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FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER
Videonale 18.

On what basis do we live, think and act nowadays? And how are we shaping this basis for the future? The works of the exhibition FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER open a discourse on these questions. How does our thinking of the relationship of human beings to their environment change when we no longer see the body as solid and autonomous - as it has been the case until now - but as fluid. As fluid bodies - or "Bodies of Water", as gender researcher Astrida Neimanis puts it -
we as human beings no longer stand above nature, but in interaction with it, with the living being, with the systems that surround us.
Image: © Ida Kammerloch, Resusci Anne, 2019/2020

Alexandra Meijer-Werner

Between 1993 and 2002 Alexandra Meijer-Werner's artistic work focused on creating video installations with multiple projectors, and combining sound, texture and interaction with the public. She also produced a number of documentaries which evidence her profound interest in personal transformation and the awakening of human consciousness.

Please have a look to an introduction of her work on blinkvideo.
Image: © Eugenia Meijer-Werner

Moving Images / Moving Bodies
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curated by Ludwig Seyfarth

Research into the human body and interpersonal relationships remain central themes in video and moving image art. Artists from Bulgaria and Germany, whose work is related in content, will be shown in pairs over the next weeks. The exhibition planned for November 2020 in Sofia has been postponed until 2021. Instead, a consecutive presentation of selected films by artists from Moving Bodies/Moving Images is presented on blinkvideo.
image: © Elitsa Dimitrova

Shooting Ghosts
Online screening programme in cooperation
with the Goethe-Institut Bulgaria

Curators: Kalin Serapionov, Krassimir Terziev

What we propose in this programme is a highly subjective and fragmented view on current practices in moving image in the Bulgarian art scene. We focused on practices that show affinity with speculative narratives - narratives that not just record what is in front of the cinematic eye, but also capture all the ghosts that are unreachable by the apparatus, thus projecting speculative views that intend not merely to describe, but to transform the world.
image: © Veneta Androva

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Jonathan Monaghan
Den of Wolves, 2020

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Stefan Panhans
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Anna McCarthy

Works


Biography

Born 1981, British
Currently living and working in Germany

Education

2002-2009 Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Sculpture (Diploma)
2005-2007 Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Art (BA Hons)
2001-2002 Kingston University of Art & Design, London, Foundation Studies

Exhibitions

2015
JAHRESGABEN, Kunstverein Munich
FASSBINDERTAGE, Munich
BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, Bosnia und Herzegovina
HOUSE FOR THEM ANCESTORS – Musique d'Ameublement, w/ Manu Rzytki, Kunstraum Munich

2014
NEIN – Anna McCarthy, PLATFORM, Munich
WHICH SUPERMARKET ARE YOU? w/ Manuela Gernedel, Morag Keil,, LISZT, Berlin
SHELTERS, SHACKS, AND SHANTIES, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich
LABORATORY AIM DENSITY + APOCALYPSE LAUW TOUR, Knust/Extrapool Nijmegen , Glasmoog Cologne, Wolfart Rotterdam, Worm Rotterdam, Butcher’s Tears Amsterdam
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION: THE MUSICAL, Maximiliansforum, Munich
HEUTE NACHMITTAG: ALS WIR NOCH AN WAS GLAUBTEN, 1914/2014. Die Neuvermessung Europas, Munich
USE 2 B USB - w/ Rebecca Stephany, RongWrong, Amsterdam

2013
HOW TO START A REVOLUTION – The Musical, Festival of Independents, Haus der Kunst, Munich
II : NA-EN-DE-NA-EN-DE-NA-WI-DA : II, Schaustelle/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
DAS ALLERLETZTE PROF. WINKLER STIPENDIUM, Kunstverein Weiden
LIBER LIBRI (Objekt- und Künstlerbücher), Studio Gennai Arte Contemporanea, Pisa

2012
ESCAPIST ADVENTURES, BBK Cologne
DE LOS LETARGOS FELICES (Der Glücklichen Langeweilen), Casa Cino Fabiani, Guayaquil/ Ecuador
LUSTIGE FRAUEN KUNST, Ernst Fine Arts London
BORED REBELS, Glasmoog, Cologne
FLAT NO.1, Niklas Schechinger Fine Arts, Hamburg

2011
FEMINISTS IN SPACE FESTIVAL, Kopenhagen
NY ART BOOK FAIR, Revolution & Its Muses book signing and stand, MOMA PS1, New York
THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP. Mural, Staging Opinion Festival, Munich
REVOLUTION & ITS MUSES, Book presentation, Extrapool/KNUST, Nijmegen/Niederlande
ICH DACHTE MAN DARF ALLES, Theatre project, Maximiliansforum, Munich

