Partner: Centrum
Exhibition: Season 3 : Through a glass darkly
Date: 8 January – 29 January 2011
Finnissage: 29 January 2011, 19:00
Cost: Free admission
Project description:
Marcin Malaszczak: Sieniawka – video installation bei Centrum
Marcin Malaszczak’s installation explores his personal connection to the mental health institution that dominated the polish village Sieniawka, where he grew up. Amidst a formal filmic language that deals with space and time and places the viewer both as an ‘insider’ and outsider’, borders of ‘normal’ and institutional life, sanity, chaos, and ultimately humanity, nature and civilisation are crossed and re-crossed. Marcin Malaszczak is a film and video director based in Berlin and currently studying at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie, Berlin. He has been working on a series of projects inspired by Sieniawka since Autumn 2009, including a feature film of the same name. For Centrum, Marcin has been experimenting with both formal and conceptual elements of his artistic process as a filmmaker to develop new installation based work. Sieniawka is the name of a polish village in which lies the Hospital for the Mentally / Nervously Ill and Alcoholics, which was founded in 1964 on the site of a Nazi sub-concentration camp for Labour. Part of: Season 3: Through a glass darkly, A season of film and moving image exploring light and time, the outer physical world and inner psychological space.
Als Teil unseres fortlaufenden Programmes “Season 3 : Through a glass darkly- eine Saison die Film erkundet sowie Film und das bewegte Bild hin auf Licht und Zeit, auf äußere physische Welten und innere psychologische Räume“ untersucht. Dieses Projekt wird 3-6 KünstlerInnen zusammenbringen, die mit digitalem Sound und Film arbeiten um neue Arbeiten und Installationen in Centrum, Neukölln sowie nahgelegenen Off-spaces zu präsentieren.
Address:
centrum, Reuterstrasse 8 Neukölln, Berlin 12053
centrumberlin.com
Opening times: Saturday 29 January: 16:00 -10:30, Sunday 30 January – 16:00 -19:00
