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1960-65 studies of art, art history
and philosophy at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig,Ateneum Helsinki,
Hochschule der
Künste Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Columbia University New
York. Since 1969 films and video work, video sculptures,
photography and performance. 1970/71 co-initiator of the foundation
of Video-Forum des Neuen Berliner Kunstvereins (NBK)
inaugurated in 1971 with the 16-mm-film of Kahlen Reversible
Processes (production NBK). 1973/74 cofounder and
participator in ADA I and ADA II (actions of the avantgarde)
in Berlin. 1982 founder, designer and builder of the art center
Ruine
der Künste Berlin,opened in 1985. 1988 founder of the 24 hours
artists radio Sender Ruine der Künste Berlin (1988-1994). Since
1969 numerous video- and photo-performance-activities and one-man
exhibitions in Western and Eastern Europe, in the
USA, in Middle- and South-America and in Asia. Among others:
1975 25 Video Tapes Cycle Assimilations; 1982 Arbeiten mit
dem Zufall, den es nicht gibt, NBK and Neue Galerie Aachen.
1986 Video Sculptures 1969-1986 Galerie am Körnerpark Berlin;
1988 Lichtjahr 19 , (artists, scientists and psychic media on
the subject time) Ruine der Künste Berlin, contribution to: Berlin
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Kulturstadt Europa; 1992 Ephemere Stücke, Riga/Latvia Museum
of Foriegn Art; Museum Manes, Prague; NeuerAachener
Kunstverein; 1996 Nothing But Dust, video-, photo-, sound- and
dust-installations, Peking Art Museum, 1998 Shanghai Art
Museum; Turn Table Hong Kong, Goethe-Institute Hong Kong;
365 answers in/on time, Radio Sender Freies Berlin, 11 hours
production; 1999 Inhaling Time – Exhaling Space, video-,
photo-, sound- and dust-installations at IT Park Gallery Taipei;
Huang Rui Studio Osaka. Since 1985 continuous video
documentations in Tibetan influenced Himalayan countries like
Bhutan, Sikkim, Spiti, Nepal, India, Mongolia, Tibet and
China, so far 11 productions (90-120 min. each) so called Thang-stong
rGyal-po Series. 2000-2003 Three years retrospective in
ten parts at Ruine der Künste Berlin.
Participation in all major international video group shows like:
1974 Projekt 74, Kunsthalle Köln. 1976 video satelite
show University of Iowa; 1977 documenta 6, Kassel; 1989 Video-Skulptur
retrospectiv und aktuell, 1963-1989, in Cologne,
Berlin, Zürich etc., with early video sculptures from 1969; 1996-today
ifa-travelling exhibition Video in Germany, Hong Kong,
Groningen, Rostock, Taipei etc. Internet-shows include: CynetArt
Dresden, File 2000 Sao Paulo, Rhizome NYC, ISEA 2000
France, In the centre of the eye of art Warsaw, The Electrical
and digital art show Johannesburg South Africa.
Numerous teaching positions home and abroad, among others in
Poland since 1975, in Spain 1976, at the University of
Iowa 1974 and 1977, at Rutgers-University, New Jersey, and the
Massachussetts Institute of technology in 1980/81. Since 1982
professor of Intermedia Art and Sculpture at the Technical University
of Berlin. 1985 Consultant in Art and Architecture for the
Royal Government of Bhutan.1990 visiting professor at Zheijang
University Hangzhou, China, 1992 at the Bauhaus Dessau.
Received various prizes, selection: 1965/66 DAAD scholarship
to New York. 1969 Villa Romana, Florence. 1977 Villa
Massimo, Rom. 1979 Ars Viva-Prize for pioneering work in conceptual
photography given by Verband der Deutschen Industrie.
1980/81 PS 1 scholarship to New York.
Video works in public collections include: Nationalgalerie Berlin,
Museum of Modern Art New York,
Museum für Neue Kunst ZKM Karlsruhe, Berlinische Galerie Berlin,
Muzeum Potocka Krakow, Poland, Museum Ludwig-Neue
Galerie Aachen
>artist statement::
Live and interactive the visitor of the page
www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/2.html
may hear a piece of world literature of these countries, the
first page at least. If he is patient enough to find out on
a blank page,
with the mouse in motion, the sound of the words hidden in the
background like on a book page. This automatically turns out
to
be a game, since any move of the mouse touches another word.
Until the underlying structure has been found out, a number
of
audio events have happened, words' sounds have overlapped or
entangled at random. Who stirs with the mouse produces a concert
like a DJ. The presented world's classics are by Tibet's greatest
poet Milarepa (11./12. Century), the Chinese Tang-Dynasty poet
Li Bo (6.- 9. Century) or the alphabet-poem attributed to Kukai
of Japan. It is of political delicacy that Wolf Kahlen, who
did a
number of documentaries in Tibet and Mongolia since 1985, parallels
Tibet with China.
Possibly the first Tibetan language internet site to listen
to, probably frequented joyfully by the world spread Tibetans
and the
few with access in Lhasa and other parts of the Snowland. Who
has entered the site either reads Tibetan, Chinese or Japanese
or
has been attracted by the curious writings, since all three
titles are of course in original characters. Another way to
support the
cultures in their differences. The hearing experience of the
pieces, roughly translated as
Sorry, Milarepa / Excuse me, Kukai / I beg your pardon, Li Bo,
spans the whole spectrum between playful chaotic sounds, own
word combinations and listening to a fluently spoken classical
piece: all democratic ways of using words. Words as material
per se. And since these words bump into each other
in most cases other than as a structered classical piece, Wolf
Kahlen asks the authors for excuse in the titles already beforehand.
As a side effect the net is swept blank off the overload of
images. And the sound of the 'bush drums' is heard again.
These three pieces continue the former realized three ones in
English, German and Spanish language
Sorry, Mister Joyce / Verzeihung, Herr von Goethe / Perdone,
Don Cervantes
on
www.tu-berlin.de/~arch_net_art/1.html
More pieces in a great number of world languages are under construction.
They kind of point out on the polarisation of the numb
and speechless making psycho esthetic feedbacks of the net 'culture'.
The texts are usually read by native artists.
Li Bo read by Zhao Zhao
Kukai by Masuko Iso,
Milarepa by Tsewang Norbu,
Goethe by Wolf Kahlen,
Joyce by David Allen,
Cervantes by Argine Erginas.
Stay tuned.
Edition Ruine der Kuenste Berlin
http://home.snafu.de/ruine-kuenste.berlin
ruine-kuenste.berlin@snafu.de
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