Christoph Korn
Encyclopedia
Christoph Korn is a German audio
and media artist working with diverse artistic forms of expression: Composition
and Installation
, video
, text
, net art and improvisation. He is a lecturer for Improvisation and Aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences
, Frankfurt and lives in Düsseldorf
.
and São Paulo
in the liberation theological
project in 1988 and 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s his first artistic works emerged, even though a political or historical perspective for the subsequent artistic work always remained definitive. From 1992–1998, he studied Political Science
and Philosophy
in Frankfurt upon Main at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.
. In the last few years, he has increasingly put this into practice using the strategy of deleting
and withdrawing. As an example, see Waldstueck network installation.
His solo works and works in collaborations together with sound artists like Rüdiger Carl, Alfred Harth
, TEXTxtnd (Augst/Daemgen/Ehinger), Lasse-Marc Riek and visual artists like Raymond Pettibon
led him to numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media-art: WienModern/Vienna, Ars Electronica
/Linz, FILE HIPERSÔNICA/ São Paulo, Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE/Berlin, Taktlos Festival/ Bern, Philharmonie/Cologne, Museum of Modern Art Serralves/Porto
, Museum of Modern Art Sraßbourg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Transmediale Berlin, Realisations for intermedium Center for Art and Media ZKM/Karlsruhe or German radio stations like HR, WDR, SFB, DLR, SDR, SWR, art radio ORF, Festivals in Spain and Portugal.
“Best international documentary” at: New York International Independent Film and Video Festival ’07.
Grand prize- Erasmus EuroMedia Award 2007 (Austria).
Awarded with: “Prémio RTP” beim: XI Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta, Loures, Portugal 2000.
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
and media artist working with diverse artistic forms of expression: Composition
Composition
Composition may refer to:* Composition , in which one assumes that a whole has a property solely because its various parts have that property* Compounding is also known as composition in linguistic literature* in computer science...
and Installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, video
Video
Video is the technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.- History :...
, text
Written language
A written language is the representation of a language by means of a writing system. Written language is an invention in that it must be taught to children, who will instinctively learn or create spoken or gestural languages....
, net art and improvisation. He is a lecturer for Improvisation and Aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences
Fachhochschule
A Fachhochschule or University of Applied Sciences is a German type of tertiary education institution, sometimes specialized in certain topical areas . Fachhochschulen were founded in Germany and later adopted by Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Greece...
, Frankfurt and lives in Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
.
Early career
In the 1980s, he was involved in political movements and worked with street children in Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro , commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area and agglomeration in South America, boasting approximately 6.3 million people within the city proper, making it the 6th...
and São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
in the liberation theological
Liberation theology
Liberation theology is a Christian movement in political theology which interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of a liberation from unjust economic, political, or social conditions...
project in 1988 and 1989. At the beginning of the 1990s his first artistic works emerged, even though a political or historical perspective for the subsequent artistic work always remained definitive. From 1992–1998, he studied Political Science
Political science
Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...
and Philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
in Frankfurt upon Main at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University.
Artistic work
Christoph Korn’s solo work moves at the interface of audio and media art. An essential part of this work is the phenomenon of durationDuration
In music duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval. A duration is a property of a note that becomes one of the bases of rhythm.A tone may be sustained for varying lengths of time...
. In the last few years, he has increasingly put this into practice using the strategy of deleting
Deletion
Deletion is the act of deleting or removal by striking out material, such as a word or passage, that has been removed from a body of written or printed matter.Deletion may refer to:*File deletion, a way of removing a file from a computer's file system...
and withdrawing. As an example, see Waldstueck network installation.
His solo works and works in collaborations together with sound artists like Rüdiger Carl, Alfred Harth
Alfred Harth
Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...
, TEXTxtnd (Augst/Daemgen/Ehinger), Lasse-Marc Riek and visual artists like Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon is an American artist who currently lives and works in Venice Beach, California.-Early life:...
led him to numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media-art: WienModern/Vienna, Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica
Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...
