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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Study for embroidery_III, 2015
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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Study for embroidery_I, 2015
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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Study for embroidery_IV, 2015
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (29), 2015.
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Dorota Gaweda, 'catgirl_and_naga_play_time_by_remittance' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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'Agatha 1.2.0.1 — chapter 1. veranda //// night of rapture' (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Left to right : Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'sexbots with sufficient artificial intelligence to manage pillowtalk and a fag afterward' (2015) and 'Black-necked swan' (2015); Egle Kulbokaite 'Ai belong to Ai, Ai am attached to Ai by one of Ai extremities' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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'Agatha 1.2.0.1 — chapter 1. veranda //// night of rapture' (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
I
Clémence de La Tour du Pin, ‘Ai now have interesting people to meet, they have financial freedom so Ai are nit concerned about relationships breaking down. Ai have business travel’ (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
J
Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'Ai caress the slope of the wings. She makes a dildo that resembles a dolphin' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
K
Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'Agatha 1.2.0.1' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
L
Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'Ai has to stop Ai-self from pausing to relish the excitement as Ai begin to swallow a rosy-fingered dawn' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'Agatha 1.2.0.1' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Agatha 1.2.0.1 - chapter 1. veranda //// night of rapture, 'Untitled' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Dorota Gaweda, 'heed-less, needless, aimless, careless, thoughtless, amok - teenagers in sympoesis' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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'Agatha 1.2.0.1 — chapter 1. veranda //// night of rapture' (2015). Exhibition view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Dorota Gaweda, 'snake_woman_exfoltiation_elf_hybrid_by_sincere12-d5yrow5' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
R
Dorota Gaweda, 'sincere12-d5yrow5_skincrawl_elf_hybrid_by_snake_woman' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
S
Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'eventually lifting Ai off the ground as Ai open jaws moved ever downward' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
T
Dorota Gaweda. 'topical landscape - disambiguation' (2015). Install view. Courtesy Center, Berlin.
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Egle Kulbokaite, 'Head upturned to the stars, eyes squeezing shut, Ai voice gets muffled in Anemone's throat' (2015) Install view. Hilton. Berlin.
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Egle Kulbokaite, 'Head upturned to the stars, eyes squeezing shut, Ai voice gets muffled in Anemone's throat' (2015). Install view. Hilton. Berlin.
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (5), 2015
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (6), 2015
Y
Dorota Gaweda, 'commission__snake_tf___sabithasuki_by_luxianne-d5n695c' (2015). Install view. Hilton. Berlin.
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (8), 2015
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (10), 2015
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (11), 2015
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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'because neither the vagina nor the world, and not even Ai body, are any longer places where Ai can live' (2015). Install view. Hilton. Berlin.
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Clémence de La Tour du Pin, 'because neither the vagina nor the world, and not even Ai body, are any longer places where Ai can live' (2015). Install view. Hilton. Berlin.
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Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (14), 2015

Agatha 1.2.0.1 (2015) @ Center / Hilton documentation

, 20 July 2015

Agatha 1.2.0.1 takes place in two parts. Split across Center, Berlin, and the Berlin Hilton, the project explores the possibilities created by Agatha Valkyrie Ice; a post-gender, digital-only figure, given form in ‘Chapter 1’ through sculptures, digital prints and scents, and in ‘Chapter 2’, the carefully-staged cavorting of a cast of pastel-clad androdgynous nymphs, sharing a room in the Berlin Hilton with themselves and further works.

‘Chapter 1’ was exhibited at Center, from the April 2 to 23; uncompromisingly synthetic materials providing the canvas for similarly un-artisanal modes of production, with PVC as a canvas for digital prints, lasercut cabling casing above careful messes of odour – patchouli and Red Bull, dead flowers and bathwater.

Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (5), 2015
Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (5), 2015.

Each chapter carefully references the other; the Hilton logo appearing in wall-based prints, spoiled bath-towels coiled in the patches of disorder that seem to illustrate the prints and sculptures they lie beside. They’re the outcome of a collaboration between Berlin-based artists Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite. A shared preoccupation with the reshuffling of conventional exhibition spaces sees them co-opting the styled, gauche anonymity of a semi-luxury hotel room in ‘Chapter 2’, for a performance/exhibition that exists only in its online documentation.

Skinny boys and girls in turtle-necks preen and sniff one another – the specially made smells (contributed by International Flavors & Fragrances) that constitute part of the controlled messes in ‘Chapter 1’ clearly at play here – in an environment totally and consciously removed from sensory physical experience. The other artworks blend in with the stainless steel and marble effect well enough that the ubiquitous uncanny of the hotel room is thrown into starker-than normal relief, through the screen. **

The Agatha 1.2.0.1 project was on at Berlin’s Center, running April 2 to 23, 2015.

Header image: Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (29), 2015.

Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Center, Apr 2 – 23

1 April 2015

Agatha 1.2.0.1 takes place in two parts. Split across Center, Berlin, and the Berlin Hilton, the project explores the possibilities created by Agatha Valkyrie Ice; a post-gender, digital-only figure, given form in ‘Chapter 1’ through sculptures, digital prints and scents, and in ‘Chapter 2’, the carefully-staged cavorting of a cast of pastel-clad androdgynous nymphs, sharing a room in the Berlin Hilton with themselves and further works.

‘Chapter 1’ was exhibited at Center, from the April 2 to 23; uncompromisingly synthetic materials providing the canvas for similarly un-artisanal modes of production, with PVC as a canvas for digital prints, lasercut cabling casing above careful messes of odour – patchouli and Red Bull, dead flowers and bathwater.

Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (5), 2015
Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (5), 2015.

Each chapter carefully references the other; the Hilton logo appearing in wall-based prints, spoiled bath-towels coiled in the patches of disorder that seem to illustrate the prints and sculptures they lie beside. They’re the outcome of a collaboration between Berlin-based artists Clémence de la Tour du Pin, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite. A shared preoccupation with the reshuffling of conventional exhibition spaces sees them co-opting the styled, gauche anonymity of a semi-luxury hotel room in ‘Chapter 2’, for a performance/exhibition that exists only in its online documentation.

Skinny boys and girls in turtle-necks preen and sniff one another – the specially made smells (contributed by International Flavors & Fragrances) that constitute part of the controlled messes in ‘Chapter 1’ clearly at play here – in an environment totally and consciously removed from sensory physical experience. The other artworks blend in with the stainless steel and marble effect well enough that the ubiquitous uncanny of the hotel room is thrown into starker-than normal relief, through the screen. **

The Agatha 1.2.0.1 project was on at Berlin’s Center, running April 2 to 23, 2015.

Header image: Dorota Gaweda, Egle Kulbokaite and Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Agatha 1.2.0.1 @ Hilton (29), 2015.

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