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Open Tabs

Open Tabs is a live event and exhibition that considers connection and communication

28 November - 1 December

Berlin

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Image courtesy Cian McConn

Image courtesy Cian McConn

Open Tabs is an exhibition that considers connection and communication featuring new works by Vivienne Griffin & Cian McConn as well as an accompanying text by Rebecca O’Dwyer.

Open Tabs brings together two separate bodies of work by Irish artist’s Vivienne Griffin and Cian McConn. It employs improvisation and play, and uses intuitive strategies as well as somatic exercises to identify common ground as well as a space-embracing uncertainty.

A new sound based work by Griffin as well as textile, ceramic and works on paper by McConn will be on display, as well as a commissioned exhibition text by Rebecca O’Dwyer.

Exhibition opening times:

Thursday 28.11., 18:00-21:00
Friday 29.11., 14:00-19:00
Saturday 30.11., 14:00-19:00
Sunday 01.12., 14:00-18:00

Events:
Opening reception Thursday 28.11., 18:00-21:00
Tour with artists Sunday 01.12., 15:00

Vivienne Griffin (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses sound, sculpture, drawing and text in various forms. Griffin works with the voice through digital post-processing and in a workshop they devised called Synthetic Voices. They work with sound in live performances, alongside objects, sculptures and installations. More recently they have been using generative sound within videos and virtual worlds. Their current work looks at the opaque boundaries of human-computer relations. They use noise as a metaphor to ask, where does the mind end and the machine begin?

Cian McConn (he/him) is an Irish visual artist and performer whose non-hierarchical approach toward multimedia practice embraces image-making, text, performance, and collaboration with others. He lives and works in Berlin. Thematically he works with concepts of identity, persona and the performance of the self in relation to gender and community. McConn completed a residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris in March 2023. Recent exhibitions and performances include ON EDGE: Living in an Age of Anxiety at Science Gallery London, and I AS IN US with Vivienne Griffin.

Rebecca O’ Dwyer is an Irish art critic and writer based in Berlin. Her writing has appeared in Paper Visual Art Journal, Source Photographic Review, Spike, Art Review, Real Life, Fallow Media, Apollo, The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD from the Department of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, where she wrote on the conditions of contemporary art criticism. From 2016-2018, she edited the online art-writing publication, Response to a Request.

Venue

Centrum

Reuterstr. 7

12053 Berlin


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