With a series of Open Minute Events: Open Minute #1 on Sunday March 10 at 7.30pm and Open Minute #2 on Monday May 20 at 7:30pm. All are welcome to join.

Minute/Year is an automated, multi-year, sound-based durational installation work. For the entirety of 2019 — beginning on January 1, and continuing until December 31 — it is installed in grüntaler9, for its fourth annual iteration. 

Minute/Year is an automated, multi-year, sound-based durational installation work. For the entirety of 2019 — beginning on January 1, and continuing until December 31 — it is installed in grüntaler9, for its fourth annual iteration. 

Every day, for one minute, Minute/Year adds a new layer. A daily process occurs: the sound that is happening at grüntaler9 during one single minute is recorded. But, simultaneously, the previous day’s recording – of the sound of the same space, 24 hours before – is played back into the space. So, each recording includes its predecessor, which includes its predecessor in turn, and so on, in a potentially infinite regression. Each day’s minute-long recording is then converted into a spectrogram – an image of the frequencies of the audio — and the two parts are then published online.

This entire process is automated and runs daily at 20:19 (in 2019). Through this daily three-step process, the sounds of daily life — of human and non-human activities, large and small — become material for a layered index, which develops, mutates and degrades over time, a kind of repeating surveillance turned inside-out. Minute/Year is partly an online archive, partly an accumulating layering process, and partly a multi-year durational sound installation.

Minute/Year began on January 1, 2016, and has generated compelling sounds and images for one minute each day ever since, in an accumulating, serial process. It has no set ending date.

Kovács/O’Doherty (Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty) have worked as a collaborative duo since 2011. Their work combines elements of durational and time-based art, minimalist and electroacoustic music and sound, movement, and video. This work often applies rigorous processes to simple but frequently-overlooked phenomena — they are interested in processes, sounds, and movements that come close to imperceptibility, and the ways in which this material can be transformed through layering, rhythm, pattern, and repetition.

Foto: Nina Isabelle

APA-B # Sharing Practices invites to MARSH, a presentation of sorts from Esther Neff

Tuesday 18 September 2018 from 7-10pm at grüntaler9 – all are welcome

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Esther Neff has flown over the ocean to be with us, and to share her work and knowledge from years as a turbo force – organizer, activist, performer and curator at Panoply Performance Laboratory in Brooklyn – an important hub for performance art and social action which has a long relationship with APA-B and Grüntaler9. The space has now been sold and is entering it’s final months of existence as PPL. On Tuesday Esther will share her reflections (a presentation of sorts) about this transition, and will talk about her new space, MARSH, which is being built, envisioned and gardened by many hands in St. Louis, Missouri. Come!

About PANOPLY:

PPL performs operations (opera, performance art, digital, interactive and sonic artworks, video, sculpture, social projects, life-art projects) initiated/situated/structured/written/composed/fabricated/designed and performed by Esther Neff, often in collaboration with a flexible ensemble, other artists and organizers, members of local and global communities, and publics of individuals. PPL has often performed across experimental philosophy, music, dance, theater, activist, and visual arts contexts.Read more: http://www.panoplylab.org/

About MARSH:

MARSH (Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus) is a not-for-profit organized as a cooperative laboratory for practical investigation of rooted and relational forms of social, economic, ecological, and cultural composition. As a performative commons, the Laboratory combines urban farming and food-sharing, artistic and cultural practices, and collective ideation and experimentation in order to cultivate diversiform tactics and strategies for resilience and bio-cultural (in/re)formation. Read more: https://marshlife-art.org/

About ESTHER Neff:

„I am not a specialized, efficient, or productive function of social reproduction or a representation/representative of capital(ist) value(s). I am a relatively medium-sized animal which has not been properly domesticated. Sure, I know how to use Microsoft Excel and make a blueberry pie. Materializing meaningfulness, however, is a social operation, requiring some marking motions as intentional cognizing, semblative enaction of ideals, and coping tactics within and as affective (dis)orders.“

Esther Neff is the founder of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL), a thinktank and collaborative entity generating performances-as-art, situations, operas of operations, performance of and as theory, social research projects, and discursive social settings such as conferences, symposia, meetings, festivals, exhibitions, and shows. PPL operates as work by Neff and collaborators and as a public lab site in Brooklyn, NY.

Neff is the organizer of PERFORMANCY FORUM and a is member of Feminist Art Group (FAG), Social Health Performance Club, No Wave Performance Task Force. Frequent collaborators include Brian McCorkle, Kaia Gilje, Leili Huzaibah, Maria Hupfield and IV Castellanos, and many others. Neff is also the “initiator” of the Brooklyn International Performance Art Foundation (BIPAF). Organizational, collective, institutional, and relational configuration becomes hybrid dramatics (theater/theory) when conflated, correlated, and co-constructive with performance-as-art. Read more: https://estherneff.wordpress.com/

Learn more about the Association for Performance Art – Berlin:
https://apa-b.org/
https://www.facebook.com/APArtBerlin/

On Saturday 11 August 49 people will perform for LEGS NINE at grüntaler9 during the Project Space Festival Berlin.

