Ron Tran
10 Oct - 02 Nov 2014
A project by Ron Tran with Nicolas Fontaine, Sabine Gottfried, Emma Howes, Trevor Lee Larson, Andrew Moss, Susan Ploetz, Repossession Services, Christian Tonner, the unknowns.
Ron Tran’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary ‒ expressed in both performances and interventions as well as in sculpture, video and photography. Tran’s works tend towards the ephemeral and are located to equal degrees in the viewer’s imagination and in artistic expression.Using his particular method Tran wishes to break open socially sanctioned routines and social rituals and so point out new chances and possible encounters between people. In his own words, the artist sees himself primarily as a “collector of experiences “.In the context of his presentation in Künstlerhaus Bethanien Tran uses the exhibition space allocated to him for a participatory project, which offers to his guests – various people he got to know on a number of different occasions in Berlin – the opportunity and the concrete space to reflect upon their skills and the activities they practise, some as a hobby and some as a profession, within the framework of a museum; here, they introduce them to visitors in the form of specific offers. Things on offer vary as widely as yoga, dancing lessons for children, and “repossession services”, but also include experimental meals and musical recording techniques.Ron Tran is a grantee of Canada Council for the Arts and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.
www.repossessionservices.info
www.facebook.com/badasshair
www.kundalini-yoga-neukoelln.de
Ron Tran’s artistic practice is interdisciplinary ‒ expressed in both performances and interventions as well as in sculpture, video and photography. Tran’s works tend towards the ephemeral and are located to equal degrees in the viewer’s imagination and in artistic expression.Using his particular method Tran wishes to break open socially sanctioned routines and social rituals and so point out new chances and possible encounters between people. In his own words, the artist sees himself primarily as a “collector of experiences “.In the context of his presentation in Künstlerhaus Bethanien Tran uses the exhibition space allocated to him for a participatory project, which offers to his guests – various people he got to know on a number of different occasions in Berlin – the opportunity and the concrete space to reflect upon their skills and the activities they practise, some as a hobby and some as a profession, within the framework of a museum; here, they introduce them to visitors in the form of specific offers. Things on offer vary as widely as yoga, dancing lessons for children, and “repossession services”, but also include experimental meals and musical recording techniques.Ron Tran is a grantee of Canada Council for the Arts and the Embassy of Canada, Berlin.
www.repossessionservices.info
www.facebook.com/badasshair
www.kundalini-yoga-neukoelln.de