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Veranstaltung im Rahmen der Ausstellung Beam me up
Lecture by Christina Vagt and Performance by Knowbotic ResearchA lecture (6pm) and a performance (7pm) by participants of the interdisciplinary project Beam Me Up.
Christine Vagt: Heideggers Medien der Topologie
Lecture about Heidegger's notion of space and its relevance in the context of art and installation art.
Christina Vagt studied cultural studies and history at Humboldt-University in Berlin. From 2005 – 2007 she held a sholarship granted by the research training group »Mediale Historiographien« in Weimar. She is currently working on her phd-thesis on Heideggers concept of media within the context of modern physics and as an academic staff member for the exhibition »Work. Meaning and Care« at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in Dresden (June 2009).
Knowbotic Research: huwwara_anybody, looking
The artists collective Knowbotic Research presents their new project "huwwara_anybody, looking" in a preview performance, a
"participative dis/play".
A female voice recounts the TV-report about an interrupted and failed suicide attack by a Palestinian boy on an Israeli checkpoint. Or is the voice narrating a dream about the hybridisation of the suicide bomber with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture, merging both and turning them into an undecodable, computer-animated being?
huwwara _ anybody, looking is an installation consisting of different sets, media and viewing formats (an audio piece, a single-screen computer animation, a double-screen interactive video). The installation is based on the re-enactment of video footage, archived on Youtube, of a report from Israeli TV Channel 2. The installation enables the observer, placed in a "third position", a vexing immersion into his/her ways of looking at, and perceiving of, extremely overcoded protagonists such as suicide bombers and high-tech military actors. Interjected is a doubled, apparently inconspicuous view of the neutral silhouette of a Palestinian city at night. The display of the restaged TV scene provides access to a "narrative of strangeness", an opaque extension to the existing demonizing imagery applied from both sides of the political antagonism in the Middle East, as well as a displacement of super-hero figurations from adolescent role model techniques.
The collective Knowbotic Research consists of the artists Yvonne Wilhelm (*1962), Christian Huebler (*1962), and Alexander Tuchacek (*1962), who are based in Zurich/Switzerland. The group experiments with urbanity, the construction of knowledge and political representations in public spheres.
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