Buchlabor, Dortmund
The institut für buchforschung (i. gr.)
Fachhochschule Dortmund
http://buchlabor.net
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03/06/2015
Lecture (Ringvorlesung) Dortmunder U
17:00
Gerard Unger
Wie man´s liest
18:00
Achim Mohné + Uta Kopp
REMOTEWORDS
Buchlabor, Dortmund
Sylt Foundation
The Sylt Foundation initiates and supports innovative contemporary literary, visual art and performance projects with the aim to encourage cultural dialogue and artistic interaction.
With its residency programmes it offers these international multi-disciplinary artists, performers and writers the opportunity to live and work in the quiet environment on the island of Sylt, in Johannesburg or at other places, where the Foundation works together with its partners.
Residencies are one or two months long and every resident should either work on his own project/reflection or on a project of the Sylt Foundation.
About the woman behind
Indra Wussow, born in Herford/Germany, studied Comparative Literature and German as a Foreign Language in Erlangen/Germany, Berkeley/USA and Florence/Italy. She is currently living in Johannesburg and Sylt/Germany and is working as a curator, writer and literary translator.
2002 Indra founded the private Sylt Foundation on the island of Sylt in the North of Germany, which is financed by means of donations, government funds and sponsoring. Indra is director and curator of the foundation. In 2008 its branch in Johannesburg was opened.
Besides Indra Wussow is the editor of a series of African Literature, which is published in the small but prestigous German publishing house „Das Wunderhorn“. As a curator Indra is working with various international institutions.
RW.2 ICH SEHE NICHT, WAS ICH NICHT SEHE!
Installed: 19-05-2008
Location | GPS: Kunst:Raum Sylt Quelle, Rantum, Sylt | 54.857815,8.299227
Curator: Indra Wussow
Author: Quotation Heinz von Foerster
Roof Size | Font Size: 2464qm | 3,75m x 57,75m
On Air: –
RW.6 MSAWAWA
Installed: 14-02-2009
Location | GPS: Private home of Niq Mhlongo, Soweto, South Africa | -26.2887431,27.8607648
Curator: Indra Wussow, jozi art:lab Johannesburg
Author: Niq Mhlongo
Roof Size | Font Size: 56qm | 2,5m x 7m
On Air: –
RW.7 ARTMIGRATION
Installed: 14-02-2009
Location | GPS: Sylt Foundation, Melville, Johannesburg/South Africa | -26.1751367,28.0108519
Curator: Indra Wussow
Author: Niq Mhlongo
Roof Size | Font Size: 69qm | 1,9m x 12,5m
On Air: –
RW.8 MABONENG
Installed: 09-02-2009
Location | GPS: maboneng precinct former Arts On Main, Johannesburg, South Africa | -26.20449,28.0576329
Curator: Indra Wussow
Author: Niq Mhlongo
Roof Size | Font Size: 272qm | 3m x 22m
On Air: Google Earth 1-2012
Installed : 01-08-2015
Location: SKY, Soweto Kliptown Youth, Johannesburg, South-Africa
Curator on site: Indra Wussow, Sylt Foundation
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Author: Peter Weibel
Curator on site: Indra Wussow, Sylt Foundation
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Author: Peter Weibel
Roof Size | Font Size: 350qm | 7,2m x 28,7m
On Air: Google Earth 2015
On Air: Google Earth 2015
ZKM, Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
By extending the original duties of a museum, the ZKM | Center for Art and Media has become a cultural institution unique throughout the world. It is a house for all media and genre, a house for both spatially-based arts, such as painting, photography and sculpture as well as time-based arts, such as film, video, media art, music, dance, theater, and performance. ZKM was founded as a museum in 1989 with the mission to perpetuate classic arts in the digital age, which is why it is occasionally referred to as “Electronic or Digital Art Bauhaus,” an expression that can be traced back to Heinrich Klotz. Beyond that, ZKM houses institutes and laboratories where scientific research, development, and production is carried out. Alongside the classic guiding principle of a museum, namely, to protect the disappearance of artworks, ZKM has also taken on the task of creating conditions under which works of art arise; for one, by way of guest artists, and for another, by way of the staff members. For this reason, it is called a center and not a museum.
