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Reunification-boogie GDR 1990 From 20th to 23rd of September in 1990 there was a German-reunification-boogie for skydivers in Oppin - in this time still GDR. The artist Staudinger took part with camera and made a documentation about this special event. We get information about how skydiving in GDR was organized and what kind of plans there were for future. Then we see a german-german tandem-jump: the tandem-master from West-Germany, the female 63-year-old tandem-jumper from East-Germany. Finally some bungy-jumping in times of the change in Berlin. We are sorry for the bad quality of the material and for no english translation. P.S.: at the accident of the canopy-formation in Oppin fortunately nobody was harmed. |
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Elections in the boondocs GDR 1990 On 18th of March in 1990 there has been the last election in the GDR. In the same moment it was the first free election. Because of this the artist Staudinger went to the boondocks, to Waltershausen in Thüringen, to make a document of this event which was very moving for the citizens of GDR. Because of 25th anniversary here the film nearly original, which 1990 was broadcasted in Open Channel Berlin, today AlexTV. We are sorry for the bad quality of the material. And: sorry, no english translation. |
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Normannenstreet Berlin 1990 On January 15th of 1990 demonstrators in Berlin crashed the Stasi headquater of the GDR Ministry for State Security (MfS) in Normannenstreet and took it over. For the moment. But after the German Government wanted to decide giving the documents of the MfS to the central federal archive - and by this not available for the citizens - there again was loud protest. On 4th of September 1990 the Stasi headquater again was crashed by 20 courageous people. There was a solemn vigil, some went to hunger strike. 24 days later the action was finished with success. In the riots of this time the artist went to this place to catch the atmosphere. Camera: Klaus Merl (✝). |
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The GDR - Staudinger as contemporary witness in interview at Jochen Voit On 29th of August in 2012 the artist Christian W. Staudinger as a contemporary witness was at the historian and journalist Jochen Voit in Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation. He is telling about his time in the GDR, about childhood & jouth, about his conviction and disappoint-ments, his attempt to leave the GDR in 1971 and his time in prison. Sorry, no english translation. More about the topic |
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From prison to pub - Political Performance 7:49 Born and grown up in a restaurant Christian W. Staudinger as a young man was thrown to prison of state security in GDR (Stasi) when he, at the border between Bulgaria & Turkey, failed with his attempt to escape in 1971. In the cycle "Horror - Prison & torture in Bulgaria and Turkey" he was engaged with this topic in his art-work. Two exhibitions 2014/15 in Erfurt showed the outcome. Part of the related paintings were published in the former state-security-prison and actual memorial and educational institution Andreasstreet in Erfurt in a group-exhibition called "so near...far away". The other paintings were shown one month later in the restaurant "Speicher" in Erfurt. In the final performance "From prison to restaurant" Staudinger is leaving his former cell in the Andreasstreet and is going as a free man to the restaurant "Speicher" in Erfurt. |
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The horror in Speicher - Art-exhibition 12:53 On 25th anniversary of the change in Germany - on 11/09/2014 - in the "Speicher" there was opened an exhibition with the title "Horror - prison & torture in Bulgaria and GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger showed the outcome of his working about the second German dictatorship and his trying to escape from GDR, with which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey in 1971. The here missing paintings of this cycle were shown nearly at the same time from October 3rd 2014 to January 13th 2015 in the former prison of GDR-state-security (Stasi) and nowadays memorial & educational institution Andreasstreet in Erfurt in a group-exhibition under the title "so near...far away". Here a walk through the exhibition in "Speicher". |
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Revenge - a painting in work 3:54 "Revenge" is a painting out of the cycle "Horror - Prison and torture in Bulgaria & GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger is working about the second German dictatorship and his escape of GDR in 1971, in which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Part of the cycle in 2014/15 was published in an exhibition in former Stasi-prison and today Memorial- and educational institution Andreasstrasse in Erfurt under the title "so near...far away". The other paintings of the cycle were published one month later in "Speicher" Erfurt. Here you see the video-work in arising of the painting and the related story. |
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Jamming - a painting in work 2:27 "Jamming" is a painting out of the cycle "Horror - Prison & torture in Bulgaria and GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger is working about the second German dictatorship and his escape of GDR in 1971, in which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Part of the cycle was published in an exhibition in 2014/15 in former Stasi-prison & today Memorial- and educational institution Andreasstreet in Erfurt under the title "so near...far away". The other paintings of the cycle were published one month later in "Speicher" Erfurt. Here you see the video-work in arising of the painting. |
