Dear Madam, dear Sir,
dear colleagues and friends,
we would like to cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance
on Friday, 8 June 2007, 19:00 at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund.
Introduction: Dr. Inke Arns, curator and artistic director of HMKV Dortmund.
-- After the opening, HMKV will serve you the finest music and drinks --
On Saturday, 9 June 2007 at 16:00 there will be talks (in English) by
-- Alina Hoyne (Melbourne), art theoretician who
has just completed her dissertation on the topic
of re-enactment
-- Rod Dickinson (London), artist who is
participating in the exhibition History Will
Repeat Itself" with two installations.
Invitation card (PDF):
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/_data/HWR_Einladung.pdf
We are looking forward to seeing you in Dortmund!
The team of
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Dortmund
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HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF
Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany:
June 9 - September 23, 2007; Opening: Friday, June 8, 2007, 19:00
Concept: Inke Arns
Curated by: Inke Arns and Gabriele Horn
Co-curator: Katharina Fichtner
The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself"
illuminates current strategies of re-enactment in
contemporary (media) art and performance, and
presents the positions and strategies of 23
international artists.
In general, a so-called re-enactment is a
historically correct recreation of socially
relevant events, such as important battles or
other historical events. In a re-enactment, the
audience that normally remains passive or at a
certain distance of the documented event become
immediate witnesses of a (repeated historical)
event, which unfolds in front of their eyes, or
they become participants in an action, in which
they actively participate.
In contemporary (media) art there has been an
increasing number of artistic re-enactments - the
performative repetition or re-creation of
historical situations and events. For example, in
his work "The Battle of Orgreave" (2001) the
British artist Jeremy Deller had a violent clash
between miners and police from the year 1984
re-enacted by ex-miners, ex-police and other
re-enactors.
Unlike popular historical re-enactments, artistic
re-enactments are not simply affirming what has
happened in the past, but rather they are
questioning the present via repeating or
re-enacting historical events that have left
their traces in the collective memory.
Re-enactments are artistic interrogations of
media images that try to scrutinise the reality
of the images, while at the same time pointing
towards the fact that collective memory is
essentially mediated memory.
A cooperative project by Hartware
MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund and KW
Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, History
Will Repeat Itself" is the first comprehensive
exhibition project on the subject of re-enactment
in Germany.
Participating artists include:
Guy Ben-Ner (IL/DE)
Walter Benjamin (US)
Irina Botea (RO)
C-Level (US)
Daniela Comani (IT/DE)
Jeremy Deller (GB)
Rod Dickinson (GB)
Nikolai Evreinov (RU)
Omer Fast (IL/DE)
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (GB)
Heike Gallmeier (DE)
Felix Gmelin (SE)
Pierre Huyghe (F)
Evil Knievel (US)
Korpys/Loeffler (DE)
Zbigniew Libera (PL)
Robert Longo (US)
Tom McCarthy (GB)
Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger (CH)
Collier Schorr (US)
Kerry Tribe (US)
T.R. Uthco & Ant Farm (US)
Artur Zmijewski (PL)
In Dortmund, the exhibition will run in parallel
(9 June - 23 September) to Documenta 12 in Kassel
and skulptur.projekte muenster in Munster,
Germany. The venue of the show is PHOENIX Halle
Dortmund, a spectacular 1895 factory hall
measuring 2.200 square meters belonging to a
giant former steel production plant.
The media art exhibitions organized by Hartware
MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) since 1996 have received
international recognition. In 2007 HMKV has been
nominated for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE Award for Art
Associations (Kunstvereine). With its activities
focussing on production, presentation, mediation
and the discursive contexts of media art HMKV
plays an important role in an international
network focussing on contemporary art and media.
Please note that Dortmund is only 30 min. by
train from Munster, and 2,5 hours from Kassel.
Later this year, the show will travel to Berlin
and be on display at the KW Institute for
Contemporary Art from 18 November 2007 until 13
January 2008.
The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself is funded by the
Kulturstiftung des Bundes/German Federal Cultural Foundation
Kunststiftung NRW
Der Ministerpraesident des Landes NRW
NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal
Bundesamt fuer Kultur BAK (Schweiz)
Henry Moore Foundation
Pro Helvetia
British Council
Medion
Heinz (media partner)
The program of Hartware MedienKunstVerein at
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund is supported by
Kulturbuero and by Wirtschaftsfoerderung der
Stadt Dortmund.
The cultural programs of KW Institute for
Contemporary Art are made possible thanks to the
support of The Governing Mayor of Berlin - Senate
Chancellery - Cultural Affairs.
A catalogue will be published by Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst:
History will repeat itself. Strategies of
Re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and
performance, ed. by Inke Arns and Gaby Horn for
Hartware MedienKunstVerein and KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle
Kunst, Frankfurt am Main 2007, 16,8 x 23,4 cm,
Hardcover, many color ill., 191 pages,
German/English, ISBN 978-3-86588-402-2
For more information, check out
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104&rubric=exhibitions&;
For press material, please contact Roland Kentrup, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Venue and opening hours:
HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (exhibition venue)
Thursday and Friday 11 - 22
Saturday and Sunday 11 - 20
Hochofenstrasse / corner Rombergstrasse_
Dortmund-Hoerde
How to get there / Map:
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (office)
Guentherstr. 65
44143 Dortmund
Germany
T ++49.231.823106
F ++49.231.8820240
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.hmkv.de
--
Dr. Inke Arns
Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Güntherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund
T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106
F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.inkearns.de
Don't miss these shows when travelling (to) Europe this summer:
/////// History Will Repeat Itself ////// Strategies of re-enactment
in contemporary (media) art and performance, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle
Dortmund/D, 9 June - 23 Sep 2007, www.hmkv.de
////// irational.org ////// Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006,
CCA Glasgow/GB, 16 June - 21 July 2007, www.cca-glasgow.com
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