EMPACT Landmark 2 Part Event in Berlin, Germany
Part 1: 17 March 2023 & Part 2: Mid-May 2023
UGM | Maribor Art Gallery presents the next installment of the EMPACT Landmark Event in two parts, taking place at Kühlhaus Berlin in Berlin, Germany. Together we will embark on a journey through two chapters of the monumental work by the internationally renowned artist JAŠA. The Monuments by JAŠA is a durational project developed on the premises of Kühlhaus Berlin. It is divided into 17 chapters, with each individual chapter an independent and unique event. EMPACT and UGM are the commissioners of the upcoming Chapters 7 & 8, which will take place on 17 March 2023 and mid-May 2023, respectively.
The Monuments, Chapters 7 & 8 will take the themes of EMPACT – Creative Sustainability, Empathy for Nature, Empathic & Resilient Artists – as their point of departure and craft unique performative and site-specific experiences around them. JAŠA’s conceptual stance is embedded within individual events as an “attitude” towards the use of space and time. «Have you ever wanted to enter a sculpture?» becomes a fact, a statement, not just a rhetorical question. A work of art shapes and generates reality, even though it is ephemeral. Temporarily built from fleeting intersections, it is completely tangible and sensual. For Chapters 7 & 8, JAŠA will invite the audience to embody a position beyond human vs. nature hierarchy and embrace the possibility of establishing a relationship between human and nature as an interpersonal reciprocal necessity. Empathy will be evoked as the guiding principle in achieving a sustainable way forward.
Information about Part 1 of the Landmark Event is offered below:
Part 1: 17 March 2023, 7 p.m.–11 p.m., Kühlhaus Berlin – 5th floor
JAŠA: The Monuments, Chapter 7
I Am the Sum of Each (and All) of You Who Crossed My Path site-specific installation and performance
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You want to hear about loneliness?
Do I want to hear more about loneliness?
Do you want to spread the word about my blemished perpetuity?
Again your entwined words, thoughts resembling pure intentions, actions that persist within lingering. Thrust me over the cliff, and I will fly. Falling is somebody else’s doing.
I never know when to stop. I never know when to look back. Still, I find this inertia of mine closer to a cage than to a field of freedom.
Heavy words you spill for nothing more than a dime.
Poetry is my raft. Poetry is the purest reflection of my puzzled mind.
So un-puzzle me.
Excerpt from the Chapter 7 script
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Chapter 7 – I Am the Sum of Each (and All) of You Who Crossed My Path
With this chapter, JAŠA continues his research into relationships between different media, emphasizing the element of the performing body and presence in dialogue with space as a material and metaphorical element. Recognizable elements of everydayness become parts of an architectural sculpture set in the midst of the space, where the audience walks, creating their own points of view that capture the ephemeral in all of its beauty and potential.
About the artist:
One of the most prominent and influential artists of his generation, JAŠA (born in Ljubljana 1978, Jaša Mrevlje-Pollak) represented Slovenia at the 2015 Venice Biennale in the Arsenale with a sculptural-architectural installation and a durational group performance entitled Utter_the violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope. Successful and active internationally, JAŠA has been living and working in Berlin since 2020.
Credits:
Project by JAŠA
Performance concept with Mattias Gimigliano
Lighting with Luka Gyoha
Technical support Denis Metting
Text editing by Noah Charney
Cover photo with Rosa Lux (a photographic performance series with JAŠA and Charlie Stein)
Production management and communications by Rosa Lux
Supported by Kühlhaus Berlin
Enabled by The Monuments Patrons Club & Herman & Partnerji
Special thanks to Andrea Wenzler, Dieter Siegel, Lion Siegel, Griša Šoba & Franci Zavrl
Produced by WE.ARE Institute in co-production with UGM| Maribor Art Gallery in the framework of EMPACT project.
Part 2 will take place mid-May 2023 in Berlin. Follow us on social media to stay up to date when the information for Part 2 in Berlin will be released:
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