RECORD > AGAIN! October 7–10, 2010

RECORD > AGAIN!
Digital Heritage: Video Art in German from 1963 to the Present

İstanbul Modern Cinema, with the collaboration with the Goethe-Institut İstanbul, investigates the history of video art in Germany from its beginnings in the 60s and 70s to the early 21st century. The video exhibition RECORD > AGAIN! – 40yearsvideoart.de aims to render visible audio-visual materials from the past decades.

There are a great many antiquated videos which are mostly forgotten in museum depots and artists’ studios and have no chance of being watched. In 2004 the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe has processed approximately 50 videos from the last 40 years in its lab and brought them light. This selection, which reflects video art in Germany through various examples, includes the famous boxing match that Joseph Beuys presented at documenta 5 in 1972; Wolf Kahlen’s work Schafe (Sheep) which was shown on six monitors and was last screened in 1976; early video synthesizer works by Walter Schröder-Limmer; Medienhaus (Media House) by HA Schult from 1978; a virtually unknown work by Ulrike Rosenbach and Klaus vom Bruch from 1977; and an installation by Michaela Buescher and Gerd Conradt with an interview from 1985 of Gretchen Dutschke, wife of Rudi Dutschke who was the leader of the student movement in the 60s. Also presented will be works from the television gallery of Gerry Schum with Klaus Rinke and Ulrich Rückriem, as well as a documentary about Anna Oppermann from 1977, and previously unscreened video material from the 1981 ‘Festival Genialer Dilletanten’ in Berlin’s Tempodrom.