Emergency Room : The Berlin Test

2006-10-19T12:19:00.000+02:00

Friday, October 13

Participating artists:

Knut Klaßen und Sabine Kruse
John von Bergen
Marc Aschenbrenner
Peter Anders
Channa Boon
Magdalena Esponda o Roter
Marcel Everling

www.emergencyrooms.org including PS1/MOMA

Knut Klaßen und Sabine Kruse (Performance)
Grundbedingungen von Bildender Kunst
Was ist in der Bildenden Kunst sagbar
Was ist besser in anderen Bereichen sagbar
(Auszug, bzw. zum Schluss: Man kann die Gesundheitsreform in der Bildenden Kunst ausdrücken.
Man benutzt die Gesundheitsreform um zu Realisieren. Es geht nicht um Gerechtigkeit und Abwägung der Bedingungen, es geht um Realisation, es geht um Realisation.
Man kann aber auch in der Welt bleiben und das Glück der Abwägung der Bedingung leben.
Also die Gesundheitsreform durchführen.
Das den Ländern vorlegen.
Und alle bestimmten Sachverhalte mit.
Und dann kommt die Abwägung.
Und ist das Bestimmen von Sachverhalten.
Das ist das Antitotale.

Die Gesundheitsreform ist in der Politik die Gesundheitsreform.
Die Gesundheitsreform ist in der Bildenden Kunst das Behaupten des Ich am nichts)

Channa Boon
Installation, mixed media

John von Bergen
"It looks like a strange abstract sculpture...!"

Actually, it's not. It's a model designed by the chief engineers at North Korea's nuclear testing plant, smuggled from Pyongyang to Berlin, delivered through the back room of a Korean deli in Friedrichshain. Evidently, the head model maker has recently been hospitalized due to excessive isocyanate contamination (main component in "Polyurethane", which the model is made of). He was not supplied a respirator or protective clothing (typical North Korean work conditions) and was directed to create a realistic "oozing" effect from the material by mixing a disproportionate ratio of the materials, which results in an occasional slimy, sticky surface, physically illustrating on a smaller scale the effects of toxic trace.

Marc Aschenbrenner

Peter Anders
The images of a the daily newspaper

Magdalena Esponda o Roter
Unbedeutend
(Insignificant) brown paper, marker, photocopy

Marcel Everling
Blumenstrauss, Hyronimus, Golden Words-Mercedes, Ich kommt-Ich Geht, Od des Universums, Gradiation, Crocodile, no title, Holy Virgin, Comande

The Retard Room

2006-10-12T17:23:00.000+02:00

Thursday, October 12th 2006

Participating Artists :

-Susanne Weirich/Robert Bramkamp (Enki's Longterm Emergency)
-Peter Anders
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Andreas Liebmann/Verena Stenke
-Oliver Oefelein
-Doris Frohnapfel
-Tanja Ostojic

Overview of the works :

Doris Frohnapfel
Cock-tail-Kunstakademie

Susanne Weirich/Robert Bramkamp (Enki's Longterm Emergency)
Substitute Object #3-Brick Bar

Tanja Ostojic
Danish Riot Romance

"I have to send you this photo,
riot romance
isn't it great?
as seen recently at the civil
unrest in Denmark..."

Andreas Liebmann/Verena Stenke
Power Puppen
-sprechen wir mal drüber-

"Knüpfen Sie Ihre ganz persönlichen deutsch-russischen Beziehungen. Die Puppen sind in Ihrer Bewegungsfreiheit leicht eingeschränkt. Die Teilnahme ist demokratisch organisiert und hat garantiert Einfluss. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Beitrag."

"Define your personal german-russian relationship. The puppets are restricted in their freedom of movement. The participation is democratically organised and has defenitely influence. We are looking forward to your contribution."

Oliver Oefelein
Welcome

Peter Anders
Berlin BZ #3

Marc Aschenbrenner
Die Tageszeichnung
(12-10-2006)

2006-10-11T13:33:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, October 11

Participating artists:

Peter Anders
Marc Aschenbrenner

Marc Aschenbrenner SCHWULE KATZE GERETTET BLÖDE SAU

Peter Anders
Alle Bilder der Taz von heute.

2006-10-10T18:05:00.000+02:00

Tuesday, October 10th 2006 :

Participating Artists :

-Tina Schimansky
-Peter Anders
-Robert Conev
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Beatrice Fleischlin/Sonya Schönberger (Fleisch & Schön)
-Susanne Weirich/Robert Bramkamp (from the Enki's Longterm Emergency)
-Magdalena Esponda o Roter
-Marc Mer

Overview of the works :

Beatrice Fleischlin und Sonya Shönberger (Fleisch & Schön)
The Stitching Performance #2

Peter Anders
Berlin BZ

Robert Conev

Marc Aschenbrenner
Die Tageszeichnung (08-09-10 Oktober 2006)

Susanne Weirich/Robert Bramkamp (Enki's Longterm Emergency)
Substitute Object N°3, Building with Bricks-BAR-Hamburg 2006

Tina Schimansky
Ticker #3

Magdalena Esponda o Roter
Alone

Marc Mer cloudy politics ° sunday system

2006-10-07T13:27:00.000+02:00

Saturday, October 7

Participating artists:

Katrin Glanz
Marcel Everling
Marc Aschenbrenner
Elmar Vestner
Andrea Pichl

Marcel Everling Emergency Room

Marcel Everling
Horos-kop

Marcel Everling
Blick der Wildnis

Marcel Everling
African Summer
Aquavit bis der Elch kommt
Island Fontaine
Gibt es doch eine 2.Erde
Emergency Room
Horos-kop
Blick der Wildnis

Collage, mixed media, framed

Katrin Glanz Jackpot
Today are 35 Mio Euros in The JackPot.
Sound and Videoloop

Elmar Vestner mmmh

Fotograph and newspaper headline ("Alle Todesfälle werden nun überprüft")

Marc Aschenbrenner

Rekonstruktion eines Krieges

Andrea Pichel

On October 7, 1949, the DDR was founded. Pichel was looking for any articles in online-magazines today on October 7 relating to the topic; no luck.

2006-10-07T13:18:00.000+02:00

Friday, October 6

Participating artists:

Marc Aschenbrenner
Sandra Norrbin

Marc Aschenbrenner Die Fee der Charité

Sandra Norrbin
Carpet from the Art Forum Berlin, 2006

When the artfair was over and all the galleries started to dismantel their stands I started to produce work from the remainings of a performance and installation; a red carpet. It should be mentioned that I was not represented by any gallery at the fair (or any of the other fairs in Berlin for that sake..)
I liked the energy that was released. As everybody was taking down the art and putting it into crates I was putting up a new one - and nobody cared. But the day after I actually had two visitors.
At Emergency Room - Berlin Test I will show the remainings of the carpet. It will be cut into smaller pieces, rolled up and stacked into piles on top of each other. Sandra Norrin 6.10.2006

2006-10-07T12:22:00.000+02:00

Thursday, October 5

Participating artists:

Marc Aschenbrenner
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Vladimir Mitreu
Vassiliea Stylianidou
Frans Jacobi

Vladimir Mitreu The Daily Bread

Frans Jacobi :"I applaud Congress for passing legislation that will provide our men and
women in uniform with the necessary resources to protect our country and win
the War on Terror. As our troops risk their lives to fight terrorism, this
bill will ensure they are prepared to defeat today's enemies and address
tomorrow's threats. I look forward to signing this bill into law. "

Vassiliea Stylianidou

Eleonore de Montesquiou 05.10.2006

Marc Aschenbrenner Nordkoreas Bombe

2006-10-06T18:01:00.000+02:00

Sunday, October 1st : The performing day.

Participating Artists :

-The Unwetter collective (Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig)
-Sonya Schönberger
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Eva Reader
-Hannes Kater

Overview of the works :

The Unwetter collective : Discursive Pic-Nic.
you/we are: INVITED!......to a Discursive Picnic at Galerie Olaf Stüber, hosted by Colonel's EMERGENCY ROOM. be a guest, be a host. join and test UNWETTER's TRY OUT/RESEARCH PLANE bring, give, take, share: food + ideas + newspapers.

Sonya Shönberger : The Stitching Performance

"Fleisch&Schön zieht an einem bestimmten Tag eine Zeitungsnachrichtaus dem Strom der sich jagenden News. In einer mehrstündigenPerformance wird aus der Tagesaktualität ein gesticktes Bild / einWandgemälde. Aktuell für einen Tag. Was am Ende wie eine liebevollehandgearbeitete Wanddekoration wirkt, ist eine Tagesmeldung, die von alltäglichen Geschehnissen, evtl. Grausamkeiten berichtet.Fleisch&Schön stellt der Geschwindigkeit der Information dieLangsamkeit der Wahrnehmung gegenüber. Wieverändert sich die Nachricht, wenn sie nicht auf dünnem Wegwerfpapier gedruckt oder als flüchtige Information auf dem Bildschirm erscheint, sondern minutiöse Handarbeit dahinter steckt? Zudem ist diePerformance ein Versuch, sichtbar zu machen, wie wir in den Flutender Schreckensmeldungen so gelassen weiterleben können: Indem wirselektieren und ästhetisieren."

Marc Aschenbrenner : Die Tageszeichnung

Hannes Kater : The Humor of the Day

Eva Reader : Anna Nicole Smiths Son died

2006-10-04T13:03:00.000+02:00

Monday, October 2

Participating artists:

Katrin von Maltzahn
Marc Aschenbrenner
Susanne Weirich
Hannes Kater
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Tinghoj Vilhelmsen

Katrin von Maltzahn Charts October 2

Tinghoj Vilhelmsen

Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
Bar Kunstprojekt

2006-10-04T12:52:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, October 4

Participating artists:

Antje Majewski Interview 3
Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
Lisa Strömbeck
Marc Aschenbrenner
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Fleischer, Parker, Schydlow

Marc Aschenbrenner Deutscher Folterknecht

Marc Aschenbrenner
Der Tag der deutschen Einheit der

Antje Majewski Interview 3

Antje Majewski contributes several short videos to the exhibition, in which she visits different areas in Berlin with a camera man and asks random people on the street and in shops for their news of today.
Answers range from "No idea" to long stories from the lifes of the persons willing to answer; very few actually tell some piece of news from media like radio, newspapers or TV. Antje tries to keep the conversation going, drifting away from the initial question. The small portraits of the people she encounters form a portrait of the quarter they live in; from the rich and bourgois Zehlendorf in which three people knew about a problem with an opera, to poor and multinational Wedding in which people were a lot more talkative about their personal lifes and problems.

Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
Enki´s Longterm Emergency

Lisa Ströbeck
All the images of men in the morning newspaper, and women. 95 men (left) and 45 women (right).

Fleischer, Parker, Schydlow Troops of Tomorrow
Two people read out two newspaper articles, she says a sentence then he, continously alternating.

2006-09-30T12:48:00.000+02:00

Saturday, 30 September

Participating artists:

Eleonore de Montesquiou
Victor Ash
Marc Aschenbrenner
Unwetter
Hannes Kater
Peter Lind
Jeanne Susplugas
Thorbjorn Christiansen/Caroline Lund (with the participation of Henning Christiansen)

Thorbjorn Christiansen/Caroline Lund
(with the participation of Henning Christiansen)
Participative political Performance n°3

YOUR VOICE WILL CHANGE THE WORLD ORDER
Part 3, with special guest : Fluxus Artist Henning Christiansen.
Short Description :
Your World Order - A participatory coment on the world politic by PM.
Question to answer :
Who's making the decisions? What's your opinion? How do you want to challenge the decison makers? What would you like to change? What is your proposal for the future? What is your idea on the current world political situation?
How to do it :
You will be able to describe your view on the current political situation today on a podium. Instead of being the one-way-receiver, you will become "the decision maker". Your comment will be taped and broadcasted in the Emergency Room during the exhibition. Your personal ideas can be written on a painting on paper of a world map with a marker during the action. YOU ARE WELCOME!
PM are Caroline Lund und Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen.
(www.lundchristiansen.org)

2006-09-29T13:23:00.001+02:00

Friday, 29 September

Participating artist:

Marc Aschenbrenner
Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Unwetter (Jole Wilcke) www.un-wetter.net
Matti Isan Blind
Hannes Kater
Vassiliea Stylianidou

Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp
Enki´s Longterm Emergency

Eleonore de Montesquiou 29th Sept.

Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen

Matti Isan Blind Proposal for a Safer Paper- Desert Lone Edition

Unwetter (Jole Wilcke) http://www.un-wetter.net/

Vassiliea Stylianidou Instinkte und Trigger

Marc Aschenbrenner Spreng Clown

2006-09-28T12:56:00.000+02:00

Thursday, 28 September

Participating artists:

Antje Majewski Neuigkeiten des Tages
M+M Schäuble Magazin Extra Ausgabe
Peter Lind
Marc Aschenbrenner Toter Geiselnehmer
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Dietmar Fleischer Rock the Day
Tanja Ostoji´c
Unwetter (Ulrike Solbrig, Jole Wikke, Philipp Ekhardt)
Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel
Robert Bramkamp, Susanne Weirich Enki´s Longterm Emergency
Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen

M + M
M+M at work; they sampling a newspaper of the news of today. This time it is the Schäuble Magazin Extra Ausgabe.

Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel
New work

Dietmar Fleischer Rock the Day
Video with drum kit and children.
On the screen appear google head lines. The artist reads the listed links to his children while drumming softly.

Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen
Veronica Ferres "Seite 1 Girl"
Ralph Lauren hat Parasiten

Antje Majewski Neuigkeiten des Tages in Zehlendorf
Antje Majewski interviews Berliner, what are the news of today, do you have any idea? This time it is in Zehlendorf.

Tanja Ostoji´c No the Disintegrative Migration Laws

Unwetter Colaborative Picnic on green carpet
Guests: Lisa Mee, Alan Marsik, Sarat Maharaj

Marc Aschenbrenner Toter Geiselnehmer

Peter Lind Surveillance is a Weapon, Everybody is a target
Live web Cam

2006-09-27T13:49:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, 27 September

Participating artists:

Henrik Schrat Can Paintings be Dangerous
Eleonore de Montesquiou 27th Sept
Marc Aschenbrenner Gael Garcia Bernal
Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen
Boris Ivandic Liebes Rache
Christian Blau Berlin Heroes

Henrik Schrat Can Paintings be Dangerous
Ink and printed web pages on paper, 50cm-70cm

Christian Blau
Sound piece, 20 sec. loop, endless:

"Ja, in zehn Jahren wird es ganz toll sein, wir haben viele Arbeitsplätze, wir sind eine internationale Stadt vor allem wir sind eine tolerante Stadt, in der jeder in seiner Fasson seelig werden kann, egal welche Hautfarbe er hat, egal welche Konfession er hat, wir leben alle miteinander in einer blühenden Stadt friedlich zusammen. Und Klaus Wowereit ist natürlich immer noch regierender Bürgermeister."

