The European premiere of Yvette Mattern's stunning laser rainbow projection, From One To Many, will traverse Berlin's night sky over three evenings this February. Presented as part of the opening programme in this year's transmediale festival, tm.10, the rainbow of seven parallel laser beams will shine across a three kilometre stretch of central Berlin, from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in the Tiergarten to the landmark Fernsehturm (TV tower) at Alexanderplatz. Over three nights of the festival, the rainbow will appear in the night sky and will be visible across the city as it rises diagonally from the roof of HKW to a point approximately 250 metres up the shaft of the TV tower. the rainbow of seven parallel laser beams will shine across Mattern conceived the project as a dramatic and luminescent symbol of social diversity, peace and hope. It has been shown only once before, just over a year ago in New York City, under the name Global Rainbow, where it shone across downtown Manhattan on the evening of 19 January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. In Berlin this February, during the 20th anniversary celebration of the reunification of Germany, it invokes its symbolism once more in connecting the city's House of World Cultures with the TV tower that formerly represented the pride of communist East Germany's ruling Socialist Unity Party. The dramatic use of the latest high specification laser technology is particularly apt this year, the 50th anniversary of the invention of the laser. Yvette Mattern is a Puerto Rican American visual artist who lives in Berlin and New York. Mattern works mainly in temporal media including video and film, which she fuses with elements of performance, public art and sculpture. Recently her work has been involved in exploring the concept of liminality as a metaphysical subjective conscious state of being, specifically as its manifest relationship to representation, history and identity. Recent shows include The Last Day of Magic at the 53rd Venice Biennale Official Satellite Program; Auf Wiedersehen Berlin at the E-Flux Building, Berlin; Carnival Within at UferHallen, Berlin; truestories.truesuccess at the Freies Museum, Berlin; Exhibition at 211 Elisabeth Street, New York; Cinema Remixed and Reloaded at the Spelman Museum of Fne Art, Atlanta, Georgia; and Black Light/White Noise at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. She has also exhibited, screened, or performed at the Sternersen Museum in Oslo, Norway; ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; WYSPA, Poland; The Kitchen, New York; ICA, Boston, USA; Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; and the Berlin Film Festival. From One To Many will be presented by amino in north east England in autumn 2010. Produced by transmediale.10, in association with amino.
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