Breitz: Alien, Ten Songs from Beyond; a video installation, that presents a remix of German song culture. In Access, Cera shows a setting of the studio that was his place of work for a year
In her video installation,
Candice Breitz presents
a remix of German song
culture. This new
interpretation of native
sounds of nostalgia
includes Germany's
national anthem
alongside "Hänschen
klein", "Freude schöner
Götterfunken" and
"Jenseits von Eden". But
here the German sense
of nostalgia is an
international
co-production: the
mother tongue of those
immigrants in the picture
was later synchronised
in the studio - by
German-speaking
amateurs.
Ten Songs from Beyond (An audio anthology)
A remix of ten songs compiled by Candice Breitz (with Alex Fahl, Ben
Lauber and Jorinde Voigt)... featuring fresher, crisper and simply groovier
versions of some old favourites: Danke, für diesen guten Morgen [Justin
Hoffmann, Ursula Mayer + Nina Stuhldreherl, Deutschlandlied [bruder +
kronstädta], Trinklieder [Opelzoo (Alex Fahl + Florian Wachinger)],
Freiheit [Klaus Weber], Freude, schöner Götterfunken [AI S.G. (Alex
Fahl)], Der fröhliche Wanderer [Ed Osborn], The Return of Der
fröhliche Wanderer [Nixon Henry], Die Gedanken sind frei
[Chlorgeschlecht (Alex Kloster + Johannes Malfatti)], Hänschen klein
[Gunilla Klingberg + Peter Geschwind], Jenseits von Eden [Ben Lauber],
Keine Macht für Niemand [Peter Lang + Hans Riener of SHY], and now
featuring a special bonus track: Kebapträume [Ec8or (Patric Catani +
Gina V. D'Orio)].
Nuno Cera: Access
In "Access", Nuno Cera
shows a setting of the
studio that was his
place of work for a year.
There is no direct
relation between the
works, but the close
proximity of completed
series and individual
pictures is
representative of Cera's
mode of thought and his
way of working.
Exhibition: September 28- October 13, 2002
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien
Marianneplatz 2, Berlin
Open Wednesday to Sunday, 2 -7 pm. Free entrance