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Gr\u00e9goire Blunt and Emmy Skensved, eStamina, (2015). Courtesy the artists.<\/p>\n Gr\u00e9goire Blunt and Emmy Skensved, eStamina, (2015). Courtesy the artists.<\/p>\n
Vaping doesn’t really exist in Berlin<\/a>: why vape when you can smoke a real, live cigarette in most bars? Import Projects’ “eStamina” exhibition, therefore, may be the city’s closest thing to the Vape rooms that have mushroomed in Los Angeles, London and New York. Gr\u00e9goire Blunt and Emmy Skensved filled a room at Import Projects with fog that contains nicotine and caffeine, along with a video piece featuring narrations about body enhancement from 26 writers (including Sleek’s\u00a0Jeni Fulton<\/a>\u00a0und\u00a0Egle Kulbokaite<\/a>). The specially-produced gas fills the audience’s lungs with trace amounts of nicotine and caffeine, clouds of which are spewed by a whirring smoke machine every few minutes. A cube of energy drinks, pale and shiny in the haze, becomes more and more depleted as the opening night wears on. As we consume the drinks, consume the fog, consume the art, our bodies show the effects, however miniscule.<\/p>\n Gr\u00e9goire Blunt and Emmy Skensved’s practice focuses on economic and bodily consumption, and is particularly interested in its communal and social elements. A previous exhibition, “Tonicc”, recreated a typical vernissage bar, reappropriated as sculpture – a homage to what, for some, is a defining feature of the gallery opening: the free booze.<\/p>\n