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Brandstifter
11/28/2009 6:00 PM at Central Booking
111 Front Street, Gallery 214, New York, New York 11201
Cost: 10/12$
antikörper/antibodies book release show
brandStifter and huelsTrunk celebrate the funky collages and cut uptexts of their recent release antibodies by performing drugangel tabledance soundloops, fiercy simultaneous lecture, visual screening, signing books and presenting a limited handmade edition. antibodies is part of the artistbook collection of the museum of modern art, new york.
http://www.brand-stiftung.net/
http://www.soundslikepoetry.de/
http://centralbookingnyc.com/
antibodies is a collaborative book project by the interdisciplinary artist and musician brandstifter (firestarter) from mainz who currently resides in new york and the word- and soundartist dirk huelsTrunk from frankfurt am main (both germany). it’s a modern guidebook to enhance our understanding of mental and physcial health. It also serves to establish a well-balanced relationship between truth and folly. therefore it was necessary to disconnect bodyparts, to misunderstand first-aid manuals and to distort medical facts. exact applications of absurdities and nonsense will strengthen the vital immune power and will keep inherent necessities and performance constraints at bay. brandstifter found the drawings he used as a source for his absurd collaging in an old and yellowed german first aid book from the nineteen-thirties. he played with them like toys and published the grotesque results with red cross rubber stamp and bondage under the name „fleshlego“. the antibodies text, crafted/collaged/cut-up by dirk huelsTrunk is based on medicine- and nursing books. with the help of modern surgery it was possible to twist the cold-technical-abstract-bureaucratic language of medicine and nursing and give it a poetic-surreal feeling. new meaning and humane recovery procedures can be gained.
antikörper/antibodies – brandstifter & huelsTrunk
lichtblau verlag, frankfurt am main, 2009
24 collages and a silkscreen print
24 cut up texts in german and englisch
english by fred w. bergmann
www.lichtblau-verlag.de
BRANDSTIFTER
is an interdisciplinary Artist and Networker from Germany, currently the
Residency Unlimited/ Balmoral Resident Artist at Flux Factory, New York,
NY. With Happenings, Visual and Perfomance Art, as well as sound and music
and interventions in public space, Brandstifter uses communicative means of
social interaction to transform anarchic concepts from everyday life into
burning-down-the-house Intermedia.
Prizes and Scholarships
2009 Resident Artist, Flux Factory, New York, grant from Schloss Balmoral & RU
2008 Resident Artist, Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, NRW, Germany
05-08 Small business grant, German Federal Employment Agency
2001 Resident Artist, Hausmuseum Otzenrath
1981 King of the Youth Marksmen, Langenlonsheim
http://www.brand-stiftung.net/
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