THE SINGER: ON VIEW NOW!!!!

THE SINGER IS PART OF EXHIBITIONOUT OF THE DARK (FLU-18)

Birgit Auf der Lauer und Caspar Pauli, Alexine Chanel, Janine Eggert und Philipp Ricklefs, Bodo Hartwig, Ulrich Vogl, Marc Klee

STILL VIEWABLE:Sa 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.Su 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.
OUT OF THE DARK (FLU-18)Werbellinstr. 50, 12053 BerlinEntrance at the Kart racing ring by the old Kindl-Brauerei
GUIDED TOUR IN THE CATACOMBS OF THE OLD KINDL-BRAUEREIbook early!!!

Out of the Dark (FLU-18)

Werbellinstr. 50, 12053 Berlin

Zugang nur in geführten Touren

Eingang Kartbahn auf dem Gelände der ehem. Kindl-Brauerei

Sa 24.06.2017, 12:00 bis 20:00

So 25.06.2017, 12:00 bis 19:00

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http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/singer

http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/out-dark

THE SINGER

Alexine Chanel@48 Stunden Neukölln

THE SINGER is a multimedia installation which tells the story of a textile worker, a woman called Lucky. Lucky was interviewed in the urban settlement of Karai Basti, Dhaka, Bangladesh, in April 2016, during a research study of the condition of textile workers in Bangladesh. 

The installation THE SINGER features a song based on this interview. One hears the beautiful, melodic voice of the Bangla singer, emanating from the darkness of the catacombs, telling us about the life of Lucky - yet we don’t see her - only the Singer sewing machine on which she works. A single voice, a singing sewing machine, sheds a light on the existence of thousands of textile workers in Bangladesh. 

OUT OF THE DARK

This group show consists of special installations in the six “tubes” of the 4th underground level of the former Kindl-Brauerei. 

Six different site-specific artistic contributions in the so-called “tubes” of the former storage basement area, all dealing with the theme of light versus shadow. Some of these installations use light or sound to fill the unique architecture with new, artistic energy. Only adults will be admitted on guided group tours only.

Artists: Birgit Auf der Lauer und Caspar Pauli, Alexine Chanel, Janine Eggert und Philipp Ricklefs, Bodo Hartwig, Ulrich Vogl, Marc Klee

FRIDAY 23/06/17 UNTIL SUNDAY 25/06/17

Fr 7:00 pm - 11:00 p.m.

Sa 12:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Su 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.

OUT OF THE DARK (FLU-18)

Werbellinstr. 50, 12053 Berlin

Entrance at the Kart racing ring 

by the old Kindl-Brauerei

GUIDED TOUR IN THE CATACOMBS OF THE OLD KINDL-BRAUEREI

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THE SINGER

Die Multimediale Installation erzählt die Geschichte einer Textilarbeiterin, die Lucky genannt wird. Die Frau lebt in Bangladesh und zwar in der informellen Siedlung Korai Bosti. The Singer macht am Beispiel von Lucky aufmerksam auf das Schattendasein von Menschen, dir für unsere Konsumgüter schwer arbeiten müssen, ohne sich ein menschenwürdiges Leben zu verdienen. Eine Textilarbeiterin aber bekommt eine Stimme, der wir konzentriert zuhören können.

OUT OF THE DARK

Eine Gruppenausstellung der besonderen Art präsentiert Installationen im 4. Untergeschoss der Kindl-Brauerei. Sechs künstlerische Positionen widmen sich in den sechs so genannten Tubes des ehemaligen Lagerkellers dem Thema Licht und Schatten. Zum Teil kinetische Licht- und Soundinstallationen füllen die außergewöhliche Architektur mit neuem, künstlerischem Leben. Zugang nur für Erwachsene im Rahmen einer Führung. Bitte achten Sie auf festes Schuhwerk!

Beteiligte Künstler*innen: Birgit Auf der Lauer und Caspar Pauli, Alexine Chanel, Janine Eggert und Philipp Ricklefs, Bodo Hartwig, Ulrich Vogl, Marc Klee

Veranstaltungsort und Öffnungszeiten: 

Out of the Dark (FLU-18)

Werbellinstr. 50, 12053 Berlin

Zugang nur in geführten Touren

Eingang Kartbahn auf dem Gelände der ehem. Kindl-Brauerei

Fr 23.06.2017, 19:00 bis 23:00

Sa 24.06.2017, 12:00 bis 20:00

So 25.06.2017, 12:00 bis 19:00

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http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/singer

http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/out-dark

SPINNING JENNY 2000 : OPENING TONIGHT, 19.00

COME AND ENJOY A GLASS OF WINE 

AND, CAPITALLY,

MY OMA'S LEGENDARY CHICKEN LIVER PÂTÉ!!!!!!!!!!!

(DID I MENTION THIS ALREADY?)

HOFFENTLICH BIS HEUTE ABEND!

SPINNING JENNY 2000 - ALEXINE CHANEL

OPENING:

friday, the 24th of JUNE

19:00-22:00

at kirchenraum der herrnhuter brüder und schwestern

kirchgasse 14–17 

12043 berlin   

U7 karl-marx-straße 

http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/en/location/kirchsaal-der-evangelischen-br%C3%BCdergemeine-berlin

the installation may be viewed during

48 stunden neukölln, das kunstfestival

24-26 june 2016 

between 10:00 and 22:00

and until june 30 by appointment

THE SPINNING JENNY 2000 PROJECT WAS MADE POSSIBLE 

THANKS TO SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS 

STIFTUNG UMBERTEILEN, 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN, 

KULTUR NETWERK UND HABITTAT FORUM BERLIN

SPINNING JENNY 2000 : OPENING TOMORROW!