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The horror (art-exhibition) Reading in Speicher 29:52 ...is part of the cycle "Horror - Prison & torture in Bulgaria and GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger is working about the second German dictatorship and his escape of GDR in 1971, in which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Part of the cycle with its paintings in 2014/15 was published in an exhibition in former Stasi-prison and today Memorial- & educational institution Andreas-street in Erfurt under the title "so near...far away". The other paintings of the cycle were published one month later in "Speicher" Erfurt, accompanied by three performances, beside others the reading. Susanne Warz is reading poems of Staudinger & Staudinger is reading the book "Besuchszeit" (means: time for visit) by Peter Pfütze, a former Stasi-colonel, still being convinced that he had to do with criminals. In the early 70ies he for the GDR was working in Bulgaria and decided over weal and woe of those who tried and failed to escape at the borders of Bulgaria. Today he is living in Berlin. Sorry, no english translation. |
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Headshot - Performance in Speicher 2:25 ...a performance out of the cycle "Horror - Prison & torture in Bulgaria and GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger is working about the second German dictatorship and his escape of GDR in 1971, in which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Part of the cycle with its paintings in 2014/15 was published in an exhibition in former Stasi-prison and today Memorial- and educational institution Andreasstrasse in Erfurt under the title "so near...far away". The other paintings of the cycle were published one month later in "Speicher" Erfurt, accompanied by three performances, beside others "Headshot". |
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Shear - Performance in Speicher 7:04 ...out of the cycle "Horror - Prison & torture in Bulgaria & GDR" in which the artist Christian W. Staudinger is working about the second German dictatorship and his escape of GDR in 1971, in which he failed at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey. Part of the cycle with its paintings in 2014/15 was published in an exhibition in former Stasi-prison and today Memorial- and educational institution Andreasstreet in Erfurt under the title "so near...far away". The other paintings of the cycle were published in an exhibition one month later in "Speicher" Erfurt, accompanied by three performances, beside others "Shear". |
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so near...far away - first opening speech 7:48 "so near...far away - pictures of experience in prison" is the title of an exhibition in the memorial & educational institution Andreas-street in Erfurt in the year of 25th anniversary of the change in Germany. It could be visited from October 3rd 2014 to January 13th 2015. Invited were the artists Michael Anhalt (Rotterdam), Katrin Büchel (Fulda), Gino Kuhn (Cottbus), Christian Staudinger (Berlin) and Gabriele Stötzer (Erfurt). They all were involved with the topic of prison in GDR and have experience with and in prison. In the exhibition they present their inner and outer work with this experiences in their art-work. Here the speech of the former chair of board of Stiftung Ettersberg, Prof. Dr. H.-J. Veen. Sorry, no english version. |
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"Geschichte" - Poem of Gabi Stötzer "so near...far away - pictures of experience in prison" is the title of an exhibition in the memorial & educational institution Andreasst. in Erfurt in the year of 25th anniver-sary of the change in Germany. It can be visited from October 3rd 2014 to January 13th 2015. Invited were the artists Michael Anhalt (Rotterdam), Katrin Büchel (Fulda), Gino Kuhn (Cottbus), Christian Staudinger (Berlin) and Gabriele Stötzer (Erfurt). They all were invol-ved with the topic of prison in GDR and have experience with and in prison. In the exhibi-tion they present their inner and outer work with this experiences in their work-art. Here the poem of Gabriele Stötzer on vernissage. Sorry, no english version. More... |
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so near...far away - 2nd opening speech 23:01 "so near...far away- pictures of experience in prison" is the title of an exhibition in the me-morial and educational institution Andreas-street in Erfurt in the year of 25th anniversary of the change in Germany. It can be visited from October 3rd 2014 to January 13th 2015. Invited were the artists Michael Anhalt (Rot-terdam), Katrin Büchel (Fulda), Gino Kuhn (Cottbus), Christian Staudinger (Berlin) & Gabriele Stötzer (Erfurt). They all were invo-lved with the topic of prison in GDR and have experience with and in prison. In the exhibi-tion they present their inner and outer work with this experiences in their work-art. Here the opening-speech of the curator Michael May leading through the exhibition. Sorry, no english version. More... |
