Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn is one of the most prominent contemporary artists. Known worldwide for her space-consuming installations, her protean oeuvre comprises drawings, collages, performances, films, as well as objects and moving sculptures that develop a secret life of their own. Concurrent with the TANZ BREMEN festival, the Weserburg is going back to the beginnings of her creative work and is mounting an exhibition centered around her films and performances. Her early works already exhibit striking poetic force and iconographic diversity; their point of departure and source of energy is the human body, whose possibilities and limitations she explores and seeks to overcome. [more]

Kabinettstücke | Cabinet Pieces

Jürgen Wesseler has been presenting works by international artists in a small, former store in Bremerhaven since 1967. The special thing about his exhibition concept is that he succeeds in convincing the artists he has invited to let themselves in for exhibiting in a space that measures thirty-five square meters and has a display window. And they have been doing this for forty-five years how in a way that has meanwhile become exemplary for the international art and curator scene! It is not an overstatement to maintain that the small space opposite Bremerhaven’s Municipal Theater has been inscribed in the annals of art history and enjoys an international reputation. [more]

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt

Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, born in 1932 in Wurzen, Saxony, is one of the few women artists from the former GDR to address in depth the relationship between text and image. Through their involvement in the Mail Art network, she and her husband Robert Rehfeldt were able to surmount the ban on exhibitions and publications by alternative artists during the GDR period. Her artistic activity came to an end with the unification of Germany in 1989. This is the first ever exhibition of her poetic and visual “Typewritings”. [more]

Ray Johnson

The New York Times called him "the most famous unknown artist in New York." In fact Ray Johnson (1927–1995) remained an insider's tip for a long time. The significance and influence of his oeuvre, though, cannot be valued highly enough. Ray Johnson was involved in a lively exchange of ideas with the most important artists of his era, from John Cage to Andy Warhol. For him, art was a communicative process which could also take place apart from established institutions. Pursuing this idea, he built up during the 1960s, under the name "New York Correspondance [sic] School," an extensive network of postal communications and is accordingly considered to be the founder of the international movement of Mail Art. He mailed to friends, acquaintances, and also to strangers innumerable, mostly small-sized works. These include drawings, collages, reworked photographs and postcards, as well as personal messages and short notes. [more]

ars viva 11/12 | Sprache - Language

The spoken and the written word have long since found their way into the visual arts: as epigrams, marginal notes, quotes, collaged text fragments, or part of a performance, a video, or a sound installation. In particular since the advent of Conceptual Art, language has even been regarded as the actual and independent material and medium of the visual arts. [more]

REM 86

OKKUPATION und VERSTECKTE SCHICHTEN

LIVE:

TRIO

Lars Scherzberg , Saxophon und Zeug (Hamburg)

John Hughes, Kontrabass (Hamburg)

Nicolas Wiese, Elektronik (Berlin)

 

TrioImprovisationen und ihre elektronische Verarbeitung.

Im Zusammenspiel der Gruppe treffen die zwei improvisierenden Akustiker auf ihre elektronisch verfremdeten Spiegelbilder. Die Ensemblestücke werden durch Kompositionen ergänzt, die Nicolas Wiese aus Klängen von Aufnahmesessions konstruiert hat.

LIVE:

Thomas Rehnert

spielt auf seinen autopoetischen Klangmaschinen

T. Rehnert lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Geprägt vom europäischen Free-Jazz der 1970er Jahre, spielte er in den 1980er Jahren in Berlin (West) in verschiedenen Punkbands Schlagzeug. Im Punk- und Experimentalmusikumfeld dieser Jahre begann er sich mit elektroakustischer Musik, Maschinenmusik und Automaten zu beschäftigen.
Seit einigen Jahren baut er aus analogen Modularsystemen autopoetische Klangmaschinen.

 

 

Norbert Schwontkowski

 

art 54 Sprache und Film

Sprache ist im Film viel selbstverständlicher als in der Kunst. Dialoge gehören zum Spielfilm und Kommentare zum Dokumentarfilm. Sprache gab es sogar schon im Stummfilm (als Zwischentitel oder live durch den Kinoerzähler). Aber wie in der Kunst kann der Einsatz von Sprache auch im Film dem selbstreflektorischen Erkenntnisgewinn dienen.

Ein Programm mit ausgewählten Arbeiten aus Kanada, den USA und Österreich zeigt den vielfältigen Umgang von Experimentalfilmern und Videokünstlern mit der gesprochenen und geschriebenen Sprache.

Durch das Programm führt die Kuratorin Christine Rüffert, Universität Bremen.

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