Changing Channels

London Biennale Pollinations

_____________________________________________________________________                                                                                                      -Press Release-                                     27 July 2003

22nd August – 7th September 2003

The spirit of the London Biennale is spreading all over the world. 

 The 200-strong artist’s led festival which began in London in 2000 as the brainchild of Philippino artist David Medalla was reinvented a year later in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as Rio Trajectoreias where several of the London Biennale artists teamed up with local Brazilian artists to display their creations and exchange ideas.

 And now Berlin will host the next Biennale reincarnation. From 22 August until 7 September, Changing Channels - London Biennale Pollinations, will offer a cross-cultural program of performance, installation, film, music, and visual art covering a range of topics from infidelity rituals to geometry utilizing an array of materials including hot air balloons, feathers, pineapples, saliva, and wax slippers. The exhibit will involve more than 100 artists from 20 different countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Poland, Russia, India, Brazil, Argentina, France, the Netherlands, the Dominican Republic, Germany, and more.

 American artist Lowell Darling will be coming over from California and encouraging the audience to run for President of the United States. Another American, emerging artist Ryan Lemke, will be exhibiting a barbed wire installation in the Zero gallery. Other participants include Gulsen Bal, Tacita Dean, and Mark Wallinger from Great Britain, Marko Stepanov from Yugoslavia, Deej Fabyk from Australia,  Cyril Le Petit from France as well as the founder of the London Biennale himself, David Medalla.

 There will be Berlin artists participating as well. Nina and Torsten Römer are offering 50 German-Russian Positions on Contemporary Art. Also exhibiting are Gió di Sera, Angelik Riemer, Gisela Genthner, Frank Schäpel, Fritz Heisterkamp, Norman Bisky, Shaheen Merali, Tom de Toys, Bernard Föll, Visumann and many more.

 Changing Channels is being curated by Bill Allen, Adam Nankervis and Marianne Wagner-Simon. The  project administration is being organized by cultural events organizers DER ERSTE STOCK. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us.

 Jacinta Nandi

English-speaking press co-ordinations officer

+49 30 250 19312

erster-stock@gmx.de

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