[JCP Berlin artist Nomad laments the closing of JCP Berlin with a case of spilled vino]

The Joint Custody Project Berlin is now closing.  We have photos from the reception, etc., and all other info about the dueling projects at the JCP blog.

I am presenting at Pecha Kucha tomorrow evening in Kreuzberg [for Germans, go here] about the Joint Custody Project.  The short-form presentation format is active in several cities around the world.  Each presenter works under the limitations of presenting 20 images which stay projected for 20 seconds, netting a 6 minute 40 second long discussion on a given subject.  Like the JCP itself, the restrictive format is very interesting.  I have never been to one of these, though they have taken place in LA at the Mountain Bar.

Also, I am extremely excited to hear from the Chessboxer.

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Infos:

Festaal Krezber / Skalitzer Straße 130 / Close to U-Bahnkof Kottbusser Tor

Start 20:20 h / Doors open 19:30 / Entry: Eur 5, -

And here is the list of speakers so far (subject to change):

• Cäthe Pfläging (Amt für Gestaltung / about girls and motorbikes)
• Jonny Coleman (Found Gallery / Joint Custody Project)
• David Selden (writer / The Invisible Kiez)
• Thomas Janze (Producer, director / The Science of Horror)
• Christiane ten Hoevel (artist / Covers of books that still need to be written)
• Nicky Szmala, Raul Krauthausen (SOZIALHELDEN / The Ring-S-Bahn as office, talkshow studio and gameshow environment)
• Stefan Riekeles (Les Jardins des Pilotes / Moosismus - Topologie der Moose)
• Dietmar Post (Regisseur / Entstehung des Films ‘The Monks’)
• Tanja Dückers (Schriftstellerin / “Reise nach Transnistrien. Bericht aus einem Land, das es nicht gibt”)
• Frank Stoldt (Policeman, Chessboxer / about the Chessboxing Worldchampionship 2008)

We caught some aging, but giant, portraits in the Mitte area wheatpasted on the side of this building by our friend JR.

Click here to see photos from his installation at Found.

Update: We are starting to make a habit of finding JR’s artwork in the wild. Last summer, Brady found evidence of his visit to Jerusalem.

Click here to read the recent cover story I wrote for the May edition of Citizen on Lilli Muller.

Then, see the film After Hours (Griffin Dunn plays himself basically, but a really great one) and let me know what you think about the cast figure and the latent German/Nazi/Ghetto images and references.

The follow up to 2007’s inaugural Joint Custody Project at Found will come in the form of 2 collaborative projects occurring this June in Berlin and Los Angeles.  If you or someone you know is an artist [painter, illustrator, graphic designer, conceptual artist, animator, street artist, and on] in these two cities and would like to apply, our application has just launched here.

The Los Angeles project will be guest curated by two exceptional LA artists [TBA soon], and the Berlin project will be curated by Chris Cruse and Jonny Coleman.  Both projects will feature a significant amount of restructuring and refining, but they will feature at their core the basic blind collaboration between two artists over a month that the original iteration established.

While we will be inviting certain artists in Berlin and LA, we will consider all applications seriously and encourage all visual artists willing to experiment outside their comfort zones to submit.

Much more will be revealed as we move towards our deadline for applications [April 30 in Berlin, May 15 in LA].  Stay tuned to the JCP blog for the latest.