Letters from the Field 22–26 August 2012
Vernissage: Wednesday 22 August, 7–10pm
Visiting Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 2–8pm
Atelierhof Kreuzberg
Schleiermacherstraße 31–37
Berlin 10961
U-Bahn U7 at Gneisenaustr.
Letters from the Field is a group exhibition and publication curated
by the nine residents of the
Node Center for Curatorial Studies 2012
summer program. Letters from the Field features work by twenty artists
currently working in Berlin. The resident curators have invited artists
to respond to six contemporary topics that address histories, futures,
and fictions. The form of the artists’ responses range from written
content to video, painting, sculpture and performance.
Functioning as a conceptual framework to the exhibition, the publication
contains artists’ contributions and essays by curators in a series of
eight chapters. The book is presented in a malleable format that can be
edited by the viewer, with a chapter left partially blank for additional
responses.
These assembled elements attempt to reveal the
process of the production of ideas and critical methodologies. Through
collaboration and correspondence, Letters from the Field is an
experiment in exposing what our present is.
There will be performances by Lynda Amer Meziane and Nicolas Puyjalon at the opening reception.
The participating artists are Heba Amin, Stephan Backes, Megan Cotts,
Regina De Miguel, Kate Hers, Sharon Houkema, Klaas Hübner, Michiel
Huijben, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Lindsay Lawson, Ruth Le Gear, François
Martig, Alex Martinis Roe, Lynda Amer Meziane, Nicolas Puyjalon, Annika
Rixen, Rebecca Smith, Aiko Tezuka, Ciarán Walsh, and Ylva Westerlund.
Letters from the Field is curated by Lee Foley, Catherine Gomersall,
Gladys-Katherina Hernando, Sinejan Kılıç, Maeve Mulrennan, Iohanna
Nicenboim, Marília Pasculli, Dunja Rmandić, and Tanya Toft.
The exhibition is produced by the Node Center for Curatorial Studies, Berlin.
