The PRAXES Parlors were live events, such as performances, discussions, film
screenings, talks, and workshops, led by local and international voices from
across the cultural field.
A warm thanks for joining us for the finissage of CYCLE 2 on Saturday, 14 June,
including a reading by Monika Rinck and
a Post Brothers presentation, both linked to Judith Hopf’s display. The talks were followed by Falke Pisano’s signature drink, bbq, and music in the garden.
Hopf’s long-term interlocutor Monika Rinck is a German author with a vast production of prose, poems, and non-fiction in her catalogue. The talk developed as a pondering on the joke and its—often nearly stupid—implications.
Post Brothers—the curator, critic, collector, and self-entitled crackpot academic, Matthew
Post—gave a talk on animations, portable holes, and humor linked to his analysis of
Hopf’s Cycle of exhibitions, soon to be published as a PRAXES Paper.
On Thursday, 12 June, scholar Samuel Adams gave a talk titled “Re-installing Abstraction: Falke Pisano in Rehearsal.”
A doctoral candidate at University of Southern California specializing in set
design, theater, and installation art, Adams looked at the occurrence and
reoccurrence of theatricality in artistic practices. This Parlor coincided with
a brand-new installation of works by Falke Pisano at PRAXES.
Falke Pisano installation view at PRAXES.
On Walpurgisnacht—and against the backdrop of Falke Pisano’s Rehearsal II at PRAXES, subtitled Heart Head Hold-up—artist and occasional radio-host Kerstin Cmelka (Austria) performed a live DJ
set and radio broadcast, If loving you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.... Exploring female emotional desires and their attempts of expression in pop
music, the program was broadcasted 8 May at 7pm on BERLIN COMMUNITY RADIO.
Thanks for joining us for the opening of Judith Hopf’s fourth and final display, Untitled (4). For this exhibition module, Hopf has created a brand-new installation
responding in part to the cyclical investigations at PRAXES.
Friday 11 April marked the double opening of Untitled (3)—Judith Hopf’s third exhibition module—as well as Rehearsal II: Heart Head Hold-up—the second chapter of Falke Pisano’s exhibition series. This module by Judith Hopf took a closer look at a series
of masks sculpted from hard-drive and smartphone packaging and recreated as
3D-prints.
Kerstin Cmelka, radio broadcast at PRAXES
On Sunday 4 May at 18:30, two films by the Berlin-based artist duo Pauline
Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Toxic (2012) and To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of their Desperation (2013), were screened at PRAXES, followed by a three-way discussion between the
filmmakers and Falke Pisano.
Opening night of Untitled (3) at PRAXES
Following the contemplation of the Judith Hopf’s concrete sheep sculptures, Untitled (2) moved fast-forward presenting a 10-day screening of her film works from the past
two decades. The opening night featured a talk by architect, author, and
collaborator Jesko Fezer, followed by a DJ set by artist
Julian Göthe.
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, Toxic, 2013 (film still)
Friday 11 April marked the opening of Rehearsal II:
Heart Head Hold-up—the second chapter of Falke Pisano’s exhibition series.
Opening night of Rehearsal II: Heart Head Hold-up at PRAXES
On Friday, 7 March, we continued the ongoing process of gradual unfolding by
opening the second take of Falke Pisano’s first exhibition module, Parts That Do Not Go Together.
This Parlor marked the end of Falke Pisano’s inaugural exhibition module Rehearsal I, Take One: Parts That Do Not Go Together. Loosely inspired by Jimmie Durham’s work, the first Rehearsal emphasized cross-readings, minor narratives, and slow articulations that
gradually unfold over time.
Jimmie Durham is a writer and a sculptor. In other words, he likes to compose
poems and think with objects - he likes to tell stories. In Durham’s Poems That Do Not Go Together, ideas and words cross each other's paths, but they avoid the pitfalls of
linear logistics because they Do Not Lead To A Point.
Judith Hopf, artist talk at PRAXES.
For the Grand Opening of Cycle 2 and the inauguration of Judith Hopf’s first exhibition module, PRAXES featured a special, outdoor and large-scale
screening of the 2003 collaborative video piece Held Down combining zombies, De La Soul, and dancing. Thanks for a great event.
Thanks for joining us for the Grand Opening of Cycle 2 at PRAXES and for the
launch of Falke Pisano’s Rehearsal I, Take One: Parts That Do Not Go Together.
PRAXES
Bergen Assembly
Østre Skostredet 5 – 7
Bergen 5017, Norway
PRAXES’s Berlin venue has closed. In 2016 PRAXES will open its new iteration in Bergen,
as part of the Bergen Assembly
