Bienales

10th Berlin Biennale Weekend Program

09 junio 2018 - 09 septiembre 2018

Akademie der Künste, HAU, KW, Volksbühne Pavilion, ZK/U / Berlin, Alemania

Check out the 10th Berlin Biennale Program for the weekend (15/06 – 18/06):

FRIDAY, 15.6.2018

6–7 pm
Kelektla! Library
Thath’i Cover Okestra Vol. 5: 17 July to 12 September 1977. Lebo Mathosa is born. Steve Biko is assassinated
Artist talk, listening session and signing of vinyls
Free admission, in English
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin

8 pm
Kelektla! Library
Thath’i Cover Okestra Vol. 5: 17 July to 12 September 1977. Lebo Mathosa is born. Steve Biko is assassinated
Music performance by Ambuya Stella Chiweshe, Ayanda Zalekile, Masello Motana, Mma Tseleng, Simphiwe Tshabalala, Tiko Ngobeni, Yonela Mnana, and Zweli Mthembu
15 €, reduced 10 €
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2), Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin

HAU Hebbel am Ufer and the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art address the symbolic-acoustic speculations revolving around Kwaito. This eclectic musical movement, which reached its high point in South Africa in the early 1990s, opened up a room for young people to experience a global sound full of political, economic and philosophical meanings.

The Thath’i Cover Okestra affiliated with the interdisciplinary and independent research and media art collective Keleketla! Library from Johannesburg explores Kwaito’s history (or histories), not least through the lens of the internationally acclaimed mbira virtuoso Ambuya Stella Chiweshe.

SATURDAY, 16.6.2018

3 pm
Andros Zins-Browne in collaboration with Will Rawls
The Tony Cokes Remixes No 1
Choreographic remix
Free admission with exhibition ticket
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin

For his exhibition during the 10th Berlin Biennale, Tony Cokes has invited choreographer Andros Zins-Browne to create two “choreographic remixes” of his video works.

The first will be made in collaboration with choreographer Will Rawls in response to Cokes’ Mikrohaus, or the black atlantic? (2006–08) and Black Celebration (1988). In the works, acts of looting during the Watts riots, debates over appropriation in Techno music, and hysteria around the pre-Christmas sales on Black Friday are juxtaposed.

The Thath’i Cover Okestra affiliated with the interdisciplinary and independent research Keleketla! Library from Johannesburg explores Kwaito’s history (or histories), not least through the lens of the internationally acclaimed mbira virtuoso Ambuya Stella Chiweshe. An exhibition and a Houseclub with pupils from Hector-Peterson-School will also be dedicated to the history of Kwaito.

SUNDAY, 17.6.2018

3 pm
Andros Zins-Browne in collaboration with choreographer Will Rawls
The Tony Cokes Remixes No 1
Choreographic remix
Free admission with exhibition ticket
ZK/U – Center for Art and Urbanistics, Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin

For his exhibition during the 10th Berlin Biennale, Tony Cokes has invited choreographer Andros Zins-Browne to create two “choreographic remixes” of his video works.

MONDAY, 18.6.2018

3–5 pm
Mittlungsradio
Open radio station
Free admission, in German
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, mediation studio, right wing groundfloor, Auguststraße 69, 10117

For the Mittlungsradio project, an artistic and collaborative format, artist Anton Kats explores and presents the voices and stories of residents at a senior citizen’s facility through workshops, radio interventions, and an installation. Using narrowcast radio, which has a limited transmission range, residents are invited to work hands-on with the medium of radio to develop their own mobile, open, and sustainable radio station and thus be part of the 10th Berlin Biennale program. The Mittlungsradio transmissions reflect on and address the themes of the 10th Berlin Biennale such as visibility and alternative knowledge transfer through the eyes of older people.