/Linz, FILE HIPERSÔNICA/ São Paulo, Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE/Berlin, Taktlos Festival/ Bern, Philharmonie/Cologne, Museum of Modern Art Serralves/Porto
Serralves Foundation
Serralves Foundation is an art foundation whose mission is to raise the general public's awareness concerning contemporary art and the environment. The foundation is located in Porto, Portugal.-Casa de Serralves:...
, Museum of Modern Art Sraßbourg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Transmediale Berlin, Realisations for intermedium Center for Art and Media ZKM/Karlsruhe or German radio stations like HR, WDR, SFB, DLR, SDR, SWR, art radio ORF, Festivals in Spain and Portugal.
Web art
CD
- Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (2007): Jugernd, TEXTxtnd/Deutschlandfunk Frankfurt.
- Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2005): Post Blank. Cover Art by Albert OehlenAlbert OehlenAlbert Oehlen is a contemporary German artist. He graduated from the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, in 1978. Closely associated with the Cologne art scene, he was a member of the Lord Jim Lodge, along with Martin Kippenberger among others...
. GROB, Cologne. - Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn/Raymond PettibonRaymond PettibonRaymond Pettibon is an American artist who currently lives and works in Venice Beach, California.-Early life:...
(2002): Blank meets Pettibon. Live from Philharmonie Cologne, Cover Art by Raymond Pettibon, GROB, Cologne. - Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (2001): An den deutschen Mond. Revised German Folk Songs, Deutschlandfunk/TEXTxtnd Frankfurt.
- Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (1999): Blank, Cover Art by Günther FörgGünther FörgGünther Förg is a prominent German painter, graphic designer, sculptor, and photographer. His abstract style is influenced by American abstract painting.- Vita :...
. FMP, Berlin. - Günter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Alfred 23 Harth/Christoph Korn (1999): Alfred HarthAlfred HarthAlfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...
´s Imperial Hoot:Secrets of Development, Blue Noises, Frankfurt - Christoph Korn/Wolfgang Schliemann/Joachim Zoepf (1999): AQTRZ, NUR/NICHT/NUR, Gnadenthal
- Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn (1998): Brecht/Eisler, TEXTxtnd, Frankfurt.
- Alfred 23 Harth, Christoph Korn, Vladimir TarasovVladimir TarasovVladimir Tarasov is a Russian animator and animation director. He studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute from 1965 until 1970....
(1994): CA NaDa dry & 20, recout, Frankfurt
CD/Compilation
- Christoph Korn (2006): „Wenn alles grünt und blüht auf Emslands Fluren“, „Wo das Lager steht“. In: O bittre Zeit, revised German Lagerlieder 1933 bis 1945, Papenburg. Award of „Deutschen Schallplattenkritik 2006“.
- On KawaraOn Kawarais a Japanese conceptual artist living in New York City since 1965. He has shown in many solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale in 1976.-Early life:After graduating from Kariya High School in 1951, Kawara moved to Tokyo...
(2003): One Million Years, 32 CD Box. directed by: Christoph Korn/Oliver Augst. Der Hörverlag, Munich. Live at Documenta XI. - Christoph Korn (1998): Ritornell. In: Roma Modulare, with Haberer, Kucharski , Lopez , Rüsenberg , di Scipio, Stein, Toop, Zingaro, Goethe Institut Rom/noteworks
LP
- Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn (2005): LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE OF THE REVOLUTION, cover art by Raymond Pettibon, with Raymond Pettibon, Otomo Yoshihide, Rüdiger Carl, eventuell/A-Musik Cologne.
- Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2005): DUDEN. Cover Art by Tobias Rehberger, eventuell/A-Musik Köln.
Film/DVD video
- Jürgen Heiter (2009): Long live the people of the Revolution. 90 minutes, Essay Film. Book: Jürgen Heiter/Christoph Korn. with: Raymond Pettibon, Marianne Rosenberg, Rüdiger Carl u.o, WDR/Hessische Fernsehförderung/Hessische Filmförderung
- Jürgen Heiter (2007): Der Photograph. with: Benjamin Katz, Georg BaselitzGeorg BaselitzGeorg Baselitz is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany...
