Projects
Migrating Site 2011
Artistic transformation as a collective incident. A participatory video film project
Funded by the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and LWL Foundation
Elvira Hufschmid, Margit Schild, with Antje Havemann
Transformation by translation is the basic principle of this artistic project. Inhabitants of the Münsterland, a rural area in the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia, are invited to create a video which is built by applying rules of a game like »Cadavre Exquis« or better known as »Chinese Whispers«. The participants take the lead for a four to five-minute episode of their habitat by describing their place of desire. The following person takes on the content of the predesessor´s sequence, before developing her or his own story. The final video shows ideas of a real place like the Münsterland by envisioning the absent places of desire.
www.wandernder-ort.de
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Migrating Site 2009
A participatory video film project.
Grant Kunstkommunikation 2009
Kloster Kunsthaus Gravenhorst, Münster/Germany
Elvira Hufschmid, Margit Schild, Antje Havemann
Publication
DA Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst (Pub.): Wandernder Ort, Antje Havemann, Elvira Hufschmid, Margit Schild, Hörstel, 2009
Mind The Park
Margit Schild with Anna Grunemann, Andrea v. Lüdinghausen, Christiane Oppermann,
An Seebach, www.mindthepark.de
Juni 7 – July 5 2009
Städtische Galerie Kubus, Hannover/Germany
Department of Environment and Green Areas, Langensalzastraße 17, 30169 Hannover
Städtische Galerie Kubus, Theodor-Lessing -Platz 2, 30159 Hannover
Publication
Kaestle, Thomas (ed): Mind The Park. Planungsräume. Nutzersichten. Kunstvorfälle, Oldenburg, 2009. (in german) (download text about ”keeping mum“ in english, 70 KB)
Secret activities in the administrative office? Forests on glassy facades? Therapy of plants?
In the context of »Garden Region Hannover« five artists from Hannover and Berlin are posing the question »Where does a garden begin and in what ways is this process planned?« In »Mind The Park« Anna Grunemann, Andrea v. Lüdinghausen, Christiane Oppermann, Margit Schild and An Seebach infiltrate into the operating system of the Department of Environment and Green Areas. Garden »ex officio« is a comlex system in regard to the administrative and the technical planning processes. The five artists observe and study the planning activities taking place in the department. They relate to the communicative processes by means of different media and artist strategies in order to generate transformational artistic works within the department .
The project was funded by Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover, Sparkassenstiftung Niedersachsen, der Stiftung Bingo! Umweltlotterie, der Stiftung Kunstfonds and the City of the Federal State Niedersachsen Hannover.
videosequence ”keeping mum“ find at: ”Focus“
trans.ver 68. A transformation process of artistic works from 1968.
With works by VALIE EXPORT (performance), Sarah Haffner (painting),
Wolfgang Hufschmidt (music), Helke Sander (film), Klaus Staeck (visual arts).
An exhibition project in collaboration with „Art.iS – Kunst im Spreeport,
Berlin“. Exhibition: Sept 11 – Okt 23 2008.
Curated by Julia v. Hasselbach, Elvira Hufschmid and Dr. Margit Schild.
Transformation or conversion processes are basic elements of artistic creation. The translation process from one work to the next is a central moment in a creative process of strategic transformation as new works derive their impetus from the work of a another person. According to this idea the effect of an art work on subsequent artists can be made visible, if artistic transformation is applied as a strategic game.
The concept calls for politically and artistically complete freedom of working. From affirmation to rejection, all reactions are equally welcome. The protagonists enter into a collective creative process and reflect the impact of politically motivated artistic work from 1968, that influenced later generations. Their work discusses the relevance of contents and objectives of this political movement today.
Stille Post! (Broken Telephone!)
11 Disciplines, 22 Weeks, 33 Transformations
An exhibition project in cooperation with University of the Arts Berlin and Karl Hofer Gesellschaft (Karl Hofer Society) Berlin, 2006
»Stille Post!« describes an interdisciplinary art project in which 11 artists and academics from various disciplines engage in a 22 week long process of dialectic response and covert communication. 33 works were created within this communication process wich took place from the 17th to the 25th of June 2006 in the „Neuen Galerie“ of the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft Berlin.
The rules and regulations of the game have been translated into an artistic work process. The protagonists left their work to be transformed by the other participants. The principle of tranformation and mutual commentary appeared as a constitutive technique for generating the »new«. »Stille Post!« has proved to be a form of search and invention, which unfolds in a process of answering to each other.
