15.09.-06.10. VIEWINGCLUB 8 in Bonn/Germany

VC 8, in cooperation with Kunstverein Bonn, Germany, details www.bonner-kunstverein.de and viewingclub.org (please note: site no longer active)

Here is a text on Viewing Club I wrote

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LOS ANGELES
Chicago
Dublin
Vienna
Nottingham
Nice

viewingclub.org

Viewing Club is a nomadic artspace started 2005 in Berlin by artists Heike Kelter (D) and David Tidball (GB). Viewing Club is a non-profit project about artistic curatorial self-empowerment.

Since 2005 Viewing Clubs were held in Berlin, Hamburg, Bonn, Vienna and London. In every city partnerships were formed with curators, artspaces and art-organisations to cooperate or host Viewing Club presentations.
Viewing club is an open format, whose strength is its permanent alteration of exhibition concepts (for instance shows in pubs and karaoke bars, sculpture shows in parks or as attachment to White Cube shows) and its integration in different cities and their art-scenes.
Viewing Club is independent from common formats of exhibiting and thereby can be staged and initiated everywhere.

Viewing Club shows emerging and established positions of contemporary art. Through changing international participants (by invite or recommendation) a di-vers and unique temporary groupshow develops with every Viewing Club.
Viewing Club is a platform for active cultural exchange, networking and a contribution to staging contemporary art on an international scale directly out of the artists’ studio.
Artists that have exhibited with Viewing Club include

Andreas Hofer
Theo Ligthart
Florian Kompatscher
Iskender Jediler
Ulli Wulff
Ralph Andersen
Robert Welch
Richard Tate
Martin Mcginn
Dexter Dalwood
David Tidball
Heike Silbernagel
Andre Butzer
Klaus Haas
Eric Robertson
Maja Körner
Tine Furler
Olivia Berkemeier
Bianca Schoenig
Lutz Braun
Thomas Zipp
Thomas Helbig
Ben Contrell
Mariola Groener
Astrid Sourkowa
Ulli Hakel
Jens Mentrup
Daniel Müller-Friedrich
Andreas Templin
Chris Krönke
Joep van Liefland
Tjorg Douglas Beer
Chris Pate
Markus Sendlinger
Thomas Schrören
Bettina Semmer
Peter Stauss

23.08.- 27.08. Impakt Festival Utrecht

Impakt invited the videowork "sympathy for the devil", a music-videoclip based on the song of the Rolling Stones created in early 2006. www.impakt.nl, screened at Centraal Museum Utrecht/NL, programme "It's a small world".

Kunsthalle? Interazioni! Locarno/CH

29.07.- 03.08. "crashed satellite" at Kunsthalle Interazioni, Locarno/CH, www.interazioni.ch

curators/artists

Mario Casanova
Maurizio Anzeri | 
Katia Bassanini |
Daniel Bolliger | 
Nniet Brovdi | 
Andrea Crosa | 
Boris Eldagsen | 
Federico Gallo | 
Francesca Guffanti | 
Alex Hanimann | 
Elke Krystufek | 
Gianluca Monnier | 
Gunnar Müller | 
Mattia Paganelli | 
Carlos Quiroz | 
Salis & Vitangeli | 
Supersober: Bohdan Stehlik/ Una Szeemann|
Franco Vaccari
Cristina Del Ponte
Haruka Fujita |
Veronique Pozzi & 
Attilio Tono |
Pascal Schwaighofer

Riccardo Lisi 
Alessandro Lo Monaco | 
Franco Mazzucchelli | 
Francesca D. Shaw |
Antje Stehn |
Stephen Titoli

Boris Magrini
Silvia Buonvicini |
Rébecca Sauvin
Stefano Pesce Daniel Gonzalez | 
Daniele Innamorato |
Andreas Templin

Stephan Wittmer
Max Bühlmann |
Raphael Egli |
Tom Huber |
Daniel Häller |
Laura Laeser |
Dominik Lipp |
Michael Noser |
Stella Pfeiffer |
Achim Schroeteler |
Pat Treyer |
Stephan Wittmer

play gallery Berlin/Germany

fair play video price

The jury members were: Nathalie Angles, Marc Glöde, Birgit Kohler,
Harm Lux, Ivica Pinjuh, Sven Wörner and Peter Zorn.

The exhibition was running 13.07.- 31.07. www.pushthebuttonplay.com.

European Biennale of Contemporary Art 01.07.- 15.07.

On the occasion of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art in Nimes/France, a new videoinstallation, the work "this is your life". was shown for the first time.




installation view



description:
“this is your life”, 2005. videoinstallation for three screens and soundsystem, DVD, different versions, commissioned by European Biennale of Contemporary Art Nimes

In cooperation with animal-rights activists, who illegally shot the footage for this installation, Andreas Templin developed this video-installation as a reaction and comparison to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The groundwork/ approach for this videowork can be seen in Giorgio Agamben´s book 'Homo sacer' (1998), which is a survey of the history of the Western democratic state comparing it to an enormous concentration camp in its essence. He sees the modern state as a totalitarian event in the efficient management of naked biological life because contemporary sovereignty is exercised through bio-politics – the control of naked life. According to Agamben, “the power of decree to which concentration camp prisoners are subjected has no legal limitations and constitutes the secret matrix of the modern ad-ministrative state.".



The three screens show three different edits: The left screen concentrates on individual pigs, the center screen focuses on footage shot inside of the stalls and the right screen shows the structure of the pig mast.
Next to the three screens, extremely loud Death Metal is used to underline and intensify the deathmatch-atmosphere of this artwork and the fundamental questions it is raising with the chosen title.

www.lemanif.org, catalogue still available

Machfeld Vienna

01.07.
PARKGEWUSEL, Machfeld International Arts and Culture Society, Vienna/Austria.
A screening event in a park in Vienna comprised of an international selection of videoart including my 2006 piece "sympathy for the devil". www.machfeld.net/studio/parkgewusel

Festival Summertime, Lyon/France 30.06./01.07.

Again a videowork of mine got selected for the Summertime-Festival in Lyon
Festival Summertime, Lyon/France www.asso-summertime.com

Viewing Club No.6 Lovelite, Berlin/Germany

"crashed satellite", winner of Concours Belluard Bollwerk International

shown 19.06. inner-city of Fribourg and 24.06. in the exhibition space of the Belluard Bollwerk.

with the kind support of the Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art and Canton Fribourg www.belluard.ch




opening of the festival with the directors Stéphane Noël and Gion Capeder

12th-15th of May PixelDance Festival Thessaloniki/Greece www.pixeldance.gr

On show was "sympathy for the devil", music-videoclip of beginning 2006.

description:

“sympathy for the devil”, 2006. videoclip, DVD single channel, 6.22 mins

“Sympathy for the devil” is a videoclip for the song of the Rolling Stones reissuing the thematics raised by the song in the present.
All footage for this videowork is found and taken from the web.
The web takes the parallel function of a “Pandora´s box” and a “catalogue of human obsessions” for this videowork.
This term first issued by Duchamp, ment in a sense of “designing a catalogue, which could display and fulfill any kown human obsession”)
is the leitmotif for this videowork, which can both be shown in screenings or as single work (looped)
A work about human desire and the contemporary image semantics, an intentional story told with images
trying to grasp into the time “after the end of history” (Fukuyama)

Helsinki video library

exhibition of videoworks, 00130gallery, Helsinki Video Library, Helsinki/Finland 00130gallery-video-art.blogs.fi

00130gallery took works of mine in their collection. The collection gets exhibited showing to artist's work in the exhibition space. My works were on view during May.