2010
HINTS TO WORKMEN, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
FRIENDLY CAPITALISM, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin
GEWALT, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
BORED REBEL IN OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, Screening, Underdox Festival, Munich
WIEDERSEHEN IN TRAUTONIEN, Video for play, Schwere Reiter/ Deutsches Museum, Munich
TRACING THE INVISIBLE, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln
BORED REBEL IN OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, Bielefelder Kunstverein
KISS OF LIFE, Finn Collective, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
THE TWO EAGLES/ANG DALAWANG AGILA, The Metro Gallery, Manila
21ST CENTURY – Morag Keil, Manuela Gernedel, screening, Chisenhale Gallery, London

2009
OCTOBER SHOW, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
GROSSE MALEREI AUSSTELLUNG, Lothringer 13 Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich
UNCONSCIOUS, Steinle Contemporary, Munich
KÜNSTLERFREIZEIT 2009, Kunstraum Innsbruck
CONCRETE GALLERY: RESET YOUR LIFE, Wilkinson Gallery, London
ZUR SCHÖNEN AUSSICHT, Volkstheater, Munich

2008
TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV METZGER, kuratiert von Justin Hoffman für Bayern 2 (Radio)
Destruction in Art, Präsentation, Haus der Kunst, Munich
JAHRESGABEN, Kunstverein Munich
DIGITALANALOG, Carl-Orff-Saal,Gasteig, Munich
PROTEST UND WIDERSTAND IM EIGENSINN DER KUNST, Galerie 5020, Salzburg
GLASGOW: A TRUE & LOVE STORY, Screening, Underdox Festival, Werkstattkino, Munich
WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE, Galleribox, Akureyi, Iceland
TRANSITIONAL STATE, Edinburgh Arts Festival, kuratiert von Laura Simpson, Edinburgh
GLASGOW: A TRUE & LOVE STORY, Premiere, Filmmuseum, Munich

2007
LOST & FOUND, Shedhalle, Zürich
SUPERMARKET ART FAIR (Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow), Stockholm
GALLERIBOX, Akureyi/Iceland
RSA STUDENT EXHIBITION 2006, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh

Awards/grants/residencies

2015
Fellowship and Residency, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
2014
Commission, 1914/2014 Remeasuring Europe, Arts Council Munich
Award, Grant and Publication, Kunstclub13 Munich
2012
Knust/Extrapool, Art Prison, Residency and Publication, Nijmegen
2009
Leonhard- and Ida Wolf Remembrance Prize, Arts Council Munich
Gil Society, Residency and Exhibition, Akureyri, Iceland

Public Collections

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
(Bavarian State Painting Collections)

Publications (selection)

2015
DRINK COLD PISS WARM, 100-page poem and photos, Melville Brand Design
2014
Die friedliche Zeitschrift für internationale Verständigung, Charlie Edition
2013
Poems and Pictures, Self-Published Hand-bound Limited Edition
Angry Time #1 Strike Work by Anja Lückenkemper, Anna Dobrucki
2012
Damenkapelle 10” , self-published, 2013, DAMENKAPELLE LP, echokammer
ART PRISON #2: REVOLUTION & ITS MUSES, Auflage von 330, Knust/Extrapool, Nijmegen/Niederlande
2011
Tracing the Invisible Catalogue, Hg. Nadine Zeidler, Schloss Ringenberg
2010
Unser Magazin, Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen, Edition 1,Wien/Berlin/Munich
Was tun - Figuren des Protests. Taktiken des Widerstands, Hg. Hildegard Fraueneder & Gianni Stiletto, Muery Salzmann Publishing
2009
How to Start a Revolution, Zeitung, Auflage von 200, Self-published
2008
Tribute to Gustav Metzger (CD), kuratiert von Justin Hoffmann, Intermedium Records, Bayerischer Rundfunk/Hörspiel und Medienkunst
A Contemporary Account of the Sufferings of the Rebels, Buchedition von 200, Self-published
2007
Vorn, 4. Edition, 2007, 74-79, Printkultur GbR A. Feckl & J. Baldauf

