Archive 2004
Platform for Improvised Music
Concert on Sunday, Dec. 26th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images.contemporary media art, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
The sixth concert in the series “Platform for Improvised Music”,
organised by Tim Blechmann, Anja Füsti and Oliver Prechtl will be
held at the gallery. The series offers an opportunity for improvising
musicians to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located
between jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball,
Kaoss pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
Visual design: bibi_melange.
Information: www.prechtlsound.de,
www.mokabar.tk
Contact: timblechmann@gmx.de
Takashi Wada and Solovyev
Concert on Friday, Dec. 17th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images.contemporary media art, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
The 22 year-old japanese electro-pop musician was born in Fukushima and
has studied music since he was 16 – first in New York and now in
Paris. His music is influenced by ambient, electronica and his almost
mysterious talent for quietly setting a musical stage, using most simple
elements only.
Takashi Wada will perform in a duo with Jörg Koch/Solovyev. The founder
of Stuttgart's Onitor label also plays a contemplative mixture of field
recordings, dub and minimal.
Information: www.onitor.de
Platform for Improvised Music Presents:
Christian Eremia, Goh Lee Kwang and Tim Blechmann
Concert on Thursday, Dec. 16th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images.contemporary media art, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
This is the first concert in the usually collective series “Platform
for Improvised Music”, organised by Tim Blechmann, Anja Füsti
and Oliver Prechtl, to feature individual musicians, who play a concert
programme.
Set 1: Christian Eremia – guitar
Set 2: Goh Lee Kwang (prepared mixing board) and Tim Blechmann (laptop)
Information:
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords
http://www.geocities.com/ndesirestudio
http://yat.ch/emacm/
http://www.mokabar.tk
Red Light Concert # 5
Video dance performance by Jean Christophe Blavier and Matthias Siegert
on Saturday, Dec. 11th 2004, 20pm
In this fifth edition of the audiovisual “Red Light Concerts”
series, Mathias Siegert presents a video performance by dancer Jean Christophe
Blavier and himself. Jean Christoph Blavier will actually be dancing in
the gallery, but but he won't be directly visible to the audience. Instead,
he will be seen on live video, processed in real time. This play on absence
and presence is enhanced by adding pre-prepared video sequences to the
mix, an exploration of the thin line between live and studio practices.
Information: www.moving-angel.com
Red Light Concert # 4
Audiovisual live performance on Saturday, Nov. 27th 2004, 20pm
The fourth event in Matthias Siegert's audiovisual “Red Light Concerts”
series brings us images and sounds from Malaysia. Daniel Vujanic and Matthias
Siegert come back from an acoustic and visual exploration of Malaysia's
capital Kuala Lumpur to stage a live performance with material they've
collected there.
Matthias Sieger is also represented in the current exhibition "media
flow. videoventure on electronic music".
Elliott Sharp (New York)
Solo – Tectonics, Friday, Nov. 26th 2004, 20pm
Elliott plays bass clarinet, laptop, guitar
In his continuous exploration of the borders between composition and improvisation,
the New Yorker musician Elliott Sharp has developed varying working models
which are based on mathematical principles and which are cyclically repeated
in his oeuvre. The music of Tectonics, which bases on Sharp´s very
own vocabulary (the density of changing textures, timbre and grooves),
melts his individualistic virtuoso style of improvisation with moments
of controlled form.
Today, Elliott Sharp is known as one of the most influential musicians
in New York's downtown scene. He is composer, instrument builder, theoretician
and multi instrumentalist, founding his own studio and label zOaR in 1977.
Some of his most important projects are avant-garde ensembles such as
Carbon or Tectonics, but also a blues band like Terraplane. Sharp´s
compositons have been staged by the Kronos Quartet, the Ensemble Modern,
the Soldier String Quartet and the Zeitkratzer Ensemble. His permanent
musical partners include cellist Frances-Marie Uitti, turntable player
Christian Marclay, harpist Zeena Parkins, saxophonist John Zorn and drummer
Bobby Previte, with whom Sharp is touring Europe at present.
Platform for Improvised Music
Concert on Sunday, Nov. 14th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
The fifth concert in the series “Platform for Improvised Music”,
organised by Tim Blechmann, Anja Füsti and Oliver Prechtl, will be
held at the gallery. The series offers an opportunity for improvising
musicians to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located
between jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball,
Kaoss pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
Visual design: bibi_melange.