Die Arbeit "Berlin Heroes" hat fast keinen Bezug zu David Bowies 1977er Hit aus seinenberliner Tagen. Sie sagt uns mehr über den "ewig gleichen Titel" den wir hören, wenn wir unseren politischen "Heroen" beim Vortragen ihres bekannten, aber nichtsdestotrotz ziemlich kranken Repertoirs zusehen.- später September 2006, Berlin.
Während uns ein Politiker aus Ungarn seine Version von "Honesty" vorstellt, können wir unseren lokalen Heroen nach der Berlin Wahl beim intonieren von "My Way" zuhorchen. In diesem Falle aberheißt der Titel: "In zehn Jahren", von Klaus Wowereit. Kein Ton bedroht die brilliant gesetzten Worte. Hier in einer zeitlosen Aufnahme von 2001.
Christian Blau 2006

Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen "der traurigste Kuss der Welt" , "Jetzt rede ich", "Geheime Kräfte"
Hannes Kater ´s drawing on A4 sheets take their inspiration from images, text is not so important for me, Bild (the newspaper) only has text, and bad images, I want images.

Unwetter ( Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig)
The collaborative picnic is expanding, everyday the daily newspaper input enriches the collection on the green (grass?)

Boris Ivanic Liebes Rache
8 Copied Collages, Din A3
It´s himself, his pictures sticks in the very left corner, just below "Liebesrache".

Marc Aschenbrenner Gael Garcia Bernal

2006-09-26T14:17:00.000+02:00

Tuesday, 26 September

Participating artists:

Tina Schimensky Ticker
Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen
Szacva y Pál Know why
Vassiliea Stylianidou Eyes Names
Katrin von Maltzahn charts 9/26/9
Marc Aschenbrenner
Eleonore de Montesquiou

Tina Schimensky Ticker 290906

Szycsva y Pál Know why
www.perimedialab.hu

Vassiliea Stylianidou Eyes Names

Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen
24.09.06 Blu-t
25.09.06 Star quält zum Glück
26.09.06 Gewinner und Verlierer

2006-09-23T13:19:00.000+02:00

Saturday, 23 September

Participating artists:

Marc Mer isisraelreal
Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp Enki´s Longterm Emergency
Marc Aschenbrenner Alzheimer Wichsblatt
Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig Unwetter, Modediscussion
Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen
Eleonore de Montesquiou

Marc Mer isisraelreal
is israel real israel is real isn't it mass is real isn't it israel is real as real as mass is isn't it

Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp Enki´s Longterm Emergency

A brief videoloop; Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, Director of the Iraqi Antique Office, says in a symposium about the work of Robert Koldewey
I apologiesze for not having, I did not, as you know, because of the Iraqi situation, what Iraq is going through, as you know, I did not have time to prepare slides or pictures for what I am going to say, I am going to speak about the work, all the Iraqi work of Robert Koldewey.

Marc Aschenbrenner Alzheimer Wichsblatt

Hannes Kater Tageszeichnungen

Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig Unwetter, Modediscussion

Eleonore de Montesquiou BBC news 10-11am, 23 Sept

2006-09-22T13:35:00.000+02:00

Friday, 22 September

Participating artists :

Henrik Schrat Leitgedanken
Nada Sebestyen
Marc Aschenbrenner Zug-Opfer
Peter Lind Everybody is in Potential Danger
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Hannes Kater
Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig (from Unwetter collective)
Thjoborn Christiansen Podiumdiscussion
Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp Enki´s Longterm Emergency

Henrik Schrat Leitgedanken

Basic Idea

1. Am proud of my German roots
2. I want to do justice to my roots.
3. I only fight for people of my own kind.
4. I only look for friends among my own kind.
5. I only sleep with people of my own kind.
6. I only beget children with my own kind.
7. I avoid any distracting foreign influence.
8. I fight for a German territory.
9. I proclaim culture.
10. I am decent.

Basic idea of the NPD, Saxon Sexy Sexiest Switzerland.(Region of Germany)
Mainly on the subject of Homosexuality. NPD in Saxon: 9,3%, SPD in Saxon 9,8%.

Nada Sebestyen

Marc Aschenbrenner Zug-Opfer

Hannes Kater

Eleonore de Montesquiou
BBC news shortcut

Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig (from Unwetter collective/Berlin)

Peter Lind September 22nd's screenshot (from thenewsarenotthenews installation)

2006-09-21T15:17:00.000+02:00

Thursday, 21. September 2006

Participating artists :

Marc Mer politikspricht
Marc Aschenbrenner Priester mit Watte
Tanya Uri Fading into the Foreground
Vassiliea Stylianidou The Monopoly of Appearances
Hannes Kater Untilted drawings
Luigi de Simone Humor of Today
Peter Lind thenewsarenotthenews
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig Unwetter (discursive picnic)

Marc Mer politikspricht

politikspricht volkhört politiklügt volktobt politikbaut politikkommtan stadtraucht politikweht politikführt politikspricht politikspricht politikwartet politikliebtsich politikfehlt politikklärt politikweiss

Marc Mer worked eight hours to send us his pictures just in time. The pictures are screenshots from broadcast news last night! ZDF. Red letters are comenting, expanding on the entire page.

