A group of twelve young people stands side by side in a bright, minimalist room. Behind them is a large window through which daylight streams in; the upper part of the window is softly blurred. The people are wearing everyday clothes and assume various postures, some with their arms stretched upward, others with their hands clasped.
© Lucien Liebeckei

Class of Prof. Danica Dakić

Work Description

The artists of Danic's Dakić class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy have been invited by the IMAI to develop site-specific works for the 112-meter long LED screen an Kö-Bögen II. The works, which have been created in collaboration with Matthias Neunhofer, reflect on corporeality and perception in urban spaces, questioning how public screens guide our attention, condition sensory experiences, and structure everyday spaces through consumerist logics. At the same time, the works open out to new perspectives on diverse, (un)disciplined forms of seeing and experiencing. 

 

Location

LED screen at Kö-Bögen II
Schadowstraße 42-52
40212 Düsseldorf 
daily from 8 PM

 

Videos

  • Julia Reisinger, Glücklich/Süchtig (Happy/Addicted) and Süchtig/Glücklich (Addicted/Happy), 2:56 min.

  • Beate Gärtner, Out of Reach, 3:43 min.

  • Ole Dreihaupt, Bacchanalien (Bacchanalia), 7:04 min.

  • Lucas Aal, Rage, 2:54 min.

  • Zazie, Triptychon (Triptych), 5:14 min.

  • Hu Xinyue, Top Secret, 3:30 min.

  • Yoonji Nam, Lost, 2:05 min.

  • Zahra Yacoub, Acht (Heed), 1:06 min.

  • Nuah Lee, Safe Sentence, 3:13 min.

  • Julia Priss, Im Rausch (In Frenzy), 0:50 min.

  • Lucien Liebecke (video) with Zeynep Fulya Aday, Maria Golowin, Qingsong Meng, Julia Priss, Julia Reisinger, Insa Schülting, Hu Xinyue, Naomi Xila-Xulis, You Xiangyun, Zahra Yacoub, Yusif Zakhovy, Zazie (performance), (Un)disciplined Body, 5:44 min.

Documentation

Late in the evening, a popular shopping street in Düsseldorf is nearly empty. The stores in the large Kö-Bögen II complex are dimly lit. Above them stretches a 120-meter-long LED wall displaying a video work by Hu Xinyue that shows a sheet of paper with the words “Reading Constitutes Participation” written in black block letters and with red highlighting.

© Hu Xinyue and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

On the right, a tree in the foreground is just beginning to sprout its first delicate leaves. Behind it is Nuah Lee’s video work, in which the word “Hello” is written in overlapping red Korean and English lettering.

© Nuah Lee and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

A frontal view of three fashion stores on Schadowstraße, closed late in the evening. Above them, a large LED wall glows in the vibrant orange and red hues of a video artwork by Ole Christian Dreihaupt.

© Ole Christian Dreihaupt and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

A large LED screen displays a video work by Lucien Liebecke, in which several students stand side by side in a row, performing various movements. The video is partially obscured by thin vertical steel beams of the building, which rhythmically subdivide the depicted group of people. Additionally, branches and green leaves from a tree appear in the foreground on the right.

© Lucien Liebecke and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

A popular shopping street in Düsseldorf is nearly empty, late in the evening. The stores in the large Kö-Bögen II complex are dimly lit. Above them stretches a 120-meter-long LED wall displaying a video work by Lucas Aal that explores the destruction of a camera.

© Lucas Aal and Stiftung IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Photo: Kai Werner Schmidt

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