Stih & Schnock at Brown in April

The following workshop and lecture are being sponsored by the JNBC/Public Humanities people, again partly in concert with the Art + History group. It seems like it might be something we should consider.


lecture April 16:
Art Goes Public - Memorials and Interventions
Lecture, Thu (1-2 hours, including Q & A)


“Art Goes Public – Memorials & Interventions”


This lecture explores how memory functions in the social sphere
and how it is reflected symbolically in the space of the city.
Conceptual artists Stih & Schnock will discuss how the intrusion
of art in public space affects everyday life in memorial projects
including “Places of Remembrance”, “BUS STOP”, Rosa Luxemburg and
interventions like the Sarajevo-project and “Invitation” at
Berlin-Alexanderplatz. Collections as containers of memory will be
explored in “Who Needs Art – We Need Potatoes”, “The Art of
Collecting - Flick in Berlin”, and, most recently, “The City as
Text” and “Show Your Collection”.



workshop April 17:
LIFE~BOAT - Collections and Hybridity
Workshop, Fri 10-12 (lunch break) 1.30 – 3.30 pm


“LIFE~BOAT – Collections and Hybridity”


LIFE~BOAT explores our relationship to and obsession with boats
and the sea. The physical aspects of the uncontrolled, often
dangerous, bodies of water are ever present as they create the
psychological need to overcome nature’s force and to develop
survival strategies. This workshop will reflect how the arts
create metaphors for longings and projections, where dreams and
nightmares fuse into each other and touch social and political
topics. The participants will encounter elements of familiar
places in the most unlikely of territories and discuss cultural
conversion in relation to cultural mobility. *The *encounter of
maritime topics and objects will create a model of the world en
miniature, *which exposes cultural hybridity in an* abstract kind
of travel, visualized in a multi-media installation as combined
result of the workshop.

CV

Stih & Schnock are conceptual artists who explore how memory functions
in the social sphere and how it is reflected symbolically in urban
spaces. Their intrusion of art in public space affects everyday life in
projects like "Places of Remembrance" (1993), "BUS STOP" (1994/95), "The
City as Text - Jewish Munich" (2007), "Invitation - Berlin
Alexanderplatz" (1997/98).
They also focus on art collections as places of collective memory.
Examples include: "Show Your Collection" (2008), the environment at the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart "Who Needs Art, We Need Potatoes" (1998), "The
Art of Collecting - Flick in Berlin" (2004).

Renata Stih has taught art and technology, film and media at the
University of Applied Sciences in Berlin for many years.
Frieder Schnock received his PhD in art history and is a former curator
at the Museum Fridericianum in Kassel.
Together they have taught at numerous American universities, including
Princeton, Harvard, SAIC Chicago and MICA Baltimore.
They live in Berlin.

Exhibitions (selection):
Deutschlandbilder. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (1997)
CTRL Space. ZKM Karlsruhe (2001)
Signs from Berlin. The Jewish Museum New York (2003)
Die zehn Gebote. Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden (2004)
Schrift Bilder Denken. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (2005)
Die RAF- Ausstellung. Kunstwerke, Berlin (2005)
Berlin Messages. Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale (2005)
Displaced. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2005)
Reality Bites. Mildred Lane Kempner Art Museum St. Louis (2007)
Modelle - Materialisierung von Konzepten. Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
(2008)
(Keine) Angst / (No) Fear. Kunstverein Ludwigshafen (2008)