Tanya Uri Fading into the Foreground
(http://www.tanyaury.com)

The photo series Fading into the Foreground (work in progress) consists chiefly of portraits or snapshots of civilians who wear camouflage design or other military-style fashion on the street, while going about their daily business.
For years it has been in vogue to wear the soldiers uniform as clothing, but the trend has been even more marked this year, 2006. More than 400 photographs have been taken for this artwork, in Cologne (D), Budapest (HU), London (GB) and Jerusalem (IL) – the series will be continued in Berlin (D), Ljublin (PL) and Boston (USA) etc.
For the Emergency Room project, along with a text, as commentary on the proposed controversial stationing of German marines along the Lebanese coast to function as a “peacekeeping” force with UNIFIL, I have selected 16 of the Fading into the Foreground images taken recently in Cologne and Jerusalem, of young Palestinians, Israelis and Germans civilians, police and soldiers, wearing military-style clothing.

Marc Aschenbrenner Priester mit Watte

Luigi de Simone Humor of Today
Yellow, Pink and Violet are covering partly or entirely news paper pages.

Vassiliea Stylianidou The Monopoly of Appearances

Hannes Ketter 3 Untilted Drawings

Philipp Ekhardt, Jole Wikke, Ulrike Solbrig Unwetter (Discursive Picnic)

Freshly cutout excerpts of newspaper pages, partly carefully wrapped and positioned and helpful alternatives in other media are spread out on a green plastic sheet.

Eleonore de Montesquiou

Peter Lind Thenewsarenot thenews (Snapshots of the day)

2006-09-20T12:40:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, 20. September

Participating artists:
Marc Aschenbrenner
Peter Lind
Klaus Münzer
Eleonore de Montesquiou
Vassiliea Stylianidou
Susanne Weirich, Robert Bramkamp

Marc Aschenbrenner Kopfperformance

Peter Lind Live web stream: Have a nice Day

Klaus Münzer Untitled C-Prints (From today CNN news)

Eleonore de Montesquiou

Marc Aschenbrenner Der nette Soldat aus Thailand

Vassiliea Stylianidou The first words of
Today the Guardian published a list of the "last" sentences of the 376 prisoners executed in Texas since 1982. Most often words were "I`m ready" .

2006-09-19T13:29:00.000+02:00

Tuesday, 19. September

Participating artists:

Peter Lind Nobody´s gonna Rock my Boat
Katrin von Maltzahn Charts September 19, 2006
Eleonore de Montesquiou 18.09.2006
Gunda Förster
Marc Aschenbrenner Das düstere Gefühl eines Propheten, Nazi freut sich, Ungarische Nazi stürmen TV
Matti Isan Blind Upside Down

Katrin von Maltzahn Charts September 19, 2006
Drafting a map of the frequency of talking about topics by juxtaposing the various newspaper of today; the charts of today:

Wahl: rot (36)
Papst: orange (20)
NPD: braun (9)
Nonne: grün (5)
Al Qaida: gelb (5)
Schweden: blau (4)
Libanon: petrol (4)
Babies: pink (4)
Darfur: dunkelgrün (3)
dick: violet (3)
Erdloch: rosé (3)
Orang utan: gold (2)

Gunda Förster Without title
Two pictures: Rembrandt van Rjin´s " Die Blendung Samsons" and Photograph; Reuters

Eleonore de Montesquiou 18.09.2006
Sentences or part of sentences from the BBC news broadcast, 10-11am, are running trough the screen. The sentences are not describing a particular event, they could mount to any story, the chosen parts pick a few intentions and emotions which seem to elaborate something specific. The text presented on the screen could be the renarration of someone who has nod off in front of the tv or someone not mastering a language.

Marc Aschenbrenner Das düstere Gefühl eines Propheten

Marc Aschenbrenner Nazi freut sich

Marc Aschenbrenner Ungarische Nazi stürmen TV

Peter Lind Nobody´s gonna Rock my Boat
Live web cam is broadcasting a "surveillance of property".

Matti Isan Blind Upside Down

The artist is showing an Indian Newspaper you can completly print out by yourself. It is also possible to put your own add. He negotiated with the publishers that his contribution always has to be printed and published upside down.

2006-09-19T12:15:00.000+02:00

Monday, 18.September

Even the gallery is closed today, the artsist´s need to show work was stronger. Susanne Weirich and Robert Bramkamp expose a new episode of Enki´s Longterm Emergency.

Artists today: Susanne Weirich und Robert Bramkamp

2006-09-16T13:48:00.000+02:00

Saturday, 16 September

Participating artists:

Marc Aschenbrenner "Die vaginalen Ängste der Religionen"
Antje Majenski "Die Neuigkeiten des Tages"

Antje Majenski "Die Neuigkeiten des Tages"
Video
The artist is interviewing people on the street in shops, if they have some news to tell.

