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Interdisciplinary Interventions – and more
Juergen Staack
"MOON"_1
Juergen Staack
"MOON"_2
Juergen Staack
"MOON"_3
Gao Yutao
"No.60 Quarantaene"_1
Gao Yutao
"No.60 Quarantaene"_2
Motonori Inagaki
#openwindow_1
Motonori Inagaki
#openwindow_2
Lico Fang
#openwindow_1
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
Lico Fang
#openwindow_2
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
Lico Fang
#openwindow_3
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
My father has posted 3 photos on his Wechat account today. When I saw them, I knew his 2 months isolation life went eventually ending. He is in Wuhan.
I guess, from the photos, he only cautiously took a walk in the neighborhood, where I was familiar with. Through the screen I could feel how excited he, a 73 years old survivor was, like a blind man first time sees the world, he shot flowers, a dog, and the sunshine.
Siraj Izhar
"London"_1
Siraj Izhar
"London"_2
Donald Eubank
"There's a light ..."
Jan Lemitz
#openwindow_1
Jan Lemitz
#openwindow_2
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
»Walk the Walk« Düssleldorf, Chongqing 2018
An #openwindow artistic action by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber.
*Time: 20:00-22:30, Monday, 30th. March, 2020
*Place: Luisenstraße between Pionierstraße and Ernst-Reuter-Platz
A private window, a public space, a recordative walk from Chongqing, a new encounter with #socialdistance in Duesseldorf.
An #openwindow artistic action by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber.
*Time: 20:00-22:30, Monday, 30th. March, 2020
*Place: Luisenstraße between Pionierstraße and Ernst-Reuter-Platz
A private window, a public space, a recordative walk from Chongqing, a new encounter with #socialdistance in Duesseldorf.
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber
»Walk the Walk« Düssleldorf, Chongqing 2018
An #openwindow artistic action by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber.
*Time: 20:00-22:30, Monday, 30th. March, 2020
*Place: Luisenstraße between Pionierstraße and Ernst-Reuter-Platz
A private window, a public space, a recordative walk from Chongqing, a new encounter with #socialdistance in Duesseldorf.
An #openwindow artistic action by Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber.
*Time: 20:00-22:30, Monday, 30th. March, 2020
*Place: Luisenstraße between Pionierstraße and Ernst-Reuter-Platz
A private window, a public space, a recordative walk from Chongqing, a new encounter with #socialdistance in Duesseldorf.
"Nika's window talk"
#nikaswindowtalk is a creation from @nikaswindowtalk_nikanikita in the #stayathome time. Friends pass by, show up in front of her window, a new communication with #socialdistance emerges... Nika records her “Nika’s window talk” action, and posts photos on her instagram account. More photos can be seen by @nikaswindowtalk_nikanikita
"Nika's window talk"
#nikaswindowtalk is a creation from @nikaswindowtalk_nikanikita in the #stayathome time. Friends pass by, show up in front of her window, a new communication with #socialdistance emerges... Nika records her “Nika’s window talk” action, and posts photos on her instagram account. More photos can be seen by @nikaswindowtalk_nikanikita
Louis Spoelstra
"Cairo"
Louis Spoelstra
"Paris"
Louis Spoelstra
"Florence"
Louis Spoelstra
"Home, Bussum"
Di Yang
"Stiller Blitz"( "Silent Flash")
The short video work "Stiller Blitz"("Silent Flash") is from Di Yang, who still studies in Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. In those 52 seconds of the video, we see windows with warm and bright lights from our neighbors, as we probably already get used to in the quarantine time, as we admire the solidarity to keep everybody staying at home. Just like the moon has its back side, here another Covid-19 crisis is rising up: Domestic Abuse. Hope, the "silent flash" is not easily being forgotten among all those bright lights.
The short video work "Stiller Blitz"("Silent Flash") is from Di Yang, who still studies in Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. In those 52 seconds of the video, we see windows with warm and bright lights from our neighbors, as we probably already get used to in the quarantine time, as we admire the solidarity to keep everybody staying at home. Just like the moon has its back side, here another Covid-19 crisis is rising up: Domestic Abuse. Hope, the "silent flash" is not easily being forgotten among all those bright lights.
