Stefan Panhans / Andrea Winkler – The Pow(d)er of I Am Klick Klick Klick Klick and a very very bad bad musical!

15. May 2021 - 05. September 2021 Dortmunder U, Level 3

2D exhibition space

Clicking on the image takes you to a two-dimensional online exhibition space in which Panhans and Winkler's exhibition can be experienced digitally. As in a real room, you can move around live with other visitors and, if you wish, talk to each other via microphone.

 

The title of this exhibition by the artists’ duo Stefan Panhans (DE) and Andrea Winkler (CH) refers to the rhetoric used by Evangelical Protestant megachurches in the USA, preaching a market-compatible neoliberal ideology of individual self-optimisation under the guise of Christian morals. The two artists’ works revolve around SUVs, communication with artificial intelligences, everyday racism, the cult of celebrity and clichéd roles, the “uncanny valley” and other post-digital feedback loops between human beings and virtual worlds as well as, last but not least, the precarious status of cultural workers.

The exhibition presents six video installations plus a selection of sculptural and photographic works. The video installations consist of three new productions; Border Control (2021, Premiere), Defender (2021, Premiere) and If You Tell Me When Your Birthday Is (Machinima Version) (2020), together with HOSTEL (2018), Freeroam À Rebours, Mod#I.1 (2017/2021) and Noch ein Sportstück (2014).

For the exhibition, a publication with texts by Inke Arns, Martin Herbert and Tom McCarthy will be released.

As part ofthe exhibition, a comprehensive digital programme will take place.

Andrea Winkler, *1975 in Zurich

Stefan Panhans, *1967 in Hattingen (Ruhr)

live and work in Hamburg and Berlin

 

Photo credit: Anne Ratte-Polle and Lisa Marie Janke in DEFENDER, Stefan Panhans, Andrea Winkler, 2021

The exhibition is funded by:

VISIT-Stipendium der E.ON Stiftung

 

The HMKV is funded by:

Stadt Dortmund / Dortmunder U

  

 

Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes NRW

 

You will find press material on this program item in our press area.

Magazine

The exhibition magazine as a free download (PDF) can be found here – the printed version is available on-site at HMKV's exhibition space and per order via Verlag Kettler. Further information here!

Online Opening

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Press Reviews

"The exhibition by Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler at Dortmund's HMKV opens up as a mirage embedded in a "dazzle camouflage." [...] Together they conceive a transdisciplinary experiential space of postdigitality." – Springerin, Issue 3/2021

"On display is a parcours full of reference cascades; a permanent battle zone of spoken words and surprising text montages." – Camera Austria, no. 155

"What runs like a thread through the exhibition in Dortmund is the question of how the internalized dogma of self-optimization affects the body, language and psyche. Panhans and Winkler illuminate this in their video installations, photographic and sculptural works." Monopol, 08/11/2021

„…the media artist duo Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler [succeed] with the exhibition The Pow(d)er of I Am Klick Klick Klick and a very very bad bad musical a comprehensive look at the numerous aspects of one's own identity in a world expanding to the point of implosion.“ – trailer Ruhr, 06/02/2021

„This is a statement that is critical of capitalism, of course. However, what Andrea Winkler and Stefan Panhans make of this, is rather special." – WDR3 Resonanzen, 06/01/2021

„For the artists, it's about current social problems, the compulsion to adapt in uncertain times, to become more flexible in the digital world – all packed in six video installations and other art works […]. Video art to relax and reflect – on view at the Dortmunder U." – WDR Lokalzeit, 06/01/2021

"Market-conforming performance is the order of the day, an approach that aims not at community but at the ego, at the individual. An exhibition in Dortmund shows how many areas of life are affected by this: The Pow(d) of I Am", Deutschlandfunk, 05/17/2021

"HMKV exhibition The Pow(d)er of I Am: Tour with the artists at the online opening on Friday.", Nordstadblogger, 05/13/2021

"New HMKV exhibition shows media art by Stefan Panhans and Andrea Winkler – with two premieres", Stadt Dortmund, 05/06/2021

Photo Gallery – Exhibition

Photo Gallery – Works

Edition: Vinyl EP, 100 copies

Thies Mynther: DEFENDER / Border Control (Original Soundtrack)

Vinyl-EP, Edition, 100 copies, numbered

Edition: Photography Print, 20 + 2 AP copies

Stefan Panhans, Andrea Winkler: »So So Tired – Dreaming« (DEFENDER – Production Still), 2021 (Original Soundtrack)

Edition (framed) 30 x 45 cm, 20 copies, numbered