benandsebastian are taking part in an exhibition organised by resident curators at the Node Center of Curatorial Studies. Exhibition opens on Thursday 22nd August, at 6pm.

Press release from Node:

DYSRAPHIC CITY

Exhibition by Node Center Resident Curators

/ Vernissage: August 22, 2013, 18.00-22.00 /

Projektraum Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Vernissage: August 22, 2013, 18.00-22.00
Exhibition: August 23-24, 2013, 12.00- 17.00
Salon: August 24, 2013, 16.00-18.00

RUI CALÇADA BASTOS 
NORBERT BAUER/RALF TEKAAT 
BENANDSEBASTIAN
LARISSA FASSLER
FELIX&MUMFORD
CYPRIEN GAILLARD
LAURA GORSKI 
NADIA KAABI-LINKE
KLARA LIDÉN
SØREN LOSE  
PANAYIOTIS MICHAEL 
TAIYO ONORATO AND NICO KREBS 
CHRISTOPH ROTHMEIER 
SHINGO YOSHIDA 
JARO VARGA 
ROLAND WIRTZ

Dysraphism: /dys•ra•phism/ (dis-raf´izm) [dys- +raphe +-ia ] incomplete closure of a raphe (the seam-like union of two lateral halves of an organ); defective fusion, particularly of the neural tube.

Dysraphic City is an exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien developed during a three-month residency by the eight international summer 2013 residents of the Node Center for Curatorial Studies. Dysraphic City borrows a metaphor from Charles Bernstein’s poem “Dysraphism.” Bernstein employed the term as the title for his seminal 1984 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem, highlighting the use of syntactic disjuncture to convey meaning. This exhibition repurposes the term yet again, producing a framework that reveals defective or incomplete seams in the urban landscape of Berlin.

Often described as an “unfinished” city, Berlin is characterized by abandoned and contested sites. These spaces are continuously in flux: rediscovered, reinvented and repurposed. The artists in Dysraphic City create work referencing the city through video, photography, sound installation, and mixed media projects. Appropriating the tools of archaeologists, anthropologists, historians and even criminal investigators, they produce microcosms reflecting on the unique urban experience of Berlin.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication to be launched at the opening on August 22nd, 2013.

Curated by: Stephanie Han, Rebecca Heidenberg, Masha McConaghy, Inês Oliveira, Juliette Premmereur, Raphael Rogenmoser, Patrícia Rosas, Charlotte Van Buylaere

Air Berlin Alexanderplatz Salon on August 24th, 2013, 16:00 – 18:00.

Within the framework of the project ‘Tempelhofer Feld’, Artists-in-Residence Benjamin Deboosere and Wouter De Raeve put the current state and potential future of Tempelhofer Feld into discussion (with special guest Roeland Dudal  (Architecture Workroom Brussels) on the term of ‘mediation’, (The Ambition of the Territory, Venice Biennale of Architecture, 2012).

For more information regarding ABA Salon please visit:
www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de

wouterderaeve.be/Tempelhofer_Feld.html

As places are limited we would be happy to receive your reservation by Friday 23rd August:
info@airberlinalexanderplatz.de

This exhibition is made possible with the support of Sprüth Magers, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, SEPTEMBER, ZK/U, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Lux Books, Air Berlin Alexanderplatz Salon and Charles Bernstein.