NOWs: Football matches and lunar landings by Euan Williams

07 April 2016 / Nows

Football matches and lunar landings, 2014, 36 min, (extract) by Euan Williams

NOWs:
Euan Williams’s Football matches and lunar landings presents a close up video of the screen of an old cathode ray television. A film is playing that slowly runs through the colour spectrum by individually charging up the red, green and blue pixels of the television’s screen. The slow shifts in pattern and colour are created by the interplay between the camera and the screen and the shifts in luminosity between the minutely separated pixels.

This is an echo of the performance Televisioning which was executed by the inhabitants of a Berlin housing block close to the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin and within the context of the Festival of Future Nows.

‘Football matches and lunar landings‘ by Euan Williams will be presented alongside documentation of ‘We Shall Survive in the Memory of Others’ by Vilém Flusser and the film ‘Salt White’ by Keti Machavariani on April 7th, 2016 at 20:00 at Werkstatt der Kulturen Berlin.

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NOWs: Azimut by Raul Walch

08 April - 19 June 2016 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: The title “Azimut” comes from the Arabic word “azimuth” and can be described as “paths”. In astronomy, it is the angle between the meridian plane and vertical plane defining the height of a star. Whether interpreted as a path, as an arch or as a bridge, “Azimut” describes connections that Raul Walch introduces in the context of his exhibition at Kunstverein Arnsberg. Raul Walch developed and tested series of “rescue kites” together with children and adults at the Greece border. His rescue kites are a type of flying lighthouses and can serve as solar reflectors, as a marker to attract attention of coast guards and be used to locate and rescue a shipwrecked person. The materials are found on site in the camps and their surroundings: the PVC of boats, tent poles, tent fabrics, and the reflectors of lifejackets. The azimut rescue kites fly with the wind, across the borders, the fences and the barbed wire, thus “Azimut” signals hope of freedom. raulwalch.net NOWs: Das Wort Azimut stammt aus dem Arabischen und lässt sich als “die Wege“ übersetzen. In der Astronomie bezeichnet es den Winkel zwischen der Meridianebene und der die Höhe eines Gestirns definierenden Vertikalebene. Ob als Weg, Bogen oder Brücke, das Azimut in der Ausstellung im Kunstverein Arnsberg beschreibt eine Verbindung. Raul Walch hat eine Serie von “Rescue Kites“ entwickelt und zusammen mit Kindern und Erwachsenen an der griechischen Grenze getestet. Seine Rettungsdrachen sind eine Art von fliegenden Leuchttürmen und können als Sonnenreflektoren zur Orientierung, als Markierung für die Küstenwache und für die Ortung und Rettung von Schiffbrüchigen dienen. Die verwendeten Materialien stammen aus den Camps und deren Umgebung: das PVC der Boote, die Zeltstangen, die Zeltstoffe und die Reflektoren der Rettungswesten. Die “Azimuts“ konnten mit dem Wind über die Grenzzäune und den Stacheldraht hinweg fliegen und so zu einem Zeichen der Freiheit werden. raulwalch.net

NOWs: My boy, with such boots we may hope to travel far by Alvaro Urbano

24 March - 05 June 2016 / Nows ⟶

NOWs: In several locations in Tirolo and on the Tiroler Steig reaching Merano, Alvaro Urbano has placed a series of 15 concrete sculptures in the shape of the rune symbols of the cryptogram of Jules Verne’s famous book Journey to the Center of the Earth. During the spring of 1863, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, the main character of the novel – who believes in the existence of volcanic tubes that connect to the centre of the Earth – discovers a mysterious manuscript entirely written in runic alphabet, which offers an important key to unveil the path to the centre of the Earth. Considering how important the runes are as a pre-historical relict in the area of Tirolo, an interesting interchange between fiction and reality emerges. The sculptures are scattered along the path that leads from Merano to Tirolo, and in different locations of the village, as the main park and the market square. Visitors and passers-by will discover the sculptures while walking, becoming, almost by chance, the characters of Jules Verne’s famous novel. The sculptures are made in concrete and other local stone material. Moss will slowly grow on them. The sculptures can be discovered as part of the second edition of Art & Nature titled Walking with Senses held between March 24 and June 5, 2016 in Merano and the surrounding villages Naturno, Scena and Tirolo, curated by the team of BAU. Alvaro Urbano My Boy, with Such Boots we may Hope to Travel Far, 2016 Concrete, metal, local minerals and vegetation. Variable dimensions. Art & Nature 2016. Permanent public sculpture. Merano – Dorf Tyrol Photos by Daniel Mazza and Alvaro Urbano NOWs: In several locations in Tirolo and on the Tiroler Steig reaching Merano, Alvaro Urbano has placed a series of 15 concrete sculptures in the shape of the rune symbols of the cryptogram of Jules Verne’s famous book Journey to the Center of the Earth. During the spring of 1863, Professor Otto Lidenbrock, the main character of the novel – who believes in the existence of volcanic tubes that connect to the centre of the Earth – discovers a mysterious manuscript entirely written in runic alphabet, which offers an important key to unveil the path to the centre of the Earth. Considering how important the runes are as a pre-historical relict in the area of Tirolo, an interesting interchange between fiction and reality emerges. The sculptures are scattered along the path that leads from Merano to Tirolo, and in different locations of the village, as the main park and the market square. Visitors and passers-by will discover the sculptures while walking, becoming, almost by chance, the characters of Jules Verne’s famous novel. The sculptures are made in concrete and other local stone material. Moss will slowly grow on them. The sculptures can be discovered as part of the second edition of Art & Nature titled Walking with Senses held between March 24 and June 5, 2016 in Merano and the surrounding villages Naturno, Scena and Tirolo, curated by the team of BAU. Alvaro Urbano My Boy, with Such Boots we may Hope to Travel Far, 2016 Concrete, metal, local minerals and vegetation. Variable dimensions. Art & Nature 2016. Permanent public sculpture. Merano – Dorf Tyrol Photos by Daniel Mazza and Alvaro Urbano

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