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Manifesta 14, Prishtina, Drawings for the work of Anna Bromley: A voice exist in voicing.
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Project Space Festival Berlin, zusammen mit Heiko Pfreundt und Lisa Susanne Schorm (Kreuzberg Pavillon), Wayra Schuebel, Erin Mitchell, Kathryn Lawrence, Joe Clark, Piotr Pietrus, Paula G. Vidal, Lay Lay Image Productions (Elma Riza).
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Out now: Speak to me, artist book by Anna Bromley, with drawings by Michael Fesca, Kunstverein Röderhof.
Out now!
Anna Bromley and Michael Fesca, Review: „Isabell Lorey: Demokratie im Präsens Eine Theorie der politischen Gegenwart,
in: Springerin Heft 3/2021, Wien.

Anna Bromley and Michael Fesca, Review: „Sofia Bempeza/Christoph Brunner/Katharina Hausladen/Ines Kleesattel/Ruth Sonderegger:
Polyphone Ästhetik. Eine kritische Situierung“, in: Springerin Heft 1/2021, Wien.
Location Determination Difficulties
by A. Bromley
03. September. 2020
Production for Radio in Between Spaces and Bärenzwinger Berlin.
Editing: Michael Fesca
Menschen mit Nazihintergrund
Contribution to This is Germany, invited by Candice Breitz, Moshtari Hillal, Sinthujan Varatharajah.
Musrara Mix Festival, Jerusalem
from 29 to 31 of May 2018
COSE COSMICHE
The stars are matter, We're matter, But it doesn't matter.

Senseless Recidency 2018
@ Fondazione Arthur Cravan, Milan
Lecture and Performance
Sept. 27, 2017
Kleine Galerie der Stadt Eberswalde
Opening reception for the solo exhibition by Anna Bromley:
Ironie ist, wenn man trotzdem handelt
About to Eat: Kochen und Essen als Ästhetische Praxis
28.-29. April 2017
#2: Fermenting Time
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Basel
FoodCultureLab
Komische Kritik
12.-14. Mai 2017
with Anna Bromley, Daniel Eschkötter, Michael Fesca, Karin Harrasser, Drehli Robnik, Joachim Schätz, Tanja Widmann.
conceived by Karin Harrasser, Drehli Robnik
depot, Vienna
University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
PHD Kolloquium Kunstuniversität Linz
Exhibiting as Research Method

Lecture: Counterpoint – Polythonic (A-t)tuning a Theme. About collaborative, research-based exhibition practices
REPETITION/S: Performance and Philosophy in Ljubljana
21 - 24 September, 2016, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, City Museum of Ljubljana
Guest artist with Anna Bromley
Contributions by Alenka Zupančič, Oxana Timofeeva, Mladen Dolar, Freddie Rokem
Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft - 2016: Kritik!
Tagungsbeitrag zusammen mit Anna Bromley, Karin Harrasser und Drehli Robnik
Sept.28- Oct.1, 2016
Cinepoetics und Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft
Contributions by Kathrin Busch, Kathrin Peters, Erhard Schüttpelz, Ulrike Bergemann, Claudia Mareis, Bernd Bösel, Barbara Gronau, Dieter Mersch
Fermenting Time
Seminar, WS 2016/17
Kunstuniversität Linz

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SURPRISE | Taste the exhibition
March 10 at 7:00 pm at Entretempo Kitchen Gallery
Surprise dinner #1
Dinner #2 and #3: April 10 and May 5
Surprise dinner are series of dinners to experience the artworks of our current exhibition IN USE. The menu will contain usual courses however the presentation will surprise you, daily food in a completely different way.
We will serve a fermented apetizer, a molecular gastronomy apetizer, ratattoile, souffle, salad and dessert followed by extraordinary tea and coffee ceremonies and ginger beer brewed in one of the artworks.
Menu by Alex Baily.
Event of the exhibition "Table Tools" presenting the works of 10 students, as well as the Visual Essay "Fermenting Time" (Michael Fesca, Amadeus Lindemann) about the workshop Fermentation and Fooddesign by Michael Fesca und Tainá Guedes with the 10 participants of the exhibition.
Project curated by Michael Fesca, Barbara Schmidt and Taina Guedes. In collaboration with Weissensee Kunsthochschule, supported by Kahla Porzellan.
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Auftakt [Prelude]
Presentations, Events
27 February – 5 March 2016

Each year, the nGbK receives numerous project proposals. They mark the beginning of a tried and tested procedure of consultation, discussion and selection among the members of the art society that ends with the vote for a new programme.
For the first time, the project ideas will now be presented in the exhibition space.

