Recast brings together an artist as fashion designer, a Punk band, an actor as director and the founder of the Icelandic Walther von Goethe Institute. From their personal experiences of being the odd one out, the included or the excluded, their work breaks up clichés and reductive institutional definitions of identity. ‚Authentic’ material such as the uniforms of Tito’s socialist modernity, passport photographs of former West-Berlin photo-booths, a classic British murder-mystery and a Grimm fairytale is questioned and rearticulated. In a humorous way the multiplicity and shifting nature of identity is revealed.
Curated by Charlotte Friling and An Paenhuysen
Associated Events:
Thursday, April 8, 7PM: dance performance featuring the collection I’m a good socialist. Choreographer: Justin F. Kennedy; Set design: Marija Merkwelt Ivosevic
Thursday, April 15, 7PM: Wolfgang Müller talks about Die Tödliche Doris. Ming Wong screening night & preview of his latest work Devo Partire. Domani (2010), presented by Wolfgang Müller
April 30 – May 2, Gallery Weekend Berlin: RECAST will also be open on Sunday, May 2, from noon to 6PM