GLOBALE ZKM / RW.26 − RW.30
FIVE ROOFS | FIVE CONTINENTS
ONE EARTH UNITES MANY WORLDS
RW.26
Installed | Location: 02-07-2015 | Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan, Asia
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | MANY… | Annie Ivanova
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 101qm | 4,68m x 21,60m
On Air: –
RW.27
Installed | Location: 23-07-2015 | Port-au-Prince, Haiti, America
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | WORLDS | Leah Gordon and André Eugène, Ghetto Biennale Haiti
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 1300qm | 2,70m x 16,25m
On Air: –
RW.28
Installed | Location: 01-08-2015 | SKY, Soweto Kliptown Youth, Johannesburg, South-Africa
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | ONE… | Indra Wussow, Sylt Foundation
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 350qm | 7,2m x 28,7m
On Air: –
RW.29
Installed | Location: 16-08-2015 | MIT Manukau Institute of Technology, Faculty of Creative Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, Oceania
Author | Words | Curator on site: Peter Weibel | EARTH… | Grant Thompson and Courtney Meredith
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 216qm | 4,5m x 26m
On Air: –
RW.30
Installed | Location: 16-08-2015 | ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, Europe
Author and Curator on site | Words : Peter Weibel | UNITES…
Exhibition: GLOBALE, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany
Roof Size | Font Size: 100qm | 6m x 37,2 m
On Air: –
06/01/2015
REMOTEWORDS @ Open Day ZKM Karlsruhe
At the open day 2015, preciesely 165 days before the start of GLOBALE, ZKM turns into a laboratory: In manifestations, lectures, performances, guided tours and concerts the visitors can test facilities how art and science approach each other.
For “Tag der offenen Tür” the concept of REMOTEWORDS is being expanded into a virtual game: a large-scale, individually accessible satellite picture of the exhibition premises (ZKM) invites each visitor to cover one roof with a message. The statements are forthwith applied to the satellite picture. Visitors can contribute statements on issues such as urbanity, navigation, digitality, virtual simulation and city (urban) space. At predetermined times, remote-controlled drones will fly over the 10 x 6 m walk-around satellite picture. The pilotless aircraft is equipped with a CCTV system that, during its flight, relays live images of the area below onto a projection wall. The live image is practically indistinguishable from a real flyover-video of Karlsruhe.
NAK, Aachen
The NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein) is a private non-profit association for contemporary art in the tradition of the German “Kunstverein” model.
The institution of a “Kunstverein” and its significance is based on a more than 200 years lasting tradition in showing contemporary art in Germany.
www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de
RW.4 MEHR JETZT IST NIE
Instaled: 16-12-2008
Location | GPS: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany| 50.781645,6.0971308
Curator: Melanie Bono, Brigitte Steiner
Roof Size | Font Size: 100qm | 2m x 11m
On Air: Apple Maps 1-2014
MEHR JETZT IST NIE
Interview: NAK, Aachen 2008
As a Kunstraum specialized in current conceptual art, the NAK’s statement underlines the paradox of contemporary art: it must constantly re-invent itself so as not to turn “classical” over time.
REMOTEWORDS: MEHR JETZT IST NIE: What does it mean and what is the reference to NAK?
NAK (Neuer Aachener Kunstverein): MEHR JETZT IST NIE celebrates the present, it acclaims the ‚here and now’. Translated into English as “There’s never more now” it somewhat loses the poignancy and good short sound it has in German, but the intention remains.
As a message it works on several levels – it represents not only the exhibition program of the NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein with its focus on cutting-edge contemporary art, but also REMOTEWORDS’ intended reflection of the medium internet and the actuality of virtual globes like Google Earth.
MEHR JETZT IST NIE not only means the contemporariness of art that deals with the basic conditions of human life and society’s here and now, but also represents NAK’s belief in the unique potential and power of art to convey exactly this sense of presence, to create experiences and emotions of unmediated intensity and to place and ground the viewer in present times.
But MEHR JETZT IST NIE also means curatorial work at the pulse of time, and the continuous search for outstanding positions in today’s art scene that can survive the fleeting moment and will still be valid tomorrow. It implies contemporary art’s dilemma that with every passing moment it is in danger of losing its contemporariness. Yet, it also implies the possibility of rising into the canon of Art History, to become ‚classic’.
Ultimately, MEHR JETZT IST NIE tells a universal truth about time and life. This reflection of transience of course is a classic topos of art and art history. Lightly, and completely in passing, it underlines REMOTEWORDS’ stated claim of delayed messages – the moment MEHR JETZT IST NIE was written on NAK’s roof will be long gone when Google Earth’s eager users will finally read it.