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Wer's braucht (who needs) - Performance Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: documentation of the performan-ce of the artist Christian W. Staudinger on vernissage of the exhibition "so near...far away - pictures of experience in prison" in the memorial and educational institution Andreas-street in Erfurt on 3rd of October in 2014 - curator was Manfred May. Exhibition from October 3rd 2014 to January 13th 2015. More... |
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DDR-Flucht 1971 - Interviewausschnitt Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: Christian Staudinger as a 19year old tried to leave the GDR at the border between Bulgaria an Turkey. He failed as the maps were wrong. He talked about his story in an interview with Dr. Jochen Voit, the head of the memorial and study center Andreasstrasse in Erfurt. You see a short excerpt from video-documentation in the memorial. Sorry, no english translation. |
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First alternative bookfair Leipzig 1990 Documentation Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: Impressions of the First Alterna-tive Bookfair in Leipzig/Germany in 1990 which was organized as a counter project to the official bookfair by a group around Dieter Kalka and Katharina Luft. We are sorry for the bad quality of the video - would it not be a historical document it would not be here. Sorry, no english translation. |
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First alternative bookfair Leipzig 1990 readings Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: Readings on the First Alternative Bookfair in Leipzig/Germany in 1990 which was organized as a counter project to the official bookfair by a group around Dieter Kalka and Katharina Luft. Readings by beside others: Joachim Oerthel, Sigfried Bernhof, Katharina Luft. We are sorry for the bad quality of the video - would it not be a historical document it would not be here. Sorry, no english translation. |
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Farb- und Buchexplosion The wall has gone. Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: Documentation of a performance of the artist as a transvestite in the age of 32 in front of the doors of the 14th Free Berlin Exhibition in 1984. Thereby his lyrics "Zustände eines Grenzverletzers" (means: state of a border-violater) is destroyed. The lyrics are in connection with his failed escape from GDR in 1971. More about his escape here and on YouTube |
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FIRST POTSDAM DANCE-DAYS 1990 The wall has gone. Regarding to 25th anniversary of the change in Germany: Documentation of the First Potsdam DanceDays on June 21th to 29th in 1990 in the Fabric in Gutenbergstreet 105 in Potsdam/Germany. Interviews with Wolfgang Hoffman und Riki von Falken. |
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ESCAPE FROM GDR Rememberings of the artist Christian W. Staudinger on his unsuccessful escape from GDR at the bulgarian-turkey border. There he, as a 19 years old, tryed to escape to the West, was captured by Bulgarian soldiers, came to torture and later in GDR to prison. 1972 he was bought by West-Germany. Sorry, no english version of the spoken rememberings. Speaker: Erich Räuker - weltenton |
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MACHT BANK KUNST ??? 9:50 2013 Under the title "MACHT KUNST" the Deutsche Bank called the artists in Berlin to bring their artwork for a 24 hours exhibition in her art-hall. On arrival of the artists on 5th of April 2013 the here presented performance of the artist was made. This video is a complete artwork. All comments of the artist are product of his phantasy and are part of the performance. Any similarity with reality would be acidentally (sorry, no translation of the comments). |
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Adolf Hitler 007 22:46 2007 Document of a hushed up exhibition about Adolf Hitler. Documentation (cuttings) of the vernissage of the same-named exhibition in Berlin. Music: "Sound installation" by Sebastian Hilken, Berlin (with permission by the musician). See also: Political Art |
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Massenmordident (massmurderident) 3:54 1995 Cuttings of a performance on the last Free Berlin Exhibition (Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung FBK) 1994 about the shoa (see also wiki). Camera & interviews: Pieter Thoenes, Amsterdam. Musik: Sebastian Hilken, Berlin (permission by the musician). See also: Political Art |
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Bulgarischer Kerker (Bulgarian dungeon) 3:31 1991 Poem about prison in Bulgarian torture the artist suffered 1971 when trying to leave the GDR at the boader between Bulgaria and Turky - readed on the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1991 (media-congress IFA). The poem is taken from his book with lyrics and drawings "Above me am it". Zwielicht-Verlag 1986. With friendly permission of the Zwielicht-Verlag. Music: Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Rheingold, Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla. With friendly permission of Tandem-Verlag as the follower of Könemann-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH. See also: Political Art und Lyrics |
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The Veleka 0:56 That place in Bulgaria on which the artist was captured by the soldiers 1971 on his attempt to leave the GDR at the border between Bulgaria and Turky. As the maps the people could buy in GDR where wrong a lot of refugees had an error in thinking the Veleka would be the borderline. See also: Political art and Appelius |
