Grass Harp 004 - Opening

Grass Harp 004
I know somebody who knows somebody

Detel Aurand, Nuno Barroso, Rory Biddulph, Matthias Biermann, Fritz Bornstück, Alex Crocker, James Edmonds, Stephanie Gerner, Petra Graf, Josef Grassl, Antony Hall, Stephan Halter, Lan Hungh, Luzie Kork, Aylin Kowalewsky, Daniel Kupferberg, Marta Leite, Jie Liang Lin, Deborah S. Philips, Robert Prideaux, David Roeder, Sabine Schober, Nina Schuiki, Martin Šindler, Tracey Snelling, Kai Teichert, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky, Deborah Wargon

July 30 – August 6, 2023

ExRotaprint - Atelier James Edmonds
Gottschedstr. 4, 13357 Berlin

Opening Sunday, July 30
Part 1 Atelier: 6 pm – 8:30 pm (Entry Aufgang 2)
Part 2 Garden: 8:30 pm performance by Daniel Kupferberg
a procession from the exhibition in the atelier, down to the garden, with further works

Finissage Sunday, August 6
Part 1 Atelier: 6 pm – 8:30 pm, (Entry Aufgang 2) 

Part 2 Garden: 8:30 pm performance by Lan Hungh, Wolfgang Schwabe, Fumio Okura, Jolon Dixon and Shiomi Kawaguchi 

August 1 – 5, 4 – 6 pm and by appointment 

Grass Harp, formally a brief series of exhibitions in an apartment in Wedding, re-initiates itself as a facilitator of informal artistic experiences and intimate social gatherings. 

A small private studio space in a former print-works, temporarily vacated, provides an unlikely setting for a conglomeration of small scale works by roughly 30 artists and friends. Bringing small objects together in a small room at the end of a corridor, suggests for us something akin to the amateur collection. If not an anonymous archive, perhaps an index of micro-events and everyday occurrences, championing the overlooked, sometimes with a hint of humour, and often with a subtle poetics at play.

Beginning with a few small works in our own humble collection, the idea promptly turned outwards to the many people we find a connection to through our practices. Like any group show the individual works can be taken as single events referring to a wider context (whether artist/originator or subject/cultural surroundings) which in turn form unexpected dialogues. We like to think of these fragments also as a simple working methodology in itself, one that gathers both people and objects together and lets things speak of their own materiality and essence.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a booklet edition of related images from each artist. Depictions of the exhibited artworks will be in the form of a sticker collection, which can be added to the booklet as one chooses.

During the opening, at 8:30pm visitors will be led by a performance by Daniel Kupferberg, back down the corridor, out across the yard and into the garden area at the back of the building complex. There we will continue the second part of the evening with further works installed between the trees.
As in all Grass Harp events, food and drinks will be provided and visitors are encouraged to relax and sit a while with the works.

For wheelchair access or directions please call:
0177 4906218 / 0176 47350798

Grass Harp 003 - Finisage

Grass Harp 003
Antony Hall - doing/not doing

FINISAGE
Thursday 21st December
1 - 3.30 pm <<< PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME!!!
at the BOTANISCHER GARTEN Berlin (PLEASE RSVP!!) 
6 - 10pm at Grass Harp
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For the finisage of Grass Harp 003, as an accompaniment to the work of Anthony Hall, we warmly invite you to join us on a walk around the Botanical Gardens of Berlin - with music selected by the artist as the soundtrack to our journey. Each participant is requested to bring a digital device and headphones. The audio file will be sent by email to anyone who RSVP's to the event.
Following the walk will be a small reception with food and refreshments at the exhibition at Grass Harp.

MEETING POINT
Botanischer Garten entrance Unter den Eichen 5-10, 12203 Berlin (Metrobus M48):
click for location map

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Grass Harp edition 003

Grass Harp 003
Antony Hall - doing/not doing

Antony Inglis Hall - studio view 2016 (image: Petra Graf)

Friday 14th July
Opening 6 - 10pm
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15th July – 31st August by appointment (tel. 0176-47350798)

Grass Harp is delighted to have the rare opportunity to present the work of Antony Hall, an artist and furniture maker currently living in rural Sussex, in the south of Britain. His work employs simple geometric designs - which he describes as "functional" - often incorporates pattern, and an acute materiality which simultaneously suggests both an organic formation and an elusive handmade process. 
He works between painting and sculpture (often through and as part of a drawing process) and within each practice there remains a tension between the 2d and 3d worlds which he habitually draws on. Diverse influences can be registered, from modernist furniture and Bauhaus pattern to early abstract painting and outsider design yet the overall effect is perhaps nearer to some kind of hand-made museum of natural history, an invented 'natural science' of sorts that champions the simple pleasures of making, collecting and living among selective objects as part of daily life. His small scale sculptures often appear fragile and at the same time embody a certain solidity, sometimes being carved from a single piece of wood, playing with the idea of gravity, image, scale, with a deceptively simple form. 

For the exhibition at Grass Harp, Antony will present a selection of all new, small scale sculptures, alongside a special edition box, which refers directly to the making and cataloguing of these items, as well as including an even-smaller version of one sculptural element, like a sample piece or offshoot.


