Kategorie: photography
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Images du Cornillon.
Marc Pataut is a french artist and photographer. One of his well-known photographic projects is Images du Cornillon sur le terrain, which was exhibited at documenta X in 1997. Pataut documented the transformation of the 25-hectare Cornillon gasworks industrial wasteland near Saint Denis, north of Paris, over an extended period of time. Announced in 1993,…
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Human relationships.
»For me… a work of art can itself constitute a model of human relationships.« British artist Stephen Willats (b.1943) richly complex works combine modular abstraction with pictures and texts that tell the life stories of our own neighbourhoods. Inspired by cybernetics and communication theory, Willats has deployed photography, architecture and abstraction to examine ‘the function…
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City Symphony.
Walther Ruttmann’s documentary film from 1927 describes a day in the big city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into living and working conditions at that time. Ruttmann conceived his film as a documentary work of art intended to portray the big city of Berlin as…
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For a city to come.
It is the invisible structure of urban environment – hidden from view in the same manner as the blackness of film negative conceals the whiteness of positive print – that disrupts the emergence of new forms of thinking, or acting, and thus causes any form of artistic practice to be either complicit or impossible. […] corridors…
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Périphérique compressed.
When you are in the Banlieue of Paris, and there is a massive strike. What to do?Video by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber. March 25, 2023. 12:05 pm – 12:45 pm
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Tutorials
Printed tutorials, books, and magazines have been a significant part of the hip hop culture in teaching kids how to dance correctly. Hip hop dance is a highly stylized and technical form of dance that requires a lot of practice and dedication to master. While many people learn hip hop dance from watching music videos…
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Keine Party.
Video by Deichkind and Lard Eidinger: Performance intervention in the city.
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Freeze the Move.
For 100 years, historians considered these photographs by Eadweard Muybridge to be scientific studies of the body in motion. The exhibition Freeze Frame: Eadweard Muybridge’s Photography of Motion provides an introduction to the Smithsonian’s Muybridge collection. more »»
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Go Home Polish.
Michał Iwanowski came across some graffiti in Cardiff that said: ‘Go home, Polish.’ So he did. The 105-day slog almost broke him – but it restored his faith in a volatile, fractured Europe. read more »»
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No Walk No Art.
Since the early 1970s Hamish Fulton (born 1946) has been labelled as a sculptor, photographer, Conceptual artist and Land artist. Fulton, however, characterises himself as a ‚walking artist‘. read more »»
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Paris Nord.
»Paris Nord« by Myr Muratet offers a sensitive look at the fragile, precarious and inventive forms developed by people living on the margins. Through images from the photographer’s series, we discover the interstices of the city as places where intimacy slips in, where the wild and the forgotten cohabit with the domestic and the everyday.…
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Banlieue de Paris. Doisneau.
La Banlieue de Paris is a photographic album including a fifty-page text by Blaise Cendrars and 130 plates by Robert Doisneau, who was still little known at the time. The photographer, who lived a large part of his life in the Parisian suburbs, took a large number of photographs there (Cendrars mentions 50,000 negatives). The…
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Japanese Lesson.
Since 2011 Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber have been exploring various phenomena of the Japanese present under the title Japanese Lesson, dealing with subcultures, activism and protest or the political landscape of the major cities of Tokyo and Osaka. In 2019 they developed several walks in districts on the one hand still struggeling with stigmatization…
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Walking — Moving.
In 1977 Japanese artist Norio Imai, former member of the Gutai group, walked through his neighborhood Sumiyoshi in Osaka. (Walking Event/Scene at the Corner ウォーキング･イヴェント/曲り角の風景, 1977) Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber followed his walk in 2019.
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Mythical places of Hip Hop.
The exhibition »Terrains les lieux mythiques du Hip Hop à Paris“ took place Médiathèque Marguerite Duras in 2016, looking back in photos, videos and music at the beginnings of Hip Hop culture in France. read more»»
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Battle of the Year.
Portrait from Oliver Sieber’s Imaginary Club.2on2 Breakin Battle World Bboy Classic Rotterdam 2012
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Peripheren.
In their works, Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber address questions about the structure of cities and the links between urban and social boundaries. Their photographs reveal a particular interest in areas and neighborhoods that are marginalized or carry a certain stigma in the eyes of society. more»»
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Eyes on Paris.
Paris is considered to be the cradle of photography. Paris with its artists, scientists and craftsmen proved to be the ideal breeding ground for the medium. Without a doubt Paris is the most photographed city in the world. read more»»
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Freeze the moment.
A photograph stops time and reduced it to a frozen instant. Life goes on, the subject changes but the photography stays the same, even when the person dies, the image is left behind. The photograph is both the sole remaining relic of the individual and the most inadequate record imaginable.
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Street, Art, Life.
In a group exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the arts in 2007, guest curator Lydia Yee historicizes the street as subject and stage, a space onto which artists project their shifting visions of public life. read»»
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William Klein.
William Klein‘s »Dance Happening June 1961« in collaboration with Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.