Preview screening @HomeBase LAB Berlin
Thursday 17th of May 2012, doors open 7:30pm
(*entrance €2)

www.beinghumanthesedays.com

We are very happy to announce the preview screening of ‘The Trouble with Being Human These Days’ for the first time in Berlin and accompanying by the photography exhibition of Zygmunt Bauman’s portraits created by Grzegorz Lepiarz.

The event is hosted by HomeBase LAB Berlin – a site-specific residency and research program exploring the notion of home, operating in the intersection of contemporary art and social change.
Producer Grzegorz Lepiarz will be attending to take part in a discussion after the screening.

‘The Trouble with Being Human These Days’

‘We live in a world which no longer questions itself, which lives from one day to another managing successive crises, without knowing where it is going and without trying to plan the itinerary’.
How accurate description of the global state of affairs these words are we only realize now, in 2011, twelve years after they were written in Zygmunt Bauman’s In search of politics. Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, Polish Jew, an extraordinarily prolific scholar in political theory, philosophy, ethics, art history – Zygmunt Bauman is a unique figure in a great many respects. His life story would be enough to make a subject of an epic-sized documentary. But on top of everything else Zygmunt Bauman is simply a very wise man. ‘Late flowering’ is a phrase which best describes the period when he retired from academic work in 1990 and started to publish books almost annually. This incessant flow of ideas concerning subjects ranging from East Enders to Eastern European philosophy continues to this day. Unsurprisingly, Bauman’s insights into the pitfalls of globalisation and consumerism have always drawn attention of crowds far exceeding typical academic audience.

This film is a bold attempt at making a provocative, and yet informed diagnosis of the modern uncertainty. We are looking for parallels between Bauman’s personal life and his concepts of society and we aim at putting them in the context of our shared European, turbulent history. Over the course of six months we followed Zygmunt Bauman in his academic trips to Lithuania, Spain, Austria, Slovakia, Germany and Poland. What emerged as a result is a unique collection of footage including Bauman’s lectures, panel discussions, award ceremonies, but also informal interviews and very personal reflections filmed during walks in the stunning European locations. We’ve met his friends, collaborators, daughters and the grandson. This core structure of the film is intertwined with interviews with major figures in the field of sociology, politics and philosophy, such as George Ritzer, Neal Lawson, Andrew Simms, Cezary Wodzinski and Albert-László Barabási. In a sense this film is a ‘road movie’. It is a highly visual, avoiding conventional ‘talking heads’ journey through Bauman’s life and our anxieties. As the story unfolds, we start to realise that there is a dark side to our contemporary society, which we might never expected to see.

Please visit official website of the documentary film: beinghumanthesedays.com

Duration: 50 minutes
Director: Bartek Dziadosz
Producer: Grzegorz Lepiarz / Bartek Dziadosz
Executive Producer: Grzegorz Lepiarz / Leonidas Donskis

Trailer available on:
http://www.beinghumanthesedays.com/
Check also:
http://www.facebook.com/BeingHumanTheseDays

Thursday 17th of May

19.30 Doors open. Drinks available at the bar.
20:00 Talk with special guest
21:00 Screening of the film ‘The Trouble with Being Human These Days’
22:00 Discussion hosted by the guest speaker
22:30 Drinks and music until midnight

HomeBase LAB Berlin, Thulestrasse 54, 13189, Pankow, Berlin
Entrance fee: €2

Due to small capacity of the venue anyone who would like to come please RSVP on info@homebaseberlin.com

We are very excited about this event and look forward to seeing you there!

FRIDAY THE 13TH

Curated by Loudwig van Ludens, an independent event hosted at HomeBase LAB.

An interdisciplinary event about interaction between artists, their work and the space.

