Grosse Bärenjagd, 2005 (Hunting of the Great Bear)
Sound installation as part of the interventions "Private audience"
by:
Anja Casser, Beate Engl, Wolfgang Stehle & Wolfgang Ullrich
during the exhibition "Schatzhäuser Deutschlands", Haus der Kunst
Munich
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Interviews with different exhibition visitors, spoken
texts, 4 CD players, 4 speakers, 4 floor contact mats, carpet,
Rembrandt painting: "Diana with Aktaeon and Kallisto" (1634, Oil
on canvas, 168 x 93,5 cm, owner: Prince of Salm-Salm, Museum
Wasserburg Anholt).
Speaker: Imke Boesch, soundmix: Lenz
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During one week the exhibition "Schatzhäuser Deutschlands"
is expanded through four private audiences by two artists
and two art theorists. They introduce their personal
approach towards the exhibits and the concept of the
exhibition to the museum visitors. Through critical
interventions they highlight the topic nobility and
art from different perspectives and offer the visitor
a different perception and new thoughts about the exhibition.
The presentation of the precious objects is very pure.
But the observers fantasies mostly expand the perception
to imaginary castles and ornate halls. This is exactly
the interest of Beate Engl: She is asking observers about their
imagination of the original spatial context
in which the Rembrandt painting "Diana with Aktaeon and
Kallisto" is placed and which impact such a property
would have on their life. She presents a sound collage
of the answers together with two spoken texts that imitate
art historical interpretations of the painting. As a
kind of acoustic appropriation of space the spectator
is activating the sound piece in front of the painting
through hidden floor contacts. |
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CD 1: Kallisto and Aktaeon - interpretation of the painting: Mythological
conflicts of the observer of private property
>audio excerpt
as MP3 (German version only, 1,2 MB)
CD 2: What would you do if you would own the Rembrandt
painting?
Sound collage from the interviews about private property and
burden
>audio excerpt
as MP3 (German version only, 1,4 MB)
CD 3: How do you imagine the private room in which the painting
is placed?
Sound collage from the interviews about the imagination of private
property and its accessibility
>audio excerpt
as MP3 (German version only, 1,4 MB)
CD 4: Scenario / location the representative space: The
painting as museum
>audio excerpt
as MP3 (German version only, 2 MB)
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