Alle Beiträge von Tilman Küntzel

Michael Aschauer & Tilman Küntzel@Le Bon Accueil

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October 7 till December 14 2010
74, canal Saint-Martin, F-35700 Rennes
Curated by Damien Simon

Cette exposition rend un ultime hommage aux ampoules à filament et tubes fluorescents appelés à disparaître progressivement. L’occasion de découvrir les oeuvres de Michael Aschauer (Prix Ars Electronica) membre de R-ep.org et Tilman Küntzel figure de proue du Klangkunst. Entre univers féerique créé par un lustre baroque animé d’un souffle électrique et confrontation poétique entre un ordinateur et huit tubes fluorescents.

Lüster is certainly one of the most poetic works by Tilman Küntzel. A Montgolfière chandelier is lying, enigmatic, on the ground, producing light and sound.
The work plays on the visuo-auditive synesthesia percpetion, a subject which guides the work of the artist for several years.
In a remarkable passage in the Phenomenology of Perception Merleau Ponthy describes how the music when it filled the concert hall can transform our perception of it. The music „.. insinuates through the visible space a new dimension where it breaks, as for hallucinates, the clear space of things perceived is split by a“ dark space “ where others presences are possible »1. The view is not the only way for us to understand space, but it is a complex game, a“ one gear on the other sensory areas, „which allows us to find space unity.
Synaesthetic perception, far from being a one-off phenomenon, is more of a norm2, it is universal, but we are not conscious of it. In this complex gearing added memory and feelings that influence the information gathered by the sensory organs, our brain does not reproduce the environment but interpret it.
It is to a similar experience that invites the work of Tilman Küntzel. The chandelier produces sound and light extravaganza that seems to emanate from pendants that constitute it. Without ever having heard it or seen it we know in advance what sounds produces one of its great charms golden chandeliers in glass or crystal. It is part of a common imaginary3, something that we know and remember but wihtout being able to recall the exact place and date. This is also the material that composes it, the glass: it is both, transparency, rigidity, fragility and crystal clear sound.
However, here, imagination and memory lead us to see and hear something that does not exist. Not a tassel is moving, the object is there, motionless, resting on the soil covering by its presence the clear space by this „dark space“. The myriad of tinnitus actually comes with an ingenious device thermal relay technology which stack at irregular intervals by heating and cooling letting pass the electricity that powers the bulbs placed inside the chandelier. It results a smooth and random sound and light composition.

Galerie 149 Bremerhaven

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30. Oktober – 7. November 2010

Die Rose, seit Jahrtausenden als „Königin der Blumen“ gehegt und gezüchtet, bedichtet und besungen, als Symbol verehrt und verklärt, in der Gegenwart auch als elektronisch bespieltes Kunst- und Klangobjekt veredelt? Fern jeder gärtnerischen Attitüde machte der Berliner Künstler Tilman Küntzel in seiner Präsentation „Dornröschen war ein schönes Kind“ in der Galerie 149. dieses Phänomen erfahrbar.
Küntzels kleiner Rosengarten wird belebt mit 30 industriell gefertigten langstieligen Seidenrosen, ausgestattet mit Bimetalllämpchen, die – einmal eingeschaltet – in der ursprünglichen Ausgabe ein zufälliges Lichtintervall erzeugen.
Die reizvolle und buchstäblich spannende Aufgabe bestand für Küntzel darin, diese stummen Lichtzeichen hörbar zu machen.
In der konzertanten Aufführung mit dem Objekt ROSEBOARD hat er den einzelnen Rosenleuchten gesampelte elektronische Klänge zugeordnet, die er über ein Schaltpult an- und ausschalten und so mit Hilfe eines Verstärkers für Augen und Ohren zugänglich machen kann. Er allein bestimmt den Zusammenhang der Klänge; die Zuhörer verbleiben ausschließlich in passiver Haltung, erfahren Konzertatmosphäre, keine Performance. Das erleichtert die Konzentration auf die Klanganordnung und deren Variationen und auf Assoziationen, die verblüffen, allerdings im Zeitalter der Flut von Telefonklingeltönen nicht mehr so überraschen wie zuvor.
Neben dieser Präsentation eröffneten die BIK Galerie 149 und Unerhört, Verein für Neue Musik, die Fensterinstallation „Ein kleiner Rosengarten“, für die Tilman Küntzel 14 seiner Leuchtrosen mit einer Membran versehen und so an den Galeriefenstern befestigt hat, dass die stummen Rosen, wenn zentral eingeschaltet, zu einer selbst spielenden Ton- und Lichtreihe werden – in dieser Woche zu bestaunen täglich von 18 bis 22 Uhr. Das Ergebnis von Küntzels Mitarbeit im cooltour-Programm der Immanuel-Kant-Schule wird am Donnerstag, 4. November, um 12 und um 18 Uhr ebenfalls in der Galerie 149 zu sehen sein.
Text: Norbert Duwe

