Internationaler Museumstag 2010
During the International Museum Day on May 16, 2010, the Edith Russ House for Media Art will, in addition to the current exhibition Record > Again! 40 Years of Video Art in Germany, Part 2, present the projects of the 2009 Media Art Fellowship.
The works created at the Edith Russ House last year will thus be presented to the public for the first time. In addition, there will be various cooperations on this day, among others with the State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Oldenburg, the Schlossgarten, the University, the Realschule Kreyenbrück and klangpol. New Music Network.
At the same time, the results of the radio workshop Die Schleife will be presented in the afternoon. The workshop will take place from May 13 to 16, 2010 (Thu: 2 - 7 p.m., Fri: 4 - 8 p.m., Sat/Sun: 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.) and is still open for registration. There will be two broadcasts from 3 - 4 pm and 5 - 6 pm, which can be heard on 106.5 and at the Edith Russ House for Media Art. Please bring portable radios!
The Record > Again! exhibition will also be honored in detail and brought to the public on the last day of opening. Free guided tours will take place every hour, during which visitors can learn about the facets of video art in Germany over the past forty years and admire fascinating old television sets.
Presentation of the projects of the 2009 Media Art Fellowship
Jana Linke: EMDAS (A machine that creates work)
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil, Henrik Mayer): The Risk Society
SINE WAVE ORECHESTRA (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi): The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA in the Sun (in the garden pavilion of the castle garden)
Jana Linke is concerned with the meaning and value of work in the globalized world and poses the question of the positioning of art in the working society. In this society, the value of the individual is defined by his or her work. The artist assumes that balanced systems need the principle of waste - or "He who builds high must dig deep next door". Her machine (EMDAS - A Machine That Creates Work), in a decadently wasteful activity, ensures that a worker is provided with work: It digs itself into sand and is then dug out again by an employee so that it can dig itself back in. Jana Linke will provide information about her project on International Museum Day and illustrate it using the prototype of the machine. The presentation of the machine itself is planned for the Night of Museums on September 26, 2010.
Cleaning Society: Risk Society,
Installation view Museum Schwerin
In their socio-political project The Risk Society, REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil and Henrik Mayer) investigate, in the context of the general economic crisis, the tendency to shift the risks of our economy from the general public to the individual. The artists see themselves as researchers who observe with an artistic eye the social processes that arise in the difference between professional life and personal demands. The installation, which was created on this theme and can be seen in the event space of the Edith Russ House, is based on a seminar held by the artists at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg. After an introduction to artistic projects on processes of social structural change, the students worked in workshops with tenth-grade students from an Oldenburg secondary school on their individual expectations for the future.
Opening of the installation on Sunday, May 16, at 11:15 am. The artists will be present.
Sine Wave Orchestra: Prototype
of the sound object
In the project The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA in the Sun, the SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi) performs an installation in which the sound generation depends largely on the weather and the time of day. The objects, each of which generates sound by means of a sine wave through a loudspeaker, function only in sunlight, so this element regulates the volume and composition of the sounds. Despite this unpredictable randomization, I am primarily a participatory installation presented in the Garden Pavilion of the Castle Garden, an intimate and sunlit space with a strong visual reference to the spring vegetation of the surrounding park. Each new visitor places another sound-generating element, participating in the growing "orchestra" that will be heard and seen in the Castle Garden's Garden Pavilion from May 16-24, daily from 2-5 p.m., Sunday May 16 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday May 22-Monday May 24 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. each day.
The installation is sponsored by klangpol. New Music Network.
The presentation takes place in cooperation with the State Museum of Art and Cultural History and the Schlossgarten.
The scholarship program of the Edith Russ House for Media Art is sponsored by the Foundation of Lower Saxony and has enabled the development and realization of three high-quality, new projects in the field of media art each year since 2001. The scholarship holders in 2010 are Ralf Baecker, HeHe (Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen) and Anahita Razmi.