During International Museum Day on May 16, 2010, the Edith Russ House for Media Art will present the current exhibition Record > Again! 40 Years of Video Art in Germany, Part 2, the Edith Russ House for Media Art will present the projects of the 2009 Media Art Scholarship.
The works created at the Edith Russ House over the past year will be presented to the public for the first time. There will be a variety of collaborations on this day, including with the State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Oldenburg, the castle gardens, the university, the Kreyenbrück secondary school and klangpol. New Music Network.
At the same time, the results of the radio workshop Die Schleife will be presented in the afternoon, which will take place from May 13 to 16, 2010 (Thu: 2 – 7 pm, Fri: 4 – 8 pm, Sat/Sun: 11 am – 6 pm) and for which you can still register. It will be broadcast in two programs from 3 – 4 and 5 – 6 p.m., which can be heard on 106.5 and in the Edith Russ House for Media Art. Please bring portable radios!
The exhibition Record > Again! will also be presented to the public on the last day of opening. There will be free guided tours every hour, during which visitors can learn about the many facets of video art in Germany over the past forty years and admire fascinating old television sets.
Presentation of the projects of the scholarship for media art 2009
Jana Linke: EMDAS (A machine that creates work)
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil, Henrik Mayer): The Risk Society
SINE WAVE ORECHESTRA (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi): The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA in the Sun (in the garden pavilion of the Schlossgarten)
Jana Linke: EMDAS Model No°1
Photo Nadine Minkwitz
Jana Linke deals with the meaning and value of work in the globalized world and poses the question of the positioning of art in the working society. In this society, the value of the individual is defined by his or her work. The artist assumes that balanced systems require the principle of waste – or “if you build high, you have to dig deep next door”. Her machine(EMDAS – A machine that creates work) ensures that a worker is provided with work in a decadently wasteful activity: It digs itself into sand and is then dug up again by an employee so that it can dig itself back in. Jana Linke will provide information about her project on International Museum Day and illustrate it using the prototype of the machine. The presentation of the machine itself is planned for the Night of the Museums on September 26, 2010.
Cleaning society: Risk society,
Installation view Museum Schwerin
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT (Martin Keil and Henrik Mayer) examine the tendency to shift the risks of our economy from the general public to the individual in their socio-political project Die Risikogesellschaft (The Risk Society) in the context of the general economic crisis. The artists see themselves as researchers who use an artistic perspective to observe the social processes that arise in the difference between professional life and personal demands. The installation, which was created on this theme and can be seen in the Edith-Ruß-Haus event room, is based on a seminar held by the artists at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. After an introduction to artistic projects on processes of social structural change, the students worked in workshops with tenth-grade pupils from an Oldenburg secondary school on their individual expectations for the future.
Opening of the installation on Sunday, May 16, at 11.15 am. The artists will be present.
Sine Wave Orchestra: Prototype
of the sound object
In the project The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA in the Sun, the SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo, Daisuke Ishida, Mizuki Noguchi) performs an installation in which the sound generation depends largely on the weather and the time of day. The objects, which each generate sound by means of a sine wave via a loudspeaker, only function in sunlight, so that this element regulates the volume and the composition of the sounds. Despite this unpredictable randomization, it is primarily a participatory installation presented in the garden pavilion of the palace gardens, an intimate and sun-drenched space with a strong visual reference to the spring vegetation of the surrounding park. Each new visitor places another sound-generating element and thus participates in the growing “orchestra” that will be heard and seen in the garden pavilion of the Schlossgarten from May 16 to 24, daily from 2 – 5 p.m., Sunday May 16 from 11 a.m. – 8 p.m., Saturday May 22 – Monday May 24 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. .
The installation is supported by klangpol. New Music Network.
The presentation takes place in cooperation with the State Museum of Art and Cultural History and the palace gardens.
The scholarship program of the Edith Russ House for Media Art is funded by the Lower Saxony Foundation and has enabled the development and implementation of three high-quality, new projects in the field of media art each year since 2001. The scholarship holders in 2010 are Ralf Baecker, HeHe (Helen Evans, Heiko Hansen) and Anahita Razmi.