Paintings, drawings, installations, video, photography, poetry, theatre, performance, concerts, jam session, dj’s…

• FREE ENTRY
• FOOD & DRINK for popular prices
• 16:00-open end

ARTISTS

Adar Aviam

Adrian Brun
Alina Shmukler
Alejandro Vaquero
Merav Steinmetz
Loudwig van Ludens
Lior Vilenchik
Thomas Henriksson
Heather Allen
Tra Bouscaren
Heather Ann McKee
Scottie B.
Stonedrifters Sound Brigade
Billie Pistol 27
Daniel Kula
Jennifer Morone
Ulrika Segerberg
Marcos Covelo/M8K8
Miriam Cartagena
Tomoyo Urabe
Minoru Ashikari
Michal Rivlin
Miguel Rosas
Shony Rivnay
Slawjana Kola
Arnon Amitai
Roberto Equisoain
Rotonda Teatro
Angela Cory
Nilo Gallego
Aurora Costilla
Denise Baldauf
Renee Lamothe
Marika Zaghis

A performance project as part of the Month of Performance Berlin curated by: Adrian Brun

Date: 24th May, 2012

Location:
Thulestrasse 54, 13189 Pankow, Berlin
How to find the Venue

Time:
Blinded Performance 19:00
Dinner/discussion 20:00

Price:
Performance free entrance (max 30 guests)
Dinner costs 6 euro

Brief description

‘I don’t see this happening’ is a live performance about home, identity, communication and communal living. Ordinary situations of the daily life we ‘tend’ not to see. It’s about the blindness of the everyday within the context of living together and its physical-intellectual multiple dynamics. This experimental performance aims to create a situation for the audience to reflect on the topic. If we don’t see what we see, we might like to assume our blindness and let the rest of our senses perceive what goes on around us and to listen to what happens to the ones that share the same space we inhabit. Who doesn’t have an ordinary life after all… Yes, so you do too.

* After the performance, we’ll serve dinner in which both the audience and the performers will sit together and share the same table, having the opportunity to discuss and reflect on each others experiences during the performance.

Performance artists:

• Heather McKee (US)
• Alejandro Vaquero (ES)
• Sarah Lüderman (DE)
• Rosalie Vos (NL)
• Valerie Louren (BR)

Saturday

3 / March

Sunday

4 / March

Monday

5 / March

Ongoing:

open studio’s of HomeBase BUILD II Residence artists

Pankow Services – studio #7

HB Performances – studio #10

HB Shop – studio #11

Toast & HB Curators reflection

Anat / Adrian Reflection on HB BUILD II residency artists work

(Salon – 30min) 12:30

Live brewing of Ignatz Bier

(studio #1 – hole day event)  12:30

Ceremony Shiri

(Salon – 60min) 13 13:00

Residency tour

hosted by HB Team and artists

(Salon – 30min) 13:00

Residency tour

hosted by HB Team and artists

(Salon – 30min) 14 13:30

Soup & Stories

gathering and art talk, hosted by residence artists Michal Rivlin & Katerina Kokkinos-Kennedy

(Salon – 60min) 13:30

Soup & Stories 

gathering and art talk, hosted by residence artists Felipe Arruda & Brian Fernandes-Holloran

(Salon – 60min) 14:00

gathering with soup

&  HomeBase presentation

Talk about HomeBase, the building, present and the future by the artistic director and founder of the HomeBase Project – Anat Litwin

(Salon – 30min) 15 15:00

HomeBase info session

Artistic director and founder of the HomeBase Project – Anat Litwin, sharing info about the future plans in Berlin, NYC and Jerusalem

(Think Tank – 30min)

15:30

Workshop Urban agriculture and eco systems

Green House and Compost by team member Mauricio Lizarzo

(Green House – 30min) 15:00

Pankow Panel & Thulestrasse 54 Ignatz Bier

Exploring the history of the Pankow neighbourhood and Ignatz brewery, with guest speaker Mayor Matthias, Michaela Knoer – Librarian at VLB,
Dr. Martin Albrecht – Historian of Brewerys and
Karl Pritzkow – Beer Industry Berlin

(Salon – 60min) 15:00

Re-staging of the historical Engelhardt photo – taken by director, artist and filmmaker Reynold Reynolds 

Celebration of the history of the site, with re-staging the photo that is taken 105 years ago. We’re delighted to collaborate with  Reynold Reynolds , artist and filmmaker, who will be the photagrapher of our historical picture

(Garden)

15:30

Toast with Ignatz Bier  16 16:30

Curators Talk

‘the art of everyday living’

Berlin Based guest curators – with Rachel Rits-Volloch, director of Momentum World Wide, HB Artistic Director Anat Litwin and co-curator Adrian Brun (Salon – 90min) 17 17:00

Open discussion ‘Berlin migration’

hosted by Citizens for Europe , director and founder Martin Wilhelm.

