Curator
Karma Ltd. Extended
Kunsthaus Acud Macht Neu, Berlin
Karma Ltd. Extended,
Logo by Fertig Design
Karma Ltd. Extended is a curatorial collaboration between Petra Poelzl, Pauline Doutreluingne and Jana J. Haeckel that refers to the connections and effects of the digital transformation on the political, social, ecological and economic living conditions of the present. It puts the human imagination centerfold by focusing on artistic narratives about future possibilities of coexistence. In their research, the curators search for artistic trajectories and visions that broaden our senses for unexpected fantasies. They focus on the acting subject and design a wide variety of counter-perspectives and alternatives. Karma Ltd. Extended is political, poetic, performative, intersectional-feminist, experimental and much more.
CHAPTER #1: Imagination
CHAPTER #2: Transcultural Transience
CHAPTER #3: Variations on Time
CHAPTER #4: Post-Internet Mythologies
CHAPTER #5: Brauchen Wir einen Linken Populismus?
CHAPTER #6: Species of Spaces
CHAPTER #1: Imagination
02.02. – 04.03.2018
Anouk De Clercq (Ghent/Berlin), Farkhondeh Shahroudi (Téheran/Berlin), Pedro Vieira de Oliveira (Brazil/Berlin), Isabel Lewis (New York/Berlin), Notfoundyet (Vienna), Viviana Druga (Transylvania/Berlin), Karma She (Israel/Berlin) and Liam Young (London/Australia).
CHAPTER #2: Transcultural Transience
16.03. – 15.04.2018
We cannot act without supports,and yet we must struggle for the supports that allow us to act.
Judith Butler in: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Isaac Chong Wai, Rachel Monosov, Slavs & Tatars, Abrie Fourie, Black Cracker
CHAPTER #3: Variations on Time
27.04. – 27.05.2018
There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round raindrop falling in the night: so too do all the stars reflect the raindrop. There is neither darkness nor death, for all things are, in the Light of the Moment, and their end and their beginning are one.
Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Kapwani Kiwanga, Susanne M. Winterling, Emilija Škarnulytė
CHAPTER #4: Post-Internet Mythologies
08.06. – 10.06.2018
in collaboration with Torstrassen Festival
Tianzhuo Chen, Beio, Yu Han, Felix Florian Tödtloff
CHAPTER #5: Brauchen Wir einen Linken Populismus?
15.06.2018 – 15.07.2018
All power comes from the people. But where does it go to?
Bertolt Brecht
Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Leon Kahane, Raul Walch, Wermke/Leinkauf, Margarita Tsomou
CHAPTER #6: Species of Spaces
22.09 – 28.10.2018
When nothing arrests our gaze, it carries a very long way. But if it meets with nothing, it sees nothing; it sees only what it meets. Space is what arrests our gaze, what our sight stumbles over: the obstacle, bricks, an angle, a vanishing point. Space is when it makes an angle, when it stops, when we have to turn for it to start off again.
Georges Perec, Species of Spaces, p. 80.
Anna Zett, Heba Y. Amin, Deniz Gül, Lawrence Abu Hamdan