THE FINAL ARTIST LIST IS OUT NOW!

Visitors may come and go, and stay as long as they like.
Yes, there will be beer.

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Upcoming Events at grüntaler9:

In July 2018 performance artist Sandra Johnston will visit Berlin and perform – detailed program will follow.

From August 1st to 4th 2018 grüntaler9 will collaborate with the uferstudios for ausufern 2018 – detailed program will follow.

On August 11th, 2018 the space will participate at the Project Space Festival Berlin 2018 – detailed program will follow.

TAKE the CAKE : The Sponge By April Gertler

Thursday July 13, 2017 at grüntaler9.

All are welcome. No reservation needed.

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This performance lecture runs within the program of the Berlin Food Art Week 2017. The whole program and more information about BFAW online.

TAKE THE CAKE: The Sponge is a Lecture Performance meets Cooking Show. By using the structure of the Cooking Show, the platform explores this year’s topic of Food Art Week, vs. Meat. The Sponge includes a mix of the practicalities of how to actually make a Sponge Cake combined with a feminist discourse discussing the political, social, historical and nutritional implications of the egg, not only as an ingredient but as a key biological element in human reproduction.

April Gertler is an American artist who has been living and working in Berlin since 2005. April’s work is preoccupied with the idea of the experience of a communal moment as an access point. That point of departure is, but not limited to, the making of things and events, occasional curation, and more currently, performance.

She has exhibited and taught internationally. April keeps a few socially engaged practices running on a month or bimonthly basis – projects which include; Sonntag (a monthly even which invites an artist to show their work and April along with her collaborator make that artist’s favortie cake), in addition to DETLEF (manchmal eine Bar, immer um 21Uhr), is co-initiated with Hannah Goldstein, Julien Villaret and Adrian Schiesser.

In September 2016 April was awarded a research grant by the city of Berlin for her newest project TAKE THE CAKE. This project mixes the lecture performance format with a baking show.

Süpperclüb Exchange with Theertha Initiative Colombo

Thursday 6 July 2017 from 6 – 10pm

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All are welcome. Food and drinks by donation.

grüntaler9 and APAB – Association for Performance Art Berlin invite for a dinner and exchange with Thisath Thoradeniya who is a core member of Theertha and an artist, and an amazing cook!

Words as appetizers: We will cook a Sri Lankan style Brinjal curry (Egg plant). Brinjal will be cooked in coconut cream and spiced up with curry powder which is a mix of Indian spices. Its mainly used in South Indian cooking and Sri Lankan cooking. Then the Dhal fry. Its going to be a bit dry. Not with gravy. Anyway we are going to cook rice.

What is Theertha?
Theertha is an autonomous, artist-led non-profit initiative based in Colombo. Theertha has undertaken considerable amount of art activities since its inception in 2000. First, started by 11 visual artists to facilitate international art exchange through international artist workshops in Sri Lanka, it has expanded its activities to include art education, publications on art/culture, heritage management through art and international residencies. Theertha established its own alternative art space ‘Red Dot Gallery’ in 2007 in order showcase the experimental and contemporary art produced within its programs.

The core objective of Theertha International Artists‘ Collective is to explore the possibilities of exchanging ideas and knowledge across ethnic, regional and artistic borders, in the context of contemporary critical art practice in Sri Lanka.

Eat Your Enemy #4 I don’t want to want (Extended Version)
Pt. 1: (Re-)Writing space and time
::::::::: by Janine Eisenächer

30 May 12-9pm
Duration: 9 hours
All are welcome at any time.

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In her lecture and sound performance Eat Your Enemy #4 I don’t want to want, Janine Eisenächer particularly deals with the invisible work of artists, with being privileged and living in precarity at the same time, and with the need for solidarity and ethics of care within the art field.
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held in the between ::::::::: by Rae Goodwin

29 May 7-8pm
The performance lasts for about one hour.
All are welcome at any time.

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There is great precarity in life and sometimes the greatest undertaking we can offer is stand up. Stand with resilience, with all of our everything to be witnessed, in silence, with determination, allowing others to see fragile humanity. Perhaps more so than ever, in the story under which we humans sway, we must stand. Continue reading article →

The desire to contain and the inevitability of rupture #3

by Johanna Gilje

May 26, 12-9pm
May 27, 12-9pm
May 28, 12-9pm
Everyone is welcome to witness at any time.

Moving backwards and forwards simultaneously. Constellating landmarks. Describing territories. Discerning vectors which reflect futures or predict pasts.

This 3 day performance is a series of collaboration duets with artists who are integral to the social fabric of grüntaler9 – a space towards the performative in Wedding, Berlin. The project is entering its 3rd phase which uses artistic methods developed through conversation as navigational instruments that we don’t (yet) know how to use.

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