SPINNING JENNY 2000 - ALEXINE CHANEL

OPENING:

friday, the 24th of JUNE

19:00-22:00

at kirchenraum der herrnhuter brüder und schwestern

kirchgasse 14–17 

12043 berlin   

U7 karl-marx-straße 

http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/en/location/kirchsaal-der-evangelischen-br%C3%BCdergemeine-berlin

the installation may be viewed during

48 stunden neukölln, das kunstfestival

24-26 june 2016 

between 10:00 and 22:00

and until june 30 by appointment

THE SPINNING JENNY 2000 PROJECT WAS MADE POSSIBLE 

THANKS TO SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS 

STIFTUNG UMBERTEILEN, 48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN, 

KULTUR NETWERK UND HABITTAT FORUM BERLIN

ANNOUNCING: SPINNING JENNY 2000

private view: friday, the 24th of JUNE

19:00-22:00

at kirchenraum der herrnhuter brüder und schwestern

kirchgasse 14–17 

12043 berlin   

U7 karl-marx-straße 

http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/en/location/kirchsaal-der-evangelischen-br%C3%BCdergemeine-berlin

SPINNING JENNY 2000 

is a wide-scale installation
presented for the first time 
at the kind invitation of 

48 STUNDEN NEUKÖLLN

http://www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de/de/event/notbewerbung-alexine-chanel-appareil

the installation may be viewed during 

48 stunden neukölln, das kunstfestival

24-26 june 2016 

19:00-22:00

SPINNING JENNY 2000 is a wide scale installation planned in the Bruder Gemeinde, on a surface of around 16 meter by 11 meter. It will be show there for the first time as part of and in response to the art festival “48 Sunden Neukölln” whose theme for 2016 is “SATT”, as is surabondance, excess, glut, mass consumerism.
The installation consists of a large volume of white cotton gloves (around 1000 pairs) manufactured in Bangladesh, which are hung as so many pennants on yards and yards of string, ironically reminding one of national holidays and fêtes (Feiertage).
“Spinning Jenny” is a machine that was invented during the industrial revo- lution. The device reduced the amount of work needed to produce yarn, with a worker able to work eight or more spools at once. This grew to 120 as tech- nology advanced. This seems an adept reference to the thousands of workers, invisible and remote, whom make our garments in Bangldesh or China or other countries where labor is cheap thus ennables huge profits on a mass scale for wide-distribution fashion megabrands such as H&M and all of the “big” names of cheap outfitters.
The objective of this project is to bring the public attention to the persons behind the fashionable garments offered in wide-distribution fashion estab- lishments, reminding the consumers of the origins of the word “fashion”: from Latin factio(n-), from facere ‘do, make’, which implies a maker behind each item of clothing; to help end-users realise someone else on the other end of the chain is paying for the cheap T-shirts we buy.

The installation SPINNING JENNY 2000 is part of a wider project, “APPAREIL”, and Günter Nest’s project “HABITAT FORUM BERLIN” and more precisely the theme: “ARBEITER-INNEN VERLASSEN DIE TEXTILFABRIK* – LOKALE UND GLOBALE VERFLECHTUNGEN DER TEXTILPRODUKTION IN BANGLADESCH / LOCAL AND GLOBAL INTER-RELATIONS OF TEX- TILE PRODUCTION IN BANGLADESH”, which analyses the conditions of the workers in the textile industry, a commercial enterprise that links the “rich north” and the “poor south” with each and every transaction it entails.

Project APPAREIL and SPINNING JENNY 2000 concentrates their focal point on the humanity and existence of the workers of the Dhaka factories by means of a re- search into the phenomenon of anonymisation in the global economy and through this multinational industry; and the consequent discrepancy it creates in lo- cal economic markets. The project seeks to reopen the consumers eyes onto the existence, away from the consumer’s gaze, of the “makers” of any bought garment available for sale and immediate purchase on the western consumer shelves. It seeks to make these hidden hands present again to us, and once more connected with heads and bodies, to summon up the individuals threaded behind the seams.
The idea of anonymity is suitably embodied by the white gloves, an item that protect from leaving fingerprints behind, yet made on an industrial scale by thou- sands of invisible hands belonging to “anyones”, or even to “no-ones”, thousands of kilometres away.

The object “white glove” is therefore the proposed vector of investigation into the condition of of the textile workers in Dhaka, a process which starts on the internet, making the purchase of 100 dozen pairs of cotton gloves made in Ban- gladesh, the minimum amount for a BULK purchase.
A purchase over the internet seems an ideal illustration of the phenomena of anonymisation of the consumers as well as the sellers, and the further mystifica- tion of the innitial “makers” at the begining of the production line. It is as if the product fell out of the sky, magic and shiny, and object made by many and consummed collectively by many, like the great cathedrals of the middl-ages. In- ternet is the phenomena of anonymisation and glogablisation at its paroxysm and is therefore the chosen means of purchase of the item “white glove”.