The aerodynamics of analogical artivism
Muriel Gallardo Weinstein, Héctor Solari, Samantha Tiussi, Dario Dornel Martínez (KIRAP), Proyecto HISHIGARO, Mathias Escotto Gadea (MASCOGA), Colectivo sobre Arte y Cambio Climático – Climate Art Collection (CAC – Berlin)
Artivism implies an explicit conjunction between what is expressed through the arts and aims to lead to cognitive, emotional, political, and social activation regarding a cultural demand. It involves an agitation of paradigms. The aerodynamics of analogical making visible other ways of doing things from different artivism emotional, physical, and material territorialities. The power of artivism, understood as situational disruption, is
anchored in its ability for cultural construction rather than convulsion. However, recent practices have, on some occasions, evolved into social and political agitation. An example of this has been the vandalism of artworks in protest against Climate Change in various European countries.
Do these practices constitute a dimension of contemporary artivism? The last decade is also characterized by an incursion of technologies and digital media that operate like a pressure washer without a user manipulating it ; a notable proliferation of the notion of prosumers- producing
content that we consume.
What does analogical artivism involve? Primarily, it involves dismantling hegemonic ideas, forms, and thoughts conveyed through the arts,
activating discourses and other narratives through artistic creation. Analogical artivism places the human being, manual intervention, in a subjective emotional context in the construction and recovery of alternative visualities, narratives, and perhaps utopias? From artistic practices, curators, and cultural managers, the round café table artist talk on the aerodynamics of analogical artivism seeks to address how the discussed topics are defined, shaped, and mobilized to result in socio-cultural demand and construction.
Some of the questions that will guide the discussion are:
What is artivism? How is contemporary artivism configured? What are the current practices? In what territories does artivism operate? How analogical and artificial is artivist practice? How is artivism configured in a context of liquid postmodernity?
Muriel Gallardo Weinstein
Instagram: @murielgallardoweinsteinart
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Muriel Gallardo Weinstein is a Chilean- Italian interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin since
2014. The artist holds a Master’s degree in Textile and Surface Design from the Weißensee
Kunsthochschule in Berlin and a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from the University of Chile.
She graduated in Visual Arts and Visual Arts Pedagogy at the University of Finis Terrae in
Santiago de Chile. She also completed a diploma in Digital Graphics at the Catholic
University of Chile among other disciplines. The artist has taken part in important artistic
residencies as well as exhibited in important museums and galleries around the world. She
is currently represented by Montoro12 gallery in Brussels, Belgium.
Her latest exhibitionsinclude El Manto Invisible at the Bardo gallery in Berlin, Resonancias at the Artespacio
gallery in Santiago de Chile and Overflows at the Durchgang gallery in Basel.
He is currently participating in the exhibition „All Hands On:
Flechten“ at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin.
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Héctor Solari
Instagram: @solari581
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Visual artist and curator. He was born in Montevideo [Uruguay] in 1959 and has lived in
Germany since 1993. Solari studied art in Montevideo with Guillermo Fernández and in
Lucca [Italy] with Luis Camnitzer and David Finkbeiner. Among others he has exhibited in
the following institutions: Galeria CLB, Berlin [2023]; Espacio de Arte Innova, Punta del Este
[Uruguay 2022]; Museo Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo [2019]; Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Berlin [2019]; Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig [2016]; Baltycka Galeria
Sztuki, Slupsk and BWA Gallery, Katowice [Poland 2015 and 2014]; Museo de la Memoria,
Montevideo [2010]; Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid [Spain 2009]; Museo de Arte Moderno,
Buenos Aires [Argentina 2008]; Germanisches Museum Nürnberg [2001]; and Haus der
Kunst Munich [1999 and 2000]. His work includes numerous video dance projects, as well
as video-and sound installations. In 2016-2017 he curated the project „Reconstruction of
the Future“ for HELLERAU-European Centre for the Arts Dresden.
For the Museum Moderner Kunst-Wörlen, Passau he curated the video art exhibition series „Schoen
Vergänglich“ from 2012 to 2016. In 2011 he curated the international „Victor Vasarely Art
Prize for Art in Public Space“ in Pécs [Hungary]; in 2013 he was a member of the jury of the
same competition in Aix-en-Provence [France]. In 2018, he participated with his curatorial
project „Reconstruction of the Future“ at the Venice Architecture Biennale in the „Performing
Architecture“ programme of the Goethe Institute as well as at the Prague Quadrennia
l of Scenography. At the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz and at the International
University of Dresden, he taught from 2010 to 2018 the subjects „Aesthetics“, „History of
Video Art“, „Contradictions in the Contemporary Cultural Sector“, „Cul tural Identities“ and gave workshops on installation and video art. Since 2019, he has been teaching the subject „Dance and Architecture“ at the Palucca University of Dance in Dresden.
Héctor Solari lives and works in Berlin since 2022.
