Global Forest 2017

GLOBAL FOREST 2017. With this heading, an exhibition that presents current positions of contemporary art opened in St. Georgen, Black Forest, on 14 July 2017. International artists exhibit results of their creative engagement with St. Georgen and the Black Forest in the form of paintings, photography, installations, audio-visual media and performances.


The exhibition serves as both initiator of and forum for a broad discussion about collaboration in the rapidly changing work environment and economy of today’s global society. Again and again, inventors and entrepreneurs have thought up and realized path-breaking innovations in St. Georgen, bringing into being key technologies and major companies in the process. At the same time, artists, collectors and art enthusiasts have created an atmosphere of particular receptiveness for art and new ideas.


Absorbing these potentials, the “GLOBAL FOREST 2017” project develops them into a permanent platform designed to enable art and technology to meet on equal terms – for, just as inventors need space to develop their ideas, artists, too, are in need of this freedom in order to unfold their creativity. This common feature of engineers and artists opens up various opportunities for close collaboration between these two disciplines in order to turn ideas into marketable innovations. To this end, innovators need spaces where they can abandon rules, routines and norms: a laboratory for ideas in which they are free to think, explore and play without restrictions. The non-linear process thus emerging between engineers and artists is of crucial importance to the generation of relevant innovations.


In close interdisciplinary exchange, we are thus going to set up a permanent, heterogeneous network designed to interconnect artistic and technological research both within the region and beyond national borders, thereby implementing pioneering concepts for a sustainable cultural, societal and economic development. This network is meant to be an investment in the future that will benefit all people in the region.


In order to make this vision come true, both a laboratory and an artists’ residency have already been established: In the weeks preceding the vernissage, the artists invited – working as an international duo each – realized both projects of their own and joint projects in tandem with local companies. For the duration of the exhibition – from July to December 2017 – they will expand the range of exhibits by new works arising from the fusion of art and technology. Thus, the GLOBAL FOREST 2017 Exhibition marks the beginning of a new collaborative project.


Further events – the GLOBAL FOREST Sessions – accompany the exhibition. Each of these events reflects upon the context in which the latest works were created and embeds them in overarching frames of reference. At the weekend of the vernissage, the DUAL Sessions – a symposium for audio culture – form the beginning of this series of events. Renowned guests from literature, art, science, industry and music reflect upon the history of the phonographic industry in St. Georgen, the cult of vinyl and turntablism as well as contemporary music. As speakers and performers, they take the history of the phonographic industry in St. Georgen as an opportunity to highlight and exchange positions on the cultural relevance of analog sound media and technologies. In line with their affinity to these topics, the pop, performance and party practices will not go short either.


The project was initiated by Sascha Brosamer, Lisa Schlenker, Bernhard Serexhe, Alice Cavoukdjian dite Galli, Hansjörg Weisser, Norman Müller and Stephan Peltzer. It is supported by numerous private donors and entrepreneurs. The artistic directors of the GLOBAL FOREST Exhibition are Sascha Brosamer and Lisa Schlenker. The artistic directors of the DUAL Sessions are Sascha Brosamer, Graham Dunning and Norman Müller.



Global Forest Ausstellung

15.07. - 31.12.2017

Hiroyuki Agetsuma


Hiroyuki Agetsuma was born in 1978 in Yamagata, Japan, and has been living in Berlin since 2013. His work often combines abstract painting and drawing with video projection, sound and photography into large-scale multi-media installations.

Characteristic are references to literature, such as in the repeated engagement in the poetry of Paul Celan. Also the studies of natural phenomena occupies a wide space. Since 2014, Agetsuma's work keeps on reffering to rivers. Research has taken him from the Danube Delta in Romania to Furtwangen in the Black Forest, where the Breg springs from one of the source rivers of the Danube. On one hand the pieces that were created as a result of these experiences conceive the river as a concrete physical phenomenon that shapes and connects landscapes, cultures and events. On the other hand in his metaphorical contents, which include the progress of time, the irretrievability of the past and the memory of it. The river becomes a place where the boundaries between space and time become blur. In St. Georgen – which is in close proximity to the Brigach, the second source river of the Danube - Agetsuma will present pieces within the setting of Global Forest that continue this work series.

Hiroyuki Agetsuma studied in Japan at Toho Gakuen Sound Technology College and Tokyo University of the Arts under Kiyoshi Furukawa and Yoshiaki Watanabe. In 2011 he received the Taro Amano Prize at the Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi. From 2011 to 2013 he continued his studies with a scholarship from the DAAD under Cristina Gómez Barrio and Wolfgang Mayer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. His artwork has been shown in Berlin, Tokyo, Yokohama, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart and Melbourne.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

www.hiroyukiagetsuma.com

Lisa Ballmann


Intense colors, organic shapes, precise lines, clear outlines arranged on a white surface. First and foremost formal attributes that characterize Lisa Ballmann's abstract pieces without exhausting them. The expression that she achieves in the freehanded application of colour is both dynamic and gesture-same, but also characterized by balance and reduction. The precise conception of a sensation and the transfer of its internal extension into the extensive, physically present character of the artwork are the main concerns of Ballmann's work. In this she achieves a concise clarity, which refrains from pathetic extravagance, but never seems to be over-chilled. In the words of the artist: "In my paintings I try to stretch the moment. Capture and transport a lived or longed mood. I chase the ease."

