April 13, 2023, 10 am – 1 pm
Many thanks to the artist, writer and musician Steven Warwick for his lecture Staging Evil and discussing the works of our participants within the Studio Program at BAI | Berlin Artist Residency, Art School, Arts Incubator, and Live Online Courses & Classes.
“Artist, writer and musician Steven Warwick presents a lecture on his recent works “The Antisocial Poodle” (2023) film and “Notes on Evil” (2022) in relation to his own wider practice, constructing a situation and staging a narrative across different media practices, and the blurring of lines between social media and social realism in relation to the rhetoric around “solving a problem”, found in cultural artefacts, news cyles, gaming, and performative language based acts.” (Text by courtesy of Steven Warwick)
Steven Warwick is an artist, writer, and musician living and working in Berlin. His practice is paradigmatic of an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses theatre-making, sculptural installation, film making, social dramaturgy and composition. His work is disseminated on a multitude of platforms including records, galleries, nightclubs, publications and the Internet. Across these contexts, Warwick creates assemblages of performance, image, sound and language that speak to the ways in which ideologies construct and inhabit spaces, online and offline – from co-working spaces to clubs, television shows and online chat rooms.In its pluralistic live forms, Warwick’s work redefines the expectations and conventions that accompany events such as performance and public exhibitions.
His visual work has been exhibited at KW Berlin; Schinkel Pavillon, Volksbühne Berlin, Klosterruine Berlin, Reading International, Zürich Moves! Festival, Art Night London, SMK, Copenhagen; The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Cleopatra’s, New York; Beach Office, Berlin; and Balice Hertling, New York. As a musician working under his own name and, previously, as ‘Heatsick’, he produces and performs a hybrid live/ DJ set, releasing recordings with the club/experimental label PAN and has played at Berghain, Berlin; London Contemporary Music Festival; Trouw, Amsterdam; Bergen Konsthall; LAMPO/ Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago; Issue Project Room, New York; and the Mutek and Unsound Festivals. His writing has appeared in Artforum,Texte zur Kunst, BOMB, Frieze, and Urbanomic. He is also a co-author of ‚Fear Indexing the X- Files’, an audiovisual performance-lecture series issued as a book by Primary Information.
More information on the Steven Warwick Website.
