co_op_Film, Video


The >fylm class<

November 19 - December 19, 2004

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  This autumn the Kuenstlerhaus presents five exhibitions which have a good look at the matter of artistic co-operation.
This series of shows focusses on different approaches and motivations of co-operations. The invited projects use several medias of contemporary art as painting, concept, photography, installation and
film. For instance, painters (who usually are keen to define and protect their very personal style and strategy) discover and enjoy the advantages of opening out and combining their points of view and skills. Co-operating is not that unusual for young art film-makers, possibly it is even essential. Different from their way of working together on projects are the effective production communities of photographers and installation artists.
 
   
   
 

Opening: Friday, November 19, 2004 at 8 pm
Introduction: Prof. Andreas Koepnick, fylmclass of the Art Academy Muenster
Performances: Jan Andreas Enste & Tim Reinfrank, Sken Zannos & Martin Knott

 
   
   
   
   
     
 

Participating artists:

Stephanie Benner
Arturo Camus
Yi-Kyung Cho
jae
Matthias Fechner
Maria Frycz
Kai Hörstensmeyer
Nathalie Koger
Il-Woo Lee
Jan Linnemann
Andrea Meschede
Anna Carena Mosler
Nadja Marcin
Till Nachtmann
Johanna Reich
Justine Stempkowski
Adriane Wachholz
Ji-Young Yang
Sken Zannos

> www.fylmklasse.de

 
     
     
 

Don‘t Touch A Running System

The organization form of artist classes at art academies has lived through all kind of transformations, although every possible aspect concerning the way how art sees itself has changed in the previous 100 years. This is an astonishing phenomenon especially since the sobering realization, that art is "unteachable", has become a common set phrase in introductory lectures. Consequently the question should become more and more urgent, what actually is going on within these academic circles. Despite all system-critical analysises and didactic concepts, it still seems to exist a kind of respect towards the imponderable character of artistic growing processes.

 
     
Performance Sken Zannos & Martin Knott
   
 
 
     
 

One might argue more soberly by using the banal cognition of the system theorists, that a well functioning context should not be taken to pieces, as long as the operator is interested in any further system output.

One should keep the mystery of the Black Box, in order to support that, which is diffunding out through the cell membranes of an art academy class, or which already has become independent by the force of an own nucleus. There is no kind of sorting. Works by study beginners are presented together with works by graduated people, already award-winning works can be seen beside unpublished ones, narrative film beside music video, analogue photographs beside manipulated digital prints, machine sculpture beside text art. The productive internal driving forces of an artist class is sorting itself out and is found by interlocking and interacting inconsistencies.

 
     
     
 
Performance Jan Andreas Enste & Tim Reinfrank
 
   
 
 
     
 

Since we are officially a class for film, video and new medias, there is a special dynamism. In more traditional forms of expression (despite expanded oevre concepts and crossover strategies) always resonate the homogenity of the origin genre, too. But the out-of-hand-getting context of media art turns out to be a confusing labyrinth, in which the young artist has to cultivate a kind of seventh sense or in which he has to "resolutely get lost" (Peter Handke)

 
   
     
 
     
     
 

The strange spelling of the fylm class ("Fylmklasse") is a result of its history. (...) This class was originally founded by Lutz Mommartz for celluloid film, but has seen many transformations concerning techniques and concepts. (...) The "y" is supposed to be a free variable, a vague element of uncertainty , which however keeps the system lively ...

Andreas Koepnick

 
     
   
  Photograph ©: Adriane Wachholz (invitation) | Reinhild Kuhn (Opening, Outdoor ad) | Christoph Bangert (Opening)
Idea|Concept for the co_op series: An Seebach | annual planning committee of the Kuenstlerhaus 2004
Organization:
Reinhild Kuhn | Christoph Bangert
Koepnick translation :
Christoph Bangert
supported by Mercedes-Benz Dortmund | Siebdruckatelier Haubner
   
   

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