Information: www.prechtlsound.de
Contact : timblechmann@gmx.de
7.11 – 5.12.2004
media flow. videoventure on electronic music. pt. 1
video:
Graw Böckler (Germany/Cologne; Raum für Projektion), Yvette
and Jacqueline Klein (Germany/Cologne; Traum, Trapez, MBF), Matthias Siegert
and Ilja Knesovic/visuarte (Germany/Stuttgart), Kartin Asen (Germany/Ravensburg)
audio:
Riley Reinhold (Germany/Cologne; Traum and Kompakt), Joachim Spieth (Germany/Stuttgart;
Onitor and Kompakt), Thomas Brinkmann (Germany/Cologne; Traum), Resonator
(Germany/Munster) and more
audiovisual:
Gabriel Shalom (USA/New York)
Audiovisual installation, screening programme
Opening: Sunday, Nov. 7th 2004, 19.30pm
with presentations by the artists
Duration: Nov. 8th – Dec. 5th 2004
Place: fluctuating images. contemporary media art
Jakobstr. 3, 70182 Stuttgart
The exhibition series “media flow. videoventure on electronic music”
is dedicated to the contemporary phenomenon of visual music. Since the
mid 1990s so-called visuals (digital video sequences) have been projected
onto screens and walls on raves or in clubs by VJs (visual or video jockeys)
to accompany electronic music. Visual music can also be understood as
a kind of live cinema, where the screens are part of the architectural
situation. The visuals themselves may be abstract or figurative, only
seldom are they narrative. Studio productions of visual music are becoming
more important, with a growing number of DVD bonus tracks on CD releases
and of DVD labels in the genre. In these studio productions, visual music
is getting closer to music videos, and the boundaries open up.
The exhibition series shows contemporary developments in visual music.
Artists are invited to approach music with different concepts of visualisation
that vary depending on their background – as installation artists,
architects or designers for example.
The selected visualizations for “media flow. videoventure on electronic
music. part I” originate from the fields of fine art (Graw/Böckler,
repeated winner of MUVI Award, Oberhausen; Gabriel Shalom, audio-visual
artist), architecture (Matthias Siegert, participant of the “International
Videofestival Bochum”; Jaqueline Klein, who produces visuals for
the label “Traum”; Yvette Klein, video, animations, installations)
and media design (Ilja Knesovic/visuarte and Katrin Asen).
The music selected for the event is mainly electronic. This rather homogenic
selection stresses the visual differences.
The exihibiton series “media flow. videoventure on electronic music”
is based on a studio production of the same name, which will be released
in connection with this exhibition (visuals by Matthias Siegert, music
by Joachim Spieth).
The visualizations by Graw/Böckler „This Time Last Year“,
„Because“ and „How to play a record“ to music by Mantler,
Ulf Lohmann and Tujiko Noriko oscillate between music video, art video
and visuals. Their work is based on an aesthetic choice from every day
situations, and on film techniques such as time-laps shots or multi-layering.
This kind of treatment transcends the music, while the sequences of images
are themselves transcended by music, forming a very close audiovisual
interdependence.
The musician Riley Reinhold has curated a selection of tracks by Thomas
Brinkmann, which is being played to the video loop “Occupy”
by Yvette Klein. The conventional hierarchy, and the interaction in time,
of music and video is altered – the images are set free to change
with the music.
In “Motion in Contrast”, Katrin Asen moves the camera to music
by Resonator, literally making the camera dance.
For his visualization of music by Tim Blechmann and Oliver Prechtl, Ilja
Knesovic uses one short sequence of a film starring Sophia Loren –
a sequence in which she sprays mosquito repellent.
With “Small Tango Room” Gabriel Shalom contributes an audiovisual
work for which he is also acting as musician. For Shalom, editing is the
essential criterion of an audiovisual production – he divides images
of a piano player's hands from the music to generate a dance of fingers
and a dance of jump cuts.