Unperfekthaus, Essen
“The Unperfecthouse is a new approach in helping people to try out their ideas, start projects, to experiment with different ideas without being broke if an idea does not succeed. In contrast to known approaches, we do not select projects up front and we do not give big support only to those which we predict will be successfull, but instead we give little support to ALL projects.“
www.unperfekthaus.de
RW.15 !=CTRL
Installed: 16-09-2010
Location: Unperfekthaus Essen, a collaboration with Hacking the City, Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany | 51.459016,7.007495
Author: REMOTEWORDS
Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt
Roof Size | Font Size: 165qm | 3,5m x 14m
On Air: –
RW.15 was part of the exhibition project “Hacking the City” which took place at the Museum Folkwang Essen and all over the City of Essen. “Hacking the City” is a project reacting to changing structures in the public, mobility and communication in the city. The “Unperfekthaus” in Essen has been marked within the exhibition project Hacking the City. The message “!=CTRL” refers to open source computer languages like Linux. “!=” is used as a negation or not-operation. Thus “!=CTRL” means not controlled or uncontrolled.
Stadtgalerie Kiel
Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany
http://www.kiel.de/kultur/stadtgalerie/
http://www.kiel.de/kultur/stadtgalerie/
RW.14 EDLE ARTIST AG
Installed: 20-04-2010
Location: Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany | 54.319044,10.13434
Author: Arne Rautenberg
Roof Size | Font Size: 1131qm | 5m x 53,1m
On Air: Apple Maps 2013, Bing Maps 2014
EDLE ARTIST AG
Interview: Arne Rautenberg, Kiel 2010
On the roof of the Stadtgalerie Kiel, REMOTEWORDS has printed an anagram by Arne Rautenberg. By switching letters around, the word STADTGALERIE (CITY GALLERY) became EDLE ARTIST AG. (NOBLE ARTIST CO)
REMOTEWORDS: By switching around the letters, you made STADTGALERIE read EDLE ARTIST AG. Permutations are calculated by multiplying elements… 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10x11x12 = 479 001 600. The sequence of the 12 letters is thus mathematically only one of over 479 million possibilities. Why exactly this anagram of STADTGALERIE? And how did you ever manage to decide between almost half a million possibilities?
ARNE RAUTENBERG: I had for fun fed the letters for STADTGALERIE into an anagram generator and could hardly believe my eyes when after some time it spit out the word ARTIST. A millisecond later I sent a tiny prayer to heaven that the remaining letters would also somehow make some sense. Thank goodness they were the words EDLE and AG (NOBLE CO); that was the hour EDLE ARTIST AG was born.
I began to think where was the fun in EDLE ARTIST AG. To begin with I liked the idea of renaming the Stadtgalerie according to my whim. The new name has a sublime touch, to me a welcome sign in the fight against the reductions and cutbacks that politicians like to apply first of all to culture.
At the same time, there is something combative in the words EDLE ARTIST AG., the idea namely that art has an actual value (AG = joint-stock company), or is always subject to a communicative process (AG = Arbeitsgemeinschaft or work group/joint venture). And in addition the words even introduce the art-immanent question: How noble should art today actually be? Doesn’t it have to hurt to shake us up? Can we even still get to people with beauty? Such thoughts that relate to today’s art discourse also resonate in EDLE ARTIST AG. This anagram goes quite a long way!
REMOTEWORDS: Besides your visual poems and haikus, we also had one of your one-line poems on the shortlist. ALLES IST GEKÜRZT UM LÄNGEN BESSER: Everything is reduced to better heights. If we keep to this and end this interview here, we won’t need to reduce anything afterwards, or?
REMOTEWORDS beschriftet die Stadtgalerie Kiel mit einem Anagamm von Arne Rautenberg. Aus STADTGALERIE wurde durch Umstellung der Buchstaben EDLE ARTIST AG.
REMOTEWORDS: Durch Vertauschen der Buchstaben hast Du aus der STADTGALERIE eine EDLE ARTIST AG gemacht. Permutationen errechnen sich durch die Multiplikation der Elemente: 1x2x3x4x5x6x7x8x9x10x11x12 = 479 001 600. Die Reihenfolge der 12 Buchstaben ist also mathematisch nur eine von über 479 Millionen Möglichkeiten. Warum gerade dieses Anagramm zu STADTGALERIE ? Und wie hast du es berhaupt geschafft, dich zwischen beinahe einer halben Milliarde Möglichkeiten zu entscheiden?
