From Morn Till Midnight

Julian Beck, Steve Bishop, Adriano Costa, Lena Henke, Alexis Hunter, Vincenzo Latronico, Tobias Madison & Flavio Merlo, Katrina Palmer, Corin Sworn, Pilvi Takala, Jay Tan

2 November – 18 December 2013

Julian Beck
Untitled, undated
mixed technique on paper, 21.5 x 27.8 cm
Julian Beck
Untitled, undated
Mixed technique on paper, 21.5 x 27.8 cm
Katrina Palmer
Remote object of thought, 2012
script and music stand
Adriano Costa
Life and death of amazing people, 2013
bamboo mat and pen, 171.5 x 60 cm
Katrina Palmer
mmmm, 2011
Audio-file, 8:46 min.
Alexis Hunter
Object Series: Man looking from New York roof top, 1974
Vintage silver bromide photograph on fibre paper
40.6 x 45.7 cm
Corin Sworn
Huancayo, 2013
archival inkjet print, mounted on board, wood frame
86 x 113.5 x 3.5 cm
Lena Henke
Lad, 2012
Tar, wood, epoxy resin, hemp rope, 3 photographs, glass
222 x 30.5 x 54.5 cm
Steve Bishop
Focus lll, 2013
C-print in frame, 110 x 140 cm
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Jay Tan
It's Better Without The Bats (But With Priscila), 2010-2013,
assorted containers, table tennis ball
audio loop 7:24 min., dimensions variable
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
Tobias Madison, Flavio Merlo
The Living Theatre of Death: Frankenstein, 2013
plastic foil, plastic containers, water hose, aluminum pan, gardening computer, pump, pipes, swimming pool paint, mp3 player, amplifier, stereo transducers
Dimensions variable
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013
"From Morn' Till Midnight" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin 2013

From Morn’ Till Midnight is the title of a painting dated 1946 by Julian Beck (*1925, died 1985), founder of the Living Theatre, abstract expressionist and poet. Alongside Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Yves Kline his lively paintings were exhibited at Peggy Guggenheim’s groundbreaking gallery “Art of this Century”. Although inspired by this prominent group of abstract expressionist painters he turned the act of painting into a live gesture which involved the whole body, making the picture and the painter a single entity. Along with his wife, actress Judith Malina, he was the original engine of the avant-garde performance group “The Living Theatre” established in 1947. This is where he would fuel his artistic fervour until the end of his life, promoting ideas of anarcho-pacifism and liberalism throughout Europe, South America and the US.

From Morn’ Till Midnight tries to translate his idea of living acts into the concept of possibilities and time. Imagining the time lapse of a day as representation of a life-time-action, the space is conceived as stage for creation, destruction and poetry. The artists involved share the common trait of a demand for confrontation with action, voiced by dynamic gestures, opposing time that elapses passively but provoking change though active participation.

The central visionnaire installation by Tobias Madison and Flavio Merlo is an in-situ work that uses water to amplify sound. The work is intended as a play activated and performed by the computers, the gallery itself through its water and workers as an actual Frankenstein. The recording of the performance Frankenstein by the Living Theatre held in Berlin in 1965 is filtered, edited and sent back through the help of water; a swimming pool and sculpture of a stage that recovers the idea of action and freedom.