Marlot Meyer, "Touch Ground. Sim-biocene"
OPENING: 21.01.2022
Exhibition: 21.01.2022 - 26.02.2022 

2 G Plus rules apply.
Recovered or vaccinated plus a negative corona test not older than 24 hours.

Art Claims Impulse presents the South African Artist Marlot Meyer. Touch Ground Sim-biocene is a simulation of a symbiotic relationship between human, nature and technology. In order to refuse our destructive nature, we need to reimagine a way of existing in harmony without hierarchy.
During the exhibition she will create a sensory, participatory ecosystem in our Space that will fill our entire space.
Visitors can walk through the installation, but gallery operations will be blocked.

The exhibition is part of Vorspiel 2022.

*Vorspiel

transmediale and CTM's Vorspiel is a program of distributed partner events in the field of digital art and culture and experimental sound and music, where a variety of partner venues invite local and international audiences to a series of exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks and special events across the city of Berlin.

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Courtesy of the artist. 

Following the exhibition a new project developed. 

Bio-Extended NFT, by Marlot Meyer

Available on Opensea

Installation: Touch Ground Sim-biocene, 2022.

The project Bio-Extended NFT is a continuation, a conclusion, of the installation Touchground Sim-biocene by Marlot Meyer. In the installation, a small ecosystem was created that grew wheatgrass in the end. The help of the visitors was necessary, who activated an irrigational system by their presence and movements alone and thus kept the eco-system alive. In the end, shapes were to be cut out of the grown wheatgrass, which were then offered as works of art. The fact that media art was used to create the wheatgrass shapes inspired us to develop this approach further.

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Using NFT (Digital File) to enhance the wheatgrass artwork and convert it to 3D for future reproduction. 

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Bio-Extended NFT

With the purchase of a Bio-Extended NFT, the buyer receives a 3D scan of the original and also a wheatgrass artwork, created from the Touch Ground Sim-biocene installation. If the living artwork no longer exists, there is still the image and the digital 3D scan as an NFT, which could theoretically enable a reproduction from a bio-printer or similar.

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Protection, by Anna Anders

The exhibition Protection by Anna Anders shows artworks that deal with the theme of protection. She uses photographs and video artworks in situations where people find themselves in unsafe threatening circumstances, or in situations where they realize they should be protecting themselves. By juxtaposing familiar protection, familiar because it has been fashionably and stylishly changed and thus become the everyday norm, with a situation of defenselessness and the search for protection, she sensitively opens up a debate, a discussion about our cultural approach to threat and protection.

Protection I

2018/19. photo series

55,0 x 32,2 cm, fine art print on Hahnemühle paper

This portrait series shows construction workers and street vendors in Bangkok. By wearing protective clothing and masking their faces, these people working under harsh conditions protect themselves from injury, strong sun, dust and air pollution. In doing so, they often create fascinating combinations of colors and patterns.

Exhibition Goethe Institut Brasil - 2018

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Protection II

2020, Photo series
55,0 x 32,2 cm, fine art print on Hahnemühle paper

The portrait series was taken from 04 to 08 March 2020 on the Pitztal Glacier in the Austrian Tyrol. The skiers and snowboarders in their mostly brightly colored clothing protect themselves with helmets, goggles, scarves and masks from injuries and sun, from cold, wind and snow. Their fashionable-futuristic look moves between individual design and conformity and features interesting variations.

The Covid 19 pandemic seemed far at the beginning of March 2020, although it was already raging very close in Italy. A few days later, the lockdown also took place in Austria and Germany. Now we wear masks to protect ourselves from viral infection.

 RASENDER STILLSTAND - A nighttime ride through beginnings of the Corona Crisis.

2021, 4K video, 2 channel video installation.
Length: 8:12 min (large flat screen monitor 48" to 55") and 41:51 min (small digital photo frame 9") with news from January (11:53 min) and February (29:58 min), 2020.

A wall-mounted flat screen, i.e. the "frosted screen", becomes the windshield of a car that seems to be driving through heavy rainy weather (=tears) in the dark of the night. At regular intervals, the windshield wipers clean the (monitor) window like the blink of an eye. From the car radio one hears reports about the first two months of the Corona Pandemic, i.e. January and February 2020.

View Video Documentation here 

The Artworks are available in ACI-Shop

Figur Variationen, Marc Aschenbrenner 

19.08 - 11.11 2022
Location: Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin
Opening Hours During Exhibition
Wed-Sat, 12noon-6pm

Consisting of six video art films, one installation and 6 aquarelles. 



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Title of the Videoartworks

Torres de Satélite 2019/22
Zaunfigur 2017/22
Figur mit zwei Oberkörpern 2021/22
Figur1
Tagebau
Liegende

HYSTERESIS by Dani Ploeger

14.09.2022 - 15.11.2022

Mixed media installation (modified bumper car, Virtual Reality app, digital video)

The term "car tuning" is used for the practice of independently modifying the technical and aesthetic characteristics of standard, mass-produced cars. Some aspects of the tuning scene seem contradictory. On the one hand, the loud-mouthed converted engines and exhausts - usually accompanied by huge audio systems - often make a crude, sometimes even violent, impression on outsiders, and news media regularly report accidents involving fast-driving tuned cars. At the same time, the optical and technical details of the cars and their presentation suggest a refined and precise creative practice, carried out in a social structure of close cooperation and solidarity.

HYSTERESIS consists of a bumper car which has been modified in collaboration with cartuners in Zeeland, a rural area in the Netherlands. The car is equipped with a Virtual Reality headset and accompanied by a video projection. After a virtual race in a Golf Mk4 over a dike road, a tuner talks about his car. Meanwhile, an endlessly repeating video recording of a burnout with an Mk4 is projected. Burnouts are performed to warm up tires for a drag race, as a spectacular public intervention, and as a memorial for fellow tuners who have crashed.

Hysteresis - "The energy lost and not returned, when tire materials are subjected to stress in any direction. Lost energy is converted to heat through molecular interaction, and since rubber has poor thermal conductivity, internal temperatures of a tire can build up rapidly under repeated flexing." (The Automotive Dictionary)