Also part of it: Excess and Austerity. Project group: Paola Bonino, Michael Fesca, An Paenhuysen, Imke Kannegießer, Nathalie Küchen
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Table Tools - Ceramics and Food
Februar 26 – Mai 26, 2016
Entretempo Kitchen Gallery
Part of the exhibition: Visual Essay "Fermenting Time" (Michael Fesca, Amadeus Lindemann) about the workshop Fermentation and Fooddesign by Michael Fesca und Tainá Guedes with the 10 participants of the exhibition.
The exhibition is the result of the project „Table Tools“, initiated and supervised by Prof. Barbara Schmidt, where the students, together with Entretempo’s curator Tainá Guedes and curator Michael Fesca, started by developing an edible micro-universe based on fermentation. Results of the four-month experimental design project are, among others, fermentation equipment for the modern kitchen, a fridge, which works without electricity, and porcelain surfaces which reveal the aesthetic potential of sauces or dancing stacked dishes.
During the winter semester of 2015/16 10 students of the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee experimentally examined the possibility of developing vessels and tools in a way to keep the tradition of ceramics and take it further. In the beginning, industrial and digital methods of the ceramic production, dishes and drinks produced with fermentation were elaborated under the concept „Eating the Universe“ for a one day exhibition. In the course of the project students examined various methods to enhance the potential of ceramics and enjoy meals and drinks using their own creations.

From February till May 2016 the results of the projects will be presented at Entretempo Kitchen Gallery. During the exhibition once per month a new focus will be set on particular works, following a dining experience hosted by the students.
Artists:  Alexandre Bailly, Maximilian Bellinghausen, Nicole Dietz, Simon Ertl, Tanguy Fraiture, Janis Gildeins, Lilith Habisreutinger, Henrik Hjort, Qianyu Zhu, Bruno Ziebell
Project management/Project support: Prof. Barbara Schmidt, Tainá Guedes, Michael Fesca. In collaboration with Kunsthochschule Weissensee. Friendly supported by KAHLA/Thüringen Porzellan GmbH.
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FXPO #2 - THE FERMENTATION PAVILION Sep 05/06
Fondazione Forma, Milan
A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE AND CORPOREAL HUB
ON FERMENTING INDIGESTIBLE CULTURAL METAPHORS
with:
Atmaja Anan, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Andrea Facchi, Casper OX, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Collettivo Geologika, Copy & Waste/ English Theatre Berlin, Giorgio de Finis, Stefan Demming, dilettantin produktionsbüro, Journal Rappé, Gerald Bruneau,, Journal Gbayé, Valentina Karga, Kuiperdomingos Projects, Marco Philopat, Fabrizio Vatieri & Laura Lecce, Maddalena Ferraresi, Olaf Andre Bohr, Pedrito el Drito, Re/search Milano - mappa di una città fatta a pezzi, Agenzia X Edizioni, Daniela Bezzi, Alessandro Guerriero, Gabriele Mina, Costruttori di Babele, Aurelia Delfino Milano, Urban Dance, Sergio Racanati, Fabio Benincasa, Mono Carrasco, Antonietta Laterza, Caterina Cavina, Carlo Gori, Maurizio Corrado, Matteo Licitra, Maria Alessandra, Franco Losvizzero, Matteo Meschiari, Irene di Noto, Blocchi Precari Metropolitani

Curated by Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca and EXPOSED PROJECT.

