This is the website of the sound and media artist Anke Eckardt.
Since 2008 her work encompasses sculptures, installations as well as workshops and a theoretical discourse
on the topic of the phenomenology of sounds.
The aesthetic experience can be considered as the foundation of the world.
It is in its nature, that this experience is a social and a political one at the same time.
Between | You | And | Me - multisensory installation by Anke Eckardt receives a
HONORARY MENTION in the “DIGITAL MUSICS AND SOUND ART” CATEGORY OF PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2012.
Furthermore the installation will be presented within the selection of this years winner works at the Cyberart-Exhibition at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Artikel "Vertikalität und Macht. Drei Hörstudien: 1945 – 1965 – 2012" von Anke Eckardt
in der Zeitschrift für Semiotik, Doppelheft im Jahr 2013 mit dem Themenschwerpunkt
"Situation und Klang - Zu semiotischen Ansätzen in der Kultur-
und der Medienwissenschaft des Klangs"
Herausgeber: Holger Schulze
Mit Beiträgen von: Susanne Binas-Preisendoerfer, Jochen Bonz, Christa Brüstle, Anke Eckardt, Veit Erlmann, Franco Fabbri, Annie Goh, Carla Müller Schulzke, Ulrike Sowodniok
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem internationalen Forschernetzwerk der DFG >Sound in Media Culture: Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound<
http://www.soundinmediaculture.net
Zusammenfassung "Vertikalität und Macht. Drei Hörstudien: 1945 – 1965 – 2012": Die Autorin unternimmt eine Grundlagenstudie, um das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den Nutzungsstrukturen innerhalb des vertikalen Raumes und der Repräsentanz bzw. Inszenierung von Macht zu untersuchen. Kulturgeschichtlich, aus Perspektive einer Historischen Anthropologie des Klanges, richtet sie ihr Augenmerk neben den klanglich-physischen Aspekten vor allem auch auf die psychologische und politische Dimension des Hörens. Zur Analyse wird darum ein Kategoriensystem genutzt, welches sowohl das Erklingende als auch das Gehörte in seiner physischen und seiner semiotischen Dimension erfasst. Situationen vertikalen Hörens werden dabei anhand von drei historischen und aktuellen Fallstudien analysiert: 1965 als die Regierungen der DDR und der Sowjetunion Düsenjets über der Berliner Kongresshalle in Westberlin fliegen ließen; 1945 als sowjetische Soldaten auf dem Dach des Berliner Reichstages ein Siegerritual durchführten; und 2012 als die Berliner Polizei am 1. Mai über Berlin-Kreuzberg einen Hubschraubereinsatz flog.
Summary "Verticality and Power. Three studies of listening: 1945 - 1965 - 2012": The author undertakes basic research on the relation between the structures of use in regards to vertical space and the means of representation and performativity of power. From the perspective of cultural history and especially from a historical anthropology of sound she concentrates not just on sonic and physical aspects but furthermore on the psychological and political dimensions of listening. For the analysis she applies a set of categories to approach the actual sounds as well as the hearing experience in its physical as well as its semiotic dimension. She analyses situations of vertical hearing by means of three historical and contemporary case studies: 1965 when the governments of the GDR and the USSR sent fighter jets over the Berliner Kongresshalle in Western Berlin; 1945 when soviet soldiers performed a triumphant ritual on the roof of the Berlin Reichstag; and 2012 when the Berlin police undertook a helicopter operation over Berlin-Kreuzberg on May 1st.
BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall of light and sound.
Like any other wall, it redefines an existing architectural space. Instead of stone, this wall consists of dynamic, ephemeral media: beams of light within the air and ultrasound. Unlike countless separative and immaterial walls in society BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall people can walk through.
BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME - Multisensory Installation by Anke Eckardt (2011)
Concept/Realisation: Anke Eckardt
Composition: Anke Eckardt, Henry Koch
Programming: Peter Votava, Yvan Volochine
Truss Construction: Zolle
Thanks to: Douglas Henderson
Photo by Anke Eckardt
In Kooperation mit dem IDZ http://www.idz.de
veranstaltet das DFG-Forschungsprojekt "Funktionale Klänge"
am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität Berlin
eine Roundtable-Diskussion.
Datum: Fr/Sa 14./15.12. 2012, Do 7.02.2013 19:30
Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin
Wie werden mediatisierte, nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen, sogenannte
funktionale Klänge, erlebt und wie ist ihre Gestaltungstheorie
kulturwissenschaftlich zu beschreiben? Was sind die historischen Vorläufer
und Traditionen der Klanggestaltung, und welche aktuellen Probleme der
Gestaltungspraxis gibt es?
