BURN OUT Part II: A Response

26.02 – 29.02.09

Opening on Thursday 26.02.09

from 18:00 to 21:00 hours

Opening times

27.02.09 19:00 – 21:00 hours

28. and 29.02.09 14:00 – 18:00 hours

 

BURN OUT Part II: A Response

Alex, Morgaen und Marla

Till van den Bergh

Julia Bodemer

Winfried Bodemer 

Peter Folie

Chris Kasper

Behrang Karimi 

Lisa Klinkenberg

Florian Kuhlman

Veit Landwehr

Oona-lea von Maydell

Oliver Schulze

Invited by Timothy Shearer 

Jason Vorhees, a fictional character out of the Slasher Film Genre, visited the African-American comedian Arsenio Hall on his late night talk show in 1989 in order to present his new film Friday The 13th Part 8: Jason Takes Manhattan. I saw the film as it came out in theaters at that time and found it produced a certain sense of irritation. There is a type of juxtaposition that takes place, this character being known only from within the frame and rural context of his films, wherein he murders sinful teenagers, ventures out of his locality to New York City. As he appears before a live studio audience for his interview there is a certain dislocation of his person as a figure within another narrative. Jason's interview with Hall can now be seen twenty years later on You Tube. We see a "deranged sociopath" that remains silent to every question and jest presented by his host. In the last twenty years our sense of reception has changed, in so far that the interview poses new possibilities to interpretation on the subject of horror and comedy.

Burned out...in a specific formulation: We approach yet again the end of a decade full of terror, crisis and war where, contrarily, technological development accelerates the interconnectedness of Pop, scientific, cultural and intimate spheres. Nothing remains new.

The core of the exhibition is an extensive answer to the first project BURN OUT, in which the artists respond to the theme in various ways.