7. Werkleitz Biennale Happy Believers
Festival Program
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Exhibition
Participants
Concept
Service
Picture Gallery
german version
Friday 08.09.2006

11 a.m.
Führung durch die Exhibition

11 a.m. Exkursion nach Silberhöhe - Beesen
Church visits and talk
with Pfarrer Hans-Dieter Schubert

2 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
DEATH CAN DANCE 1
Einführung Solvej Helweg Ovesen & Melvin Moti

Da zdravstvuyet Meksika! / Que Viva Mexico!
Sergei Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov
MX 1930-32/USSR 1979, 84 min,
Russian with German voice over


4 p.m. Weinecksaal
KUNST.MEDIUM.SPIRITUALITÄT

Experiencing the Unexperienceable
lecture by Katrin Solhdju, Berlin

Media Practices:
The Séance as an Artistic Format and Technique

lecture by Verena Kuni, Frankfurt a.M.
Moderation: Anke Hoffmann


6 p.m.
Führung durch die Exhibition

8 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
DEATH CAN DANCE 2
Einführung von Solvej Helweg Ovesen & Melvin Moti

Vajtojca
Adrian Paci
AL 2002, 14 min

La Ricotta
Pier Paolo Pasolini
IT 1962, 30 min, Italian with German subtitles

Muttnik
Sriwhana Spong
NZ 2005, 3:47 min, English

Les maîtres fous / The Mad Masters
Jean Rouch
FR 1955, 30 min, English


10 p.m. Happy Believers Club
Press Conference with Marcel Duchamp
Eine Séance von und with Julia Kissina, Berlin

anschließend

Spiritual Soft Hop
DJ F.S. Blumm, Berlin

11 p.m. Weinecksaal / Cinema
YOUR OWN PERSONAL JESUS
Einführung von Jan Schuijren

Get on Board
PlayStation 2
1 min, English

Wir sind Dir treu
Michael Koch
CH 2005, 9 min, English

Double
PlayStation 2
Life 0:59 min, English

40-44-PG
Jeroen Eisinga
NL 1993, 3 min, English

Escape the Circus
PlayStation 2
1:01 min, English

Sandwichman
Lara Rettondini & Oscar Brito
IT 2004, 3:18 min

Different Place, Different Rules
PlayStation 2
0:42 min

The Juggler
Sami Kallinen
FI 2003, 7:40 min, English

sony/wmf/pp
Calin Dan
RO/NL 2003, 3:30 min

My Browser
Crabsalad
NL 2002, 3 min, Dutch with English subtitles

Everybody Loves a Winner
Doug Fishbone
US/GB 2004, 8:30 min, English

Visit Your Third Place
PlayStation 2
0:35 min

The Great Escape
Jeroen Offerman
NL 2000, 10 min


sony/wmf/pp

Calin Dan: sony/wmf/pp
"Sometime in 1994 I suddenly had the urge to perform a shaman dance in the seclusion of the Amsterdam apartment I just moved into. I guess it had everything to do with the panic induced by the (recently made) decision to leave Romania. The use of household appliances in the place of amulets, mirrors and bells, and of a video camera instead of a drum was motivated partly by practical, and partly by cultural reasons. The cynical and absurd aspects of the event were rather irrelevant due to its strictly private character. My partner at that time, who happened to be around and heard the rhythmic noises coming from the bathroom for some 30 minutes, persuaded me to repeat the endeavour in front of a witness camera. The resulting material got lost in my boxes til the summer of 1995, when I discovered in the vinyl collection of my New York friend Ted Byfield the intriguing performance of Estes. The necessity to make the dance and the music meet became obvious. It first happened in 2000, when I produced a two-channel installation. In 2003, almost ten years after the initial kick, I reached the final decision – a long trip for such a short piece.
The title refers to the branded props used in the performance (Sony camera/WMF pans and cutlery) and implies that even trivial events, like a ‘product placement’ (PP) can be converted into spiritual experiences.”
(Calin Dan)
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