Discoteca Flaming Star

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Discoteca Flaming Star (short: DFS) is a German-Spanish, interdisciplinary artist group with a changing cast, which was founded in 1998 by its core members Cristina Gómez Barrio (* 1973 in Alhambra , Spain ) and Wolfgang Mayer (* 1967 in Kempten ).

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Discoteca Flaming Stars' artistic activity focuses on their appearances and performances. They also create sculptures, drawings, banners, carpets and film works, which, arranged in an installation, serve as a setting for their conceptual music performances. Discoteca Flaming Star use songs and texts in different languages, images and sounds to question public knowledge and memory. They use a wide range of references, including from pop culture or documentations of historical, political and social events, and operate between social initiative and event documentation. In their way of working, they enter into cooperative structures and interdisciplinary contexts. In the past, Discoteca Flaming Star has repeatedly played Rita McBride's installation arena , including in 2000 at the New Aachen Art Association and in 2007 at the Tate Gallery of Modern Art in London and the Whitney Museum of American Art , New York. The group's interventions were described as “hardcore karaoke”.

In 2015, Discoteca Flaming Star was next to video artist Nevin Aladağ and Peter Vogel for the second “Kubus. Sparda-Kunstpreis im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart "nominated for the topic" Art & Music ".

Gómez Barrio and Mayer have been professors at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart since the summer semester 2011 . Until 2018 they held the chair in the field of fine arts / intermedial design (IMG). Since the 2018/2019 winter semester, you and Felix Ensslin have been leading the practical art master’s course “Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative”.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • The latter from New Jork . General Public, Berlin, 2006.
  • Anitavirginia alfombras . Freymond-Guth & Co., Zurich, 2007.
  • mil veras, mil princess mil centralias . CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Mósteles Madrid (ES), 2008.
  • Row: order says freedom . Art Association Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, 2009.
  • El Valor de gallo negro (Buthe Tower Stock Exchange) , group picture part 2, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (nbk), Berlin, 2010.
  • Topsyturvy - Celebrating Another World. De Appel , Amsterdam, 2012.
  • The Rehearsal. The Kitchen, New York, 2014.
  • Sticky stage . District Berlin, 2017.

Participation in exhibitions (selection)

Performances (selection)

Catalogs

  • Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes, Cristina Gómez Barrio, Miren Jaio, Matthew Lyons, Wolfgang Mayer, Ines Schaber, Leire Vergara, Jan Verwoert, Ctichi Zamora (eds.): Mil veral mil prinzessinnen mil centralias . Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-451-3143-5
  • Kunstverein Hamburger Bahnhof (Ed.): Revue # 6 Series: Order says - Freedom. Discoteca Flaming Star . Textem Verlag, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-938801-80-2
  • Ulrike Groos, Eva-Marina Froitzheim (ed.): Discoteca Flaming Star. Cube. Sparda Art Prize in the Stuttgart Art Museum . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-296-5
  • Paolo Caffoni, Suza Husse (Eds.): Sticky Stage. A Book as Evidence & Script for Future Performances . Archive Books, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-948212-14-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Groos, Eva-Marina Froitzheim (ed.): Discoteca Flaming Star. Cube. Sparda Art Prize in the Stuttgart Art Museum. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-86832-296-5 .
  2. ↑ hkw.de Announcement from the House of World Cultures for May 1, 2010.
  3. ↑ ca2m.org Announcement of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo for May 2nd to September 10th, 2008
  4. ↑ New appointment to the Stuttgart Art Academy , report on art in berlin from May 12, 2011.