KUNSTrePUBLIK : Curatorial

ANGST IN FORM »

May - October 2010...[more]

Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock – As you wish »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – Hitchcock plays on the potential of language to generate fear and also on its potential to be misused as a means of surveillance. A series of posters will appear in a wide variety of locations in Halle and...[more]

Critical Art Ensemble – Radiation Burn: A Temporary Monument to Public Safety »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – In the demonstration of how to explode a bomb, the CAE deal with the fear of the so-called ‘dirty-bomb’ and how it is described as a real threat in the context of global terrorism and implemented as a means...[more]

Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser – Trash Circulated »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – For the last 10 years Folke Koebberling and Martin Kaltwasser have devoted their work to the issue of recycling, which has to become an increased significance in the future. Many resources like gasoline are...[more]

Leopold Kessler – Fence sharpening »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – Leopold Kessler’s work deals with the demographic development of the Halle region and ironically and succinctly visualizes the fear the “long-time residents” have of the unfamiliar or foreign: the tips of a...[more]

Steven Rowell – Background Listening Post »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – Steven Rowell will reactivate a former phone bugging facility that was operated by the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) as a switchboard and control centre for bugging operations in the surrounding...[more]

Antje Schiffers/Thomas Sprenger – Wandern »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – “Fear of being a stranger, of embarrassing situations or of asking for help; fear of being alone in the woods, fear of getting lost or spending the night without a shelter” are some moments that a person...[more]

Henrik Schrat – Ravens and Roses »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – Schrat deals in his work with the resurrection myth of Barbarossa and the nearby rosarium in Sangerhausen, Europe’s biggest rose garden, in a city with the highest unemployment rate in the whole of...[more]

Ella Ziegler – Scion Exchange »

ANGST IN FORM, 2010 – In a black market exchange on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic in Spring, Ella Ziegler (Berlin) exchanged goods for Czech scions and used these to cultivate wild seedlings in Halle into...[more]