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April 7, 2008 11:23 am
The Fifth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, "When Things Cast No Shadow," opened to the public on Saturday. The show, curated by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic, is divided into two themes, "Day," a collection of mostly newly commissioned works spread out across four venues in Berlin, and a night-themed segment, "Mes Nuits Sont Plus Belles Que Vos Jours," a group of 63 performances, lectures, installations, and happenings in diverse locations throughout the city that run until June 15. "There’s a lot of attention on Berlin right now, and there are many young interesting artists living here," said Filipovic. "Although the reasons they come to Berlin may be banal—the rent is cheap, it’s an easy place to be a foreigner—the result is a vibrant community of artists." But among the first was the young French artist Cyprien Gaillard. His film "Crazy Horse," shown at Skulpturenpark Berlin Zentrum, a semi-abandoned lot in the Kreuzberg neighborhood, documents the drawn-out process of construction of a Mount Rushmore-like memorial monument to the Lakota leader Crazy Horse in the Black Hills of South Dakota. "I was thinking about ruins in reverse," explained Gaillard after the screening. "It’s interesting to show this work in Berlin now, as it goes through its own processes of reconstruction. I’m intrigued by geographical anomalies." Upcoming performances and events include work by Melvin Moti, Augusto Boal, and Cameron Jamie, among others.
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