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DOPOLAVORO GOLAB - D/L

OPENING HOURS: mon - fri 12:00 - 19:00
sat - sun by appointment only

www.dopolavorogolab.com

a proposition by Martin Butler.

Is a “temporary monument” for the 20 year anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, it will be created on the 9th november 2009 at 8 pm and will last for a total of 30 minutes.

This temporary monument will be created by a ” flash Mob” of approximately 47,000 people. Who will in a single line, recreate the 47 km of the berlin wall, that divided ” symbolically” the west and east of europe, along the exact route of the original wall.

The plan is to divide the route, where the original wall was, into several smaller areas . Different groups will be asked to appear at that particular area at a certain time.

With each group, group A, would then join group B, who would join group C etc, until the whole 47 km of wall that divided east and west berlin would be recreated.

The participants of the project will be asked to join , by making usage of social networking sites such as “facebook”, “myspace” and “twitter”.

Join….
www.mauer-mob.com

The girlfriend experience back online in Peru

opening
21st july 2009 at 8pm

performance times
22nd july - 25th July
12pm - 9pm ( local time -6GMT )

location
ATA
ALTA TECNOLOGICA ANDINA
Calle Belén (Ex Prolg. Jirón de la Unión) -
1044. Cercado de Lima.
Lima 01. PERÚ

to play come to ATA or play online
http://girlfriend.mediamatic.net

made possible by mediamatic and the mondriaan foundation

spring 2010 - exact dates to be anounced

The watchers is a new media performance project by Martin Butler / The Liminal Institute in collaboration with Mediamatic.

Loosely inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s, “Rear Window”, six performances are played out in the six appartments in one building, using new infra red optical technology designed by Marc Boon and Mediamatic, the public are able to watch and listen to the performances from outside.

Each performance will have a very different content and character, but will be created in such a way that all the narratives and dramaturgical lines join together, the public can choice to watch only one work but as they view from window to window a bigger story unfolds.

The performances stem from butler’s fascination with the private and public sphere and how rules and personality differ from each… The public sphere is an area in social life where people can get together and freely discuss and identify societal problems. It is “a discursive space in which individuals and groups congregate to discuss matters of mutual interest and, where possible, to reach a common judgment.”

The public sphere can be seen as “a theater in modern societies in which political participation is enacted through the medium of talk”and “a realm of social life in which public opinion can be formed”.

The private sphere is the complement or opposite to the public sphere. The private sphere is a certain sector of societal life in which an individual enjoys a degree of authority, unhampered by interventions from governmental or other institutions. Examples of the private sphere are family and home. Martin Heidegger argues that it is only in the private sphere that one can be one’s authentic self. butler intention is to expose the “theatre” of the private sphere.

Living in milan in a few months this year butler lived on a typical italian courtyard with the windows and balconies facing directly each other. Opposite in the building lived a fashion model, tall and beautiful, to the outside world extremely successful and an image of female inspiration, every night when she locked the doors of her appartment, she would rock and pull out her hair.. .. A middle aged married couple, successful, wealthy, having everything but they haven’t spoke to each other in years, what keeps them together. To the outside world a perfect couple, but inside a shadow of they public selves. The fantasist or role player.. creating another world for himself, totally removed the real world, he closes the door and becomes someone else… The migrant family at home living only in a world one street away from where the mother was born. The young business men,… In another appartment an old lady lives, she hasn’t left the appartment for years, with the occassional visitor to bring food and to clean, her isolation is reconciled by the stories that she creates by looking out of her window, living her life through the stories being told in the windows of others.

The stories told could be many.

art director & show design: Martin butler

Beurs van Berlage
Damrak
Amsterdam

An interactive video installation by Martin Butler and Konstantin Leonenko, comissioned by Freudenathal/Verhagen as part of the exhibition of the Arnhem Mode Biënnale 2009.

Museum voor Moderne Kunst
Utrechtseweg 87
6812 AA Arnhem

http://www.mmkarnhem.nl/
http://www.arnhemmodebiennale2009.com/

opening performance at the Arnhem Mode Biënnale

Museum voor Moderne Kunst
Utrechtseweg 87
6812 AA Arnhem

http://www.mmkarnhem.nl/
http://www.arnhemmodebiennale2009.com/

opening elle verhagen and carmen freudenthal at dopo lavorno, Milano

http://golabdecoding.com/

The Girlfriend Experience is back online during the pixxelpoint festival in slovenia..

Pixxelpoint (www.pixxelpoint.org) is one of the most successful and renowned festivals of new media art in Slovenia and also abroad. Its purpose is firstly, to bring the information technology and new media art closer to the general public, and secondly, to raise awareness about a different potential to use computer among the young. In previous editions the festival had a big media response and over 3000 visitors visited it every year, so this is a challenge for the organizers to further expand it and trespass the boundaries of the gallery space which has become too small for all the projects which are to be carried out. The exhibition of new media art projects, as the central event of the festival will be mounted at City Gallery Nova Gorica.

come watch live at City Gallery Nova Gorica.
or play online from the website.
http://girlfriend.mediamatic.net/

made possible by the genourous support of the dutch embassy in slovania

20+ performers/ dancers bring 5 to 10 minutes of old or existing performance material, either OLD text works or OLD dance pieces, they will be re-used and reshaped into something new…

Within seven days we will work together to create a new “Evening Work” from old work, together with Andrea crews fashion collective from Paris.

Man-in-fest Theatre Festival
Cluj-Napoca
Romania