April 28–December 4, 2022
at dawn
April 28–December 4, 2022, JSC Berlin
Opening: April 27, 4–10pm
The group exhibition at dawn draws connections between techniques of image production and the social and political work that goes into imagining alternatives to what the late Cuban American thinker José Esteban Muñoz called our “poisonous and insolvent” present. The show seeks to express a sense of art’s utopian horizon—a generative space of desire, experimentation, and queer relationality aligned with what he described as “ecstatic time.” Featuring 25 works that range from early performance videos by Joan Jonas to the allegorical and animated worlds of Jacolby Satterwhite, the exhibition insists on the possibility of “something else, something better, something dawning.” More
at dawn features works by the artists Heike Baranowsky, Rosa Barba, Carol Bove, A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner, Cassandra Press, DIS, Barbara Hammer, Jeppe Hein, Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, Joan Jonas, Mary Lucier, Anthony McCall, Precious Okoyomon, Jacolby Satterwhite, Cauleen Smith, and Wolfgang Tillmans.
The exhibition is accompanied by a magazine with texts by hannah baer, Hera Chan, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Sarah Davachi, Amber J. Esseiva, Olamiju Fajemisin, Leo Goldsmith, Sanja Grozdanić, Gracie Hadland, Erich Kessel Jr., Dana Kopel, Andrea Lis- soni, Trisha Low, Cauleen Smith, Gloria Sutton, Maxi Wallenhorst, and Simon Wu.
Curators: Lisa Long with Julia Stoschek
Curatorial Assistant: Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser: Piña, Why is the Sky Blue?
April 28–December 4, 2022, JSC Berlin
Opening: April 27, 4–10pm
Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? is an affirming techno-feminist vision of a future in which ancestral knowledge and new technologies converge. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the titular video/virtual-reality installation (2021), a speculative documentary that narrates the story of a spiritual medium known as Piña. As both an embodied being and a form of artificial intelligence, Piña is able to receive and collect inherited knowledge, messages, and dreams in order to secure their survival. The show featuring this newly acquired installation marks the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Berlin-based artists Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser. The exhibition is accompanied by a publication featuring an interview between the artists and curator Lisa Long and an essay by London-based writer Alex Quicho. More
Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? is part of a new initiative at JSC Berlin: a dedicated gallery for the presentation of a recent acquisition of work by emerging artists.
Supported by Team Global.
Curator: Lisa Long
Curatorial Assistant: Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
Tropical Anthology, a singing dinner, by Caique Tizzi
April 28, 7:30pm, JSC Berlin, tickets
In celebration of the group exhibition at dawn—and responding to the conceptual parameters of Piña, Why is the Sky Blue? by Stephanie Comilang and Simon Speiser—Berlin-based artist Caique Tizzi will stage a multi-course performative dinner titled Tropical Anthology, a singing dinner.
Hosted in the exhibition space, guests will experience an evening of food, song, and poetry revolving around fruit, plants, spices, and edibles from tropical latitudes, including the pineapple (piña), which is not only central to Comilang and Speiser’s installation but to the individual artists’ personal histories between the Philippines, Ecuador, and Brazil. More
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