- collaborations of Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle
e+l
stages investigative performances exploring urban infrastructures and
spatial scenarios, with recent interest on food and waste management systems.
This has resulted in past projects in the cities of Hull (UK), Berlin
and Curitiba, Brazil. Including research and empirical surveying, the
projects seek to map infrastructures, some more clearly marked then others,
through subjective experience and collaborative meeting. The projects
question what our ability is as individuals to gain access to governmental
information, to interview and understand greater city policies and their
impact on societal behaviors, to gauge local cultures, and how we might
bring forward a creative intervention on these infrastructures so as to
reveal critical perspective. Currently, work is being planned for projects
in Buenos Aires related to spatial politics of the everyday, and Tokyo. |
| Active
Ingredient -
picnic performance, Hull Time Based Arts Center, Hull UK
August
9, 2003 |
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Come
and join us for tasty morsels and cool drinks.
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| Active
Refuse -
exploring sanitation systems in Berlin, with cooking-presentation at the
studio of Erik Göngrich
July
16, 2005 |
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Ginger-cookies, ginger & carrot soup, and ginger tea will be served to compliment discussions on urban development and waste. Ginger plants will also be given away, with the request of future cultivation in public locations around Berlin. |
| Opening/Closing
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video work enacted in an empty apartment in Berlin
July,
2005 |
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...you go for first... No, you go first. |
| Active
Circulation -
collecting trash from the streets of Curitiba, with an exhibition at Ybakatu
gallery
January,
2006 |
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becoming-public - |
| Sound/Stage
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constructions with mobile chairs in the placement of sound
at
fa projects, London
September,
2006
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this sound goes here, no, over there... |
| Active
Economy: Flea Market -
a market of selected objects and actions
at
16 Beaver, New York
November,
2006
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I'll give you this button for that book? |
| The
Production of Space: a series of signs mounted on public benches
Copenhagen
April,
2007
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I love this view, don't you? |
| Active
Trucking Los
Angeles & Berlin
October,
2007 / July, 2008
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we rode up interstate 44 like a rocket sled on rails |
| Media
Plate
General
Public, Berlin
July,
2008
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vegetarian gumbo anyone? or how Lévi-Strauss came to Berlin |
Audio
Response Mirror
feedback
installation
at
Scaniaparken, Malmö, Sweden, as part of Full Pull 08
September-October,
2008
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what's that sound? |