The exhibition Monitoring presents artworks which include film, audiovisual, digital or media-critical approaches into Installation. It provides a forum for media art and presents well-established artists and promising up-and-coming talents. The thematic focus and the curatorial concept of the exhibition are composed based on received submissions of an open call by a Jury of cultural workers, artists, and curators. All works in the exhibition are nominated for the Golden Cube for the best media installation, which is endowed with 3,500 €. The award is donated by the software company Micromata GmbH.
Golden Cube
All works selected for the exhibition Monitoring compete for the Golden Cube, the prize for the best media installation, endowed with 3.500 € and sponsored by the software company Micromata GmbH, located in Kassel. Next to the “White Cube” of the showroom of contemporary art and the “Black Cube”, the room of film presentation painted black, the “Golden Cube” takes in an in-between position and explicitly promotes the interaction of spatial and audio-visual aspects of media installations.
The jury 2023 consisted of Judith Augustin, John Hussain Flindt, Gila Kolb, Miriam Schickler und Nina Tabassomi.
Monitoring: This Image Will Become Important Later
November 15 to 19, 2023
with works by: Iván Argote, Peter Behrbohm und Markus Bühler, Ulu Braun, Alice Brygo, Juejun Chen, Claire Davies, Natalia Escobar, Daniel Franke, Franzis Kabisch, YoungEun Kim, Thomas Mader, Lera Malchenko und Oleksandr Hants (fantastic little splash), Nazlı Moripek, Tanita Olbrich, Sunny Pfalzer, Silke Schwarz, Andric Späth, Thorsten Wagner, Poyen Wang
Further information on the exhibition can be found in the festival catalog 2023, starting on page 154.
Selection Committee 2023
Marlene Denningmann
Artist
Holger Jenss
Artist / Assistant Professor, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Franz Reimer
Artist / Curator
Anna-Lisa Scherfose
Curator
Inga Seidler
Curator / Head of Monitoring
Liese Schmidt
Artist / Curator / Head of technical Management
Olaf Val
Artist / Board Member, Kasseler Kunstverein / Associate Professor, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Gerhard Wissner Ventura
Head of Kassel Dokfest
Head of Monitoring: Inga Seidler
Technical Management: Liese Schmidt
Exhibition Locations
Kasseler Kunstverein
Friedrichsplatz 18
Kulturbahnhof Kassel
Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1
Stellwerk
Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1
Exhibition review
39. Kassel Dokfest | Monitoring Absolutely Killing It!
The award winners of the past editions
2022: John Hussain Flindt TALES 2021: Yuk-Yiu Ip 流/言 [FALSE WORDS] 2020: Paula Ábalos DIARIOS DE TRABAJOS 2019: Kapwani Kiwanga THE SECRETARY'S SUITE 2018: Grace Philips, Laurie Robins REAL PERFORMANCE 2017: Ralph Schulz TESTIMONIALS 2016: Lotte Meret SURFACE GLACE 2015: Gerald Schauder SKULPTUR21 2014: Bertrand Flanet: UNMANNED DISTANCES 2013: !Mediengruppe Bitnik: DELIVERY FOR MR. ASSANGE 2012: Emanuel Mathias NEBAHATS SCHWESTERN 2011: Anu Pennanen LA RUINE DE REGARDE 2010: Lukas Thiele / Tilman Hatje WELTMASCHINE
Honorable mention of the past editions
2022: Benjamin Busch Scanning the Horizon: An Immersive Archive 2021 Sophie Hoyle Hyperacusis (Chronica) 2020: Mazen Khaddaj THE ARTISTS ARE NOT PRESENT 2019: Clarissa Thieme Can't You See Them? – Repeat. 2018: Wermke/Leinkauf 4. HALBZEIT 2017: Marlene Maier FOOD ONLY EXISTS IN PICTURES 2016: Jolander Gsponder / Yves Netzhammer / Annette Brütsch / u.a. PETER LIECHTI – DEDICATIONS 2015: Kerstin Honeit Talking Business 2014: Daniel Laufer REDUX 2013: Franz Christoph Pfannkuch γαλαξίας (GALAXIS) 2011 Ryota Kuwakubo THE TENTH SENTIMENT 2010: Anthony McCall LEAVING [WITH TWO-MINUTE SILENCE]
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