Tracks in a Box

On the 7th of September, “Tracks in a Box” opened its doors to the public as an imaginary center for artistic guided tours: a pop-up gallery, a discursive space and a living archive. It offered a program of audio walks, self-guided explorations, and performative tours by Berlin-based artists. The exhibition explored what an archive and a library of ephemeral, participatory and performative artworks could look like. As a space for collective research, it hosted a series of conversations with artists and thinkers reflecting on the intersection between the ephemeral and the material.

For the duration of three weeks, “Tracks in a Box” resided in the Aufbau Haus on Moritzplatz. Born out of a desire to give a body to the artistic guided tours that have been presented in the context of B_Tour, a nomadic curatorial platform dedicated to guiding as an artistic practice, since 2013, the exhibition took on the paradoxical challenge of exhibiting, collecting, mediating and possibly even selling inherently transitory, participatory and public artwork. The exhibition was made with kind support of the Berlin Senate Office for Culture and Europe.