TOP project space offers cultural events to local and translocal communities. It is inhabited and run by a transdisciplinary group of international artists, scientists, and makers.
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Top e.V. is featured on the 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival'a podcast series.
The exhibition @listeningtolistening is opening tonight at 7 pm.
"audioart - Kunst auf die Ohren" ist der Podcast zum größten freien Berliner Kunstfestival, den "48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN". Künstler:innen und Kurator:innen sprechen mit Gastgeberin Katja Lehmann über ihre Arbeiten, die im Rahmen der Festivalausgabe 2021 vom 18.-21. Juni 2021 im Bezirk Neukölln zu ...
Check out our collective members, CommonsLab: Nachbarschaftslabor's zine publication.
We are happy to share our first Common(s)Lab publication with you: a zine documenting the last three years of (un)learning.
The zine outlines the various formats and methods that were adopted over the past three years and brings together an array of resources and instructions — which emerged and evolved thanks to the many people who have become part of the project — that might serve as an inspiration and resource for similar projects or activities wherever you are.
It was published online in February 2021, through Agents of Alternatives e.V. and kindly supported by >top e.V.
Available for free download on our website: https://commonslab.de/zine
Artist-Run Network Europe updated their website address.
#Repost @tuceerel
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Scarecrow is a solo exhibition by Korhan Erel. The project is visible online. (Links in bio👆)
The last event of Scarecrow is an online round table meeting on November 15th at 3 pm, together with guests, Agata Lisiak, professor of migration studies at Bard College Berlin and Susanna Schoenberg, an artist and lecturer, focusing on the politics of border in her practice, to lead a get together with the active participation of pre-registered participants on the last day of the exhibition. This event aims to provide a platform for sharing experience and observation within a non-institutional and non-academic environment about sonic experiences and politics of border. Register via email ([email protected]).
A scarecrow is a humanoid object that is placed in open fields to scare off birds or other animals to protect seeds and crops. It is a mute object, which stands alone in the middle of a field, to protect the land and crops. The project appropriates and reverses the mute scarecrow object into a sound sculpture, which speculates their presence in the borders of countries or private lands to question two main themes: neglecting of nature and non-human beings as well as centralizing human presence over nature; and migration politics and their unwelcoming strategies.
Erel’s sound installation explores ‘the fear from the other’, both human and non-human, using sound emanating from an amorphic, absurd sound-sculpture built using ready-made objects that one can easily procure. This speculative approach is a critique of both conventional methods of scaring animals, positioning humankind over nature and hate speech toward migrants and the other. The three-channel sound composition is based on field recordings, designed sounds and an unknown language consisting of made-up words and remixed languages, the latter primarily to amplify the sense of being un/welcome and to put the visitor in a position of unwantedness and otherness.
#scarecrow #soundart #onlineexhibition #onlineevent #paneldiscussion #soundobject #borders #berlin #agatalisiak #susannaschoenberg #artinlockdown #korhanerel #projectspace
"If you think you can grasp me, think again" by Diana Barquero Perez is open between 14 and 20. Please bring your mask. Thank you... @ TOP
If you think you can grasp me, think again is an exhibition by artist Diana Barquero Pérez that deals with the ongoing transformation of a specific region in Southern Costa Rica: Térraba Sierpe. Recognized as a Ramsar site and protected area of great environmental importance since 1995, this wetland plays a major role in carbon sequestration within our collapsing world of climate crisis.The exhibition, as the title suggests, aims to visualize the human pursuit of grasping and conceiving the land and its resources through a purely extractive lens without considering the ensuing complexity of its social and environmental consequences. Through the installation of several conglomerates where different materials from the area are fixed together, the artist creates a durational, process-based installation, in which conglomerates and water react and transform, altering their materiality and dispersing it through the space. However, Térraba Sierpe is being pressured, shrunk, and transformed by multiple external forces. Banana, palm oil, rice, and pineapple plantations that grow in the wetland’s borders are evidence of an expanding agricultural sector, which is filling land and water with pesticides, fertilizers, and polluted sediments in order to satisfy European and North American demands for these products. This utilization of the land unveils the prevailing capitalist logic in food production systems, which rely on the ‘sacrifice’ of preserved areas, -previously non-agricultural field- to appease the whims of international markets that are geared towards furthering the enrichment of transnational agribusiness.
#berlin #exhibition #projectspace #monoculture #wetland #costarica #TérrabaSierpe #DianaBarqueroPérez
space.dot.com is a new collaborative project by Sharon Paz and Mikala Hyldig Dal, including a 360° video and augmented reality (AR) environment to be experienced from your mobile device in the comfort of your own space. The project is curated by Tuce Erel at top Transdisciplinary Project Space on behalf of the 48 Hours Neukölln Festival, from June 19th to 21st.
The work addresses conceptions of ownership in urban space, referencing the political context of gentrification on a local and global scale including the topic of space, ownership, and exploitation/solidarity towards interstellar colonialism, dark matter, and black holes. space.dot.com introduces a speculative narrative of space colonization to reflect on worldwide processes of wealth generation, accessing natural sources, hegemonic politics over the female body as well as unjust housing policies that push out of tenants to peripheral areas of the city or into homelessness.
