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Julia Bornefeld: Vanity and High Fidelity

16 Mar - 22 Jun 2014

photo: © Matthias Clemenc: "Vanity and High Fidelity", 2011
An exhibition at the ZKM_Subspace
Opening: Sat, March 15, 2014, 6 p.m.



An over-sized metallic shining gold gramophone funnel is connected to an rotating platform which appears to be hovering above the ground. Two musical compositions, entitled "Vanity" and "High Fidelity" especially composed for the kinetic installation sound from the funnel.

"The spatial installation Vanity and High Fidelity, originally designed for the dome of the Tirol State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, (2010/2011) is about the artist's relationship to the work of her grandfather (Rudolf Graf was conductor, pianist and composer from 1945−1959 at the Tirol State Museum Innsbruck), but also the perception of acoustic stimuli in space. Faithful high fidelity is about the ways in which we perceive sound, both those which we really experience, but also those which establish themselves in us, and those which, through the filter of memory persist within us."
(Verena Konrad, in Studiohefte 06, Julia Bornefeld. Vanity and High Fidelity, Tiroler Landesmuseen, p.41)

Julia Bornefeld, born in Kiel, lives and works in Berlin (D) and Bruneck (I).

Soundtrack of the Installation

Ivo Forer / Ivo Forer, Hartman Campidell, Irene Hopfgartner: "Vanity", 7:34 mins
The composition contains revisions and fragments from compsitions by Hartmann Campidell and of "Burgenländischen Suite" Opus 41 by Rudolf Graf
Brasentina feat. Eke / Thomas Castañeda, Maria Craffonara, Nikola Zaric, Ekehardt Reinalter: "High Fidelity", 5:56 mins
Based on Tarantella, Opus 40 von Rudolf Graf

In Cooperation with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Gallery, Innsbruck/Wien and Clemens Thimme Gallery, Karlsruhe
 

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