Anna McCarthy
Born 1981, British Currently living and working in Germany Education 2002-2009 Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Sculpture (Diploma) 2005-2007 Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Art (BA Hons) 2001-2002 Kingston University of Art & Design, London, Foundation Studies Exhibitions 2015 JAHRESGABEN, Kunstverein Munich FASSBINDERTAGE, Munich BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART, D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, Bosnia und Herzegovina HOUSE FOR THEM ANCESTORS – Musique d'Ameublement, w/ Manu Rzytki, Kunstraum Munich 2014 NEIN – Anna McCarthy, PLATFORM, Munich WHICH SUPERMARKET ARE YOU? w/ Manuela Gernedel, Morag Keil,, LISZT, Berlin SHELTERS, SHACKS, AND SHANTIES, Galerie Esther Donatz, Munich LABORATORY AIM DENSITY + APOCALYPSE LAUW TOUR, Knust/Extrapool Nijmegen , Glasmoog Cologne, Wolfart Rotterdam, Worm Rotterdam, Butcher’s Tears Amsterdam HOW TO START A REVOLUTION: THE MUSICAL, Maximiliansforum, Munich HEUTE NACHMITTAG: ALS WIR NOCH AN WAS GLAUBTEN, 1914/2014. Die Neuvermessung Europas, Munich USE 2 B USB - w/ Rebecca Stephany, RongWrong, Amsterdam 2013 HOW TO START A REVOLUTION – The Musical, Festival of Independents, Haus der Kunst, Munich II : NA-EN-DE-NA-EN-DE-NA-WI-DA : II, Schaustelle/Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich DAS ALLERLETZTE PROF. WINKLER STIPENDIUM, Kunstverein Weiden LIBER LIBRI (Objekt- und Künstlerbücher), Studio Gennai Arte Contemporanea, Pisa 2012 ESCAPIST ADVENTURES, BBK Cologne DE LOS LETARGOS FELICES (Der Glücklichen Langeweilen), Casa Cino Fabiani, Guayaquil/ Ecuador LUSTIGE FRAUEN KUNST, Ernst Fine Arts London BORED REBELS, Glasmoog, Cologne FLAT NO.1, Niklas Schechinger Fine Arts, Hamburg 2011 FEMINISTS IN SPACE FESTIVAL, Kopenhagen NY ART BOOK FAIR, Revolution & Its Muses book signing and stand, MOMA PS1, New York THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland SORRY I CAN'T HEAR YOU. SPEAK UP. Mural, Staging Opinion Festival, Munich REVOLUTION & ITS MUSES, Book presentation, Extrapool/KNUST, Nijmegen/Niederlande ICH DACHTE MAN DARF ALLES, Theatre project, Maximiliansforum, Munich 2010 HINTS TO WORKMEN, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland FRIENDLY CAPITALISM, Haus Schwarzenberg, Berlin GEWALT, Kunstverein Wolfsburg BORED REBEL IN OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, Screening, Underdox Festival, Munich WIEDERSEHEN IN TRAUTONIEN, Video for play, Schwere Reiter/ Deutsches Museum, Munich TRACING THE INVISIBLE, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln BORED REBEL IN OBERPFAFFENHOFEN, Bielefelder Kunstverein KISS OF LIFE, Finn Collective, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art THE TWO EAGLES/ANG DALAWANG AGILA, The Metro Gallery, Manila 21ST CENTURY – Morag Keil, Manuela Gernedel, screening, Chisenhale Gallery, London 2009 OCTOBER SHOW, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow GROSSE MALEREI AUSSTELLUNG, Lothringer 13 Städtische Kunsthalle, Munich UNCONSCIOUS, Steinle Contemporary, Munich KÜNSTLERFREIZEIT 2009, Kunstraum Innsbruck CONCRETE GALLERY: RESET YOUR LIFE, Wilkinson Gallery, London ZUR SCHÖNEN AUSSICHT, Volkstheater, Munich 2008 TRIBUTE TO GUSTAV METZGER, kuratiert von Justin Hoffman für Bayern 2 (Radio) Destruction in Art, Präsentation, Haus der Kunst, Munich JAHRESGABEN, Kunstverein Munich DIGITALANALOG, Carl-Orff-Saal,Gasteig, Munich PROTEST UND WIDERSTAND IM EIGENSINN DER KUNST, Galerie 5020, Salzburg GLASGOW: A TRUE & LOVE STORY, Screening, Underdox Festival, Werkstattkino, Munich WHERE HAVE ALL THE HEROES GONE, Galleribox, Akureyi, Iceland TRANSITIONAL STATE, Edinburgh Arts Festival, kuratiert von Laura Simpson, Edinburgh GLASGOW: A TRUE & LOVE STORY, Premiere, Filmmuseum, Munich 2007 LOST & FOUND, Shedhalle, Zürich SUPERMARKET ART FAIR (Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow), Stockholm GALLERIBOX, Akureyi/Iceland RSA STUDENT EXHIBITION 2006, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Awards/grants/residencies 2015 Fellowship and Residency, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2014 Commission, 1914/2014 Remeasuring Europe, Arts Council Munich Award, Grant and Publication, Kunstclub13 Munich 2012 Knust/Extrapool, Art Prison, Residency and Publication, Nijmegen 2009 Leonhard- and Ida Wolf Remembrance Prize, Arts Council Munich Gil Society, Residency and Exhibition, Akureyri, Iceland Public Collections Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) Publications (selection) 2015 DRINK COLD PISS WARM, 100-page poem and photos, Melville Brand Design 2014 Die friedliche Zeitschrift für internationale Verständigung, Charlie Edition 2013 Poems and Pictures, Self-Published Hand-bound Limited Edition Angry Time #1 Strike Work by Anja Lückenkemper, Anna Dobrucki 2012 Damenkapelle 10” , self-published, 2013, DAMENKAPELLE LP, echokammer ART PRISON #2: REVOLUTION & ITS MUSES, Auflage von 330, Knust/Extrapool, Nijmegen/Niederlande 2011 Tracing the Invisible Catalogue, Hg. Nadine Zeidler, Schloss Ringenberg 2010 Unser Magazin, Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen, Edition 1,Wien/Berlin/Munich Was tun - Figuren des Protests. Taktiken des Widerstands, Hg. Hildegard Fraueneder & Gianni Stiletto, Muery Salzmann Publishing 2009 How to Start a Revolution, Zeitung, Auflage von 200, Self-published 2008 Tribute to Gustav Metzger (CD), kuratiert von Justin Hoffmann, Intermedium Records, Bayerischer Rundfunk/Hörspiel und Medienkunst A Contemporary Account of the Sufferings of the Rebels, Buchedition von 200, Self-published 2007 Vorn, 4. Edition, 2007, 74-79, Printkultur GbR A. Feckl & J. Baldauf

