Dérivelab work at Mediations Biennale, Berlin

Dérivelab participants/members Alyssa Ueno, Nicola Rae, Paul Malone, Fabiola Faidiga and Giorgio Tentolini will be showing work, much of it emerging from the Dérivelab 2 event in London in July, at the ERASED WALLS: MEDIATIONS BIENNALE, Freies Museum + ConcentArt, BERLIN from 7 October 2010. The work will form part of the Ottica TV project, developed by Paul Malone.

"Erased Walls" is a part of European exhibition project, in the frame of which two other exhibitions will be presented in Poland from 5/9/10 and Bratislava (3/10/10). It deals in its themes with many of the ideas with which the Dérivelab project seeks to engage and explore, notably transgressive drift, liminality and iteration/'quotation'.

"The curators will focus on the creative work after 2000, with an emphasis on the latest art, unconstrained by geopolitics. Erasing of the frontiers does not apply exclusively to our region anymore. All over the world, the walls that were physically torn down, have been replaced by invisible ones – whose existence is all the more efficacious and poignant because of their imperceptibility. Political divisions are now being exchanged for new ones, those associated with the dominance of the capital, social supremacy, poverty, media manipulation, the feeling of solitariness and exclusion. The artists, by constructing an image, arrive at reflections otherwise unattainable, which cannot be devised by means of language or document. An image is frequently a close-up quotation from reality, which, having been extracted from the mundanity and then presented in a different light shed by art, becomes surprisingly distinct".

Alyssa Ueno, Iron and Glass (Still)
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"The second Mediations Biennale - the largest contemporary art exhibition in Middle Europe will take place originally in Poznan/Poland from 5/9/10 to 30/10/2010. The presentation of the latest achievements in art concentrating on a dialogue between different cultures of the world and artistic explorations of creators from Middle Europe, by relating to our historical and cultural experience will create a different platform, different sensitivity and a different perspective in the perception of global processes.

This year the official opening of the Biennale is one of the items of the programme accompanying the 4th ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) conference – a meeting of 43 Ministers of Culture and delegations from Asia and Europe, held in Poznan on 7th- 19th September 2010".