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2017-08-14
The exhibition point towards the fictional, internal and external architectural landscape inhabited by Lang. For the show the artist realizes the large site-specific wall painting Elixir and a series of new paintings and drawings. Morris´s film Finite and Infinite Games as well as a new film Mimosa Tank: A Prologue for a Film will be on view.
“Finite and Infinite Games” which Morris completed earlier this year, casts German theorist, writer and filmmaker Alexander Kluge in a philosophical conflict and performance juxtaposed to the empty and not yet opened Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Morris sees this space as a »void«. She used the concert hall in juxtaposition with a reading and dialogue between Alexander Kluge and herself on James P. Carse’s book »Finite and Infinite Games«, published in 1986. The seminal text lays out two opposing world-views of structuring activity, politics, thinking, navigation, strategy and creativity. Morris asks Kluge to speak of his beginnings as the Frankfurt School’s lawyer, later working for Fritz Lang and eventually becoming one of the main figures of New German Cinema. Carse’s game theory becomes a focal point and encompasses all sociological and individual movements, whether aesthetic or otherwise, and questions the role of the artist in this scenario. The relations between the freedoms of infinite possibilities versus the rule-based operations of finite game playing are at the center of a dichotomy laid out by Morris and Kluge.
Opposite – “M”, 2017
Exhibition runs through to August 26th, 2017
Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
www.capitainpetzel.de
