Event
Weekend #7: Paul Elliman: Body Alive with Signals
23 Mar 2017
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Berlin, Germany
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Paul Elliman, Cover Body Alive with Signals, 1987; Photocopied book, 52 pages, BW, 148 x 210mm; Courtesy the artist
Exhibition
Paul Elliman. As you said
18 Mar 2017 – 14 May 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Cost of entry
Free Entry
Address
- KUNST-WERKE
- Auguststraße 69
- Berlin
Berlin - 10117
- Germany
Event map
British artist Paul Elliman has consistently engaged with the production and performance of language as a material component of the socially constructed environment.
About
In a world where objects and people are equally subject to the force fields of mass production, Elliman explores the range of human expression as kind of typography.
His exhibition As you said includes various works, both existing and new, that test the boundaries of our communication through letter-like objects, language-like vocal sounds, actions, and movements of the body. Whether concealed by clothing or techniques of mimicry, our gestures and the desire for language are always within easy reach of the violently communicative raw material of the city itself. As you said is structured around a set of vitrines devised by Ian Wilson, which Elliman considers as sculptures, objects of display, and sites for discourse. Alongside these vitrines Elliman presents two new bodies of work, one produced in collaboration with the dancer Elena Giannotti.
