Author: mk

Passengers by mkSep 18, 20198:17

NO CULTURAL
IDENTITY NEEDED

AMITABH KUMAR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE – HAMBURG-INDIA-WEEK 2019
HyCP VEDDEL SPACE – OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2019 – EXHIBITION, WORKSHOP AND PUBLIC ARTIST DINNER, A COLLABORATION WITH HEIDI SALAVERRÍA, TORSTEN BRUCH, MICHAEL KRESS AND CHRISDIAN WITTENBURG

In everyday understanding “culture” as a term is often equated with identity.One’s own familiar identity, that which is not foreign, is being understood as a fixed canon representing universal values. If other cultures are being viewed from this fixed perspective, as a consequence they are being isolated as something alien.

Angles by mkJan 10, 201918:14

„... Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves...“. Hannah Arendt/Human Conditions

Passengers by mkSep 24, 201817:13

The Willson Center Fellowship / MICHAEL KRESS AT UGA

A Port Journey Exchange with Athens/Georgia USA

Michael Kress is uniquely interested in working with undergraduate and graduate students to embrace global POP phenomena as a connective material for gauging seemingly distant hinterland-urban dependencies.

Passengers by mkJul 10, 201818:04

Facing inside out –
RAHEL BRUNS

A PORT JOURNEY EXCHANGE EXCHANGE HAMBURG > YOKOHAMA

Using the big windows of ZOU-NO-HANA TERRACE as screens, Rahel Bruns transforms the surface of the building to a medium which turns it inside out and vice versa as well as the private to the public and individual to the political recognition of our faces as a statement. This resumes us to intensive actions of social, cultural and psychological negotiations. At the same time Rahel Bruns brings up various questions, such as of the history of the portrait itself and also of contemporary issues like digitalization, social media and the phenomenon of the individual.

Passengers by mkJun 30, 201811:42

ARAM HAN SIFUENTES –
WE ARE NOT THE OTHER WE ARE THE CENTER

Featuring: WERKHAUS MÜNZVIERTEL ZIEMLICH SCHÖNE AUSSICHTEN RAP!FUGEES HAMBURG OPENING/PERFORMANCE WEDNESDAY JULY 4TH 2018 – 1 9.00 H. SPECIAL THANKS TO: Doro Carl, Torsten Bruch,Henriette von Enckevort, Ariel Gentalen, Jan Holler, Jan Köchermann, Karin Missy […]

Passengers by mkJun 27, 201821:29

Migration of Imagination / Chicago – Hamburg Artists Conversations

In 2015, German chancellor Angela Merkel officially opened the border for vast numbers of asylum-seekers escaping war and persecution in countries including Syria and Iraq who were flooding into Southern Europe. Despite concern from German […]

Hypercultural Conversations by mkJun 6, 20189:24

Step Out of Line – James Enos

A Port Journey Exchange with Athens/Georgia and San Diego, USA

SOL is an ongoing series of conversational works concerned with sharing transitory states of reflection, being, and time. Initially, comprised of small groups as they set out to wander atop primitive trade routes and conceptually probe forms of connectivity—from the hinterlands to their modern urban counterparts.

Passengers by mkJun 1, 201811:16

Doro Carl – Chicagoans – Global City – experienced migration

MIGRATION OF IMAGINATION / CHICAGO – HAMBURG ARTISTS CONVERSATIONS / AN EXCHANGE WITH HYDE PARK ART CENTER, CHICAGO

With increasing national pride and inhuman assignments the consciousness about migration as fundamental for the development of cities gets increasingly important. Chicago, well known as the City of Neihbourhood is a place where people meet up.

PortJourney Exchange by mkMay 8, 201814:14

Franck Gérard
The Outer Box – on borders of public and private

ALTONALE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE 2018 / NANTES

For the third time Frise-Künstlerhaus Hamburg is hosting the official Altonale artist-in-residence 2018. After Groningen in 2017 and Istanbul in 2016, we cooperate with the cultural center Lieu Unique from Nantes and welcoming French artist Franck Gérard in Hamburg-Altona. An other PORTJourney Network Exchange.

PortJourney Exchange by mkMay 5, 201816:30

Groningen Call for Artists from Hamburg

PORT JOURNEY ARTIST EXCHANGE HAMBURG > GRONINGEN

A cooperation between HaViK/ZUHAUSE (GR) and Frise (HH) supported by the government of Groningen. For the AIR-programm in Groningen HaViK works together with ZUHAUSE. They are the host for the artists in Groningen. In their building they provide a place to stay and to work.