(Salon – 60min) 17:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min) 18 18:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min) 18:30

Billie Pistol 27

music performance by Alejandro Vaquero & Heather McKee

(Salon – 60min) 18:30 end festival 19 20 20:00

Berlin Sling

Berlin Sling : Urban Pop-Psychedelic Soul from Berlin

(Salon – 30min) 20:00

Live music

(Salon – 60min) 21 21:00

HomeBase Party

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Ignatz Bier is a artisan craft pilsner, brewed by HomeBase artists, beer lovers, neighbours and social entrepreneurs at the old Engelhardt Brewery located at Thulestrasse 54, Berlin, now home to HomeBase LAB. Our beer was named after Herr Ignatz Nacher, the first landlord of teh building – a German-Jewish merchant, beer maker, director and main shareholder of the Engelhardt brewery. Nacher transformed Engelhardt brewery into one of the most successful breweries in Germany before it was taken over in the 1930’s by the Third Reich, in what became one of the biggest cases of Nazi expropriation.

The building of the HB LAB located at Thulestrasse 54, Pankow survived two world wars and went through dramatic sociopolitical shifts. Built in 1890, it housed the Engelhardt brewery from 1905 -1949, directed by Mr. Ignatz Nacher . In the 1930’s it was taken over by the Third Reich and after WWII it became a communist brewery, a youth hostel of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth) and remained deserted for nearly 20 year after the fall of the berlin wall. In the summer of 2010 HomeBase Project arrived from NYC and brought a new life to this place, with the vision of creating the old brewery into a year-round research and residency center devoted to questions of home, and the role of art & social change.

The last day of the HB BUILD festival, March 5th 2012, marks exactly 105 years since the historic photo. The day will include the re-staging of the Engelhardt photograph dated March 5th 1907 in which Ignatz Nacher along with the brewery workers are proudly standing in front of the building, celebrating the launch of Englehart Pilsner brewed on site. Participants in the March 5th 2012 will gather to reflect on the past while creating together a new future for the site – the building of a permanent home for the HomeBase project. The photograph will include artists, neighbors, beer lovers, the Mayor of Pankow, local schools and the public.

Monday March 5th at 14:00 – 15:00

Please RSVP for photo and choose your lucky number at festival@homebaseproject.org

Ignatz Bier has been featured last year at VOLTA 7 and will be launched in the US at Volta NY, with the new photograph.

About Ignatz Nacher (1862 – 1939), a German-Jew began work at the brewery in 1901 and rose from a low-level worker to become its general director and majority shareholder. He invented the pasteurization of beer and under his management, the company became Germany’s second largest beer brewing conglomerate with several factories throughout the country and a beer garden. He was also known for his philanthropic work and built orphanages and old age homes. In 1934, his property was seized by the Nazi Regime and the profitable brewery was used to fund the war machine. Nacher tried to resist the takeover of the company, but he was arrested and ultimately deported to Switzerland where shortly after he died in poverty. The logo of the Engelhardt (which means angel heart) Brewery was changed from an angel with black hair to blond – signifying the aryanization of the brand.
www.ignatzbier.com

• Period: June 4th to Aug 29th
• Deadline for application: Sunday 6th of May, 2012
• Date of Notification: Monday 14th of May, 2012
• Open House event on the August 18/19, 2012

Interested to be involved? Send a short proposal or ask for more information at hbbuild@homebaseberlin.com

Sixteen professional artists, social entrepreneurs, architects, performers, writers and other creative thinkers will be working during three months at the HomeBase LAB, Berlin on individual art projects in their live-in studios. They will engage in a creative communal living, educational and cultural program while having a ‘hands on’ collaboration in building different aspects of the HomeBase LAB. The objective is to turn the HB LAB  into an innovative cultural center, dedicated to the exploration of Home and experimenting in meaningful urban living.   Through the HomeBase BUILD III Artists-in-Residence program, the artists will:

• Create new site-specific work within a communal setting.
• Participate in an educational program that focuses on questions of identity, meaningful urban living and the role of contemporary art in society.
• Participate in cultural Salons and artists dinners, linked with other cultural organizations.
• Contribute to communal living, developing a sustainable infrastructure as the kernel of our community.
• Participate and have the opportunity to create and host one of the Public Salons.
• Gain professional exposure in the Berlin and the international art world through visits by Berlin-based curators and via the HomeBase network.