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Grass Harp 002 - Finisage

Grass Harp 002 
Daniel Kupferberg - Speicher:

 
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FINISAGE
Freitag 7. Juli, 19.00 Uhr
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Um 20.30 wird eine Performance von Kathrin Köster und Daniel Kupferberg in Zusammenarbeit mit Theda Weber-Lucks geboten, klanglich begleitet durch Elisabeth Ruhe (Flöte) und Gustavo Alfaix (Radios).

Zwischendurch präsentiere Daniel Kupferberg eine prä-Version eines kommenden Ausstellungsdokumentation-/Kartoffelfanzine-heftes. In Verbindung hiermit stellt die darin beitragende Künstlerin Marta Leite ihr Heft "Uma Batata Enjaulada" (Eine liegende Kartoffel) von 2012 zum ersten Mal öffentlich vor.


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FINISAGE
Friday 7th July, 7pm
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At 8.30pm Kathrin Köster and Daniel Kupferberg in collaboration with Theda Weber-Lucks will stage a new performance with additional sounds by Elisabeth Ruhe (flute) and Gustavo Alfaix (radios).

Also, a pre-version of an upcoming exhibition documentation/potato fanzine booklet will be presented. Joining Daniel Kupferberg is the contributing artist Marta Leite who will (for the first time in public) read from her booklet "Uma Batata Enjaulada" (A Laying Potato) from 2012. 

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Grass Harp 002 - Archiv-outsourcing auf rutschigem Grund

Grass Harp 002
Daniel Kupferberg - Speicher:

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Archiv-outsourcing auf rutschigem Grund   
mit Materialbeständen von Dieter Lunt und Daniel Kupferberg
zu Gast: Theda Weber-Lucks & Alice Escher

Donnerstag 29. Juni, 19.30 Uhr
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Das Werkstatt-Gespräch ist Teil der Ausstellung Grass Harp 002 Daniel Kupferberg - Speicher: und wird wird in deutscher Sprache geführt.

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dk@danielkupferberg.dk

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Nachlässe aus dem Tresor, Paralleluniversen, Weitergang 

Als Ausgangspunkt schauen wir uns Auszüge aus dem Nachlass von dem bildenden Künstler Dieter Lunt (1967-2008) an, der über Jahre mit Theda Weber-Lucks befreundet gewesen ist: Unveröffentlichte und für die Welt bislang unzugängliche Skizzenbücher aus dem Tresor. Was könnte die Nachwelt damit anstellen? Daraus folgen viele weitere offene Fragen: Die Sperrigkeit des Mediums - wie kann sie ausgestellt werden, wie vermittelt? Gibt es Wege über die “gängige” Praxis, im Stile von Best Of Cobain-Faximiles, hinaus diese Bücher zugänglich zu machen? Was ist dieses Format, welches konventioneller Weise zwischen zwei Buchdeckeln sich ausspielt, überhaupt? Und wie hängt das alles zusammen mit Themenkomplexen die auch in der aktuellen Ausstellung Speicher: allgemein als offene Bearbeitungsfragen in den Raum gestellt werden: Archiv, Prozess, Werkzeug, Digitalisierung, Überschreibung, Transkription, Gesamtwerkkonzepte, usw.? 

Neben Theda Weber-Lucks (multidiszipläre und experimentell-forschende Musikwissenschaftlerin und Musikpädagogin (2008 Dissertation über vokale Performancekunst)/zwischendurch Brezelbäckerin und Kulturverantalterin in Quebéc (2008-2014)/Leiterin des Fachbereichs Neue Musik and der Leo Kerstenberg Musikschule in Berlin) ist für das Gespräch Alice Escher eingeladen, eine berliner Künstlerin die in Performances, Videos und Hörspiele u.a. mit Sprache, experimentelle Vermittlung und idiosynkratische Gedankenvernetzungen arbeitet.
 
Der Raum ist leider nur bedingt Rollstuhlzugänglich.


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The Slipperyness of Archival Outsourcing  
with material stocks of Dieter Lunt and Daniel Kupferberg special guests: Theda Weber-Lucks & Alice Escher

Thursday 29th June, 7.30pm

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The workshop-talk is part of the exhibition Grass Harp 002 Daniel Kupferberg - Speicher: and will be in German.

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dk@danielkupferberg.dk 
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Estates from the Vault, Parallel Universes, Proceedings 

As a starting point, we will have a look at outtakes of the estate of the visual artist Dieter Lunt (1967-2008), a long time friend of Theda Weber-Lucks: So far unpublished and inaccessible sketch books from the vaults. What ways could the afterworld approach this? Several open questions follow: The medium is bulky - how can one exhibit it, how to mediate it? Could there be ways of making these books accessible beyond the “established” practice of making Best of Cobain-style faximiles? What is this format, which conventionally takes places between two book covers, in the first place? And how is this all connected to the wealth of thematic webs which also are being questioned in the current exhibition of Speicher: — archive, process, tool, digitalisation, over-writing, transcription, concepts of gesamtwerk, etc.? 

Joining our guest Theda Weber-Lucks (multidisciplinary and experimentally researching musicologist and music teacher (dissertation on vocal performance art 2008)/from 2008-2014 brezel maker and cultural event organiser in Quebéc/currently head of the department of New Music at the Leo Kerstenberg School of Music, Berlin) is Alice Escher, an artist residing in Berlin who in performances, videos and audio pieces works with language, experimental mediation and idiosyncratic thought-interlinking.
 
Unfortunately the space is only partially wheel chair accessible