Press Release Eran Schaerf fm-scenario

Press Release
Eran Schaerf
fm-scenario – broadcasting language –
undercover operation – station
announcement – error
Exhibition at Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
February 16 to April 1, 2013
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
at Dortmunder U (gallery, 6th floor)
Leonie Reygers Terrasse
D-44137 Dortmund
T: +49 231 4966420
[email protected]
www.hmkv.de
www.facebook.com/hartwaremedienkunstverein
Press Contact
Denhart v. Harling . segeband.pr . [email protected] . T: +49 179 4963497
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Online Studio
www.fm-scenario.net
Things must be recyclable to be relevant. Welcome to fm-scenario.net, the online studio of
Listener’s Voice. This is where you can create your own personal Listener’s Voice mix, which you
can share with other users and possibly get on the air. You’ll be creating your mix from fragments
of broadcasts by Listener’s Voice, a radio station where listeners’ calls are taken by an automatic
moderator. The calls are everyday stories that listeners have staged in the station’s reenactment
studio, conferences organized by listeners on-air, blog entries by characters that have forsaken
their fictional environments, commentary by the automatic moderator and, last but not least,
broadcasts from other stations; because if nobody phones in to Listener’s Voice, the automatic
moderator switches to Station Search, where it borrows programs it finds in its reception area and
re-broadcasts them. So make your selections, mix a minimum of two fragments, and your own
personal compilation might get on the air! And once you have saved your own compilation under a
user name of your choice, it too will be available for other fm-scenario users to listen to. fmscenario.net is a publicly accessible online studio at the edge of democracy. By definition, it has no
target audience.
Exhibition
fm-scenario – broadcasting language – undercover operation – station
announcement – error
February 16 to April 1, 2013
Opening: February 15, 2013, 7 pm
Free entry.
“fm-scenario – The Listener’s Voice” is an intermedial project by Eran Schaerf which uses the
internet as a place of production in order to generate content for further media—concretely: radio
broadcast, exhibition, and publication. Eran Schaerf’s newscast radio plays, particularly The
Listener’s Voice (2002), a fictive radio station that receives calls from listeners, constitute the
intermedial project’s starting point.
On February 15, 2013, the second of the project’s five currently planned exhibitions will open at
Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund. Each exhibition has its own structure and its own
narrative. Drawing from the archive that is accessable at the online studio at fm-scenario.net, a
curator compiles a montage which serves Schaerf as a script for a performance for the camera.
This performance takes place in the exhibition space. Analogous to production in news agencies,
the exhibition space is coded as a place of image production.
The montage for the exhibition at Hartware MedienKunstVerein was compiled by the curator Inke
Arns. This montage tells how new technologies and platforms led to a crisis in the news media and
paved the way for new forms of news production. fm-scenario – The Listener’s Voice goes further,
however, offering medial and architectural formats to civic journalism, whose forums incessantly
challenge the authority of the news media.
Inke Arns’ montage “fm-scenario – Sendesprache – verdeckte Operation – Ansage – Fehler” will
be broadcasted by Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation on February 22, 2013 at 9:03 pm on
Bayern2. Following its broadcast, the program will be available for download as a podcast at
www.hoerspielpool.de.
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fm-scenario – The Listener’s Voice (2012–2014) is a production of a production e. V., Berlin, and
Bayerischer Rundfunk, Dept. of Radio Plays and Media Arts, in cooperation with Hartware
MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Les Complices, Zurich; the
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
Performance and Image Production in collaboration with Kerstin Honeit, Karolin Meunier, Stefan
Pente, Andrea Thal and William Wheeler
Video Mastering: Imri Kahn
Sound Mastering: Jochen Jezussek
Set Production: David Polzin
Curator: Inke Arns
Project Curator: Joerg Franzbecker
Project Management: Herbert Kapfer and Joerg Franzbecker
Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Major sponsors of the HMKV are the Cultural Office of the City of Dortmund and the Ministry of
Family, Children, Youth, Culture and Sport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Eran Schaerf, born 1962 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, has lived in Berlin since 1985. After his studies in
architecture in Israel, and at the Hochschule der Künste (today the UdK) in Berlin, he was named
director of the Department of Fine Arts at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, and he now
teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts.
His works have been shown worldwide, including at the 54th Biennale di Venezia (2011), at
Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007), Manifesta 2 in Luxemburg (1998), and at Documenta 9 in Kassel
(1992). In 2013 Schaerf will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Akademie der Künste,
Berlin.
His radio plays, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, include Wie gesagt. Theater- oder Taxistück
(1997), Die Stimme des Hörers (The Listener´s Voice) (2002), Sie hörten Nachrichten (2005),
Nichts wie Jetzt (2009), and Die ungeladene Zeugin (2011), among others.
Adresses
Radio
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Hörspiel und Medienkunst
Rundfunkplatz 1
D-80335 München
hö[email protected]
www.hörspielpool.de
Production
a production e. V.
Raum 52 im Berlin Carré
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 13
D-10178 Berlin
[email protected]
www.aproduction.org