DNL Truth-Tellers: Pre-Lab & Artist Talk
Doors: 19:30 / Start time: 20:00
Entrance 3 euro
Disruption Network Lab TRUTH-TELLERS: Pre-Lab at SPEKTRUM
LIE-ABLE ART. An Artist Talk by Gabriel S Moses
For the pre-event of TRUTH-TELLERS, we have invited artist Gabriel S Moses to talk about why he lies. In his performances and films Gabriel radically accelerates deceptive online strategies such as false identities, trolling, disinformation and absurd viral myths, in a way which undermines the work itself. But this mischievous logic simply mirrors a larger trend in the current political climate: The act of telling or revealing the truth seems to have been eclipsed by an evasive power dynamic in which politicians seem to have stopped caring about their own credibility while constantly discrediting those who blow the whistle on them, as mere pawns and liars. Gabriel’s work offers just one of several approaches to critical engagement within this mind boggling discourse of ‘post-fact’, which will be further explored in the main event.
The event is presented by Disruption Network Lab and will take place in collaboration with SPEKTRUM. The event introduces the two days conference TRUTH-TELLERS. The Impact of Speaking Out (November 25-26, 2016 at Kunstquartier Bethanien - Studio 1, Berlin). Details: http://www.disruptionlab.org/
Gabriel S Moses (sequential artist and graphic novelist, IL/DE)
Gabriel S Moses, 1982, Jerusalem, is a Berlin based sequential artist and performer. in other words, he is into very serious comics for very serious people. He likes making up theories and stories about our kids, their smartphones and the slurs they post next to pixelated images of household pets. He also holds a practice-based Masters degree (Institute for Art In Context, UdK Berlin). His works have been showcased in transmediale (Berlin), Lenbachhaus (Munich) and FILE (Sao Paulo). In 2014, his project Enhancement won first prize at the ‘Anthropocene’ conference in HKW, Berlin.