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A visit to Takako Saito’s studio in March 2024
Revisited: Fluxus in NRW
Audio feature by Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon, ©2024
The new edition of the Revisited series is dedicated to the history of the Fluxus art movement in NRW. In the feature by artists Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon, people have their say who have experienced the development of this international art movement in the Ruhr and Rhineland, are part of it or are still intensively involved with the resulting work today.
Together they describe in three parts how a new approach, characterized by intermediality, freedom and the urge for change, advanced the idea of the open work of art in NRW in the 1960s.
With contributions by Dieter Daniels, Anna Lena Friebe, Rudolf Frieling, Nicole Grothe, Wulf Herzogenrath, Kurt Wettengl, Dea Bohde, Philip Corner, Heinrich Liman, Takako Saito, Lisa Schiller, Johannes Stahl, Benedikt Bitzenhofer and Theresia Singer, among others.
Wed May 10, 2023
7 p.m.
ChezON in the ON Cologne office
Alte Feuerwache (Branddirektion)
After our originally planned ChezON with Peter Simon in December unfortunately had to be cancelled due to illness, we are happy to announce that Peter will be our ChezON guest in May!
f.l. Richard Schmalöer, Alexander Estis, Freya Hattenberger, Peter Simon, Markus Lehrmann
Revisited: 20 years and not a bit quieter – The history of medienwerk.nrw #audio
The fourth episode Revisited takes a closer look at the history of Netzwerkmedienwerk.nrw in its research. More than twenty years ago – at a time when digital media were changing rapidly – the network was initially founded as a loose association to give media art in the state a voice. In the meantime, the network consists of more than 25 institutions that have been able to learn a lot from each other over the course of time, initiate joint projects and help shape cultural policy (and still can). For their new, four-part audio feature, artists Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon traveled through North Rhine-Westphalia and all the way to Berlin-Charlottenburg to talk to former and current companions and trace the development of this special network. The people they met on their journey tell the story of medienwerk.nrw from a personal perspective and from their memories. This creates an oral history of the media art scene in the region and the development of digital culture over the past 20 years. Milestones such as the organization of ISEA2010 RUHR – an international festival for electronic art that took place in Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg as part of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 – play just as important a role as groundbreaking exhibitions and cultural policy decisions. How the network has also positioned itself in the polycentric state of NRW is brought to life and made tangible through numerous statements and comments.
With
Marie-Luise Angerer, former. Rector Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Inke Arns, Director HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Söke Dinkla, Director Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Stefan Hilterhaus, Artistic Director and Managing Director PACT Zollverein, Essen
Fabian Saavedra-Lara, Head of Office medienwerk.nrw
With
Susanne Ackers, former. Managing Director HMKV
Maija Julius, former Head of the medienwerk.nrw office
Anneka Metzger, formerly Advisor to the Rectorate, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach, former Head of Department in the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
With:
Susanne Ackers, ex. Managing Director HMKV
Heike Ander, curator Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Marie-Luise Angerer, former director of the HMKV. Rector Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Inke Arns, Director HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Andreas Broeckmann, Artistic Director ISEA2010 RUHR
Söke Dinkla, Director Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Echo Ho, sound and performance artist
Anneka Metzger, former director of the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Advisor to the Rectorate, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Darija Simunovic, Research Associate, IMAI Foundation Düsseldorf
Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach, formerly of the IMAI Foundation Düsseldorf. Head of Department in the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
With:
Heike Ander, Curator Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Inke Arns, Director HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
Söke Dinkla, Director Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Maija Julius, former director of the Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg. Head of the medienwerk.nrw office
Fabian Saavedra-Lara, Head of the medienwerk.nrw office
Darija Simunovic, Research Associate at the IMAI Foundation Düsseldorf
Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach, former Head of the medienwerk.nrw office Head of Division at the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW
Klaas Werner, Deputy Head and Project Manager Office medienwerk.nrw
Revisited: Generators and Generations – Audio Feature by Peter Simon & Freya Hattenberger
>>>medienwerk.nrw
Revisited: Generators and Generations. Experiments – Music – Electronics in NRW #audio is now the third edition of this research, in which listeners can this time immerse themselves in the sonic side of the media arts. Starting with the founding of the WDR’s electronic music studio in Cologne, authors Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon trace paths that musicians and artists in the field of experimental music have followed in the region, and let many of the players from then and now have their say. When the Cologne recording studio was founded in 1951, it was the first of its kind in the world and was thus able to attract renowned musicians such as Györgi Ligeti, Henry Pousseuer, Gottfried Michael Koenig and others to the Rhineland, who artistically explored the technical possibilities on site and created important avant-garde compositions. A lot has changed since then. Instead of an almost baroque-looking studio with closet-sized technology, today a laptop and handy instruments are often all that is needed to produce flexibly at home and publish online.
