Exhibition »Stretching Materialities«

Matter is dead? Objects are lifeless? Think again! In the exhibition »Stretching Materialities,« which was opened on September 16th, the liveliness and activity of matter can be experienced in a completely new way. The Tieranatomisches Theater becomes an interactive playground: a real cloud levitates in the middle of the room, reacting to body heat and movement and hovering around visitors like a strange creature. Stones reveal their weathering as a dynamic process of change. Large willow structures carefully co-crafted by humans and computers entwine into inhabitable space. Traditional Korean Hanbok Clothing, filled with moving elements, vibrates on the visitor's skin depending on their movement. Walking through the room with virtual reality glasses, visitors can enter the glass elevator in the center. With one touch of a button, the journey goes straight into the material, or more precisely into the CT scan of a stone. Or high into the clouds to interact with air molecules.

It is an exhibition like you have never experienced before. With knowledge from the research of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«, an interactive laboratory space has been created that allows completely unexpected insights into thinking about matter – and makes it tangible how active the world around us really is.

The exhibition is accompanied by regular sound performances of the installation »Well-Tempered Hygrometer« in the nearby Object Lab of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. More information about the kinetic sculpture by Anna Kubelík and dates of the performances can be found here.

The exhibition is curated by multidisciplinary scientists and designers of the project Object Space Agency of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin under the direction of Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle and Clemens Winkler.

You can register for an individual on-site tour, a public tour, or book a tour for a larger group at the following email address:
stretching-mediation-tat [​at​] hu-berlin.de

The next dates for public tours and performances are:

• Friday, 25.02.2022, 3–4 p.m. Sound-Performance »Scattered Diffusion« by Mascha Kobylenko (please register here)
• Friday, 25.02.2022, 4 and 6 p.m. Public Tour (please register here)
• Friday, 25.02.2022, 5.30-6 p.m. »Singing Matter« by Leila Albayaty. While examining the space of the Exhibition Stretching Materialities, with her voice, artist Leila Albayaty, does not want to look as a human.

  Deprived of the appearance of the body, she will let her voice to resonate the hidden activities. By transforming everything into emotions she will explore many layers of identity and more-than human polyphony. (please register here)

• Monday, 28.02.2022, 2:00–3:00 p.m. Sound-Performance »Scattered Diffusion« by Mascha Kobylenko (please register here)
• Monday, 28.02.2022, 4–6 p.m. »About clouds, robots and the sea – thoughts on the aesthetics of metabolic formations, biodiversity and new ecologies in art and design« - Artist Talk with Clemens Winkler, Babette Werner and Anne Duk Hee Jordan (more information and registration here)

• Tuesday, 01.03.2022, 6 p.m. Recital with Philipp Reuver (Please register here).

• Wednesday, 02.03.2022, 6 p.m. Recital with Philipp Reuver (Please register here).

• Thursday, 03.03.2022, 5-7 p.m. »About microbes, stones and orbits – thoughts on haptic knowledge, circulating narratives, and transitions between the organic and the inorganic«, Performance, Conversation, Lecture (more information and registration here)
• Friday, 04.03.2022, Finissage
  2, 3 and 4 p.m., Rotunda: Ceremonial Performance »dancing CaCO3« by Kaaren Beckhof (please register here)
  6 p.m., Amphitheatre Hall: Jean-Daniel Berclaz, le Musée du Point de Vue, »L´Attente« (The Awaiting)
  From my point of view, the question of the matter is a spatial observation of the thought.
  This is why the auditorium contains the sounds of pencils taking notes of what they listen to on the paper.
  The professor awaits for the auditorium to fill up before beginning his orations.
  »Le Musée du Point de Vue« is the ongoing project of the artist Jean Daniel Berclaz and examines the knowledge that originates in exhibition going and the metabolic processes between the observed and the voyeur, the story-figure and the author, the actor the spectator.
  
  Please notice that due to the performances during the finissage, VR can be used only from 5-8 p.m.
  Available for the first time is an exclusive preview of the VR dance performance »Paar«, using 360° filming and motion capture to integrate physical and digital bodies in a continuous flow.

Please note that as a prerequisite for visiting the exhibition FFP2 mask obligation and for visiting events (guided tours, performances, lectures etc.) additionally the 3G-rule is applied (fully vaccinated, recovered or proof of a negative rapid test by official test center).

The exhibition will be open from September 17th, 2021 to March 4th, 2022, every Monday to Friday from 14-18.

Berlin Science Week

»Stretching Materialities« was part of the Berlin Science Week 2021.

Wed, 3.11.2021, 4-6 pm
Ausstellungstour Stretching Materialities
Führung und Livepräsentationen im Tieranatomischen Theater

Fr, 5.11.2021, 4-6 pm
Exhibition Tour Stretching Materialities
Guided tour and exhibition and live presentations in the Tieranatomisches Theater

Mo, 8.11.2021, 4-6 pm
Exhibition Tour Stretching Materialities
Guided tour and exhibition and live presentations in the Tieranatomisches Theater

Opening

16 September 2021, 6 pm

The exhibition opened on Thursday, September 16th, 2021 at 6 pm with a reception by the Object Space Agency curator team in front of the Tieranatomisches Theater. Afterward, the exhibition could be explored in different time slots until 8:30 pm.

The evening was accompanied by Oliver Schmids' sound performances on the installation »Well-Tempered Hygrometer« by artist Anna Kubelík.

Welcome addresses by:

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner (Director of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity«)
Prof. Dr. Sharon Macdonald (Director of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik)
Felix Sattler (Curator of the Tieranatomisches Theater)
Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle and Clemens Winkler (Project Leaders Object Space Agency, together with Project team and guests)