Volcano Lovers

About

“The Volcano Lover” is the title of a Susan Sontag novel about an obsessive collector. He sells his finds only so he has money to collect more objects (much like the artist needs to sell work in order to buy supplies with which to make more work).  Over time, collections become archives. An archive acts as a keeper of memories and a marker of time but also as a record of obsession. Archives link us to history and can also be inherently colonialist ; their creation exists as an act of labor and care, but also ownership and control. A studio practice can exist as a living archive: a collection of decisions, processes, failures, and experiments that maps the actions of a person and lays bare our obsessions.

Volcano Lovers includes the work of TSA GVL members:
Μatthew Αnthony Βatty, Tiffany Calvert, Emmanuelle Chammah, April Dauscha, Rachel de Cuba, Suzanne Dittenber, Lindsey Smith Gustave, Kevin Kao, Susan Klein, Makeda Lewis, Hirona Matsuda, Kelsey Scheaffer, Brooks Harris Stevens, Rachel Lin Weaver, Luke Whitlatch
and Frontviews members:
Despina Flessa, Kathrin Köster and Alana Lake (in collaboration with Francesco Langer). 

This exhibition is part of a larger series of exhibitions in Berlin that nurture communication between cultures and explore the dialogue, creativity, invention, and cultural impact that defines artist-run spaces. The Berlin spaces will subsequently exhibit their member work in the USA at their partner TSA space in 2023.

The title for the first part of the exchange, when the American artists exhibit in Berlin, is Meanwhile, We Are Here. This title emerged from the organizers’ discussions around the present moment as well as the importance of connection and community. Throughout 2019 and 2020, we have had to reckon with the realities of loss, isolation, nationalism, and individualism. As a result, we decided to focus this exhibition exchange on connection, memory, and visions for the future. We thought about two signifiers: the time capsule and the wormhole. The time capsule represents archives, selection, hidden histories to be revealed at a later time, future relics. Like the time capsule, the wormhole connects points in time, simultaneous occurrences, and differing realities. Both are time machines, capable of compressing the past, present, and future. The title also relates to functioning as an artist during times of upheaval; we persevere in making work, our practices become entwined with events in the wider world. Each TSA site has the freedom to interpret the theme of Meanwhile, We Are Here in any way they wish.  

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid is pleased to announce 5x5, a series of exhibitions in Berlin that nurture communication between cultures and explore the dialogue, creativity, invention, and cultural impact that defines artist-run spaces. The Berlin spaces will subsequently exhibit their member work in the USA at their partner TSA space in 2023.

The title for the first part of the exchange, when the American artists exhibit in Berlin, is Meanwhile, We Are Here. This title emerged from the organizers’ discussions around the present moment as well as the importance of connection and community. Throughout 2020 and 2021, we have had to reckon with the realities of loss, isolation, nationalism, and individualism. As a result, we decided to focus this exhibition exchange on connection, memory, and visions for the future. We thought about two signifiers: the time capsule and the wormhole. The time capsule represents archives, selection, hidden histories to be revealed at a later time, future relics. Like the time capsule, the wormhole connects points in time, simultaneous occurrences, and differing realities. Both are time machines, capable of compressing the past, present, and future. The title also relates to functioning as an artist during times of upheaval; we persevere in making work, our practices become entwined with events in the wider world. Each TSA site will have the freedom to interpret the theme of Meanwhile, We Are Here in any way they wish. 

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is a 501c3 non-profit network of independently programmed, artist-run exhibition spaces with locations in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities. 

We are excited to present six exhibitions, a performance, and a film night as part of the exchange.

Organized by Carl Baratta, Susan Klein, Bettina Weiß, and Daniel Wiesenfeld

Obsolete

5x5 Group Exhibition

March 18 - April 7

Opening: March 17, 6-10 PM

nationalmuseum, Urbanstraße 100, 10967

https://www.thenationalmuseum.de/

Possibly Easy

Tiger Strikes Asteroid NY

March 18 - April 3

Opening: March 18 6-10 PM

HilbertRaum, Reuterstraße 31, 12047

https://hilbertraum.org/

Going Down In The West

Tiger Strikes Asteroid LA
March 18 - April 17

Opening: March 18 6-10 PM

Horse & Pony, Altenbraker Str. 18, 12053

https://horseandpony.online/

LifeLinien

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago

March 19 - April 30

Opening: March 19, 7-10 PM

SCOTTY, Oranienstraße 46, 10969

https://scotty-berlin.de/

The Mutability of Time

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia

March 19 - April 10

Opening: March 19, 6-10 PM

Schau Fenster, Lobeckstraße 30-35, 10969

https://dasarty.com/events/

Volcano Lovers

Tiger Strikes Asteroid Greenville

March 20 - April 3

Opening: March 20, 4-7 PM

HAUNT/ Frontviews, Kluckstraße 23A, 10785

https://frontviews.de/exhibitions.php

Performance: JOKAklubi "The Theory Show”, March 20, 7:30-8:30 PM

https://jokaklubi.blogspot.com/

Film Night

March 21, 8-9:30 PM

Xanadu, Altenbraker Str. 18, 12053 

https://horseandpony.online/

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