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What is this about?
Störungen is an event that consists of different art forms, some of them sharing time and space, others next to each other, some others a few steps away.
There's photographs, paintings, live music, theatre, installations, short films and a lot more.
Störungen is art about interferences, but it is also art interfering with art. It is up to the visitor to decide where to focus her/his attention.
What is this not?
Störungen is not a festival, it's an event. It intends to be entertaining for everybody, not only for experts in taiwanese experimental theatre, readers of Le Monde Diplomatique or regular visitors at the MoMA.
Where?
The event is taking place at the Kulturhaus 73, Schulterblatt, Hamburg. There will be three floors with different suggestions for the visitor: an exhibition area, the short film cellar -where you can also have a Beck's- and the big stage at the top floor.
But the visitors will notice that the stage is bigger than it seems in the beginning. And some corners may also bring unexpected entertainment...
The 8th of December is the date to write on your agenda. The doors will open at 18:00, the main stage will wake up at 19:30.
Tickets cost €7. They are already available at the Pony Bar (Allende-Platz), 14 Dioptrien (Schlüterstraße 14) and the Kulturhaus 73 (Schulterblatt 73).
| A Wall Is A Screen | Short films |
| Bagio | Music |
| Josephin Böttger | Short film |
| Bühnenstudio | Theatre |
| Paul Geisler | Short film |
| Hartmut Gerbsch/dura lux | Installation |
| Muck Giovanett | Photography |
| Franz Indra | Short films |
| Kamilla Nowicka | Photography |
| Theater Orange | Theatre |
| Photographer Unknown | Music |
| The Psychotic Flare-Up | Music |
| Frank Roeseler | Paintings |
| Tobias Sandberger | Books & short films |
| Michael Steinhauser | Short film |
| Systematic Dream Orchestra | Music |
| Daniel Wrede | Objects |
A Wall Is A Screen
Short films
So far "A Wall Is A Screen" has caused interferences in public places. Known as short-film activists, "A Wall Is A Screen" walks through the deserted inner-cities areas at night to project short films onto empty bright walls.
Is this an interference in a public place or an enrichment? The film, the wall and its surrounding start to correspond. Strange, coincidental scenes happen around the projection.
At Störungen the concept of "A Wall Is A Screen" is transferred to an indoor surrounding. Spontaneously unusual places and walls for the projections will be chosen. Also indoors the films are in correspondence with their surroundings, whether the surrounding is a concert, a piece of art or a performance.
The visitor is taken by surprise. This is not a planned short film program but a screening that happens when it is least expected...
Bagio
Music
BAGIO is Uwe Bastiansen (Ex-Abwärts, Ex-Station 17, Ex-Mask for a.o.), guitar and Muck Giovanett (Ex-Hrubesch Youth, Happy Grindcore, Teer gleene Muck a. o.) drums.
To give people a suggestion they call their music "Be Bop Hardcore".
Some say Avant-garde to it, some say ADHD-Music (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Dysfunction). Lots of changes, lots of odd rhythms. A critic wrote earlier BAGIO would have fit into the SST or Enemy-rooster and would have played Knitting Factory.
BAGIO released two CD-EP's on FIDEL BASTRO.
Josephin Böttger
Short film
In a distant space station, cosmonauts receive the programme "Intergalactic News". While watching a report about the Earth, they recognize their parallel individuals.
Some of those doubles are scientists who do a research on the laws of gravity and then vanish under mysterious circumstances. Later on they return, but they remain in the "areas", the unstable zones where human beings generally cannot survive.
Since they re-emerge together with several copies of themselves, it's hard to tell whether they are originals or copies or indeed other creatures copying the originals.
DVCam, 15.30 Minutes/2005
Language: English
Director, Camera, Sound, Editing: Josephin Böttger
Second camera: Peter Afken
Main actors and actresses: Matthew Partridge (Owan Page), Peter Afken (Hank Flipsoul), Josephin Böttger (Miss Ile, Maggie, Mrs. Jones)
Secondary actors: Joschi Koch (Joseph Cook), Benno Peters (Ben Peters)
Bühnenstudio
Theatre
The final-year class of the "Bühnenstudio's der darstellenden Künste" present a short version of the project Bobok.
The "Bühnenstudio der darstellenden Künste", at the Hansastr. 35, offers a three-year education in the art of acting.
Bobok is a play based on a short story from Fjodor Dostojevskij.
An unsuccessful russian writer is considered insane. There's something odd going on with her... she hears and sees strange things lately...
Director: Kristin Lumme
Choreographer: Bettina Kurz
Hartmut Gerbsch/dura lux
Installation
dura | lux is a project that utilizes projection technology for the development and realization of installations.
As experimental documentary filmmakers, they use only concrete photographic material that has neither been staged nor manipulated. The goal is not the creation of new worlds, but rather the exploration of existing ones, and the attempt to transport worlds of emotion.