Sascha Pohle
"Chambres d‘Amis, Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 21.6-21.9.1986, Seoul, 9.4.2020"
Sascha Pohle
"Chambres d‘Amis, Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 21.6-21.9.1986, Seoul, 9.4.2020"
Sascha Pohle
"Chambres d‘Amis, Ghent, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 21.6-21.9.1986, Seoul, 9.4.2020"
Jones Leong
"Enforcement Quarantine"
Jones, a 26-year-old student, because of Covid-19 pandemic, eventually decided to leave Germany temporarily, to get back to Macau where he came from. His flight arrived in Macau on March.20th, and he was immediately taken with other passengers to a particularly prepared hotel, started his 14 days strict quarantine period. His camera trustily recorded his days and nights being alone in one room isolated, however luckily with a wide window.
Jones, a 26-year-old student, because of Covid-19 pandemic, eventually decided to leave Germany temporarily, to get back to Macau where he came from. His flight arrived in Macau on March.20th, and he was immediately taken with other passengers to a particularly prepared hotel, started his 14 days strict quarantine period. His camera trustily recorded his days and nights being alone in one room isolated, however luckily with a wide window.
Shuyu Chen
"I wish we could keep our distance as natural as possible."
Klaus Boegel
"Daydream"
Haishu Chen
"Spaziergang"
Louis Spoelstra
"Waiting"
Lico Fang
"Seeeed"_1
Lico Fang
"Seeeed"_2
Marc Franz
"Little stones at my window" from Mario Benedetti, translated by Paul Archer
Now and again happiness
throws little stones at my window
it wants to tell me that it’s waiting
but I’m feeling calm
I’d almost say level-headed
I’ll keep my anxiety hidden
and then lie flat on my back
which is an elegant and comfortable position
for sorting through the news and believing it
who knows where my next steps will take me
or when my life story will be assessed
who knows what advice I’ll still come up with
and what shortcuts I’ll discover and not take
all’s well, I won’t risk an eviction
I won’t tattoo the callous onto my memory
there’s much left to say and suppress
and many grapes to fill my mouth
all’s well, I am persuaded
that happiness won’t throw any more stones
I’ll open my window.
Now and again happiness
throws little stones at my window
it wants to tell me that it’s waiting
but I’m feeling calm
I’d almost say level-headed
I’ll keep my anxiety hidden
and then lie flat on my back
which is an elegant and comfortable position
for sorting through the news and believing it
who knows where my next steps will take me
or when my life story will be assessed
who knows what advice I’ll still come up with
and what shortcuts I’ll discover and not take
all’s well, I won’t risk an eviction
I won’t tattoo the callous onto my memory
there’s much left to say and suppress
and many grapes to fill my mouth
all’s well, I am persuaded
that happiness won’t throw any more stones
I’ll open my window.
Ge Yulu
"No.14 quarantine hotel"
Maren Jungclaus
"Books are windows to the world"
Rene Spitzer
"Rene Spitzer fly by stunt"
Maren Jungclaus
"Manchmal spricht ein Baum ..."
from Rose Ausländer
Manchmal spricht ein Baum
durch das Fenster mir Mut zu
Manchmal leuchtet ein Buch
als Stern auf meinem Himmel
manchmal ein Mensch,
den ich nicht kenne,
der meine Worte erkennt.
from Rose Ausländer
Manchmal spricht ein Baum
durch das Fenster mir Mut zu
Manchmal leuchtet ein Buch
als Stern auf meinem Himmel
manchmal ein Mensch,
den ich nicht kenne,
der meine Worte erkennt.
Skye Mo
"Where those blossoms use to be"_1
Skye Mo
"Where those blossoms use to be"_2
Literature house Heine Haus Düsseldorf
A wonderful #openwindow action from literature house Heine Haus Düsseldorf
Since mid-March, all readings and events in the Heine Haus had to be cancelled due to the Corona measures.
The writer Katharina Hacker, who has been awarded among others the German Book Prize and the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, is a frequent guest at the Heine Haus. Her last appearance there was for a reading on 26 February this year.
She contacted the booksellers Selinde Böhm and Rudolf Müller at the beginning of April to ask about them and made them the suggestion of the window display literature: those who had already read or would still read at the Heine Haus could send a few words. "You stick this on the window display and decorate with it, so to speak." Since then, new texts have been added again and again, for example by Büchner Prize winner Lukas Bärfuss. There are also drawings among them. Aris Fioretos writes: "If these miserable days have become memories, flying carpets for everyone!" Or Ruediger Safranski: "But we'll hold out. After all, Hölderlin held out in his Tübingen tower for 36 years of home office!"
