UNWETTER is an international group of artists, curators, activists and theoreticians.

THE SPACE/COLLECTIVE

Like Unwetter (German for stormy and turbulent weather) radical global transformations reshuffle conventional knowledge systems and hierarchies, opening new spaces to be explored.

UNWETTER's basic format is the Discursive Picnic that connects different contexts in an ongoing process of reciprocal exchange. The Discursive Picnic is an improvised event, ready to be modified and changed. Time and place are announced for the public to join. It works as a potluck, where everybody is both guest and host at the same time. In the UNWETTER thermos-box, "where ideas are kept cool", theory and practice fall together. We find, collect, exchange, alter, pack up and move on.

Arriving at a site, we unpack and array within flexible elements, blankets, picnic furniture also tents - when necessary. Our aim is to open up a situation for both spontaneously and thoroughly elaborated contributions, where visitors, guests, we ourselves or the public, become actors, listeners, performers, hosts or audience, in ever changing roles, departing into new directions by tours, associations, diversions, walks etc. (Christine Wolfe, Jole Wilcke, Ulrike Solbrig, Clemens Krauss, Benno Gammerl, Dorothee Albrecht)

Leo teaches the picnicker:

Art & Breakfast and UNWETTER present:

Discursive Picnic_Never Ending Breakfast with Midori Mitamura, the flora-artist Tomohiro Hatori and Tamaki Kawaguchi.

Sunday, 15 August 2010,
Never Ending Breakfast starts at 11 am
Discursive Picnic at 2 pm -- 5 pm
At To--Be | Tokyo+Berlin Communication Art 2010 im Freien Museum Berlin Potsdamer Str. 91

You/we are invited -- to be both guest and host at the same time -- take/bring flowers, pieces of flora, ideas, materials, drinks/food, blankets - bring yourself -- be there to share, exchange arrange flora, listen and talk.

4 pm Plant Art Ikebana performancem by Tomohiro Hatori -- Kadoh

Presentation: Tamaki Kawaguchi's Painitng a Bee by a Bee for 5 days

You are cordially invited to join Midori Mitamura's Art & Breakfast on Saturday at 10 am

A cooperation of KUNSTFAKTOR e.V. mit der Art Mama Company Tokyo

Unterstützt durch Pola Art Foundation, Japan Foundation und Nomura Holding (alle Tokyo). Unter der Schirmherrschaft der Botschaft von Japan Medienpartner: RBB Kulturradio

In her article, Walls Fall Down: Berlin's Contemporary Art Institutions, the Berlin based curator and writer, Astrid Mania, states: "Among the many Berlin-based initiatives offering space for debate and reflection on contemporary art and its institutions, UNWETTER is perhaps the most changeable and unpredictable, functioning without a permanent space or platform as an umbrella organization for relatively unstructured, open art events....read more