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| Screening Instructional Films Pt. 2/Audiovisual Performance - Early American Avant-Garde |
Screening - Robert Heel Instructional Films Pt. 2/Audiovisual Performance - Early American Avant-Garde by Robert Heel and Jan Hertz
// Date: Fri, 7th Jan. 2011
// Time: 20.00
// Introduction by the artist and the curators
// Entrance free
Robert Heel Instructional Films Pt. 2
Six shorts and an introduction by the artist and the curators
For several years, audiovisual artist Robert Heel has been appropriating vintage instructional films for his own work. He started out using American sources from the 1950s, films that propagated proper manners, which he dismantled and then reassembled in ironic mash-ups. For his series of short films called Instructional Films and finished in 2009, he now uses mostly self-generated footage. Both angles are combined by an ironic approach.
The Instructional Films are aimed at a fictional “class”, which is tutored by Heel himself as a teacher. Equipped with a substantial amount of half-knowledge, the viewer/pupil gets to know things from the teacher, which he always or never ever wanted to know. Starting from tips on how to make music, this quickly starts to read like a vademecum on how to lead your life.
Heel himself views the Instructional Films as a parody on a dreadful genre that went unquestioned during the 1950s and 60s, but also as a “guideline for 4/4 rhythmical techno-music, visualist life and artistic survival.” He places his Instructional Films between “absolute film, cinéma pur, music video, diary, instructional film, real-life satire, self-reflection and fiction.”
Pt. 2 of the screening programme shown 2009 at General Public.
Robert Heel + Jan Hertz – audiovisual performance
Early American Avant-Garde
Robert Heel and Jan Hertz originally met at the college of arts in Berlin. Since then they like performing together as an AV team, as well as in Jan Hertz Band project “Computerpilots”. For the performance “Early American Avant-Garde” Robert Heel uses samples of early film experiments and recombines, mashups and layers those samples intuitive and in real-time.
Jan Hertz combines club-orientated and uplifting beats with the deepness of beautiful and weird melodies. For this performance Jan Hertz jams through a reduced set, focusing on atmospheric drones and minimalist grooves.
Online: www.robertheel.com and www.janhertz.de
fluctuating images at General Public. Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund.
www.fluctuating-images.de/de/node/372
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