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FIVE QUARTERS
Opening: 19:00, 2 June 2011
Kunstfabrik, Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin-Kreuzberg

Artists: AUTO64, Johanna Abraham, Becky Brown, Rick Bull, James Bullough, Richard Byers, Kate Hollett, Katrina James, Kate Mulheron, Michelle O'Brien, Pathetic Sympathy Seekers.

Project room 2nd Floor, Kunstfabrik, Am Flutgraben 3 (Map)
12435 Berlin-Kreuzberg (U Schlesisches Tor)
Opening hours Friday 3 and Saturday 4 June, 12:00 - 17:00

Five Quarters brings together works by artists, designers and performers all working across various media. The works for this exhibition have been chosen for the various ways in which they explore aspects of creative processes, conceptually, aesthetically or intuitively. The result is a cohesive survey of works from creative practitioners, all involved in the pursuit of making and displaying, and thus communicating, through art and visual media. The works on show investigate themes including technology and connectedness, architecture, painting practices and photography as printed media.
Curated by Kate Mulheron.

Images: Michelle O'Brien

Sunset on Warschauer Brücke.

Reasons I love my Kiez #86: 39c for a punnet of strawberries (pic)

The UBahn stations through Charlottenburg have the most incredible retro signage and designs. Must snap them all one rainy day (pic)

Study day over. Time for wine! (pic)

I am now the proud owner of a new... well, third-hand... Waschmaschine. (pic: Can't wait to experience HAPPY DAY on Monday!)

On Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday, I'm reminded of the beautiful performances I've seen by his grandson James Thiérrée, Bright Abyss and Au Revoir Parapluie (pic)

What were all the things I needed to achieve before turning 30 again? I have 4 weeks left to do them... (pic)

Alas... a horrible night's sleep. Much coffee needed today. (pic)

Obviously the Chinese Government. (pic)

"Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it." - Marshall McLuhan (pic)

Just broke my promise of never drinking shots of Jägermeister. God forgive me. (pic)
Postscript: I was punished for my sins.

Kreuzberg angst... or just a really enthusiastic theatre group, as TJ pointed out. (pic)

If you need cheering up...

Have you ever had a dream that you're trying to run but your body is frozen on the spot? (pic)

So viel Spaß auf der Tanzfläche (click me baby)

Bier, sunset and serenity on Planufer, Kreuzberg (pic)

Clocks forward! Got to love summer time, or "daylight savings" as they strangely call it in Oz. (pic)

Neues Leben... Frühling ist da. (pic: Katrina James)

09:10 PM in Mitte (pic)

Summer in Brooklyn on my mind. (pic)

Klingel! Pflügerstrasse 19 (pic)

Celebrating 1 year in Berlin this weekend.... Berghain watch out. (pic)

Now working a contract for the Canadian Embassy. Strange but true. (pic)

Arrived back to a gorgeous spring day... shame about the luggage. (pic)

Somewhere far from Berlin. (pic)

Reflecting on my childhood in Sydney.

Mixed emotions about being back Down Under. (pic)

 Touchdown in Maroubra, Sydney: home for the next three weeks. (pic)

 Happy Valentines Day from Bangkok Airport. (pic)

Drinking Gin and Tonics at Heathrow Airport preparing for the long-haul flight to Australia. (pic)

Auf Wiedersehen Neukölln and our wonderful Berlin family: see you in a few weeks. (pic)

Moving house is always harder work than anticipated. (pic)

Wrapping up another festival contract: exhaustion, reflection, sad goodbyes as a team divides, excitement for what's around the corner. (pic)

The Future of Art by KS12 filmed, edited and screened at transmediale festival 2011 in Berlin.

Feeling inspired, full of creative energy and more love for Berlin than ever after an incredible transmediale festival. (pic)

transmediale.11 Festival Impressions

Festival time has arrived in the office.

Just the email I was waiting for... NYC arts placement locked in! Can't wait to drink Manhattens this summer. (pic)

Shades of grey at Kottbusser Tor U-Bahn

... we're dreaming... scheming for a year of travel and adventure with old friends & new. (pic)

Nice looking tilt shift film of Coachella Festival, California. Will have to get there one day.

Email tsunami in my inbox! Festival time must be near. (pic)

Is there a problem that tea and Vegemite toast cannot fix? The answer is no. (pic)

Homemade pizza, red wine, ugg boots and Beach House on the stereo. exactly the Friday night I needed. (pic)

It takes a lot for a marketing campaign to impress the Berlin creative scene, but transmediale.11's campaign has made a splash.

"We possess the red tape from which you can never escape", the German bureaucrat said to thee (pic)

My thoughts go out to my country as Queensland battles the worst floods in living memory and Western Australia struggles to contain bushfires. Mother Nature and Global Warming make a deadly combination.

The transformation outside my kitchen window over the past 10 weeks. (Last pic by Katrina James)

At work proofing the transmediale.11 programme before it goes to print. It's looking hot hot hot.

Best of luck to my wonderful friends at Sydney Festival for a brilliant First Night and Festival 2011.. all kicking off in a few hours time. May the sun shine, the booties shake and the champagne flow for you all. (pic)

transmediale signage hits the streets of the BLN. Only a few weeks until festival time!

Beautiful images from our Christmas extravaganza at Pflügerstraße, by the talented Katrina James.

Panorama Bar 9pm NYD. Wow.