Württembergischer Kunstverein

Imogen Stidworthy

Dialogues with People

27 Oct 2018 - 13 Jan 2019

Zwei-Kanal-HD-Videoinstallation mit Ton, übertragen von 16-mm-Film, 4’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
Zwei-Kanal-HD-Videoinstallation mit Ton, übertragen von 16-mm-Film, 4’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
The Whisper Heard, 2003
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation, stereo, Parabolantenne, Parabollautsprecher, 14’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
The Whisper Heard, 2003
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation, stereo, Parabolantenne, Parabollautsprecher, 14’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
The Whisper Heard, 2003
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation, stereo, Parabolantenne, Parabollautsprecher, 14’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
Sacha (listening), 2011–2012
HD-Video mit Drei-Kanalton, präsentiert in zwei Teilen:
Sacha I: 4’; Sacha II: 2:30’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
A Crack in the Light, 2013
Vier-Kanal-HD-Video- und Audioinstallation, 10:33’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
Closing \ Close By, 2000.
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation mit Ton, 9:15’
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
Speaking in the Voices of Different Gods, 2012/2018
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation, stereo, 12’
Tapete, 400 x 280 cm; schamanistische koreanische Strohpuppe (eine Jae Eung aus dem 20. Jahrhundert), Schenkung von Yang Jongsung, Direktor des Museums für Schamanismus, Seoul, Südkorea
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
Speaking in the Voices of Different Gods, 2012/2018
Zwei-Kanal-Videoinstallation, stereo, 12’
Tapete, 400 x 280 cm; schamanistische koreanische Strohpuppe (eine Jae Eung aus dem 20. Jahrhundert), Schenkung von Yang Jongsung, Direktor des Museums für Schamanismus, Seoul, Südkorea
© Imogen Stidworthy 2018, Courtesy: die Künstlerin und Matt’s Gallery
IMOGEN STIDWORTHY
Dialogues with People
27 October 2018 – 13 January 2019

From October 27, 2018, to January 13, 2019, the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart is presenting the first solo exhibition in Germany by the British artist Imogen Stidworthy (*1963).
With her films and installations, Stidworthy asks how social relationship takes shape when words fail, are unstable, or absent. What other forms of meaning and communication emerge at the borders of language?

Stidworthy’s work grapples with the impossibility of glimpsing language from the outside. She works with people whose relationship with language is radically affected, for example, by training or staging the voice, or conditions such as aphasia or autism. Through encounters on the level of the interpersonal, her work resonates with ideas and experiences of difference on the wider scale of sociocultural conditions.

The exhibition focuses on nine video installations produced over the past twenty years, alongside new work. They involve close personal exchanges with figures such as Belgian wiretap analyst Sacha van Loo (Sacha, 2011), the Korean shaman Sun Deok (Speaking in the Voices of Different Gods, 2012/18), and Iris Johansson, a Swedish therapist and writer who is autistic and was nonverbal until the age of twelve. These works share a preoccupation with different forms of voicing, in relation to our sense of self and our connection to others. They sound the spaces between voice, speech, and somatic languages, and the uncertainty of sharing a common ground.

The exhibition proposes a new form of presenting media works in which sound and video installations are presented successively. Between exhibition, concert, and screening, a specially created choreography of around ninety minutes leads the visitor from work to work, around the space. This three-dimensional montage generates new relationships between the individual works, which each visitor will experience in a different way, depending on when she or he enters the exhibition

Curators: Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Katia Krupennikova
 

Tags: Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Katia Krupennikova, Imogen Stidworthy