Last June 25th the 9th edition of Pop Up Kino Video Art Festival took place in Berlin, its opening started with the performative presentation of the photo-book “Corneilles” made by the artists Irene Cruz and Leila Amat

On Satuday Pop Up Kino Festival ,organised by Irene Cruz, Ana Sandrutos and Nati Grund was held again.  Located in the district of Kreuzberg, on Berlín’s heart, it brings together several artists with the aim of creating a dialogue and sharing  their artworks.  In this edition, the festival collaborated with Under The Subway Video Art Night, and the video projections were simultaneously shown in New York (The Local NYC), Buenos Aires (Kino Palais), Valencia (Octubre Centro de Arte Contemporáneo) and Madrid (La Casa Encendida). In this event  Leila Amat and Irene Cruz  showed a little exhibition about their last joint work “Corneilles”. Accompanying the pictures on the wall, several photobooks, and prints complemented the exhibition. 

“Corneilles” has always being presented on in a performative way, a show that consists in recreating some pictures from the book, and reading some of the texts that comprise it. In this  setup, the authors only perform a text or an image if they hear a shiny object falling on a box. Inspired on the gathering of shiny objects by some birds (like crows, for example), the asistants participate by throwing  some Little coins, glasses, screws or jewlery on the box.

Pop Up Kino lasted all afternoon until the evening, in a calm atmosphere where the assistants could enjoy the videos,  photographs, and also good vegan food. 

On Sunday, both artists returned  to Treptower Park, where “Corneilles” Project was born, to bury the wooden box which included the shiny objects from the performances that were held in Madrid, Málaga, Barcelona and Berlin. Some instant pictures of those events, a copy of the photobook, and a letter that describes in English the aim of this work, just for clearing the unknowns, in case a lucky someone finds the hidden treasure 

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The Photobook "Corneilles" by Irene Cruz and Leila Amat was presented in Berlin