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The Anarchist GummiZelle (AGZ) is an artist group with a focus on performance and was founded in 1980. The AGZ was known as a performance group in Germany in the mid-1980s, alongside groups like “Schmelzdahin” or “ Die Tödliche Doris ”.

After the AGZ had hardly any public appearances in the 1990s, it has been active again since 2002.

The members of the AGZ are: Stefan Ettlinger , Heinz Hausmann , Otto Müller and Uli Sappok . Bertram Jesdinsky , who co-founded the AGZ, died in 1992. Thorsten Ebeling, also co-founder, has not been a member of the AGZ since May 2010.

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The AGZ began making experimental films in the late 1970s . In 1981 she received first prize in the “Filmzwerge” competition at the “Festival of Independent Films” in Münster for her jointly produced Super 8 film “Im Rhenushaus”.

Independent performances quickly emerged from accompanying actions to the screenings of their own Super 8 films. The high points of the activities of the AGZ in the 1980s were the collaboration with Heiner Goebbels (at the Jazz Festival Moers) and the performance "4 playing cards and 3 pieces of furniture".

In 2002 the group got together again, and in 2003 they received a distribution grant from the Filmstiftung NRW for the project ”Anarchiv (GZ)”. The AGZ digitized its entire experimental film work from the 1980s (the films produced jointly and the films of the individual members of the AGZ) and made it accessible to young filmmakers.

The performance "Emotionsdiktat or: Discovery of togetherness", shown in 2005 at the 18th Stuttgart Film Winter , was awarded the "Milla and Partner Prize" (the prize went to the AGZ-founded junior group "5, -DM", with which she Performance together).

Performances

  • 1983
    • 3rd Osnabrück Experimental Workshop - "Hägarperformance"
    • "Wildes Kino" in the Metropolis Kino , Hamburg - "Tarzan performance"
    • "Culture Week", Düsseldorf - "Dampfklän"
    • "Long Night" at the Metropolis Kino , Hamburg - "Cultural Exchange", "Witches Performance", "Orgasms"
  • 1984
    • 4th Osnabrück Experimental Workshop - "Great Multimedia Performance", "Autoperformance" (original version)
    • "Geminox" -Festival, Frankfurt - "Persian Gulf against English lawn"
    • "1. Meet the Messenger ”in the Hörnli Hut below the Matterhorn summit - nightly projection onto the Matterhorn
    • "Space Gallery", Tokyo - "Jarman Music on Japanese Computer"
    • " Metropolis Kino ", Hamburg / "Arsenal", Berlin / "Batschkapp", Frankfurt / "Werkstattkino", Munich - "4 playing cards and 3 pieces of furniture"
  • 1985
    • Retirement home of Gerresheimer Glashütte, Düsseldorf - program for seniors with performance, film screening and music
    • Jazz Festival Moers - Frame design for "Compilation" by Heiner Goebbels
    • “Videonacht” at NDR - remake of Roger Corman's “The Terror” as a performance
  • 1986
    • Jazzhaus Cologne - "The Hurrying Family"
    • "Culture 90" on the Jagenberg site, Düsseldorf - "Autoperformance" (1st new version)
    • Galerie Thieme, Darmstadt - "The family in a hurry"
    • "AVE" -Festival, Arnhem, Holland - "The Hurrying Family"
    • "Film scene North Rhine-Westphalia", Bonn - "The family in a hurry"
  • 1987
    • "City Days" in the Alabamakino, Hamburg - "The Eilige Familie"
    • University Theater Budapest - "After the War"
  • 1988
    • "AVE" -Festival, Arnhem, Holland - "The Hurrying Family"
  • 1989
    • 7th International Film Festival "Interfilm", Berlin - "Drinking champagne with a difference"
    • "Offener Kanal Berlin" - broadcast with the live performance "At home with us - live broadcast from the space station AGZ 10-j a Christmas broadcast"
  • 2003
    • Kunsthalle Baden-Baden - "Something warm for winter 2"
  • 2004
    • 20th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg - "Game for the Spectator"
    • Kunsthalle Baden-Baden - "Something warm for winter 3.0"
  • 2005
    • 18th Stuttgart Film Winter - "Emotions dictation or: Discovery of togetherness", awarded the "Milla and Partner Prize" (media in space)
    • Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen - Performances to accompany the AGZ film screenings
    • "ZOMBIE MEDIA" in the Stuttgart State Theater - "C64"
    • "Reel to real" in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt - "Celebration in the old perforated style"
  • 2006
    • HBK Braunschweig - 3rd ceremonial opening of the PerfAk (Performance Academy)
    • "Blind Date 06", Kunstverein Hannover - "Gaheim and Garden - p. 23 HIAM - WSD?"
  • 2007
    • Kunsthalle Baden-Baden - "Carwars for Mum and Dad" (2nd new version of "Autoperformance")
  • 2009
    • Black Box, cinema in the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf - "The evening when the earth went into itself"

Movies

In addition to performances, the Anarchist GummiZelle has realized various joint film projects, including the feature film “An den Molen shall not lie” from 1986 to 1988 (16 mm color, produced with funds from the NRW Film Fund).

Stefan Ettlinger, Bertram Jesdinsky, Otto Müller and Uli Sappok have produced numerous Super 8 films of their own, which were shown in many places in the 1980s, mostly with the opening credits: "AGZ shows: ..." or "AGZ - department for art care shows: .... “. Often these presentations were combined with appearances by the AGZ as a group (with performances and / or with live music).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uli Sappok, member of Anarchist GummiZelle , on kunstaspekte.art, accessed on July 28, 2017
  2. ^ AGZ website