Teil 2 Digitales Erbe: Studienedition zur Videokunst in Deutschland von 1963 bis heute, DVD 4. Hg./Ed. Christoph Blase/Peter Weibel.

1. Kunst wofür?, Jörg Herold, 24:04 Min., 1988
Art Wherefore?
In 1988, when the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was still in existence, official Joseph Beuys exhibition took place in Leipzig, opposition to the posthumous appropriation if the hitherto ostracized artist arose among the artists of the Galerie EIGEN-ART. And so they organisied their own exhibition entitled »Nach Beuys« [After Beuys].
Jörg Herold created a video installation with two televisions and a film projection. Images of the official and the alternative Beuys Exhibitions were shown, as well as interviews with artists and friends, who talked about Beuys, but also about the situation of culture in the GDR.
(https://archive.org/details/joerg.herold.kunst.wofur.1988)

2. Das Haus der Kunst abtragen, Rudolf Herz/ Ruth Toma, 26:31 Min., 1980
Removing The House Of Art
Rudolf Herz and Ruth Toma take direct aim at the hallowed halls of art: they want the Haus der Kunst in Munich – an edifice with heavy symbolic import from its Nazi past and today belonging the world's most renowned museums – destroyed. In the process, they worked very fastidiously, got hold of site plans, asked ostensible demolition experts, or studied the routines of the museum staff. Their work also deals with the capacity of the medium video to manipulate reality: the video's apparently objective documentary quality brings to the fore a fictive element in historiography.
(https://archive.org/details/das.haus.der.kunst.abtragen.1980)

3. Für Künstler, Jochen Hiltmann, 13:31 Min., 1972
Ein Film über die Ausstrahlung der Sendung einer Fernsehgalerie im öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehen (WDR) mit dem Titel »Was macht eigentlich Jochen Hiltmann?«. Der wie eine Nachrichtensendung anmoderierte Film handelt von einem Mann, der versucht aus dem Fernseher auszubrechen und schießlich von innen her einen Stein durch die Mattscheibe wirft.
(Hamburger Kunsthalle, V-1979-02)

4. Movements in Light, Nan Hoover, 16:40 Min., 1975
'Movements in Light' is one of Hoover's earliest video pieces. It is almost entirely made out of decorated movements of her own body which she followed on a monitor. Movement, the body, light and time play a crucial part in Nan Hoover's work. She seeks to convey the phase which precedes reality, the phase in which the process of thinking is still an open creative activity. A close up is unclear, yet becomes clearer as the camera focuses. [...]
Netherlands Media Art Institute, Stefan Aquilina
(https://www.li-ma.nl/lima/catalogue/art/nan-hoover/movements-in-light/4624#)

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  Erworben 2011