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Mauerbesteigung 1988 (riding the wall) 4:10 Cuttings of a performace "The wall has to go" in which the artist was climbing on the wall behind the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin one year before the change. Camera: Klaus Merl (†). Music: Ch.W. Staudinger. See also: Political art |
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Bei Albert Hofmann (visit at...) 3:49 1990 Cuttings of a 90-minute interview with the chemist & inventor of LSD Dr. Albert Hofmann, Swizzerland. As it is impossible to shorten the original serious interview to 5 minutes the style of persiflage was choosen. The original was published in OKB (today AlexTV). |
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Bei Albert Hofmann (visit at...) 1:06:24 1990 Artist meets chemist. Interview with the inventor of LSD Dr. Albert Hofmann, Swizzerland. The original was published in OKB (today AlexTV). |
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SOMA 9:05 1997 Cuttings of a performance on Vernissage of a group-exhibition with Split, Volkmar Schulz-Rumpold and Rainer Wieczorek. The exhibition by Kunstamt Wedding took part in the townhall of Wedding in Berlin. For 70 minutes the artist Christian W. Staudinger declaired the room with everything inside as art. Participants: I.S. (long-standing co-worker in MLK) & visitors |
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Hommage to the Christo's 5:20 1997 Artistical workmanship of the wrapped Reichstag in Berlin with Hommage to the Christo's and own performance |
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KunstKaos in Koepenick (art-chaos Berlin) 3:41 1996 Cuttings of a documentation of a 4-week long performance in which the artist beside others created a permanent exhibition as process |
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Kunstaktion IFA 3:58 1991 Cuttings of a performance on Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA) Berlin 1991 (media-congress). Camera: Open Channel Berlin (today AlexTV). Music: Sebastian Hilken, Berlin (with permission by the musician) |
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At Beuys 3:08 Cuttings of a performance in 1988 at the Beuys-Exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Part I "Hommage to Joseph Beuys", Part II "Sweeping out the museum", Part III "Identification with the center of beuys' power". Music: Christian W. Staudinger |
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Das Bild sind Sie selbst (The picture are you) 3:48 1994 Cuttings of the documentation of a performance on the Free Berlin Exhibition (Freie Berliner Kunstausstellung FBK) - sorry, no wiki (who will do it?). |
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Outgeburtboxschlachtung (not translatable) 2:55 1986 Performance at the scapping of the car of the artist in Berlin which he had painted years before. Actors: HG and IS |
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Painted Slides The video shows slides the artist Christian W. Staudinger made in Egypt & Corsica long befor digital era. Afterwards he painted the slides. The former music - special selected - has to be removed because of copyright. We are sorry for this. |
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BookArt Shown is a very small variety of non published drawings, arosen in books - animated by the readed texts. |
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AktArt 2000 0:50 Shown is a very small variety of big oil-paintings, till now not published. They are product of 10 years nude-painting of the artist, finished in 2000, with result of 30 male & female nude-paintings. Thanks to the models of former times. |
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Quantenphysik (quantum physics) 2:52 2008 Ceiling fresco short before elimination |
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Fresko in Vernichtung (fresco in destruction) 2:04 2008 Documentation of the elimination of a wall fresco |
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Schwarz-Weiss (black-white) Removal of a fresco |
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Room-Time-Light Honor to the slowness. The photos of this sound-slideshow the artist made in Kanada, USA, Egypt, Corsica and Berlin - long before digital times. Who wants to get an idea of the original version should turn off the music and choose "Oxygene" by Jean Michel Jarre out of your own music. |
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EX 0:46 Abstract painting in motion. Development of a painting in quick motion |
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Diodenzeichnungen (diodedrawings) 2:27 1993 Electronical drawings, made in San Francisco/USA |
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Abstract Paintings 1:42 2013 Choice of abstract Paintings |
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Surreal Paintings 1:19 2013 Choice of surreal Paintings |
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Art Forum Berlin 2007 In 2007 from 28th of September to 3rd of October there was a big exhibition of art in the Messe Berlin under the Funkturm called "Art Forum Berlin". In this art-video about art the artist Christian W. Staudinger takes the audience out on a walking tour through the exhibition as an own art-event. Sorry, no translation of the German comments. |
