WHAT IS GERMANY
2018
Videoprogramm, Kuratierung, Fensterprojektion
Projektraum LS43, Berlin, Germany, 27. September - 3. November
Fluca - Austrian Cultural Pavillion, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 27. September - 29. September
Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada, 22. Oktober - 4. November
Curator: Jos Diegel
in cooperation with Goethe Institut Montreal, Fluca - Austrian Cultural Pavillion, Sporobole
WHAT IS GERMANY
A video program of Projektraum LS43, Berlin
The video program is curated by Jos Diegel, co-founder of Berlin’s off-space Projektraum LS43. He curated a Germany based video art program in two parts, WHAT IS GERMANY (I & II) for the two windows of Projektraum LS43 and the cooperation partners FLUCA, Plovdiv/Bulgaria and Sporobole, Sherbrooke/Canada.
The program’s approach is set not by the constructed idea of the artst’s natonality, origin or language. Geographically, the individuals presented are shaping cultural perspectves and manifestng statements from the landmarks defned as Germany.
These artworks mark highlights within streams of digital populism and propaganda, which are emphasized by the program’s title, counterfeiting the foundation of a fictional art movement.
As an artist himself, Jos Diegel selected video art from his wide ranged network of Germany based male and female artists from different generations, that conceptually use the discipline of video art. The program introduces pioneers, colleagues, experimenters, collaborators, friends, inspirers, professionals, representatives and emerging artists – respectively artists that influence, inspire, teach, surprise the curator himself.
The program has been formed by means of diversity of video, film, animation and various techniques and combines selected artistic communications of moving images that identify influences on perception of the development of Germany’s artist film genre. All artists’ works rely on a passion for non-linear, post-dramatic, anti-narrative presentation of themes and topics and portray an approach of their media to engage ideas, visions, critics, questions and thoughts.
Most of the protagonists are also engaged in different fields and so achieve their crafts in disciplines as performance and intervention, feature and short film, installation arts and painting, post-internet and graphic design, image and sound engineering and others. All listed artists are actively showing and presenting their works in exhibitions, screenings, festivals nationally and internationally.
Artists:
(PART I) PLOVDIV, FLUCA: Eva Becker, Anna-Luise Lorenz, Sarah Oh-Mock, Gloria Gammer, Das weltweite Netzwerk für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Simon Schäfer, Susanne Steinmaßl, Igor Stromajer, Mariola Brillowska, Eva von Platen, Xenia Lesniewski, David Sarno, Jos Diegel
(PART II) SHERBROOKE, SPOROBOLE: Gunter Deller, Jos Diegel, Kuesti Fraun, Michel Klöfkorn, Marcus A. Littler, Rotraut Pape, Franz Reimer, Julia Charlotte Richter, Marco Schiefelbein, Stella Schimmele, Zhu Xiaowen
(PART I & II) BERLIN, LS43: Eva Becker, Anna-Luise Lorenz, Sarah Oh-Mock, Gloria Gammer, Das weltweite Netzwerk für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen, Simon Schäfer, Susanne Steinmaßl, Igor Stromajer, Mariola Brillowska, Eva von Platen, Xenia Lesniewski, David Sarno, Jos Diegel, Marco Schiefelbein, Julia Charlotte Richter, Zhu Xiaowen, Franz Reimer, Marcus A. Littler, Stella Schimmele, Gunter Deller, Kuesti Fraun, Rotraut Pape, Michel Klöfkorn
PLOVDIV/BULGARIA (Part I)
SURPRISES, 1min, 2015, Eva Becker
TONGUE TONGUE, 7min, 2017 – Anna-Luise Lorenz
ZWIEFACH, 6min, 2015 Sarah Oh-Mock
ZUKUNFT AUS CHAMPAGNER, 3min, 2017 – Gloria Gammer
NOTHINGNESS, 4min, 2015 – Das weltweite Netzwerk für ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen / Tommy Neuwirth
APOPHENIA, 5min, 2018 – Simon Schäfer
THE FUTURE IS NOT UNWRITTEN, 3min, 2017 – Susanne Steinmaßl
127.0.0.1 (FRANKFURT, 2018), 2,5min, 2018 – Igor Stromajer
HOND AEROBIC, 4min, 2017 – Mariola Brillowska
DEDEKODIERT, 3min, 2012 – Eva von Platen
DUBIOUS ENHANCEMENT, 11min, 2017 – Xenia Lesniewski
NEUE NACHRICHT, 3min, 2015 – David Sarno
WAIT FOR THE BEEP, 3min, 2017 – Jos Diegel
SHERBROOKE/CANADA (Part II)
I CAN. YOU CAN., 8min, 2012 – Marco Schiefelbein
TRAINING, 8min, 2014 – Julia Charlotte Richter
GEKOCHTER SCHNEE, 7min, 2010 – Zhu Xiaowen
JUSTICE HAS TO BE DONE, 8min, 2014 – Franz Reimer
FILM POEM – Marcus A. Littler 3min, 2018
GHOTS AFTER HOUR, 5min, 2014 – Stella Schimmele
NEST:FLUCHT, 6min, 2000 – Gunter Deller
BEN, 1min, 2012 – Kuesti Fraun
BERLIN WALL: VERTICAL HORIZON, 2min, 2014 – Rotraut Pape
HOW MUCH STATE IS IN THE NAZI SCENE, 3min, 2017 – Michel Klöfkorn
BOREDOM IS COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY, 7min, 2017 – Jos Diegel
BERLIN/GERMANY (Part I & II)
All films shown in PLOVDIV/BULGARIA and SHERBROOKE/CANADA
