Nightmares
Miss Marple cannot sleep –her alarm is torturing her. At first, she doesn’t even hear it. Later, every time she gets up to look at it, it stops. Then when she lays down, it starts again. She gets more and more hysterical and eventually, mechanical.
(Won the german installation award in Marl 2000)
In Horsedog a white horse appears above a white dog as if standing on top of it . Sometimes the dog is on the lookout – but nothing happens. After a minute a black horse appears behind the white horse – and and dissapears before reaching the borders of the image. The dog doesn‘t notice it. In front of the projection from time to time a plastic bag is driven by air to fly while it‘s illuminated by a spotlight.
The city‘s edge at night: in the background the lights of the city, in the foreground a hut as a carcass. It seems to be inhabited: inside, a light is turned on and off sometimes. But also a window with the singing silhouette of a person behind it, is projected onto it. Behind the hut a man appears and disappears. On the other side of the construction site scenery, once in a while a dog is barking and illuminated according to the volume of his singing.
Endless lights
3 two-way-mirrors, 600 lights,
200 x 180 x 205 cm, 2007
Endless Lights is a model for the nocturnal sea of lights of a megalopolis.In a triangle of two-way mirrors, spectators can look through the mirrors inside of the sculpture from where the gaze cannot escape to the dark outside.
Endless lights II
3 two-way-mirrors, 300 lights,
195 x 128 x 110cm, 2009
Endless Lights is a model for the nocturnal sea of lights of a megalopolis. In a triangle of two-way mirrors, spectators can look through the mirrors inside of the sculpture from where the gaze cannot escape to the dark outside.
Marzahner Oper (Marzahn Opera)
town musicians (Stattmusikanten)
woman on the floor (Frau am Boden)
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH 2 (2010 – 2014)
The traveling „SHOW“ is a fake circus in public space. In 2014 the audience was asked to make their own show. It also features the video „Just journey with them“ about two nuns that travel with a circus, and the spatial video installation The ShowShow.
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARH 2 – LIVE!
An improvised show with local heroes in a tent – a fake circus as an intervention in public space, 2014
In a small town in Austria the project had its 14th stop and invited the neighbours to become part of it: we were looking for talents who were ready to present their performative capabilities during two weekends on stage.We were excited to welcome and present:
Miss Natalija with a real python, girls from the gym with a choregraphed performance, two gorillas performing a Schuhplattler (styrian folk dance), the local brass band with painted faces, two knights and her boss Margot (who also performed as Nina Hagen), the pakistani kids of the neighbour disguised as bankrobbers, yodelling Angie, retired Dr. Helmut Drexler as arabian storyteller and poet, half of a school class as Lucky Luke with a Pony, Cupsingers and HipHop dancers, a poodle playing football with three coaches, Bianca the rabbit magician, Michelle with a tight rope for drying her clothes, the strongest beatnik on earth, laughter yoga coach Ilse, the artist Alexander who impersonated a horse, a mosquito and a lion, a female Clown with her heavy metal playing boyfriend (on a guitar, unplugged) and Anita, the smallest princess on earth.
Every show was different depending on the presence of our local stars.
Stefan Demming as the director annouced every act and Mareike Hube accompagnied them with live music. Outside, the sideshow welcomed the audience.
Realized in the framework of „Unternehmen Paradies“, a project by transparadiso.
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARH 2 – project website or DOWNLOAD CATALOGUE (en / german)
(3-channel-HD-video, 6-channel-audio installation, 15′, colour, stereo, 2016)
The „Marzahn Opera“ re-animates some figures from an east-german tv-soap opera that was shot in the just built highrisers of Marzahn in Berlin’s very east in the late 1970’s. In an architectural setting that ressembles east-german highrisers, some scenes from „Einzug ins Paradies“ (moving in paradise, 1985) are appearing. The actors seem to stutter rhythmically: the sampled footage forms an electronic choir of everyday life and philosophical thoughts. The characters are sampled in short transformative loops so that their repetetive language turns into some kind of an electronic rap …
„SPACE SPACE“ is a choreography of audiovisual events based on cinematographic scenarios of outer space.
A choreography of audiovisual events, Galerie im Turm, Berlin 2012
SPACESHIP: 12-channel-audio, video projection, 4 blowers, inflatables, spotlights, 6 photographs mounted on aluminium (80 x 100 cm), wood, paper, readymades, fabric, foil, 1 painting (100 x 120 cm), 2 monitors, light controlers; 2 computers with custom software, duration: part I(Spaceship): 5’23“
LUNAR LANDSCAPE, video projection, loop 5’38“ &
SCULPTURE „Endless Space“: 3 mirrors, 2 2-way-mirrors, 240 LED-lights, iron construction, 2012
For six weeks the Galerie im Turm was transformed into an accessible space scene. The installation „SPACE SPACE“ by artist Stefan Demming is a media landscape based on early visions of space travel. Set designs of older sci-fi movies and space stereotypes create a staging that invites the visitors of the gallery on a galactic journey of discovery. In the sculpture „Endless Space“ the fascination of infinity and therefore the own perception are explored …
Installation, 2013
1 Videoprojektion (Loop), 5-Kanal-Audio, Aufblasskulpturen, Gebla?se, Textilen, Pappe, Spots, Ventilator, Bewegungsmelder
In einer dschungelhaften Kulisse aus synthetischen Materialien liegt ein nackter Mann wie tot in einem Fluss. Wenn Besucher sich ihm na?hern, blasen sich Pflanzenskulpturen in der Kammer auf.
( Kunstkammer Schlieren im Rahmen SAME(difference)_sculpture in relation
kuratiert von/curated by: Tanja Trampe, Anne Koskiluoma, John Canciani, Nkule Mabaso)
PLANTATION (PLANTAGE) consists of a growing number of inflatable plants, the project’s background is industrial agriculture. It grows series of plasic fruit, readymades as well as custom made forms. It explores temporary sculptural forms in their growing and declining process. The ephemeral sculptures were occasionally presented with live music made with wind blowing instruments (which is in german „Blas-musik“ while the inflatables may be called „Auf-Blas-Skulpturen“).
