Walter Siegfried

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Walter Siegfried (born February 21, 1949 in Zofingen ) is a Swiss action artist in the border area between science and audio art .

Life

Siegfried spent his youth in Switzerland until he finished his studies. He was then supported by the Swiss National Fund for research on dance as aesthetic behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen. The results of the study published in Beauty and the Brain form the basis for new questions and artistic processes. The focus is on irritations and actions that focus attention on everyday phenomena over a certain period of time.

Siegfried studied psychology, art history and philosophy at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1977 with a dissertation on the subject of people - movement - space . He was then invited to teach perception and dance at several universities and academies. Since 1986 he has devoted himself to various art projects and performances . Between 1987 and 2005 he was a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and at today's ZHdK in Zurich.

Actions

Starting with the city ​​dancers - in Munich from 1987 - Siegfried researches questions of art in public space , for example in the pilot project Berlin-Gropiusstad't with Christian Hasucha in Berlin 2003 and in the vicinity of Teutopia ( Atelier van Lieshout ) on the Olympiaberg in Munich 2004. In RUFEN - a work with Frank Helfrich for the public spaces of the Gasteig Kulturzentrum, Munich 2005 - he expanded his situational chants into a mobile singing sculpture for several singers. Also in the rollator concert - conceived together with Ruth Geiersberger and Gisela Müller - several singers are out and about in public space.

In the long-term tagesschau project , the current news program is sung live. His Computer Aided Memory CAM is on the one hand a personalized knowledge store, on the other hand the basis for various performances: The Singing Librarian 2010, Vom Raum im Raum 2013 and WORT KÖRPER 2014.

Since 2016 post-processing of film fragments of the situational chants for film evenings with live singing: in sight of Klangnah 2017.

2018 "You count and don't lock it in the box." Lecture with singing. PANCH symposium "Archives of the Ephemeral" November 2nd, Kunstmuseum Bern

2019 "I lie down with the plants" Thoughts and chants as part of "Grows of the Soul" May 9th Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen.

Honors

Siegfried's work was funded and awarded by Pro Helvetia , the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Siemens cultural program, the state capital Munich and the Aargauer Kuratorium. In 1998 he received the Philip Morris Art Prize in the performance category.

Works

Fonts (selection)

  • Dance, the Fugitive Form of Art. Aesthetics as Behavior. In: Ingo Rentschler , Barbara Herzberger, David Epstein (Eds.): Beauty and the Brain. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7643-1924-0 .
  • Do We Dance to our Own Tune or are we Commanded to Perform? In: Roger Deldime (Ed.): Premier Congrès Mondial de Sociologie du Théatre. Bulzoni, 1988, ISBN 88-7119-024-6 , pp. 519-526.
  • Way home fragments. Exhibition and campaign catalog. Protocols Siemens AG, Berlin and Munich 1991.
  • The cable core. An art cable by Walter Siegfried with stories about cable art by Rainer Stephan . Catalog for the exhibition and the recording action. Munich 1992.
  • Espace sonore et son spatial. Speaking of installations acoustics. In: Dialogue dans le noir. Foundation for the blind institution . Frankfurt / Paris 1994, ISBN 3-9803629-0-6 .
  • La voix dans les arts plastiques: sur quelques examples contemporains. In: Voix et création au XXe siècle. Actes du Colloque de Montpellier 26, 27, and 28 January 1995. Textes réunis by Michel Collomb. Honoré Champion Éditeur, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-85203-592-8 , ISSN  1169-2979 .
  • Tagesschau / civil twilight. Documentation of two art actions. In: Manuel Schneider, Karlheinz Geißler (Hrsg.): Flimmernde Zeiten. Time ecology of the media. Hirzel, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-7776-0937-4 .
  • Irritations for what? Walter Siegfried in conversation with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Meister, in the anniversary publication of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. Munich 2006.
  • Dance, Time and Ritualization. Interview by Christa Sütterlin. In: Art as behavior. BIS-Verlag, Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8142-2290-5 .
  • City dance. Wholeness exercises. in: ›Walking in the City‹ A reader on the poetics and rhetoric of walking in cities. Editors of the series Johanna Rolshoven, Manfred Omahna, Klara Löffler, Regina Bittner. Jonas Verlag for Art and Literature GmbH, Weimar 2017. ISBN 978-3-89445-546-0 .
  • THE CRACK. Essay on the performance "in sight near sound" 2018

literature

  • Dagmar Reim ao: Radio culture and audio art - between avant-garde and popular culture 1923–2001. Königshausen & Neumann, 2001, ISBN 978-3-82602097-1 , p. 187.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Music & Aesthetics , Volume 11. Klett-Cotta, 2007, p. 85.
  2. ↑ Pilot project Berlin-Gropiusstadt
  3. ↑ Teutopia
  4. ↑ CALL
  5. ↑ "Tagesschau
  6. ↑ 'Rollator Concert
  7. ↑ The Singing Librarian
  8. ↑ From space in space
  9. ↑ WORD BODY
  10. ↑ close to the sound within sight
  11. ↑ "You count and don't lock it in the box."
  12. ↑ PANCH
  13. ↑ "Plants of the Soul"
  14. ↑ Kunstforum international , 1996, Volume 134, p. 18.
  15. ↑ Deldime, Roger on Vimeo
  16. ^ Website of the Getty Center - Harald Szeemann Collection

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personal data
SURNAME Siegfried, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss performer
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Zofingen