More details about HomeBase BUILD III Artists-in-Residence

In the program of HomeBase BUILD III each artist participates as: a learner, a creator and a teacher. The HomeBase BUILD group generates content and to the majority is self-directed, within a setting that HomeBase has established. The organic process of exploration will unfold within the following given structural form: Individual work

• Individual art work: the majority of the time, besides the two scheduled weekly group meetings (LAB Learn, Salon), will be dedicated to progressive art practice in the individual studios – ongoing
• BUILD project: individual work for the community to build the art center HB LAB – 3 hours a week

Weekly group meetings

• LAB Learn: co-learning, facilitated by the HomeBase team, group and guest speakers – 3 hours a week
• HB Salon: a cultural platform which will include cultural conversations, performances, movie screenings, readings and more – followed by a group dinner – 3 hours a week

Events

• Several Public events and cultural salons
• End exhibition & Open House event on the August 18/19, 2012. The Open House event is a public viewing and presentation of the individual projects
• *Several guest speakers and artists will be invited to contribute to the process of HB BUILD, enriching the conversation, providing both a local and global cultural perception.
• **HB BUILD artists will be promoted and exposed through the HomeBase network, an existing network of thousands of international art lovers.

HomeBase BUILD Schedule

Duration: June 4th – August 29th, 2012 Fee: The residency fee of 1200 Euro, includes the following:

• A live-in studio with access to the shared living room, kitchen, bathroom, laundry room, garden, office
• Educational program
• All the program details described above
• Special edition of the HomeBase newsletter/publication
• Exposure and promotion via HomeBase network

* OPEN CALL off-site artists We are also accepting up to five artists which will be part of the program yet will not have a studio on site. These artists will participate in the full program, have access / use of communal  / co-working space and will be promoted as HBB III Artist-in-Residence. The fee is 500 Euros. Food, art materials and other personal expenses are not included. Visa and insurance is not arranged by HomeBase.

How to Apply? Please fill out the forms below, and send it to us via email – hbbuild@homebaseberlin.com - along with:

• 10 images of your recent work
• an artist statement
• a CV with picture.

• Deadline for application: Sunday 6th of May, 2012

• Date of Notification: Monday 14th of May, 2012

Personal information

• First name:
• Last name:
• Telephone:
• Email:
• Date of birth:
• Where were you born:
• Where do you live now:
• Profession:
• Artistic medium:
• Education:
• Day job:
• Website:
• Languages you speak:
• Skills: Interests:
• Religion / spiritual practice:
• Contact / reference:

• Artistic beliefs, background and initiatives:

Questions

1. How would you define the meaning of Home?
2. What topics seem to be at the forefront of contemporary culture?
3. What is at the heart of your practice? what are your sources of inspiration? Please define three artists / thinkers who have been important for the development of your work.
4. What can you contribute to the HB LAB and why are you attracted to this program?
5. How would you describe your practice and studio discipline? What kind of goals have you set for yourself for the next year? What goals have you achieved in the last year?
6. What would you like to build at the HB LAB?
7. What previous experience do you have in collaborative projects?
8. What does community mean to you?
9. Why are you interested in a residency in Berlin?
10. What do you hope to achieve during this period in Berlin?

Download the application form as PDF by clicking here

The upcoming HomeBase VI project planed for Hansen Hospital will transform the site into a lively interactive multimedia communal art center for the duration of 6 weeks, as a basis of its development into a culture center in the future, focused on new media.
HomeBase Project VI Jerusalem will  draw international art lovers as well as the local community into its ‘home’ to explore questions of belonging and identity – focusing on the notion of home  and healing, emphasizing teh role of contemporary art in social responsibility and the legacy of co-existence inherited in the Hansen Hospital.

more details soon!

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HomeBase Project (homebaseproject.org), an artist run nonprofit is invited back to VOLTA – booth #P-02 – for the second consecutive year. The organization will showcase the ways in which it fulfills it’s mission to apply contemporary art as an agent for social change within an urban setting.

For the past seven years, HomeBase Project (HB) has been transforming vacant buildings in neighborhoods undergoing transition – in New York City’s Lower East Side, Harlem, and Greenpoint, and currently in Berlin – into site-specific spaces where an international roster of artists explore the notion of ‘home.’ These temporary projects are designed to connect art to everyday urban living, cultivating community, and cross-cultural dialogue.

