Contribution for the open artistic competition “Glück gehabt” at U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße Berlin. An exhibition project by NGBK
Beitrag für den offenen künstlerischen Wettbewerb “Glück gehabt” im U-Bahnhof Weinmeisterstraße Berlin. Ein Ausstellungsprojekt der NGBK
Marcus Werner schreibt über Werbung und bezieht sich auf “Glück gehabt”.
I conduct teach-ins for the public. A teach-in is a once popular form of an intensive teaching, discussion and information event, which has fallen into oblivion during recent years. It developed in the context of the political movements of the 1960s and served as an instrument to point out grievances, and to develop possibilities of…
sculptures as performers
concrete, audio system
The concrete sculptures emit a soundscape of synthetic chants.
One year long every day a new video with animatronics and postings tagged with #me. identity construction through social media #me mimicks the conditions of social media. This work does not answer the multiplicity of identities, but takes up everything in its infinite soliloquy. Animatronics recite content from social network platforms, hinting at the role…
BLOWER deals with statistic logfile analysis and data representation. The installation is connected to the internet and automatically determines through a perl script the search terms employed to find a a specific web host.
A multimedia opera with robots and overheard mobile conversations in four acts. “I’m sitting in the train. Where are you?” Everyone has a mobile phone these days and what was once a conversation in closed rooms is nowadays happening in the public sphere. The mindless phone monologues in busses and trains have irritated the German…
The 1st Public White Cube (PWC) is an attempt to produce interaction by economic means. In a series of auctions, the audience will be granted an opportunity to make a material change to an existing work of art and its exhibition situation. The auctions will take place via the Internet auction platform Ebay®. 1st Public…
Einige Beiträge setzen sich aber auch direkt mit den Streitigkeiten zwischen Kunstverein und Werbeunternehmen, mit den medialen Unterschieden zwischen Werbung und Kunst auseinander – sei es Karl Heinz Jerons Beitrag, der in schlichter Schrift behauptet: “Sie haben Glück gehabt! Dieses Plakat macht ihnen nichts vor”, oder das Haltestellenschild von Martin Conrads und Anna Mándoki an der Voltastraße, das suggeriert, man sei hier an der “Wallstraße” gelandet. Gerade aufgrund solcher Beiträge nimmt das Projekt im Hinblick auf seine ungute Vorgeschichte gehörig politischen Schwung auf.
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