Christian Jendreiko

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Christian Jendreiko (* 1969 in Recklinghausen ) is a German musician , composer , theater scholar , media scientist , experimental and performance artist and professor for design and strategies of digital communication at the University of Düsseldorf . He works intermedially with algorithm-based experimental systems using elements of serial art .

youth

Christian Jendreiko was born in Recklinghausen in June 1969 and grew up in Oer-Erkenschwick . After a few years in secondary school, he switched to the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen, at that time an advanced high school , where he passed his Abitur in 1988.

From a young age he was enthusiastic about jazz greats, especially the sound collages by Miles Davis (from the late 1960s), Josef Zawinul and Frank Zappa, which were created between jazz and rock music . In 1985, as a guitarist and singer, he was a founding member of the more traditional jazz sextet Jazzdate , half of which consisted of musicians over a decade older , where his long-time companion Stefan Werni played bass. This was followed by his own projects such as the Blue Garden Trio and regular sessions with local greats such as Werni and the keyboardist Christoph Kemper, later founder of Access Music Electronics and developer of the Access Virus , which later also belonged to Jendreiko's and Wernis' instruments.

Education

In 1988, immediately after graduating from high school, Jendreiko began studying media and theater studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum , where he was discovered by Friedrich Kittler in his first semester and invited to attend the doctoral seminar. Also Vilém Flusser was one of his teachers. In addition to German studies, he studied Catholic theology as a minor, where he was significantly influenced by the fundamental theologian Hermann Josef Pottmeyer . In 1994 Jendreiko graduated with a Magister Artium .

During his studies, he worked at the Grillo Theater in Essen , where he began as an intern and eventually rose to directing via assistant director. There he was often asked whether he was “the son of Jendreiko”. After initial irritation, he got used to answering this question in the affirmative - especially since his father, unsurprisingly, had the same surname as himself. The questioners are likely to have meant the actor and director Hans-Dieter Jendreyko , with whom he is neither related nor related by marriage.

Ogilvy & Mather

After a year in London , Jendreiko moved to Düsseldorf in 1995 , where he became a copywriter and conceptual designer at the renowned advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather .

Trio Infernal; Werni & Jendreiko

In the second half of the 1990s, Jendreiko founded the band Trio Infernal - The good band , which is based on it , together with his old companion, the bassist Stefan Werni , and the drummer and singer Hans Kanty (August 9, 1964 - October 15, 2005) to present specialized, unplugged and jazzy classics of all genres in a new guise. What was particularly noticeable about this band was that in Jendreiko and the no less extroverted Kanty they had two frontmen with only three members. After this band gradually broke up, Jendreiko and Werni remained partners in the duo Werni and Jendreiko until today (2018), but they switched to electronic music . They took part in the benefit concert for Hans Kanty, who died unexpectedly in 2005.

Parallel to this duo, Jendreiko also realizes electronic music with the quartet Beaster .

Hobby pop museum

Since 1998 Jendreiko has been part of the Düsseldorf-London artist collective Hobbypopmuseum , whose regular cast also includes Thea Djordjadze (* 1971 in Tbilisi , Georgia ), Sophie von Hellermann (* 1975 in Munich ), Nick Laessing (* 1973 in London ), Matthias Lahme (* 1974 in Marsberg ), Dietmar Lutz (* 1968 in Ellwangen ), André Niebur (* 1973 in Rhede ) and the London-based Markus Vater (* 1970 in Düsseldorf ; Villa Romana Prize Winner 2003) included. Djordjadze, Laessing and father have not been there since 2003, but Marie-Céline Schäfer (* 1967), who lives in Zhaoqing , China , is one of the 100 heads of tomorrow . Interim members of the early days (1998/1999 to 2000) were Olivia Berckemeyer, Björn Dahlem , Tatjana Doll , Mike Silver and Andreas Reihse and Detlef Weinrich (both from Kreidler ).

With this group, Jendreiko conceived and organized numerous exhibitions, actions and performances at home and abroad, which in 2002 earned her the award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for young artists in the visual arts category .

Actions

Christian Jendreiko designs elaborate, often multi-day instrumental actions in the form of verbal notations, which are performed collaboratively in museums, galleries and other cultural institutions around the world and which " show connections to the contemporary performance practice of New Music in many ways ". Jendreiko understands his action texts as fictional theories of action; Accompanied by them, acoustic, electronic and experimental musical instruments are used in their own concentrated way, and the “actors” sometimes also include bizarre objects such as industrial robots. In his own words, he moves around as a nomad, pitch the tents where the chemistry is right and set up his test laboratory there. He does not see the actions as performances in the narrower sense, but rather compares them with events such as soccer games or large construction sites, which draw attention from their own dynamics and allow the viewer to participate internally. He lays out scripts that outline basic instructions and algorithms.