In 2010 HB established a home in an abandoned, historic brewery in the Pankow district of Berlin. This temporary sojourn expanded into HomeBase LAB – an ongoing, year-round residency and research program. The next HB project is planned for Jerusalem, and satellite projects will take place simultaneously in New York and Berlin.

“Berlin has been a turning point for HB,” says Anat Litwin, artistic director and founder of the project. “The extended residency has given HB artists and the team the opportunity to deepen the creative exploration of the meaning of ‘home.’  We are now vested the history and future of the brewery building, and developing ways to serve the neighborhood. We are coming to VOLTA NY to share our vision for fostering interconnectedness.”

This year’s booth contains:

• Introducing HB Service which include consultations, commissioning, and implementing artist-residencies and public programs that cultivate social consciousness built on the HomeBase model;
• Sale of HB products including Ignatz Bier, an artisanal pilsner brewed at HomeBase LAB Berlin that contains a “message in a bottle” (more information follows below),, as well as limited edition, signed bottles of beer from the third batch of Ignatz Bier, a unique collector’s item;
• An offering of original art work on the topic of ‘home’ commissioned in ‘ready to go’ boxes, created by HomeBase Project alumni artists.

“We all felt very strongly connected to the concept behind HomeBase Project,” says Amanda Coulson, artistic director of VOLTA. “It is a very current topic and one that deserves the benefit of a major international platform and we are extremely pleased to have them with us.”

HomeBase Project is one of a few nonprofit organizations that have been given a booth at VOLTA NY. HomeBase Project is a participant in the Fiscal Sponsorship Program of FJC, a registered 501(c) 3 organization in the USA and also is registered as a non for profit in Europe. Purchases and donations made at the VOLTA NY booth are tax-deductible to the amount permitted by law, and benefit HomeBase Project and artists.

For more information visit www.homebaseproject.org

About the HomeBase Project

HomeBase Project was founded in 2006 as site-specific public art project exploring the notion of home. Multi-disciplinary artists take up residence in a building in an urban area undergoing transition. The artists take part in research programs and workshops, group dinners and discussions, and are signed their own room in which they create site-specific art installations on the topic of home. The space is then open free to the public to view artists’ rooms, and experience a range of programming including lectures, performances, open mic sessions, workshops and parties. All aspects of the production are documented from start to finish and include notations of logistics, group dynamics of the HB team and HB artists, the creative processes and interactions with the neighborhood, the community, and the public at large.

About Anat Litwin

Anat Litwin, a Brooklyn-based Israeli-American artist and curator, working in the medium of paper cut-outs,   installations and public art, is the founder and artistic director of the HomeBase Project. While working on the first  HomeBase projects, she also served as the director the Makor/ 92nd Street Y Artists-in-Residence program and gallery, and later became the associate director of LABA at the 14 Street Y. Litwin received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem in 2001, and her MFA in 2005 from New York’s Hunter College department of Combined Media. She received the Keren Sharet award for outstanding artists in 2001, and has exhibited her work in Europe, Israel, and New York. She is currently working on her first  book titled “Anatomy.” For more information please visit  www.anatlitwin.com.

About Ignatz Bier and the Historic Engelhardt Brewery

Pankow neighbors told HB the story of the building they were inhabiting. Built in 1895. the building was the home of the Engelhardt Brewery from 1905-1949. Under the direction of Mr. Ignatz Nacher, a German-Jewish entrepreneur, the brewery became one of Germany’s most successful and was expropriated by the Nazi’s in the 1930’s. following WWII it became a communist brewery, a youth hostel of the Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth / Communist youth movement) and remained deserted for nearly 20 year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 2010 HB arrived with an international group of artists, who brought to the building a new life.

On March 5th 2011, 104 years since the first pilsner was introduced on site, HB created along with neighbors, artists, brewers, and beer lovers, an artisinal tribute beer in honor of Ignatz Nacher. During the process, it also came to symbolize how artists can reapproptiate and infuse life into an empty building.a March 5th has become the date for an annual communal art event at the HomeBaseLAB.

Art can change one’s fate
deepen a sense of identity
explore what it means to exist, what it means to be human
Art can bring us home…

(Message in a Bottle / Excerpt from the Ignatz Bier Label) 1