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Shimabuku
Shimabuku's Fish & Chips
Jan 16 – Jan 25, 2007
5/1/2014Berliner Künstlerprogramm
http://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/veranstaltungen_druck.php?id=1871/1
Date / Hours
16.01. – 25.01.
Artist / Title
Shimabuku
,
Damián Ortega
"Fish & ChipsBar"
Location
daadgalerie
Address
Zimmerstraße 90 10117 Berlin
After having participated in the exhibition BerlinTokio/TokioBerlin at the New
National Gallery in Berlin, the internationally renown Japanese artist
Shimabuku has also become wellknown in Germany. He came to Berlin as a
guest of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm, and because of a guest professorship
at the Academy of Arts in Braunschweig he was able to extend his stay in
Germany.
At the daadgalerie, Shimabuku will show a video with the title "Fish & Chips"
in an unsual context. The video was first shown at the occasion of the
Liverpool Biennial in 2006 with regard to a typically British restaurant
tradition. The project for the daadgalerie, gives expression to the means of his
artistic work in a particularly vivid manner: a oneweek performance of
communication with special guest Damián Ortega. Shimabuku has translated
this linguistic idiom "Fish and Chips" into a humorous scenario. To present this
scenario, he will turn the daadgalerie into a snack bar or rather a bar. A neon
sign will direct the attention to this "Bar" where guests of the Berliner
Künstlerprogramm will introduce themselves in the evening.
Shimabuku was invited to the Biennial of Sao Paulo in October 2006 where he
got to know Damián Ortega better, a native Mexican, who is also a guest at
the Berliner Künstlerprogramm in Berlin. Together they developed the idea to
give expression to the hybridity of today’s artistic world as characterized by the
Biennial events and the nomadic lives of international artists by a cocktail:
Shimabuku and Ortega mixed a long drink with Japane sake and Latin
American Caipirinha and named it "Sakepirinha", a drink that will be prepared
and served by both artists during the evenings at daadgalerie.