"My work as an artist does not consist in making art objects, but in designing generative systems with which art can be created."

- Christian Jendreiko

In 2003 a number of Jendreiko's works were included in the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne in the Center Pompidou in Paris .

He exhibited his works since 2003 in 2017 in a joint exhibition with artist Mary Bauermeister , who also works serially and intermedially , whose works he juxtaposed with her from 1957 to 1967 under the title Pli Score Pli at the Kunstmuseum Solingen . The invitation to the event curated by the art historian Wilfried Dörstel says:

“The starting points for Jendreiko are linguistically composed scores, called action texts, which determine the playing of the actors on musical instruments in terms of movement, mood and self-reflection. In these so-called movement situations, sounds do not unfold in the course of conventional organization towards an end product, music or piece of music, but rather as an accompaniment to a gesture initiated by the artist on the instrument: "Every sound in the room is the result of a physical movement." Actors playing in the audience are individual, interacting and location-based. The instruments and equipment used are part of the action situations and, in the process, take on the role of installation objects, which also play a central role in the space when the actors are not yet or no longer present. "

For Soft Revolution , a cooperation with the sculptor Markus Karstieß from 2015, the two artists specially designed a stringed instrument that takes up the tensegrity structures of Richard Buckminster Fuller and Kenneth Snelson . The human being, the artifact and the play with the natural forces of pull / counter-pull interact as three fields of force.

The philosopher and political scientist Michael Hirsch wrote in 2016:

“Christian Jendreiko's actions are models in a strong sense. They are exercise systems, concrete utopias of a socially innovative, communal life practice. In its context, it is about starting here and now with preliminary exercises for a different life. It's about speaking, thinking, trading and playing with one another as if we were already living in a liberated society; freed, released from the preparations, role and identity constraints of bourgeois society. They are not practices of an outstanding (artist) subject, but of a crowd, a collective intelligence, a general intellect in the sense of Marx. What was always meant in the various forms of the historical avant-garde, the transition of art into 'life' and 'everyday life' - that is targeted or indicated in such actions. A communism of the spirit is being practiced or practiced. The modality of his actions is prefigurative; its social form is not that of the independent, self-sufficient subject (and its mirror image, the autonomous work of art), but that of a coming community of singular individuals who try out new forms of togetherness with one another. "

- Michael Hirsch : "What it is about - About actions and models of art: the right life in the wrong one", in Jendreiko (2016), p. 9

Actions took place in particular at Wesleyan University in Connecticut (2007), at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007), at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (2009), at the Kunstverein Nürnberg (2009), at the Baer Ridgway in San Francisco ( 2010) and at the Eastside Projects in Birmingham (2010 and 2011). For his action In the beginning was the word , a speaking performance developed together with a choir, he received the 2017 Art Prize of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .

Academic career

Since 2003 Christian Jendreiko has been working as a lecturer for interactive systems in the design department at the University of Düsseldorf .

In 2010 he was visiting professor at the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology . In 2012/13 he was visiting professor for interactive art and design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and in 2014 he was visiting professor at Leeds Metropolitan University . In 2016 he took on a visiting professor for communication and image as well as artistic experiments at the University of Düsseldorf.

On April 1, 2018, Jendreiko was finally appointed to a professorship for design and strategies of digital communication in the design department at the Peter Behrens School of Arts at the University of Düsseldorf.

Exhibitions

Christian Jendreiko's works have been performed or exhibited in the following longer-term exhibitions and festivals since 2000:

Phonograms and books

In addition to a large number of freely available videos, there are some sound carrier recordings and books:

