Episode 2: sabotage

Marco Godinho, Mickaël Marchand, Panayiotis Michael, Pierre-Etienne Morelle, Ariel Schlesinger, Anna Witt

insitu Berlin
04.07.–03.08.2013

Sabotage is the disruption of a dynamic, the purposeful or unconscious ruin or failure of a system. Initiated as a worker’s strategy, sabotage has become a recurring artistic strategy in contemporary art.

With »Episode 2: sabotage« insitu collective shows the work of seven artists that upset the harmony of an exhibition, like putting a spoke in the wheel of a moving machine. Discord is generated by interferences between the works themselves as well as the works and their audience. While some deal with the architectural structure of the exhibition space, others sabotage in a more subtle way by causing irritation, disorder or threat.

This episode aims to alienate our standardized ways of approaching art as well as our environment, and reflects on the concept of the group exhibition as a possible field for sabotage itself. »It’s a sabotage!« – as a popular line of a Beastie Boys song states.

The exhibition is part of Cycle I, which presented six episodes that dealt with fundamental questions surrounding the production of art: from the blank wall of the studio, to the jungle of the art market.

24.05.–20.06.2013
OPENING Thursday 23.05.2013, 6.00–9.00pm

insitu Berlin (former location)
Kurfürstenstrasse 21–22, Berlin-Schöneberg

This exhibition is part of insitu collective's Cycle I, which also included:
»Episode 0: introducing insitu«
»Episode 1: rules of attraction«
»Episode 3: cézanne beats pollock«
»Episode 4: tireless workers«
»Episode 5: in the beginning«
»Episode 6: blank page«
»Episode 7: another space«

Images top - bottom:

Ariel Schlesinger »Untitled (Gas Loop)« (detail) 2011. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.

left: Mickaël Marchand »One thousand kilos of concrete, four meter long edges and you standing on it (ailleurs les falaises s'effritent)« 2013; right: Panayiotis Michael »Balloon« 2013. Courtesy the artists. Photo: insitu e.V.

Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« (detail) 2013. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.

Anna Witt »здесь деньги (Re-enactment of Money to find)« 2012; right: Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« 2013. Courtesy the artists. Photo: insitu e.V.

Mickaël Marchand »One thousand kilos of concrete, four meter long edges and you standing on it (ailleurs les falaises s'effritent)« (detail) 2013. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.

Images top - bottom:

Ariel Schlesinger »Untitled (Gas Loop)« (detail) 2011. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.

left: Mickaël Marchand »One thousand kilos of concrete, four meter long edges and you standing on it (ailleurs les falaises s'effritent)« 2013; right: Panayiotis Michael »Balloon« 2013. Courtesy the artists. Photo: insitu e.V.

Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« (detail) 2013. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.

Anna Witt »здесь деньги (Re-enactment of Money to find)« 2012; right: Marco Godinho »(...) is not real« 2013. Courtesy the artists. Photo: insitu e.V.

Mickaël Marchand »One thousand kilos of concrete, four meter long edges and you standing on it (ailleurs les falaises s'effritent)« (detail) 2013. Courtesy the artist. Photo: insitu e.V.