Marc Aschenbrenner "Die vaginalen Ängste der Religionen"
Collage,mixed media, 21cm-29,7cm

2006-09-15T13:18:00.000+02:00

Friday, 15 September :

Participating artists:

-Marc Aschenbrenner "Wetter Foltern G3"
-Vassiliea Stylianidou "The Saliva of the First an Last Page"
-Caroline Lund / Thorbjorn Reuter und Christiansen "Your Voice will change the World Order"

The Daily News :

-The pope with new efforts favouring Christianisation.
-Turkey prefers to cancel the visite of the pope.
-Oriana Fallaci died today. The writer was discribing since years the danger of an Islamic invasion in Europe "Eurarabien", with her remarks she gained some enemies, murder threatening by Islamic organisations and jail term by the Italian Goverment for defamation of a religion.
Die Kernaussage von Fallacis 2004 erschienenem Buch "Die Kraft der Vernunft" ist, dass es trotz der angeblichen Gefahr einer Islamisierung Europas durch den "demographischen Faktor" immer noch Grund zur Hoffnung gibt. Und zwar aufgrund der Überlegenheit des abendländischen Denkens: der Kraft der Vernunft. Wie das vorhergehende hat ihr auch dieses Buch mehrere Morddrohungen von islamistischen Organisationen und viel Kritik nicht nur seitens islamischer Intellektueller und der linken Presse eingebracht.
In Italien drohte ihr eine zweijährige Haftstrafe (Juni 2005) wegen Verunglimpfung (vilipendio) einer Religion. (Quelle wikipedia)

Textauszug aus "Engel und Bestien" (Erstausgabe auf Deutsch 1974, erstmals erschienen 1969 in talienisch):
Und gerade als er diesen Satz sagte, rutschte ein Kind auf einem Stück Seife aus und verletzte sich am Kopf. Ein unglücklicher Zufall, gewiss. Aber wenn dir die Amerikaner ein Stück Seife geben, rutschst du immer darauf aus und verletzt dich am Kopf. Warum? Weil die Amerikaner so sind. Wenn ich sie mir in Vietnam (nur in Vietnam?) ansehe, muss ich immer an die grausige Geschichte denken, die Francois erzählt hat. Eine amerikanische Familie macht Ferien im heiligen Land, und zwar ausgerechnet in den Tagen, da Pontius Pilatus über Jesus das Urteil spricht. Die Familie ist augenblicklich hingerissen von der Demut unseres Herrn, der so misshandelt wird, von seiner Schutzlosigkeit. Die Familie ruft ihren Anwalt an, er soll unverzüglich mit dem Flugzeug kommen und die Verteidigung übernehmen, koste es was es wolle, zehntausend Dollar, eine Million Dollar. Gegen drei Uhr nachmittags ist der Anwalt immer noch nicht da. Da weist das Kleine mit dem Zeigefinger auf den Hügel Golgatha und ruft: " Mammy, Daddy! Seht mal, was sie mit dem Gentleman gemacht haben!" Christus hängt am Kreuz. Die Amerikaner rennen den Hügel hinauf, mit ihrer Grossmut und ihren edlen Absichten, sind am Kreuz, ergreifen eine Zange, eine Leiter, steigen hinauf:"Wir sind schon da, Herr, wir sind schon da!" Und sie ziehen den als erstes den Nagel aus der rechten Hand und ziehen als zweites den Nagel aus der linken Hand, so dass Jesus vornerüberfällt und mit den Füssen am Kreuz hängen bleibt.
So sind die Amerikaner. Ich meine: sie sind gar nicht böse, nur ungeschickt.

Overview of works :

The Marc Aschenbrenner of today: "Wetter Foltern G3"

Vassiliea Stylianidou "The Saliva of the First an Last Page"

Caroline Lund und Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen
(www.lundchristiansen.org)

"Your Voice will change the World Order"
(Participative and political performance)

Your WORLD ORDER - A participatory comment on the world politic by PM (Caroline Lund und Thorbjorn Reuter Christiansen).
Questions to Answers :
Who's making the decisions? What's your opinion? How do you want to challenge the decision makers? What would you like to change? What is your proposal for the future? What is your idea on the current world political situation?

How to do it :
You will be able to describe your view on the current political situation today on a podium. Instead of being the one-way receiver, you will become "the decision maker". Your comment will be taped and broadcasted in the Emergency Room during the exhibition. Your personal ideas can be written on a painting on paper of a world map with the marker during the action. YOU ARE WELCOME!!!

2006-09-14T15:04:00.000+02:00

September 14th, 2006 : Day 5.

Artists list and works :

-Charlotte Grum : "Democraty/Freedom is important"
-Marc Aschenbrenner "Terror und Nena"
-Ella Ziegler "Pretoria News arrived"
-Robert Bramkamp, Susanne Weirich "Enki´s Longterm Emergency"

Overview of the works :

Ella Ziegler : "Pretoria News arrived"

After six days, the newspapers posted from South Africa on the opening day of Emergency Room (September 8th) have finally arrived in the Gallery on Thursday 14th. The conceptual project of Ella Ziegler about time and delay, is now complete.

Marc Aschenbrenner : "Terror und Nena"

Dortmund/Karlsruhe (rpo). Terroristen hatten es scheinbar auf ein Konzert der Sängerin Nena abgesehen. Mit einem Tankschiff sollte angeblich das Gelsenkirchener Amphitheater bei ihrem Auftritt Ende August in die Luft gejagt werden -
Apparently terrorists planned to attack a concert by the singer Nena.The Gelsenkirchen amphietheater should get blown up with a tanker during her performance in the end of August.

