A collaboration in two parts with the French artist-run space Pauline Perplexe
REAL CHARACTERS brings together eleven artists engaged in self-publishing and self-organized practices. Conceived as both a reunion of friends and a convergence of their creative practices, the project loosely revolves around themes of everyday role-playing, collaboration and productive paranoia. Through a two-part process – an exhibition in France and an event in Berlin – the group will produce a collective edition composed of fragmented, multi-voiced perspectives. Developed through a shared writing process, the project explores the boundaries between documentation and fiction, inviting participants to invent roles, stage dialogues, and re-enact collaboration. Poetry readings and sound performance will accompany the launch.
With: Amel Baccouche, Kelly Ballett, Willie Brisco, Christel Conchon, Cole Denyer, Owen Fortunato Brakspear, Hilary Jeffery, Nat Kochan, Eleni Poulou, Tim Wolf.
A proposal by Owen Fortunato Brakspear / Slub press
Magazine launch + readings and music performances
Hansabibliothek,
Altonaer Str 15, 10557 Berlin / 2 - 4 pm
in cooperation with Offen für Kultur
Café Tiergarten,
Altonaer Str 3, 10557 Berlin / 4.30 - 6 pm
Pauline Perplexe is an non profit Artist-run Space located in Arcueil, in the southern suburbs of Paris. Created in 2014, the association is established in two former houses, both chartered by the Arcueil City Hall. Pauline Perplexe currently houses fourteen artist studios and organizes around ten exhibitions a year ; its curatorial programme benefits from a regional fund by DRAC Île-de-France. Working upon an invitational structure, Pauline Perplexe’s programme takes on multiple forms such as exhibitions, concerts, performances, workshops, readings. As a collectivity Pauline Perplexe have been engaged in off-site projects, among others at AAAAHHH Paris Internationale Art Fair in 2020, Betonsalon, glassbox, Treize, and Paris Ass Book Fair at Palais de Tokyo. Pauline Perplexe aims to promote the swarming of a parallel art scene opened and expanded to the maximal autonomy of artists.
Slubpress is a small-press & reading series situated between Paris & London, run by Owen Fortunato Brakspear. Since 2021 it has published the likes of Verity Spott, JH Prynne, William Rowe, Kat Addis, Joseph Minden & more.
Supported by PERSPEKTIVE Fund for Contemporary Art & Architecture of the Office for Visual Arts of the Institut français Germany, sponsored by the French Ministry of Culture, the Institut français Paris and the Goethe-Institut.