Die innovative Galerie Dada Post in Berlin zeigt die neue Ausstellung noch bis zum 26. September 2010:
Hinterland
Valentina Curandi – Sibylle Hofter – Nathaniel Katz
A Site Specific Collaborative Project
Hinterland is a site specific-complex of works that reflects upon local production in relation to the forms of globalization imagined by past generations. The former König Smoked Fish Factory, is represented by a recreation of Mr. Erich Königs upstairs conference room, which is relocated to a factory area downstairs that have been recreated as an art gallery. Hinterland can be both the silence behind the front and an economic base for warfare (originally it is a military term). Presently, our location in the Berlin-Reineckendorf district is mistaken for a variant of the silence in a hinterland, much like the former socialist version of Brandenburg. In the artificial economies of the Cold War, the East Berlin factories represented economical hinterlands, by creating a socialist version of an egalitarian utopia. While in West Berlin, the economy was propped-up by West-German government, and the West in general. Within a special kind of West Berlin melancholy, fish smoking was a strong local tradition – of bourgeois utopia.
Howard McCalebb
Dada Post, Nordbahnstraße 10, 13409 Berlin, Germany.
DIRECTIONS by S-Bahn:
S-1 (Direction Oranienburg) and S-25 (Direction Hennigsdorf), to the Schönholz station.
If you take the S-Bahn be sure to exit at the Schönholz station not the Wollankstrasse station.