Art disco Seoul

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The Seoul Art Disco was the Federal Republic of Germany's official contribution to the cultural program of the 1988 Summer Olympics . The project was organized by the Goethe Institute at its headquarters in Munich. Responsible for the idea and organization was the institute's music advisor at the time, the sound engineer and musician Jürgen Drews.

The idea of ​​the art disco was, instead of bringing up high culture from the field of theater and music, as is usually the case in the cultural program, to design a contribution specifically for South Korean youth and at the same time to convey a contemporary image of Germany. It seemed to those responsible that the project also had something subversive about it in the “authoritarian Korean context of the time”. The art disco was realized in Ankara Park in the Yeouido-dong district of Seoul . The project cost 4.6 million DM.

The project consisted of a temporary building designed by Munich architects Julia Mang-Bohn and Peter Bohn, which was played for 26 days during the games by young but already established artists from various fields with a cultural and music program. In the sense of a total work of art, all contributions were specially produced for the project. According to a concept by the brothers Ernst and Hans Peter Ströer , 30 long-playing records were created by musicians such as Thomas Fehlmann and Kurt Dahlke , with whom WestBam, as a resident DJ, played the evenings every day from 5 p.m.

In addition to the music program, there were performances and dance interventions by choreographer Howard Fine, who and his group of eight dealt playfully with Germany's cultural heritage, but also with current issues such as AIDS. In addition, the late textile artist Michael Ody with his room installations and costumes and the industrial designer Bibs Hosak-Robbs with her restaurant and two bars made a significant contribution to the physical appearance of the art disco.

Participants and those responsible

In the press release of the Goethe-Institut for the opening of the art disco the following participants and responsible persons were named:

  • Idea: Jürgen Drews
  • Architecture: Peter Bohn, Julia Mang-Bohn
  • Interior design: Bibs Hosak-Robb
  • Fashion design and situational sculpture: Michael Ody
  • Light, sound and effects: Uli Petzold
  • Program design: Ernst and Hans Peter Ströer
  • Coordination: Georg W. Borgel
  • Disc jockey: WestBam
  • Gastronomy: Manfred P. Groneck
  • Music: Artbeat, Bamboo Industry (Ingo Ito), Stefan Bauer , Blue Box , Boys in trouble, Freiherr Hans von Brachwitz, Klaus Buhlert , Fischerman's Friend, Evert Fraterman , hardness 10, Raffael Heller, Thomas Hiltner, Henry Kneuer, Low Spirit ( WestBam), Marathon ( Moritz von Oswald and Ralf Hertwig ), Michael Müller, Pyrolator , readymade ( Thomas Fehlmann ), Sacco + Vanzetti, Burkard Schmidl , Seoul Express ( Walter Thielsch ), Ströer Bros., Werner Sushko, Tätärä ( Anselm Kluge ), Walter and Mathilde Weh
  • Dance: Howard Fine with Carlos Bayo, Andy Geer, Ruth Geiersberger, Denise Gudmundseth, Mites van Oepen , Ellen Raab, Radan, Sunga Weineck
  • Video: Volker Andung, Peter Braatz , Jakob Claussen , Uli Ganter, Hans Turner, Thomas Bahmann, Herbert Wentscher
  • Photography: Christian Affonso Gavinha
  • Graphic design: Johanna Wies

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Stephan Becker: Subversive Gesamtkunstwerk: Interview with Jürgen Drews, Peter Bohn and Julia Mang-Bohn in: Baunetzwoche , Berlin, issue 332, 2013, p. 8
  2. Die Zeit: http://www.zeit.de/1988/39/wildes-atmen-in-einem-stillen-land/komplettansicht Hamburg, 1988
  3. ^ Goethe-Institut: Press release and biographical information , Munich, 1988