[Nettime-ro] History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment

[irina botea <irinab@gmail.com>]

History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment


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in Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance



History Will Repeat Itself: Strategies of Re-enactment in  
Contemporary (Media) Art and Performance :: Hartware  
MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, Germany: June 9 -  
September 23, 2007; Opening: Friday, June 8, 2007, 19:00 :: KW  
Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Germany: November 18, 2007 â  
January 13, 2008; Opening: Saturday, November 17, 2007 :: Concept:  
Inke Arns; Curated by: Inke Arns and
Gabriele Horn; Co-curator: Katharina Fichtner.

The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself illuminates current  
strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and  
performance, and presents the positions and strategies of 23  
international artists. A cooperative project by Hartware  
MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund and KW Institute for Contemporary  
Art Berlin, this is the first comprehensive exhibition project on the  
subject of re-enactment in Germany.

Unlike popular historical re-enactments, artistic re-enactments are  
not simply affirming what has happened in the past, but rather they  
are questioning the present via repeating or re-enacting historical  
events that have left their traces in the collective memory. Re- 
enactments are artistic interrogations of media images that try to  
scrutinise the reality of the images, while at the same time pointing  
towards the fact that the collective memory is significantly informed  
by media images.

Participating artists include:

 Guy Ben-Ner (IL/DE), Walter Benjamin (YU), Irina Botea (RO/US), C- 
Level (US), Daniela Comani (IT/DE), Jeremy Deller (GB), Rod Dickinson  
(GB), Nikolai Evreinov (RU), Omer Fast (IL/DE), Iain Forsyth & Jane  
Pollard (GB), Heike Gallmeier (DE), Felix Gmelin (SE), Pierre Huyghe  
(FR), Evil Knievel (US), Korpys/Loeffler (DE), Zbigniew Libera (PL),  
Robert Longo (US), Tom McCarthy (GB), FrÃdÃric Moser / Philippe  
Schwinger (CH), Collier Schorr (US), Kerry Tribe (US), T.R. Uthco &  
Ant Farm (US), Artur Zmijewski (PL).

In Dortmund, the exhibition will run in parallel (9 June - 23  
September) to Documenta 12 in Kassel and skulptur.projekte muenster  
in Munster, Germany. The venue of the show is Hartware  
MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund, a spectacular 1895  
factory hall measuring 2.200 square meters belonging to a giant  
former steel production plant.

Located in the formerly heavily industrialized region of the Ruhr  
valley, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) Dortmund is one of the  
leading institutions for media art in today's Germany. Founded in  
1996, HMKV serves as a platform for the production, presentation,  
education on and contextualisation of contemporary and experimental  
media art.

Please note that Dortmund is only 30 min. by train from Munster, and  
2,5 hours from Kassel.

Later this year, the show will travel to Berlin and be on display at  
the KW Institute for Contemporary Art from 18 November 2007 until 13  
January 2008.

The exhibition History Will Repeat Itself is funded by the Federal  
Cultural Foundation, Kunststiftung NRW, Staatskanzlei NRW, Bundesamt  
fÃr Kultur BAK (Switzerland), NRW Kultursekretariat Wuppertal, The  
Henry Moore Foundation, Pro Helvetia, and The British Council.

The program of Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund  
is supported by Kulturbuero and by Wirtschaftsfoerderung der Stadt  
Dortmund.

The cultural programs of KW Institute for Contemporary Art are made  
possible thanks to the support of The Governing Mayor of Berlin -  
Senate Chancellery - Cultural Affairs.

For press material, please contact Roland Kentrup, kentrup[at]zk.nrw- 
online.de

Venue and opening hours:
HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund (exhibition venue)
Thursday and Friday 11 - 22
Saturday and Sunday 11 - 20
Hochofenstrasse / corner Rombergstrasse
Dortmund-Hoerde

How to get there- Map.

Hartware MedienKunstVerein (office)
Guentherstr. 65
44143 Dortmund
Germany
T ++49.231.823106
F ++49.231.8820240
info[at]thmkv.de



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