In the fourth part of the series, Mareike Foecking talks with Roberta Ahlquist, a writer, speaker, and book editor, who teaches teachers the multicultural foundations of education in the College of Education at San Jose State University.
Timm Ulrichs in an interview about the significance of travel, fantasy and the last journey.
In the third part of the series, Mareike Foecking talks with Satjiv Chahil, who is a Silicon Valley pioneer and thought leader specialized in the digital transformation of global businesses, enabling startups to scale, and aligning business goals with social purpose.
As an additional part of her artistic work ‘I am looking at Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley is looking at Me’, Mareike Foecking has produced photographic videos – as a reaction to the closure of museums – in which she talks to some of the protagonists of her photographic work and her travel diary about the pictures taken in Silicon Valley and thus decodes them.
Almost 60 years ago, Stanley Brouwn asked people passing by to draw a THIS WAY BROUWN: The path he would have to take to get to their home. In the context of the exhibition Christoph Mueller has drawn a tribute to Stanley Brouwn and in the last weeks many visitors have shown us their way.
As an additional part of her artistic work ‘I am looking at Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley is looking at Me’ Mareike Foecking has – as a reaction to the lockdown of museums – produced photographic videos in which she talks with some protagonists of her photographic work and her travel diary about the pictures taken in Silicon Valley and thus decodes them.
Norbert Kottmann about the making of the work “… und er warf sein Antlitz zur Erde” (Gethsemane).
Simon Faithfull in an interview about the feeling of déjà vu, the originality of digital drawings and his travel habits.
Christoph Mueller in an interview about his way to the museum and the things he takes with him on his travels.
Wolfgang von Contzen in a short interview.
Christoph Brech in an interview about the making of the work Passage and his travel habits.
Mareike Foecking in an interview about Silicon Valley, portraits and the question “man or machine”.
Till Krause in an interview about differences, cartography and detours.
Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer in an interview about the fascination of non-places and traces.
Christoph Westermeier in an interview about social media, the meaning of traveling and the Horizontal Grand Tour.
Christoph Westermeier travels, and he travels through several countries, eras, and media simultaneously.
The intensive study of the Hundred Views of Mount Fuji by Hokusai inspired Wolfgang von Contzen to realize a similar project.
Hier 40 000 km. With these words, Timm Ulrichs points at the circumference of the earth, and thus marks the start as well as the end of a journey around the globe.
A mental short trip on the performance Two Lovers, The Great Wall Walk by Marina Abramović & Ulay.
Anne Pöhlmann is at home in several places around the world; traveling is an essential part of her life and work. Photographs from Havana are, for example, processed in Germany and printed on French silk in Kyoto.
Michail Pirgelis sources his materials from discarded aircraft, which are stored on a gigantic site in the American desert.
Hiroyuki Masuyama in an interview about art as experience and the world from above.
Most people are fascinated by being above the clouds and seeing the world from above. Hiroyuki Masuyama conserves this special moment between heaven and earth in an endless panorama.
Unlike most of the works of Land Art, Richard Long’s interventions into the found landscapes during his conceptual hikes are only minimally invasive. His works are articulated by temporary traces, which are usually visible as lines or circular shapes.
Michail Pirgelis in an interview about his attitude to flying, the “graveyard of airplanes” and sustainability in aviation.
How do we experience our surroundings? Till Krause tries to answer this question with the help of maps. In his work Achse Kiel–Hamburg, Blickfeldkarte, a red line marks the beeline between the cities.
His first encounter with Dürer’s Christus am Ölberg 1521 made a lasting impression on Norbert Kottmann. The small pen-and-ink drawing was created during Dürer’s journey to the Netherlands and shows the pleading Christ, throwing himself to the ground, face down, and with arms outstretched.
They seem tired and exhausted; their gaze is empty or directed at the smartphone. Others sleep, their heads leaning against the window of the train.
Anne Pöhlmann in an interview about the value of travel and her art.
In der Mitte Mee(h)r. More Africa, more Europe, and the sea. Between long panels of canvas, the viewers stand between cultures, as if they were standing in the sea between them.
Cécile Hummel in an interview about ideas, changes of perspective and travel.
Setting out to break the boundaries of the commercial art market, the artists of the Land Art realize their mostly large-scale projects in areas that are remote and difficult to reach.
I am looking at Silicon Valley – Silicon Valley is looking at Me is the result of a several-week stay of the photographer Mareike Foecking in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
We are absorbing an estimated ten million im pressions per second. Only a few of these impressions can be digitally recorded.
A stormy sea? An imaginary map or the grimace of a god? The painting Die Reise nach Jamaica evokes various associations that defy all attempts of a definite interpretation.
Dots in rows, black-and-white dashed lines, and segments of a circle in different styles: From around the mid-1960s, the diagrammatic symbols of applied graphics arouse the artist’s interest.
At the invitation of Valdis Āboliņš, cultural advisor to Aachen University of Technology’s AStA (General Students’ Union), and the Cologne-based artist Tomas Schmit, Stanley Brouwn participates in the Fluxus Festival of New Art in Aachen on the 20th of July 1964, which aims to abolish the division between art and life.
The scene is reminiscent of an empty stage. Only a glass of water, illuminated from behind, is the focus of attention. Roaring and hammering sounds accompany the video work Passage by Christoph Brech.
In his performance I like America and America likes me that Beuys gives on the occasion of the opening of the René Block Gallery in New York in 1974, the artist lives with a coyote named Little John for five days.
The fate of indigenous American peoples is the subtle focus of the Carbon-series from 1989. For four months, Lothar Baumgarten travelled through the United States to document a photographic essay on the pioneering work during the colonization of the country.
On the 30th of March 1988 Marina Abramović & Ulay set off on a 90-day, emotionally charged hike along the Great Wall of China. Ulay starts from the southwest of the Gobi Desert, while Abramović departs from its opposite side, from the sea.
Anyone who wants to travel has to be at home first. Only the departure from the usual, everyday environment and the subsequent arrival define a journey, no matter where it leads.
