2021
as first shown at DOSIS I, Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig
and
Storm to Static, 2022, VIKA Kunstverein, Halle
DOSIS III, 2022, exhibition catalogue, Spector Books Leipzig
Single channel video installation (Full HD)
video projection, beamer, double channel directional sound, steel, PVC, cable ties
4‘26“
200 x 160 x 60 cm
video: https://vimeo.com/953900241
exhibition views by Felix Brenner/Alexander Meyer
[...] Originally emerging in Detroit in the 1980s, techno quickly developed into a subculture of its own that radiated worldwide. It was about much more than just the music. Clubs were seen as utopias where people from very different backgrounds came together, as places where social norms were challenged, as places of longing. Rave culture was thus, at least initially, associated with the dream of freedom, of progress through connectedness.
In „Your house is my house is your house is mine“, snippets of documentary images of the Loveparade at the beginning of the 1990s in Germany reflect a first phase of change in which rave culture developed from a subculture into a mass event. How did this turnaround affect the ideals of this culture? And how do we look at this subculture today, now that rave culture belongs more and more to pop culture?
[...] The materiality of the installation reminds us that rave stems from DIY culture, which in its beginnings was about creating something new out of the post-industrial ruins of the 1980s: new spaces, new forms of music and art, new visions, new social formations, unification and feeling. The different sequences of the video reflect into the space, onto us as viewers, whereby the emotional process of desire for change, memory and longing radiates onto us. Anna Sophie Knobloch‘s work is a melancholic flashback at precisely these beginnings of rave culture, at its origins and first upheavals, at a time that has long since passed and yet sometimes, in a flash, even if only in memory, appears and radiates on us.
- Lea Sauer
