{"id":2665,"date":"2017-05-31T11:44:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T10:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=2665"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:09:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T17:09:17","slug":"shades-of-today-picking-up-the-pieces-post-truth-centrum-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/2665","title":{"rendered":"Shades of Today, Picking up the Pieces Post-Truth, Centrum, Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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<\/b>Shades of Today: Picking up the Pieces Post-Truth<\/em>, 30 June – 23\u00a0July 2017<\/strong>
Martin John Callanan \/ Max Grau \/ Emma Waltraud Howes \/ Jae Kyung Kim \/ Erkan \u00d6znur \/ Benedikt Partenheimer
Opening: Friday, 30\u00a0June, 7pm\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 with a\u00a0performance\u00a0by Kirstin Burckhardt, 8pm
Smell Transplant<\/em>: Friday, 14 July 6-9pm<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Olfactory Workshop by Klara Ravat
Finissage & Film Screening: Sunday, 23 July 5pm\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0All That is Solid<\/em>\u00a0(2014) and\u00a0Lettres du Voyant<\/em>\u00a0(2013) by Louis Henderson (films start at 8pm)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The concept of distorted representations and perceptions of reality may date as far back as Plato’s allegory of the cave. However, in light of Brexit and Trump’s election, the manipulation of information seems to have reached new heights (Oxford Dictionaries dubbed \u2018post-truth\u2019 as 2016\u2019s word of the year). Amidst the confusion between true facts and fake news, heightened by 24-hour news cycles, social media and a populist rhetoric, artists play a pivotal role in warning and reminding of reality’s different shades and how they can be exploited by those in power. For Shades of Today: Picking up the Pieces Post-Truth<\/em>, Centrum have invited a group of artists to shed light on this issue through a series of sound, scent, text-based, and video installations, and a suite of events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The group exhibition Shades of Today: Picking up the Pieces Post-Truth<\/em> opened on the 30th of June with a performance by Kirstin Burckhardt: Grow a Body<\/em> (2017) centres around a rhythmic, pulsating reading of a text which poses the question: When is your body complete? This question is echoed in the feeling of some people who disidentify so strongly with a ligament that they self-amputate (‘Body Integrity Identity Disorder’). In the performance, in which the artist works with another performer, Gloria H\u00f6ckner, this feeling is carefully embedded within the sensation of completely dissociating from your body when in a traumatic situation, raising questions about subjective and alternative truths, the relationship between alienation and violence, and the prevalence of emotion over reason \u2013 questions considered to be at the core of our post-truth era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To support and expand on the exhibition in Centrum\u2019s physical space, our Tumblr<\/a> is a virtual space to further develop and explore notions of post-truth and for six weeks we posted starting points for further research here.
Download the full press text here<\/a>. \/ Zum Herunterladen des Pressetextes hier<\/a> klicken.
Installation views: Ute Klein \/ Performance pictures: Evanthia Afstralou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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