• Samstag, 05. Mai 2012, 19:00 – Samstag, 02. Juni 2012, 22:00
• Veranstaltungsort: SAVVY Contemporary
• Sparte: Aktionskunst

Opening 5th of May 2012, 19.00 h
Exhibition 6th of May – 2nd of June 2012

Visual Artists:
Jan Kuck (DE), Pamela Longobardi (US), Steve McPherson (UK)

Performances by:
Nathalie Fari (BR), Yingmei Duan and Cai Qing (CH)

Documentary film works:
Susanne Richter (DE), Werner Boote (AT)

Curator:
Claudia Lamas Cornejo

Berlin. The art project PACKET-SOUP starting on the 5th of May, 19.00h at SAVVY Contemporary, picks up the ecological problem of plastic waste in the oceans. In this context Jan Kuck installs a gigantic swimming pool and invites the visitors to fill this allegroy of the giant waste-soup we unconsciously swim in every day with plastic bags instead of water.
Immersion – Drifting – Awareness – Collecting – Re-structuring are the notion forming exhibition´s backbone. Visitors may drift deeper into the works of the Austrian producer and author Werner Boote (Plastic Planet) and the documentary film producer Susanne Richter (ARTE “Der Kampf ums schwarze Gold”), who will enrich the project with scientific and historic data.
The US-American artist Pamela Longobardi (Venice Biennial 2009) has been collecting plastic finds on beaches all over the world for several years. For PACKET-SOUP she will re-structure them, thereby combining aesthetics with in depth content, playing with one´s awareness of the familiar – jet transformed and hardly recognizable. Steve McPherson structures the plastic troves he collected on the beaches of Great Britain to large sized charts and type-cases. His Undesirable Archive is hosted in SAVVY´s most challanging, thiniest room, leading
The Brazilian artist Nathalie Fari and the Chinese artists Yingmei Duan and Cai Qing will recycle their thoughts about sustainability, space and time in a performative way. “For me, sustainability begins with slow movement”, said Nathalie Fari. For their live performance, the artists will use the immediate urban environment of SAVVY Contemporary.
Hilla Steinert, who had knit a dress made of grass as a performance artist at the Venice Biennale in 2009, has now tailored a dress from her daily plastic residues for the opening of the exhibition, inspired and provoced at the same time by the PACKET-SOUP project.

Programme:

05th of May 2012, 19.00h
Exhibition opening PACKET-SOUP

12th of May 2012, 18.00-20.00
Performance by Nathalie Fari, accompanied by Bernhard Reiss

19th of May 2012, 19.00-21.00
Performance by Yingmei Duan and Cai Qing

02nd of June 2012, 18.00
Finissage with Recycling-Party

Opening time until the end of the exhibition
Tuesday-Sunday, 16.00 - 20.00

Place:
SAVVY Contemporary
Richardstr. 43/44
12055 Berlin-Neukölln
www.savvycontemporary.com

With the support of:
Stiftung Naturschutz Berlin I Gosling Roberts I Pool Power Shop I Karges Land film photography animation I Mosafil Fliesen I intertrex I Farbfilm Verleih GmbH I Ökologisch sinnvolle Werbeartikel Antonietta Kreiter I Strohmi GmbH

Weitere Infos: www.packet-soup.com