WORKERS CLUB / 2008-10

WORKS & CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND *** Part of project: Re DESIGN WORKERS CLUB /  started in 2004

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BLACK BOXING / 2019

Site-specific mixed media installation for public space

POVERTY ICON & WEALTH ICON reloaded / 2016

Painting installations

KLUB KIOSK / 2010

Site-specific mixed media installation for public space * lecture * performance

DRESS FOR SUCCESS / 2009

Fashion show performance

ReDESIGN WORKERS CLUB / 2008 

Site-specific mixed media installation for public space

 

ReDESIGN WORKERS CLUB / 2008

Site-specific mixed media Installation for public space

WORKS & CONCEPT developed for laboratory  PROTOTYPISIEREN. Eine Messe für Theorie und Kunst, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. (GS), Bremen, 2008

CREDITS: Wladimir Tschirsky Graphics

 

KUNST IN DIE PRODUKTION, 2008 / 3 x 50 x 200 cm,  laser prints on bannerware 

 

KUNST IN DIE PRODUKTION #1, 2008 / 50 x 200 cm, laser print on bannerwareKUNST IN DIE PRODUKTION #2, 2008 / 50 x 200 cm, laser print on bannerwareKUNST IN DIE PRODUKTION #3, 2008 / 50 x 200 cm, laser print on bannerware

 

 

REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, # 1 – 9 (of 16),  2005 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet prints on paper, computer graphics     

ReDESIGN WORKERS CLUB graphics #1-9 view PDF 

REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, # 1 (of 16), 2005 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet print on paper, computer graphic

RED FLAG OBJECT, 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet print on paper, digital design    

RED FLAG OBJECT 1 & 2,  2008 / 2 x 594 x 841 mm, laser prints on paper, mounted on foamboard  (quotes: Alexander Rodtschenko, Die Losungen, 1924)

 

 

UNTITLED, 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, design for flag objectsUNTITLED, #1, 2008 / DIN A 1, 594 x 841 mm, laser print on paper, mounted on foamboard - part of flag objects (quotes: Alexander Rodtschenko, Die Losungen, 1924)UNTITLED, #2, 2008 / DIN A 1, 594 x 841 mm, laser print on paper, mounted on foamboard - part of flag object (quotes: Alexander Rodtschenko, Die Losungen, 1924)

 

 

 

REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, 2008 / 50  x 50 x 31,5 cm,  maquette with laser cutted miniature furniture and inkjet prints on paper (12 chairs, 2 desks, 1 bookshelf, books and posters),

interior model of a reading room (after Alexander Rodtschenko)

 

 

REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, 2008 / interior model of the reading room, laser cutted miniature furnitureREDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, 2008 / interior model of the reading room, laser cutted miniature furniture (bookshelf)REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, 2008 / interior model of the reading room, laser cutted miniature furniture, desks and chairs

ReDesign Workers Club / book selection for miniature bookshelf, 2008

 

HISTORICAL WALL PAPERS, 2008 / 4 x 00 x 00 cm,  inkjet prints prints mounted on cardboard, text and image collages on subject historical Workers Club. Further content of these wall papers you find below as PDF attachment (installation view / detail)

UNTITLED, #1 -3 , 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet prints  on paper / text and image collages on subject historical Workers Club (selection)

UNTITLED, 2008 / 10 x 15 cm, inkjet print on glossy photographic paper, computer graphic (postcard edition 1/100  – merchandising giveaway)

 

 

UNTITLED, #1, 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet print on paperUNTITLED, #2, 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet print on paperUNTITLED, #3, 2008 / 21,5 x 29 cm, inkjet print on paper

UNTITLED, 2008 / 10 x 15 cm, inkjetprint on glossy photographic paper, computer graphic (postcard edition 1/100 - merchandising giveaway)HISTORICAL WALL PAPERS, 2008 / 4 x 00 x 00 cm, inkjet prints prints mounted on cardboard, text and image collages (installation view / detail)

 

WORKERS CLUB / Historical archive Alexander Rodtschenko /  International Design Exhibition, Paris 1925 (found footage)

WORKERS CLUB_Paris 1925  photos view PDF

ALEXANDER RODTSCHENKO about view PDF

WORKERS CLUB about view PDF

 

WORKERS CLUB / Alexander Rodtschenko / International Design Exhibition, Paris 1925 (Installation views / found footage)WORKERS CLUB / Alexander Rodtschenko / International Design Exhibition, Paris 1925 (Installation views / found footage)

 

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DRESS FOR SUCCESS *** StrikeCouture / 2009

Fashion show performance 

WORKS & CONCEPT developed for laboratory STREIKACADEMY, thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. (GS), Bremen, 2009

3 performers / duration: approx 30 minutes / handmade costumes, props, sound

CREDITS: THE PERFORMERS / Bremen ***  Lola Castro / FILMING *** Henning Oppermann Medien / EDITING

 

