Landschaft 2.0
An exhibition on the reality and the artificiality of the landscape
28. August – 15. November 2009A joint project of the Edith Ruß Site for Media Art (Oldenburg) and the Kunstverein Springhornhof (Neuenkirchen near Soltau)
| Opening: | Friday, 28. August, 8 p.m. |
| Press: | Thursday, 27. August, 2 p.m. |
Teri Rueb: Core Sample, ortspezifische Soundinstallation, 2008, © Teri Rueb
How do we perceive landscapes? As real and preferably
undisturbed nature? As a real but totally constructed reality or as a
digital fantasy world? What can and should the landscape accomplish
today? And what visions are there about its future?
Monica Studer / Christoph van den Berg: Nebel, Screenshot from interactive Computer-Installation, 2005, © Studer / van den Berg
The exhibition Landscape 2.0 juxtaposes romantic yearnings and emotions
with the demands of a modern globalised world and its guiding
principles. It concerns a contemporary exploration of the subject matter
of the landscape and its importance in the present day.
Vaughn Bell: Village Green, Installation, 2008
© Vaughn Bell, Photo: Kevin Kennefick
The significance of the landscape is permanently subject to an
historic transformation that is influenced by social, ideological and
technical changes.
Landscape as an artistic representation was simultaneously always an
inventory of the respective discourse regarding nature and its
importance in peoples’ lives.
A new relationship to our surroundings has resulted from the
increasing virtualisation of our world. Now that it has become
navigable, predictable and thus manipulable in various ways, the shaped
and constructed landscape functions like a catalogue of interpretations
of nature, of society, of the economy or culture.
Wapke Feenstra: Former Farmland Oldenburg,
ortspezifische Installation, Handy-Application,
Netproject, 2009
© Wapke Feenstra
The artists participating in the exhibition have developed various strategies of dealing with this complex subject matter.
Vaughn
Bell, Wapke Feenstra, David Hahlbrock and Ursula Damm have taken a look
back at historic developments and the effects they have had on
present-day landscape structures.
Beate Gütschow references traditional portrayals of the landscape.
Susan Collins reflects upon the changes in our landscape resulting from
technological and global developments. Ulu Braun and Thiago Rocha Pitta
have developed utopian ideas and concepts regarding sustainable
landscape planning in the future.
Thomson & Craighead: Flat Earth,
Video, 2007,
© Thomson & Craighead
Janice Kerbel, Jane Prophet, Rachel Reupke and Monica Studer/Christoph van den Berg have produced digital venues and model worlds. Katrin Sigurdardottir’s installation deals with the relationship between body, sight and perspective in virtual landscapes.
Jane Prophet: Model Landscapes,
Installation (Detail), 2005
© Jane Prophet
Practices
of life and the measuring of landscape spaces by means of modern
technologies and their translation into aesthetic and acoustic
information (GPS, Google Maps) are the themes dealt with in the works of
Brett Stalbaum/Cicero DaSilva/walkingtools.net,
the Büro für Unabwägbarkeiten, Masaki Fujihata, Teri Rueb and Thomson
& Craighead who make data regarding landscapes audible and tangible.
Masaki Fujihata, field works: Mersea Circles,
3D Projektion, 2003
© Masaki Fujihata
Events
Mittwoch, 09. September , 16-18 Uhr
Media Education Lounge
Für LehrerInnen und andere MultiplikatorInnen,
mit Nanna Lüth
Wir bauen ein Roboterorchester
mit KH Jeron, für Mädchen und Jungen von 10-15 Jahren,
Unkostenbeitrag: 5€
Aufführung des Roboterorchesters
im Rahmen von "Stadtklang"
Nacht der Museen
freier Eintritt
Führungen: 18 Uhr / 20 Uhr / 22 Uhr
Abendöffnung mit Führung
um 18 Uhr
Versionhoodparty
mit Kristin Lucas
Blühende Landschaften
Ferienworkshops für Kinder und Jugendliche von 9 - 13 Jahren,
mit Christian Gude Nanna Lüth in Kooperation mit der Kibum 2009,
Unkostenbeitrag: 5€
in Face of Nature
Programm mit historischen und zeitgenössischen Kurzfilmen,
kuratiert von Florian Wüst (Berlin)
Abendöffnung mit Führung
um 18 Uhr
Pflanzen: Abstraktion und Bausatz
Präsentation des gleichnamigen Kurses des Studiengangs
Integriertes Design der Hochschule für Künste Bremen,
geleitet von Helene von Oldenburg
Künstliche Insekten, singende Äste und andere Solarwesen
Solarroboterworkshop mit Ralf Schreiber für Jugendliche,
Erwachsene, SeniorInnen,
Unkostenbeitrag: 5€
Präsentation der Workshopergebnisse
Press interviews by appointment.
| Inquiries: | Sabine Himmelsbach |
| Tel. 0441-235 2568 | |
| Fax 0441-235 2161 | |
| E-Mail: info@edith-russ-haus.de |