Hypercultural Conversations by mkFeb 11, 201819:36

Regine Steenbock – Trachtenrealismus

UNFAMILIAR TIES // HYPERCULTURAL CONVERSATIONS

“Im Gespräch mit der Chinaexpertin Julia Berg werde ich von meinen textilen Forschungsreisen zu den chinesischen Minderheiten in der Provinz Guizhou berichten. Meine Recherchen zielten dort insbesondere auf die kryptischen Traditionen der Indigo-Färberei und den alltäglichen Trachtenrealismus, der mir im “Autonomen Bezirk ” der Miao und Dong in Qiandongnan begegnete”.

Messenger by mkFeb 10, 201817:39

GATHERING ANGLES

KONFERENZ – HYPERCULTURAL MESSENGERS

Die künstlerischen Forschungs-Reisen thematisieren Hyper Culture als ein alternatives Konzept zu den überkommenen Begriffen Inter-, Trans- und Multi-Kultur. Die Messenger untersuchen Kulturalität als mögliche und unvorhersehbare Neuverknüpfungen, als hyperkulturelle Umwandlungen auf assoziativen Ebenen von Ähnlichkeiten.

Messenger by mkFeb 9, 201822:48

Chrisdian Wittenburg
Island – analog/digital

HYPERCULTURAL MESSENGERS

Ich erahne eine Frustration: die Dias, die mit der Billigkamera aufgenommen wurden, zu einem Dia-Vortrag zusammenzustellen. Sie KÖNNEN garnicht gut aussehen, so schlecht ist die Kamera. Ich will es trotzdem, behaupte mal, das Beeindruckende muss der Ort schon selber hinbekommen. Was ich mit den digitalen Geräten vorhabe weiss ich noch nicht.

Messenger by mkFeb 9, 201822:30

Heidi Salaverría / Ariel Flórez
Syncopated Resistance
Rhythms of Post-Colonial Thinking

HYPERCULTURAL MESSENGERS

Out of an ongoing process of dialogues and musical communication, Ariel Flórez and Heidi Salaverría developed the project “Syncopated Resistance”. Tracing both the vicinity and the tension between philosophical thoughts and the Afro-Caribbean tradition of music, they travel through times.

Messenger by mkFeb 7, 201820:41

close below the heavens –
Dorothea Heinrich

HYPER CULTURAL MESSENGER – Mongolei

Beobachte ich mich selbst aufmerksam und untersuche ich den Kontaktmoment an dem das Unvertraute auf das Gewohnte trifft, durchlässig, erfolgt Veränderung. Lasse ich mich frei von Bewertung und unbefangen berühren, werde ich reich beschenkt.

Messenger by mkFeb 7, 201820:06

Doro Carl – Zeitzonenkater

HYPERCULTURAL MESSENGERS

Reisen, das bedeutet die alltägliche Routine hinter sich zu lassen, unter Umständen aus dem gewohnten Schlafrhythmus zu fallen und im Jet Lag die Störung des Schlaf-Wach-Rhythmus zu erleben. Das grundlegende Bedürfnis von Schlaf wird offensichtlich, in Bussen und Bahn sind Menschen von Müdigkeit übermannt und schlafen an halböffentlichen Orten.

Angles by mkJan 9, 201816:12

„...Ich bin überzeugt, dass Kunst und Kultur unverzichtbare Grundlage einer Gesellschaft im demokratischen und friedlichen Zusammenleben sind. Je kreativer eine Gesellschaft ist, umso fähiger ist sie aufzustehen und damit zu überleben....“ Martin Roth, Widerspruch, 2017

Passengers by mkDec 22, 201711:16

James A Enos –
AFTER THE DISCO:
Ohh, Here I Am!

Artist in Residence – A Port Journey Exchange with San Diego, USA

As far as a line— can signify subjective movement, intimate rhythm, or serve to abstract notions of space, we needn’t prematurely hold such characteristics accountable for engendering expectations of individuality.

Passengers by mkDec 8, 20179:33

Soup – Tasting river water / Miku Sato (Yokohama)

Artist in Residence – A Port Journey Exchange with Zounohana Terrace/Yokohama

All rivers are connected to the ocean. We all share the ocean with all creatures on earth. The human life, various cultures, histories and also battles began in waterside, and our ancestors lived a simple way of life when people didn’t have any borders of countries.