Wir laden dazu ein, mit WissenschaftlerInnen, GestalterInnen und
KünstlerInnen über diese Fragen zu diskutieren. Eine klangkünstlerische
Performance von Anke Eckardt und Tiago da Costa e Silva steht dabei im
Zentrum der Diskussion unter dem Titel DYSFUNKTION: EINE HOMMAGE AN BRUCE
NAUMAN´S DAYS.
Participants:
Silke Wenzel (Musikwissenschaftlerin, HFMT, Hamburg)
Cornelius Ringe (Senior Partner, Audio Branding Academy, Hamburg)
Anke Eckardt (Klang- und Medienkünstlerin, Berlin)
Tiago da Costa e Silva (Philosoph, Berlin/São Paulo)
Datum: Do 24.1.2013
Ort: Institut für Physik, Adlershof, Berlin
Grundidee des Workshops ist es, dass die Projektbeteiligten in einem ersten Schritt die konkrete Nutzung und Verwendung von analogen Speichermedien in ihren jeweiligen Arbeitsprozessen vorstellen. Dabei soll ein möglichst breites Panorama von analogen Speicherpraktiken entstehen.
Participants: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rabe, Anke Eckardt, Carl Schilde, Prof. Dr. Holger Schulze, Carla Müller-Schulzke, Prof. Dr. Christian Kassung und Sebastian Schwesinger
|||| WORKSHOP ' PUNKT / LINIE / FLÄCHE / RAUM – AUDIOVISUELLE INSTALLATIONEN '
Ein Workshop mit Anke Eckardt
'Was damals als sogenannte Musikalisierung der Künste begann, setzte sich in Aneignung räumlicher Eigenschaften in der Musik und zeitlicher Dimensionen in der Bildenden Kunst fort. Klangkunst resultiert aus dem Bemühen der Künstler, die Gattungsgrenzen zu überschreiten.'
(Helga de la Motte Haber)
Wie kann ein Punkt, eine Linie, eine Fläche erklingen? Wie unterschiedlich können diese visuell erscheinen? Welche Möglichkeiten bietet die haptische Ebene?
Der 2-tägige Workshop widmet sich dem Raum anhand der Geometrie als mathematische Struktur, deren Grundelemente Punkt, Gerade, Ebene in experimentellen Setups zwei- wie auch in Zusammensetzung zu geometrischen Körpern dreidimensional sinnlich erfahrbar gemacht werden sollen.
Photo: Bauhausbücher Buchdeckel 'Kandinsky - Punkt und Linie zu Fläche'
"You sign on for a ride you probably think you got at least some notion of where the ride´s goin. But you might not. " (from Cormac Mc Carthy: "No Country for Old Men")
The past is resonating, the foundation of the present unstable, the stairway to the future uncertain.
Parts of the existing granite staircase of the Amerika Haus are transformed. The intertwining of swinging springs, vibrating infrasound transducers and a segmented projection of a visual structure onto itself enables the perception of an unstable ground. The physical experience develops only when visitors stand on the installation.
Credits:
Anke Eckardt - concept, vibration
Anke Eckardt & Henry Koch - sound, optics
Lukas Wegwerth - material, design
The Graduale 2012 was organised by the Graduate School for the Arts and Sciences at the Berlin University of the Arts).
Opening: 19 October 2012, 7pm
Date: 19 - 21 October 2012
Adress: Amerika-Haus, Hardenbergerstrasse 22, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Location: central staircase of the Amerika-Haus
One hundred new sound works have been produced by artists from all over the world. Selected by our curators and art institutions worldwide, the artists have been invited to submit a sound work, taking its stimulus from themes evoked in Bruce Nauman's Days, presented concurrently in the lower gallery, as part of our season on sound.
My contribution is CLOCKWORK: BROKEN by Anke Eckardt & Henry Koch.
CLOCKWORK : BROKEN is a short, concise composition following the theme of an old clockwork that decicively structures time whilst getting messed up with clouds of memories of its own sound material.
Acoustically, CLOCKWORK : BROKEN consists of glass, all the sound material was recorded by the artists themselves. With an axe they systematically cut Christmas tree balls as well as mirrors and the complete stock of glasses from a former restaurant. Using three directional microphones they recorded the breaking, fall and impact of the glas on the ground.
Date: 19 June - 16 September 2012
Adress: ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH
I presented my ongoing research in the panel 'Speaking about Sound'.
Contributors of the panel were Michael Bull (University of Sussex Brighton), Frauke Behrendt (Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge), Holger Schulze
(Humboldt-University Berlin), Anke Eckardt (Graduate School for the Arts and the Sciences Berlin).
