Conversations and Activities on the Subjects Space & Love
May 4, 2010
The German Issue – An evening dedicated to the Berlin Wall
Annette Weisser and Sylvère Lotringer will present The German Issue, read selected passages and engage with the audience in a non-nostalgic revision of the 1980s.
SALON POPULAIRE
Bülowstr. 90
10783 Berlin, Germany
E-Mail: info [at] salonpopulaire.de
http://www.salonpopulaire.de
SALON POPULAIRE is a meeting point for conversations on art and neighboring topics, and for the convergence of different ideas, positions and contexts. Conceived as an informal social space with bar and kitchen and programmed along the two leitmotifs space and love at the same time, it can actively be re-defined and –used by and with its guests according to the respective needs.
SALON POPULAIRE is envisioned both on the basis of and as a rupture with the history of the salon, and, above all, it is a place at which knowledge is generated and exchanged. As a semi-public space, it allows differing utilizations, spanning the privacy of an apartment to the public of an institution. We want to experiment with formats which both intend to break the hierarchical forms of traditional presentations, podium discussions and seminars on the one hand, and the increasingly popular category of the event on the other, and which exceed the private talk at home, at a café or a at dinner with friends in a restaurant. A prerequisite is: the currently ruling situation in the art context of ‘one talks, the others listen’, is to be suspended, and the audience as a mere witness of the production of cultural surplus value should be abolished. In contrast to this, we understand the SALON POLULAIRE as an invitation for joint debate.
SALON POPULAIRE is a project by THE OFFICE (Ellen Blumenstein) and Arthur Berlin (Tanja Schomaker); spacial conception in collaboration with raumlaborberlin (Markus Bader)
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LOVE & SPACE
PROGRAM
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LOVE & SPACE
To begin with, SALON POPULAIRE follows two thematic threads which evolve out of the composition of the project itself. On the one hand, we are interested in current conceptions and the handling of space, which have given important impulses to the content and the formal direction of the salon. Out of this, we have developed preliminary key questions which deal with the production conditions in the arts and other fields: Which/where are the spaces for thinking and the presentation of art today? How do they look like? Which (social) functions can they perform? In which way do they inscribe themselves into urban space?
The second topic love has emerged out of the social function of the salon. Personal and/or private bonds form a natural part of the art system today, a division between ‘private’ and ‘professional’ is even less possible here than in other fields (or it is even unwanted). Dealing with these relationships is problematic insofar, as they are an immanent part of the exploitation logic in the capitalist system, and thus are automatically purposeful. In the salon, we follow the thesis that love nevertheless, and still has the transforming (and maybe the revolutionary) potential to break open the rigid polarity of advantage/profit and pure disinterestedness, and that the basic principles of solidarity, support, care and trust, et.al., which come along with love, are preconditions for meaningful working and living.
PROGRAM
The program always starts at 8 p.m. & the bar will be open.
4.5.2010
The German Issue – An evening dedicated to the Berlin Wall
Annette Weisser and Sylvère Lotringer will present The German Issue, read selected passages and engage with the audience in a non-nostalgic revision of the 1980s.
5.5.2010
Drama Queens
A play by Elmgreen & Dragset
With Text by Tim Etchells; Screening
19.5.2010
Behind the Codes – Film City Berlin #1
A series of mises-en-scène by Florian Wüst (in German language)
26.5.2010
Sozialistische Einheiz Party I
Selected by Jeans Teamn and Machínes Désirantes.
Stay tuned for details: uniforms, dances, harangues…
2.6.2010; Caution! Different starting time! 6 p.m.
LOVE∞SPACE
An evening brought to you by Ana Teixeira Pinto; followed by Dinner, Drinks and DJ Julieta Aranda!
With Armen Avanessian, Julieta Aranda, April Lamm, Franz von Stauffenberg, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Jennifer Allen, Vincenzo Latronico, Gernot Wieland, Annika Larsson, Jan Peter Hammer
9.6.2010
Praise of laziness
A conversation with Mladen Stilinovic
16.6.2010
Use and abuse of Science Fiction. An Introduction
by Doreet Harten
22.6.2010
Escape forward – Film City Berlin #2
A series of mises-en-scène by Florian Wüst (in German language)
30.6.2010
Sozialistische Einheiz Party I
Selected by Jeans Teamn and Machínes Désirantes.
Stay tuned for details: uniforms, dances, harangues…
Supported by: kunstsaele / http://www.kunstsaele.org
Media partner: cineplus / http://www.cine-plus.de
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SALON POPULAIRE/ Bülowstr. 90 / 10783 Berlin
E-Mail: info [at] salonpopulaire.de
Web: http://www.salonpopulaire.de