Points Of Resistance | Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes Of Freedom

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Also included in the program is our symposium, 'Birds & Bicycles:  Paradoxes of Freedom' in which the panellists, both artists and curators, will talk concretely about how they think art and culture express and reflect the truths of our time.

Morning Program: 11:00-13:30 
3proof of vaccination, recovery, or negative test required. 
(Register on: info@points-of-resistance.org)

Evening Program: 18:30 - 23:00
(Register on: info@kleinervonwiese.com)

@ Zionskirche, Zionskircheplatz, 10119 Berlin
(FFP2 Masks - Proof of vaccine, recovery or negative test required)

E-INVITATION: https://mailchi.mp/momentumw.../birds-and-bicycles-symposium

MORE INFO: https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibit.../birds-bicycles/
https://www.kleinervonwiese.com/lastenbr-2007-why-i-bear...

To Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS concert: https://www.eventim-light.com/.../e/6166f546cf64ac5d49f475c6 

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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM: 

MORNING PROGRAM: 11:00 -14:00

11:00 - 11:30 

'Why I Bear' by Stefan Rinck: 
Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture. Welcome by Costanze Kleiner. Stefan Rinck in dialogue with David Elliot [in English and German]

11:30 - 12:00 

'Heart of Stone' by Sonja Baeger:
Film Screening - documentary on the work of Stefan Rinck [in German with English subtitles]

12:00 - 13:00

Panel Discussion - 'Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom' [In English]

13:00 - 13:40

'Allegoria Sacra' by AES+F - Film Screening

EVENING PROGRAM: 18:30 - 23:00

PLACES ARE LIMITED. PLEASE REGISTER BY EMAIL ON info@kleinervonwiese.com 

18:30 - 19:00

'Why I Bear' by Stefan Rinck: 
Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture. Welcome by Costanze Kleiner. Stefan Rinck in dialogue with David Elliot [in German]

19:00 - 20:30

'The church, the Resistance and the Bear' - Lecture by Christian Posthofen: 
Philosopher, Historian and publisher Christian Posthofen discusses the Zionskirche as a heterotopia. [In German]

21:00 – 22:00

CONCERT

'TRES MOMENTOS' by Sven Helbig, conducted by Wilhelm Keitel 

To Buy Tickets for TRES MOMENTOS:  https://www.eventim-light.com/.../e/6166f546cf64ac5d49f475c6

22:00 – 22:40

'Allegoria Sacra' by AES+F - Film Screening

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This program is prompted by two recent exhibitions: Points of Resistance, shown earlier this year at the Zionskirche (4-26 April 2021), and Taking Flight: Birds & Bicycles Berlin, currently at MOMENTUM in the Kunstquartier Bethanien (4 September – 14 November 2021). Both are concerned with paradoxes of freedom. While the works in these exhibitions reflect on the limits of memory, history, politics, progress, and desire, the cultural infrastructure seems to be becoming increasingly incompatible with the requirements for interaction. Too often, freedoms for some are dependent upon the servitude of others.

The Zionskirche was a centre of resistance itself in many different ways. When the pandemic suspended normality, the references of the works shown there in Points of Resistance ranged from the specific to the global through different times and places. What brought them together was their moral imperative and political and social need to preserve and promote difference as a fountainhead of creativity. Birds & Bicycles adopts a more metaphorical approach by examining ideas of freedom that focus on borders - mental and actual, physical and figurative – as characterised by the mechanical technology of the bicycle and the poetic symbol of birds in flight. This exhibition assembles the work of 12 artists from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, most of whom live in Berlin. In various ways their work reflects on the analogy of flight in different paradoxes of rooted mobility. 

The starting points for the Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom discussion panel, which takes place on the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, are both historical and current issues concerning the crisis in democracy. The panellists, both artists and curators, will talk concretely about how they think art and culture express and reflect the truths of our time. Why I Bear, the sculpture of the bear carrying a heavy burden by Stefan Rinck, being unveiled on this day, is a monumental version made for public space of the work shown in Points of Resistance. The program is accompanied by lectures, film screenings, and a concert by renowned composer Sven Helbig. Tres Momentos describes a section of the infinite spiral, in which disorder and structure, the sacred and the profane, life and death are mutually dependent. 

FOR MORE INFO: 

https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibit.../birds-bicycles/

https://www.kleinervonwiese.com/lastenbr-2007-why-i-bear-grosser-lastenbr-2021