Indulis Bilzēns

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Indulis Bilzēns (* 1940 in Riga ) is a Latvian multimedia artist , journalist and activist .

Life

Indulis Bilzēns was born in Riga in 1940. After the occupation by the Soviet Union , his father was deported to Siberia. After the war, Bilzēns emigrated with his mother to Germany, where the family settled in Esslingen am Neckar .

He studied English at King's College in Cambridge , medical informatics at the University of Bonn and the University of Stuttgart .

Bilzēns, who deliberately decided against German citizenship, had been politically active since the 1960s. He was involved in the 1968 movement and in the 1970s also in the German anti-nuclear movement . As a journalist he wrote for the Frankfurt city magazine Pflasterstrand and the weekly information service for the distribution of missed news (ID).

In the early 1980s he founded the small media publisher Bräunungsstudio Malaria in Cologne and organized Paul Klee exhibitions in Riga and Berlin. During perestroika , Bilzens and Micky Remann got to know the musicians of the Latvian experimental band NSRD and joined the group's activities. In 1989, Bilzēns organized the exhibition Riga: Latvian Avant-garde together with the New Society of Fine Arts . In 1990 he brought Latvian artists to Berlin for the Unexpected Encounter (Latvian classical painting) exhibition .

Through William Röttger , whom Bilzēns knew from working together at Frankfurter ID, he came into contact with the early Berlin techno scene in the mid-1980s. There he met the young WestBam and was involved in founding the Low Spirit label . Recordings of a WestBam performance made by Indulis inspired the Latvian musician Roberts Gobziņš to create his own techno tracks under the pseudonym EastBam . Bilzēns then also organized WestBam's first appearance in Latvia. Bilzēns was also involved in organizing the first love parades and Mayday raves.

As a multimedia artist, he was involved in projects for the Minus Delta t performance group . For Van Gogh TV he worked together with WestBam, Karel Dudesek , Benjamin Heidersberger and Salvatore Vanasco on the project Piazza Virtuale during Documenta IX .

Fonts

  • Indulis Bilzens, Jürgen Holtfreter, New Society for Fine Arts: Riga: Latvian Avant-garde. Elefanten Press, Berlin, 1988, 84 pages, ISBN 3-88520-286-7
  • Indulis Bilzens (Ed.): Unexpected encounter: Latvian avant-garde 1910-1935. New Society for Fine Arts, Wienand, Cologne, 1990, 209 pages, ISBN 3-87909-250-8

radio play

  • Death of an end user or how do I find that by Gábor Altorjay, Indulis Bilzēns and Hein Bruehl. Director: Bruehl. WDR, 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Multimediju mākslinieka Induļa Bilzēna performance “RĪGA STIPRĀKA PAR NĀVI” ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at riseba.lv, accessed on March 16, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.riseba.lv
  2. ↑ Daiga Mazvērsīte, Māra Traumane: Avant-garde movements in Latvian music from 1970-1990 . at soundexchange.eu, accessed on March 16, 2015
  3. ↑ a b WestBam : The power of the night. Ullstein Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-550080685
  4. ↑ Piazza virtuale: Service Area a. i .; Interactive television project for Ars Electronica '94 in Linz at kobv.de, accessed on March 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Bilzēns, Indulis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian multimedia artist, journalist and activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga