10 Sep 2013

FM-Scenario: Place Translator by Eran Schaerf

The fourth of five exhibitions of the project FM-Scenario – The Listener's Voice, by Eran Schaerf, will open in the Museum für Konkrete Kunst in Ingolstadt. This intermedial project uses the internet as a place of production in order to generate content for further media—concretely: radio broadcast, exhibition, and publication. The project's starting point lies in Eran Schaerf's newscast radio plays from 1997 to 2011 and in new texts.

For the current exhibition, „FM-Scenario: Place Translator', artist Peter Steckroth was invited to assemble a montage that in turn served as Eran Schaerf's blueprint for the installation in the Museum für Konkrete Kunst.

Using the museum's collection as a starting point, Eran Schaerf makes a link between Concrete Art, which utilizes forms and colors as a utopian artistic language, and his practice within FM-Scenario. On the one hand, this link is characterized by an a-hierarchy in space and language, which can be observed in the square, a shape with sides of equal length, or the cube, a directionless space, as well as in the arrangement of audio tracks in the FM-Scenario online studio or in the ordering of the objects that are set in each of the project's exhibitions. On the other hand, this link consists of a tensive field not unlike the field of tension between the order and chance intrinsic to a throw of the dice, or between the programming and unpredictability of radio formats.

Bayerischer Rundfunk will broadcast Peter Steckroth's audio montage on September 13, 2013, at 9:03 p.m. on Bayern2 as part of the program hör!spiel!art.mix, after which a podcast of the program is available for download at www.hoerspielpool.de , where previous montages as well as other programs associated with FM-Scenario are already available.


Curator: Joerg Franzbecker
Project coordination: Herbert Kapfer und Joerg Franzbecker
Performance and image production: in cooperation with Kerstin Honeit and Karolin Meunier
Director of the Museum für Konkrete Kunst: Dr. Simone Schimpf

Funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

FM-Scenario – The Listener's Voice (2012–2014) is a production of a production e.V., Berlin, and Bayerischer Rundfunk, Dept. of Radio Plays and Media Arts, in cooperation with Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Les Complices, Zurich; the Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt; and the ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.

About the artist:
Eran Schaerf, born 1962 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, has lived in Berlin since 1985. His works have been shown worldwide, including at the 54th Venice Biennial (2011), at Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007), Manifesta 2 in Luxemburg (1998), and at Documenta 9 in Kassel (1992). In September 2013 Schaerf will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
His radio plays, produced by Bayerischer Rundfunk, include Wie gesagt. Theater- oder Taxistück (1997), Die Stimme des Hörers (2002), Sie hörten Nachrichten (2005), Nichts wie Jetzt (2009), and Die ungeladene Zeugin (2011), and others.

Press contact
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