Berlin
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) are a Berlin-based artist duo who have worked together since 2006. They produce film installations that revisit recent and past material (a score, a piece of music, a film, a photograph or a performance), with a particular focus on a critical history of the photographic and moving image itself.
The duo works with performance to create embodiments which are able to conflate different times and they often create illegitimate collaborations – partly fictitious, partly cross-temporal. Their work ''To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, In Recognition of their Desperation'' (2013) is based on the eponymous 1970 score by avant-garde feminist composer
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016) was an American composer, accordionist and a central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music.
She was a founding member of the San Francisco Tape Music Center ...
, filmed in Funkhaus Nalepastraße, the former GDR Radio studios in Berlin, and featuring performances from the musicians Ray Aggs,
Peaches
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Catriona Shaw
Miss le bomb is the pseudonym of artist and musician Catriona Shaw (born in Edinburgh, Scotland). After finishing her studies at Edinburgh College of Art in 1997 she moved to Munich, Germany to continue her studies at the Munich Academy of Fine ...
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Verity Susman
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Music career
Following classical piano, clarinet and sax ...
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Ginger Brooks Takahashi
Ginger Brooks Takahashi (born July 26, 1977) is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, and North Braddock, Pennsylvania. A self-identified “punk,” Takahashi grew up in Oregon. She co-founded the feminist genderqueer collective and jou ...
, and William Wheeler. The work had its premiere exhibition as part of their solo show ''Patriarchal Poetry'' at Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, in Autumn 2013 and was shown at
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, New York, in a special event with the artists, Oliveros and
Gregg Bordowitz
Gregg Bordowitz (born August 14, 1964) is a writer, artist, and activist currently working as a professor in the Video, New Media, and Animation department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Biography
Gregg Bordowitz was born August 1 ...
in May 2014. In ''I Want'' they stage a meeting between punk poet
Kathy Acker
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, artist Sharon Hayes, and transgender- and prison-abolitionist activist
Chelsea Manning
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, who, in 2010, channeled classified information about the war in
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WikiLeaks
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. The performers in their films are choreographers, dancers, artists and musicians, with whom they are having a long-term conversation about performance, the meaning of visibility since early modernity, the pathologization of bodies, but also about companionship, glamour and resistance.
Recent retrospectives and solo exhibitions have included ''Improvisation télépathique'', at Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2018; ''Everybody talks about the weather... we don't'' at Participant Inc., New York, 2017; ''Loving, Repeating'',
Kunsthalle Wien
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, Vienna, 2015; ''Portrait of an Eye'', Kunstalle Zürich, Zürich, 2015; ''Aftershow'', CAPC, Bordeaux, 2013; ''Toxic Play in Two Acts'',
South London Gallery
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Palacio de Cristal
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The Palacio de Cristal, in the shape of a Greek cross, is made almost entirely of glass set in an iron framework on a brick base, which ...
.
Their work has been written about by writers and critics including
André Lepecki
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Gregg Bordowitz
Gregg Bordowitz (born August 14, 1964) is a writer, artist, and activist currently working as a professor in the Video, New Media, and Animation department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Biography
Gregg Bordowitz was born August 1 ...
, Antke Engel and Mathias Danbolt. Their catalogues include ''Telepathic Improvisation'', published by
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
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dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual ...
, 2018, ''I Want'', published by Sternberg Press, 2015; ''Aftershow'', published by Sternberg Press, 2014, and ''Temporal Drag'', published by
Hatje Cantz
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Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz are represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam, and Marcelle Alix, Paris.