Artists explore the possibility of rethinking about redistribution policies and profoundly restructuring power relations. Both the 360° video and the augmented reality environment consist of five chapters that create a fusion between performance, real space, and virtual elements. Avatars embody “the politics of space” in a form of absurd play on inner and outer space as ultimate philosophical categories.
space.dot.com integrates the altered living conditions during Covid-19 such as how our bodies are defined in relation to shrinking spaces and how social isolation is expanding. The site-specific window installation will be accessible for people who are passing by >top, located in Schillerpromenade 4. AR and 360° videos can be accessed from anywhere.
A project by Mikala Hyldig Dal and Sharon Paz, curated by Tuçe Erel, in collaboration with Augmented Archive – http://augmented-archive.net/ar-markers-ios/
Music: Korhan Erel
Text excerpts: Baudrillard, Bifo, Maternal Fantasies, Mietstreik Jetzt!, The Invisible Committee.
360° Video: https://vimeo.com/417308888
Instruction video for AR: https://vimeo.com/418938601
page: https://www.facebook.com/space.dot.com.berlin/
Location: >top Transdisciplinary Project Space, Schillerpromenade 4, 12049
Opening hours: The window of the project space will be open on Saturday and Sunday between 10 am to 8 pm.
Discursive intervention will take place on Sunday at 18:00. Livestream link: https://youtu.be/QTjAENVLpJA
#top #fensterausstellung #windowinstallation #48stundenneukölln #48hoursneukölln #festival #online @ TOP
Open call bis / until 25.05.2020
Veranstaltungsdatum wird mitgeteilt. / Event date will be announced later.
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Liebe Künstler*innen und Freund*innen von Axel Daniel Reinert,
in Gedenken an unseren Freund, Kollegen und Netzwerker Axel mit dem wir die letzten Jahren in den Räumen des Schillerpalais zusammengearbeitet haben, veranstalten wir ein Aktionswochenende. Unter dem Titel „Hommage an Axel“ organisieren wir gemeinsam mit Euch eine Ausstellung, einen
Talk & Soup – Abend und eine Prozession zum Friedhof, wo wir Axels Grabstein mit unseren Kunstwerken einweihen.
-English version-
Dear artists and friends of Axel Daniel Reinert,
In memory of our friend, colleague and networker Axel, with whom we have worked in the Schillerpalais for the past few years, we are organizing an action weekend. Under the title „Homage to Axel“ we organize an exhibition, a talk & soup evening and a procession to the cemetery where we inaugurate Axel‘s tombstone with our works of art.
We call you to create miniature works that connect you with Axel. We then want all submissions to communicate with each other through light sources and various light projections and create a great whole work of art that changes throughout the evening. To do this, we will illuminate the miniatures with various light sources and thereby create a play of light and shadow on the walls. Your sculptures can therefore play with shadows and transparency and, after consultation with us, can also include a slide or video projection.
#schillerkiez #axeldanielreinert #hommage #memorium
#opencall #artisttalkandsoup #netzwerk
Following governmental advice of social distancing, we will try to get together online for our next reading group. Commoning in corona times! :)
We will meet in an online conference room (please find the link below). This format also allows for people not living in Berlin to join! So feel free to spread the word.. :)
We will read a text on the relationship between commons and neoliberalism by Max Haiven, a Canadian author, activist and academic, who writes about art, culture, value, and the commons. Find more info here: maxhaiven.wordpress.com We will share the text when we meet online and read it out loud together, so no need to prepare.
Unfortunately, we cannot offer you wine and snacks, but feel free to bring your own to the screen.
Link to online room: https://meet.jit.si/SoP_ReadingGroup_CommonsandNeoliberalism
#socialdistancing #onlinereadinggroup #readingclub #postcapitalism #commonslab
Corona-Krise: Bundesregierung schnürt Rettungspaket für Selbstständige - DER SPIEGEL - Wirtschaft
Solo-Selbstständige und Kleinunternehmen sind von den Folgen der Coronakrise hart getroffen. Für sie schnürt der Staat nach SPIEGEL-Informationen jetzt ein Hilfspaket. Die schwarze Null ist damit Geschichte.
Leitfaden für Selbständige, Punkt 4...
Die weltweite Ausbreitung des Coronavirus stellt Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft vor enorme Herausforderungen. Absolute Priorität hat, Menschen zu schützen und Leben zu retten. Solidarität und Zusammenhalt sind jetzt das Wichtigste. Die Berliner Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer sind bereits mit groß...
We would like to inform you that we are cancelling our upcoming events until April 20. We will inform you for further activities when they are on. We are already organizing some of our activities, such as reading groups via online communication channels. Check out our event section or our website for further details.
http://www.top-ev.de/?na=v&nk=422-4a9511c896&id=35
Due to Covid-19 Pandemic breaks out rapidly, we want to make sure that staying healthy is the most important goal of our actions.