Lisa Ballmann studied at Free Art Academy in Mannheim and at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the class of Franz Ackermann. She realized exhibitions in Karlsruhe, Reutlingen and Frankfurt. Last year she already participated in the first edition of the Global Forest in St. Georgen.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

www.lisaballmann.de/

Sascha Brosamer


The connection of materiality and temporality in the medium of sound is one of the focuses of Sascha Brosamer's multimedia installation and performance practice. The record keeps playing a central role because as a sort of artefact it has the capability to form this connection. Through it`s reference to pop culture it also creates the link to Brosamers activities as a musician and DJ. Brosamer's work has already been shown in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Bonn, New York, Tokyo and Istanbul. He studied Music and Media Art under Daniel Weissenberg in Bern and painting in the class of Franz Ackermann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. As co-founder of Kunstverein Letschebach in Karlsruhe, he has been connecting the region with artists from all over the world for years. Most recently he lived and worked as a scholarship holder at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris where he realized exhibition and performance projects. Currently he is concerned in particular with the gramophone as early technology of sound reproduction and ancestor of today's club culture.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

Janusz Czech


Janusz Czech realizes art work with political subtext. He uses drawing, graphic, watercolor and photography to connect it with new media and installation techniques. He never acts visually striking but prefers to unfold the complexity and inconsistency of the covered topics.

Characteristic for this work routine is the photography series "Sightseeing" which reduces unusual compositions of famous buildings to mere segments. On one hand this creates an effect of alienation: the representative claim of the monumental buildings seems broken. On the other hand the recognizability as it is refers to an intact anchor in the collective memory and raises the question for the mechanisms that causes it. The reference to tourism, which is indicated by the title, reinforces the play between superficiality and meaning.

Janusz Czech studied Conceptual Art with Marina Gržinić at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna as well as painting and graphics under Gustav Kluge, Marcel van Eeden and Jonas Burgert at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. He is also an editorial member of the philosophical business magazine agora 42 which is based in Stuttgart.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

Graham Dunning


Graham Dunning is a British musician and artist. His work includes pieces of audiovisual media as well as installations, graphics and photography. He hosts his own programme for the online radio station NTS Radio and maintains relations to the music scene around the Cafe OTO in London's Dalston district. Time and memory are important aspects of the focus in Dunning's work while his method is based on the tentative, cognitive process of the experiment and conceives imperfection as an integral part. Dunning succeeds realizing this approach with the help of his self-developed performance technique "Mechanical Techno" which he demonstrated at the Dual Sessions. A combination of manipulated records, turntables and synthetic sound generators create a mechanically concrete and at the same time electronically abstract sound that is reminiscent of the beats of urban club music but whose programmed perfection is subverted by a permanently precarious instability. With a modified version of a phrase by legendary Dub producer Lee Scratch Perry, who referred to Dub as the emergence of the spirit from within, Dunning explains „Through the live arrangement of the music that is produced by my equipment I unleash the spirit in the machine."

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

www.grahamdunning.com/

Forster Herchenbach


Forster Herchenbach's art celebrates the unity of the disparate. Geometric structures, amorphous masses and expressive color explosions unite, condense and overlap to seemingly chaotic yet coherent compositions, soaked with an inner rhythm. Objective elements keep appearing from the abstract vegetations. Chalk, coal, oil and acrylic paint is used equally. The result is a visual language in perpetual motion who`s dynamics arise from an alternation of partly complementary, partly contrasting macro and micro structures, techniques, textures and form concepts. Herchenbach also recalls manifold references to art history: Abstract Expressionism, Informel, certain phases of Albert Oehlen's work - only a few of the most obvious associations that appear within what merges happily, mutates and already took a turn towards it`s own line of development.

