“It is not easy to distinguish what is really a memory, what is knowledge or an assumption, overwriting or interpretation.” (Wenke Seemann)
“Utopie auf Platte” presents Wenke Seemann’s artistic exploration of modernity’s spatial and visual order, including childhood places, the breaks of social transformation and fissures in objects of memory.
The work “Archive Dialogues #1 – Blueprint Future” goes beyond the boundaries of genre and media, a visual and narrative dialogue between historical material and the author’s own biography. In a process of associative research and artistic appropriation, critical and aesthetic reorganisations develop, relating and referring to each other as collages, drawings, montages, photography and texts.
For Seemann, archive work is a process: of shifting, overwriting, deconstruction, not of facts but of facticity, not of objects but of objectivity. In its artistic engagement with the historical image/material, the archive reshapes itself: what is stored and saved is activated, overwritten and translated. Spatial image layers are revealed, exposing the simultaneity of history and histories.
With an art-historical placement by Franziska Schmidt and a topo-biographical essay by Annett Gröschner.
- The talk between the publisher Bakri Bakit (Bierke Verlag) and the author Wenke Seemann starts at 18:00.
- The film runs from 17:30: Plattenbaugeschichten. Eine assoziative Recherche. | Wenke Seemann, Photo Film, 33 minutes.