Art Exhibition by António Lago and Live audiovisual performance by Pratyay Raha and Tiny Domingos

Eröffnung mit LIVE PERFORMANCE

Antoine Lortie questions the role of the artist and his future in a society of leisure, virtual interactions, surveillance, privatization of the imaginary, the grip of algorithms and polarizations.Anchored in a context where creation in contemporary art is mostly dependent on public funding, he examines the pitfalls that the ideological and normative shackles underlying the regulation of competitions can represent for the blossoming and circulation of new practices, and underlines the need for each new generation of creators to invent its own codes and to demand new contracts.
Nothing could be more natural for this post-digital artist than to be accompanied by the muse Basiops, the princesses Institutiona and Politica and his avatar Agrophobe for this first solo exhibition in Europe. It will be an opportunity to observe how he diverts the driving force of the main diktats within public funding networks: decolonialism, social justice, climate responsibility (among others) to set in motion a whole machinery made up of appropriations of vessels and characters that seem to come out of Japanese cartoons, 3D objets trouvés, recycled environments from video games and virtual realities. A teeming digital arsenal, nourished by an alchemical humus made up of refusal letters and real cases of censorship, which we will not be surprised to find in painting and sculpture. Disciplines whose codes he handles with as much dexterity and predilection as his mouse and keyboard, and which the artist uses to depict hybrid and transmaterial collective daily lives, marked by the growing interpenetration of virtual and physical worlds.
An original approach and a force of proposition, driven by philosophical reflections on cybernetics and posthumanism and a desire for exchange relayed by a series of diagrams, which seek to clear paths towards freedom, lightness and futurity. Tiny Domingos
With Tales from the DxCOLONIZER, ROSALUX returns to its initial vocation as a platform for reflection on contemporary creation. The format of the exhibition will be evolving. Online and offline activities will be developed during the exhibition. Please consult our website and social networks to follow them.

With friendly support of the Québec Government Office in Berlin

ROSALUX, The Berlin-based art space presents
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PAUL WIERSBINSKI
Werkzeuge und Mythen / Tools and myths
Lecture/performance about several projects around AI:

• “A portrait of the AI as a young Cyber Oracle” – Interactive Installation and Opera 2019
  The work aims to make the creation of an artificial intelligence and its functioning accessible to a broad public. It deals with the reproduction of prejudices in programming, the loss of control in a world monitored by machines and the utopia of consulting an omniscient Big Data oracle. The audience creates texts and music through the programme, to which an opera singer improvises.
• “Home Machine” Interactive Installation 2020
  The emotionally charged concept of “Heimat” is confronted with supposedly purely rational technology. In current German party manifestos, literature and scientific texts, an artificial intelligence is trained to interpret our cultural data on the themes of home and belonging and to tell us what these concepts might actually mean in an uncertain future.
• “Remote Rules and Rituals” Performance 2021.
  How can the rituals of theatre be used to represent the rituality of spiritual machines and make predictions about an uncertain future? The audience was invited to actively participate, to explore the home and to charge everyday objects with new meanings without leaving their own four walls.
• “Dichotomy” Installation 2021
  The installation visualises the connections between pattern recognition and concepts dealing with hopes and fears associated with artificial intelligence.

Paul Wiersbinski. Born in Halle (Saale). Studied at the HfbK Städelschule (Frankfurt am Main). His projects move in the field of tension between art, science and technology, touching on discourses on artificial intelligence, entomology or cybernetics, referencing the history of performance and video art, using a playful and improvised approach. Paul Wiersbinski often builds technical prototypes that are tried out by the public and go through various phases of continuous development.

Exhibitions: “RECORD > AGAIN!”, ZKM Karlsruhe (2009), “The indifference of Wisdom”, NURTUREart New York City (2013), “Risk Society”, MOCA Taipei (2013), “Showcase”, SPACE London (2018), “Offline Browser“, Hong-Gah Museum Taiwan (2018-2019), “Datami”, BOZAR Bruessels (2019-2020) / festivals &screenings: SALT Beyoğlu Istanbul (2012), Luminato Festival Toronto (2014), European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrück (2010, 2014, 2015, 2017), “IN/OUT“ Festival of the National Gallery Amman (2019) and received various prices and grands, such as support from Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.

Image credits: Dichotomy, 2021, Credit: ACC Galerie Weimar / Claus