• Installation view A Wet-Run Renewal, der TANK at the foyer of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2021, photo: Hans-Peter Huser

  • Installation view A Wet-Run Renewal, der TANK at the foyer of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2021, photo: Hans-Peter Huser

  • Installation view A Wet-Run Renewal, Kunsthaus Baselland at the Dreispitzhalle, Basel, 2021, photo: Hans-Peter Huser

  • Installation view A Wet-Run Renewal, Kunsthaus Baselland at the Dreispitzhalle, Basel, 2021, photo: Hans-Peter Huser

  • Installation view A Wet-Run Renewal, der TANK at the foyer of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, 2021, photo: Hans-Peter Huser

Kunsttage Basel

A Wet-Run Renewal

Eine Filmreihe aus Bodies of Water, der 13. Shanghai Biennale

Gemeinsam präsentiert vom Institut Kunst der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW und vom Kunsthaus Baselland in zwei Kapiteln auf dem Dreispitz Basel

3. – 6. Juni 2021, 10:00 – 18:00

Mit Filmen von: Carlos Casas, Musquiqui Chihying, Saodat Ismailova, Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera, Karrabing Film Collective, Unknown Fields (Kate Davies and Liam Young), Zadie Xa, Yong Xiang Li

Ausstellungsorte auf dem Dreispitz, 4142, Münchenstein/Basel:
der TANK im Foyer, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW, Hochhaus, Freilager-Platz 1
und
Kunsthaus Baselland in der Dreispitzhalle, Helsinki-Strasse 5

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Mit A Wet-Run Renewal präsentiert das Institut Kunst der Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW gemeinsam mit dem Kunsthaus Baselland anlässlich der Kunsttage Basel eine besondere Auswahl an Filmen. Diese setzen sich mit den zentralen Themen von Bodies of Water, der 13. Shanghai Biennale, auseinander: planetarische Wiedervereinigung, Transspezieskollektivität, fliessende Solidarität und verkörpertes Umweltbewusstsein. Die Präsentation der Arbeiten ist einmalig in Europa und die Idee, sie in Basel zu zeigen, hat mehrere Gründe: Thematisch stehen die Filme in enger Verbindung mit dem Curriculum des Institut Kunst, das auf die Themen Natur, Ozean, Diversität und Gender fokussiert. Filipa Ramos, Dozentin am Institut Kunst, ist eine der Kurator*innen der Shanghai Biennale und hat A Wet-Run Renewal mitkonzipiert. Nicht zuletzt stellt die Präsentation in Basel angesichts der aktuellen Reisebeschränkungen in ferne Länder eine einmalige Gelegenheit dar.


A WET-RUN RENEWAL
—A film stream of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale

Before being film this film was water. 
 Before being film this film was dot and pixel. It was byte, kilobyte and megabyte.



Before being film this film was plastic and aluminium alloy. It was lithium, cobalt oxide and carbon graphite.
It was gold, copper and silver. Platinum and tungsten.

Before being film this film was neodymium-iron-boron alloy, dysprosium and praseodymium.
It was rare metal. Rare not because it is rare. Rare because it mixes with oxygen in a rare way.
Rare metal mined in China and now returned to China, in the shape of images. 

Rare metals turned into phones and cameras turned into images turned into pixels turned into light again. Softer better faster light.



After being film this film was cut, split, processed and rendered.
Light corrected, color corrected, sound corrected, length corrected, word corrected. It was edited, crunched and compressed.
It was routed from server to server, from client to client, from protocol to protocol. Uploaded, downloaded, streamed and projected. 


By machines fuelled by petroleum, petrol, oil, paraffin and water. By hands fuelled by sun, nutrients and water. 



After being film this film was formatted, cut, weighted, packaged, pilled and wrapped. 
 It was flown, shipped, driven. 

Freighted. 

It was stored, distributed, priced, bargained, discounted, sold and bought. 
 Unpackaged. 


It was tested, folded, crumpled, trashed.



You hold the film’s journey in your eyes.

You hold its water journey.

Your eyes that hold your own water journey. 

Through your eyes, spheres of watery fluids sustained by an aqueous humour, the film’s journey penetrates your body.


The retina converts words into light, light into neural signals, neural signals into excitation.

After being film, this film will become water. It will mumble, cry, salivate and spit. Aerosols, tears, droplets and microdroplets. Cough, sneeze, and sweat.


Seminal and lubricious are bodily fluids.