With
Gertrud Glosemeyer, sound engineer WDR, AD
Wiebke Spieker, musicologist
Markus Hassler, sound engineer, WDR
Dirk Reith, Professor AD, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
Dirk Franken, sound engineer, WDR
Denise Ritter, sound artist, composer
Miki Yui, composer, artist
Joker Nies, musician, improviser, technician, author
hans w koch, artist, professor Kunsthochschule für Medien KHM, Cologne
Stefan Schneider, musician
Music by: Miki Yui, Denise Ritter, Joker Nies, hans w koch, Stefan Schneider
With:
Waltraud Blischke, lecturer at Robert Schumann University, Düsseldorf
Mari van Dus, musician, music activist
Till Kniola, label owner, organizer
Achim Zepezauer, artist, organizer
Frank Dommert, A-Musik founder and co-owner, Organizer
Joker Nies, musician, improviser, technician, author
hans w koch, artist, Professor Kunsthochschule für Medien KHM, Cologne
Dirk Reith, Professor AD, Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen
Stefan Schneider, musician
Music by: N(33), Achim Wollscheidt, Damian T Dziwis, Konrad Kraft, Limpe Fuchs
Audio feature by Peter Simon and Freya Hattenberger about the first edition of the Videonale festival in 1984.
In the web series Revisited, actors in media art and digital culture from NRW embark on an artistic research journey. Each episode focuses on an event or development from the history of media arts in the region.
Conceived and produced for Medienwerk.NRW 2022
Pt. 1: With Dieter Daniels (co-founder Videonale), Petra Unnützer (co-founder Videonale), Georg Elben (former director Videonale), Tasja Langenbach(artistic director Videonale) and Regina Wyrwoll (co-founder Videonale).
Pt. 2: With Maria Vedder (video artist), Marcel Odenbach (visual artist), Monika Funke Stern (filmmaker and video artist), Egon Bunne (video artist and university lecturer) and Regina Wyrwoll (co-founder Videonale).
Pt. 3: With Julia Stoschek (founder JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION), Linnea Semmerling(director imai foundation), Andreas Weisser (graduate restorer time-based media) and Axel Wirths (managing director 235 Media).
Audio feature by Freya Hattenberger and Peter Simon
The first episode focuses on the exhibition Reservate der Sehnsucht (Reserves of Desire) by HMKV Hartware MedienKunstVerein, which took place in 1998 in the cellar tower of the former Union-Brauerei in Dortmund. The exhibition, which was pioneering for the city, the region and the media art scene, continues to have an impact to this day. Not only did the show, in which 30 regional and international artists presented their works in the impressive semi-ruin, anchor the media arts even more firmly in the Ruhr region, but the exhibition is also considered groundbreaking in the area of restructuring and repurposing old industrial buildings in the region and was an important impetus for the establishment of today’s Dortmunder U – Center for Art and Creativity in the building.
A selection of publications and publications on and about works my works and exhibitions.
Additional press articles, reports and archival materials can be viewed online via search engines.
Exhibition catalogs/publications
“The Brutalism Appreciation Society,” Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund ,
Ed. Dr. Inke Arns
“Bodenlos – Vilém Flusser and the Arts,” Academy of the Arts Berlin,
Ed. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, Daniel Irrgang, ISBN 978 – 3 – 88331-214-9
“TUBE DUST DRONE – Bridge Music 1995 – 2015”,
Ed. Hans. W. Cook, ISBN 978 – 3 – 00-052513-1
“Lo Spirito del Lago,
Ed. Dr. Hartmut Kraft, Salon Verlag Cologne, ISBN 978 – 3 – 89770-505-0
“Daily Sounds All Around,
Ed. Hans Peter Zimmer Foundation, Wolke Verlag, Hofheim, ISBN 978 – 3 – 95593-080-6
“Klangräume der Kunst,” Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg,
Ed. Peter Kiefer, ISBN 978 – 3 – 936636-80-2
“Constantly on the Move -Tendencies of Experimental Film and Video Works in Germany.”
Ed. Goethe Institute, Munich Head Office
“Images against the darkness-Pictures against the darkness 40 YEARS VIDEO ART KIT – Kunst im Tunnel Düsseldorf -Video Art in the archive of imai”,
Ed. Imai – inter media art institute Düsseldorf
“MOFF – Cologne Artists in Conversation”,
Issue 1, 2015, ISSN – 21919844
