The Invisible Hands at the World Music Expo
The Invisible Hands will have its Spanish Premiere at WOMEX, the World Music Expo 2018 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
Screening: Friday, October 26, 20:00, Sala Cámara, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus
New installation piece at Akademie Schloss Solitude
photo credit: Frank Kleinbach
A brand new installation piece, Past Future Perfect, is currently on show at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany as part of the Autumn programme “Postcards of a Human Landscape”. The work was conceived during my fellowship at the Akademie in Fall 2017.
“Postcards of a Human Landscape” features also an installation by Saadia Mirza and a screening of Aykan Safoğlu’s Off-White Tulips, alongside talks, open studios and the launch of “Gemini”, a show curated by Stuttgart-based curatorial team, Anorak.
The exhibitions are on view from September 21 to December 7, 2018
Opening hours: Tue–Thur: 10 am–12 pm, 2–5 pm, Fri: 10 am–12 pm, 2–4 pm, Sat–Sun: 12–5 pm (from November 12–4 pm)
Guided tours through the exhibitions and screenings are offered on September 20, October 28 and November 25, at 2pm.
More info here
“As To Posterity” in Lisbon
“As to Posterity” to be presented at the 10th FUSO Anual de Vídeo Arte Internacional de Lisboa.
The film, which screens along with Eva Stefani’s “The Bathers” (2008), is part of the programme “Figuring the Aftermath” curated by Evanthia Tsantila.
Date: 1/9/2018, 11:15pm
Venue: ΜUHNAC – Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência
Info and curatorial text: https://fusovideoarte.com/en/figuring-the-aftermath/
The Invisible Hands poster original exhibited at Bozar, Brussels
Abel Auer is exhibiting the original watercolour painting we used as artwork for the film’s poster at Bozar Museum in Brussels. The work is presented as part of his installation Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times for the exhibition Somewhere In Between: Contemporary Art Scenes in Europe.
The exhibition runs from June 20 till August 19, 2018. More info here
Paper published at Donau Festival Reader 2018
A text on sleep that I was commissioned to write by Donau Festival, has been translated in German and published at the Festival Reader, an addendum publication to the 2018 edition of the festival. The 178 page book titled Endlose Gegenwart (Endless Now), features texts by: Hans-Christian Dany, Jens Balzer, Eva Horn, Jonathan Crary, Armen Avanessian & Anke Hennig, Douglas Rushkoff, Thomas Edlinger and others
The title of my contribution is Schlaf – Eine biopolitische Betrachtung unseres unbewussten Selbst (Sleep: A Biopolitical Reading of Our Unconscious Self).
You can read it in German here.
Polysomnogarden at Donau Festival in Krems, Austria
Polysomnogarden installation will be presented as part of Donau Festival 2018- Endless Now, at Forum Frohner, Krems, Austria, Friday 27/4 – Sunday 29/4/2018. I will also be contributing to the festival publication, Donau Festival 2018 reader “Endlose Gegenwart” with my paper translated in German with the title: “Schlaf-Eine Biopolitische Betrachtung unseres unbewussten Selbst”.
Donau Festival 2018 – Artists:
Films and Installations by Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, Marina Gioti, Michele Spanghero, Floris Vanhoof, John Gerrard, Elisabeth Kihlström, Anna Vasof, Sebastian Diaz Morales, The Agency, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, John Akomfrah, Luis Henderson, Anjalika Sagar & Kodwo Eshun, Bertrand Bonello and more.
Music performances by Mouse on Mars, Nadah El Shazly, Manuel Göttsching, Pan Daijing, Lawrence English, Laurel Halo, Godspeed you Black Emperor, Matana Roberts & Kelly Jayne Jones, Deerhoof, scout niblett, The Space Lady, Demdike Stare, venetian snares x Daniel Lanois, Puce Mary, ZONAL ft. Moor Mother, MHYSA and more.
Commission and Touring support: Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
With friendly support by Anton Starkl GmbH
more info: https://www.donaufestival.at/en/festival/program/186-marina-gioti