With Stine Eriksen, Lisha and Valeria Schwarz
Invited guest: Peer Golo Willi

November 30th 2011, 7.00 pm 

Following the talk series Arts and Conversation, Katerina Valdivia Bruch presents Remapping Words, an artist talk about the spatialisation of the word in contemporary arts.
 
Sometimes words become the staging of symbolic spaces, that attempt to change reality. This is one of the aims of the piece Resignation by Lisha, a work that follows a strategy of redirecting a meaning by altering or adding words. The artist intervenes in the public space subverting the rules that organise it.
Lisha (*1981, Madrid) works almost exclusively in urban spaces. She lives and works between Madrid and Buenos Aires.
 
With the work Investir, Valeria Schwarz created a participatory and dialogic piece based on three months of Facebook and online chats with people from North African countries. Taking some of the  phrases of their conversations, the artist inserted them in daily life situations in the city of Murcia, Spain. With this, these sentences acquired another meaning through the new geographical context in which they were presented.
Valeria Schwarz (*1980, Eldorado, Argentina) graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca. Her arts practice is based on a multidisciplinary approach, with a special interest on the development of psycho-geographical temporary spaces. She lives and works in Berlin.

Using subtitles, Stine Eriksen creates in the video Choreography # 1 a tension between the word and its display, showing the impossibility of words to fill the absence on which language is based.
The artist will present this piece in a conversation with Peer Golo Willi.
Stine Eriksen (*1981, Copenhagen) develops her artistic work using mainly video and photography, questioning the concept of progress inherited from the industrial age. She lives and works in Berlin and Copenhagen.
Peer Golo Willi (*1977, Bergisch Gladbach) is a Berlin-based art historian and art critic. Besides working for the Sammlung Hoffmann, he works as a freelance journalist and curator.

The talk will be held in English and German.