaning can be assigned to an individual contribution. They then go in search of materials and work on the artistic realisation.

Other participants (all alone) meander for a few hours through a part of the Berlin neighbourhood. In the afternoon, after the parallel individual meander, the artists exchange ideas, contribute what they have experienced and perceived, and work on a cartography. We can be curious to see how the ideas of the participants differ from the existing neighbourhood cartography; ....
Bring in sensitivities that correspond to our time!

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Publication: is not part of the Summer project.
Planned release with Publisher: End 24/Winter 25

Worldwide, 37 project participants* (all alone)
will carry out a 12-hour meander in 25 locations 


Strolling in mostly different places, not knowing where the path will lead. Many stroll through urban enclaves and sense the technologically and architecturally normalising principle of this structure, in which openness, contingency and organic growth no longer play a major role. But meandering, this "swinging feeling" also needs prerequisites! Every person, every meanderer, brings their consciousness into this spatially oscillating movement, keeping their distance from everything around them for a while. The wandering, the stepping out of time, this nonsearch implies to pay attention to special signs and places in order to discover organisms and habitats by chance.

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Berlin, 8 to 25 August, “continuation”


The artists will determine how the  resulting artistic fabric can be best developed (for Ex. exhibition in one place or together with daily Berlin Meander cartography programmes). This will be accompanied by a smaller group of artists.

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Berlin partner spaces


ZK/U - Moabit; https://www.zku-berlin.org/de/about/
Lichtenberg Studios; http://lichtenberg-studios.de/2024-2/
Kommunalgalerie "Hochhaus", Lichtenberg; http://studio-im-hochhaus.de/de/strartseite/
CLB-Aufbauhaus, at Moritzplatz, Kreuzberg; http://www.clb-group.de
Flux I bell-place, Goerlitzer Park





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