07 Apr 2014

Eran Schaerf. FM-Scenario at Les Complices* Zurich

On April 9, 2014 Eran Schaerf's exhibition FM-Scenario: Armchair – Attention – Life Signal will open at Les Complices* in Zürich. This intermedial project uses the Internet as a place of production in order to generate content for further media, such as radio broadcast, exhibition and publication.

An audio montage compiled in the FM-Scenario online studio at www.fm-scenario.net serves Eran Schaerf as a script for the exhibition at Les Complices*. The exhibition consists of a conference setting that is used for the production of the exhibition. In this setting, four performers repeatedly execute three actions. The aim of these actions is to bring, by chance and in different rhythms, a sign – name, term, number, object – into play. If two identical signs are brought into play synchronously, then the game begins anew. The addressee of the performance is a camera. The performers take turns assuming the role of the cameraperson. A second camera accompanies the performance, yet acts independent of the script.

In FM-Scenario: Armchair – Attention – Life Signal variations of possible live-image-sound combinations can be experienced. A procedure that exemplifies Eran Schaerf's praxis within FM-Scenario. The project shows the components of a mass-medial production of reality in which the combinatorics of texts and images constantly allows the occurrence of new narratives.

The exhibition is the fifth of six exhibitions of the project 'FM-Scenario – The Listener's Voice' by Eran Schaerf.

On April 11, 2014 at 9.03 pm, several compilations by users of the online studio will be broadcast by Bayerischer Rundfunk on Bayern2 as part of the program hör!spiel!art.mix. Following the broadcast, the program can be downloaded as a podcast at www.hoerspielpool.de, where podcasts of all preceding broadcasts of previous compilations as well as background broadcasts can be found.

Exhibition curator: Andrea Thal
Performance and image production: in cooperation with Kerstin Honeit, Karolin Meunier, Stefan Pente, Andrea Thal, and William Wheeler
Project management: Joerg Franzbecker and Herbert Kapfer

The project is funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).

The exhibition at Les Complices* is funded by george 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.

Eran Schaerf, born 1962 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, has lived in Berlin since 1985. After his studies in architecture in Israel, and at the Hochschule der Künste (today the UdK) in Berlin, he was named director of the Department of Fine Arts at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, and he now teaches at the Zurich University of the Arts.
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 2013 Schaerf was 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), among others.


Press Contact
Denhart v. Harling, segeband.pr . dh@segeband.de . T: +49 179 4963497
Andrea Thal, Les Complices* . andrea@lescomplices.ch . T: +41 763678373 or +41 432438877

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