House E.
House E was an exhibition project in the Ludwigshafen Clinic in 2002. The working title, House E , was the unadorned takeover of the name of a clinic building according to the internal (and for hospitals common) wayfinding system . The building, which until recently was the home of an ENT clinic , was available for the project for several months.
The participating artists were offered the opportunity to record the traces that life had left in the rooms of House E and to deal with the uniqueness of this "abandoned" building with its spatial, cultural and social context. The form of the discussion was up to the artists. They were also free to include one, several or all of the rooms made available to them in their work.
The result was presented to the public in an exhibition between August 1st and September 15th, 2002 (over 1000 visitors). An important part of the project was a catalog (see literature), which documents the work process from the beginning and explains the curatorial idea and the individual contributions. A separate internet presence existed temporarily under the domain www.haus-e.de. One of the contributions, the fictional television series Hospital Ready : Klinikum Lu-Mitte ... by superart.tv , was shown almost always live on the clinic's own patient television for the duration of the project, as well as a photo novel in the Ludwigshafen Open Channel .
The project was under the patronage of Kurt Beck, Prime Minister of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, and was implemented in cooperation with the Wilhelm Hack Museum , the Kunstverein in Ludwigshafen and the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt.
List of participants and their contributions:
- Urs Breitenstein ( outpatient projection - double slide projection on two patient beds)
- Eric Carstensen & Michael Volkmer as superart.tv ( ready for hospital: Klinikum Lu-Mitte - the soap for art )
- David D 'Agostino ( ambulance and other installations)
- Madeleine Dietz ( ... a question of time - installation, video)
- Margret Eicher ( Birth of Venus and Flight into Egypt - Gobelins )
- Harald Jegodzienski ( Archive of Evidence - 17 individual installations )
- Katase Kazuo ( Terminal Installation)
- Marko Lehanka ( Life comes waddling around in cowboy boots! - Installation)
- Swilen Stefanow ( My doubts about the meaning of art and other installations)
literature
- Catalog: House E - Ten artistic positions on the former ENT building in the Ludwigshafen Clinic . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-88423-205-3 .
Press and media reports
- Milan Chlumsky: Operation Art. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, August 9, 2002, p. 8
- Hans-Ulrich Fechler: A hospital as a place of art. The Rhine Palatinate, September 12, 2002
- jb: Concept artists design Haus E. Mannheimer Morgen, July 30, 2002
- Hans-Ulrich Fechler: Operation successful! Conceptual art in the hospital ... The Rhine Palatinate, July 30, 2002
- SWR, July 30, 2002
- RNF Life August 13, 2002