ABA Air Berlin Alexanderplatz

ABA Air Berlin Alexanderplatz is an artist-run initiative that promotes collaborative approaches to creating art and exchanging knowledge through Salons co-conceived with other artists, researchers, scholars, musicians, or individuals from different fields and institutions. ABA explores unconventional ways of interacting with art, such as the one-hour Radio Salon through Colaboradio on Freie Radios Berlin, the Book Salon in the BOOKSTOP container on Alexanderplatz (HdS), a text(file)-sharing space that allows artists to access curated reading materials and interact with text, and World of Noon (WON) Salons, a program focusing on alternative narratives of environment and sustainability. The activity of ABA consists of the conception, curation and implementation of various events and presentation formats – organising Salons, promoting artists' publications, supervising a residency program and hosting artist talks (LABs), maintaining the ABA Archive and finally managing the BFSCA (Berlin Field School of Contemporary Art).

Christophe Clarijs, I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL, A PODCAST ON CURATING T-SHIRT., SHIMMER © Christophe Clarijs

I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL, A PODCAST ON CURATING T-SHIRT.
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I Hope This Message Finds You Well is a podcast on curating hosted by Kris Dittel and Eloise Sweetman.

It grew out of our friendship and delight in talking about art, where we, two freelance curators, openly discuss and question what we are doing, why we are doing it, and open up this conversation to our colleagues.

In each episode we talk to our guests about their work, professional trajectory, motivation, and reasons to work as a curator or otherwise.

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Christophe Clarijs, I HOPE THIS MESSAGE FINDS YOU WELL, A PODCAST ON CURATING T-SHIRT., © Christophe Clarijs

Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma, SHIMMER, A MANUAL OF UNDOING, Shimmer Press Waalhaven O.Z. 1, 3087 BM Rotterdam, The Netherlands © Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma

In SHIMMER, A MANUAL OF UNDOING we present a series of hand-developed black and white medium format photos of Shimmer’s exhibitions-in-progress. The photographs were taken during the unpacking, the unwrapping, the decision-making, depicting the often-invisible labor of the art worker. Since 2018 we have been undecided on how to make room for these images, which seem to not fit into conventional forms of contemporary art presentation and documentation. They arrive long after the moment of their generation, finally finding their home in this book's unsettled and unbound pages. It is in the lag--the linger--that we define as our studio method.

We take analog photos because of the delay between what is in front of us and what emerges long after the fact. Through the viewfinder we are able to savor the time we have with the artist and their work. By taking the photo we pause the process, like a cigarette break that affords us time to think about what we are making and curating with the artist, and about the afterlife of the exhibition. Every aspect of exhibition-making, curating, and running an organisation is, for us, a creative act. As is typical of acts in life that don't serve immediate ends, the film photos would often be set aside while we attended to the more urgent tasks of installing the exhibition, writing the texts, talking with our audience, and the relentless grind of administration.

Editors: Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma
Authors: Eloise Sweetman and Jason Hendrik Hansma
Designer: Christophe Clarijs
Copyeditor: Willa Smart
Production Assistant: Martina Farrugia
Lithographer: Johan Holterman

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Annette Behrens, Tolle Knolle | Quirky Carrots, collaborative project by Annette Behrens and Carina Hesper, 2021 © Annette Behrens

olle Knolle | Quirky Carrots is a collaborative project by Annette Behrens and Carina Hesper. The project deals with fruits and vegetables that have a different shape than the ones we usually see in the supermarket: Tolle Knolle is an ode to the quirky tomato, the joyful eggplant and the fig that is a snail. Despite all the striking and often playful shapes, it's about a serious topic: still, about 30% of our food worldwide is wasted. Part of that is the fruit and vegetables that are sorted out and often destroyed due to unusual shapes, sizes, or colors

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