Harun Farocki
dal 17/5/2010 al 20/11/2010
Segnalato da
17/5/2010
Harun Farocki
Osram Art Projects, Munich
For the seventh new installation on the Seven Screens, Farocki has created a site specific work that reacts to the 'spectacle expectation' that is often associated with Led screens as a medium. 'Umgiessen' (Re-pouring) refers to Tomas Schmit's performance, Cycle for Water Buckets (or Bottles), which he performed on December 18, 1963 in Amsterdam.
For the seventh new installation on the Seven Screens the
internationally renowned film maker Harun Farocki has created a site
specific work that reacts to the 'spectacle expectation' that is often
associated with Led screens as a medium.
Umgiessen (Re-pouring) refers to Tomas Schmit's performance, 'Zyklus für
Wassereimer (oder Flaschen)' (Cycle for Water Buckets [or Bottles]),
which he performed on December 18, 1963 in Amsterdam. The Fluxus artist
knelt on the floor in a circle of empty milk bottles and poured water
from one bottle into the next until all the water had spilled or
evaporated. "The action," claimed Farocki, "evaded symbolism ... it had
no vital quality. It was akin to a Beckett play in the simplicity of its
conclusiveness.
Despite the uniformity of the event, there was a
development; the anti-action found an end on its own initiative."
Harun Farocki transformed the ritual action into a twenty-minute long,
unedited film, translated for the spatial arrangement of the stele. Each
stele is assigned to a bottle. Farocki let the pouring be done by a
robot, whose arm wanders through the expanded pictorial space, executing
the unspectacular act of re-pouring.
Harun Farocki: Born in 1944 in Novy Jicin (Czech Republic). 1966 -- 1968
studies at the Deutschen Film - und Fernsehakademie Berlin (West). 1974
-- 1984 author and editor of the magazine Filmkritik, Munich. 1998 --
1999 Speaking about Godard / Von Godard sprechen, New York / Berlin (a
collaboration with Kaja Silverman); 1993 -- 1999 visiting professor at
the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1966 Farocki has made more
than 100 productions for television and cinema, including children's
television programs, documentaries, essay films and narrative films;
since 1996 the subject of many group and solo exhibitions in museums and
galleries, most recently in 2009 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris and Museum
Ludwig, Cologne; participation in 2007 in documenta 12. 2004 -- 2006
visiting professor, since 2006 full professor at the Akademie für
Bildende Künste, Vienna.
In addition to the Collection the Osram Art Projects has included the
Seven Screens since November 2006. With the help of state of the art Led
technology this last addition realized the company's desire to
incorporate light and art. The director of the Osram Art Projects is the
art expert Dr. Christian Schoen, who is also a renowned curator of
contemporary art and new media.
The Seven Screens are located next to the Osram building at the urban
freeway, Mittleren Ring, Munich
Image: Umgiessen, Osram Hauptverwaltung. Source Silvio Knezevic
Media contact: Claudia Weber Kommunikation
phone +49 170 735 77 75 weber@claudia-weber-kommunikation.de
Artist talk and screening Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 7.00 pm
Harun Farocki and Dr. Matthias Muehling talking about the economy of images.
Following the screening of "Ein Bild" (1983).
Kunstbau der Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus, U-Bahnhof Königsplatz,
80333 Munich.
In cooperation between the Lenbachhaus and Osram Art Projects.
Opening: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7.00 pm
Talks by Martin Goetzeler, Ceo of Osram and Dr. Christian Schoen, Curator
Osram Art Projects
Hellabrunner Str. 1, München. U1 Candidplatz