Category Archives: Katier Shows

Kabinett for thoughtography and intraocular lights

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I would like to publish the results of two artists, who have been experimenting with my “thoughtographic device” at a show “Wach sind nur die Geister” in Dortmund, Phoenix Halle:

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Barbara Breitenfellner, Exposure ca. 15 minutes, Polaroid 667, black and white, 3000 ASA

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Sam Ashley, Exposure ca. 15 minutes, Polaroid 667, black and white, 3000 ASA

Katier shows: “Wach sind nur die Geister” – Über Gespenster und ihre Medien PHOENIX Halle Dortmund

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Abbildung / Image: Agnès Geoffray, Night #3, 20 x 30 cm, 2005

‘Awake Are Only the Spirits’ – On Ghosts and Their Media

Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
16 May – 18 October 2009
Thu+Fri 16:00-20:00, Sat+Sun 11:00-20:00

OPENING: FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009, 19:00

The exhibition ‘Awake Are Only the Spirits’ – On Ghosts and Their Media is dedicated to a topic that appears, at first glance, timeless: it involves the presence of the supernatural – the appearance of ghosts and (trans-)communication with ‘the beyond’ facilitated by technical media. The exhibition begins with the audio-tape archive of Friedrich Jürgenson who discovered the so-called Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in 1959. As a result of the strong interest in the topic on behalf of contemporary artists, the exhibition questions why – despite our faith in the rational – at regular intervals irrational properties are ascribed to respective new media and technologies, such as those purportedly serving as channels for messages from ‘the beyond’. The exhibition shows 22 international artistic positions questioning the existence of ghosts, exploring the integration of new media and technologies in spiritualist contexts, investigating the making-visible or making-perceptible of the invisible, and tracing the political implications as well as the aesthetics of such contemporary trans-communication phenomena.
Inke Arns, Thibaut de Ruyter

CURATORS
Inke Arns & Thibaut de Ruyter

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Lucas & Jason Ajemian (US)
Archive of an Anonymous Ghost-Seer (DE), curated by hans w. koch
Sam Ashley (US)
Corinne May Botz (US)
Erik Bünger (SE)
Damien Cadio (FR)
Michael Esposito (US)
Nina Fischer/Maroan el Sani (DE)
Agnès Geoffray (FR)
Kathrin Günter (DE)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE)
Tim Hecker (CA)
Susan Hiller (GB)
Martin Howse (GB)
International Necronautical Society (GB)
Friedrich Jürgenson (SE)
Joep van Liefland (NL)
Chris Marker (FR)
Jorge Queiroz (PT)
Scanner (GB)
Jan Peter E.R. Sonntag (DE)
Suzanne Treister (GB)

Katier Shows: Backlight Photo Triennale Finland, 09/2008

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Ulrich Haas-Pursiainen,
Photographic Centre Nykyaika
Laughter, roars of laughter, the insatiable and irresistible desire for pleasure (kicks) are all ubiquitous elements of our contemporary (cross-cultural and worldwide) society of fun and pleasure, also with their darker sides.

The figures capable of producing these kicks were and are still today the iridescent clowns and talkative jesters who through art, ritualized gestures and often absurd tools show us our shortcomings with humour ranging from sarcasm to obscenity.

Other people’s behaviour appears grotesque always when it abandons the codes of familiarity and becomes capable of breaking taboos and showing us another reality.

From these ambivalent areas of tension in everyday life and in art, I wish Tickle Attack joyful projects from all cultural circles, which, as dedicated documentaries or creative constructions, at the height of our time, bring along them a wider and more in-depth understanding.

How, when, where, why, by whom or what – was, is and will there be laughter, humour, irony, a roar of laughter or dada? Not funny pictures but passionate and exciting projects with contents and backgrounds that grasp the wide and ambivalent theme within the contemporary society of fun and pleasure and can mediate it to their wondering viewers.