The exhibition is sponsored by:
Medienteam der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart
MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg
Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
Unternehmen Form, Stuttgart, www.unternehmenform.de
f_concept. ton-licht-medientechnik, Stuttgart, www.f-concept.de
Links:
www.raumfuerprojektion.de
www.kompakt-net.de
www.traumschallplatten.de
www.onitor.de
www.resonator.de
www.tweakybambino.com
21.10 – 2.12.2004
O.V. by Paola Yacoub and Michel Lasserre
Weekly broadcast of varying flash films,
every Thursday, beginning on Oct. 21st 2004
until Dec. 2nd 2004, from 18 – 20pm
Films will be shown for seven weeks. Access to an interactive website,
which is part of the project “O.V.”, will be granted.
This project has already been presented in its earlier stage at the gallery´s
opening show. It will be continued in cooperation with many other art
institutions all around the world. They will be screening the very same
newsreel-like film at the same time of the day. These institutions are,
amongst others: Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne
(Paris), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Saint-Gervais, Fondation
pour les arts de la scène et de l’image (Geneva), Witte de
With, Center for contemporary art (Rotterdam), Fundacio Antoni Tapies
(Barcelona), The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation (Seoul), Modern Mûvészeért
Közalapítvány (Budapest), Malmö Konsthall (Malmo),
Renaissance Society (Chicago), ICA (London), Kunstverein Hamburg.
Projektinformation_O.V.
22.10 – 23.10.2004
Workshop “On the Margins of Film”
Fieldlocator
Stopmotion
Walken Sitting
“On the Margins of Film”, a workshop for scholars and artists,
is organised by the non-commercial gallery “fluctuating images. contemporary
media art”. It focusses on crossing the boundaries between media,
and on intermedial experiments with and within films.
Contributions:
Alexandra Käss (Bonn): Film as Lightshow – Lightshow as Film
Lena Christolova (Konstanz): Strange Margins of Shadows
Stefanie Stallschus (Berlin): Modulation of Attention. Models of Interference
in Michael Snow´s Work
Barbara Filser (Karlsruhe): Chris Marker´s “La Jetée”
– “Photo Novel or Ciné-Novel“? A film on the margins
of film
Christian Jamin (Basel): On „Walken Sitting“
Anja Kreysing (Münster): On „Field Locator“
Letizia Werth (Vienna): On „Stop Motion“
Susanne König (Hamburg): „Le corbeau et le renard“, on
the relationship of film and text in the art of Marcel Broodthaers
Jörn Schafaff (Hamburg): Applied Cinema. On some examples of Philippe
Parreno's art
Cornelia Lund (Stuttgart): moving|images – on the relationship of
film, dance and space
Kerstin Stutterheim (Würzburg): Video-Theatre
Holger Lund (Stuttgart): Visual Music
Thanks to Oliver Moore for the graphic art on flyers and posters
Concept:
Starting from the observation that film plays a leading role in contemporary
art, this workshop reflects on intermedial phenomena in film and on its
margins. These margins include art that combines film with other media
(eg. expandend cinema), as well as media art that integrates filmic elements
or contradicts them. An example would be the slide show, which is situated
between film and photography and is becoming more present in contemporary
art exhibitions. Nevertheless, this presence remains mostly unnoticed.
Merely the exhibition “Dia/Slide/Transparency. Materialien zur Projektionskunst”
in the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst Berlin, attempted a critical
inventory. Same goes for other media or intermedial phenomena, such as
the film still as extrapolated photography, or digital video sequences
that are being projected to music as a kind of live cinema, or analogue
film material that is being integrated into digitally processed films,
or contemporary music, when film sequences are not simply added as visual
material, but compositions in fact are produced as film from the start.
It seems that not much thought has yet been spent on these intermedial
phenomena, nor has the special, central role and function of film in this
context been sufficiently recognised. The workshop “On the Margins
of Film” wants to explore these contemporary forms more closely and
to trace back their historical development: from the Absolute Film, which
combines image and music, to the expansion of film into space in the 1960s
(Expanded Cinema).
Opening on Friday, Oct. 22nd 2004, 20pm
Exhibition:
Letizia Werth: Stop Motion (film)
Thuja: Field Locator (film)
Christian Jamin: Walken Sitting (video installation)
Letizia Werth: Stop Motion (film projection)
The film consists of almost 500 found photographs. They show women who
pose consciously, standing, leaning, etc. The single photos are sequenced
as a film. By superimposition individual positions become collective,
individual women merge into one person, sometimes acting out tiny movements.
