Offensive video art

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The offensive video art (ovk) was an initiative to promote and present video art . It was founded in 1986 by Karin Lauerwald and Stefan Hörner in Dortmund. Originating from the “Video & Co” group, ovk showed current, international works by contemporary artists at various venues in North Rhine-Westphalia. The project lasted until 1989, but was launched a year later under the name Fasst Media! continued by Lauerwald and Volker Harrach , with the conclusion of the last event in 1991 this project too.

history

Lauerwald had been a member of the “Video & Co” group since 1984 (together with the founders Günter Schlange and Ruth Waleczek). The studio community of Peatc Voßmann, Elke Bauer and Günter Schlange in the CEAG building, Gate 2 in Dortmund, offered space for the first events for the performance of artistic videos. The following video shows took place in the neighboring gate 3 in the rooms of the Blickpunkt TV production.

In the mid-1980s, a wider awareness of the relatively young artistic genre developed beyond local initiatives. In North Rhine-Westphalia, interests came together on August 12, 1985 as part of a “video art session” in the NRW Secretariat for Joint Cultural Work in Wuppertal. In the minutes of the meeting it was stated that “North Rhine-Westphalia should be given the pioneering position in the public funding of video art”. In addition to Wulf Herzogenrath (Kölnischer Kunstverein), Dieter Daniels a. Petra Unnützer (Videonale, Bonn), Axel Wirths (235 media, Cologne), Zdenek Felix (Museum Folkwang, Essen), Veruschka Bódy (Infermental) and others also participated in Video & Co. Here the Dortmund team presented their concept: “The establishment of a series of video work shows with six dates per year every two months with the introduction of West German and international video / media artists, artist groups and organizations. The video work show included the presentation of video / multimedia works in the presence of the artists, followed by a workshop discussion. ”Their aim was to make video art accessible to a wider public (with a spatial focus on Dortmund) and to make it more accessible in cultural meeting places such as to present free theater and communal cinema as in museum space.

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Together with Stefan Hörner, the initiative began in May 1986 under the new name offensive video kunst with a work exhibition by Ingo Günther in the Künstlerhaus Dortmund . The following event can already be rated as one of the highlights in the still young history of the communication of video art in Germany: The " Infermental Retrospective 1980–1986 ". Over a period of twelve days, a video library with 176 works could be used daily from 12 noon to 9 p.m. There were four performances, three installations and a lecture by Veruschka Bódy ( Infermental ). The installation “My Adventures with Admiral Fend” by Ingo Günther can be seen as a forerunner of the installation “K4 (C3I)” (at documenta 8 , 1987, today Collection Sculpture Museum Glaskasten Marl). The entire Künstlerhaus was equipped with video presentations from the roof to the basement and the courtyard. From then on, the three subsequent editions of Infermental could each be seen as a West German premiere in Dortmund. Subsequently, the 2nd Marl Video Art Prize was presented, which - like the 3rd Marl Video Art Prize - was shown first in Dortmund after its premiere in Marl.

In addition to the presentation of existing programs and projects, the initiative also created its own programs and exhibitions on special topics in video art ( tape , performance and installation ). The joint projects “Waterfront” (with the Hallways Gallery and the Squeaky Wheel Coalition in Buffalo, USA) and “Video Hungaria I-III” (in collaboration with Miklós Peternák, Budapest) deserve special mention. Parallel to the presentation of a selection of works from these two projects during the "International Photoszene" for Photokina 1988 in the Museum Ludwig Cologne, the video "Gesänge des Pluriversum" by Peter Weibel was broadcast simultaneously in all America houses around the world .

In 1988, Volker Harrach joined Sabine Landgräber as the fourth permanent member of the initiative. Thanks to the long-term support and sponsorship of Ernst Schreckenberg and Kurt Eichler, ovk and the city of Dortmund also gained international fame as a venue for video art .

After a break, Karin Lauerwald and Volker Harrach founded Fasst Media! a new initiative. The last event of the initiative took place on the 24th German Evangelical Church Congress in 1991.

