What about Pain?
There is no definitive region of the brain that is in charge of pain. As Kathryn Weiner, the director of the American Academy of Pain management says: "Pain is complex and defies our ability to establish a clear definition. Pain is far more than neural transmission and sensory transduction. Pain is a complex mixture of emotions, culture, experience, spirit, and sensation." To process and experience pain involves a complex network of interacting pulses that is based on the nature, intensity, emotional reaction and intellectual assessment of stimuli; a complex system that proves difficult to define or even identify one aspect of pain in regard to another.
Pain - both physical and psychological - is a constant reality, a steady companion. An undeniable facet of life, or perhaps even a proof of being alive. Inevitable and extremely personal, all the while wholly universal. Pain can teach, bring people together, warn, inspire, teach and strengthen. Emotional Pain can become physical. Physical pain can be a symptom of emotional, societal or psychological troubles. It can also act as a therapeutic remedy, a release of sorts.
The exhibition aims to explore the effects, agency, and interaction between pain and pleasure. Power and vulnerability. Attraction and compensation. Inspiration and triumph. What are the indicators of pain? Which memories do they bring? What stories lie behind the scars? How do painful experiences influence the relationship to pain itself and how do people deal with pain? Why does one purposefully put oneself in situations that inevitably will be painful? What makes it attractive? How can strange, uncomfortable or even painful experiences create intimacy, empathy, creativity or authenticity?
Location:
Schau Fenster
Lobeckstr.30-35,
10969 Berlin
Ubhf Moritzplatz
There is no definitive region of the brain that is in charge of pain. As Kathryn Weiner, the director of the American Academy of Pain management says: "Pain is complex and defies our ability to establish a clear definition. Pain is far more than neural transmission and sensory transduction. Pain is a complex mixture of emotions, culture, experience, spirit, and sensation." To process and experience pain involves a complex network of interacting pulses that is based on the nature, intensity, emotional reaction and intellectual assessment of stimuli; a complex system that proves difficult to define or even identify one aspect of pain in regard to another.
Pain - both physical and psychological - is a constant reality, a steady companion. An undeniable facet of life, or perhaps even a proof of being alive. Inevitable and extremely personal, all the while wholly universal. Pain can teach, bring people together, warn, inspire, teach and strengthen. Emotional Pain can become physical. Physical pain can be a symptom of emotional, societal or psychological troubles. It can also act as a therapeutic remedy, a release of sorts.
The exhibition aims to explore the effects, agency, and interaction between pain and pleasure. Power and vulnerability. Attraction and compensation. Inspiration and triumph. What are the indicators of pain? Which memories do they bring? What stories lie behind the scars? How do painful experiences influence the relationship to pain itself and how do people deal with pain? Why does one purposefully put oneself in situations that inevitably will be painful? What makes it attractive? How can strange, uncomfortable or even painful experiences create intimacy, empathy, creativity or authenticity?
Location:
Schau Fenster
Lobeckstr.30-35,
10969 Berlin
Ubhf Moritzplatz
Berlin - 12.01.2018- 26.01.2018
Vernissage 12.01.2018
from 19.00-23.00h Exhibition 12.01.2018- 26.01.2018 Opening Hours Tuesday - Thursday 15.00 -19.00h on appointment and check FB for the special events |
Some Impressions of the fantastic Vernissage
JIM AVIGNON
NATALIE BAXTER
MATHIEU BROHAN
PHILIP CRAWFORD
RIIKKA HYVÖNEN
LELLO LI
SPENCER CHALK LEVY
BLACKY RIXDORF
AUDREY NERVI
ELLEN SCHINDERMAN
SIMON THIEL
U.V.M.
Curated by Verity Oberg & Nika Lenz |
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Schau Fenster , Lobeck Straße 30- 35
10969 Berlin
U8 Moritzplatz, M29
www.schau-fenster.info
www.retramp.com