@&
2017
Artistic events + Series of photos
Ongoing right now. Infos in german: www.10000000100110.net
"@&" is a series of cultural events, that will happen once a month.
Beside the interested audience from Hanover, one (or more) Special Guest(s)
is/are invited to Neubauers studio.
Those will do an artist talk or a lecture performance to present their
way of thinking and explain their working methods.
In addition to that the interaction with the audience is of upmost importance.
The atmosphere inside the studio will offer a proper basis for conversations
so that everyone may talk and share their thoughts on the same level with everyone.
Special interest lies on respecting the exhibited/shown work and on being open-minded
for new ideas and thoughts.
Even if the concept and execution of those events are more or less open
there will be a strict constant that will clue the series together:
"Editions, Multiples and the Repetition in/of the arts" is the topic of all the events.
Artists who work only in these fields are not the only one that are considered
spoken of and therefore invited.
Prior that is the quality of the artists work!
Nonetheless a series of editions/multiples will be produced in cooperation with
the artists and Neubauer - free from form and material and size and numbers.
In the course of time there will be not only ephemeral events but also NEW
physical objects.
Those new editions/multiples are then for sale.
More information (in german): www.10000000100110.net
LONGING BIRDS
2012
Internet art piece with caged birds
2428 self portraits have been tweeted
"Longing birds" is an internet project in which
birds were trained to use the social media plattform twitter.
A green-screen photo booth was installed in a birds cage
throughout the exhibition "AN_Eignung" in Langenhagen, Germany.
The birds who gathered in front of the camera triggered a motion sensor.
Everytime a picture was made and was transfered to a computer nearby.
With the help of the australian version of Google Image Search
for each bird picture a randomly chosen image from the internet was found.
Search items were words like "beach", "mountain top", "vacation" ...
Via a programmed php website the birds were separated from the green background
and combined for Example with a romantic sunset or an idyllic resort.
Those collages were automatically send to twitter - and to all followers.
The caged birds took a virtual/unreal trip through the internet
and created holiday photos of special places, which they will never ever see.
All tweets are still here longing birds at twitter
COMPLEX ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
2011-2013
A research that ends in an installation.
Videos, texts and objects about the topic of identity.
It is the time of reshaping the body (through plastic surgery),
reshaping the mind (through biochemistry) and reshaping how others
will perceive you (through social media). People still pushing limits.
Are completely eager to control their lives.
Spread like a virus through society. Everyone`s on the hook.
I would like to do an installation piece about the identity
crisis with the help of the body builder, actor and politician
Arnold Schwarzenegger. He really is living the American Dream.
He wanted to go to Hollywood and wanted to become famous.
And he did it with discipline and will power. He had a vision
what he wanted to be and turned this vision into reality.
He pushed the limits. Controlling his own fate. Even his feature
films reflect this attitude. Those are about a man whose brain
was altered so he had a different past and became another man
(Total Recall), a man - a machine inside - who tried to alter
time by killing a woman in the past (Terminator), a man who
just got pregnant (Junior). Everything is closely related to the
phenomena of identity. The borders and how to overcome those.
Who are you? What are you? Are you the sum of your actions?
Are your actions only the consequences of your past?
Is a man still a man if he does what can only be done by a woman?
Schwarzenegger movies will provide a lot of found footage
for a video collage. Maybe a small series of videos. In addition to that
there should be some books with different perspectives on how
sciences are describing what "identity" could be.
Philosophical essays should round up the installation.
VILLA VAUDEVILLE
2008-2010
24 Events with a Series of Photos by Dennis Bettels, Samuel
Henne, Sebastian Neubauer, Per Olaf Schmidt und Tom Schön
"Villa Vaudeville" was a series of cultural events and
artistic performances. Through November 2008 and
October 2010 once a month the house of the Villa Minimo
Grant holders were open to the public.
The monthly programme consisted of a combination of
Film- and Videoscreenings, artist talks, live music,
lecture performances and other artistic presentations.
Guests have been: Thomas Kapielski, Corinna Schnitt,
Marcus Steinweg, Knarf Rellöm, Michael Klöfkorn,
Alexandra Gerbaulet, David Blandy etc.
The curatorial work and whole organization has been
done by Dennis Bettels, Per Olaf Schmidt, Tom Schön
und Sebastian Neubauer. The series of photographies
used for the invitation postcards have been captured
by artist/photographer Samuel Henne.
Full programme (in german) www.villavaudeville.net
