// Date & time: 23. April 2010, 20h
// Venue: Nowy Wspaniały Świat, Nowy Świat 63, Warsaw
Goethe Institute Warsaw in collaboration with DISK / CTM presents an exciting program of music, performances and art at the opening of the second stage of the project "Promised City". After the exhibition "Earl Years" curated by the Museum of Modern Art for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (KW) in Berlin, the "Promised City" project continues with the opening of the exhibition "Wystawa", curated by Susanne Pfeffer (KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin) for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw.
To kick-off the "Promised City" in Warsaw, DISK/CTM put together an evening program that mirrors the multi-faceted mingling of Berlin's art and music culture.
The venue Nowy Swiat Wspaniały (NWS) (English: Brave New World) is located in a former restaurant of the Polish intelligentsia and belongs to the publishing house and magazine Krytyka Polityczna. At this magnificent place of convergence DJ Mobiletti Giradischi will open the night, followed by solo performances of Noot and Planningtorock, who will be presenting her new record. The night continues till teh early morning hours with DJ-sets one of the Grand Dames of Berlin's club life, DJ Mo, and by one of the most active DJs of Warsaw's rising electronic music scene, DJ Bshosa. Both accompanied by visuals by Berlin video artist U-Matic. On the second floor Raum für Projektion will present the audiovisual piece "Unauthorized Commercials" by graw böckler with a soundtrack by Popnoname.
"The Promised City" is a cultural initiative between Berlin and Warsaw with program elements also in Mumbai and Bucharest: Artists, curators and academics from Germany, Poland, India, and Romania develop various new creative productions. All of which are interdisciplinary and evolve around subjects of dreams, illusions, and promises of modern metropolises. Within this context, the project The Knot – Linking the Existing with the Imaginary – organized by DISK/CTM, Raumlabor.Berlin, e-cart.ro and the independent curator Jakub Szreder – will begin end of April in Berlin. The project will be continued with events in Warsaw and Bucharest later in the year.
More information:
> goethe.de/ins/pl/war/deindex.htm
> promised-city.org
> kw-berlin.de
> knotland.net
Artist bios:
Raum für Projektion (DE)
The project “Raum für Projektion” was initated by Ursula Böckler and Georg Graw, who have worked together since 1997 as Graw Böckler exhibiting film and photographic works in Germany and internationally. Realised in 2001 “Raum für Projektion/ Space for Projection” is a temporary and location-independent platform for video projects. The label “Raum für Projektion” publishes experimental video projects on DVD. The label “Raum für Projektion” publishes experimental video projects on DVD. The compilation "loop pool" has been produced in three Volumes from 2005 to 2008. Commissioned by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
> Raum für Projektion > popnoname
DJ Mobiletti Giradischi (NL/DE)
Mobiletti Giradischi, selector of the weirdest and the cheapest, the most twisted and awkward, and of the most forgotten records, was born in Italy, raised in Breda, the Netherlands and finally relocated to Berlin. He is CTM's unchallenged expert on incredibly strange Moog music dating from the sixties till today. In honour of the recently deceased Godfather of Synth, Mister Robert Moog, Giradschi will delve deep down into his record bag to feed up a viscous flow of rare tunes.
Noot (CA/DE)
Noot (Daniel Baudin) was raised in the prairies of Canada before moving to Montreal in 2003. Following four years of art school, Noot moved to the Czech Republic before settling in Berlin in 2007. Noot has played solo internationally, provided soundtracks for runway shows in Paris and New York, dance pieces in Antwerp, and films in Montreal. He has performed with Japanese artist Hanayo.
> Noot
Planningtorock (UK/DE)
Planningtorock is British born, Berlin based musician and visual artist Janine Rostron. Her critically acclaimed debut album, Have It All, was released in 2006 on her own label, Rostron Records, and distributed worldwide via Chicks On Speed. Since then Planningtorock has been touring her 'larger-than-life' one-woman show extensively throughout Europe and the US – both solo and together with artists such as LCD Sound System, Hot Chip, Peaches and The Knife. After two years of writing, recording and producing, Planningtorock worked with friends Felix Martin and Al Doyle (Hot Chip) on a little more production and mixing and travelled to New York to record with Pat Mahoney (LCD Soundsystem) on drums. The new album, Planet 9 is due to be released early 2010 on James Murphy’s DFA label. As a visual artist Janine Rostron has presented works in various gallery spaces including MAMA (Rotterdam), Galleria Riccardo Crespi (Milan), Tate Modern (London), Extra City (Antwerp) and Centro Cultural Montehermoso (Vitorio-Gasteiz). She has performed internationally at high-profile art and theatre festivals and institutions.
> Planningtorock
DJ Mo (DE)
Mo Loschelder who was a student of Prof. Gerhard Richter works as a DJ since 1991. The Berlin based musician founded the Label ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT in 1995 and has been a DJ in several Berlin clubs. She participated "clubberlin", Biennale Venice; "NowHere", Museum Humlebek, Denmark; "satellit", Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Berlin; Art Forum Berlin, Sound AKA Space", curated by Nina Möntmann, Hamburg and played on the opening of "Festival Of Visions" Hongkong. Besides she gave workshops such "What is Techno?" in Vienna and soundXchange, Berlin.
> DJ Mo
U-Matic (DE)
u-matic designs and realizes visuals, installations and free video projects since 1998. Reallife footage reduced to pixels and grafic elements are the mosaic pieces for an experimental videomix. u-matic puts the focus on temporal and spatial gaps and the use of error pictures. Together with telematique she forms the duo "u-matic & telematique" doing Vj performances and exhibitions.
> U-Matic
DJ Bshosa (PL)
Michal bshosa Brzozowski is resident DJ of Warsaw Club 55, and the co-founder of the detroitZDRoJ project, concentrating on ambitious activity in audio, video, photography and design work. For many years bshosa was a Berlin resident, where he had the opportunity to support some of the biggest names in club music. Together with one of his detroitZDRoJ partners, Piroman, he is preparing to release a debut album in spring 2009; in the meantime, they are working on a remix for London's Living Records and part of the soundtrack for Lukasz Barczyk's film "Nieruchomy Poruszyciel". In his free time Brzozowski produces movies, writes for music and culture magazines, pets his cats and prepares the world for junior bshosa.
> DJ Bshosa
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