Thuja: Field Locator (film projection)
Thuja played video footage of the countryside on a screen, adding her
own music, and filmed the screen with an old S-VHS camera. She held the
camera on her shoulder, so that the image trembles slightly, and the spectator
is taken along on a trip through the undergrowth.
www.thuja.net
Christian Jamin: Walken Sitting (installation on monitors)
Nine monitors are positioned in a room, connected to nine DVD-players.
In each player a movie starring Christopher Walken is being played and
paused at a specific moment. Walken is known to be an actor who has the
courage to make pauses, dreaded pauses, in which his presence can suck
up the viewer into the medium. Walken loves to play scenes seated, to
exercise a threatening spell, which gave him the reputation of being a
“psycho”.
17.10.2004 Multiple Choice – transmedial sequences
In his newest project, Fabian Chyle (choreographer and performer) initiates
productions that are situated in between performing arts and fine arts.
Dance, performances, internet projects, interviews and theory: for three
years different facets of the individual´s identity and their choice
of positions (multiple choices) have been explored in a reality that grows
ever more complex.
Various series in the Multiple Choice project link art, technology and
theory and offer a platform for experiments – in virtual and actual
space.
During this release show first insights into a continuously gowing project
are given.
Release show on Oct. 17th 2004, 19pm
Place: fluctuating images. contemporary media art, Jakobstr. 3, 70182
Stuttgart (Centre)
Introduction: Marty Huber, performance theorist, Vienna
Internet project: Thorsten Hallscheidt, Karlsruhe
Sound sculptures: Fabian Chyle and Nikola Lutz, Stuttgart
Music (21pm): Mark Kysela, Stuttgart
More information on Multiple Choice:
www.project-multiplechoice.de
or www.fabianchyle.de
Platform for Improvised Music
Concert on Sunday, Sept.. 19th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
The third concert in the series “Platform for Improvised Music”,
organised by Tim Blechmann, Anja Füsti and Oliver Prechtl will be
held at the gallery. The series offers an opportunity for improvising
musicians to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located
between jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball,
Kaoss pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
Information: www.prechtlsound.de,
www.mokabar.tk
Contact : timblechmann@gmx.de
28.8.2004 Audiovisual performance “sein&zeit” (“Being
and Time”), 20.30pm
Masayuki Akamatsu: Composition
Yoshihisa Suzuki: Percussion
Programme:
- Introduction: Wolf Helzle, media artist
- “Stuttgart Crossing” with mimiZ (20 min.)
electro-acoustic improvisation on percussion and computer
- “Improvisation System #1” with Yoshihisa Suzuki (10 min.)
percussion and voice-vocoding
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~yoshs02/otunnel_web.html
- “Anangraon Variations” with Satoshi Fukushima (20min) 3-way-audio-interchange
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~shimaf02/ANAGRAON/
- brief presentation of the works by Masayuki Akamatsu
- “sein&zeit” with Masayuki Akamatsu and Yoshihisha Suzuki
(20 min.)
audiovisual performance using live television
http://www.iamas.ac.jp/~aka/sein_zeit/
Media artist Masayuki Akamatsu was born in 1961 in Hyogo (Japan). He studied
psychology at the Kobe University and at that time began to compose audiovisual
works on a computer. Today he is professor at IAMAS (International Academy
of Media Arts and Sciences) in Ogaki near Kyoto. Akamatsu realised numerous
performances and installations in the field of media art, using a computer
and digital networking. His focus lies on the relationship between artwork
and audience, and the autonomy of art and its development. Some of his
works are: “incubator” (2000, audiovisual installation with
50 computers), “Time Machine” (2002, a project which is dedicated
to visualising the spectator´s experience of time and real time
processing) and “Flesh Control” (2002, in which the artist's
body is controlled by a computer). Akamatsu also works as a live performer
in electronic music, he published several books ("Trans Max Express",
Ritto-Music, 2001, (Co-author) and "Cocoa+Java", Kobun-sha,
2001) and organised events such as the “DSP Summer School”.
