All Together Now

all together now
By curators Fiona Bate and Joel Mu

Featuring: Jon Brumit, Sarah Wagner, Lee Montgomery (from Homie), Laure Prouvost, Hans Petri, Janne Lervik, Nora Schultz, Astrid Stricker, Caroline Krause, Jens Risch, Stefan Mannel, Mohamed Abdulla, Sarah Staton, Heide Deigert, Jochen Flinzer, Katharina Karrenberg, Undine Goldberg, Anne Kaminsky, Susanne Winterling, Kerstin Cmelka, Endre Aalrust, Ole Martin Lund Bø (from After the butcher) and Lena Ziese (from JET)

Well known for its creative capacity and high volume of art production, Berlin’s art scene is often perceived as a place where anything can happen. Responding to this idea of an informal community, all together now invites work from the wohnung space Homie, the artist-run-space after the butcher, and the project space JET.

Seen as an intervention into the linear exhibition format all together now operates by borrowing artworks, performances, and events that have been either recommended or recently exhibited in Berlin. Interested in slowing down and expanding the regular dynamics of art programming, all together now, seeks to move behind common assumptions of newness and refusals to exhibition repetition.

Self-imposing a curatorial method of arbitrary selection, all together now will re-present the exhibitions of one entire room from Homie, the contents of one entire wall and one sculpture from after the butcher and the recommendation of one unseen work from JET.

Artists Jon Brumit, Sarah Wagner and Lee Montgomery, broadcasting live in Berlin, Hamburg and San Francisco: Bring along stories to share and small sound-making objects for ongoing radio interviews and performances (guitar and other objects provided).

Weblinks:++www.homie.travelhome.org++www.sarahwagner.net
www.conceptualart.org/lepidopterists++www.conceptualart.org/npr
www.jonbrumit.com++www.after-the-butcher.de++www.j-e-t.org

Fiona Bate is an independent arts writer and curator based in Berlin. She regularly contributes to unMagazine and Natural Selection, and is the recipient of an arts development grant for the production of a new international art journal. At present she is working as the editorial assistant on an anthology dedicated to the moving image being published Afterall and Tate, London.

Joel Mu is an independent curator and art writer with projects in Berlin and Sydney. Currently based in Berlin, he has for the last year worked as a Sparwasser HQ co-organizer and recently curated an art project in Berlin at NewYorkRioTokyo with artists Mikala Dwyer, Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro.

Special Thanks to Daniel Seiple, Bettina Lamprecht, Franziska Böhmer, Thomas Kilpper, Lena Ziese, Elisabeth Byre and Martin Braathen