[Nettime-nl] ARGOS // Asmus Tietchens + Thomas Köner, John Duncan, CM von Hausswolff, 18.10.2007

["Stoffel Debuysere @ argos" <stoffel@argosarts.org>]

Argos, centre for art & media in Brussels presents

Asmus Tietchens + Thomas Köner
John Duncan
Carl Michael von Hausswolff

CONCERTS

Thu 18.10.2007 // 20:30 // 5 euro

Since he experimented for the first time with tape recorders and  
synthesizers during the mid 1960s, Asmus Tietchens (DE, 1947) has  
left his mark on contemporary music, both in Germany and beyond. His  
influence is best felt on the industrial music movement, but he  
steers clear of any well-defined genre or philosophy. His countless  
releases, showing affinities with musique concrète, serialism,  
minimalism and krautrock, are above all intuitive and personal  
explorations of the studio as an instrument, of a specific musical  
notion, or collaboration. For a number of years now he has worked  
with fellow-countryman Thomas Köner (DE, 1965) on the project  
‘Kontakt der Jünglinge’. Before Köner worked with filmmaker Jürgen  
Reble and with the duo Porter Ricks, causing a stir in the European  
techno landscape. Köner is particularly interested in the exploration  
of 'sound color', an idea which he recently carried further into the  
visual as well. His audiovisual work has received awards at  
Transmediale, Ars Electronica and the International Film festival in  
Rotterdam, among others. ‘Kontakt der Jünglinge’ is the confrontation  
of two wayward idioms resulting in unexpected sound patterns.

For three decades John Duncan (US, 1953) has been exploring the  
psycho-physical limits of the individual, in sound, performances and  
installations. He sees his work as a kind of existential research,  
for himself and the audience. During the 1970s he caused a stir in  
Los Angeles with a series of radical physical performances, before he  
started to apply himself to the exploration of short wave radio and  
field recordings, in collaboration with such people as Paul McCarthy  
and Tom Recchion. After stays in Tokyo and Amsterdam, where he  
experimented with pirate stations, among other things, he moved to  
Italy, where he still resides. He has worked with Carl Michael von  
Hausswolff, Francisco López, Giuliana Stefani and members of  
Throbbing Gristle and Pan Sonic, and has participated in countless  
exhibitions and festivals worldwide.

The Swedish artist and curator Carl Michael von Hausswolff (SE, 1956)  
is particularly fascinated by twilight areas, both in the everyday  
environment and in the cultural domain. Since the end of the 1970s he  
has made sound studies, particularly with a tape recorder, but in  
recent sound and installation work he has focused mainly on the  
exploration of physical realities on the verge of human perception.  
He makes use of wide-ranging electronic media to explore and  
manipulate streams of information, energy fields, visual and acoustic  
phenomena. In the visual art world he has become known through his  
participation in exhibitions such as the 5th Istanbul Biennial,  
Documenta X, Kassel, and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennial (all 1997). In  
2001 he was co-curator of the Nordic Pavilion on the Venice Biennale.  
Von Hausswolff is also the co- founder of the virtual nation ‘the  
Kingdom of Elgaland-Vargaland’.


Co-production with Metaphon

in the context of the ARGOS project OPEN ARCHIVE #1
the 'Ways of Hearing' programme is curated by Stoffel Debuysere


Stoffel Debuysere
www.argosarts.org
mail: stoffel@argosarts.org




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