Dysraphic City

Exhibition by Node Center Resident Curators – Summer 2013

Projektraum Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Vernissage: August 22, 2013, 18.00-22.00
Exhibition: August 23-24, 2013, 12.00- 17.00


RUI CALÇADA BASTOS
NORBERT BAUER/RALF TEKAAT
BENANDSEBASTIAN
LARISSA FASSLER
FELIX&MUMFORD
CYPRIEN GAILLARD
LAURA GORSKI
NADIA KAABI-LINKE
KLARA LIDÉN
SØREN LOSE 
PANAYIOTIS MICHAEL
TAIYO ONORATO AND NICO KREBS
CHRISTOPH ROTHMEIER
SHINGO YOSHIDA
JARO VARGA
ROLAND WIRTZ

Dysraphism: /dys•ra•phism/ (dis-raf´izm) [dys- +raphe +-ia ] incomplete closure of a raphe (the seam-like union of two lateral halves of an organ); defective fusion, particularly of the neural tube.

Dysraphic City is an exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien developed during a three-month residency by the eight international summer 2013 residents of the Node Center for Curatorial Studies. Dysraphic City borrows a metaphor from Charles Bernstein’s poem “Dysraphism.” Bernstein employed the term as the title for his seminal 1984 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem, highlighting the use of syntactic disjuncture to convey meaning. This exhibition repurposes the term yet again, producing a framework that reveals defective or incomplete seams in the urban landscape of Berlin.

Often described as an “unfinished” city, Berlin is characterized by abandoned and contested sites. These spaces are continuously in flux: rediscovered, reinvented and repurposed. The artists in Dysraphic City create work referencing the city through video, photography, sound installation, and mixed media projects. Appropriating the tools of archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and even criminal investigators, they produce microcosms reflecting on the unique urban experience of Berlin.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication to be launched at the opening.

Curated by: Stephanie Han, Rebecca Heidenberg, Masha McConaghy, Inês Oliveira, Juliette Premmereur, Raphael Rogenmoser, Patrícia Rosas, Charlotte Van Buylaere


Norbert Bauer / Ralf Tekaat
Der Raketenmann - Ein deutscher Superheld
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at the group exhibition Dysraphic City
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin |
22-24 August 2013

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