PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Antje Schiffers & Thomas Sprenger – Wandern
“Fear of being a stranger, of embarrassing situations or of asking for help; fear of being alone in the woods, fear of getting lost or spending the night without a shelter” are some moments that a person journeying on foot might... [more]
Critical Art Ensemble – Radiation Burn: A Temporary Monument to Public Safety
In the demonstration of how to explode a bomb, the CAE deal with the fear of the so-called ‘dirty-bomb’ and how it is described as a real threat in the context of global terrorism and implemented as a means to legitimise... [more]
Ella Ziegler – Scion Exchange
In a black market exchange on the border between Germany and the Czech Republic in Spring, Ella Ziegler (Berlin) exchanged goods for Czech scions and used these to cultivate wild seedlings in Halle into apple trees. The process... [more]
Folke Köbberling/Martin Kaltwasser – Trash Circulated
This piece will be realised during the week of the festival. [more]
Henrik Schrat – Raven and Roses
Schrat deals in his work with the resurrection myth of Barbarossa and the nearby rosarium in Sangerhausen, Europe’s biggest rose garden, in a city with the highest unemployment rate in the whole of Germany. Schrat attempts, in... [more]
KUNSTrePUBLIK – Halle alle
###VIDEO###(© Werkleitz 2010, filmed by: Matthias Einhoff, Anita Müller, edit: Anita Müller) The highest point in a place is generally a sacred building that marks the centre of a local community: a church or a pinnacle of... [more]
Leopold Kessler – Fence Sharpening
Leopold Kessler’s work deals with the demographic development of the Halle region and ironically and succinctly visualizes the fear the “long-time residents” have of the unfamiliar or foreign: the tips of a garden fence are... [more]
Stephan Apicella-Hitchcock – As you wish
Hitchcock plays on the potential of language to generate fear and also on its potential to be misused as a means of surveillance. A series of posters will appear in a wide variety of locations in Halle and the surrounding area. [more]
Steven Rowell – Background Listening Post
Steven Rowell will reactivate a former phone bugging facility that was operated by the Ministry of State Security (Stasi) as a switchboard and control centre for bugging operations in the surrounding countryside. The former... [more]
