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Kira Kira has created a library of fires, archives of flames grand and small found through a slice of a lifetime. The collecting of fires began long ago with household explosives, namely matches, sparklers and fireworks who found all their glorious randomness tamed into rhythms that can be heard to this day, thanks to the library of fires.

Fortunately, fires never sound the same. Their sonic texture varies according to the amount of air they get to feed on; hence small fires don’t have much wind in them while grand ones often have great storms to spur them on. But the thing that affects the sound of a fire most is of course the thing that burns.

Strictly speaking there is no way to control disasters, especially not natural disasters. But we die trying. We can capture a volcanic eruption on tape and reverse it. There’s nothing nature can do about that.

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Kira Kira is a constant enigma- extremely hard to define and almost impossible to anticipate. As a founding member of Icelandic art collective Kitchen Motors, she has been a pivotal figure in contemporary Icelandic music, composing music extensively for theatre, dance and film and creating a myriad of sound and film installations everywhere from Beijing to New York. Taking a particular interest in blurring the lines between music and visual arts Kira appears in castle towers, old cinemas, museums or curious hidden places and creates lasting images of singing black holes, dueling smoke machines and exploding cassette tapes across the globe.
Ben Frost.

More info: www.this.is/kirakira / myspace.com/trallaladykirakira / www.this.is/kitchenmotors

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PERFORMANCES IN HANSAVIERTEL
THE OFFICE / TIERGARTEN EINS

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THE HANSAVIERTEL-EVENTS
THE HANSAVIERTEL-EVENTS is a series of irregularly organized performances that take place at TIERGARTEN EINS in Berlin’s neighborhood of Hansaviertel.

THE OFFICE is inviting artists and other cultural producers to use the site of TIERGARTEN EINS located on the ground floor of the Eternithaus, which was built by the architect Paul Baumgarten in 1957 in the context of the IBA (Internationale Bauausstellung). For the IBA, the city of Berlin had invited numerous, highly prestigious architects, such as Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Bruno Taut and others, to build a new neighborhood according to how they imagined the modern city of the future to be.

THE OFFICE / TIERGARTEN EINS
Based in Berlin, THE OFFICE temporarily occupies spaces throughout the city. The goal is to re-discover Berlin, to channel and transmit information, and provide space for discursive thinking around the arts. THE OFFICE is a collaboration between Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Fichtner, Maribel Lopez and Kathrin Meyer. Founded in May 2009, THE OFFICE explores different models of cooperation between curators, writers and artists independent from the institutional context.
www.theoffice.li

TIERGARTEN EINS is a space for chance encounters. At once hidden and open, it is both retreat and stage, hosting diverse events ranging from garden parties to businness meetings, from eclectic dinners to soccer screenings. In Fall 2009, TIERGARTEN EINS initiated FOYER, a series of art-related happenings to create memorable experiences in an intimate setting.
www.tiergarteneins.de

THE HANSAVIERTEL - EVENTS
Altonaer Str. 1 (Eternithaus), 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten

Hans Berg
Remixes
A Sound Performance based on the first video animation by Nathalie Djurberg

Friday, December 11

8 pm

Nathalie Djurberg
Still from untitled (Sunset), 1999
Oil painting animation, super 8 film, silent
1:03 min.
Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery New York and Galleria Gió Marconi Milan

The Sound Performance Remixes by Hans Berg consists of a number of diverse sound pieces which refer to the collaboration of Berg with the visual artist Nathalie Djurberg, for whose video animations Berg composes the sound track. Based on the very first animation of Djurberg – the short 2-minute animation of an oil-painted sunset – Berg changes its perception by the atmosphere the underlying music is implying. He almost exhaustingly plays through the various possible soundtracks and thus dissolves the structure of the image. He directs the attention of the viewer away from watching to listening and sensibilizes the audience for the music’s diversity.

Hans Berg is a Swedish Berlin-based artist and musician, who composes electronic music. He also collaborates with the Swedish video artist Nathalie Djurberg, for who’s a he makes the music for her films.

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THE HANSAVIERTEL-EVENTS is a series of irregularly organized performance events that take place at ETERNITHAUS (Altonaer Str. 1) in Berlin’s neighborhood of Tiergarten, starting December 2009.
THE OFFICE is inviting artists and other cultural producers to use the amazing site of the ETERNITHAUS, which was built by the architect Paul Baumgarten in 1957 in the context of the IBA (International Bauausstellung). For the IBA, the city of Berlin had invited numerous, highly prestigious architects, such as Walter Gropius, Oscar Niemeyer, Bruno Taut and others, to build a new neighborhood according to how they imagined the modern city of the future to be. For the last 20 years, this area, the so-called Hansaviertel, had slid out of the focus of public attention due to the newly accessible neighborhoods in the Eastern part of Berlin, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. Now, Hansaviertel – as being located in the very center of the reunited city – is about to be reconsidered as a comfortable area for living. THE OFFICE is, above all, fascinated by the architectural and urban legacy of the site and wants to draw attention to this part of the city by organizing events, performances, concerts, talks and other formats here. Every evening is different; sometimes the artist will use the inside space, sometimes s/he just takes it as a starting point to explore the area.

THE HANSAVIERTEL-EVENTS are organized by THE OFFICE
Based in Berlin, THE OFFICE temporarily occupies spaces throughout the city. The goal is to re-discover Berlin, to channel and transmit information, and provide space for discursive thinking around the arts. THE OFFICE is collaboration between Ellen Blumenstein, Katharina Fichtner, Maribel Lopez and Kathrin Meyer. Founded in May 2009, THE OFFICE explores different models of cooperation between curators, writers and artists outside of the institutional context.

This series is possible thanks to the support of Tiergarten Eins.