Conversations with cultural producers working with or linked to
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Hans Hemmert im Gespräch mit Thomas Thiel
»Mich interessiert vor allem der Gedanke der Abwesenheit in den Skulpturen« [mehr]

Gianni Motti in conversation with Heike Borowski
»I need to get out and realize also something outside, in order to continue to take part in the big laboratory that is life.« [more]

Wolf Guenter Thiel in conversation with
Yuan Shun: »The viewer always fullfills the artistic work with his or her personal imagination or associations, and completes it by his or her reception.« [more]
Won Ju Lim: »I often take models of a banal space and repeat them, sometimes hundreds of times, to erase the point of origin. Again through excess, the relationship between the “thing” and mimicry of the “thing” becomes complex.« [more]
Xu Zhongmin: »The reality around in Beijing, where I live, is so dramatically changing the urban landscape, that utopia is always already realized before you try to imagine.« [more]

BridA art collective by Petra Kaps
»Our artistic analysis is dedicated to issues that society has placed as the foundation of comprehension and evaluation in both scientific or social context« [more]

Jonathan Meese im Gespräch mit Heike Borowski
»Mein größtes Ziel ist es, der ERZRITTER HAGEN V. TRONJE zu sein, in seinem Namen Bayreuth zu inszenieren, und dann »A Clockwork Orange II« zu machen,..« [mehr]

Antoni Muntadas and Mark Wigley
»Over the last years I have been thinking more and more of the city and certain areas of the city, specific contexts that have been defined by my projects and vice versa (…) Culture is always well in advance of territory« [more]

Fiona Banner by Joanna Pocock
»I think secretly we all make art because we are absolutely devastated that life is so brief. It is an impossible attempt to hang onto time and to do something that will not necessarily be there after we’ve gone, but that isn’t completely transient either.« [more]

Olafur Eliasson by Gregor Stehle
»The concept of time is constructed exactly the same way as our perception of space, and in order to attribute to objects their time, we might have to fundamentally rework the idea of time as a construction.«
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Warren Neidich by Charles Gere
»Neuroaesthetics is a means or a process through which the ideas of mind and brain can be connected in a dynamic way. Neuroaesthetics can perhaps be understood in the Duchampian sense. It is the way that Neuroscience is a readymade, which is recontextualized out from its original context as a scientific based paradigm into one that is aesthetically based.« [more]

Joseph Nechvatal by Évelyne Rogue
»For me, to make contemporary art, it is necessary to utilize contemporary tools and materials. However, the attraction to the computer - both as form and content for my art - was primarily a result of my working with ideologies of power - specifically the power of the media in shaping our consciousness.« [more]

Jean Dubois by Marie-Josée Jean
»The art, even if inviting the spectator to participate or implicating a relational aesthetic, still establishes an asymmetric relation in which the artist plays a privileged if not central part.«
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Monika Oechsler by Hannelore Paflik-Huber
»A lot of the things in my work have to do with playing games. (…) My approach stresses how we all play games to a certain extent in our social lives. It is thus not only about a theatrical performance within a representation of culture.« [more]

Steina Vasulka by Christian Schoen
»Over the years I recognized how much of an Icelander I am and how strong those roots are. It dawned on me slowly that being an Icelander is an incurable disease.« [more]