Die Jagd

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Der  Videoparcour fand vom 20.05 bis zum 21.06. 2015  zwischen 9 bis 24 Uhr statt. videocity.bs hat neue Wege des  Miteinanders von Kultur und Geschäftswelt erschlossen. 16 Geschäfte und kulturelle Institutionen öffnen für 27  Videokünstler*innen  ihre Schaufenster, Hallen  oder elektronischen Werbetafeln. Sie bilden einen Parcours zwischen Messeplatz, Marktplatz,  Aeschenvorstadt  und St. Jakobsstadion. Die Videos lassen den Alltag in neuem Licht erscheinen und umgekehrt der Alltag die Videos. videovity.bs wird einen Monat lang  zum immateriellen Bestandteil der Stadt und regt zu unerwarteten  Begegnungen an.

Es gab dabei folgende Stadtionen:  Congress Center Basel/eBoard, Kulturbüro Basel, Elektrohaus Boner, Basler Lädeli, GLOBUS, Banque CIC (Suisse) AG, Claudia Güdel, Confiserie Bachmann, Nationale Suisse, Der Teufelhof Basel, Stadtcasino,  Theater Basel, Basler Kantonalbank, Kunsthaus  Baselland, und St. Jakobsturm

Die teilnehmenden Künstler*innen waren: Dominik Stauch, Pipilotti Rist, Ursula Palla, Yves Netzhammer, Franziska Megert, Christian Jankowski, Tom Huber, Michael Spahr, HEAD, Mathis Vass, Jeannette Ehlers, Diana Dodson, Hildegard Spielhofer, Thomas Kneubühler, Manuel Szabo.  

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The Videoparcour took place from 20.05 to 21.06.2015 between 9 a.m. and midnight. videocity.bs has opened up new ways of interaction between culture and the business world. 16 shops and cultural institutions open their shop windows, halls or electronic billboards for 27 video artists. They form a parcour between Messeplatz, Marktplatz, Aeschenvorstadt and St. Jakobsstadion. The videos present everyday life in a new light and vice versa. For one month videocity.bs becomes an immaterial part of the city and encourages unexpected encounters.

The following institutions were part in the project:  Congress Center Basel/eBoard, Kulturbüro Basel, Elektrohaus Boner, Basler Lädeli, GLOBUS, Banque CIC (Suisse) AG, Claudia Güdel, Confiserie Bachmann, Nationale Suisse, Der Teufelhof Basel, Stadtcasino, Theater Basel, Basler Kantonalbank, Kunsthaus Baselland, St. Jakobsturm. 

The participating artists were: Dominik Stauch, Pipilotti Rist, Ursula Palla, Yves Netzhammer, Franziska Megert, Christian Jankowski, Tom Huber, Michael Spahr, HEAD, Mathis Vass, Jeannette Ehlers, Diana Dodson, Hildegard Spielhofer, Thomas Kneubühler, Manuel Szabo.    

"The Hunt" was one of the first video works by Christian Jankowski, one of today's best‐known German artists. It shows Jankowski in a supermarket armed with bow and arrow, but he does not have to stalk his prey, only to get past the surveillance cameras. He shoots a frozen chicken, butter, bread, toilet paper and other necessities. He will be able to live on this haul for a week. The slain groceries are not just dead, but mass produced. That’s why the cashier is not particularly impressed when Jankowski lays his slain items—still stuck with arrows—on the belt to pay like any other customer. "The Hunt" takes up very primitive instincts that are synthesized in modern society. This work can be interpreted on many levels in terms of consumerism, food, and the technization of society. Jankowski's work includes performative interactions of the artist with actors who are not involved in art. These interactons offer insights into the common notion of art by dealing with many of the prevailing interests in art in contemporary society—concerning lifestyle, psychology, rituals, celebrations, self‐image, competition, mass‐produced goods and luxury articles. In the course of his career, Jankowski has worked with magicians, politicians, newscasters, and members of the Vatican. The context of the interaction and the participants themselves are always given a certain degree of control over how Jankowski's work will develop and the final form it will take. The fact that Jankowski documents these performative collaborations with mass‐media formats such as film, photography, television, and newspapers, to which the contexts in which the works he stages belong, explains the populist appeal of his work.

Studio Christian Jankowski  (translation: Jean‐Marie Clarke)    

https://christianjankowski.com