'An introduction into Project Spaces as Micro-Cinemas with 6x6 Project, Xanadu, Anorak and Videoart at Midnight.'

On Monday, 1 August from 18:00 past midnight, as part of Project Space Festival, several Berlin-based platforms will present moving image programs that represent their own distinctive approaches to the problems and opportunities posed by attempts to present the medium outside of standard institutionalized contexts.

Details on each program are below. Please note that we’ll be starting promptly at the listed times.

18:00
Anorak
With work by Chantal Akerman, James Richards, and Eduardo Williams in collaboration with Mariano Blatt

anorak is a curatorial collective and an independent art space in Berlin run by Lukas Ludwig and Johanna Markert. Organised as non-profit (Kunstverein), anorak offers a space for sincere and mutual exchange, enabling artists to produce, present and critically discuss their work.

Since 2015, the experimental artistic programme is shaped by long-term collaborations with local and international artists and cultural institutions, fostering the joint development of presentation formats such as exhibitions, performances, dinners, workshops, publications, talks and film screenings.

Seeing Is Believing is anorak's monthly screening and conversation series dedicated to artists’ moving image. Every month they invite an artist, filmmaker or curator to show works and discuss with a small audience. The programme is an occasion for a joint exploration of experimental film practices oscillating between the desire to make sense of the world and the inconsistencies it inhabits.

19:30
6x6 Project
With work by Clara Helbig, collectif_fact, Jennifer Martin, and Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner

6x6 project is an artist-run online platform dedicated to the distribution and promotion of artists’ works in digital form. Founded by artist Mirelle Borra in 2017, 6x6 project is engaged in building an international community of artists.

6x6 project draws inspiration from the alternative art space movement of the 1970s in New York by utilizing the ‘artists-selecting-artists’ model—six artists, each selecting another artist for inclusion on the platform, every six weeks. The 6x6 project platform offers a more multifaceted approach for the audience to discover the multiplicity of artists’ film and moving image practices.

We are particularly interested in artistic practices with an emphasis on critical perspectives. Our aim is to disseminate artists’ moving image works to reach a worldwide audience and to foster an ongoing dialogue.

21:00
Xanadu x Janaye Brown + Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong

This is the first in a series of screenings organized by Xanadu in which an invited artist will program a screening to accompany a monographic presentation of their own work, highlighting strands of influence, hidden affinities, and broader contexts for their practices. In this case, after a screening of selected works by Janaye Brown, our second screening (programmed by Brown) is a presentation of Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong’s Krabi, 2562.

Xanadu is a screening space initiated for the presentation of artists' moving image work. With a special focus on working with BIPOC, FLINT*, Queer artists and curators the space draw on the history and approaches of microcinemas, which fore ground idiosyncratic, varied curatorial approaches and flexible, responsive programming.

23:30
Videoart at Midnight
With work by Katarina Zdjelar, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnonc and Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz

Videoart at Midnight is an artists’ cinema project founded in 2008 by Olaf Stüber and Ivo Wessel. Monthly since, and always on a Friday at midnight, Stüber has been inviting predominantly Berlin based artists to show their work on the big screen of the legendary BABYLON Film Theater in the Berlin Mitte district.

Every night is dedicated to one artist who is present. It is their night. The artists often take the chance to celebrate premieres or to present works rarely shown before. They also stage live acts from time to time, including performances, concerts or lectures, which accompany the film and video presentations.

The goal of the screening series is to lend insight into contemporary video art production in Berlin’s unique international art scene and to provide artists working with film and video with their own bright platform.

The City of Project Spaces: Project Space Festival 22
It takes time to get to know the city of project spaces. The imminent demolition of a building, a contested urban space, or the need to create places for communal regeneration away from institutional expectations move artists and independent curators in Berlin to find new ways and forms of coming together in their diverse communities. The Project Space Festival takes its time and invites you for one month to the 31 events of project spaces and -initiatives of the independent scene of visual arts. Places where important free spaces for a diverse, artistic and curatorial practice come into being. Places that evolve from deviations and differences, from experimental extensions and overlaps, or from the rupture with the existing public space.