Forster Herchenbach studied fine art under Meike Aissen-Crewett at the University of Potsdam. He finished a short term job as a teacher in Berlin-Spandau in 2012. He contributes to the Zuhause e.V., a working, studio and workshop community from the milieu of the cultural roof top garden Klunkerkranich in Berlin. As part of the GLOBAL FOREST he returns to his place of birth St. Georgen.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

Gerardo Nolasco


Gerardo Nolasco explores interactions between art and science. His work unfolds an idea of "art as research" which assumes that artistic work can achieve more than describe mere reception processes by reflecting science. Instead of just using natural science or humanities theories and concepts as an inspiration for artwork or quoting it Nolasco pursues an artistic practice that becomes a form of knowledge production itself. An example for this way of working is his project "Once Upon a Time". It raises the question of the origins of human behavior and develops a kind of evolutionary theory of biological, social and individual factors that shape it. Nolasco extracts a series of fundamental concepts from texts of anthropology, sociology, psychology and neurology. He works on them textually as well as applying a variety of artistic procedures. Eventually he presents the results in various forms of media such as publications, interventions, painting, drawing, video, sound and installation. Gerardo Nolasco currently lives in Mexico City and Karlsruhe. Among other institutions he studied at the Academia de San Carlos and has taught at several Mexican universities. His work has been shown in a number of institutions and galleries including Mexico City, Hungary and Germany.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

www.gerardonolasco.com/

Lisa Schlenker


SBlack surfaces. High gloss and at the same time impenetrable like the display of a luxury boutique or the skyscraper facade of a multi-billion-dollar-corporation`s headquarters. In different sizes, shapes, forms and consistencies they challange viewers of Lisa Schlenker`s work over and over again just like puzzle-pictures. What appears uniform at first sight turns out to be highly differentiated after a closer look. The pieces of artwork which are mostly made of the raw material oil in various aggregation states shine, shimmer, are sometimes in motion. Patterns have formed on their surface. Incrustations, superimpositions, stratifications raise the question of the readability of processes and products of contemporary world economy. Lisa Schlenker's art grants such associations as well as the fascination for the material itself a wide space. With access to a wide range of representational techniques - i.a. painting, photography, sound, video, installation and performance - she approaches topics such as motion and mobility, concentration and stagnation, information and (over)flow of information.

Lisa Schlenker studied painting and graphics under Leni Hoffmann at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. Her work has been shown in Karlsruhe, Freiburg, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Istanbul, Beijing, Tokyo, and other places. She is part of the board of Kunstverein Letschebach in Karlsruhe which maintains relations with international artists and initiatives.

Text: Felix Grosser

Translation: Kim Josef Stahl

www.lisaschlenker.wordpress.com

Global Forest Tagung

DUAL Sessions 2017 – Symposium for Audio Culture

What role do vinyl and turntable play today?
How can their popularity be understood in the context of the renaissance of analog sound media and technologies in recent years? And what future is to be expected for them in the digital age? The DUAL Sessions approach these and related questions in a multidisciplinary format that brings together industry, science, art, music and pop, because we believe that engaging with a topic that is so closely interwoven with the most diverse cultural practices involves performances and artistic positions as well as lectures and discussions. Thus, we not only want to provide a complex survey of the current situation, but also create interfaces that open up new potentials for engaging with this topic. There is hardly any place that could be more suitable for such an endeavor than St. Georgen in the Black Forest, where the history of German phonographic industry is most closely intertwined with the brand name DUAL.

10:00 Welcome and Introduction Hosted by: Hank Strummer

12:30 DJ-Set by Hank Strummer


10:15 Track 1

The History of Dual and Perpetuum Ebner (PE)


Lecture: Norbert Kotschenreuther, Passau

- From the Long-playing Record to Stereo: Record History

- St. Georgen and the Phonographic Industry

Plenary Discussion: The History of Record Players

With Wolfgang Epting (PE),

Norbert Kotschenreuther,

Andreas Schmauder (Phonopassion) and others

Lecture: Dominik Irtenkauf, Münster

Vinyl Technologies – Interpreting Record Players as Typewriters


14:00 Track 2

Retro and Zeitgeist: The Cult of Vinyl and Turntablism Today


Lecture: Philipp Rhensius, Berlin

"In the 90s they danced like robots. Now they dance like humans trying to be robots" Hauntology and the Flight into the Past

Performance: "Gramophonica"

Naomi Kashiwagi, Manchester

Lecture: Naomi Kashiwagi (in English)

Performance: "Turntablism"

Thomas Wilke, Ludwigsburg

Lecture: "DJ-Shows and Turntablism between Art and Everyday Media Practice in Hip Hop"

Thomas Wilke, Ludwigsburg

Lecture: "Rhythmic patterns from Turntables and Records"

Karin Weissenbrunner, City University, London (in English)

Performance: "Mechanical Techno"

Graham Dunning, London

Lecture: "Records, Art and Music"

Paul Nataraj, Manchester (in English)

