Maschinenraum
by khmfn (GER)
Belgian Première
About khmfn–
Karl-Heinz Mauermann works in the field of conceptual art, utilizing not only the visual arts, but also crossing the borderline towards literature and music. His media range from drawing to collage, from computer graphics, installations to video. Since the mid 1980s he participated in a number of exhibitions both in Germany as internationally. 1987 he received the Max Ernst Stipend special award in Brühl/Germany and in 2006 the radio art prize at the "Phonurgia Nova" competition in Arles/France together with Frank Niehusmann.
Frank Niehusmann works in the field of electronic music since 1978. He played numerous concerts in Europe, Asia and America. 2002 he was honoured at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges/France; 2004 he was invited as guest artist at the "ZKM Institute for Music and Acoustics" in Karlsruhe/Germany with a commissioned work for the "European Bell Festival"; 2006 he received the radio art prize at the "Phonurgia Nova" competition in Arles/France together with Karl-Heinz Mauermann.
About Maschinenraum–
"Maschinenraum" (engine room) is a live AV performance with video-feedback-loops and industrial noise music. The "sound engineer" Frank Niehusmann, standing within the beam of a video projection, performs, transforms and collages industrial and machine sounds. Thus he becomes part of the projection, reacts to it and within it. During the performance, the "image installator" Karl-Heinz Mauermann creates a kinetic installation: his projected image sequences are based on double visual feedback of live recorded video pictures, of simple homemade model machines, optoelectronic construction pieces and light reflections. Minimal manipulation of the feedback system lead to aesthetical highly complex processes: thus the "sound engineer" becomes part of a permanently oscillating, seemingly gigantic machine world. "Maschinenraum" is a concert for both eyes and ears, a collage of objects, actors, images and ear popping sound sequences.