10.06.2008

/LANDREFORM/

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 / 8 pm

Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum, Kommandantenstrasse / Neue Grünstrasse, 10969 Berlin-Kreuzberg, U2 Spittelmarkt

As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said “No Tres-passing”. But on the other side it didn’t say nothing, That side was made for you and me. When the sun came shining, and I was strolling, And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling, As the fog was lifting a voice was chanting: This land was made for you and me. (From Woody Guthrie, This Land isYour Land, 1940). Matthias Einhoff, Philip Horst, Markus Lohmann, Harry Sachs, and Daniel Seiple: the initiators of the Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum see their activity as an artistic strategy in the context of increasing privatization of public space. Bored by the wasteful tedium of economic determinism, their exhibition project /LANDREFORM/ resorts to Woody Guthrie’s dust bowl ballade This Land Is Your Land to generate hypothetical strategies of action. /LANDREFORM/ is introduced during the nightly events of the 5th berlin biennial and continues beyond the guest appearance of the 5th berlin biennial in Skulpturenpark Berlin_Zentrum. /LANDREFORM/ is an expansion of the previous exhibition series /Bestandsaufnahme/, /Parcella/, and /Spekulationen/. A 5th berlin biennial and KUNSTrePUBLIK e. V. cooperation.