With the presence of images which surround the observer and with rapidly changing photos, they make formal reference to modern forms of presentation (MTV, advertising, cyberspace). The cinematographical character of the two-image animation assists in the intensification of spatial illusions and the use of perceptional reflexes (motion as a characteristic of space and as an aspect that attracts the eye's attention).
The disorientation that arises does not serve the purpose of manipulation, for example the creation of a desire to buy a product or the intent of distraction, rather it is intended as a means of reaching the observer in a non-rational fashion.
The cinematographical impression emerges when the perceptional organ of the observer fills in the missing image phases within the simple animation. The filling in of these gaps with "self-made" images produces the connection to the recipient's personal worlds of experience and emotion; everybody "sees" something different.
The light and material atmospheres of the situation in which the images were captured are intensively reproduced, since the slide projection makes the motive itself into the only light source in the room.
Paul Geisler
Short film: Hafenstadt (x,y,t)
Hi, my name is Paul. And I'm good with numbers.
My talent: when I look around, I can see how things work. That hurts. But there's nothing I can do about that: my parents taught me never to go the easy way. You shouldn't buy in or slaughter everything! Therefore I show you these things, so you can make up your own mind.
The Hafencity. Nothing really special, but it's meant to be. Ruthlessness, shallowness, hype, capitalisation, disrespect, debasement is everywhere. If you look closer, it hurts more.
Space and time exchange their roles. Time becomes space, not-space becomes not-time. Space has the one who pauses, becoming wide.
The ones who pause become wide, the ones who hurry shrivel. There are a few onlookers, cars are standing around, when the city is coming: With a silent thunder it rushes towards people, surging up at its destination. A bus is struggling through the swell of construction material. The steam coming from the power plant engraves its cardiogram in eternity.
Hafencity (x,y,t) - Paul Geisler, 2006. Video, 7 minutes, b/w.
• Information about the technique.
Muck Giovanett
Photography
Muck Giovanett has been part of the subculture of Hamburg for nearly 20 years. He has written for several magazines, released 10 issues of his own fanzine "Gold und Rosen" between 1990 and 1993. He is also part of some books with short stories or interviews.
Musicwise he has released over a dozen records with Hrubesch Youth, Happy Grindcore, as Teer gleene Muck, others and lately with BAGIO.
He has, since the late eighties, used his photographs -every now and then- for band promotion and record covers, as well as flyers and posters.
As usual, his photos are a cut out view on an object, turning something familiar into something alienated, without manipulating beside giving some spot light. This time the object is a public sculpture. From a general view deeper and deeper till it becomes fantasy impressions.
Franz Indra
Shortfilms
Autosuggestion
The film investigates the border between the conscious and the subconscious, between the inside and the outside. How do we dream? How can a dream be shown appropriately on screen?
While a man pursues his day-to-day business, reality, dream and memory blend together. A woman appears and disappears. She has left him; or maybe he broke up the relationship in the most definite way...
Carl's Sister
Carls's Sister is the Kafkaesque story of a young man seeking his long lost sister and being confronted with increasingly surreal obstacles.
His compliable character starts to change when he meets an enigmatic lady who may be connected with his search. In the end his wishes come true, but in a different way than he thought.
Kamilla Nowicka
What's wrong? Looking for the lost...
People who travel look for changes, new experiences, new pictures - that is the common sense. But I'm looking for impressions of a former world which kept going on until our present time.
In the present "capitalistic" Poland, I am looking for my past and the childhood that I spent in that former, so-called "socialistic" Poland.
What is left of all that?
What has changed?
Where are my roots?
A visible contrast between the past and the present is set through architectonic constructions. The GREY, rotting world of socialism had to make way to that COLOURFUL capitalism.
The effort to achieve that is tremendous, but the purpose is quite doubtful.
They try to remove the ruins of a social and cultural evolution which existed for a long time. But unfortunately the result is just a separation between GREY and COLOURFUL. Mixing does not take place.
When I was 13 years old, I left Poland, my home country. A shock. But in the winter of 1981 we had no other choice than to stay in Germany. My cultural assimilation in the new world began. First learning German quickly, and then learning how to live.
After so many years living in Germany, I have recently started thinking about how my life would look like if I had stayed in Poland. Married? Kids? Job?
And even visiting Poland from time to time I feel very attracted to all those GREY ruins, my little GREY world of memories, lost future... But I know I could not live there any more.
What's wrong?
Theater Orange
Theatre
Das Theater Orange orientiert sich am "Erlebnis- und Performance- Theater" und legt Wert auf die Prozesshaftigkeit jeden Spiels.
Nach diesem Verständnis ist Theater neben dem Moment der Präsentation auch der Prozess des Entwickelns, Suchens, Erprobens.
Dabei geht es einerseits um die Belebung und Aktualisierung bekannter theatralischer Ausdrucksformen, andererseits darum, die Grenzen zu anderen Ausdrucksformen zu erforschen und gegebenenfalls zu durchbrechen.
Mit "Tan Going" zeigt Theater Orange improvisierte Performanceclips. Archetypische Figuren begegnen sich in einem Raum mit vier Stühlen und schaffen eine urmenschliche Atmosphäre von Liebe, Konkurrenz und Eifersucht.