Passengers by mkNov 10, 20179:45

At The Heart of the Matter – Kristiina Uusitalo (Helsinki)

Artist in Residence – A Port Journey Exchange with FORUM BOX Helsinki and FRISE Hamburg. November/December 2017

“My current paintings take us into the midst of the plastic soup that we swim in. The sky is still blue, but we are choking in the useless material boiling away in our seas and on our shores. We let it go down the drain. (…)”

Hypercultural Conversations by mkOct 28, 201721:24

Linked Angles –
Artist Conversations on Cultural Emancipation

WITH ANISH AHLUWALIA, ANDREA BECKER-WEIMANN AND ANKE MELLIN FOR THE HAMBURG INDIA WEEK 2017

The project invites artists from India and Hamburg to focus on the singular cultural perspectives of the other. It investigates a broader concept of culturality, which encompasses similarities and closeness rather than difference and distance. The process of emancipation is being understood as an unconstrained interest in otherness by universally acting subjects.

Passengers by mkOct 24, 20177:56

ANISH AHLUWALIA

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE FOR THE HAMBURG-INDIA-WEEK 2017 – PARTICIPATING ARTIST OF „LINKED ANGLES – ARTIST CONVERSATIONS ON CULTURAL EMANCIPATION“ – WITH ANISH AHLUWALIA, ANDREA BECKER-WEIMANN AND ANKE MELLIN

ANISH AHLUWALIA is an artist, writer and filmmaker. He lives and works in New Delhi, India. He has exhibited his works in solo and group exhibitions in New Delhi, Mumbai, London and Budapest. He has participated in various international artist’s residencies in India and abroad producing site specific installations and performance based photographic works.

Passengers by mkSep 7, 201712:26

Labanotation –
Jean Kirsten / Dresden

FRISE Artists In Residence – September 2017

„Seit 2009 beschäftige ich mich mit der Raum-Harmonielehre von Rudolf Laban und seiner Kinetografie, auch Labanotation genannt. Mir geht es in den Arbeiten, die dazu entstanden sind, um Bewegung im Raum, deren Darstellung in der Fläche und im Raum und um ein Begreifen von Raum.

Messenger by mkAug 25, 201715:01

Jenny Schäfer – Ästhetik archäologischer Objekte

HYPER CULTURAL MESSENGER – Italien

Ich recherchiere nach Ausgrabungsstücken: mich interessiert ihre Darstellung sowie die Weise, wie sie für den Tourismus durch Attraktionen und Dekoration oder Souvenirs übersetzt werden.   Als Reiseziele hatte ich u.a. Paestrum und Pompeij in Italien anvisiert. Ästhetische Grenzen verschwimmen nicht nur zwischen Ländern und Kulturen, sondern auch zwischen der Vergangenheit und Heute.

Passengers by mkAug 5, 201714:29

Clemence Roudil – Latent front – the burnt rocks, the dikes and the grids

FRISE Artists In Residence – August 2017

This is where it begins. Drawn to the center between the peripheries of land and water, we enter into a strange ceremony of fearful fascination, automatic administration of clearcut chaos, a deep void of wild autonomous capitalism. Aborted commitment of open doors to the world, we turn around, turn again and again, finding no entrance, no exit, we adhere to the front.

Messenger by mkAug 1, 201713:27

Ceci n’est pas une pizza – Carsten Benger &
Niklas Hausser

HYPER CULTURAL MESSENGER – ITALIEN

Seit 2014 liegt der UNESCO in Paris der Antrag Italiens vor die Pizzazubereitung als immaterielles Weltkulturerbe eintragen zu lassen. Wie die Franzosen, die sich ihre „Cuisine Francaise“ bereits 2010 als Weltkulturerbe anerkennen lassen haben, kämpfen nun auch die Italiener um die Erhaltung ihrer kulinarischen Traditionen. Fusion Food, Fast Food, die Lebensmittelindustrie an sich und rasch wechselnde Moden werden als Gefährdung dieser Traditionen wahrgenommen.

Messenger by mkJul 23, 201712:04

Jutta Konjer

HYPER CULTURAL MESSENGER – Randgebiete von Hamburg

“Ich arbeite mit vorgefundenen Situationen und Materialien. In unterschiedlichen Rollen inszeniere ich mich selbst in Land- und Ortschaften mit Besonderheiten”.

Messenger by mkJul 23, 201710:31

Thomas Rieck

HYPER CULTURAL MESSENGER – INDIEN

“(…) als Teil einer dialogischen Einlassung (wie bereits angeführt) möchte ich Dich bitten, unsere Korrespondenz zu posten(…).
Das Projekt in Indien für das Reise-Stipendium: Arbeit am Bewußtseinskörper durch GOYAYOGA, d.h., im Ursprungsland von Yoga und Bewußtseinsforschung, Indien, Yoga rückwärts zu lesen und zu denken mit den künstlerischen Mitteln/Strategien (…)”

Passengers by mkJul 16, 201712:57

ARTIST TALK with
Rebecca Beachy/Chicago

UNFAMILIAR TIES // HYPERCULTURAL CONVERSATIONS:

Re-examining a heritage of disaster sensed in the the smooth Elbe river bricks of Hamburg back in 2014, Rebecca returns to FRISE with a project that begins to stitch together pieces of a personal history—beginning with hand-processed leather from two American deer hides and a pattern traced out of her grandfather’s personal monument, his WW2 bomber jacket.

