(((This is an even cooler junket when you realize that this Dortmund electronic art museum is next to a huge, freaky, abandoned steel mill.)))
‘Awake Are Only the Spirits’ - On Ghosts and Their Media
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
16 May – 18 October 2009
Thu+Fri 16:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 11:00-20:00
OPENING: FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009, 19:00
At first glance, the subject of the exhibition ‘Awake Are Only the Spirits’ – On Ghosts and Their Media seems somewhat outmoded: the presence of the supernatural, the manifestations of spirits, and (trans)communication with the beyond facilitated by technical media. The exhibition is based on the audio-tape archive of Friedrich Jürgenson who discovered the so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in 1959. Taking as starting point the lively interest shown in the subject by contemporary artists, the show aims to tell a ‘ghost story’ that explores the question of why, for all our enlightenment, irrational capabilities are regularly ascribed to the new media and technologies of a given time – for instance, the ability to act as a channel for messages from the beyond. All of the projects by the twenty-two international artists participating in the exhibition question in some way or another the existence of ghosts, they explore the integration of new media and technologies in spiritualist contexts, make visible or perceptible the invisible and trace the political implications as well as the aesthetics of such contemporary trans-communication phenomena.
Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=3689&rubric=exhibitions&
OPENING WEEKEND PROGRAM
Friday, 15 May 2009
17:00 Finissage Barbara Meisner, "Berge im Bunker", Schamp & Schmalöer, Tullstr. 5, 44263 Dortmund
Friday, 15 May 2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
19:00 exhibition opening ‘Awake Are Only the Spirits’ - with: Birgit Jörder, Mayor of the City of Dortmund (Welcome), Dr. Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach, State Chancellory of North-Rhine-Westfalia (Greeting), Dr. Inke Arns, exhibition curator and artistic director of HMKV, and Thibaut de Ruyter, exhibition curator (on the exhibition)
21:00 dj adorno future
Saturday, 16 May 2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
12:00-20:00 Martin Howse (GB): „The White Visitation“, workshop (please register)
14:00 Tom McCarthy (GB): „C“ (reading from his new book „transmission, death, technology“ to be published in 2010)
16:00 Michael Esposito (US): Lecture about phantom airwaves / research about ghosts' voices
18:00 Inke Arns / Thibaut de Ruyter: Exhibition tour with the curators
20:00 Erik Bünger (SE): „A Lecture on Schizophonia“ (performance)
Sunday, 17 May 2009, PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
12:00-19:00 Martin Howse: „The White Visitation“, workshop (please register)
16:00 Guided exhibition tour (in German)
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Lucas & Jason Ajemian (US)
Archive of an Anonymous Ghost-Seer (DE), curated by hans w. koch
Sam Ashley (US)
Corinne May Botz (US)
Erik Bünger (SE)
Damien Cadio (FR)
Michael Esposito (US)
Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani (DE)
Agnès Geoffray (FR)
Kathrin Günter (DE)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE)
Tim Hecker (CA)
Susan Hiller (GB)
Martin Howse (GB)
International Necronautical Society (GB)
Friedrich Jürgenson (SE)
Joep van Liefland (NL)
Chris Marker (FR)
Jorge Queiroz (PT)
Scanner (GB)
Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE)
Suzanne Treister (GB)
THE EXHIBITION IS GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY
Der Ministerpräsident des Landes NRW
Kunststiftung NRW
Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund dortmund-project
Institut Francais - CULTURESFRANCE
Mondriaan Stichting
NRW Kultursekretariat
PHOENIX
LEG
Dyrup GmbH
RUAG - Aerospace Services GmbH
Media partner:
Heinz
How to get to PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Address: Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr., Dortmund Hörde
With public transport: From Dortmund's main railway station take the subway line U41 in the direction of Clarenberg and get off at "Hörde Bhf", walk ten minutes via Hochofenstr. until you reach PHOENIX Halle
With car: On the B54 take the exit Hörde, drive east in the direction of Hörde on Nortkirchenstr., turn left at the corner of Felicitasstr. and continue until PHOENIX Halle. Access from the direction of Hörde via Hochofenstr.