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Impressions from North-East 34:04 1990 Honor to slowliness. In summer 1990 after the change but before unification in Germany the artist with tent & rubber-boat made a journey throught GDR & documentated it. Cuttings were summarized to the impressions of north-east-Germany. The scenes come from Mecklenburg seas in Germany, from coast at East-sea, from Rügen (an island in East-sea) and from the Odra (river at the border between Germany and Poland). The 1000 km journey from the Spree (main-river in Berlin) to north and over the Odra back to the Spree took the artist 4 weeks. We are sorry - again - that we had to remove the original music because of copyright. |
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Staudingerrocks 3:48 1999 Cuttings of a documentation of the project "Erdensteine" (means: stones of the earth), here the work in Sinai/Egypt near Dahab & Ain Khudra in the Closed Canyon. The name "Staudingerrocks" was given to the sculptures by the inhabitants. We had to cut off original-music because of copyright. See also: ConceptualArt |
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Art in Amerika 2:36 1993 Cuttings of a documentation of the half-year long work of the artist in the USA in quick motion. There he started in Perris Valley beside other work the project "Erdensteine" (stones of the earth) and painted at the Hopis. See also: Conceptual-art |
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Documenta X (1) 8:17 1997 First part of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (2) 5:26 1997 Second part of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (3) 5:44 1997 Part three of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (4) 7:46 1997 Staudinger is developing his own art term. Part four of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (5) 4:24 1997 Continuation of art term. Part five of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (6) 6:17 1997 Continuation of art term. Part six of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Documenta X (7) 8:20 1997 Continuation of art term. Part seven of criticism of Documenta X in Kassel 1997 under leadership of Catherine David, performed on Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin 1997 (IFA). Cooperation: Rainer Wieczorek, neo-dadaist (www.wirart.de). See also Documenta X |
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Ein Gesicht in der Zeit (face over the years) 5:58 1996 Self-portrait |
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Produzentenportrait (portrait of producer) 1:49 1991 This portrait was produced by Jolien van der Mee, Amsterdam, in order of the Open Channel Berlin and published there (today AlexTV) |
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Scherung (Shear) 2:35 2010 Cuttings of the documentation of a permanent performance: At summer solstice (21th of June) since 1995 head hair and beard is sheared. Cutting off head-hair will be stopped. At winter solstice (21th of December) shaving will be stopped. The so pict up hair is saved for the finishing performance of this project. See also: Conceptual-art |
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Skydiving-Freestyle 2:27 1992 Cuttings of the original video "Skydiving" which is not possible to upload because of copyright. Up to now it was not yet possible to get licences for the underlying music. Skydiving is not only but also part of the project art & sports in which the artist is painting overalls while free falling. More skydive-videos on the site sports |
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Abgehauen Poem about the escape from GDR 1971. The artist was failing at the Bulgarian-Turkish border together with his friend Dieter. The two refugees were capured and afterwords put to torture. The whole story here (sorry no English version), more about the topic here (EN) |
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12by15 - Fashion meets art "Art could be attractive - we make it wearable" - is the motto of 12by15. His founder, Thomas Smetana, is an international recognized photographer from Austria and his idea with the project was to snatch the art from museums & present it by t-shirt in public space. Thereby there is the opportunity for the carrier of the t-shirt to join the discourse about sociopolitical questions, stimulate the discussion and support it. Staudinger is one of a lot of artists who opened himself to this idea and took part in it. Here his statement about his joining the project (sorry, no english version - but something in EN on website of 12by15). |
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Die Kunst umzuziehen - Atelierumzug vom Staudinger 2005 the artist had to move with his atelier as the house should be refurbished. The documentation shows the moving-chaos in the (unpretentious) old artist-atelier in Berlin-Wedding. Afterwords there is a short guidance through the new atelier. |
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No Exit (Geschlossene Gesellschaft) by Jean-Paul Sartre 1:34:34 1993 More than 20 years ago (1993) the artist Christian W. Staudinger together with stage-director & dramaturg Andreas Lüder & his former theater "Kentaur" produced "No exit" (Geschlossene Gesellschaft) by Jean-Paul Sartre. Here the video with the complete presentation. It was published first in Open Channel Berlin - today AlexTV. Now discovered again. Sorry for bad quality (source is VHS) and sorry for no english translation. |
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