Ongoing external exhibitions: Torrential Forms / Embassy Reconstructed

TORRENTIAL FORMS by Alex Berman, Filip Strebeyko and Gábor Papp, Opening, Jan 25, 19:00, Situation Room@CHB | Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, free

Further opening hours Jan 25-Feb 03, 10:00-19:00 Sat/Sun 14:00-19:00

File sharing or so called peer-to-peer (P2P) networking constitutes a major portion of all internet traffic. But like the vast networks of sewer pipes and tunnels beneath our cities, file-sharing is a hidden infrastructure whose inner mechanisms few seem to reflect upon. The installation exposes the invisible flows of file-shared content that pass through the cables and air around us, and the patterns therein. These “torrential forms” emerge organically from the algorithms that dictate P2P networks and that transform shared content in a manner which constitutes a kind of recomposition or collage. By focusing specifically on file-shared books, the installation summons the fragmented voices and texts that flow around us, offering glimpses of a hidden literary lifeform. >> torrentialforms.net

THE EMBASSY RECONSTRUCTED, Jan 27-Feb 03, Mon-Fri 10:00-18:00 & Weekend 11:00-16:00, Felleshus/Nordic Embassies in Berlin, free

The Embassy Reconstructed – a sonic investigation of the phenomenon: the Embassy as a space to project dreams, visions, values and the reality of our life-world interpreted by six artists, with the support of a chamber music ensemble. The Embassy Reconstructed is an arts-based exploration of “the Embassy” as a phenomenon. Taking the contemporary arts’ expanded notion of space as its point of departure, six artists, whose artistic practices approach and address sound and spatiality from a vast range of perspectives, explore how sound as an artistic medium in its broadest form gives shape to, and interprets, an international, political space where highly current societal events are in constant negotiation.

With: Åsa Stjerna (initiator), Brandon LaBelle, Jacob Kirkegaard, Juliana Hodkinson, Liv Strand, Susanne Skog and KNM; Kammerensemble Neue Musik, Berlin

www.embassyreconstructed.com