Iain & Jane's File under Sacred Music features in History will repeat itself. Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance.
The exhibition is a cooperation between Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany:
June 9 - September 23, 2007; Opening: Friday, June 8, 2007, 19:00
KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany: November 18, 2007 – January 13, 2008; Opening: Saturday, November 17, 2007
Concept: Inke Arns
Curated by: Inke Arns and
Gabriele Horn
Co-curator: Katharina Fichtner
Artists:
Guy Ben-Ner (IL/D)
Walter Benjamin (YU)
Irina Botea (RO)
C-Level (US)
Daniela Comani (IT/D)
Jeremy Deller (GB)
Rod Dickinson (GB)
Nikolai Evreinov (RUS)
Omer Fast (IL/D)
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (GB)
Heike Gallmeier (D)
Felix Gmelin (SE)
Pierre Huyghe (F)
Evil Knievel (US)
Korpys/Löffler (D)
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)
The exhibition "History will repeat itself" focuses on current strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance. It is a cooperation between Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, and KW - Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, and is the first comprehensive exhibition project in Germany dealing with the topic, or strategy of re-enactment.
In general, a so-called re-enactment is a historically correct recreation of socially relevant events, such as battles. 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. 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.
"History will repeat itself“ presents positions and strategies of 23 international artists. 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.
In Dortmund, the exhibition will take place from June 9 - September 23, 2007 - in parallel to Documenta 12 (Kassel) and skulptur.projekte muenster - and will then travel to Berlin and be on display at Kunst-Werke from the 17 November 2007 until January 2008.
In early June 2007 a catalogue will be published by Revolver - Archiv für aktuelle Kunst:
History will repeat itself. Strategien des Reenactment in der zeitgenössischen (Medien-)Kunst und Performance / 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
posted:1st May 2007 |