, Oliver Augst, Rüdiger Carl, Christoph Korn, Joachim Blüher, Anna und Bernhard Johannes Blume, Jan HoetJan HoetJan, Knight Hoet is the founder of SMAK in Ghent, Belgium.-Biography:Jan curated Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992...
, Ora Katz, Walther König, Ralf Küpper, Markus LüpertzMarkus LüpertzMarkus Lüpertz is a contemporary German painter and sculptor.In the 1960s, Lüpertz worked primarily in Berlin, moving on to take a professorship at Karlsruhe at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the 1970s, then to Düsseldorf where he was for over twenty years director of the Kunstakademie...
, Jonathan MeeseJonathan MeeseJonathan Meese is a German painter, sculptor, performance artist and installation artist based in Berlin and Hamburg. His works include collages, drawings and writing. He also designs theater sets and wrote and starred in a play, "De Frau: Dr. Poundaddylein - Dr...
, Werner Nekes, Rudolf Springer, Maria Anna Tappeiner, Cony Theis, Rosemarie TrockelRosemarie TrockelRosemarie Trockel is a German Artist, and an important figure in the international contemporary art movement.- Life :...
, Verdi-Quartett, Andreas Walther - Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn (2006): Blank plays Duden. Covert Art by Günther Förg and Tobias Rehberger, TEXTxtnd/Revolver, Frankfurt
- Christoph Korn (2005): Stern. In: Lisboa.Reloaded. With: Carlos Alberto Augusto, Michael Rüsenberg, Hans Ulrich Werner, Carlos ZingaroCarlos ZingaroCarlos Zíngaro is a Portuguese violinist and electronic musician active in free improvisation....
. Real Ambient, Cologne
Film music
- Christine Reeh (2006): Waiting for Europe. Dokumentarfilm, 58min. music: Christoph Korn. Portugal.
“Best international documentary” at: New York International Independent Film and Video Festival ’07.
Grand prize- Erasmus EuroMedia Award 2007 (Austria).
- Christine Reeh (2002): Requiem for my mother. 38 min., Essay-film. music: Christoph Korn. Co-production Asterisk/ESTC, Lisbon
- Christine Reeh (2000): Exile. 43 min. Documentary. music: Christoph Korn. ESTC/HFF Munich.
Awarded with: “Prémio RTP” beim: XI Encontros Internacionais de Cinema Documental da Malaposta, Loures, Portugal 2000.
- Oliver Hardt/Peter Rippl (Produzenten) (1999): Winterspruch. Music: Oliver Augst/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn. Hessischer Filmprice 1999.
Texts
- Christoph Korn (2007): Writings on sound. In: Field Notes, Gruenrekorder Online Magazin, First Issue. www.gruenrekorder.de. Frankfurt.
- Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek (2007): series invisible, Revolver Books/Frankfurt and Selektion
- Christoph Korn (2006): Speech of Discipline. In: Dieter Nittel/Cornelia Maier: Persönliche Erinnerung und kulturelles Gedächtnis, Opladen.
Grants and scholarships
- 2004 Barkenhoff scholarship, "Künstlerhäuser Worpswede", Germany
- 2005 artist in residence at Nelimarkka-Museum in Alajärvi, Finland
- 2005 honourably mentioned at the international audio art competition Phonurgia Nova 2005 (Paris/France) for the audio work „Volkslied“
- 2006 Project grant by Bundeskulturstiftung for “break on through to the other side” with Blixa Bargeld, Raymond Pettibon and others
- 2008 Project grant by “Stiftung Kunstfonds” for the intermedia work “Waldstueck”
- 2008 scholarship (Portugal) by federal state Nordrhein-Westfalen
- 2008 Phonurgia Nova Award, Paris (in the category “Intermedia”) for “series invisible” by Christoph Korn/Lasse-Marc Riek, an audio work based on deletion processes