A video by Harko Wubs & Stefan Demming, 2022 9 min, 4K, col. stereo, german with english subtitles
From the deepest dungeons of society through the spotlights of the studio to every living room: Five chosen pigs from the bio-industry are allowed to lead a luxurious ‚human life‘ in the Pig Brother house. From here they are observed by the TV-watching public. They can vote for their favorite pig and it will be spared from slaughter. Will the pigs compete for man’s favor now that they are in the center of human attention?
Pig BrotherintroPig BrotherPoster and stills from the video PIG BROTHER
Is a collaborative performance project with dutch and german visual artists, designers and musicians within the framework of the dutch-german artproject taNDem. It develops on aspects of „home“ and by this particulary the region called „Euregio“ where most of the artists live or come from. While the concept is to grow to a collective within the work, the process builds its own reality. From the initial idea of a random led choreography referring to John Cage’s ‚Europeras‘ to the introduction of many artists individual ideas and works, the community-building, the discussions of partially juxtaposed ideas of what performance means to the participants, the communication itself seems not only to be a challenge but an important basis of the whole project as an „artwork“ regardless the outcome.
Artists:
Tony Boiso, Stefan Demming, Renata de Frankrijker, Esther de Vries, Hanne Feldhaus, Jenny de Groot, Helena Hartmann, Mariëlle Meijerink, Frans Mensink, Michael ’Hille’ Rieken, Pier van Dijk, Laurens Westhoff
original idea / concept: S. Demming & M. Rieken; dutch lead partner for collaboration: Pier van Dijk;
in collaboration with / in Zusammenarbeit mit Michael Rieken
(deutsche Version unten)
„Ich-Orgel“ (I-Organ) is a reactive sound and light installation as well as a tool for an an audiovisual performance. It creates electronic interpretations of organ samples by J.S. Bach. When a visitor activates the composition of 6 different tracks / speakers, he can navigate from one channel to another by moving his head slowly to one of the coloured circles that symbolize the sound layers. In addition, the body moments are adding up to a timebased portrait of the player that’s expressed in the 6×7-pixel-display expressed by 42 globe light bulbs. Watch a documentation of the av performance i organ – video.
„Ich-Orgel“ – Einladung zum meditativen Komponieren
„Ich-Orgel“ von Stefan Demming und Michael Rieken ist eine interaktive Klang-Licht-Installation, bei der Kameraaufnahmen von Besuchern in eine klangliche Komposition und skulpturale Lichtinstallation übertragen werden.
Indem Ausstellungsbesucher einem Feld aus Glühbirnen gegenübertreten, hauchen sie diesem durch ihre Anwesenheit Leben ein. Die Bewegungen haben dabei Einfluss auf eine Komposition aus Klängen, die Orgelwerken von J. S. Bach entstammen.
