Four events. One exhibition. One Fanzine.
In Osaka & Düsseldorf.
Prologue
Meeting in Osaka the first time introduced by Tetsuya Goto. Walking around Nambasennichimae. Taking photographs with Fuji’s disposable cameras.
The Beginning: A Blog
Sending photos back and forth. Via email and blog. Via mail. Cutting, collaging and silkscreening. The general topic: A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy. The blog is now offline.
Battle in Osaka
A documentary incl. preparations at Baikado and battle at Bloom Gallery, Osaka.
One day at Bloom Gallery, Osaka
Material used in the performance: photographs by Henguchi and Katja. Edited and revised material by both photographers. Found footage. Photos of found footage. Copies of photos of found footage. Silk screen on photo-collages. Etc.
Performance in Düsseldorf
Performance in Düsseldorf, Handelszentrum-Subway-Station. With Henguchi, Atsumi Tagami & Koshiro Hino.
(launch of photo-installation at the station – from the series: O.i.F./movie locations by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber in the background)
Battle in Düsseldorf
Material used in the performance: photographs and text by Henguchi and Katja. Photos taken during the performance of Henguchi, Atsumi Tagami & Koshiro Hino the week before. Photographs from the series O.i.F./Movie Locations»» by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber.
Create Party
with music by Atsumi Tagami & Koshiro Hino (Osaka), Shunsuke Oshio (Düsseldorf) and Swen Buckner (Düsseldorf). At Katja Stuke’s & Oliver Sieber’s studio.
Anybody’s discomfort is discomfort for me
Fanzine result from the Create Party. Self-published in an edition of #35 copies. Sold out.
»Let’s return to a face. A face covered in dots. This act prohibits entry but yet draws attention to the psychology of looks. Expression is a strategy. If you are consciously turning an expression then you are peering over something. You are looking above and beyond an imaginary horizon that ties how you perceive your face to carry meaning, with your assumptions about the reaction of the person that meets your gaze, analyses your features and speaks an inner monologue in response to your profile.« Daniel C. Blight read more»»
Links
Involved in the photo-battle:
Henguchi»»
Katja Stuke»»
Antifoto»»
BöhmKobayashi»»
Tetsuya Goto»»
Baikado»»
Bloom Gallery»»
Who’s Henguchi?
Poet, Photographer
Born July 26, 1973 in Osaka, Japan
2000 Poetry debut in poetry magazine Wasteland
2001 Designed, published and crafted The Sport Metal of Invertebrates
2006 Winner, Canon New Cosmos of Photography Award
2010 Founded Kurome Garo (Gallery Iris) in Osaka, Japan over 250 successive talk sessions, readings and exhibitions until now.
Published the poetry collection WMMWWMWWWMWMMWMWW with the imprint nobodyhurts
2011 Exhibition and Performance, ANT!FOTO
2014 Published the poetry and photograph collection Lizard Telepathy,Fox Telepathy with the imprint Chin Music Press Seattle
Kurome Garo»»
Who’s Katja?
born 1968, lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Katja Stuke works as a photographer on her own independend photographic projects. And together with Oliver Sieber – under the label BöhmKobayashi – they cover an extensive range of personas: photographers and artists, curators and exhibition organizers (ANT!FOTO), designers, art book editors and publishers. Regardless, in their works and activities as artists and art facilitators they have long since become moderators of a very specific photographic culture. During the last years she exhibited i.a. at Kunsthalle Bremen, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Museum for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Museum Folkwang Essen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Temple Paris and Florence Loewy, Paris. BöhmKobayashi»»