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An exhibition by the agency for Art and Media Trampoline examines how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance.

Cover: Simon Faithfull Going Nowhere 2, 2011© Simon Faithfull

Tracing Mobility, opened last 24th of November at The Haus der Kulturen der Welt, sets out to examine how electronic networks and mobile media are transforming our conceptions of time, space and distance. The exhibition presents the positions of 16 international artists who trace the shifting terrain of global and local mobility, virtual and material movement. What new spaces are born when online and offline worlds converge? What does the movement of a body in a landscape indicate when every point of the earth is within reach through the aid of digital technology? How do mobile devices and media alter our mindset and change our perception of time and space?

Yolande Harris Taking Soundings © Yolande Harris

Concerned with redefining and experiencing what space means today and how we move within it, the exhibition intends to draw a diverse picture of this dynamic topography. By means of installations, videos, performances and paintings, but also in the guise of iPhone Apps, maps and open-source collaborations, we see artists redefining and experiencing what space means today and how we move within this dynamic topography. About half of the pieces were especially commissioned for the exhibition while the others are comprised of works produced within the last few years in distinct relation to the theme.
A Symposium and the Tracing Mobility Open Platform will offer further explorations of these themes via lectures, talks and workshops.

Janett Cardiff & George Bures Miller Road Trip 2004 © Photo: Anton Bures

Artists and Exhibited Works: Frank Abbott (UK) – Muscle / Aram Bartholl (DE) – Dust / Neal Beggs (UK/FR) – From our house to the summit of Europe – Side B. / Heath Bunting (UK) – Status Project / Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (CAN) – Road Trip / Miles Chalcraft (UK/DE) – At End of Road / Simon Faithfull (UK/DE) – The Electrification of Dark Peak (a proposal); Going Nowhere / Going Nowhere 2; Limbo, An expanding Atlas of Subjectivity / Yolande Harris (UK/NL) – Navigating by Circles; Taking Soundings; Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounding / Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser (DE) – IFA / Landon Mackenzie (CAN) – Houbart’s Hope (Green), Hope Advanced, Hope Dasht; Vancouver As the Centre of the World / Open_Sailing (FR/JP) – Protei / plan b (Sophia New & Dan Belasco Rogers) (UK/DE) – The re-drawing of everywhere we’ve been in Berlin since 2007; Five Years of text messages mapped onto the duration of the exhibition / Esther Polak & Ivar van Bekkum (NL) – <Abstraktview> / Gordan Savicic (AT/NL) – Constraint City – The pain of everyday life / Mark Selby (UK) – Camera Explora / Michelle Teran (CAN/DE) – Folgen

Tracing Mobility is a project by Trampoline, agency for Art and Media, founded by artists Anette Schäfer and Miles Chalcraft in 1997. Trampoline is based in Nottingham and runs a second office in Berlin since 2000. The organisation supports and develops artists working at the critical edge of emerging technology and digital culture. Over the last 14 years, Trampoline gained international reputation with its diverse events and programmes, especially with its Radiator Festival: International Festival for Art and Media in Nottingham (2000, 2003, 2005, 2009) and the Radiator Symposium (2005, 2009).
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Tracing Mobility
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 : Berlin
24 November – 12 December, 2011
Wed-Mon, 11am-7pm, free entrance
Opening: 23 November, from 7pm
www.hkw.de

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