life is a journey – be sure to choose the right vehicle.
hidden between the rocks, the breeding burrow provides shelter and seclusion to all those in search of transformation. inside here, we can dare to take off our shells and gently touch the soft and delicate skin that lies beneath. in order to catch a glimpse of a timorous and timid animal, you need to be calm and cautious: listen intently, watch your step, gently move the curtain aside. while we are carefully striding through the room, we start to exhaust the pulp, extract the essence. finally, we are getting down to the core.
All is there, nothing to add. Better: withdraw things. Arrange the seats, clean the windows.
Start a fire, switch off the lights, and close the door. We watch the night, the city lights, the slightest breeze coming through a window.
The search engine doesn’t lie, the internet knows it all.
This is Tina Mamczur. This is how she looks like, here is what she does. And this is what she is most interested in: in X, of course, and in a bit of Y, too.
Here you can see her doing something, you probably think is one of her favourite things to do. The internet doesn’t lie, the search engine knows it all. You ask, Google answers, draws a picture for you, and Google is always right. Except at times, and than we make it right.
A room-in-room-installation meant as a workspace for HGB Intermedia Class.
Inside here, secluded and withdrawn into ourselves, we will make it.
A former fruit and vegetable shop transforms into an art space, transforms back into a fruit and vegetable shop. For three days we communicate intensely with the material, engage closely with the warm and humid other. Together we disjoint the structures, explore the textures with our bodies, and softly cure our alienation.
A proposal to an exklusive adventure, an invitation to expand your potential. Gazing inwards, we investigate the boundaries between „normal“ and „paranormal“, hand in hand we leave the ground of reality. Let’s enter a new space of possibilities, easily accesible from our symbolically new location. A rendezvous with yourself.
A pedestrian underpass from the 70s, a dreariness of exposed aggregate concrete, urine puddles and neon light. Three off-galleries found a home in the empty salesrooms beneath the Cologne Ebertplatz. Aside, homeless people are looking for a shelter for the night.
On three days in August 2014 the „transformation centre“ pitches camp here, and extends the antipleasure, anticarnal and hostile entity „Ebertplatz“ by a new, temporary space. Clearly audible from afar: the peculiar song of semitropical jungle birds. Everything glitters and flashes. We take off our shoes, walk hand in hand, barefoot through the moist and grating unknown. We breathe mountain air, taste the bitter and the heavy, and listen to the sounds from our bodies. For one moment time stands still – we lose our orientation, and find ourselves in return.
Cast: Stefan Schulz, Sandra Brühwiler, Lena Brüggemann, Jane Eschment, Julia Ritz, Florina Loghin, Sebastian Straßburger, Ronny Janott, Sandra Jasper, Lena Geuer. Fotos/Video: Pengyu Huang, Lena Brüggemann, Lena Geuer. Warmest thanks to Vera Drebusch and Meryem Erkus / GOLD+BETON.
* in Lublin, Poland
since 2017 Meisterschülerin, Prof. Alba D’Urbano
2014-2017 Master’s degree Intermedia, Prof. Alba D’Urbano, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2013-2014 Transmedial Spaces, Prof. Mathias Antlfinger / Prof. Ute Hörner, KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne
2008-2012 Author, director and producer of radio plays for Plan B, WDR Radio 1LIVE, Cologne
2004-2007 Co-founder and bassist of Hund am Strand, Berlin
2001-2006 History of Art, FU Berlin; Cultural Studies and Musicology, HU Berlin
2012 Scholarship of the H.C. Waldschütz Stiftung, Leipzig
2008 Nomination for the Grimme Online Award: undertube (joint project)
Solo Shows:
2015 Obst und Gemüse, Kunstraum Praline, Leipzig
2014 Transforming Ebertplatz, Gold&Beton, Cologne