NORBERT MEISSNER / KLAUS MAECK ABWÄRTS
NORBERT MEISSNER / KLAUS MAECK ABWÄRTS, BEI MUTTI (VIDEOSTILL) © DIE KüNSTLER 2019
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LET’S DANCE.

Music—Art—Video in the 1980s

As part of the Narrating Video Archives project, the IMAI Foundation offers insight into its Narrating Video Archives collection. Narrating Video Archives is an initiative of the Videonale Bonn in cooperation with the Kunstmuseum Bonn; the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen; the Museum Folkwang in Essen; and the IMAI Foundation.

One focus of the archive of the IMAI Foundation is on artists’ videos that—in a way distinct from commercial music video—address the synthesis of contemporary visual aesthetics and music. Such videos not only reflect the counterculture of the 1980s but are also an expression of an intermedia do-it-yourself practice in which video became increasingly popular as a medium of production and distribution. Inspired by innovative video technology as much as by contemporary music (punk, new wave, rap), artists experiment with the aesthetic of the audio visual.

Program

Norbert Meissner and Klaus Maeck, Abwärts, Bei Mutti (1981), 12:06 min.
Rotraut Pape, Die Flieger—Trilogie #2: Ein Hoch auf das Bügeln, music: Holger Hiller (1984), 03:10 min.
Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, Visual Art Songs for the 80’s: Beatnik (1984), 05:00 min.
Gorilla Tapes, Lo Pay No Way (1988), 06:32 min.
George Barber, The Greatest Hits of Scratch Video Vol. I (1985), ca. 04:00 min. (excerpt)
Inge Graf and ZYX, Achtung! Raum-Kontrolle (1986), 04:13 min.
Chris Newman, 3 Rock Videos: Dandruff, Jealousy, My Wife Is French (1987), 11:28 min.

Curated by

Dr. Renate Buschmann

The screening will be repeated on 10.10.2019 at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen.

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