Platform for Improvised Music
Concert on Sunday, Aug. 15th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
The second concert in the series “Platform for Improvised Music”,
organised by Tim Blechmann, Anja Füsti and Oliver Prechtl will be
held at the gallery. The series offers an opportunity for improvising
musicians to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located
between jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball,
Kaoss pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
Information: www.prechtlsound.de
Contact : timblechmann@gmx.de
24.7.2004 Red Light Concert # 3
Guest: The 14th International Bochum Video Festival
Matthias Siegert and Jörg Koch will present a selection of films
from the 14th International Bochum Video Festival. The festival focused
on the visualization of music, showing video clips, the programme “Dance
the TV: Tanz im Musikclip” and staging a VJ contest. The festival´s
jury consisted of Prof. Dr. Christoph Dreher (Grimme award winner, Fantastic
Voyages), Heidi Draheim (Filmmuseum Dusseldorf), Prof. Andreas Rogenhagen
(Grimme award winner), Gudrun Sommer
(former head of the video festival), Reinhard Braun (curator and editor
of Camera Austria), Graham Daniels (Addicitve TV/London), Claudia Rohrmoser
(Renegadez VJ collective, video artist) and Stephan Faber (VIVA).
Information: www.videofestival.org
moved: from train to tree
hosted by fluctuating images at “1st Sonnendeck anniversary”
on Friday, 23rd July, 2004 in Art Foundation of Baden-Württemberg,
Stuttgart
Videostill Jürgen Palmer
Videos by Letizia Werth (Vienna) and Jürgen Palmer (Stuttgart).
Two videos will be screened alternately in the park of the art foundation.
Both have been filmed on super-8 in single-frame-function and both show
nature footage. The films differ clearly in their editing rhythm: Werth
speeds up the film, Palmer slows it down.
Video still from “train” by Letizia Werth
Video still from “Landscape with poet”
Information: www.sonnendeck-stuttgart.de
www.kunststiftung.de
Platform For Improvised Music
Concert on Sunday, July 15th 2004, 20pm
fluctuating images, Jakobstr. 3, Stuttgart
Aseries of concerts titled “Platform for Improvised Music”
will be launched at the gallery. It offers an opportunity for improvising
musicians to play in front of an interested audience. The music is located
between jazz, electronica and New Music: laptop meets Ping-Pong ball,
Kaoss pad meets melodica, turntable meets vibraphone.
The series is presented by Tim Blechmann, who works in electro-acoustic
improvisation, Anja Füsti, who is a classical percussionist specialising
in New Music, and pianist Oliver Prechtl, who wanders between noise-pop
and fake-jazz.
Information: www.prechtlsound.de
Contact : timblechmann@gmx.de
Mixed Media: New Reductionism
Opening on Sunday, June 20th 2004
Exhibition from June 21st until July 18th 2004
Installation Marco Preitschopf
Jürgen Palmer (Germany/Stuttgart, exhibitions/performances in Rome
and Zagreb), Kurt Laurenz Theinert (Germany/Stuttgart, exihibitions in
Berlin, Oronsko, Ipswich, Munich), Marco Preitschopf (Germany/Stuttgart
and Karlsruhe, exhibitions in Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, Munich), photography,
video loops, light installations, sound installations
The exhibition unites outstanding artists from Stuttgart and its region.
The focus lies on a contemporary tendency in the media art scene: reductionism
in terms of form and content.
The artistic positions that meet here under the term reductionism cut
down ornamental elements in favour of clarity. This clarity is hard to
fathom, it relies entirely on a simplicity of visual elements, which could
lead to the paradox impression of a clarity so difficult to understand
that it reflects on the process of comprehension.
In order to produce this almost hermetic simplicity, the artists choose
mixed media techniques. A work of art is often filtered through, or simultaneously
produced in various media. This combination causes a destabilisation of
meaning; and the point that what looks very simple is in fact a treatment
of several media, and full of ambiguities, lies at the centre of the exhibition.
Jürgen Palmer works with analogue and digital means. In his art he
covers an unusually broad spectrum, evoking a phenomenon that could be
called “evacuating media”. It manifests itself as an evacuation
of one medium into another – as if he didn´t trust the established
forms; as if these were already dry and only transplanting them could
bring them back to aesthetic life. This precedure allows him to make dicoveries
beyond predefined genre.
The goal is to produce an aura, an intense imagery that depends on highly
energetic images, authentic and unique. This also goes for his digital
or partly analogue films, integrating reproductive processes to intense
pictorial effect. Walter Benjamin linked the term "aura" to
the analogue artwork that cannot be reproduced without loss. But in the
specific frictions and contradictions of the “evacuating media”,
there lie the auratic possibilities of the unique.