Date: 21 - 23 June 2012
Adress: London, UK
Organised by the Exhibition Road Cultural Group and Society for Literature and the Arts Europe (SLSAeu)
25 Years of Media Art
EMAF is one of the most influential forums of international Media Art. As a meeting point for artists, curators, distributors, galleries and an audience of experts the festival has a great impact on the topics and aesthetics of Media Art. Each year the festival offers its visitors a current overview of experimental films, installations, performances, digital formats and hybrid forms, ranging from personal and political subjects or formal experiments to provocative statements from the pulsating area of “Media Art – Society”. The Festival sees itself as a place of experimentation and a laboratory where extraordinary works, experiments and ventures are created and presented.
Date: 18 April - 27 May 2012
Adress: Kunsthalle, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany
The exhibition program of CTM.12 approaches the festival theme SPECTRAL by exploring the phantom effects of our perception, the bad vibes of sonic weaponry, and the truthful or artificial mysteries that are embedded in technological memory storage.
The series with works by Nik Nowak, Anke Eckardt, Chris Salter, AUDiNT, Felix Kubin, Ursula Bogner, Alexander Christou and Laura Lòpez Paniagua takes us beyond the safe ground of clear cause-and-effect relationships, and project us into the uneasy "interzones" between the promises, traumas, and fuzzy logic of ubiquitous technology.
Date: 27 January - 5 February 2012
Adress: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, Germany
I was invited to present my ongoing research project "SONIC BEAM ))) - ON THE PERCEPTION OF ULTRA-DIRECTED ACOUSTIC RADIATION." at the "CONFERENCE ON PRACTICE.BASED RESEARCH IN ART AND DESIGN" at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar.
‘BETWEEN | You | AND | ME’ (multi-sensory installation by Anke Eckardt, 2011) is a wall of light and sound. The enhanced version was presented for the first time.
The 15th edition of the CYNETART festival for computer-based art is very much characterised by the essence of the Festspielhaus Hellerau that opened 100 years ago. Between November 16th and 26th 2011 the building designed by Heinrich Tessenow especially for the proclaimed “Body Liberation“ movement will be transformed into a space laboratory where cultural, artistic and academic as well as technological dimensions of contemporary and future body perception can be experienced. Visitors are invited to explore various experimental setups at the interface between naturalness and artificiality and thus to experience their corporeality in new and different ways.
I gave a workshop for 10 participants at the CYNETART-Festival on the topic of
"Working with sound in space".
The participants came from such different backgrounds as Visual Arts, Stage Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Music and Radio Broadcasting.
I was invited by Prof. Werner Jauk to present my artistic work at a panel discussion to the topic of "PLURAL REALITIES. VARIABLE MULTISENSORY SPACES. " The panel was part of a larger program with the same name, which took place at the Haus der Architektur Graz and was a co-production of steirischer herbst & Haus der Architektur. (in cooperation with the Institut für Musikwissenschaft der KF-Universität Graz, pop / musik + medien / kunst & Institut für Raumgestaltung, Fakultät Architektur, TU Graz)
Date: 6 October 2011, 7pm
Adress: Haus der Architektur Graz (House of Architecture Graz), Mariahilferstraße 2, A-8020 Graz, Austria
Participants from left to right:
Urs Hirschberg, Institut für Architektur und Medien, TU Graz
Erwin Fiala, Institut für Philosophie, KF Universität Graz
Anke Eckardt, Sound and Media Artist, Berlin
Werner Jauk, Institut für Musikwissenschaft, KF-Universität Graz, pop / musik + medien / kunst
Andreas Lichtblau, lichtblau.wagner architekten, Wien; Institut für Wohnbau, TU Graz
Irmgard Frank, Architektin, Wien; Institut für Raumgestaltung, TU Graz
Moderation: Franziska Hederer, Institut für Raumgestaltung TU Graz
Photo: Georg Kaulfersch
My sound sculpture was awarded the Artist-In-Residence Grant of the Saxon State Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Fine Arts 2011 by the CynetArt-Jury. This grant is awarded in co-operation with City of Dresden.
|||| SHORT INTERVIEW FOR EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION
After the presentation of my SOUND SCULPTURE ‘ ! ’ MULTICHANNEL at the TODAYSART festival 2010 in The Hague, NL, Hugo Verweij, who runs the very inspiring website EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION (click on link) reviewed my piece and asked me for a short interview within his series FIVE SOUND QUESTIONS TO ... I felt very much honoured to take part and you can find the short interview, which just came online on Friday, Octobre 22, here:
link (click)
|||| VIDEOINTERVIEW at TODAYSART FESTIVAL
There is another video-interview I gave at the TODAYSART FESTIVAL itself in The Hague on 25 September 2010. To see the 2:44min video please follow the
link (click)