DRESS FOR SUCCESS * Runway video, 2009/2014

HD video, color, sound, 1’39“

DRESS FOR SUCCES view video click

 

 

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DRESS FOR SUCCESS * StrikeCouture, 2009 / Petit Defilée / 3 sets

Petit defilée * pre ERNSTfall – collection * s l e e k,  s e d u c t i v e,  t i g h t e n s  l i k e  a  v i c e  – SET I/YOUTH * SET II/PEACE * SET III/WAR

The preERNSTfall collection 2009   exploration for a powerful dressing up in the streets  GO FOR IT ! *

 

SET I / YOUTH pro youthing – anti ageing

Outfits #1+2, 2009 / handmade outfits, different fabrics, accessories

NO GO, 2009 / 180 x 60 cm, spray paint on found object with silver metallic foundation, wooden poles

 

 Outfits #1+2, 2009 / Handmade outfits, different fabrics, accessories Outfits #1+2, 2009 / Handmade outfits, different fabrics, accessories NO GO, 2009 / 180 x 60 cm, spray paint on found object with silver metallic foundation, wooden poles

 

SET II / PEACE – peacepiece

Outfits #1- 3, 2009 / handmade outfits, different fabrics, accessories

BLUE FLAG, 2009 / 150 x 100 cm, silk fabrik, wooden pole

BREAKING GUN, #1 + #2, 2009 / about 60 x 150 cm, inkjet prints, mounted on foamboard, wooden poles

 

BLUE FLAG, 2009 / 150 x 100 cm, flag object: silk, wooden pole * Outfit #1, 2009 / handmade, cotton satin, feltBREAKING GUN, #1 + #2, 2009 / about 60 x 150 cm, inkjet prints, mounted on foamboard, wooden poles * Outfits #2- 3, 2009 / handmade, cotton satin, satin, felt

 

Outfit #4, 2010 / handmade two piece outfit (skirt and cape), different fabrics (plus packaging for giveaway)
Another peacepiece! Especially made as donation piece  for project TOMBOLOS 2010 (by Anny & Sibel Öztürk / Frankfurt/ Germany)

 

Outfit #4, 2010 / handmade two piece (skirt and cape), felt * Especially made as donation piece for project TOMBOLOS 2010 (by Anny & Sibel Öztürk / FaM)Outfit #4, 2010 / Handmade two piece, different fabrics * Especially made as donation piece for project TOMBOLOS 2010 (by Anny & Sibel Öztürk / FaM) Packaging for peace piece #4, 2010 * donation piece for project TOMBOLOS 2010 (by Anny & Sibel Öztürk / FaM)

 

SET III / WAR – livefastdie

Outfits #1-3, 2009 / handmade outfits, different fabrics, accessories

LIVEFASTDIE, 2009 / ca.  200 x 40 cm, handprinted lettering on canvas, wooden poles

 

Outfit #1, (Fireball dress), 2009 / handmade, linen, cotton, chintz, red satin glovesOutfit #1, (Fireball dress), 2009 / handmade, linen, cotton, chintz, red satin gloves & LIVEFASTDIE, 2009 / ca 200 x 40 cm, handprinted lettering on canvas, wooden poles

Outfit #2, 2009 / handmade cape, different fabrics, found Mexican wrestling mask, diverse accessoriesOutfit #2, 2009 / handmade cape, different fabrics, found Mexican wrestling mask - detail view / outfit backsideOutfit #3, 2009 / Handmade cape, different fabrics, found Mexican wrestling mask - detail view / outfit backsideOutfit #3, 2009 / handmade cape, different fabrics, found Mexican wrestling mask, diverse accessories

 

THE FIRE BALLDRESS, 1989/2009 / 21 x 29,5 cm, colored pencil on paper

THE EUROPEAN FLAG DRESS, 2005 / 42 x 29,5 cm, coloured pencil on black and white inkjet print, mounted on cardboard

 

The Fire balldress, 1989/2009, 21 x 29,5 cm, coloured pencil on paperThe European Flagdress, 2005, 42 x 29,5 cm, coloured pencil on inkjet print, mounted on cardboard

 

 

DRESS FOR SUCCESS * StrikeCouture  AD Campaign, #1-4, 2009 / laser prints on glossy paper, 42 x 59,5 cm

 

 

DRESS FOR SUCCESS * Advertising Campaign, #1, 2009 / laser print, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboard      DRESS FOR SUCCESS * Advertising Campaign, #2, 2009 / laser print, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboard

DRESS FOR SUCCESS * Advertising Campaign, #3, 2009 / laser prints, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboardDRESS FOR SUCCESS * Advertising Campaign, #4, 2009 / laser print, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboard

 

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KLUB KIOSK / 2010

Site-specific mixed media installation for public space * lecture * performance

WORKS & CONCEPT developed for exhibition WUNSCHKONZERT IM KLUBKIOSK, Waagehaus der SBK,  Cologne 2010

KLUB KIOSK combines a site-specific intervention on a public building with pieces/interventions of previous works by project ReDESIGN WORKERS CLUB as well as a lecture by the invited author/Poet ROLF PERSCH and a modificated version of DRESS FOR SUCCESS Fashion Show Performance *** StrikeCouture, 2009 – now for public space and 8 Performers.