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Oreet Ashery, Bad Company, at The Bureau for Paradoxical Relations, Installation by Sol Calero, nGbK, 2015
Redemption Jokes
Exhibition, Publication
16 September – 15 November 2015
Opening: 15 September, 19h as part of the programme of the BERLIN ART WEEK
Oreet Ashery, Amit Epstein, Bjorn Melhus, Falke Pisano, Liam O’Callaghan, Wilhelm Klotzek, Dolanbay, u.a.
The two-part project is interested in explicitly critical strategies of humour, their aesthetic grammars and artistic realisations. The start is made in March by the BUREAU FOR PARADOXICAL RELATIONS .
A publication will come out in September 2015, by publishing house nGbK.
Supported by Goetheinstitut,
nGbK project group: Anna Bromley, Teena Lange, Michael Fesca, Susanne Husse, Jana Sotzko.
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JOKEBOOK
Bureau for Paradoxical Relations (Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, Teena Lange, Suza Husse, Jana Sotzko)
Book design: studio stg
Cover photo: Bureau of Paradoxical Relations, installation by Sol Calero

When jokes are cracked, the seriousness of the situation temporarily takes a back seat. Either that or things get really serious. A hearty laugh confounds the normative and can, at least for a time, relax or heighten tension and mix up the familiar.
In a series of essays, conversations, poems, pictures and commentaries, the Jokebook addresses topographic markings in areas of this amusing resistance. It is about self-deprecating complicities, about becoming unreadable, about the absurd and the dysfunctional, about responsibility, but also about the entertaining and its seductive power.
ISBN: 978-3-938515-60-0 Publisher: nGbK
With picture and text contributions by: Oreet Ashery, Paola Bonino, Preciosa De Joya, Jonas Engelmann, Amit Epstein, Elisabeth Fritz, Christopher Kline, Wilhelm Klotzek, Eve Massacre, Gin Müller, Monika Rinck, Isabel de Sena, Oxana Timofeeva, as well as the Bureau team: Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, Suza Husse, Teena Lange and Jana Sotzko, comments by among others Jonathan Garnham, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Yacouba Konaté und Nana Orofiatta-Ayim.

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Starting FXPO Project at Milan

Chewing over the planet (which was previously fed)
audio essay / aural science fiction
46 min., German, subtitled in Italian language (projected).
Friday, June 26 at Fondazione Forma per la Fotografia, Galeria Meravigli, Milan

On savouring / desires / self-aspirations / pastoral ideologies and excess energy. Including interviews with sociologist Diana Lindner and philosopher Barbara Muraca, an anonymous food employee preparing copa milanese, and conversations with Gius Faniz and Andrea Kunkl.
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Playing Off the Beat, Joke Performance, or the Groove of Infectious Laughter
Essay in: Bill Dietz u. Woody Sullenger: Ear/ Wave/ Event, New York, 2015
by Anna Bromley and Michael Fesca.
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LAUTSTROM #47, Taktökonomie
Radiofeature 59 min. (German)
Michael Fesca meets Eske Bockelmann.

Feature about the thesis of Eske Bockelman' book "Im Takt des Geldes".
He argues that the Western concept of rhythm, which is laid out on the basis of a pulse, can be compared with our modern financial system and rised at the same time in the starting seventeenth century! At that time money gets a abstract value, which is not chained anymore to the real material object. Like the pulse, which can be filled with any style of rhythmic structur and melodie, money gets a value in itself, which can be traded.
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BLINDLINGS LACHEN
Radioessay 45min.
Thealit Bremen,
LAB Ordnung und Struktur, April
16 - 19, 2015 (mit Anna Bomley)
Villa Rosenthal Jena, Mai
30, 2015.
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BUREAU FOR PARADOXICAL RELATIONS
February 27 - March 29, 2015 (Redemption Jokes Part I), nGbK

Workshops with Jermiah Day, Sol Calero, Christopher Kline, Oreet Ashery
PUBLIC Office Appt with Lorenzo Sandoval, Amit Epstein, Liam O'Callaghan, The Yes Men, Preciosa de Joya
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Playing off the Beat
Lecture performance with Anna Bromley, Symposium Body Discourses/Body Politics & Agency, Universität Wien, 5.- 7. Feb., 2015
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booK Garden
nGbK- publications, 26 Jan. – 15 Feb. 2015, curated by Anna Bromley, Bogg Johanna Karlsson, Michael Fesca
Sunday readings: WIR SPIELEN (WE PLAY), Hanne Lipppard, Emma Haugh.

