Bar code

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Spontaneous "swarm artists" sticking price labels on the Ballhofplatz in Hanover

Bar code in Hanover is art in public space as hands-on action art . The "swarm art campaign" , in which millions of special price labels are stuck in the old town of Hanover from the historical museum to the red light district , is intended to question sexuality and art that can be bought . Behind Strich-Code are the artists Kerstin Schulz , Ulrike Enders and Dagmar Schmidt , the artist Franz Betz and the journalist Susanne Lindau. The five have launched an art project in which the work around sex for sale on the one hand and art for sale on the other is questioned through light sculptures, sculptures, photographs and a price label installation.

history

Bar code installations in the courtyard of the Historical Museum
Table dance bar as a museum

The so-called “ Prostitution Act ” has been in force since January 1, 2002 , through which voluntary sex work has become legal employment. Ten years after the Prostitution Act came into force, Kerstin Schulz initiated a swarm art campaign that pointed to parallels between prostitution and the art business: “How much does an artist have to bend in order to be able to live from his work? [...] Are artists [...] idealists [...], ready to serve society or is it not primarily about self-realization or even just about living out personal compulsions? "From joint reflection on the" topics of appreciation , transparency, Intimacy , Sexuality, For Sale, Art and Commerce ”the art project of an (for everyone) open price label installation developed .

In the meantime, thanks to the success in 2012, a supraregional follow-up project has been launched. "Strich / Code / Move" started in July 2019 in Berlin and will subsequently move through other cities as a hiking swarm art campaign.

Participation is welcome

Since June 19, 2012 everyone has been able to take part in the artistic action spontaneously and without registration. The action days, which were scheduled to run until September 7, 2012, took place three times a week, from the Historical Museum on the Leineufer across the old town of Hanover to the table dance club hands off involved (in Reitwallstraße near the Am Steintor square ). The meeting point was always the Ballhofplatz .

Since August 27, 2012, a tram on line 17 between Aegidientorplatz and Wallensteinstrasse has been announcing the participation: Up to 40 swarm artists had around 600,000 neon-colored labels "in a kind of relief" on the train in 18 hours at the ÜSTRA depot in Glocksee glued.

On September 9, 2012, the opening ceremony took place in the inner courtyard of the Hanover Historical Museum . By then, 3,750,000 price labels had been stuck up by over 50 swarm artists.

Sponsor

The art project was funded and supported by the Hanover region , the Historical Museum Hannover , contact marking systems , the Foundation Edelhof Ricklingen / VJ from the east , the state capital of Hanover , the Women's Council Niedersachsen e. V. , galerie schinkel & sehl , hands off , Phoenix and the Atelier-Dreieck .

Prizes and awards

Satellite exhibition

From April 23 to July 28, 2012, a satellite exhibition on the art project Strich-Code with works by the four artists of this project was shown in the Schinkel & Sehl gallery at Rauschenplatstraße 2 in the Bothfeld district .

  • Franz Betz (light sculptor): Sculpture kits, computer graphics and light sculptures
  • Ulrike Enders: Current sculptures and the question: How far can art be reduced without losing individuality?
  • Dagmar Schmidt (Prize Winner Art in Architecture ): Photo works from the kitchen pieces series , as well as The Spanish landscape passing by
  • Kerstin Schulz: Pencil objects and new works from overflowing tubes of paint

literature

Web links

Commons : Strich-Code (Hannover)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Kerstin Schulz u. a .: bar code / a swarm art campaign in Hanover ... (see literature)
  2. ↑ NN: exhibition / bar code (see literature)
  3. ^ Strich / Code / Move: Berlin, Washingtonplatz, 22.-27. July 2019
  4. ↑ Franz Betz: barcode, swarm art in hannover (see web links)
  5. ↑ Art campaign "Bar Code": 40 swarm artists apply 600,000 labels to the tram. Press release. (No longer available online.) In: uestra.de. August 27, 2012, archived from the original on October 2, 2012 ; accessed on May 18, 2019 .
  6. ^ Schwarmkunst and Bahnhofstheater. In: stiftung-kulturregion.de. April 18, 2013, accessed March 23, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Minister of State for Culture Grütters announces nominations for the 2014 BKM Prize for Cultural Education. Press release 71. In: bundesregierung.de. Press and Information Office of the Federal Government (BPA), March 10, 2014, accessed on July 27, 2019 .