Exhibition "E to the power of 6" opening
Futuristic installation - a model of sustainable development, built on site with household waste by Mattias Larson in collaboration with VJ performance by Joa Palmér
Drawn fictitious urban maps on recycled envelopes by Johan Eriksson
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Photography: Bon Alog
Exhibition "E to the power of 6" opening
Futuristic installation - a model of sustainable development, built on site with household waste by Mattias Larson in collaboration with VJ performance by Joa Palmér
Drawn fictitious urban maps on recycled envelopes by Johan Eriksson
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Photography: Bon Alog
AIM Network: News: Planning meeting in Riga
Next week on 18-20 September AIM Network's members will take part in a planning meeting in Riga, Latvia. The meeting will be hosted by Free Riga and the network's member space Totaldobre. During the meeting we will discuss the future activities and programme development of the network in line with t...
>top Transdisciplinary Project Space is looking for new members to join. We are a diverse group of people who share the rent to sustain the space as a project space. Feel free to contact us to get further information and visit our space. Check out our website for our previous events and learn more about on-going projects. http://top-ev.de
'Architecture of Mind' exhibition is on until Saturday, July 13, 12:00 - 21:00, with video art screenings curated by Penka Mincheva at 19:30.
SAVE THE DATE:
Wed. 1.07.2019 (18:00-23:00)
Top: Schillerpromenade 4
Under_Noise is a series of installations by Franciska Rocha Gonçalves exploring different types of vibro-acoustic disturbances. The first work is Luciferina, where the exploration of sound disturbance aims to be a metaphor for the threat marine organisms may face nowadays. The data collected from underwater recordings are used as input for revealing sound frequencies and light scattering relationships, exploring concepts such as aurality, presence, immersion, or synesthetic perception. This artwork creates an immersive environment through a dialogue between sound and light, exposed by vibrational phenomena, where low frequencies disturb light visualization. The input data from underwater recordings have a particular emphasis on motor vessels and propellers sounds.
http://www.top-ev.de/other/under_noise/
SCOBY, S**t and Humus – Shared Habitats
SCOBY, S**t and Humus Mindaugas Gapševičius, Juan Pablo Diaz, Julian Chollet, and participants2019 05 04-06 Experimentation unfolds through the investigation of SCOBY, s**t and humus, which raises questions: What does symbiosis really mean? How can we understand the complex interaction between mic...
Happy new year / Guten Rusch!
Best wishes from Top e.V. Team
http://www.top-ev.de/?na=v&nk=422-4a9511c896&id=15
TOP's cover photo
We are interested in finding new members working in intersection between art and science.
The project space is between U Boddinstr and Tempelhofer Feld, on the ground floor ─ warm, bright and calm ─ with WiFi and a shared kitchen.
We offer:
– shared desks and shelves
– shared kitchen
– event space for workshops and exhibitions
– biolab use
– free workshops
For more information, please write to post[@]top-ev.de with a brief intro letter outlining your work practice and interest in using the space.
Cost: €80 the first three months, then €50/month
We had a fantastic time last Monday, thank you all for participating.
More info and documentation soon....
About a year ago, many of you supported us during our crowdfunding campaign. Your generosity made it possible for us to run diverse cultural and artistic events for free, as well as quality workshops at only fraction of the costs.
Finally, one of our dreams comes true: on Monday we will run the first genetic engineering workshop in a community lab in Berlin. It is open to everyone, so we hope to see as many of you pipetting on Monday :).
Thank you again for making this possible.
/Mirela & >top
lab glasses can be used for more than just experiments :), come on Monday to >top and get your own set!
Cool glassware give away at >top on Monday, 20:30 https://www.facebook.com/events/476957092799976/
ready for DNA extraction :)
The workshop on Monday will start with a lecture on microfluidics (the physics behind small droplets), followed by hands-on lab work. Quick preview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch…
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
On Monday // >top // 4:30 pm // 10€, we will , among others, mix droplets using biochips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCD4KvRlFPA
Real-time mixing on OpenDrop, an open-source biochips resulted as a strong collaboration of Hackteria network (www.hackteria.org). More about the hardware an...
We are preparing a series of DIYBio events. Let us know if you are interested :).
MON 17.09 19:00 // Let it glow! (Bioluminescent bacteria) // LECTURE, WORKSHOP // 10€
MON 24.09 16:00 // Fluid-me (DIY microfluidics) // LECTURE, WORKSHOP // 10€
MON 01.10 19:00 // Micro-me (the microbiome of Grabowsee) // INSTALLATION, WORKSHOP // 10€
MON 08.10 19:00 // Life play (the bright side of genetic engineering) // LECTURE, WORKSHOP // 20€
TUE 16.10 19.00 // Sunken light (bioluminescent algae) // WORKSHOP // 10€
SAT 27.10 21.00 // Midnight bio-dream (bioluminescent escape room) // INSTALLATION // FREE
Schillerpromenade 4
Neukölln
12049
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We develop ideas being in the air, often merging politics, economics and technologies. Beside other contexts we work in postdigital domain – art forms that address the humanization of digital technologies through interplay between digital, biological and cultural. We support collaborative projects that seek for a dialog and diversity in artistic forms and attitudes. In such a way we contribute our society.
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