Project: Einmal ist Keinmal (once is as good as never)
Dates : June-July. 2009
Location: Berlin, Germany

The final scenario of the fake or feint exhibition series deals with issues of visibility and identity, media strategies and the public space. It comprises a sound piece by the group e-Xplo in collaboration with Jaime Lutzo, an installative image-assemblage by Tom Holert, a monitor installation by Daniel Knorr as well as a double channel video installation by Eske Schlüters and Axel Gaertner.

The group e-Xplo (Erin McGonigle, Rene Gabri, Heimo Lattner) and Jaime Lutzo present their new piece „Einmal ist Keinmal“ (‚once is as good as never‘). Its starting point is the immediate surroundings of the exhibition spaces, the ‚Berlin Carré‘ at Alexanderplatz. Besides the somewhat atypical and unfunctional character of this shopping mall, as well as its role as a gathering place for certain groups such as the emo-kids or homeless people, it appears as a location where social interaction is defined by acts of buying and selling. Their most intimate form probably the payment by credit card – bearing the owners proper name.

Within this environment, e-Xplo’s work creates the possibility for an exchange of experiences. They proceed from Walter Benjamin’s short essay ‚The Storyteller‘, which itself is an outstanding example for the recounting and retelling of stories. From this essay they take the focus on the two essential figures in the act of storytelling: The storyteller is a communicator of experiences. The listener extends the life of the story by recalling it, by interpreting it, but also by adding to it, making it a part of their own experience. For their work, e-Xplo have developed two scenarios, in which the performers Robin Arthur and Angelika Sautter take these two roles and reflect on these within the course of telling two stories. Pressed as a record, they can be listened to from a loudspeaker as part of an installative setting in the exhibition space. organized by Christopher Lynn. The show explores the idea of ‘negative space’ in its formal, geographical, and political resonances.

Project: From the Archives
Dates : Sept. 2008 - 2010
Location: various (touring exhibition)

Having been invited to contribute work to an exhibition entitled 'Experimental Geography' curated by Nato Thompson, we elected to include a small selection of previous attempts by us to map the political and social conflicts through spaces, places, cities, using our work with sound. Given the fact that most of these sounds were produced to be heard in a specific site, often at a specific time, the experience of hearing this work may be disorienting. But we hope that within that disorientation, something will remain and make comprehensible our ongoing attention to the relations between noise-sound-music; site-space-place; and duration-time-history.

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