Robert Bramkamp/Susanne Weirich : "Enki's Longterm Emergency"
View of the complete installation.

Charlotte Grum : "Democraty/Freedom is important...especially were the oil is"

The Führer's Photographer
He was the Führer's most favored photographer and cameraman. Walter Frentz was the man Adolf Hitler trusted to put him in the right light. Now a new biography has uncovered pictures of the Nazi leader never seen before.

2006-09-13T14:40:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, 13th September : Day 4.

Artists list and works:

-Ella Ziegler : "Still waiting for Pretoria News"
-Lars Vilhelmsen : "Do you feel safer now"
-David Keating : "Aussenpolitik"
-Marc Aschenbrenner :"Lernen und Riechen"
-Emil Holmer : "Fleischwolf"
-Robert Bramkamp/Susanne Weirich : "Enki´s Longterm Emergency"

Overview of works :

Emil Holmer "Fleischwolf" :

Emil Holmer´s has brought two bukets, one filled with maggots the other with sugar. Hopefully after two days the maggots will have grown into flies and smell some sugar. The two bukets are connected with a tube dangeling in little loops up in the air and finding their highest point in a puppethead. The flies smelling the sugar have to pass by the puppethead in order to arrive at the sugar cubes.
The drawing according to the artist is representing the "Fleischwolf/Meatgrinder". His work is reffering to a newspaper article Fleischermord-Sie schlägt ihrem Mann den Kopf ab und kochte damit eine Gemüseeintopf/Butcher-killing- She shops off her husband´s head and cooks with it a vegetable stew.

David Keating "Aussenpolitik"
Beständig Unbeständig/Situation Not Situation

David Keating has picked a newspaper exerpt, foreign politics, discribing the unbalanced situation in Afganistan, how the Co-Allations try to stabilize Afganistan. On a second sheet he copies by hand the drawing and wiriting, translating as well the German into English.

Marc Aschenbrenner
"Lernen und Riechen"

Marc Aschenbrenner brings a drawing every day. Today he brought us "Learning and Smelling". We could definitly smell the freshly applied nail polish which covers in pea green almost the entire head of the learning person. The things we can learn are sticked to the head.
Start of the movie "Parfum", and ongoing education
DAS PARFUM
Der Nasen-Zombie
Ganz großes Kino voll delikater Erotik und knisternder Spannung
The nose-zombie
Grand cinema full of delicate erotism and cracking tension.

Lars Vilhelmsen : "Do you feel safer now there is no flag big enough to cover the shame of killing people"

2006-09-12T21:38:00.000+02:00

September 12th, Day 3.

Artists List :

-Katrin von Maltzahn
-Ella Ziegler
-Karin Kerkmann
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Robert Bramkamp/Susanne Weisiel
-Vassiliea Stylianidou
-Tanja Ostojic
-Matti Isan Blind

Overview of the works :

Katrin von Maltzahn : "Charts, September 12th 2006"
(Collage from news on the Web and pastels)

Robert Bramkamp/Susanne Weisiel : "Enki's longterm emregency"
(See the web page written above)

Tanja Ostojic : "Integration Impossible"
(postcard + Interview)

Marc Aschenbrenner : "Steve Hawkins sucht Assistentin/Der 11 September/Pabstbesuch"
(Drawings and collages on paper)

Vassiliea Stylianidou : "The initials of the names"
(mix media on T-shirt and paper)

Matti Isan Blind : "A work to remember"

Ella Ziegler : " 'Still waiting for Pretoria News"
(Newspaper sending and E-mails prints)

Karin Kerkmann : "Moving"
(Video installation)

2006-09-12T19:26:00.000+02:00

September 9th, 2006 : Day 2.

Artists List :

-Lars Vilhelmsen
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Susanne Schuricht
-Azin Feizabadi
-Wolgang Müller
-Karin Koenig
-Ella Ziegler
-Alexander Negrelli

Overview of works :

Marc Aschenbrenner : "Unfall in Goldmiene"
(Drawing and collage on paper)

Susanne Shuricht : "Hungry"
(intervention on postcards + Interview)

Alexander Negrelli : "Watching War"
(Sticker)

Azin Feizabadi : "Day 1 / 08.09 - 6.15 pm"
(Internet prints)

Wolfgang Müller : "Today's Truisms II"
(Intervention on electoral poster)

Karin Koenig : "Pray Time"
(newspapers extract sticked on the ground)

Lars Vilhelmsen : "War leaves every child behind"
(Photocollage)

Ella Ziegler : " 'Still waiting for Pretoria News"

2006-09-12T17:28:00.000+02:00

Retard : The function of "delay".

"Like an outgrowth, Retard works as the opposite of the logical and continuous movement activated through the concept of Emergency Room. While Emergency Room stimulates the artists to react in the urgency to the unceasing flow of information and images spread around by the medias and to challenge with this rhythm; Retard, by opposition, looks ironically like a museum exhibition space, in which objects and time seem to be fixed and arrested. By staging the museum functions of collecting, conserving and presenting objects, Retard set itself up as a parody and even as a critic of the artistic institution. With its duality, where metaphorically the past and the present are closed to each other, the concept of Emergency Room hijacks the common play/pause functions related to classical audiovisual material and medias. From there do we also feel the effects of a melancholic report of our helpless and powerless ability to change what already happened, and therefore remind us the necessity and the duty of acting right now.

Although it was already undertaken in Copenhagen, and now repeated during the Berlin experience, it is important to emphasize that Retard remains a parallel and optional aspect to the Emergency Room concept : its outgrowth in other words. Retard shows up an overview of works, selected by the Olaf Stüber Gallery team."

Retard on September 9th-12th.

Retard on September 12th.

2006-09-11T19:33:00.000+02:00

September 08th, 2006 : Day one.
Some Artworks.

Two video installations from Karin Kerkmann ("8 Jahre Lang"-left) and Rabea Eipperle ("Training for Stilletto Run"-right).

The videos of Karin Kerkmann is focusing on a very shocking hot spot of the last days news in Germany : the reapparition of Natascha Kampusch who was kidnaped and held in hostage during the last ten years. To express this event, Karin uses an old german childrensong as a symbol of the lost childhood :
Good evening, good night, covered with roses,
Stiched with flowers, slip under the blanket.
Tomorrow in the morning, if God wants, you will wake up again.

On her side, Rabea Eipperle decided to focus herself on the trivial event of the stiletto heels run that happened a couple of weeks ago, on the Kurfüstendammstrasse in Berlin, and which was a real worldwide curiosity.

Peter Lind : "The newsisnotthenews" (Media Art Installation mixing webcam views from the exhibition room with news images taken from the Internet and comments)

The intervention of Peter Lind is envolved with the ideas of distance/presence and simultaneity/delay linked to the ultrapresence of medias, and to the progress of their technological aspects. With a tricked computer that Peter created with the help of some Berlin hackers, he is now able to make a direct intervention on the projection, from Copenhagen or wherever he could be located in the world. While a web came is filming and watching on the "ER" exhibition room like George Orwell's Big Brother, Peter can mix those images in a fade away effect, with some news and pictures taken from the Internet.

Wolfgang Oelze : "In die Luft".

Frank Franzen : "Vegetarische Döner" / "Döner Mafia"
(Computer slide show and collage from newspapers articles)

From newspapers extracts and reportage pictures taken from the streets of Neuköln, Frank Franzen creates new connections between images and textes. He proposes us, under the form of a collage, a terrorist lecture of the "Gammelfleisch" business that hurted Berlin last week.

Tina Schimansky : "Ticker"
(Lightbox with picture from the web)

Alexander Negrelli : "Sticker"

Vassiliea Stylianidou : "The notion of 'Today'"
(Installation with black board and E-mails prints)

Marc Aschenbrenner : "The daily drawing"
(Drawing on paper)

As a participation to "ER", the Berlin based artist Marc Aschenbrenner proposed to bring us everyday a new drawing related to a spot from the actuality. Realised directly after reading the news, it is interresting to note that, like during the Renaissance, drawing remains for Marc Aschenbrenner the first and the most direct expression of art, as well as the most direct connection between the brain and the hand.

Azin Feizabadi : "http://www.azin.info / Archive for ER"

Sergei Sviatchenko : "No more news"
(Drawing and collage sent by Internet)

Matti Isan Blind : "Bad news"
(Wet and fresh newspapers on the ground)

Mario Asif : "Atlantis has a technical problem"
(Drawing and comments)

Wolfgang Müller : "Today's truisms"
(Intervention on electoral poster)

2006-09-11T18:48:00.000+02:00

September 08th, 2006 : Day 1 / Opening Day

Artists List :

-Mario Assef
-Peter Lind
-Frank Franzen
-Rabea Eipperle
-Karin Kerkmann
-Wolfgang Müller
-Tina Schimansky
-Vassiliea Stylianidou
-Azin Feizabadi
-Matti Isan Blind
-Alexander Negrelli
-Marc Aschenbrenner
-Victor Ash
-Ella Ziegler
-Sergei Sviatchenko
-Wolfgang Oelze

2006-09-11T17:48:00.000+02:00

September 07th, 2006 : D-Day-1.

The organisation of the Emergency Room, and dinner time with Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel, Olaf Stüber, Frank Franzen (NL) and Peter Lind (DK).

2006-09-11T16:19:00.000+02:00

EMERGENCY ROOM (Extract from the Manifest)
"Based on the observation that the visual artists is left out of the debate about actuality. I believe that it would be healthy for society to open up 'Emergency Rooms' in contemporary art institutions.
Such emergency spaces would give the artists the chance to visually comment on actuality - an opportunity to express his/her positions and visions about today (today understood as today without any delay).
The Emergency Rooms will be updated every day and will have the important concept of living at the same ultra fast speed of the news (and its consequences like new wars, ...)."

Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel

www.emergencyrooms.org including PS1/MOMA