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  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath Top Left: Florian Raditsh

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

  • Manageable Matter (2023), Installation view at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V, Berlin, Photo: Ludger Paffrath

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Manageable Matter
L40

2023

In the exhibition “Manageable Matter,” Howes displays a series of glass sculptures and speculative graphic scores. Gravity and grace are explored through various sculptural variations of glass artichoke hearts. Combined with metal and wooden elements, some of these forms are enclosed by club-like trunks, which, starting from medieval clubs, transform into drumsticks, branch out and branch out and finally become elongated driftwood sticks. The “Oracle Decanters” group together in the darkness while vision instruments practice multi-directional gaze variations. These prostheses are used as performative objects for a series of interventions on the theme of “Optimistic Incrementalism” – “Incrementalism” refers to a strategy of action characterized by trial and failure, expansion and improvement, to address the way in which we are inexorably linked to the past.

Credits

  • Artist and Choreographer: Emma Waltraud Howes
  • Co-Composition, Vocals, and Performer (Aria Monumental): Kinga Ötvös
  • Hair and Makeup: Caterina Veronesi
  • Costume (Aria Monumental): Don Aretino & Muyao Zhang
  • Camera and Edit: Nikoloz Gabedava
  • Installation Sound: Jacob Stoy
  • Blacksmith: Bartholomäus Kinner

Exhibition History

  • Manageable Matter
    2023
    Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V
    Berlin, DE

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Acknowledgements

The exhibition was supported by the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.

Research for Manageable Matter has been made possible by the generous support of Stiftung Kunstfonds: NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium für freischaffende bildende Künstler:innen.

Research and production supported by ALEXANDER TUTSEK-STIFTUNG and Fonds Darstellende Künste.

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