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remnants and remedies - christa siglin


sunday (exhibition opening and performance) 7pm - 10:30pm
monday closed
tuesday 2pm - 6pm
wednesday & thursday 4pm - 8pm
friday 2pm - 6pm
saturday (finissage) 6pm - 10pm
sculpture and works on paper by crista siglin
and a collaborative performance/installation with ANASTAVE
remnants and remedies:

is an exploration of the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. this collection of work uses medium as both the means of the work, but also as metaphor; with each grain of charcoal or graphite functioning as a placeholder for an ambiguous moment in time

— now or then or hereafter.

the figures of the drawing and painting compositions are both here and not here, inside and outside simultaneously

— with a sense of conflict and confusion.

what are the figures engaged with each other about?
are they the same figure in transformation?
where are they?
what has happened?
often, this is the psychic space of trauma. the work concerns itself with this space.
moving inside, through, and outside variable mediums; this body of work also approaches installation, with the collaboration of Anastave. the piece, RESIDUAL MOVEMENT consists of film and a time-based generated sonic landscape via drawing. our bodies respond to one another, the space, and in doing so also create an environment of both visual and sonic residue. the residues remain in the space after the performance to comprise a site-specific installation for the duration of the show.
this work asks how interpersonal relationships in the present are indelibly affected by the sediment of the past.
return the earth and the earth / will return you / depth of vision of field of dream / shake in the wait of
what / putrid paradigm to crumble and / creak the weeds through that concrete / medicine for the /
consequences of / narratives my life’s prior lives told, told/ and told, all told, I too could wait forever /
if it meant forever would come
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BIOs:
Crista Siglin (she/they) moved to Berlin in 2017 after having grown up in the Midwestern United States.
She studied Painting and Creative Writing at the Kansas City Art Institute. Her work varies in medium — oscillating between multiple visual forms as well as poetry. Her variable works have been published in Likewise Magazine, Bridge, Domicilium, Kawsmouth, Bear Review, FU Review, PARATAXE, Poetry Foundation’s essay archive, and more. She has released two collections of poetry. She was poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin from 2018 to 2023. Crista currently runs Poetry As__A Workshop, and is an organizer for the experimental event series AKIMBO.
ANASTAVE is a Berlin-based composer, singer, and producer who layers intimate vocals, textural soundscapes, and hypnotic rhythms to create lyrical electronic music, with shades of dark electronica and experimental pop.
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special thank yous to all those who donated time, money, and skill sets to make this show happen.
Earlier Event: March 28
Recovering Catholics
Later Event: May 2
Das Portal - E1000