Posts Tagged ‘Hamburg’
Fresh Felt Mistress Collabs for Lossy Botany Lab
Felt Mistress shares some sneak peeks of the work she’s been doing recently for Jon’s upcoming show, The Lossy Botany Lab, at heliumcowboy artspace in Hamburg. One thing about FM’s plushes, they kill in color (above) and they’re bad in B&W (below). [Quick translation for my mom, who dutifully reads Doodlesplatter: In youth parlance: "kill" means to reign supremely and "bad" means good. Crazy, I know!]
As always, looking forward to more! Stay tuned to DS for sneaks from Jon this afternoon & tomorrow AM as the The Lossy Botany Lab grows closer…
Lossy Botany Lab Continues New York’s Lossy Data Lab Research in Hamburg
On July 1st, Jon reinvents his 2009 New York-based Lossy Data Lab installation as the Hamburg-based Lossy Botany Lab. Jon is already in Germany where he is preparing new work at the heliumcowboy artspace. The Lossy Botany Lab is Jon’s second solo exhibition in the space (the first show being 2008’s Anserine Apparitions). “Soft sculptures, paintings, drawings as well as a botanical installation on site” are among the sights you can expect to see as Jon “explores the boundaries of art and scientific research in a neo-dadaistic manner”. Doodlesplatter will have exclusive sneak peeks early next week as Jon’s botany progresses.
Quoth Jon:
“The Lossy Data Lab has had to relocate and move its research into botany after a lot of the data from NYC seemed inconclusive and corrupted. The lab also ran out of money. I felt studying plant life, observing new species and creating its own hybrid forms would be a better use of its merged resources. Also, through pure chance and accident, the lab has discovered some of the plants it’s cultivating have special medicinal properties. We’d like to state that the lab is in no way going to purely focus it’s energies growing and selling such specimens to the downtrodden and hedonistic thrill seekers of society. – Well, not for too long anyway.”
There’s recently been an update to the Lossy Botany Lab from HC HQ:
Donations are necessary for research to continue. We are currently very close to realising our goals for the grand launch of the Lab on July 1st. Some fascinating new discoveries have been unearthed, which we can’t wait to share with you. Please give us your poor plants, your tired tulips, your huddled grasses longing to be free… And they can contribute and become an essential part of the Lossy Botany Lab. Donators will receive a small yet valuable gift from the president of the Lab, Mr. Jon Burgerman, as a thank you at the opening gala event on the evening of July 1st. House plants, cacti, small shrubs, potted herbs, sticks with leaves on them, will all be gratefully accepted. Just drop them off at the Lossy Data Lab HQ: heliumcowboy artspace, Bäckerbreitergang 73-75, UNTIL TUESDAY, June 29 the latest! The earlier the better!
Surely, your green thumb managed to mangle at least one plant in your garden. Let it get Doodle CPR by bringing it to the address above. Jon will be attending the opening reception, and he will also be available for interviews during an English-language press-preview at the gallery on Wednesday, June 30th from 11AM until 1PM. Lossy Botany Lab runs through August 6th.
Anxieteam Live in Hamburg
heliumcowboy just posted a video from Pudel Club in Hamburg featuring Anxieteam performing their iconic track, “Melancholy Pays My Rent.” This recent Jon/Jim collab was part of Who is Afraid of a Friendly Capitalism?. The audio track is available on Jim’s newest album, and you can even download it for free right here.
Who Is Afraid of a Friendly Capitalism?
Jon reunites with Jim Avignon for an art and music gig at Heliumcowboy artspace in Hamburg. Who Is Afraid of a Friendly Capitalism? opens November 19th at 7PM and runs through November 21st until 7PM.
Art by: Fehmi Baumbach, Jon Burgerman, Guillaumit, Jule K., Eleanor Marston, Roman Klonek, Jojo Ensslin, Dasha Rychkova, Francoise Cactus, Frau Kraushaar, Christian von Werner, James Din A4, Kate Hate and Jim Avignon
Live music by: Anxieteam (Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman), Jens Friebs and Frank Spilker, Chris Imler and Nova Huta
DJs: Pascal Fuhlbrügge, madame d’oreen, Francoise Cactus
Initiated by the artists Jim Avignon and Fehmi Baumbah and meant to scrutinise the stress ratio of subcultures on the one side and the industries on the other, by now, the event series “Who is Afraid of Friendly Capitalism“ is often mentioned to be the opponent of a mainly profit-orientated cultural industry.
After numerous happenings in the German capital as well as a guest performance for the Goethe Institute of Athens and the Swiss Fumeto Festival, Avignon and Baumbach will now make their way to Hamburg, to host their lounge at the gallery heliumcowboy artspace and to again mingle together club and gallery into a happening-like organic whole.
Again, almost famous personalities in art and music will meet obscure guests from all over the world. All together will create a turbulent night – regardless of the consequences. While many event series like to combine likewise artists within their line up, the “Friendly Capitalism Lounge” always invites versatile protagonists. On November 19th, the following members are invited: Jon Burgerman (GB), Guillaumit (F), Jule K. (D), Eleanor Marston (D), Roman Klonek (D), Jojo Ensslin (D), Dasha Rychkova (RUS), Francoise Cactus (F), Frau Kraushaar (D), Christian von Werner (D), James Din A4 (D) und Kate Hate (GB).
From collages, woodcarvings, illustrations to recession fashion and 25minute-band-sessions of the (Jim Avignon and Jon Burgerman), Jens Friebs and Frank Spilker, Chris Imler and Nova Huta – the “Friendly Capitalism Lounge Vol. 13“ at the heliumcowboy artspace again promises to be truly eventfully. Further more we are looking forward to acoustical impacts by DJ Pascal Fuhlbrügge, madame d’oreen and Francoise Cactus.
So don’t miss this rare event and let’s do as the initiators suggest: “Get off those money socks and jump into recession fashion – the ’Friendly Capitalism Lounge’ celebrates the end of capitalism we used to know.”
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