ARNE RAUTENBERG: Ich dachte ich seh nicht richtig, als der Anagrammgenerator, dem ich spaßeshalber die Buchstaben von STADTGALERIE eingab, irgendwann das Wort ARTIST ausspuckte – – eine Millisekunde später schicke ich ein kleines Gebet gen Himmel, dass sich aus den Restbustaben auch noch irgendetwas Sinnvollen formen ließ: Gottseidank waren das die Worte EDLE und AG – – das war die Geburtsstunde der EDLEN ARTIST AG.
Ich begann zu überlegen, worin der Witz von EDLE ARTIST AG liegt. Erst einmal gefiel es mir überhaupt, die Stadtgalerie nach meinem Gusto umzubenennen. Mit dem neuen Namen haftet ihr nun etwas Erhabenes an, ein mir sehr willkommenes Zeichen gegen die Kürzungswut der Politik, welche den Rotstift gern zuerst bei der Kultur ansetzt.
Zugleich steckt etwas Kämpferisches in den Worten EDLE ARTIST AG, die Idee nämlich, dass Kunst einen tatsächlichen Wert aufweist (AG = Aktiengesellschaft) – bzw. stets einem kommunikativen Prozess unterliegt (AG = Arbeitsgemeinschaft). Und zudem wirft der Schriftzug noch die kunstimmanente Frage auf: Wie edel darf Kunst heutzutage eigentlich sein? Muss sie nicht wenigstens wehtun, um zu erschüttern? Kann man die Menschen überhaupt noch mit Schönheit erreichen? Derlei Denkangebote, den aktuellen Kunstdiskurs betreffend, schwingen in EDLE ARTIST AG mit. Dieses Anagramm kann also eine ganze Menge!
REMOTEWORDS: Neben deinen visuellen Gedichten und Haikus hatten wir unter anderem auch eines deiner Kurzgedichte in der engeren Wahl: ALLES IST GEKÜRZT UM LÄNGEN BESSER. Wenn wir uns daran halten, hier mit dem Interview Schluss machen, brauchen wir hinterher nicht mehr zu kürzen, oder?
Dortmunder U
23-8-2010 – 25-8-2010
For the E-Culture Fair 2010 REMOTEWORDS has been expanded as a virtual game: A large-scale, accessible satellite picture of the surrounds of the exhibition space (Dortmunder U) invited each visitor to cover one roof with a message. On the spot, the statements were directly applied to the satellite picture. By means of REMOTEWORDS’ blog virtual visitors from around the world could contribute statements on issues such as urbanity, navigation, digitality, virtual simulation and city (urban space).
Thanks to AeroWest Dortmund who provided the data for the large aerial image. Copyright and courtesy: AeroWest, Germany.
SK Stiftung Kultur, Koeln
SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn
http://medienkunst.sk-kultur.de/core-lts/index.php/remotewords.html
Birgit Hauska
Cultural Education Media Art / Film
RW.19 …MAX, DER ERNST DES LEBENS…
Installed: 27-06-2012
Location: Max-Ernst-Gesamtschule, Köln, Germany | 50.979254,6.869216
Author: Franziska Lettang + REMOTEWORDS
Roof Size | Font Size: 250qm | 2m high
On Air: Apple Maps 2013, Bing Maps 2014
The schoolyard of the Max Ernst Secondary School in Cologne Bocklemünd has a message: …Max, der Ernst des Lebens… /…Max the earnestness of life…
The phrase was developed in collaboration with the students and refers to the school’s name giver and to Dadaist sound poetry. Almost every child in Germany begins his school career with the portentous words: Now life starts in earnest…
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum Folkwang, Essen
http://www.museum-folkwang.de/
16/07 – 26/09/2010
REMOTEWORDS was part of the exhibition project “Hacking the City” which took place at the Folkwang Museum in Essen and all over the rest of the City of Essen. “Hacking the City” is a project that reacts to changing structures in the public domain such as mobility and communication within the city. The “Unperfekthaus” in Essen has been inscribed as part of the exhibition project Hacking the City. The message “!=CTRL” refers to open source computer languages like Linux. “!=” is used as a negation or non-operation. Thus “!=CTRL” means not controlled or uncontrolled.
Curator: Sabine Maria Schmidt