Water connects bodies to other bodies. Water makes and unmakes bodies. Water makes bodies into other bodies.




A Wet-Run Renewal wurde von Filipa Ramos kuratiert – zusammen mit Chefkurator Andrés Jaque und dem kuratorischen Team der 13. Shanghai Biennale: Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti und Mi You. Das Programm ist Teil von Bodies of Water, der 13. Shanghai Biennale (10. November 2020 – 25. Juli 2021).

Covid-19 Schutzmassnahmen:
Die Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW hält sich an die seit dem 31. Mai 2021 geltenden Covid-19 Schutzmassnahmen der Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz → Pdf.

 

KUNSTTAGE BASEL

A Wet-Run Renewal

A film stream from Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale

Jointly presented in two parts by the Art Institute, the FHNW Academy of Art and Design, and Kunsthaus Baselland

3 – 6 June 2021, 10 am – 6 pm

With contributions by: Carlos Casas, Musquiqui Chihying, Saodat Ismailova, Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera, Karrabing Film Collective, Unknown Fields (Kate Davies and Liam Young), Zadie Xa, Yong Xiang Li

Locations at Dreispitz, 4142 Münchenstein/Basel: 
der TANK at the foyer, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Tower Building, Freilager-Platz 1 
and
Kunsthaus Baselland at the Dreispitzhalle, Helsinki-Strasse 5

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With A Wet-Run Renewal, the Art Institute of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design together with Kunsthaus Baselland presents a special selection of films during Kunsttage Basel. The films engage with the topics of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale, and follow its driving motifs—planetary re-alliance, transspecies collectivity, fluid solidarity and embodied environmentalism. The selection presented in Basel, the sole in Europe, resonates with the Art Institute’s curricula, paying special attention to art’s engagement with nature, ocean, gender and diversity. The program is conceived by Filipa Ramos together with the curatorial team of the Biennale. Ramos is a lecturer at the Art Institute and one of the curators of the Biennale. This event offers an important opportunity to visit a part of the Biennale and its ideas, given current travel restrictions.


A WET-RUN RENEWAL
—A film stream of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale

Before being film this film was water. 
 Before being film this film was dot and pixel. It was byte, kilobyte and megabyte.



Before being film this film was plastic and aluminium alloy. It was lithium, cobalt oxide and carbon graphite.
It was gold, copper and silver. Platinum and tungsten.

Before being film this film was neodymium-iron-boron alloy, dysprosium and praseodymium.
It was rare metal. Rare not because it is rare. Rare because it mixes with oxygen in a rare way.
Rare metal mined in China and now returned to China, in the shape of images. 

Rare metals turned into phones and cameras turned into images turned into pixels turned into light again. Softer better faster light.



After being film this film was cut, split, processed and rendered.
Light corrected, color corrected, sound corrected, length corrected, word corrected. It was edited, crunched and compressed.
It was routed from server to server, from client to client, from protocol to protocol. Uploaded, downloaded, streamed and projected. 


By machines fuelled by petroleum, petrol, oil, paraffin and water. By hands fuelled by sun, nutrients and water. 



After being film this film was formatted, cut, weighted, packaged, pilled and wrapped. 
 It was flown, shipped, driven. 

Freighted. 

It was stored, distributed, priced, bargained, discounted, sold and bought. 
 Unpackaged. 


It was tested, folded, crumpled, trashed.



You hold the film’s journey in your eyes.

You hold its water journey.

Your eyes that hold your own water journey. 

Through your eyes, spheres of watery fluids sustained by an aqueous humour, the film’s journey penetrates your body.


The retina converts words into light, light into neural signals, neural signals into excitation.

After being film, this film will become water. It will mumble, cry, salivate and spit. Aerosols, tears, droplets and microdroplets. Cough, sneeze, and sweat.


Seminal and lubricious are bodily fluids.

Water connects bodies to other bodies. Water makes and unmakes bodies. Water makes bodies into other bodies.




A Wet-Run Renewal is a stream of films curated by Filipa Ramos alongside Chief Curator Andrés Jaque and Marina Otero Verzier, Lucia Pietroiusti, and Mi You, the curatorial team of the 13th Shanghai Biennale. It is part of Bodies of Water, the 13th Shanghai Biennale (10 November 2020 – 25 July 2021).

Covid-19 safety measures
The FHNW Academy of Art and Design FHNW follows the Covid-19 safety measures of the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, as of 31 May 2021 → Pdf.