Media
MEDIA is a bi-monthly newsletter that will feature content from our artists, collaborators or various sources that we feel deserves more visibility, including text excerpts, audio clips, performances, press articles and more.
-
Bare Heel Country / Alison Yip's Publication for the exhibition Bare Heel Country at Dortmunder Kunstverein from 2020
In this edition of MEDIA, we present a part of Alison Yip’s publication accompanying her solo exhibition Bare Heel Country at Dortmunder Kunstverein curated by Rebekka Seubert. With her writings and a poem she lets us into her thoughts, musing about vulnerability, sensations, and, of course, unicorns. / Alison Yip, Bare Heel Country
2020, Dortmunder Kunstverein
Artistic Director: Rebekka Seubert
Curator, curatorial assistant: Linda Schröer
Member of staff: Jürgen Bolz / Graphic Design & Typography: Jonas Herfurth, Fabian Köper, KoeperHerfurth
Text: Alison Yip
Translation: Edmée Brell, Good & Cheap Translations
Images: World Wide Web, 2020
Production: UNTERDRUCK,Nordpol, Dortmund / You can purchase the full publication through this link. -
"An Ear for Research" / Nora Sdun's article about Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann's exhibition Earmouse at ABC Hamburg in 2022. / In this edition of MEDIA, we focus on an article by Nora Sdun in the Hamburg based magazine Untiefen, which used the occasion of Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann’s exhibition Earmouse at ABC in 2022, curated by Martin Karcher, to devote a text to the delicate topic of Joseph Vacanti's research and the artists transmission of it. The article reminds the reader of the ever-widening gap between science and its opponents, be it in vaccination research or climate change, which is as present as ever and affects all parts of our society more and more. / By following his interests and again entering the historic border areas of natural and cultural science, the artist showcased multiple installations dedicated to the so-called Vacanti Mouse. A peculiar hybrid creature, which should had been listened to more carefully: While just a few meters away, vaccine opponents marched, the mice revealed something about misguided hostility towards science. -
PS: I Love U. / A musical reading in 3 Acts by Josefine Reisch and Nora Hansen / In this edition of MEDIA, we present PS: I Love U a musical reading by Josefine Reisch and Nora Hansen, accompanied by a text written by Lisa Oord. The reading examines love letters and love songs from the last 200 years, while the artists bring their idols together on a timeless stage, including Gluck, Nesta Obermeier, Rihanna, James Joyce, Stevie Wonder, Nora Barnacle, Octavia E. Butler, Beyoncé Knowles, Virginia Woolf, Nina Simone, Radclyffe Hall, Paula Modersohn-Becker, SIA, Simone de Beauvoir, Rosa Luxemburg and many more.. -
"The Eternal Pursuit of the Unattainable" / An essay by Racheal Crowther / In this edition of MEDIA, we present The Eternal Pursuit of the Unattainable, an essay by Racheal Crowther commissioned by Interjection Calendar 009 (September 2023) and published by Montez Press. Crowther writes about poison, counterfeits & the psychology of perfume. / © Racheal Crowther & Montez Press -
Video Palace / The installation series Video Palace (2002 - 2017) by Joep van Liefland / In this edition of MEDIA, we focus on the installation series Video Palace by Joep van Liefland, of which he has done almost 50 iterations, beginning as early as 2002 until 2017. Ranging from parking lots to art galleries, the installations include old VHS tapes, monitors, and projectors from Liefland's extensive collection, accompanied by posters and various decorations. Alongside the pictures from Liefland's archive is an interview with Liefland by Max Henry from 2017 published in the catalogue for the exhibition Afterlife at AMP, Athens. -
"I apologize for being born a woman" / A performance by Kami Mierzvvinsk / In this edition of MEDIA, we present J E S T E M (I AM), a video performance from 2018 by Kami Mierzvvinsk, accompanied by the manifesto "I apologize for being born a woman". In their own words: / I live in Poland. In a country strongly defined by religious fundamentalism linked to politics, where a small dictatorship is noticeable. I was born in a woman’s body, as if this was to be my punishment and reward. I spent years opposing a system that only allowed two sexes. For years I was ridiculed for my feelings and my search for my own gender identity. I didn’t have the tools to do so in schools that would have made it easier for me to live in harmony with myself. I live in Poland, where the LGBTQ+ community is discriminated against. The government and the church fuel the hate machine against anyone who deviates from the example of the „correct Polish family”. We are humiliated, intimidated and not treated equally. Women are banned from having abortions and are even urged to have children through subsidies (loyalty programmes) in order to reduce women to objects. Even if her gender identity is not compatible with this. / What if Jesus, a historical figure, was a woman? What if he/she/they was a hermaphrodite? What would the Polish government, the Polish order, the Polish church say about this?
Please click here to gain full access to the video. (PW: jestem)