Plenary Discussion

With Thomas Meinecke, Thomas Wilke and others

18:00 Change of Location to the Forest Stage with Black Forest Scenery

DJ-Set by Hank Strummer


19:00 Track 3

Contemporary Music and Other Worlds


Smaely P Forest and Fields

Sascha Brosamer Turntable Trasher, Paris

INRA Dialectic Drone Dub, Berlin

Naomi Kashiwagi Gramophonica, Manchester

Schnitt Live Vinyl Cutting Loops, Augsburg

Graham Dunning Mechanical Techno, London

Thomas Meinecke DJ-Set, Berg bei Eurasburg

Urte DJ-Set, Freiburg

Magic Marcel DJ-Set, Hamburg

Global Forest DUAL Sessions 2017 Photo Archive

Global Forest DUAL Sessions 2017 Music Archive

Global Forest DUAL Sessions 2017 Radio Show NTS London

Global Forest Labor

Global Forest Residenz

Residenten 2017


Jonathan Adams

Dan Anderson

I Putu Gede Sukaryana

Durga Khatri

Global Forest Information

GLOBAL FOREST - PROGRAMME


Please register for the events by sending an e-mail to: info@globalforest2017.de

Visiting the exhibition outside of the opening hours is possible upon request: info@globalforest2017.de



1 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen |

3 pm – Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen |

Tour of the exhibition with the artists Lisa Ballmann, Forster Herchenbach, Gerardo Nolasco, Lisa Schlenker

Noon – 2 pm | Sammlung Grässlin | Museumstraße 2 - 78112 St. Georgen

Tour of the Grässlin Collection with the head of the collection Hannah Eckstein, current exhibition Heimo Zobernig

2 pm – 4 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

3 pm Tour of the exhibition with the artists Sascha Brosamer, Graham Dunning, Lisa Schlenker

4 pm – 6 pm - Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

5 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artists Sascha Brosamer, Graham Dunning, Lisa Schlenker

1 pm – 3 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

2 pm Tour of the exhibition with the artist Forster Herchenbach

3 pm – 5 pm – Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

4 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artist Forster Herchenbach

1 pm – 3 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

2 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artist Sascha Brosamer

3 pm – 5 pm – Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

4 pm - Tour of the exhibition with the artist Sascha Brosamer

9 am – Kippys – Brunch | Kippys - Museumstraße 2 - 78112 St. Georgen. Please register for this event! Tel.: 07724/948802

Noon – 2 pm | Sammlung Grässlin | Museumstraße 2 - 78112 St. Georgen

Tour of the Grässlin Collection with the head of the collection Hannah Eckstein, current exhibition Heimo Zobernig

2 – 4 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

3 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artists Lisa Ballmann, Sascha Brosamer, Gerardo Nolasco, Hank Strummer

4 pm – 6 pm - Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

5 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artists Lisa Ballmann, Sascha Brosamer, Gerardo Nolasco, Hank Strummer

1 pm – 3 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

2 pm – Lecture: “Colors from the Black Forest” by the artist Lisa Ballmann

3 pm – 5 pm - Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

4 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artist Lisa Schlenker

1 pm – 3 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

2 pm – Lecture by Wolf Olsen on "Social Relationship with Objects – Aesthetics, Technology & Design"

2:30 pm – Wolf Olsen in a conversation with Norbert Schnell

3:30 pm – 5 pm – Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

4 pm Tour of the exhibition with the artist Lisa Schlenker

9 am – Kippys – Brunch | Kippys - Museumstraße 2 - 78112 St. Georgen | Please register for this event! Tel.: 07724/948802

Noon – 2 pm | Sammlung Grässlin | Museumstraße 2 - 78112 St. Georgen Tour of the Grässlin Collection with the head of the collection Hannah Eckstein, current exhibition Heimo Zobernig

2 – 4 pm – Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen

3 pm Lecture: Gerardo Nolasco “From the Idea to the Object”

Tour of the exhibition with the artists Lisa Ballmann, Sascha Brosamer, Gerardo Nolasco, Lisa Schlenker

4 pm – 6 pm – Global Forest Laboratory | Bahnhofstr 10 - 78112 St. Georgen

5 pm – Tour of the exhibition with the artists Lisa Ballmann, Sascha Brosamer, Gerardo Nolasco, Lisa Schlenker

18 Uhr - Global Forest Residency | Friedrichstr 5a - 78112 St. Georgen


GLOBAL FOREST - PRESS


Global Forest - Badische Zeitung

Global Forest - Mint Magazin


Global Forest Contact


The project was initiated by Sascha Brosamer, Lisa Schlenker, Bernhard Serexhe, Alice Cavoukdjian dite Galli, Hansjörg Weisser, Norman Müller and Stephan Peltzer. The artistic directors of the GLOBAL FOREST exhibition are Sascha Brosamer and Lisa Schlenker. The artistic directors of the DUAL Sessions are Sascha Brosamer, Graham Dunning and Norman Müller.


Global Forest
Stephan Peltzer
Auf der Ecken 1
78112 St Georgen im Schwarzwald

E-Mail: info@globalforest2017.de