Screen objects (video loops) and the film trilogy “no danz”,
“danz” and “no” by Jürgen Palmer will be shown
to music by Joachim Spieth („Joachim Spieth Remix“, Kompakt,
Cologne), DJ Rels („Diggin in Brownswood“, Stones Throw, Los
Angeles, produced by Madlib & Peanut Butter Wolf) and Jürgen
Palmer.
Information: www.juergen-palmer.de
The VJ (video or visual jockey), photo and light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert
has his roots in concrete art. He concentrates on visual experiences that
refer to art images and avoid fixed semantic codes. He experiments with
formal and structural possibilities of lines, forms and planes in monochrome
photo and light works.
Since 2001 Kurt Laurenz Theinert has been working on a live presentation
of his artistic position, shaping time through light with software programme
“ivis”, which Roland Blach custom-designed for him: graphic
patterns are generated on a keyboard and foot pedals, and projected in
real time. The video synthesizer generates pulsing images in shapes of
rectangular planes, constantly changing their position, size and colour.
A light installation and photos by Theinert will be on view. At the opening,
the artist will perform live on the video synthesizer in a collaboration
with Roland Blach.
Marco Preitschopf is a pictorial artist now working on (sound) installations
– without hiding the visual elements of sound production. On the
contrary: his minimalist aesthetics exhibit the materials and technical
equipment of a sound installation as part of its visual appeal. In his
sound installations, Marco Preitschopf generates a blurring of the viewer's
perception of the artwork and the self-created feelings generated in the
viewing-process. Acoustic and visual stimuli blend with the physiological
and psychological aspects of perception. Phenomena of psychoacoustics
and resonance are used to build a complex sound sculpture, which needs
the process of perception to come into being. The brain is directly stimulated
and reacts immediately to the surrounding specific, manipulative air pressure,
which is sound.
A sound and video beamer installation by Marco Preitschopf, “the
imaginative dead_the still responding ear of a curiously killed cat”
is on view.
19.5. – 23.5.2004
Video_Recycling and Red Light Concert #2
Sample-Mix-Remix, a VJ workshop and live concert at fluctuating images
“What would it look like if other VJs worked over my self-produced
videoclips?” This question stimulates Matthias Siegert´s VJ
project, which is organised as an open workshop. Matters of copyright,
recycling, and file-sharing will be dealt with, and also techniques and
customs of the VJ culture that's growing all over the world. The subtitle
"Sample-Mix-Remix" stands for: found, invented and rediscovered;
the workings behind the creation of a VJ set will be layed bare to the
audience. But what precisely is a VJ?
VJing is a new artform, and a profession, that arose from the rave, ambient
and club cultures in the 1990s. The video jockey (VJ) creates collages
of images in real time, he's the visual equivalent to the disc jockey
(DJ). Transitory original artworks are composed from computer animations,
TV samples and preproduced material.
In May, VJ acts “4YourEye” from Vienna (alias Eva Bishof-Herlbauer
and Gerald Herlbauer), “Sehvermögen” (Marcel Panne) and
Siegert himself will recycle video clips produced in the gallery. They
will agree on a topic beforehand, which will serve as a red thread for
the material. The end results of Video_Recycling will be presented on
Sunday, 23rd of May, 2004 in the gallery for contemporary media art. DJs
will round out the event. Begin: 20p
Info: www.siegert.cc;
www.4youreye.at;
www.sehvermoegen.de
Further information: info@siegert.cc
Red Light Concert #1
Audiovisual concert featuring Solovyev (electronic music) and
Matthias Siegert (visuals) on Saturday, April 24th, 2004, 21pm
In the series “Red Light Concerts” held at "Fluctuating
Images", Matthias Siegert and Jörg Koch will continue their
experiments on audiovisual phenomena. What's the sound of a TV, shown
on TV, that shows a TV showing a TV? The genesis of an audiovisual installation
will be presented.