Since mid-March, all readings and events in the Heine Haus had to be cancelled due to the Corona measures.
The writer Katharina Hacker, who has been awarded among others the German Book Prize and the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, is a frequent guest at the Heine Haus. Her last appearance there was for a reading on 26 February this year.
She contacted the booksellers Selinde Böhm and Rudolf Müller at the beginning of April to ask about them and made them the suggestion of the window display literature: those who had already read or would still read at the Heine Haus could send a few words. "You stick this on the window display and decorate with it, so to speak." Since then, new texts have been added again and again, for example by Büchner Prize winner Lukas Bärfuss. There are also drawings among them. Aris Fioretos writes: "If these miserable days have become memories, flying carpets for everyone!" Or Ruediger Safranski: "But we'll hold out. After all, Hölderlin held out in his Tübingen tower for 36 years of home office!"
Klaus Boegel
"VIS-À-VIS" is a performance art work which artist Klaus Boegel did in 1978. This performance happened on 10th. Jan, as one part of “Window Performance” project which took one week long: Every evening artists showed different performances in a shop window.
In the Performance "VIS-À-VIS" of 1978, Boegel kneels behind the shop window and is fixed to the window pane with adhesive tape on the neck, pulse and waist. After 10 minutes the screen is painted white and a 16mm film is projected onto it. After 15 minutes, Boegel is detached from the glass. His silhouette with the film projection remains visible.
Now organized by Peter Busch and newspaper Niederrhein-Nachrichten, Klaus Boegel represented the performance with an image from the original art work on a local shop’s window.
In the Performance "VIS-À-VIS" of 1978, Boegel kneels behind the shop window and is fixed to the window pane with adhesive tape on the neck, pulse and waist. After 10 minutes the screen is painted white and a 16mm film is projected onto it. After 15 minutes, Boegel is detached from the glass. His silhouette with the film projection remains visible.
Now organized by Peter Busch and newspaper Niederrhein-Nachrichten, Klaus Boegel represented the performance with an image from the original art work on a local shop’s window.
Verena Meis
"Küss mich im Fenster"("Kiss me by the window")
Zwischen Spiegelung und Dir das Fenster. Erst ein skeptischer Blick, dann das Wagnis. Augen verschlossen, Münder vermummt. Die Ohren, wachsam: Palmen aus Leder, Jan Jelinek. Noch unser Abklatsch wirkt vertrauter. Küss mich im Fenster.
The window in-between reflection and you. First a sceptical eye, then devying. Eyes shut, mouths masked. Ears up: Palmen aus Leder (palms made of leather), Jan Jelinek. Even our poor copy looks more familiar. Kiss me by the window.
Zwischen Spiegelung und Dir das Fenster. Erst ein skeptischer Blick, dann das Wagnis. Augen verschlossen, Münder vermummt. Die Ohren, wachsam: Palmen aus Leder, Jan Jelinek. Noch unser Abklatsch wirkt vertrauter. Küss mich im Fenster.
The window in-between reflection and you. First a sceptical eye, then devying. Eyes shut, mouths masked. Ears up: Palmen aus Leder (palms made of leather), Jan Jelinek. Even our poor copy looks more familiar. Kiss me by the window.
Verena Meis
"Küss mich im Fenster"("Kiss me by the window")
Zwischen Spiegelung und Dir das Fenster. Erst ein skeptischer Blick, dann das Wagnis. Augen verschlossen, Münder vermummt. Die Ohren, wachsam: Palmen aus Leder, Jan Jelinek. Noch unser Abklatsch wirkt vertrauter. Küss mich im Fenster.
The window in-between reflection and you. First a sceptical eye, then devying. Eyes shut, mouths masked. Ears up: Palmen aus Leder (palms made of leather), Jan Jelinek. Even our poor copy looks more familiar. Kiss me by the window.
Zwischen Spiegelung und Dir das Fenster. Erst ein skeptischer Blick, dann das Wagnis. Augen verschlossen, Münder vermummt. Die Ohren, wachsam: Palmen aus Leder, Jan Jelinek. Noch unser Abklatsch wirkt vertrauter. Küss mich im Fenster.
The window in-between reflection and you. First a sceptical eye, then devying. Eyes shut, mouths masked. Ears up: Palmen aus Leder (palms made of leather), Jan Jelinek. Even our poor copy looks more familiar. Kiss me by the window.