FASCION
14 WAYS TO LOOK AT A BLACKSHIRT
Gallery Mario Kreuzberg, Berlin (part 1)
& Ballhaus Ost, Berlin (part 2)
FASCION / 14 WAYS TO LOOK AT A BLACKSHIRT takes inspiration from Umberto Eco’s 14-part analysis of fascist structures and encircles one of the most striking current, political phenomena in Europe and the United States: the growing facistization of right-wing populist parties within the mainstream and the growth of neo-fascist movements among the youth.
The multi-facetted art project FASCION works as a critical observation towards the aesthetic strategies of a radically changing political landscape. After a street poster campaign in Kreuzberg, a participatory protest-installation at Kottbusser Tor and a choreographic situation at Gallery Mario Kreuzberg in March 2017, now follows the continuation at Ballhaus Ost.
At the center is a bench press and the question of the de- / politicization of the body and physical sculpture, the meaning of the term movement, the individual and the mass, as well as the group dynamics of coercion and potential. Seven performers embark on a path of ultimate physical exhaustion, while The XX’s “Hot Like Fire” is played live in a loop.
At the same time, visitors have the opportunity to watch interviews with Berlin-based artists from the USA, Turkey, Germany, Chile, Israel, Japan, Argentina and India in another room. Relating to Umberto Eco they describe the threatening, current-political processes in their home countries.
Visitors thus embark on a self-curated experience in which they contemplate on sweat and analysis, fashion and fascism, a masked mass of bodies and self-determined identities.
Interviews with:
Dan Allon, Egemen Demirci, Jorge Rodolfo de Hoyos, Timothy Lalonde, Simon Lobos Hinojosa, Ana Laura Lozza, Lee Meir, Akemi Nagao, Shiva Pathak, Gesa Steeger, Michael Tuttle, Leicy Valenzuela
DATES:
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
Premiere: June 01, 2017
Further shows: 02– 03 June
Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Pappelallee 15, 10437 Berlin
&
Saturday, 18 March 2017 & Saturday, 25 March 2017
From 17 until 19 h Public installation / Kottbusser Tor / In front of SÜDBLOCK Admiralitätsstr. 1
19 h Procession / street to gallery
From 19:30 open until 20:30 h Performance / gallery / open access at all times
21 – 24 March 2017 / 18-22h
Exhibition Video
GALLERY MARIO KREUZBERG
Adalbertstraße 4d, 10999 Berlin
FASCION (part 2)
With
Timothy Justin Lalonde (US)
Hauke Heumann (DE)
Leicy Esperanza Valenzuela (CL)
Emilia de Fries (DE)
Deva Knopf (DE)
Simón Lobos Hinojosa (CL)
Felix Meyer-Christian (DE)
Akemi Nagao (JP)
Zahava Rodrigo (DE)
Marcus Thomas (DE)
Roman Tkachenko (RUS)
FASCION (part 1) is a collaboration between
Simón Lobos Hinojosa (CL)
Felix Meyer-Christian (DE)
Franco Moreno (CL) / Ahmad Nasir Formuli (AFG)
Maque Pereyra (BOL) / Julia Turbahn (DE/ISR)
Leicy Valenzuela (CL)
Bernadita Villarroel (CL)
Live-Music: Timothy Lalonde (US)
Video: Erik Kundt (DE)
Photos Poster Campaign: Katya Meyer (CL)
Video-Documentation: Rodrigo Ruiz (CL)
Photos Performance: Stefan Haehnel (DE)