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THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCES, 1.- 2.11. 2014, KAMPNAGEL HAMBURG
Congress as part of KRANKHEIT ALS METAPHER. DAS IRRE IM GARTEN DER ARTEN,

with:  Jan Verwoert, Kathrin Busch, Kai van Eikels, Vassilis Tsianos, Helga Wretman, Eva Illouz, Thomas Bock, Silja Samerski, Hans-Christian Dany, Christina Buck u.a.
Congress concept and direction: Anna Bromley/Michael Fesca together with Nele Wulff

in cooperation with Kampnagel Hamburg
Programm!

Film still from Karin Michalski The Alphabet of Feeling Bad

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GLOSARIO DE TÉRMINOS INFLACIONARIOS. desde [diletante] hasta [virtuoso],
[Hrsg.] Sara Hillnhütter, Eylem Sengezer, Olga von Schubert, Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca [nGbK AG Die Irregulären], Herder Verlag, Mexiko-Stadt 2014.
curated by Goetheinstitut Mexiko
Editorial Herder México
TAICHIKARAOKE
at
Blauverschiebung no7 - Internationales Performancefestival Leipzig

15. Oktober - 18. Oktober

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Performing Aug. 12 and Aug. 22, 2014 TAICHIKARAOKE at
Shining through the Gallery Window

by Christl Mudrak, Katja Pudor & Guests
Galerie Axel Obiger
Brunnenstr. 29,
10119 Berlin
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De 199C à 199D:
Contribution to Liam Gillicks STOPPAGE, with Anna Bromley
June, 6 - Sept, 7, 2015
Le Magasin
Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble 
8 esplanade Andry Farcy
Site Bouchayer-Viallet
F-38028 GRENOBLE Cedex 1
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REDE/SHOP DOPPEL
presented by Claude Draude:

TAICHIKARAOKE
An exercise in imitating, with Anna Bromley
THISISNOTASHOP, Temporärer Kunstverein Bremen
April. 23th. 2014
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LAUTSTROM#38
Je participe.

Mar. 16th, 2014
Anna Bromley, Kai van Eikels, Michael Fesca
reboot.fm
Berlin
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THISISNOTASHOP
Ali Böll, Anna Bromley, Claude Draude, Mechtild Böger, Branka Colic, Stefan Demming, Birte Endrejat, Michael Fesca, Anja Fussbach, Grabowski Böll, Isa Griese, Julia Gubitz, Sirma Kekec, KLOTZ, Andrea Lühmann, Nanna Lüth, mark, Minipli, Katja Petrzik, Elianna Renner, Sebastian Reuschel / ZCKR, Anna Schilling, SEX, Annemarie Strümpfler, Caspar Sessler, Kinki Texas, Doris Weinberger, Linda Weiss und Sandy Volz
Feb. 1 - Mar. 31, 2014
thisisnotashop
Vor dem Steintor 140
28103 Bremen
Mi-Fr von 12 bis 18 Uhr
Sa von 12 bis 16 Uhr
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Edition
PREPARING SWINGING PLASTICINE


A DIY-Kit to prepare a plasticine goblet:
Including images of performance SWINGING PLASTICINE
Tutorial about kniding procedure
graph of the cup
stencil for the model
plasticine, thread bar, 2 washers, 4 nuts
Styrofoam for the model
edition of 20
Editions of diffrent models are intended
more info
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"What is the future of architecture? II "
with Lorenzo Sandoval, Sophia Vyzaviti, Collectif ETC, Santiago Cirugeda etc.
My contribution: TREE INSIDE a dwelling, Coolness for Trees - Everything in Rainy Conditions -
including: a dwellings FLOOR
Published by Crap is Good Press.
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REMIX – 10 years in the mix
Aug, 30 - Sept, 22
Mika Andersen, Anna Bromley, Knut Eckstein, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Michael Fesca, Stella Geppert, April Gertler, Wolfgang Müller, Anette Rose u.a.
Spor Klübü
Freienwalder Str. 31,
13359 Berlin
Tel.: 0179-8593744
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Lautstrom #33:„Kommando Otl Aicher“,  Radiofeature on reboot.fm am 1. Sept. 2013 (German)
As I found Alexander Negrellis book "Kommando Otl Aicher" (German/English) at the Motto bookshop in Kreuzberg, I immediately invited him for a feature on LAUTSTROM. In LAUTSTROM #33 I talk with Alexander Negrelli about the Corporate Identity of the Olympic Games 1972 in Munich, about terrorists, their design, about war, gold medals, films, sneakers, politics, maps, architecture, logos, pictograms and colored dogs. Nethertheless about Otl Aicher, one of the  most formative designers in West Germany and developer of the Corporate Identity.
Aicher was from 1967-72 the designer of the Olympic Games in Munich with a really complet concept of appearance. Accidentallyg the Palestinian "Schwarze September" had also a clever Corporate Identity.
Lautstrom on reboot.fm
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DIE IRREGULÄREN - ÖKONOMIEN DES ABWEICHENS
[IRREGULAR - ECONOMIES OF DEVIATION]

