Berlin-Karussell "Die Akademie als lebendige künstlerische Praxis"

In the organizer's words:

Over a period of five weeks, more than 40 international artists from various disciplines will work at the Akademie der Künste on artistic projects that will be made accessible to the public as part of a non-linear composition developed by Arnold Dreyblatt.

Since the 1990s, Arnold Dreyblatt has worked with the definition of overlapping time sequences in scores in various performative installation projects in order to make artistic processes visible. In doing so, he draws on John Cage's Theater Event No. 1 (1952), in which artists performed simultaneous actions in the audience within fixed time frames, as well as Lawrence Halprin's use of the score as a means of promoting "spontaneity and interaction" that are "not oriented towards a specific result" (see The Rsvp Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment, 1970).

Berlin-Karussell takes up Cage's circulation processes and further develops the idea of a non-centered composition. Dreyblatt envisions the Akademie der Künste as a temporary "working academy" in which more than 40 academy members and invited artists from all disciplines develop process-oriented research, discussion, performance and interaction. The open project space in an exhibition hall of the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg, which was specially designed for the project by the raumlaborberlin collective, will become both a place of production and a space in which the boundaries of artistic categories are transcended and expanded.

A schedule indicates when individual artists or groups are active in the space. Over the course of five weeks, visitors are invited to observe and participate in artistic practice every day between 2pm and 7pm. At evening events, the participating artists and collectives will present the events developed in the space as well as other works. Interdisciplinarity as well as time- and process-based art forms that can be experienced within this open working process form the core of the project.

Workshops, concerts, performances, talks, readings, open studios

Over 40 international artists from various disciplines create simultaneous, non-linear events in a composition developed by Arnold Dreyblatt in the style of John Cage.

A project by Arnold Dreyblatt and the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with raumlaborberlin