MEMORY PLATES
HAMBURGER BAHNHOF, BERLIN
15, 16, 17 September 2017
Artists:
Tue Greenfort
Robert Lippok
Klara Hobza
Food Re-enactress: Montse Torredà Martí (Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen)
* Commissioned for FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS 2017 → ∞, a collaboration by Institut für Raumexperimente and Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
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15 September 2017 @ 13.00
TUE GREENFORT - Re-enactment of 22.11.2013 Presentation ///
LUNCH: Something like soylent green with swamp sauce… with some components are lost in memory.
* GREENFORT is an artist, whose interdisciplinary practice deals with issues such as the public and private realm, nature and culture (1973, Danish, lives and works in Denmark and Berlin)
16 September 2017 @ 13.00
ROBERT LIPPOK - Re-enactment of 25.10.2012 Presentation ///
LUNCH: A plate with 3 cold, salty, sour dishes (maybe 4 components in each dish) in green, red, yellow with leaves, chickpeas, crunchy like potato chips.
* LIPPOK is a composer and visual artist (1966, German, lives and works in Berlin)
17 September 2017 @ 13.00
KLARA HOBZA - Re-enactment of 07.06.2012 Presentation ///
LUNCH: A saucy paella, made with happy ingredients in yellow and red and white and orange and some spices of colors with rice, olive oil, and a mix of sea food and vegetables. With many spices, salty and sour and meaty and fishy and hearty.
* HOBZA is an artist, whose work furthers the performative, social aspect of sculpture (born 1975, Czech, lives and works in Berlin).
Memory Plates is a curated memory re-enactment piece that is composed of expert/artist talks (and meals) stemming from the invited artists’ memory fragments of the presentations they have delivered (and the food they were served at the kitchen of Studio Olafur Eliasson) at the Institute For Spacial Experiments (IFREX) between 2009-2014. The kitchen of Olafur Eliasson’s Studio has always been an important component of IFREX, it was simply the essence and the bonding element of the IFREX to the Studio.
Within this frame, Memory Plates sums up the essence of Institute For Spacial Experiments’ past, present and future in our memories in an innovative artistic manner through two magical and essential components: Experts (for knowledge co-creation) and food (for sharing/ communication). The series is a re-enactment of the past, in a present and a future’s memories that will be constructed during the festival.
Within this respect, the project invites three experts to re-deliver the presentation they have made back in the Institute. Each expert is asked NOT to make any rehearsals, as the aim is to bring together the pieces of the memory together and construct a new memory while observing what has changed and which ideas mutated during the years.
Additionally, each expert is asked to visit their memory of what they had eaten at the Kitchen Studio Olafur Eliasson on the day of their visit. According to their memory the food is served to the audience during the talk. If the ingredients of the dish that are forgotten by the experts, they are replaced by a neutral placeholder, that represents the parts of missing memory on the plate.