Doug Aitken
For his exhibition Electricity, Asad Raza responds directly to the context of E-WERK Luckenwalde as a reactivated power station by artist Pablo Wendel, and approaches electricity not as an invisible utility or technological achievement, but as something earthly, ontological and sublime.
Visitors move through the site in small groups led by a conductor, who guides attention through a sequence of encounters. Electrostatic machines, moving image, sound, vibration, saltwater, amber, charcoal, ash, timber, plants and live actions appear as temporary conductors, each receiving and transmitting forces according to its own material properties..
Conceived as a single dramaturgy rather than a collection of discrete installations, the exhibition also incorporates works by Tino Sehgal and Sung Tieu. Their contributions enter into its evolving network of transmissions, extending its exploration of how movement, attention and exchange circulate between bodies. At E-WERK Luckenwalde, where electricity continues to be generated throughout the exhibition, the power station becomes more than a site of production. It becomes a place in which the invisible passages that continually compose our reality become sensible.
An extensive programme of performances, screenings and conversations accompanies the exhibition throughout its duration.
Opening Programme
12 September 16:00 - 22:00
Featuring several conductor-led tours and a performance by multi-disciplinary artist Tati au Miel and DJ set by Rafay Rashid.
Electric Earth
20 February – 25 April 2027
Maneuvering the Apostles, Raven Chacon, 2024
Energy Charge, Ana Mendieta, 1975
Electric Earth, Doug Aitken, 1999
Long before electricity was generated, industrialised and commodified, energy belonged to amber, to the earth: flashing through storms, travelling beneath the skin, animating bodies and binding them to landscapes. The films in Electric Earth approach energy as a primordial force coursing through bodies, ecologies and matter. The work of Ana Mendieta understands the body as inseparable from the earth, pulsating with energy akin to planetary rivers and geological formations. Doug Aitken reveals energy as a restless condition within us that has been invisibilised by hypercapitalism, while Raven Chacon exposes the abuse of sacred vibrations of Indigenous lands in the pursuit of energetic progress.
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