Events 1984–1989

  • VA Wölfl - Werkschau , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, July 1984
  • VIDEO CONGRESS N ° 5: BEGEGNUNG / MEETING , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, August 1984
  • VA Wölfl - video fascist , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, September 28, 1984.
  • Monika Funke-Stern - Frankenstein's divorce , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, September 28, 1984
  • Werner Nekes - Werkschau , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, October 26, 1984
  • Wolf Vostell - Werkschau , CEAG Tor 2, Dortmund, November 23, 1984
  • VIDEO CONGRESS N ° 7: REALITÄTSERSATZ / SURROGATE OF REALITY , Blickpunkt Fernsehproduktion (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, December 21, 1984
  • Marcel Odenbach - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, January 25, 1985
  • Klaus vom Bruch - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, February 22, 1985
  • Gusztáv Hámos - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, March 29, 1985
  • Jean-François Guiton - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, May 24, 1985
  • Ulrike Rosenbach - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, June 14, 1985
  • VIDEO CONGRESS N ° 8: METALANGUAGE I + II , Che Coolala, Dortmund, November 24, 1985
  • Infermental special edition North Rhine-Westphalia , Künstlerhaus Dortmund , November 29-30, 1985
  • Gábor Bódy - retrospective , focus on television production (CEAG Tor 3), Dortmund, April 25-26, 1986
  • Ingo Günther - Werkschau , Künstlerhaus Dortmund, May 23, 1986
  • “ Infermental Retrospective 1980–1986” with Infermental 4 (Lyon 1985), special edition North Rhine-Westphalia (Wuppertal 1985), Infermental 5 (Rotterdam 1986), three installations by Ingo Günther, Gusztáv Hámos, Cornelia Barnat & Anna Kabzan and four performances by Viv Trance, Tomasz Thun, Richard Ortmann, Andreas Ruhnke, Ralf Wassermann and Peatc Voßmann. Furthermore a lecture by Dr. Veruschka Bódy , Künstlerhaus Dortmund, June 14-26 , 1986
  • 2nd Marler Video Art Prize , Künstlerhaus Dortmund, September 6 - 20, 1986
  • Infermental 6 (The New World Edition) , West German premiere at Fletch Bizzel , March 22, 1987
  • Infermental 7 (A Traveling Exhibition of World Video) , West German premiere at Fletch Bizzel, May 5, 1988, May 7 - 12, 1988 at the Dortmunder Kunstverein .
  • Bettina Gruber & Maria Vedder - Werkschau , Kommunales Kino, Dortmund, July 7th, 1988
  • Kain Karawahn - fire performance: “Still 11 working days in August, still 95/96 working days in 1988” , Künstlerhaus Dortmund, September 6th - 20th, 1986
  • 3rd Marler Video Art Prize , Künstlerhaus Dortmund, August 16-21, 1988.
  • Miklós Peternák - retrospective , municipal cinema, Dortmund, September 12, 1988
  • Suzie Silver ( July 11, 2011 memento in the Internet Archive ) & Lawrence Steger - Videos and performance: "Sacred Heart Productions" , Fletch Bizzel, November 3, 1988
  • Wonder Products - Fugitives in Black and White , Kommunales Kino, Dortmund, November 28, 1988
  • Axel Klepsch - retrospective , municipal cinema, Dortmund, January 23, 1989.
  • Tony Oursler - Werkschau , Kommunales Kino, Dortmund, March 13, 1989
  • Infermental 8 (In the Afterglow of TV-Land) + Infermental 9 (Heart of Europe) , West German premiere in the Fletch Bizzel, April 16, 1989, from April 18 - 23, 1989 in the Dortmunder Kunstverein.
  • Carl E. Loeffler - “La Mamelle, Inc./Art Com” retrospective (San Francisco) , Fletch Bizzel, September 18, 1989.

Own programs

  • “7 out of 5” - 7 tapes from Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, Canada and the Netherlands , performances: Fletch Bizzel July 6, 1986, Cabaret Queue July 10, 1986, Wambel neighborhood house July 11, 1986, Café International in Fritz-Henßler - House July 12, 1986.
  • "US Videovisit" - 11 tapes from the USA , performances: Premiere at Fletch Bizzel , Dortmund, October 29, 1986, gallery abGrund, Schwerte November 7, 1986, Kommunales Kino, Dortmund November 8, 1986.
  • “Video Hungaria I + II” - Hungarian videos and experimental short films 1980–87 (in collaboration with Miklós Peternák, Budapest), performances: As part of the International Culture Days Dortmund, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences May 20, 1987, Kommunales Kino, Dortmund, May 23, 1987 .
  • “WATERFRONT” - 21 videos from Buffalo, NY, USA , joint project with: Hallways Gallery (Buffalo, USA), Squeaky Wheel Coalition (Buffalo, USA), Rheinisch-Westfälische Auslandsgesellschaft (Dortmund). Performances: Haus der RWAG, Dortmund, January 17th, 1988, Stadtgarten Kino, Cologne June 26th - 30th, 1988, 1st Video Day, Düsseldorf July 2nd, 1988, 1st European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück September 3rd and 7th 1988, International Photoszene 1988 Museum Ludwig , Cologne October 9, 1988, Tatort Medien, Düsseldorf November 24, 1988.
  • "Video Hungaria III" - 14 current videos from Hungary (in collaboration with Miklós Peternák, Budapest), performances: Kommunales Kino, Dortmund, September 12, 1988, International Photoszene 1988, Museum Ludwig , Cologne October 9, 1988, 3rd International Video Art Days, Nuremberg November 4th, 1988, Blue Box Kino, Bremen November 26th, 1988.
  • "In Regard of Nature" - 13 Japanese video art productions on the subject of nature , Fletch Bizzel , November 12, 1990.
  • “Spirit blows in Video soul” - 10 international video art productions for the 24th German Evangelical Church Congress 1991 , Fletch Bizzel , May 24, 1991, Evangelical City Academy, Bochum, May 25, 1991.

literature

  • Uwe Rüth: German video art from 1984–1986: Exhibition for the 2nd Marler Video Art Prize 1986 . Kultursekretariat Gütersloh and City of Marl 1986, ISBN 3-924790-13-2 .
  • 3rd International Photo Scene 1988, Cultural Office of the City of Cologne, Cologne 1988.
  • German Evangelical Church Congress (24th), Ruhr area 1991. Documentary volume. ISBN 3-459-01902-6 .