NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: Requiem for a Bank

The exhibition "Requiem for a Bank" examines the new forms of industry, with a particular focus on the development of global financial markets since 1972 – a time when inflation, rising unemployment and successive oil crises combined with the emergence of new information technologies to give birth to a new kind of financial economy that was no longer dependent on real goods or services.

NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL: INDUSTRIAL (Research)

HIS MASTER'S VOICE: On Voice and Language

Eran Schaerf: fm-scenario – broadcasting language – undercover operation – station announcement – error

fm-scenario is a project by Eran Schaerf that examines the construction of mass media and the production of space in the digital era. It consists of a website that allows users to create new narratives with audio bits from an archive of listeners’ calls, various features and news. One such narrative provides the scenario for the artist’s work at HMKV (6th floor of the Dortmunder U), an installation that blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction, broadcaster and audience, user and author.

Sounds Like Silence (John Cage – 4'33'' – Silence Today / 1912 – 1952 – 2012)

On the occasion of John Cage's 100th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the premiere of his famous "silent piece" HMKV shows 42 (mostly contemporary) references to 4'33'' from the fields of art and music as well as works that deal with general questions of e.g. perception of silence or sound ecology.

Francis Hunger: History has left the Building

Suzanne Treister: HEXEN 2.0

Artur Zmijewski: Democracies

In the programme frame of "Klopsztanga. Polen_grenzenlos_NRW", the HMKV shows the solo exhibition Democracies by Artur Zmijewski (*1966, Warsaw).

The Raft of irational.org at Artefact 2012

The HMKV is present at the Artefact Festival in Leuven, Belgium with the exhibition "The Raft of irational.org", curated by Inke Arns and Jacob Lillemose.

Kerstin Ergenzinger: Red Noise

The Oil Show