Prosjektskolen har nå sendt førsteklassingene på tur til den internasjonale kulturmetropolen Berlin i noen uker for å samarbeide om prosjektet Gallery Beat Berlin. Prosjektet er en offisiell avgreining av det originale GalleryBeat i New York på 90-tallet, som var en gruppe med kunstnere som gikk rundt å filmet utstillinger og festivitasen rundt. Studentenes oppgave er i de neste ukene å gå rundt i den tyske hovedstaden og dokumentere utstillinger og arrangementer der, med et kunstnerisk blikk fremfor et kaldt kulturjournalistisk øye.
Dokumentasjonen spres ut over bredden av sosiale medier som Instagram, Snapchat (@gbtv_berlin), Vimeo, Blogspot m.m, samt offline merchandise. Det hele kulminerer i et utstillingsarrangement på Kunsthaus KULE i bydelen Mitte, lørdag 26. februar. Følg med videre i her bloggen vår samt de ulike sosiale kanalene til Gallery Beat Berlin.
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Om originale GalleryBeat:
GalleryBeat was accidentally discovered in 1993 by artist Paul H-O on the streets of New York’s Soho district, while on a routine scan of local art galleries. Along with Walter Robinson, then News Editor for Art in America Magazine, H-O videotaped the ‘Day in the Life’ style that typified the weekly gallery trek that H-O and Robinson experienced while examining the odd industry of contemporary art. H-O took the videotape and produced a very realtime public access show, Art TV’s Gallery Beat. Not long after producing a few shows, another Art in America editor, Cathy Lebowitz, joined Paul and Walter because they were unbalanced and needed a woman’s perspective of sanity. The poor video style of Paul was then so headache-inducing that photographer Spencer Tunick and Ron Rocheleau took the camera in hand to save a growing public audience from ‘Extreme Shaky Cam Syndrome’. Thus, Gallery Beat Television was on it’s way for the next eight years.
We taped art exhibits of every kind and any venue from crap galleries to great galleries to museums. GBTV amassed 160 half-hour episodes featuring the work of over a thousand artists in 250 galleries, including artist’s interviews, studios, and chance street encounters. GBTV recorded the changes from art’s cottage industry in SoHo to the biggest art mall on earth, the Chelsea district. Find the Archive of GBTV here.
Om Kunsthaus KULE:
Kunsthaus KuLe is a nonprofit cultural organisation located in a five-storey altbau building on Auguststraße in Mitte-Berlin. The house was originally squatted by a group of art students from the former ‘West Berlin’, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Founded as a community of creative practitioners and as a living project, the house is called KuLe (short for Kultur und Leben / Culture and Life). To support its renovation, the house-project received funding from the Berlin Senat to create four floors of dedicated living space (one of which consists of the communal kitchen, dining and lounge), a theatre and a façade gallery.
For 25 years, the community has cultivated many diverse artistic practices in various fields, including visual art, contemporary dance, art history, philosophy, theatre, experimental and electronic music.
Kunsthaus KuLe was since 1990 a home for around 500 people as residents or guests from all over the world, from Europe (Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Switzerland) and overseas (Belorussia. Australia, China, Iran, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Tasmania, USA)