 

WORKS / INTERVENTIONS / PERFORMANCES involved in KLUB KIOSK:

 

REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB, 2008 / 50  x 50 x 31,5 cm, maquette with laser cutted miniature furniture and inkjet prints on paper (12 chairs, 2 desks, 1 bookshelf, books and posters),

interior model of a reading room (after Alexander Rodtschenko)

RED FLAG OBJECT 1 & 2,  2008 / 2 x  59,4 x 84,1 cm, laser prints on paper, mounted on foamboard, wooden poles, flag objects

POVERTY ICON (Russian granny) 2004 / 100 x 100 cm, oil/metal leaf  on masonite

DRESS FOR SUCCESS  * Advertising Campaign, #1 -3, 2009 / lasert prints on glossy paper, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboard

UNTITLED #1-11, 2005 / 11 x approax. 21 x 29,5 cm, inkjet prints on paper, mounted on cardboard

 

WORKS / INTERVENTIONS / PERFORMANCES especially developed for KLUB KIOSK

 

KLUBKIOSK, 2010 / 196 x 30 cm, latex paint, lettering with stencil

 

KLUBKIOSK, 2010 / 196 x 30 cm, dispersion colour, lettering with stencilKLUBKIOSK, 2010 / 196 x 30 cm, dispersion colour, lettering with stencil

 

UNTITLED, 2010/ color intervention on public building with latex paint color RAL 3020

 

 

WAAGEHAUS der Sozialbetriebe Köln, Cologne / Germany before intervention RAL-Coloursystem

 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020

 UNTITLED, 2010 / colour intervention on public building with outdoor dispersion colour RAL 3020 - A WORKING CLASS HERO IS, 2010 / 305 x 35 cm, laser print on outdoor bannerware - DRESS FOR SUCCESS * Advertising Campaign, #1 -3, 2009 / laser prints, 42 x 59,5 cm, mounted on foamboard - KLUBKIOSK, 2010 / 196 x 30 cm, latex paint, lettering with stencil

 

 

MEHR WENIGER – WENIGER MEHR, 2010 / 21 x 180 cm, latex paint, lettering with stencil

A WORKING CLASS HERO IS, 2010 / 350 x 35 cm, digital print on outdoor bannerware

SOMETHING TO BE, 2010 / 300 x 35 cm, digital print on outdoor bannerware

 

MEHR WENIGER - WENIGER MEHR, 2010 / 21 x 180 cm, dispersion colour, lettering with stencilA WORKING CLASS HERO IS, 2010 / 305 x 35 cm, laser print on outdoor bannerware SOMETHING TO BE, 2010 / 255 x 35 cm, laser print on outdoor bannerware

MEHR WENIGER - WENIGER MEHR, 2010 / 21 x 180 cm, dispersion colour, lettering with stencil

 

 

 

UNTITLED, 2010 / ca. 220 x 190 cm, collage made of original artshow invitations (2010),  mounted on cardboard

POVERTY ICON (Russian granny) 2004 / 100 x 100 cm, oil/metal leaf  on masonite

 

UNTITLED, 2010 / approx 220 x 190 cm, original artshow invitations (2010) mounted on cardboard * POVERTY ICON (Russian granny) 2004 / 100 x 100 cm, oil/metal leaf on masonite

 

LECTURE PERFORMANCE „Spüler im Rausch“ by ROLF PERSCH/Poet, Cologne – invited as guest of KLUBKIOSK, 2010 *** R.I.P.  in memoriam
The Project REDESIGN WORKERS CLUB / KLUBKIOSK was/ is open for interventions or participations by other artists, authors or anyone, who is connected to the WORKERS CLUB idea & philosophy and wants to share his/her thoughts with the public.

 

KLUBKIOSK lecture, 2010 / ROLF PERSCH reading "Spüler im Rausch"

 

 

DRESS FOR SUCCESS  * Fashion Show Performance, 2010
Extanded version: modificated concept for public space and 8 performers / duration: approx 30 minutes

DFS * StrikeCouture in the streets – no longer on the runway, it has been great fun to work with these girls – thanks again for such a professional job supporting my work!
Credits for performing the DFS*StrikeCouture Fashion Show / closing event of KLUBKIOSK:

PEACE-Set / Enya Obert, Celina von Wrochem-de Torres, Elena Will  

YOUTH-Set / Ingeborg Brings, Betzi von Wrochem-de Torres, Lia Obert 

WAR-Set / Jui Kotiram Oldenburg-Rattikan, Kay Luna Zielke, Wasa Mabanza 



 

 



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 Photo Credit:

Beatriz Obert (Fashion Show Performance)

Isabel Oestreich (Lecture Performance)

Corinne Schneider (Installation Views/Partially)

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