Program

6:00 p.m.

Art and Copyright
Lecture by Dr. Miriam Kellerhals & Discussion

7:30 p.m.

ich zeichne die Zeit, du malst den Moment
Catalog presentation by Ulrike Seyboth & Ingo Fröhlich / Torstraße 111 - Lukas Verlag Berlin 

8:00 p.m.

Opening & Party with Alice Wang & Benjamin Tong, Villa Aurora Fellows in Berlin at Torstraße 111

Exhibitions:

The Secret Blackness of Milk / Alice Wang

In a thousand years we will have corrected the earth’s rotational axis shifting it 45 degrees aligning to that of Venus, and the polar icecaps will have melted giving the seas a flavoring of lemonade. / Benjamin Tong

Free entrance

Please R.S.V.P. at infoberlin@villa-aurora.org or 030 – 20 62 36 40 until May 20, 2013

Alice Wang (b. 1983, China) is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She received her BSc from the University of Toronto, BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and MFA from New York University. Since the summer of 2012, Alice has been living and working in Paris through the support of the Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Foundation. Alice has exhibited work at The Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Deutsches Haus in New York, and forthcoming projects at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and Immanence in Paris. Her experimental film The fallacy of misplaced concreteness is distributed by Vtape, and part of their permanent collection.

Benjamin Tong (b.1981), studied computer science at the University of Toronto, and then received an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts. His projects have appeared in various spaces such as; The Hart House (CAN), Images Festival (CAN), REDCAT Gallery (CA), Sonja Roesch Gallery (TX), Hochschule für Bildende Kunst HBK (GER), RosaB.net, and LA Mart (CA). A transcript of The Parrot Lecture, published by Golden Spike Press and performed at CalArts, can be found at Printed Matter (US), Ed. Varie (US), Art Metropole (CAN) and Ooga Booga (US). He has also been in residence in Mexico City for the SOMA summer program.