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:kynstlerhaus
10 / 12 /1999 - 24 / 01 / 2000Exhibition / Performances / Discussion
:kynstlerhaus
Performance - Otto Kränzler: Komposition, Rainer Kirberg: Interpret
Audio Installation / Archive- 20 years production documentation, Otto Kränzler
Archive -20 years Künstlerhaus Audio Studio history, Otto Kranzler
"Preservation Club" / "Persönliche Party Platten", Rene Straub
Archive - 20 years Künstlerhaus Publications
haus.0 research interviews with Künstlerhaus founding members
Archive - Kommunikationsgruppe > Videowerkstatt production history
haus.0 initiative, research and compiling, format conversions to VHS viewing tapes,
Künstlerhaus / haus.0
"4b:b4" 2nd floor Installation view, (Performance stage as sculpture, stage
produced from collecting all the obsolete, discarded materials of twenty
years of Künstlerhaus) right side of image, audio installation from
Otto Kranzler, comprised of an annotated twenty years of self-built and
later consumer electronic audio equipment / instruments.
The project ":kynstlerhaus" plots out coordinates from the Künstlerhaus
founding mandate for a production house, in order to map out aspects of
the current artistic program: haus.0. The Künstlerhaus Stuttgart was
founded on a shift from the '70s to '80s ethos and notions of artistic praxis.
From this point of flux, the current project ":kynstlerhaus" draws
a contemporary line as a weave between futures and pasts. This project supplies
haus.0 and its public contemporary perspectives onto the further development
of both program and institution as an active institutional identity.
":kynstlerhaus" thus not only crosses over a line to 2000, it
criss-crosses that line with others defining cultural, artistic and institutional
parameters of Künstlerhaus. These lines include those which: designated
where the Reuchlinstrasse building second floor ends and the former Künstlerhaus
performance stage had begun; describe the early formation of both video
and audio studio; challenge defining gender-based perspectives; intertwine
supposedly seperate audiences along ideas of production, 'laboratory' analogy,
and consumption in terms of pop culture; and communication media in a variety
of 'inhaus' produced printed matter.
":kynstlerhaus" project includes commissioned soundwork, performance
events; music project; and printed matter which stresses Künstlerhaus
emphasis from the beginning on communication media, from catalogs to magazines.
A video-on-demand viewing area, with a large selection of newly packaged
vhs tapes of rarely seen, early Künstlerhaus works - from documentation
to performance to fictional narrative - serves to remind of the diverse
range that indicates the wide working definition of artist already operating.
":kynstlerhaus", by its approach continues the practice set up
by the haus.0 first public project "open haus" in March 1999.
These projects are structured like navigators, to periodically introduce
to the members as well as public the developing orientation of haus.0 -
that is itself linked to the transformation underway in Künstlerhaus.
":kynstlerhaus" is part of a constant form-finding process of
the new programmatic outline, that sets haus.0 in relation to Künstlerhaus
as an artist's institution at an important stage of transition. It offers
a passage onto the next stage of haus.0 programmatic line. The continued
artistic program engagement with necessary structural and conceptual renewal
of the institution production possibilities, i.e. audio, video and establishing
a concept of computer workshops; and furthering the approach to links between
program, institution and membership in performative dialogue frameworks;
a series of workshop/seminars; as well furthering the website commissions
and bringing various fields and participants together through specific productions.