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PERSONAL SITE (works of 1988 - 2010 and .pdf´s for download):
http://www.space123.eu

ARTISTSSPACE NY:
http://www.afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=586

VIDEO/INSTALLATION

1998/2003
STILL RUN REMIX & NY PILOT
DVD, 90 min, ed 3 + 1 AP, installation
videocredits © KLAUS HU
a meditative installation about the NY eastside,
the literary beatgeneration and the digital now.
For spatial installations/projections only.
musiccredits © Rykodisk London

1994/2006
CITY HARDWARE, 4.30 min
DVD, 12.30 min, ed 3 + 1 AP
is a 16 mm parallel cameradrive towards an american small town.
A repetitive and minimal sequence with insertions of mirrorshots in the hotelroom in Amsterdam and the veiling of the MAO portrait at TienenmanSquare in 1989.
Underlaying is minimal Rock as sound.
videocredits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits "The Travel" © KLAUS HU

TRANSITION, 8 min, 1998/2006
is a nonlinear narrative in BLUE, wherein the narration is completely lost.
You see a compartment of a train, a fence at the airport, water at the seaside, the zooming into the parking place. What does it mean? Has migrational global
storytelling completely lost its essence?
vide0credits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits © TrancePlanet

SENTO - 16 mm, beta Sp,pal, DVD 7.40 min.
an experimental fiction about the loss of
public bathing houses.
credits © Klaus Hu 94 / 96 / 2008
UA cinema Arsenal Berlin.
acting: Frank Brückner, Klaus Hu.
music excerpt © Satoshi Suzuki :
"Essay No III for Contra Bass Solo"

1987/91
STILL RUN - original sound
DVD - 55 min, ed 2
a compilation of 7 genres
videocredits © KLAUS HU
musiccredits various

UA cinema Arsenal Berlin 1991.
Videofestival Tokyo, Japan, special merit award.
WRO Festival Wroclaw, Poland;
AVE Festival Arnhem, Netherlands;
One minute world festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil;
Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany;

PRESSINFO

Recordplayer/Weltenlinie is a mix of gender, conceptual, spatial, documentary
and fictitious capability. The works render the sensible and the intelligible
as a paradoxe for stimulation.

Recent paintings show ephemeral cut-up prose in a de-layered strategy, where pentimenti are visible, sometimes seen as the only surface and sometimes rendered, to make the fictional character of these still-paintings seen. Each painting can be a short story in itself, captured at an utopian place of idleness, although worked out in the shelter of the studio.

The videoworks are deconstructions of (filmic) genres, by implementing photographic stills, animations and videorecordings. Although following the anglo-saxon idea of romanticism, the modern and the digital contemporary becomes part of the self. The technic as an extension becomes part of the body and the duration of each work an opposition towards multitasking sensibility as perceiption.

The 2003 completed DVD "STILL RUN REMIX & NY PILOT" combines fotographic
research at the NY eastside with digital inserted, in Berlin recorded live animations, to bridge the gap between the literal beat generation as sound and the digital now.

From rethinking space & identity, architectural models developed from 2000 - 2005,
which as independent sites and concepts evolved partizipations in competitions.

In 2005/6 by rethinking the role of the artist as entrepreneur, curator, scriptwriter,
and questioning social expectations, of what an artist should be, I began pursueing a curatorial research project upon intimate and traumatic desires, implementing artists of NY and the Westcoast.

Klaus Hu

1963 born in Heidelberg, Germany

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

Education

/ studies / assistancies / teachings / lectures / conferences
2008 ISEA Singapore (July 2008) guest lecture
2007 MUTAMORPHOSIS Prague (Leonardo Forum) and RE-PLACE Berlin
1998/99 gueststudy in cultural studies and multimedia at Katharina Sieverding,
.................UdK (University of the arts), Berlin.
1992....... given lectures in scriptdevelopment, UdK, Berlin.
1985/91..studies in stage design, photography, video UdK, Berlin.
1988........assistance for Robert Wilson, stagedesign and directing.
1982/83..germanic & romance studies, anthropology, University Heidelberg.

Grants

1992..fellowship for photography, senate of Berlin, catalogue, groupshow.
1992..special merit award videofestival Tokyo for the animation "STAGEBOX".

Solo Exhibitions

/ completed videos / films
2006............CITY HARDWARE / TRANSITION, DVD, 12.30 min
1998/2003...STILLRUNREMIX & NEW YORK PILOT, DVD 90 min, installation.
2001............IN SEARCH FOR J.D., video/installation, SVHS 16 min.
1998............TRANSITION, SVHS, 128 min, beta SP, pal, 8 min, transitional video.
1994............SENTO, 16 mm / beta SP, pal, 7.10 min, short narrative.
1992/96.......P.E.N, beta Sp, pal, 11.40 min, 4 musicclips.
1987/91.......STILL RUN, SVHS, DVD, pal, 55 min, a compilation of 7 genres.
1987.............STAGEBOX, SVHs, Umatic, 11 min, animation
1987.............LA COURTe DUREE, U-matic, 58 min, narrative.

Group Exhibitions

/ installations / videoscreenings / partizipation at competitions / projects / performances.

2008...........Celeste Kunstpreis Berlin, partizipation, catalogue
2006...........preparation of curatorial project BODIES DESIRES.
2005...........McCormick Freedom Museum, Chicago, competition.
2005...........BUSAN BIENNIAL, outdoor sculpture, competition partizipation.
2004...........VENEZIA per la realizzazione di opera d´arte nella nuova
.................Citadella della giustizia di Venezia, partizipation at competition.
2003/4........scriptdevelopment DESTINATION.
2003...........Arriyadh housing competition, Arriyadh, Saudi Arabia.
2003...........installation DVD, ART FORUM, Berlin.
2001/2/3...."VM"_development of architectural design for a museum of the future.
2001..........acceptance at Artistsspace NY onlinefile.
2001..........workshop with DAVID LAMELAS.
1991/98.... videoscreenings at international media and videofestivals:
.................CINEMA ARSENAL, Berlin
.................ONE MINUTE Sao Paulo, Brazil,
.................JVC Tokyo, Japan,
.................WRO Wroclaw, Poland,
..................EMAF Osnabrück, Germany,
..................AVE Arnheim, Netherlands.
1989...........NEW WORKS, paintings, gallery Deplana, Berlin, soloexhibition.
1989...........DAILY NEWS, performance, AVE Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands.
1988...........EACH SENTENCE, mediaperformance, Hotel Esplanade, Berlin.

Bibliography

2008........ISEA Singapore, conference proceeding, catalogue
2008........CELESTE KUNSTPREIS BERLIN, cat
1997........DIGITALE BILDWELTEN, Sparkasse Recklinghausen.Germany.groupshow.cat.
1992........FOTOLABORATORY BERLIN, Berlinische Galerie.Germany.groupshow.cat
1992/96...JVC.VIDEOFESTIVAL.TOKYO.Japan.cat
1992........WOLKENKRATZER.Frankfurt.Germany.publication
1991........WRO WROCLAW.Poland.cat
1998/90...AVE FESTIVAL ARNHEM.Netherlands.cat
1988........EASA.BERLIN.Germany.publication

Links

ARTISTSSPACE NY:
http://www.afonline.artistsspace.org/view_artist.php?aid=586

ARTNEWS.INFO:
http://www.artnews.info/klaushu

PERSONAL WEBSITE:
http://www.space123.eu

Klaus Hu

STUDIO WILDENBRUCH77
12045 BERLIN

49.30.68081524
klaushu@yahoo.de
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