Passengers by mkJul 6, 201719:08

Haejin Jun – BUSAN/SOUTHKOREA

“I mostly work with images and the ‘inner self’ of the image”.

Passengers by mkJul 5, 201713:12

송 현철
Hyunchul Song – Busan/Southkorea

Artist in Residence of FRISE – Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. – A cooperation with Darvin Art Space/Busan.

The work of Hyun-chul Song reminds us to reconsider the definition of art and readymade. the artist song escapes from the mundane routine that comes from inert thought, yet sees ang interprets the readymades or the ordinary objects through reproduction and combination with a little more of the new perspective.

Passengers by mkJun 4, 201711:25

Maaike Knibbe – Groningen/NL – familiar/unfamiliar – ALTONALE 2017

Artist in Residence for the Altonale 2017 Maaike Knibbe uses both familiar and unfamiliar materials and objects as components for sculptures and spatial interventions. By rearranging and mixing their connotations she creates settings with […]

Passengers by mkJun 4, 201710:20

Jos Volkers – GRONINGEN/NL – Ecological Space Engineering – ALTONALE 2017

Volkers is using Ecological Space Engineering as a tool to demonstrate the dualism in our global society and reflects on the ecological crisis, technology, politics, war and the role of human beings. In 2016 Jos Volkers had received a starter stipend from Creative Industries Fund NL, to develop on his concept. This resulted in a plan to build a V2 rocket in Romania,

Passengers by mkMay 26, 201711:01

Artist Talk with
Hamdy Reda / Giza – Egypt

Hypercultural Conversations on Artellewa Art Space / – Giza – Egypt. Activation of dialogue between artists and society. Hamdy Reda is a visual artist and curator. He is the founder and the managing director of “artellewa” – space for contemporary arts. Hamdy Reda is member of art syndicate of Egypt, Cairo Atelier, National and Arabian group for Culture policies.

Passengers by mkApr 25, 20170:42

Freyja Eilíf / Reykjavík

Another Port Journey Exchange and our premiere artist in residence from Island – together with the artist Hekla Dögg Jónsdóttir and the art space Kling og Bang we start an exchange with artists from Reykjavík. First to come is […]

Passengers by mkFeb 26, 201711:35

Call for Hyper Cultural Messengers

Hyper Cultural Messengers – Reise-Stipendium
Künstlerische Reise-Forschung zu Orten und Ländern abseits der globalisierten Hauptwege von Kunst und Kultur.
FRISE- Künstlerhaus Hamburg e.V. schreibt im Rahmen des Projekts Hyper Cultural Passengers, finanziert mit Mitteln des Elbkultur-Fonds, 2017 drei Reisestipendien für Künstler*innen aus Hamburg aus.

Port Journey Meeting by mkFeb 10, 201721:33

Connecting Doubts – Philosophical Introduction

A lecture by Dr. Heidi Salaverría – philosopher, Hamburg
Keynote for the Port Journey Meeting 2016 at the Frise/ArtCenter Hamburg, Germany.

Passengers by mkNov 25, 201618:47

Zhenchen Liu

Guest Artist for the Hamburg CHINATIME 2016 For a period of four weeks, the artist Zhenchen Liu worked together with Torsten Bruch, in the pursuit of interpreting each other’s different perspectives. This ‘Conversation-Art-Process’ was documented and presented […]

Passengers by mkSep 13, 20160:11

Two Streets – Micheal Olokodana and Till Krause

TRACING HYPER PASSAGES / GUIDED TOURS THROUGH HAMBURG with Micheal Olokodana, Printer and Till Krause, Artist, Galerie für Landschaftskunst Taking a walk, following two monumental city axis, one of state sovereignity, one of economy, erring around […]

Passengers by mkSep 13, 20160:11

Ute Vorkoeper – LOOKING FOR CHANGES / REVISITING TOUR

Looking for Changes | Revisiting Tour. – In 2010, the Academy of Another City created a temporary Art Route across Hamburg called “Looking for Changes” along the S-Bahn line 3, which connects the north and the south of the city.

