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Book Presentation / Studio Salon

deemeetree — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:44:32 +0000

Presentation of the new book by Dmitry Paranyushkin “Interviews with Artificial Artificial Intelligence”. View excerpts on www.iaaibook.com.

The Life Skills on DVD

deemeetree — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:17:30 +0000

Life Skills is a series of short interviews where people share their essential life skills in a concise, yet comprehensive manner, addressing the future generations of humans and aliens alike.

The Life Skills Series,
Volume 1, DVD

26.00€

This DVD volume is lovingly packaged in a metal box, sealed in a plastic bag, so that it survives any cataclysm, earthquake, and floods. It also comes with an A3 poster with our favorite quotes from the volume.

Produced by PLAYBerlin, PB003DV. If you would like to get one, please, buy online here or contact info [at] playberlin [dot] com

By Dmitry Paranyushkin in loving memory of The Solvents, With: Diego Agullo, Perrine En Morceaux, Emma Kim Hagdahl, Berno Odo Polzer, Anna Monteiro, Christine De Smedt, Kevin Vaughn, James Brown, Byriam BXL, Christian Toepfner, Eva Maria Kuepfer, Myriam Van Imschoot, Vladimir Miller, Simon Halseberghe, Nikolaus Gansterer, Jan Ritsema, Wojtek Ziemilski, Ulrika Berg, Justin Palermo, Liesbeth Vlerick, Matthias Yzebaert, Pieter Van Bogaert, Florian Flueras, Pieter Ampe.

You are very welcome to create your own Life Skills and enrich the collection by uploading it on www.thelifeskills.tv

The poster below is included with the DVD:

TAMTAMTAM // The Waiting Room Project

deemeetree — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:05:09 +0000

The participants are invited for a series of interviews conducted by the hosts of the evening. The hosts are given a full carte-blanche to set up a social situation exploring the problematics and possibilities of an interview as a form of interaction. There are eight different rooms and each room carries with itself a different proposition: a therapy session, game, interrogation, exorcism, private performance, secret society gathering, audition, photo session – pretty much as far as the host’s fantasy goes.

The waiting room is the focal point of the whole space. As much as each individual interview that the participants go through is important, the waiting room becomes the place for random encounters between them. The experiences they go through during the interviews influence the way the participants relate to one another and contribute to creating an atmosphere where standard behaviors are suspended in favor of the hosts’ propositions.

Hans Ulrich Obrist said that “interviews have to do with liberating time”, finding a moment when one can relax and encounter the other without external pressure. The interview then is a matter of attention. In our project we attempt to create the time, space, and propositions that ignite that attention of the participants to one another. We want them to feel important, interested, and interesting. We want them to be the main protagonists, not just passive spectators, and to carry on this empowering feeling beyond the context we construct together.

The Waiting Room was premiered during our residency at Direktorenhaus (Berlin) in October 2010. The hosts for that event were Diego Agullo, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Peter Stamer, Isabel Lewis, Clement Layes, Ingrid Cogne, Daniel Hinojo, Christine Schmidt.
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