SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY from 5 pm to 9pm @ PAVILLON AM MILCHHOF – Berlin

artists:
Sophie Ernst – Marcio Carvalho – Sarah Vanagt – Daniela Ortiz – Simona Da Pozzo

Curated by Ex-voto [Radical Public Culture] in collaboration with Visualcontainer, the screening is part of Hacking Monuments research.

Hacking Monuments. Tips to make sense of them explores the phenomena of hacking the monuments: since ’70s, several artists have been dealing with the legacy of power by interrupting the narrative flux of monuments. They transform the monuments in a space of socio-political dialogue and re-coding of public narratives. Besides the artistic and activist intervention, the research focuses on the performative act of confronting the claim of the permanence of the monument; the ritual act of re-coding the appearance of the monument, and, with it, its power to inform the reality. Some hackers use monuments as mannequins:  the monument supports an object that is the real protagonist and signifier of the action. The object dresses the monument, which becomes interchangeable. Some other hackers act in a monument-specific approach.

Tips to make sense of them presents the practices of five artists dealing with monuments in a performative way in the frame of long term researches:

Little Figures – Sarah Vanagt, 15’, B/W, 35mm + mini-DV, Belgium 2003

Silent Empress – Sophie Ernst, 12’22” Min, color, Great Britain 2012

Notes about a polyamorous affair with the body of Naples – Simona Da Pozzo, 7’, color, stereo, Italy 2022

Memories for 14 busts – Marcio Carvalho, 21’28” color, stero, Germany 2023

Ofrenda – Daniela Ortiz, 1’20”, 16:9 color, stero, Spain 2012