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Samantha Tiussi
Instagram: @samanthatiussi
HISHIGARO project
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Samantha, a Berlin-based Brazilian artist. Her artistic practice is rooted on her synesthetic
perceptions, allowing her to visualize sounds as forms and spaces. She is autist, what gives
her aspecial perception about the world, which she delves into both for self-discovery and
healing. Memories of childhood with her father, who worked with glass, and a deep passion
for piano, imprinted upon her an enduring fascination, manifesting as her autistic special
interests. This connection is evident in her CREATURES on going research, where she
creates an entwined sensory narrative, and which is branching out in multiple directions.
Similarly, in the Piano Glass, she transforms a piano by replacing its
strings with glass, an instrument she meticulously handcrafts and performs live.
Through her immersive work, Samantha offers a window into her psyche, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the
now. Each piece serves as an invitation to contemplate existence, reality, and the interaction
of sensory perceptions. Her political ambitions are to promote a society that accepts different communities, as they are.
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Dario Dornel Martínez (KIRAP)
Instagram: @kirap
HISHIGARO project
Kirap is known for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of sound, art, and urban
landscapes. He created „Urban Soundscapes: Berlin Urban Landscape Translated into
Sound,“a project combining photography converted into audio with authentic field
recordings. This innovative endeavor gained recognition from BBC Radio, Open Music Lab,
and Munck Studios, earning a spot on BBC Radio 3’s „Slow Radio“ show in 2023.
In addition to his sound art, Kirap founded Disco Noir Collective, a platform blending DJing and event
organizing in Berlin’s cultural scene. He also produces electronic music under the alias „Tyrants to the Void“ together with producer Gabriel Rial.
In the realm of visual arts, Kirap collaborated with painter Mathias Escotto on „DESMEDIR,“ a duo exhibition at Haze Gallery
in Berlin, translating his paintings into immersive sound experiences. His new project,
„HISHIGARO,“ emerged from the sonic experimentation with Samantha Tiussi when they
discovered a story within the sounds they created. It is a sonic journey transcending traditional language and musical boundaries. It tells the tale of Hishigaro, a character on a quest to save his village from an enigmatic threat. Drawing from Wittgenstein’s philosophy on language’s limitations and Xenakis’s approach to notation, „Hishigaro“ challengesconventional communication and explores sound as a unique language.
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Mathias Escotto Gadea (MASCOGA)
Instagram: @_mascoga_
Uruguayan visual artist, curator and cultural manager based in Berlin, Germany, since 2019.
Mathias completed his artist-in- residence at the GLOGAUAIR Berlin Foundation’s Art and
Creation Space in 2022; studied Exhibition Design and Organisation; How to curate an art
exhibition; and Art World Codes the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin (BBK
Berlin), he studied Art Structures at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and is graduated
of the University of Burgos in Art curatorship and exhibition organisation. He studied a
postgraduate degree in Cultural Management and Communication at the Latin American
Faculty of Social Sciences FLACSO–Argentina. He studied at the Instituto Escuela
Nacional de Bellas Artes of the University of the Republic (UDELAR; Uruguay) and at the
Escuela Museo Joaquín Torres García in Montevideo; Uruguay. Since May 2022 he has
been contributing with the Partnerships offices at the Institute for Art and Innovation in Berlin.
He has studied at master’s degree in Human Sciences with a focus on Latin American
Studies from the Faculty of Humanities of the University of the Republic (UDELAR); a
Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the Faculty of Law of the UDELAR; a
postgraduate degree in Regional Integration from the UDELAR; he holds a postgraduate
degree in International Cooperation for Development from the Complutense University of
Madrid; a postgraduate degree in Migration, Mobility and Interculturalityat FLACSO.
As an artist he has participated in fairs, exhibitions, lectures, and publications: VI Bienal de
Valencia–Valencia-2023; Solo Exhibition Narrative Unfolding artwork series–Berlin, 2023;
Collective exhibition with Kyoto Art Gallery,Berlin, 2023; Climate Art Collection artist talk,
Berlin–2023; Berlin Affordable Art Market, BAAM 4th edition, Berlin–2023; International Contemporary Art Fair
-Affordable Art Fair Hamburg, Germany–2023; International Contemporary Art Fair–Art Market Budapest,
Hungary–2023; Guest lecturer at Conference Nature-Arts interconnections, Faculty of Art and Design, West University of
Timisoara, Romania- IACCA presentation´s, 2022; Berlin Affordable Art Market, BAAM 3rd edition, 2022–Berlin;
International Contemporary Art Fair, Köln, Germany–2022; First Solo Exhibition DESMEDIR artwork series, Berlin–2021
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Climate Art Collection (CAC – Berlin)
Instagram: @climateartcollection
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The Climate Art Collection is a non-profit initiative based in Berlin that collects, communicates, and exhibits artworks on the topic of climate change on a global scale. Our goal is to make climate change and the associated effects perceptible and tangible through art. Partners and collaborators: Goethe Institute; zentrum für kunst und medien karlsruhe, IKAROS studio, monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben; BeFantastic.
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