[spectre] HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language, opening on Friday, 22 March 2013, 7 pm

[Arns HMKV Inke]

Design: www.laborb.de, based on a photo by Daniel Hofer ("Manuel", from the series "Sunday Morning", 2009)


HIS MASTER’S VOICE
On Voice and Language
HMKV at the Dortmunder U
23 March – 7 July 2013

Opening Friday, 22 March 2013, 7 pm
Free admission

Welcome addresses by:
- Kurt Eichler, executive director of Kulturbetriebe der Stadt Dortmund and acting director of Dortmunder U
- Dr. Barbara Könches, director of the Department of Visual Arts, Kunststiftung NRW
- Dr. Inke Arns, exhibition curator and artistic director of HMKV

All exhibitions in the Dortmunder U will remain open until 11 pm on this day.


HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language 
_is an exhibition on the performativity of voice and language, the inauthenticity and uncanniness of speaking, voice as a political speech act, and language as performative utterance.

 _We are acting through language – but how does language act through us? The exhibition addresses the uncanny, irritating or comical moments produced by the human voice and language. This selection of performances, videos and web projects lets spectators experience the emotional, social and political potential of the voice. How is the voice connected to the body and identity of the individual? What happens when the spoken word detaches itself from the speaker, the text from its meaning, the sound from the image? What if the voice no longer belongs to the body from which it emanates? The artists in this exhibition listen to ventriloquists and voice-over artists as well as propagandists and preachers. They explore and re-enact historic and contemporary speech acts, probing the emotional and spiritual effect of the vocal power and word games, and playing with shifts of meaning and identity. While doing so, they also experiment with the various media used to record, reproduce or silence the voice.

_Additional materials (like books, film extracts, videos, quotations, etc.) addressing and commenting upon the notion of the performativity of the voice, speech and language will be shown alongside with the 28 artworks in the exhibition. These additional materials will be presented in six display cabinets.


Artists
Christophe Bruno (FR), Erik Bünger (SE), William S. Burroughs & Anthony Balch (US), Aslı Çavuşoğlu (TR), YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (KR), Dortmunder Sprechchor (DE), Jakup Ferri (KOS), Jochen Gerz (DE), Richard Grayson (UK), Asta Gröting (DE), Daniel Hofer (DE), Anette Hoffmann / Andrea Bellu / Matei Bellu / Regina Sarreiter (DE), International Institute of Political Murder (CH), Ignas Krunglevicius (LT/NO), Bruce Nauman (US), Stefan Panhans (DE), Julius Popp (DE), Laure Prouvost (FR/UK), Kathrin Resetarits (AT), Peter Rose (US), Manuel Saiz (ES), Anri Sala (AL), Richard Serra mit Nancy Holt (US), Katarina Zdjelar (SR/NL), Artur Zmijewski (PL) und andere and others.

Exhibition guide online at
http://www.hmkv.de/_en/programm/programmpunkte/2013/Ausstellungen/2013_His_Masters_Voice.php

Curated by
Inke Arns

 
Funded by Kunststiftung NRW
 
Main funders of HMKV: Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes NRW
 
Generously supported by Königlich Norwegischen Botschaft, Pro Helvetia – Schweizer Kulturstiftung, Büro für Bildende Künste/Institut français in cooperation with the French Ministry for Culture and Communication/DGCA as well as Deutschlandradio Kultur.
 
Media partners: ARTE Creative, de:bug, Ruhrgestalten



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Dr. Inke Arns
Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at the Dortmunder U
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund 
Office: Hoher Wall 15, 44137 Dortmund, Germany
T + 49 - 231 - 496642-0
F + 49 - 231 - 496642-29
info at hmkv.de
www.hmkv.de

HMKV's exhibition Sounds Like Silence has been awarded the "Special 
Exhibition of the Year 2012" prize by the German section of AICA. 
Read more: http://aica.kuk.net/english/meld/index.php?id=186

HMKV nominated for the fourth time for the ADKV-ART COLOGNE 
Prize for Kunstvereine. Decision due in March 2013.
Read more: http://www.kunstvereine.de/web/index.php?id=20

ERAN SCHAERF: fm-scenario – broadcasting language – 
undercover operation – station announcement – error
HMKV at the Dortmunder U
16 February - 1 April 2013

Preview // HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice, Speech, and Language
HMKV im Dortmunder U
23 March - 7 July 2013; Opening: 22 March 2013, 7pm


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