Passengers by mkSep 13, 20160:09

Jan Derk Diekema – Government versus Society = ART

TRACING HYPER PASSAGES / GUIDED TOURS THROUGH HAMBURG All over the world a government sometimes clashes with society. Artists can start the clash or come up with a solution for it! In this tour we […]

Port Journey Meeting by mkSep 7, 201618:16

» THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME «

Measuring hyper links on passages to similarities. How to talk about hyper culturalism with the means of art? The Port Journey 2016 Exhibition with: Jaime Ibanez (Groningen/Nl), Klaske Oenema (Groningen/Nl), Tim Schwartz (Los Angeles/USA), Reham Sharbaji (Amman/Jordan)

Passengers by mkSep 7, 201613:38

Tim Schwartz

Tim Schwartz (b. 1981 Boston, Massachusetts) is a Los Angeles-based artist, technologist, and activist who makes works of art focused on technology, information, privacy, and how our culture absorbs changes in these areas.

Passengers by mkSep 7, 201613:07

Klaske Oenema

PARTICIPATING ARTIST OF THE EXHIBITION “THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME”, PORT JOURNEY MEETING 2016 About my work: The story, the narrative, forms the center of my work. This can be explicit and unfolding in an […]

Passengers by mkSep 7, 201613:02

Reham Sharbaji

In the Arabic language, every noun and name is gendered, and so everything becomes personified merely because the nature of the language deems it so. And so, Amman is identified as feminine, carrying with it all the nuances that are associated with gender.

Passengers by mkSep 5, 201614:48

Jaime Ibanez

PARTICIPATING ARTIST OF THE EXHIBITION “THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME”, PORT JOURNEY MEETING 2016 Jaime Ibanez designs his own systems which are related to cinema, theatre and music. These are “primitive” animations, installations, theatre […]

Port Journey Meeting by mkAug 25, 201617:34

Program overview of the Port Journey Meeting

Conference with Talks, and Discussions of Portourney Partners: Zou-no-hana Terrace /Yokohama, Halcyon Art Center/Shanghai, The Periscope Project/San Diego, Forum Box/Helsinki, Frame/Finnland, HaVic/Groningen, Spring Sessions/Amman, Kling og Bang/Reykjavík

Port Journey Meeting by mkAug 23, 201613:11

Get on board for the Port Journey Annual Meeting

For the third time artists, cultural activists, and theorists from different countries gather for the PortJourney annual meeting, which will be held in September 15-18th 2016 in Hamburg, Germany, at the Art Center FRISE.

Port Journey Meeting by mkJul 27, 201614:57

Images from 2014 Port Journey Meeting in Yokohama

Passengers by mkJul 4, 201611:43

İlsu Aslan / EMEL GÖZDE BECERIKLI / EZGI DILAN KARATAS / FILIZ PIYALE

For ‘FRISE Atonale Special’ four young artists from Istanbul / Maltepe came to Altona. Currently, all Masters students are at Yeditepe University, which is located on the Asian side of Istanbul. Brought along the artists have drawings, paintings and video works.

Passengers by mkMay 21, 201611:16

Michael Kress

MEMBER OF THE HYCP CREW

Michael Kress, is a conceptual artist, born in 1964, in Munich, Germany, living in Hamburg. The focus of his work is semiotics and language as a normative moment in the construction of a media-identity.

Passengers by mkMay 20, 201612:40

Artist Talk – Thomas Füsser / Short Cuts

Thomas Füsser einwirft Bilder einer chinesischen Innenansicht aus einer intensiven Nähe zu den Künstlern und ihrer Kunst. Ein Portrait einer rasenden Zeit, ein Stück chinesische-, ein Stück Welt-Kunstgeschichte.

Notes by mkMay 9, 20169:42

ポートジャーニー | PORTJOURNEY

PLS. learn more about the Portjourney Network ポートジャーニー | PORTJOURNEYS WEBSITE

Passengers by mkMay 5, 201613:14

An evening with Jaime Ibanez and Friends

First to come as a HyCPassengers was Jaime Ibanez from Groningen/Netherlands. He stayed in Hamburg at FRSIE AiR form March to April 2016. Jaime comes from an art background, but stages his works in theatre and […]

Angles by mkMay 4, 201619:42

Die Querung des Gleichers

Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Orlik, René Beeh, Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet, Karl Hofer, Max Pechstein Paul Gauguin, Ottilie Reylaender, Walther Spies … um nur einige Namen der klassischen Moderne zu nennen, haben etwas für sich in Erfahrung gebracht, was ein Jahrhundert später zum Common-Sense einer Informations-Gesellschaft gehört.

Quotes by mkApr 14, 201612:36

And all of it is yours and mine So let's ride and ride and ride and ride

IGGY POP/THE PASSENGER/1977

Notes by mkApr 9, 201618:55