22 hours in the memory archive
Grandpa J has an archive of several thousand slides on his shelves in the attic. Between 1956 and 2002, he photographed shared experiences with his wife, travel memories, the children's growing up - the very normal, special life of a family. So how does one deal with this huge archive? Everything is so normal, Grandpa J thinks, that no one will be interested in it any more. Will it end up in the rubbish or be preserved? And what will be preserved if it doesn't end up in the rubbish? In 22 stages, we auditorily accompany OJ on another, perhaps final, comprehensive slide show. Initially sifted and narrated chronologically, the acoustic material gradually deforms into an endless loop.
Frauke Berg lives in Düsseldorf and is a visual artist, illustrator, graphic designer and experimental musician (electro/acoustic). Numerous drawings, radio works, digital animations, installations and performances have been created in various collaborations and contexts. Her main interests are in-situ work and communication. Drawings are used as well as animations, noises, sounds and installations.As the initiator of the "Hallraum Projekt", which was part of the art project "Gasthof Worringer Platz" founded by Oliver Gather and Andrea Knobloch, she invited positions between sound and visual art into public space. Here, questions about "togetherness" in space were repeatedly negotiated and made visible.
Oliver Gather's works are mostly temporary and take place on the bypass of a village (Chickens in the Bend), in a vape shop (Steam and Haze), in a commercial forest (Highly Pearched) or on an urban remnant near a main station (Gasthof Worringer Platz). Or in the reeds (The Little Bay, hardly noticeable from the shore). In conversation with people, he questions their normal living environment and brings out the strange and unknown acoustically, sculpturally, performatively or cinematically.