In dieser szenenübergreifenden Edelperformance lebt das Flair der Stummfilmzeit weiter.
Photographer Unknown
Music
Alternative trio from Malmö, Sweden.
Mugnas Therstonssen creates sounds with his guitar, his computer and anything that comes at hand.
Kristina Olsson sings and writes dramatic lyrics. She also plays bass and percussion.
Anders Hellström plays guitar and sings like the world is coming to an immediate end.
They all write music and none of them could ever be replaced without the concept immediately ceasing to exist.
The Psychotic Flare-Up
Music
Many people talk about the sea, but only a few people understand a candlelight. Barbed wire?
And the man with the sea inside said, "I am going where my legs take me. It is not supposed to be harder than that".
Somebody said that describing music with words is as hard as describing architecture with... what was it? Or was it the other way round?
Never mind. This band makes some kind of minimalistic, not-so-improvised but yet-in-a-way spontaneous music. Do not be deceived, it is not as it sounds.
And behind the music, the inspiration or the lyrics? Putting sounds together, putting words together.
It's is not supposed to be harder than that.
Frank Roeseler
Paintings
To be honest II
What is a picture? What is painting? What is the human being?
Inner world. Self-portrait as a door handle.
Visible/Invisible. On/Off. Here/Not here.
Man and Women. Painting in a dual system. I am not through with Schröder-Sonnenstern yet.
One who is not insane has to be more insane then the ones who are insane.
Face in a face. With beard. To do as much wrong as possible. Modigliani and Lupinchen. Paintings consist of mistakes.
Fuckfaces. The shadows of reality.
Frog on canvas. (I.N.N.O.C.E.N.C.E.)
Knowing less than us is virtually impossible.
We learn.
Beauty stays. (Self-portrait as my father)
One can confuse me with myself.
Better then art.
I have studied van Gogh.
Behind enemy lines, the colours of love.
Spontaneous artist. Attitude. Non-Creation.
The false life is the right one.
Art is easy and quickly executed.
In the beginning there was the picture.
• www.frankroeseler.de/malerei.html
Tobias Sandberger
Books - images - films
Born 1965 in Stuttgart. Studied at HfBK, Hamburg. Lives and works in Hamburg.
Due to my conviction that any perception of the world is subjective, my artistic point of view is also quite an individual / personal one:
In the same way that we tend to divide the history of mankind into periods, eras and events, our personal lives have their Waterloos and their Golden Ages as well. They are also shaken by crises, comparable to times of war and hunger.
As a form or media for my individual "historiography", I've been choosing -for quite a while now- little exercise books or albums (DIN A5 in size and between 50 and 150 pages).
These books have proved to be appropriate for collecting and saving traces of evidence, not only of my personal history, but of any kind of topics I've been dealing with in my life so far: Record-sleeves, film posters, self-portraits, diaries, colours, symbols or idols of my environment... many topics are worth to be examined and prepared in a book.
As far as the output is concerned, many of the books result in stories told in word and image, or else without words, just in a number of images speaking for themselves. These images can either be drawings, comics, photos, collages, souvenirs, fragments, ready-mades and fakes...
Taking into account that each book is unique and therefore not really fit for public display without being in danger to be damaged or to get lost, I've been starting to transform them into images, without dropping their original form completely, to put them on display.
Ideally, some of the books have also been transformed into films, which in many cases come close to the original purpose, as they might have been meant as collections of materials for a film research anyway.
Michael Steinhauser
Short film
I claim money from the government to do some essential research to find out if vegetarian as well as vegan people's cognitive experiences are different to those of normal people when they consume splattermovies.
Systematic Dream Orchestra
Music
The songs from the Systematic Dream Orchestra reflect the equivalent influences of the four band members and their interest in different musical styles. The band doesn't concentrate so much on classical song writing, but rather develops their songs in process during jam sessions.
A favour for atmospheric pictures may explain song titles like "The green journey", "Woodwalk" or "White tiger".
By combining their instruments (drums, guitar, saxophone/flute and vocals) always in a different way, they create danceable, faster songs as well as ballads or psychedelic sound collages.
In January 2006 the band found its current line-up, and since then it is constantly inspired by jazz, rock and the joy of playing music together.
Die Band, welche in der heutigen Besetzung seit Januar 2006 besteht, zieht ihre Inspiration unter anderem aus Jazz, Rock und dem Spass am gemeinsamen Musikmachen.
Daniel Wrede
unkunst + dedesign
Reality, projection, illusion.
Individual perception to anchor here and now, to interfere with reality and unreality.
To take the complete advantage of sense, to get the possibility to perceive things audibly, visually and physically, represents a penetrating necessity...
Material and shape are for infiltration as a media and to point out a new context, to convert presence and existence and to hold back the habits.
To let it mix, cross, mutate robust mixture, funktion-antifunktion-chimera, emotional hybrids, border crosser in no man's land of de-design and un-art...