Anna McCarthy
Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen

Artist Anna McCarthy
Year 2009
Duration 18:22 min
Edition 5 + 1 AE
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In Anna McCarthy’s video “Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen” a fashion poster in the protagonist’s living room appropriately reads “Chic Bohème – Allure Couture – Glamour Pop”. The “bored rebel” alluded to in the title lives in an apartment resembling a time capsule from the 1950s to the 1970s ‐ filled to the brim with clothes, LPs, posters and other mementos. With her red boots, tight clothes, badge, wide red belt, thick black eye‐liner and beehive hairdo, she surrounds herself with female figures such as Eartha Kitt, Loretta Lynn, Brigitte Bardot, Catwoman, Pin‐ups and others ‐ figures which embody both sex appeal and emancipatory empowerment. Her demonstratively casual attitude and at the same time an ambivalence with which she parodies herself in a self‐satisfied but bored manner ‐ she hangs around her apartment singing along to Nina Hagen “Sie will mit Wasser sich besaufen und paar Blasen blubbern lassen” (English: "she wants to get drunk on water and blow bubbles underwater"). The video culminates in her (perhaps faked) call to a former comrade‐in‐arms, whom she unsuccessfully tries to convince to embark on new deeds with her ‐ whereby we never discover what it is they are fighting for or against. The soundtrack dons the role of the commentator: “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” With her sober shots, reminiscent of the grammar of Godard’s films, Anna McCarthy (born in 1981, lives and works in Munich) creates series of environments that resemble 'still‐lifes', allegorical right down to the last detail.

“Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen” is part of Anna McCarthy’s multi‐part artistic project called “How to Start a Revolution” (2008‐9), which included actions in public space, a newspaper and an archive (library, showcases with relics of the actions, photographs and films).

Text: Heike Ander

Anna McCarthy - Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen
In Anna McCarthy’s video “Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen” a fashion poster in the protagonist’s living room appropriately reads “Chic Bohème – Allure Couture – Glamour Pop”. The “bored rebel” alluded to in the title lives in an apartment resembling a time capsule from the 1950s to the 1970s ‐ filled to the brim with clothes, LPs, posters and other mementos. With her red boots, tight clothes, badge, wide red belt, thick black eye‐liner and beehive hairdo, she surrounds herself with female figures such as Eartha Kitt, Loretta Lynn, Brigitte Bardot, Catwoman, Pin‐ups and others ‐ figures which embody both sex appeal and emancipatory empowerment. Her demonstratively casual attitude and at the same time an ambivalence with which she parodies herself in a self‐satisfied but bored manner ‐ she hangs around her apartment singing along to Nina Hagen “Sie will mit Wasser sich besaufen und paar Blasen blubbern lassen” (English: she wants to get drunk on water and blow bubbles underwater). The video culminates in her (perhaps faked) call to a former comrade‐in‐arms, whom she unsuccessfully tries to convince to embark on new deeds with her ‐ whereby we never discover what it is they are fighting for or against. The soundtrack dons the role of the commentator: “If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” With her sober shots, reminiscent of the grammar of Godard’s films, Anna McCarthy (born in 1981, lives and works in Munich) creates series of environments that resemble 'still‐lifes', allegorical right down to the last detail.“Bored Rebel in Oberpfaffenhofen” is part of Anna McCarthy’s multi‐part artistic project called “How to Start a Revolution” (2008‐9), which included actions in public space, a newspaper and an archive (library, showcases with relics of the actions, photographs and films).Text: Heike Ander

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