Festival Sonoimagenes

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Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires City and at the UNLa’s University Campus
19, 20 and 21st October 2010

4th Cairo Video Festival
Video Art & Experimental films
Goethe-Institut Kairo, Egypt
10th to 14th of October 2010

Carte blanche à Catherine Bay /
Installation, performances et programmation vidéo
Centre Pompidou – Paris
Ássociation du 41 et Labo A235
21 au 25 juillet 2010 à partir de 11h

Damien Simon

Rezensionen

Lüster is certainly one of the most poetic works by Tilman Küntzel. A Montgolfière chandelier is lying, enigmatic, on the ground, producing light and sound.
The work plays on the visuo-auditive synesthesia percpetion, a subject which guides the work of the artist for several years.
In a remarkable passage in the Phenomenology of Perception Merleau Ponthy describes how the music when it filled the concert hall can transform our perception of it. The music „.. insinuates through the visible space a new dimension where it breaks, as for hallucinates, the clear space of things perceived is split by a“ dark space “ where others presences are possible »1. The view is not the only way for us to understand space, but it is a complex game, a“ one gear on the other sensory areas, „which allows us to find space unity.
Synaesthetic perception, far from being a one-off phenomenon, is more of a norm2, it is universal, but we are not conscious of it. In this complex gearing added memory and feelings that influence the information gathered by the sensory organs, our brain does not reproduce the environment but interpret it.
It is to a similar experience that invites the work of Tilman Küntzel. The chandelier produces sound and light extravaganza that seems to emanate from pendants that constitute it. Without ever having heard it or seen it we know in advance what sounds produces one of its great charms golden chandeliers in glass or crystal. It is part of a common imaginary3, something that we know and remember but wihtout being able to recall the exact place and date. This is also the material that composes it, the glass: it is both, transparency, rigidity, fragility and crystal clear sound.
However, here, imagination and memory lead us to see and hear something that does not exist. Not a tassel is moving, the object is there, motionless, resting on the soil covering by its presence the clear space by this „dark space“. The myriad of tinnitus actually comes with an ingenious device thermal relay technology which stack at irregular intervals by heating and cooling letting pass the electricity that powers the bulbs placed inside the chandelier. It results a smooth and random sound and light composition.
Damien Simon

Licht\Klang
Michael Aschauer / Tilman Küntzel
October 7 till December 14 2010
Le Bon Accueil
74, canal Saint-Martin, F-35700 Rennes
Cette exposition rend un ultime hommage aux ampoules à filament et tubes fluorescents appelés à disparaître progressivement. L’occasion de découvrir les oeuvres de Michael Aschauer (Prix Ars Electronica) membre de R-ep.org et Tilman Küntzel figure de proue du Klangkunst. Entre univers féerique créé par un lustre baroque animé d’un souffle électrique et confrontation poétique entre un ordinateur et huit tubes fluorescents.
Curated by Damien Simon