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Between home, body + psyche: Alpina Huus exhibition, performance festival + scientific symposium, Dec 16 -Jan 14

15 December 2017

The Alpina Huus project at Geneva’s Le Commun and Lausanne’s Arsenic begins December 16 and is running to January 14, 2018.

The “thinking performance and domestic space” will host two festivals; an opening one at Le Commun running December 16 and 17, and a closing one at Arsenic on January 13, an exhibition at Le Commun running December 16 to January 12, and a scientific symposium at Le Commun on January 12.

Curated by Elise Lammer and Denis Pernet, the project was first initiated in March 2015 at Berlin’s Schinkel Pavillon and explores the “many analogies between the house, and the body and psyche.” This event features over 30 participants including BonaventureGina Folly, Lou Forster, Balz IslerHanne LippardGarrett NelsonRamaya Tegegne and many more.

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Transferring the ritual of hospitality into artistic process with group effort Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat at Berlin’s Mehringplatz

20 September 2017

The Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat group exhibition at Berlin’s Mehringplatz opened September 1 and ran to September 15.

Miriam Yammad. Installation view. Courtesy of the artist(s) + Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat, Berlin.

With a premise of transferring “rituals and cultural practices of hospitality into artistic processes,” the show featured contributions by over 20 artists, including Ayami Awazuhara, Calori + Maillard, Raqs Media Collective, Sara Løve Daðadóttir, Nuray Demir, EVBG, Alexis Goertz, Lina Hermsdorf, Balz Isler + Justin F. Kennedy, Katharina Ludwig,  Tabita Rezaire, Jihad Suliman and Miriam Yammad, among others.

A series of exhibitions, performances and workshops intervened in the public plaza of Mehringplatz, as well as in neighboring shops. The title takes its reference from a work by Raqs Media Collective as a term to express both “feelings of joy as well as insecurity.”**

The Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat group exhibition at Berlin’s Mehringplatz opened September 1 to 15., 2017.

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