Marzahner Oper (Marzahn Opera)
town musicians (Stattmusikanten)
woman on the floor (Frau am Boden)
VIDEO INSTALLATION
VIDEO
THE EDGE
THE EDGE OF THE CITY (in collaboration with Wonne Ickx (B), 2004 – 2009)
Since 2008, more than half of the world’s population is living in cities.
We were looking for people living at the edge of Mexico D.F. , a city that is called ‚endless‘. Most of them considered themselves not as being on the edge but rather in the center …
works:
Endless lights (light sculpture, 2007)
The edge of the city (video, 2007))
De Noche (video installation, 2007))
Horsedog (video installation, 2007))
LUURN BI DE BUERN* / Updated Landscapes
(*“lurking on farmers“ in lowgerman (Platt))
LUURN BI DE BUERN (2013-2016, in collaboration with Daniela Schlüter ) is a project on contemporary agriculture. It featured exhibitions with artists, lectures, performances and concerts in situ on 8 farms . Have a look at the artistic production of Stefan Demming for „LUURN“ below!
Updated Landscapes is an ongoing series of different production techniques reflecting upon the changes of landscapes especially in regions with industrial agriculture.
THE SMALLEST SHOW ON EARTH 2
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)
projects
download PORTFOLIO – PDF (german/deutsch, 5 mb); new: Dekolonialwarenladen (2024)
Arbeit & Projekte
Marzahner Oper (Marzahn Opera)
(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 …
AV COMPOSITION
Audiovisual composition is an orchestration of moving images and sounds. It can be a collage of findings and generated imagery or a visual journey based on playful editing and dramatization. Some of them I’d like to call timebased paintings, most of them focus more on sound and images than a narrative story. Find some selected AV Compositions (since 1999) below:
live / performance:
Stadt(als)Film (2024)
Videoloopmachine (VLM, since 2013, performative)
1-channel-videos:
Paramadame (for installation with upright monitor, 2011)
PLANTAGE (PLANTATION)
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“).