  • with Stefan Werni , Hans Kanty : Trio Infernal - The good band. Gray area Recklinghausen, 1998.
  • Planets suite. CD, Edition Hobbypop, Düsseldorf 1999 and CD / Maxi, Flesh, UK 2001.
  • with Stefan Werni, Hans Kanty: Trio Infernal - The good band. ZAuF Studio Marl, 2000.
  • I love you all. Vinyl single, Flesh, UK 2001.
  • with hobbypopMUSEUM: A Selection Of Sound-Pieces. CD, Düsseldorf 2002.
  • Studio apartment. CD, Flesh, UK / Düsseldorf 2002.
  • Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia, Düsseldorf (ed.): HobbypopMUSEUM. König, Cologne; CD (from 2002) and book 2003; ISBN 978-3-88375-600-4 .
  • with Little Annie , Can Oral : Little Annie & The Legally Jammin '. LP / CD, Italic, Berlin 2003.
  • hobbypopMUSEUM: Creating values. König, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-88375-862-6 .
  • with Little Annie and Can Oral: Little Annie & The Legally Jammin '- Mixed Up Little Annie. Vinyl Maxi, Italic, Berlin 2004.
  • as editors: Alexander Jasch, Jens Ulrich, Florian Baudrexel: Seven books of wisdom and beauty: Kölnerstraße 334 & Alexanderstraße 35 from 1997 to 2004. Revolver, Archive for Current Art, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 978-3-86588-128-1 .
  • with Stefan Werni and Hans-Joachim Heßler : DA CD, Dortmund 2008, DNB 360217001 .
  • with Stefan Werni: Werni & Jendreiko. CD, Dortmund 2008, DNB 999953486 .
  • Heterologics. Exhibition catalog and conference publication, Nuremberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-941185-31-9 .
  • Actions. 2 CD + booklet, Apparent Extent, Cologne 2011.
  • with Katinka Bock : dragonfly 12 ° ; Katinka Bock / recto: Thank you (red) ; Christian Jendreiko / Verso: The old game . Rosascape, Paris 2011.
  • with Stefan Werni: Werni & Jendreiko: Dou. CD, Duisburg / Dortmund 2011, DNB 1016160771 .
  • with Angela Fette: Vision Vulkano. LP, Apparent Extent, Cologne 2011 (= LP 1 of the Schwerte Box Set ).
  • 12 cosmic examples. Catalog, Apparent Extent, Cologne, 2016.
  • with other authors: Hans Ulrich Reck (Ed.): Punkt und Passage. Art Academy for Media Cologne 2017, DNB 1154494462 .
  • with Markus Karstieß : Soft Revolution. LP, Apparent Extent, Cologne 2017.

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ a b c d e conversation with Christian Jendreiko on michaelundalbert.de
  2. ↑ a b c Prof. Christian Jendreiko on the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences website
  3. ^ Benefit concert for Hans Kanty , announcement and appeal for donations from November 2005
  4. ↑ Tracklist of the Beaster group on soundcloud.com
  5. ↑ a b Exhibition archive on Christian Jendreiko on kunstaspekte.art
  6. ↑ Schäfer is not listed in the event information before 2005, but is explicitly one of the nine 2002 award winners, see list of award winners on mkffi.nrw (PDF; 1.7 MB)
  7. ^ Francesco Spampinato: Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design. New York 2014; hobbypopMUSEUM on pp. 112–117 ( Google Books )
  8. ↑ hobbypopMUSEUM / DIGITALIA, March 2 to May 13, 2018 , Dortmunder Kunstverein
  9. ↑ a b c ChezON - Christian Jendreiko , event information from ON - Neue Musik Köln on May 10, 2016
  10. ↑ a b Building blocks for a theory of erosible aesthetics , video for a lecture at the University of Bonn on December 16, 2017
  11. ↑ [1]
  12. ↑ a b Christian Jendreiko: "In the beginning was the Word" , art project of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  13. ↑ a b Invitation to Pli Score Pli , together with Mary Bauermeister , in the Kunsthaus Solingen , early 2017 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  14. ↑ a b Picnic by the wayside / Ä Soft Revolution ; Event announcement, Dortmunder Kunstverein, early 2016
  15. ↑ biography of Michael Hirsch on his own website; DNB 133757234
  16. ^ Dry art (Harburg version) , event information from the Harburger Bahnhof art association for February 28, 2016
  17. ↑ Rheinische Kirche awards art prize 2017 to three artists , evangelisch.de, March 11, 2017
  18. ↑ Invitation to a change of perspective , Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
  19. ↑ Katinka Bock: Tomorrow's Words , event announcement archive on rosascape.com
  20. ↑ This "cast" selection is explicitly taken from the program announcement, including the division by "as well".
  21. ↑ Jendreiko on Lust & Rätsel , video on youtube
  22. ↑ works of Christian Jendreiko on Youtube
personal data
SURNAME Jendreiko, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German media scientist, performance artist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen