2021
Imperfect Partners
audiovisual installation
(21. August – 16. September 2021: Kunstkeller des Weinguts Georg Müller Stiftung, Eltville am Rhein, Germany)

The installation deals with the Zasmidium cellare fungus, which is typical for European wine cellars. A four-channel-electroacoustic composition with sounds of wine fermentation, directly or indirectly diffused, fills the historic wine cellar. Its individual parts are selected with an aleatoric script. Another script selects video files with macro recordings of the fungus, synched to voices that recite repeating text fragments about fungi, energy and capital flows, forms of collaboration und collective lifeforms. In addition to that, computer controlled mallets are being moved that hit on the back of the video display (an aluminium frame in the form of a fungal spore), on historic glass vessels and wine barrels. Part of the Klangkunst in Industriekultur program during the Tage der Industriekultur regional showcase. A cooperation by Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain and KulturRegion FrankfurtRheinMain.

Programming: Tobias Hagedorn.
Acknowledgements: Weingut Georg Müller Stiftung (Eltville-Hattenheim), Weingut Marco Hofmann (Bacharach), Weingut Ratzenberger (Bacharach), Stefan Fricke (hr2-kultur), Carlo Kurth, Annesley Black

Images, from above:
1, 3, 5, 7 © 2021 Marc Behrens
2, 4, 6 © 2021 Alexander Paul Englert