Me, myself and I (2012)
Me, myself and I (2012)
Me, Myself and I
10 July - 3 August 2012
Institute of Art and Visual Culture
University of Oldenburg
Opening, Tuesday, 10 July 17 s.t. in the Lecture Hall Centre
Exhibition of the two-semester project course of the same name (Director: Natascha Kaßner). The exhibition was on display from 10 July to 3 August 2012 in the Lecture Hall Centre (Building A 14), in the foyer of Buildings A1 to A4 and in the Kegelbahn Gallery.
"How can one's own memories, personal life situations or interests be used as a basis for artistic work?"
During the introductory phase, various approaches, media and realisation methods were tested for their effect. The choice of media was optional. The practical work was supplemented by research and mutual introductions in the form of presentations on artistic positions.
A broad spectrum developed, ranging from reflecting on scientific approaches (H.G. Mead) to comix (FLIX), time-based media (Pippilotti Rist) and classical painting (Klapheck). This range is also reflected in the end of projects that were subsequently realised.
Description of the individual works
Brief descriptions of the works:
Thea Buchholz
"Empty spaces".
12 cyanotypes of scars by the student
Mareike Cohrs
"The ABC of getting up (2005-2011/2012)
A cushion, a table, a plate, a chair and a glass were labelled with various self-written texts in different fonts. They are encoded and transformed aspects of her own life.
Undine van Elsberg
"Singularities"
In an installation of photos, texts and prints, memories are reconstructed that are linked to objects and traces on the artist's own body.
Alexander Engelmann, Tinka Lehn
"Time loop"
Web presence: www.zeit-schleife.de
In a room installation, a functional student room was shown that consisted exclusively of objects and furniture made from reworked and discarded waste materials. A website was designed as part of the work.
Gesa Hachmann
"LebensARTquilt"
Reconstruction of one's own life as a quilt, in which each row represents a year of life and each person in the life is assigned a fabric pattern/square.
Rainer Hoyer
"Marmot Night"
10-minute stop-motion film that tells the story of a taxi driver's night shift and explores the various technical possibilities in animated film.
Felix Kappeller
"Identity as a construct"
4-part spatial installation on the concept of identity according to G.H. Mead, which translates scientific theories into text, schema and object.
Kaja Klingemann
"Facebook, in the footsteps of strangers"
Installation consisting of clouds of drawings connected by threads. Each cloud reflects a person with their interests and images, which originated in a real Facebook account and was further developed by the student in her imagination.
Clemens Kreutzfeldt
"A tree dies. A piano is born"
Three objects in which technical drawings of piano mechanics, own wood prints and objects from piano making are freely combined and collaged.
Lisa Lillpopp
"Networks of everyday life"
Multi-part wall installation consisting of drawings, photographs and threads in which own forms of self-localisation and communication structures are reflected as well as 6 paintings (acrylic on paper. 70 x 180 cm) in which painterly translations are sought for subjective physical sensations.
Maleen Linke
"Individual Codes"
6 paintings (oil on canvas. 50 x 80 cm each), each representing friends of the student, whereby correspondences were sought in devices and machines for the personal characteristics.
Viktoria Maash
"Boarding school time"
Reconstruction of her own time at boarding school as a multi-part room installation with drawings.
Fabiana Netzband
"My paths in Berlin"
Various objects and installations that take up the student's paths in her home city of Berlin.
Anna Stemmann
"Me, Myself and I"
Comic drawn with ink and fineliner, which tells her own life story in short episodes, starting with a box that serves as a memory store offering paths into different levels of the past.
Wilma Scheschonk
"The self-portrait learns to walk - views of the self through the webcam"
Several works (installation, embroidery, prints) that thematise aspects of current communication and self-portrayal on the Internet.
Alena Timoshenko
"The paths to oneself"
Large drawings of abstract city maps are combined with interiors drawn from memory of flats in which the student has lived.