PURSUIT: GEOLOGIC INTIMACY
OBJECT TALKS

In Ilana Halperin’s Berlin exhibitions STEINE (now extended to 23/09/12) & HAND HELD LAVA (now closed) geological specimens & historical documents such as meteorites, body stones and souvenir lava medallions sit next to the artist’s geothermal sculptures and cave casts, alongside which further drawings, prints and film projections are being shown.

Each object enters into subtle dialogues with others, creating analogies and narratives that challenge the boundaries between fact and fiction, poetry and science and explore the potential of discoveries such as the human organism as an geological agent.

To continue this poetic exploration and use the exhibition itself as a vivid object of investigation (Untersuchungsgegenstand), a series of OBJECT TALKs has been developed in collaboration with the artist, Several Pursuits and a number of writers, curators, poets and scientists.

Having been assigned an object each we can now await thought provoking, experimental, playful and, at times, challenging events of different formats by these collaborators.

Sat 30 June 2012, 16 h
Geothermal Sample Pair

The Gift of Time. An image essay by Jenny Richards, London
at ILANA HALPERIN. STEINE, 1st Floor at Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
Charitéplatz 1, Berlin (opposite Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art)

Jenny Richards is an English curator and writer currently based in London. She graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2007 with a BA(Hons) Fine Art. Since then she has worked at a number of visual arts organisations including doggerfisher, Edinburgh, Embassy and MAP.
Her latest position was as Programme Manager at Collective, Edinburgh where she produced exhibitions and events with artists such as Aleksandra Mir, Jesse Jones and Hito Steyerl. 
A particular focus of her work was to develop events and opportunities for emergent artists, writers and curators through the New Work Scotland Programme.
Jenny is currently an MA Art & Politics student at Goldsmiths College, London and runs artist-led curatorial project Re-make with Charlotte Jones, producing events and exhibitions in London and beyond.

Sun 1 July 2012, 11am
Red Star Agate

BERG.BRICK.BURG. A walk appoaching the Jewish Cemetery Weissensee with Pauline Hanson, Berlin.
Please email pauline at severalpursuits dot org to sign up for the walk.

Pauline Hanson is a German curator and writer based in Berlin. Having worked in commercial galleries for several years she co-founded Several Pursuits in 2009.
Since then she has developed and produced a number of exhibitions and events, often in critical response to current conditions of art production and presentation. She is an avid wanderer of the city and leads walks investigating the historic and contemporary uses of its spaces by artists.
Pauline holds an MLItt from the University of Glasgow’s History of Art department and a BA (Hons) in Visual Communications from the University of Leeds.

Diptych: Physical Geology (new landmass/fast time) & Physical Geology (geothermal) Shea’la Finch