Information: www.onitor.de
and www.siegert.cc
23.4.2004 Preview: "media flow"
fluctuating images presents ""media flow on the „3. Medientag
Stuttgart Ludwigsburg” in the Römerkastell, 12 – 19pm,
Phoenixhalle
Short presentation of the gallery and the "media flow" production
by Cornelia and Holger Lund, 16:30pm in the Forum Neues Musiktheater
Further Information: www.stuttgart.de/medienteam
Red Light Concert #0 – on the occasion of the „Long Museum
Nights“
Audiovisual concert with Solovyev (electronic music) and
Matthias Siegert (visuals) on Saturday, 20th of March, 2004, 22pm in the
gallery´s basement
The first “Red Light Concert” in the heart of Stuttgarts Leonhard
quarter is not merely a launch party, but also offers an improvised image-sound
installation. Matthias Siegert (visuals) and Jörg Koch (sound) will
arrange visual and acoustic material recorded in the neighbourhood of
the gallery. In sessions of 30 minutes they present variations on a theme,
which are then rerecorded and reexhibited. The varying results can be
instantly viewed and then compared.
Information: www.onitor.de
and www.siegert.cc
Moments of Shifting – Aspects of Urban Aura
Opening show of fluctuating images. gallery for contemporary media art
Permanent graphic art installation by Oliver Moore
Flash slide still Yacoub/Lasserre
Slide still Haneke
Opening: Sunday, March 14th 2004, 19.30pm
with presentations by the artists
Duration: March 14th – April 11th 2004
Place: fluctuating images. contemporary media art
Jakobstr. 3, 70182 Stuttgart
Paola Yacoub/Michel Lassere (Libanon/Beirut, France/Paris; exhibitions
in Paris, Barcelona, Seoul, Venice (Biennale 2003)), digital slide show
as flash film, and
Egbert Haneke (Germany/Hamburg; exhibitions in Berlin and Shanghai;
Collection Falckenberg Hamburg), analogue slide show
The exhibition´s title “Moments of Shifting” refers to
a topic and the the use of media. All images show urban situations that
gain new aspects through textual information, sequence or crossfading.
Superficially banal streets, blocks and parking lots gain a specific aura,
as a setting for actions, or through the sequential combination of settings.
The media used suggest shifts in a literal sense: in a slide show one
image is shifted over another. Yacoub/Lassere offer a digital slide show
(partly set to music) that has been made on film editing software; Haneke
shows an analogue slide show, one image fading into the next. It is astonishing
that the digital slide show seems to be a lot less filmic in its juxtaposition
of images, while crossfading seems to position the analogue slide show
between still and moving film image. Both analogue and the digital slide
show are shifted out of their specific qualities.
“O.V. (Original Version)" by architects and artists Paola Yacoub
and Michel Lassere was recently presented on the Biennale in Venice in
2003. The work links actions during the first week of the Iraq War to
the urban situation in and around Beirut. A tremendous storm in Beirut
coincides with the beginning of the war in Iraq, and the city´s
parking lots are completely empty, because all cars have been hidden from
possible air attacks in subterranean shelters.
This is a photographic experiment to aesthetically define tensions of
a political-military kind through images that seem every-day, unpolitical
and non-military at first sight. In an aesthetic approach, urban situations
and landscapes gain a meaningful aura. Since 2000, Yacoub/Lassere work
on shifting aspects of space, especially in border areas, within varying
fornats, media and strategies to reach the viewer. Trained as architects,
they manage to track down the “effects of history” (Foucault)
that sedimentize in specific sites and they address the fragile relation
of images to the events they're supposed to represent.
“Living in Motion”, a slide show by Egbert Haneke, presents
photographs taken in Japan. Haneke´s art follows the tradition of
William Egglestone and Stephen Shore, whose oversized and colorful travel
photo series made that genre popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Under the term “New Colour-School” they showed mostly deserted
urban every-day situations within functionalised architectural settings.
Obliged to this school, Haneke explores the life of plants in urban space.
The surface materials he photographs seem overwhelmingly aesthetic in
the lighting he uses. Again, urban situations gain an aura, not from political-military
tensions, but rather from the material and structural tensions that lie
within the objects themselves, and from their interaction in urban space.
The essence of Haneke´s slide show lies in his crossfading technique.
In the transitory process of fading one picture to another, they temporarily
melt together. These moments of visual contamination alter the way of
seeing the individual image. For a short time, unstable intermediate images
come into existence, which lend a phantasmagorical quality to the commonplace.
Information: www.yacoublasserre.org