20 April - 2 June 2013, daily 12-19h, Thu-Sat 12-20h
This group exhibition focuses on strategies of the virtuoso, the dillettante and the downright nerdy.
The following artists are represented:
Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Anna Bromley, Bill Dietz, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki, Michael Fesca, Karin Harrasser/Alexander Martos, Fabian Hesse, Klara Hobza, Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser, Wolfgang Müller, Prinz Gholam, Nasan Tur.
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GLOSSAR INFLATIONÄRER BEGRIFFE (German)

To accompany the exhibition, the "Glossar inflationärer Begriffe" [Glossary of Inflationary Terms (from the dilettante to the virtuoso)] is being published, with contributions by Mercedes Bunz, Alice Creischer, Karin Harrasser/Aino Korvensyrjä, Christoph Menke, Wolfgang Müller, Nicole Karafyllis, Judith Siegmund, Christine Sun Kim, Kai van Eikels, Jan Verwoert, Uwe Wirth and others.

Published by NGBK / ISBN: 978-3-938515-51-8


SYMPOSIUM DOING NERD
28 April 2013, 12-18h at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Doing Nerd. Behaving like a dilettante, diverging like a virtuoso, haunting like a stoic! With: Geraldine de Bastion, Markus Beckedahl, Klara Hobza, Nicole Karafyllis, Michael Makropoulos, Shintaro Myazaki, Jasmin Siri, Kai van Eikels, Jörg Ossenkopp u.a.
A transdisciplinary symposium organized by the NGBK in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung.
NGBK project group: Anna Bromley, Michael Fesca, Sara Hillnhütter, Eylem Sengezer, Olga von Schubert.
  • NEWS
  • Künstlerisch
    • drawing nearby aveiv
    • drawing nearby speak to me
    • Swinging Plasticine
    • Trägerschaft+
    • To Haul a Ship
    • Cold Day Circle
    • Terrific Laugh
    • Taichikaraoke
    • Preparing Swinging P
    • Entflammt
    • Trägerschaft++
    • Nur 45°
    • Chewing Over
    • Blindlings
  • Kuratorisch
    • Table Tools
    • Redemption Jokes
    • Therapeutische Allianzen
    • nGbK-Die Irregulären
  • Texte Essays
    • Jokebook
    • Glossar inflationärer Begriffe
    • Future of Architecture
  • CV
    • Kontakt
  • > >> English
    • Projects (english) >
      • Artistic Works (e) >
        • Swinging Plasticine@Errant Bodies (e)
        • Privatly Operated+
        • Taichikaraoke (e)
        • Privatly Operated++
        • Coolness for Trees (e)
        • Chewing Over (e)
        • Blindlings (e)
        • Terrific Laugh (e)
        • Entflammt (Inflamed) (e)
        • Swinging Plasticine@Note On (e)
        • To Haul a Ship (e)
        • Cold Day Circle (e)
        • Nur 45° (e)
      • Curatorial Projects (e) >
        • Table Tools (e)
        • Redemption Jokes (e)
        • Therapeutic Alliances (e)
        • nGbK-The Irregulars (e)
      • Essays (e) >
        • Jokebook (e)
        • Future of Architecture (e)
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