POWER NIGHTS: Being Mothers, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti at E-WERK Luckenwalde

POWER NIGHTS

Being Mothers, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti at E-WERK Luckenwalde

October 2021 - May 2022

21. October 2021

E-WERK Luckenwalde Exterior 2019

POWER NIGHTS:

Being Mothers, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti at E-WERK Luckenwalde

October 2021 - May 2022

OCTOBER 2021

From October 2021, POWER NIGHTS will open with an immersive installation by the Karrabing Film Collective in E-WERK's 1913 Turbine Hall. In October, Himali Singh Soin will present their new collaborative work Static Range and in November, artists Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen will present their new immersive film work Three Hearts. More happenings will take place across the E-WERK site in 2022.

"There are fertile soils and fertilised soils. Superhuman plights and resistances. Capricious goddesses and then just boundless, vibrant love. Being Mothers brings together artistic interventions and research processes that think about environmental care, repair and perseverance in a superhuman context,"

Lucia Pietroiusti, August 2021

PROGRAM

OPENING

OCTOBER 22.10.2021 (running until July 2022).

KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE, The Family.

POWER NIGHTS will open with the immersive film installation The Family. Audiences can experience the film amidst an apocalyptic landscape of burnt-out cars, tyres and other post-industrial remnants.

HIMALI SINGH SOIN, Static Range, 2020 - ongoing.

A new exhibition by Himali Singh Soin will take place in October. Static Range is a multidisciplinary project that uses a real-life spy story in the Indian Himalayas as a canvas for speculation and reflection on nuclear culture, porosity, leaks, toxicity and love, spiritual-scientific entanglements, environmental disasters and post-nation states. The series of transmissions that make up Static Range includes an animated stamp, letters, music, embroidery, healing, planting and a performance installation. The exhibition also includes a soundscape by David Soin Tappeser, embroidery by Jordan Nasser and healing by Viveka Chauhan, which will be presented throughout the exhibition.

OPENING NOVEMBER 27/11/2021 (and then ongoing until July 2022).

REVITAL COHEN & TUUR VAN BALEN, Three Hearts.

Three Hearts is conceived as a blocking rehearsal for Heavens - a work based on a scientific theory that the octopus evolved from an octopus infected by an alien virus transmitted by a meteorite. Using audiovisual methods borrowed from planetariums, aquariums and raves, the work uses this hypothesis as a starting point to think about escape, viral spillovers and interplanetary ecologies.

FROM NOVEMBER

ISABEL LEWIS AND SISSEL TOLAAS WITH THE SOLOIST ENSEMBLE KALEIDOSKOP

Power Hours - Journey to Luckenwalde will take place on the train between Berlin and Luckenwalde and as a procession and performance on the site of the disused Erich Mendelsohn hat factory near E-WERK Luckenwalde

JANUARY TO MAY 2022

Further POWER NIGHTS

Tabita Rezaire with her immersive video and sound experience in the FLUXDOME, the outdoor performance space of the E-WERK. The themes will be care and birth.

COOKING SECTIONS

For POWER NIGHTS, Cooking Sections will develop a bread recipe in cooperation with local initiatives for regenerative agriculture in Brandenburg, which POWER NIGHTS visitors will be able to enjoy for free in the E-WERK's low-carbon outdoor bar and kitchen TRAFO from March 2022. For POWER NIGHTS, Cooking Sections will also present a new version of their performative lecture that explores the systems that organise the world through food.

ABOUT THE E-WERK LUCKENWALDE

E-WERK Luckenwalde is located in a former coal-fired power plant dating back to 1913, which was shut down in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall. E-WERK Luckenwalde is located 30 minutes south of Berlin and is co-managed by Pablo Wendel and Helen Turner. In 2017, the art collective Performance Electrics gGmbH, led by Pablo Wendel, acquired the former lignite-fired power plant with the vision of reviving it as a sustainable art power plant to feed electricity into the public grid by burning locally produced woodchips and to function as a large-scale centre for contemporary art. As part of POWER NIGHT 2019, Performance Electrics gGmbH ceremoniously switched the power of the former factory back on.

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