Dauer: 28.04. - 09.05.2007
Öffnungszeiten: Mo. - Do. 12 - 18 Uhr, Fr. 12 - 0h, Sa. & So. 15 - 18 Uhr und n. V.
1. Mai geschlossen!
Eröffnungskonzert: Joe Colley + Jacob Kirkegaard: 28.04.2007: 20.00h
Abschlusskonzert: Marc Behrens + Pe Lang/Zimoun: 09.05.2007, 20.00h
Joe Colley
(Crawl Unit, USA)
&
Yunchul Kim
(Südkorea/Köln, KHM)
Kulturbunker Mülheim
Berliner Str. 20, 51063 Köln
Im Rahmen der diesjährigen MusikTriennale treffen im Kulturbunker Mülheim Ost und west aufeinander - so auch im Rahmen der Klanginstallation von Joe Colley und Yunchul Kim. Beide Künstler werden mit kybernetischen Klanginstallationen und fesselnden Raumbespielungen neue Bezüge zwischen Ort und Sound herstellen. Die Besucher der Ausstellung können sich selbst in die Klangskulpturen einbringen und ihre eigenen Sounds generieren. Ein Besuch der Ausstellung ist besonders auch für Kinder (in Elternbegleitung) und Schüler (ab 10 Jahren) geeignet. Der Kulturbunker Mülheim kann auch an eine Besichtigung für Schulgruppen anbieten in Anwesenheit des Künstlers Yunchul Kim. Interessierte Gruppen melden sich unter 0221-616926. Am Eröffnungstag findet zur feierlichen Eröffnung der Klanginstallation ein Konzert mit Joe Colley und Jacob Kirkegaard statt (20.00h)
Die Klanginstallationen sind Teil der Projektreihe [aktionsraum], die freundlicherweise von der RheinEnergie Stiftung Kultur gefördert wird.
Artist Statement
I've been listening as long as I can remember. As a child I had a Christmas LP with a story on one side and sound effects on the other. I often listened to the second side. It had sleighbells and crackling fire without any commentary, allowing me to make up my own story.
At some point I began making my own sounds. Spending my youth in thrift stores and junk shops I began accumulating second-hand tape machines, turntables with variable speed control, and speakers. I began making tapes and eventually grew into live performances and finally installation. These days I strive to create environments made up of obscure events with a focus on the mundane or pathetic. Trying to respect the 'soul' of these cast off materials where possible.
As a composer and performer I continue to use fairly primitive equipment, often chained together in a complex way. Usually I cannot recall how particular sounds were made, and this really isn't important. My main goal is self confusion, and hopefully this extends to the listener as well. I try to bring about a situation where both myself and an audience can explore individual perceptions that arise from simplistic masses of sound, finding "meaning" or not. There is no message, and no need for one. Presenting pure phenomena, dense walls of electrical vibration, resonant feedback, I try to bypass the rational mind and tap the naive energy we all possess as children but lose as we grow older, ultimately seeking to enter a state of mystery or suspended time, and to communicate this state from one mind to another.
Artist Biography:
Joe Colley (b.1972 Ft. Lauderdale) is a self taught artist concerned primarily with the phenomena of sound and it's unique ability to activate a consciousness set apart from rational understanding in a way very different from visual or verbal means. This consuming interest has led to extensive experimentation with results occasionally made public through performances, installations, and commercially available recordings. These experiments have encompassed abstract electronic/noise composition, amplification of natural phenomena, investigations into phase, and creation of complex mass from layers of simplistic sound material, often with an attention to the mundane or pathetic.
Growing up in California's central valley, Colley has travelled widely making field recordings and researching various cultures with a focus on ritual musics and the art of the insane. He has worked in warehouses, long-term care facilities, porn shops, and as an art instructor with developmentally disabled adults and juvenile detention facility inmates. His music journalism has been published under pseudonyms in various national magazines.
His performances have been seen as part of festivals including Activating The Medium (SFMOMA), Observatori (Valencia, Spain), Lampo (Chicago, Illinois), Phonotaktik (Vienna, Austria), MUTEK (Montreal, Canada), Beyond Music (Venice, Ca.), and Songlines (Mills College, Oakland, Ca.).
His notable recordings include "Desperate Attempts At Beauty: Conceptual And Research Exercises" (Auscultare Research CD) which was nominated for the Transmediale 05 Award, and "Psychic Stress Soundtracks" (Antifrost CD) which recently received an award of distinction at Ars Electronica 2006.
Yunchul Kim
1970 geboren in Seoul, Korea
1991-98 Studium der Musik und Komposition, Chugye Universität der Kunst
1999 Studium an der Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln
lebt und arbeitet in Köln
Medienkünstler
Preise, Stipendien
2004 3monatiges Gaststipendium im Künstlerhaus Schloß Balmoral
Einzelausstellungen
2000 Art Cologne, Köln E
2000 "scheint", in Giessen E
2001 Moltkerei Werkstatt, Köln E
2001 New York Digital Salon, New York, USA E
2001 IST-Europa-congress, Düsseldorf E
2002 Ars Electronica, Linz Österreich E
2002 Total Museum, Seoul, Korea E
2003 Art Cologne, Köln E
2004 Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin E
Publikationen
2001 "Interface" Sommer Akademie, Essen E
2004 "Code Work" Transmediale, Berlin E
2000 "scheint", Medienkunst, Modellverlag K
2001 Leonardo, Volume 34, The mit Press K
2003 bingo (KHM in Artcologne), Kunsthochschule für Medien, Köln K
Kulturbunker Mülheim
Berliner Str. 20
51063 Köln
Tel.: 0221-616926
Fax.: 0221-6160796
E-Mail: connected@kulturbunker-muelheim.de