{"id":51868,"date":"2022-09-10T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T09:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=51868"},"modified":"2022-10-15T12:48:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T11:48:40","slug":"6-09-dark-advances-affect-aliens-curated-by-lilly-markaki-group-show-opening-motto-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=51868","title":{"rendered":"10.09: Dark Advances | Finissage curated by Lilly Markaki and Felice Moramarco @ Motto Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThe coalition emerges out of your recognition that it\u2019s fucked up for you, in the same way that we\u2019ve already recognized that it\u2019s fucked up for us. I don\u2019t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?\u201d \u2015 Fred Moten

Please join us this Saturday, September 10, for an evening of outdoors readings\/performances to mark the closing of Dark Advances: \u2018Affect Aliens\u2019 & Revolutionary Despair<\/strong>\u2014an installation featuring works by Spiros Kokkonis, Candice Nembhard (okcandice), Kari Rosenfeld, Lou Lou Sainsbury and Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell.
 
Dark Advances: \u2018Affect Aliens\u2019 and Revolutionary Despair<\/strong> tunes into the hum, tremble, or murmur by which everything now rises to the surface. Not a human song, but the perlocutionary utterance of what Stefano Harney and Fred Moten speak of when they write of the movement of the earth against the world\u2014an underground, black rhythm, chant or riot, that one \u201ccan\u2019t join from the outside.\u201d What does it want? Nothing, except perhaps to unground the ground\u2014to reveal \u201cthe hole in the ontological project,\u201d as R.A. Judy has it\u2014by unearthing the bones that fire our great toxic machinery.

Dark Advances<\/strong> devotes its breath to this cosmic piece of anti-music, and to practices aimed at its amplification. To those \u2018affect aliens\u2019 who, faced with the ways of the world, promote neither the promise of utopia, nor despondent resignation, but the world\u2019s collapsing: \u2018unworlding\u2019, or what one might describe as the ambivalent third way of revolutionary despair.

Readings\/Performances by: Sabeen Chaudhry (@sabeen.chaudhry<\/a>), Francesca Flora (@francesca.flora<\/a>) & Nobile (@nobile_nobile<\/a>), C\u00e9line Mathieu (@cm.celinemathieu<\/a>), Circular Ruins (@marijijn<\/a>) ft. oxi p\u00ebng (@pennybirdy<\/a>), Sarah Messerschmidt, Eric Peter (@surroundedbysun<\/a>), Kari Rosenfeld (@karileighrosenfeld<\/a>). 

Exhibited works by: Spiros Kokkonis (@8317k<\/a>), Candice Nembhard (okcandice), Kari Rosenfeld (@karileighrosenfeld<\/a>), Lou Lou Sainsbury (@loulousainsbury<\/a>) and Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell (@___kwame___ <\/a>). 

Please note: Lou Lou Sainsbury\u2019s new video work descending notes<\/em> and sound piece The Law of Desire is Fascist<\/em> made with Kari Rosenfeld and commissioned by Gasworks London will be showing on the day. Visit the basement between 6-9 pm. 

Curated by Lilly Markaki (@dustbreeding<\/a>) and Felice Moramarco (@felice_moramarco<\/a>)
Presented by DEMO<\/a>

Saturday 10 September
from 6pm<\/strong>

Motto Berlin
Salitzer Str. 68 (im Hinterhof)
10997 Berlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lou Lou Sainsbury, descending notes,<\/em> 2022. With Raffia Li and Ada M. Patterson. HD Video, 17:45 min.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Spiros Kokkonis<\/strong> was born in Athens, Greece, where he currently lives and works. He\u2019s co-founder of the artist-run space Grace\/ Athens. Operating in a very specific context\u2014politically, socially, and culturally\u2014the artist creates images both influenced by and dealing with aspects of contemporary life. Spiros\u2019 work has been exhibited at Athens Conservatoire, Parko Eleftherias, Art Space Pythagoreion, Saigon Athens, SHED London, Grace \/ Athens and Onassis Cultural Centre.

okcandice <\/strong>(one word, all lowercase) is a writer, artist-curator, poet and musician based between Birmingham, England and Berlin, Germany. Their multi-disciplinary practice is explained as \u00abi\u2019m working on it\u00bb, dealing with grief, love, queer identities, oration in Black cultures and archival materials. okcandice is a co-founding member of the collective poet & prophetess and founder of the queer film series ALL FRUITS RIPE. They host the experimental broadcast Bedtime Stories on Cashmere radio and work as a freelance curator, (song)writer and creative producer.

Kari Rosenfeld <\/strong>(b. Houston, TX) is an artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. \u00a0Kari\u2019s work is focused on ontology, political and social affect, religious and mythological narratives, image, genre, and attachment. They have degrees in American Studies and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and graduated from Dutch Art Institute Masters of Art Praxis in 2021. They were a co-founder and Artist in Residence at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Science\u2014Alexandria where they facilitated courses in theory and visual media.

Lou Lou Sainsbury<\/strong> is a trans artist based in Margate, UK & Rotterdam, NL, working in live performance, video, writing, installation and textiles. She identifies as a time traveller, making things that unwrite histories of living beings into mythopoeic dreamscapes, informed by queer and ecological activisms.Recent performances and group exhibitions include: Whitstable Biennale (2022), Centre for Contemporary Arts Prague (2021); Yaby and La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Nottingham Contemporary; Tate Modern, London; Yaby, Madrid (all 2019); and Flat Time House, London (2018).\u00a0

Kwam\u00e9 Sorrell<\/strong> (b. 1990) is an artist, poet, researcher and writer. Kwam\u00e9 is co-founder of BlackMass Publishing, an independent press focusing on re\/de\/contextualizing black and African social vernacular through image and text. He lives and works under the sun. His work is rooted in language and form, as a way to explore the gap between art and tradition, music and sound, space and time; constantly in transition. (this bio is subject to change)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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