KG AUGENSTERN | Christiane Prehn & Wolfgang Meyer
Curated by N38E13 | Ennio Pellicanò
Opening: 17 Sept. 2021 | 7 – 10 pm
Exhibition period: 18 Sept. > 2 Oct. 2021
GALLERY HOŠEK CONTEMPORARY
Motor ship HEIMATLAND – close to Fischerinsel 310 179 Berlin
Kg Augenstern live and work on a mobile boat.
Six years ago, their Tentacles Project started in Berlin with a boat journey that brought them all the way to the Meditteranean Sea in France. Scratching every bridge on the way with their flexible “Tentacles”, they created a specific soundprofile of each bridge and the surroundings. The journey was accompannied by several installations, performances, live-streams and broadcasts in various cities.
Since that, the nomadic “Tentacles” project was continued in many countries with researches, audiokinetic installations, performances, videos and more and the tentacles have become a kind of prostheses to generate subtle experiences that require attentive listening.
The Hošek Contemporary gallery space MS HEIMATLAND (motorship HOMELAND) as a ship gives Kg Augenstern the ideal opportunity to show a new site-specific installation back in their home port Berlin.
The planned project and exhibition “NOWHERE LAND” refers to the research and exhibition “Tentacles in Sicily – scratching the surface”.
In autumn 2019, the artists explored places in Sicily that have been abandoned within the last few decades. With their tentacles, they scratched circles on the surface of these contemporary ruins to reveal the specific sounds of the various surfaces and their surroundings. The research was accompanied by experiments with raw sheep‘s wool and clay as materials corresponding to the ephemeral appearance and transitory atmosphere of the places. The outcome of the research was presented as an exhibition in an old prayer hall in Palermo.
NOWHERE LAND has relations to that project, partly using the same media (such as wool and mud) and again dealing with the uncertainty and instability of existence, a focus that can be enforced by the fact that the exhibition space is an old “abandoned” cargo ship. As often investigating “strange” places like the downside of bridges or contemporary ruins, Kg Augenstern do researches with underwater sounds, recorded with hydrophones in various places as a part of the project.
