New Life Berlin is a contemporary art festival dedicated to new modes of moving and existing. New Life Berlin is curated from the participatory art community WOOLOO.ORG, and will take place in Berlin between 1st and 15th June 2008. In addition to the published program, the curators invite members of the online community to participate throughout the festival itself.
In this way, New Life Berlinconnects the resources of a global artists network with the physical geography of Berlin, as Europe’s pre-eminent centre for cultural production. By inviting participation (while still retaining curatorial control), New Life Berlin will investigate the much discussed “online community” – How effective is this community? What binds this community? What governs it? In contrast to traditional art festivals and biennials, New Life Berlinwill not represent a set of cultural conclusions, but create a model for a fluid cultural landscape.
The New Life Berlinfestival program is structured along three themes:
Transnational Communities
What do “community” and “identity” mean today? Presenting projects from both artistic and sociological starting points, New Life Berlinwill use group participation to explore real-life cultural mobility.
Artistic Social Responsibility
What is the relationship between cultural practitioners and corporate entities in the new millennium? How does contemporary cultural production relate to the concept of “Corporate Social Responsibility”?
Participation and Intervention
How do participatory arts practices affect the socio-cultural environments in which they take place? How and why can local audiences become involved in artists’ projects, and what does their involvement mean in terms of civic engagement and social empowerment?
FESTIVAL CALENDAR
Saturday, MAY 31
6 PM
FESTIVAL OPENING RECEPTION
/Installation by Nathan Peter
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
10 PM
AFTER PARTY
/Live acts & performances at SCALA
AIDS 3-D
Location: Friedrichstr. 112 / Mitte
Sunday, JUNE 01
2 PM
Eminent Domain
/Installation by Nathan Peter
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
5 PM
Flash Job Campaign
/Public Workshop
Location: Karl Marx Str. 168 / Neukölln
Tuesday, JUNE 3
6 PM
Marisa Olson’s Assisted Living
/Live Studio Audience
Location: Karl-Liebknechtstr. 13A / Mitte
Wednesday, JUNE 4
5 PM
30 Days of New Life Berlin
/Open Network Meeting
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
10 PM
Urban Space
/Projections
Gordon Sasaki : Movement
Marie Christine Katz : Road Kills and Other Casualties
Miles Supico + Norberto Lobo: Démarche figée sur Lottumstr.
/Video Presentations
Location: KiM – Brunnen Strasse 10 / Mitte
Thursday, JUNE 5
7 PM
Arts and Conversation
/Mariana Viegas
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
Friday, JUNE 6th
4 PM
CABAN UNNOS
/Public Workshop
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
Saturday, JUNE 7
1 PM
Sandwich Box
/Performance at the Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark
2 PM
CABAN UNNOS
/Pre-building panel discussion
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
5 PM
Open Dialogues Live Review
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
Sunday, JUNE 8
5 PM
Art & Economics Group
/Public Forum
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
7 PM
Old Berliners to New Berliners
/Open invitation by Laboratorio Berlin
Location: Damaschkestr. 25 / Charlottenburg
Monday, JUNE 9
8 PM
Arts and Conversation
/HACK.Fem.EAST
Location: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2 / Kreuzberg
time to be announced
GOING NOWHERE
/Happening at newly build CABAN UNNOS
Location: to be announced
Tuesday, JUNE 10
2 PM TO 6PM
Barbara Rosenthal : Existential Interact performance
Location: Kunst Werke Berlin, Auguststrasse 69
8 PM
Eat The Wall
/Workshop for all aspiring cooking constructors
Location: Greifswalder Str. 220 / Prenzlauer Berg
Wednesday, JUNE 11
7 PM
Powell Opera for Non-Musicians
/1st rehearsal
Location: to be announced
8 PM
Arts and Conversation
/OIO
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
Thursday, JUNE 12
8 PM
Your Imaginary Country Opening
/Installation by Scott Townsend
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
GOLDRU$H
Location: Choriner Str. 85 / Mitte
Friday, JUNE 13
6 PM
FICTIVE DAYS Housewarming
/Performance
Location: Greifswalder Str. 220 / Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday, JUNE 14
6 PM
Marisa Olson’s Assisted Living
/Saturday Live Show
Location: Karl-Liebknechtstr. 13A / Mitte
Sunday, JUNE 15
2-4 PM
Flash Job Campaign Conclusion
/Multimedia presentations by the participants
Location: Greifswalder Str. 220 / Prenzlauer Berg
5 PM
Powell Opera for Non-Musicians
/Grand premiere
Location: to be announced
8 PM
EAT THE WALL
/Public ceremony
Location: Friedrichstr. 112 / Mitte