Christoph Korn Audio and Media Artist 1992-1998 He Studied Political
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Christoph Korn audio and media artist 1992-1998 he studied Political Science, Philosophy and Pedagogics in Frankfurt upon Main at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University. In the 1980’s, he was involved in political contexts and worked with street children in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo in the context of a liberation theological project in 1988 and 1989. At the beginning of the 1990’s his first artistic works emerged. Christoph Korn worked in Ensembles with musicians like Alfred 23 Harth, Rüdiger Carl, Wolfgang Schliemann, Joachim Zoepf, artist group TEXTxtnd (Oliver Augst/Michaela Ehinger/Marcel Daemgen), Lasse-Marc Riek, Otomo Yoshihide, or as well in different projects with visual artist Raymond Pettibon. Christoph Korn’s solo work moves along the interface between audio and media art. To put it into practice, he has used various means of artistic expression: web- based work, film, installations, conceptual art, radioplay and composition. Essentially common among his works is his interest in minority or weak features. In the last few years, his artistic works have been based increasingly on strategies of masking, deleting or removing. Occasionally, he has used long durations to give his ideas form. His works were exhibited and performed at numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media art: WienModern/Vienna, Ars Electronica/Linz, FILE HIPERSÔNICA/ Sao Paulo, Podewil Festival x-tract SCULPTURE MUSICALE/Berlin, Taktlos Festival/ Bern, Philharmonie/Cologne, Museum of Modern Art Serralves/Porto, Angelica Festival/Bologna, Transmediale/Berlin, Whitchapell art galery/London, MMK Sraßbourg, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Realisations for intermedium Center for Art and Media ZKM/Karlsruhe or german radiostations like HR, WDR, SFB, DLR, SDR, SWR, art radio ORF. Awards, Stipends, Sponsorships: 2004 Barkenhoff Stipend, "Künstlerhäuser Worpswede" (D) 2005 Distinction at the international competition for radiophone audio art Phonurgia Nova (Arles, France) for the audio work “Volkslied” 2007 Project Sponsorship by “Stiftung Kunstfonds” [Endowment Art Fund] Bonn for the intermedial work “Waldstueck” . 2008 Foreign stipend from the State of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany 2008 Phonurgia Nova Award, Distinction, in the category intermedia for “series invisible” by Christoph Korn and Lasse-Marc Riek. 2009 Prix Ars Electronia, Honorary Mention (Digital Music) for www.waldstueck.net 2011 Stipend and Residency at the German Study Centre in Venice, Italy 2013 DIVINA SONUS RURIS binaural/nodar rural art lab, nodar, Portugal 2014 year-long scholarship from “Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn Prize Participations: 1999 Hessian Filmprize for the audio-visual Brecht/Eisler work “Winterspruch” [Winter Saying]. Winterspruch was a joint project from ten film makers. The film is based on contemporary readaptions of Brecht/Eisler songs by the band “Arbeit” made up of the musicians Augst/Daemgen/Korn. 2007 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik [The German Record Critics' Award] for the CD “O bittre Zeit”, collection and new interpretations of “camp songs” 1933-1945. A comprehensive CD documentary, compiled and released by the Documentation and Information Centre (DIZ) Emslandlager. With content-based co-operation with the German Radio Archive and the Academy of the Arts, Berlin. Curator From 2000-2012 Christoph Korn curated togehther with Rüdiger Carl and Oliver Augst the pol-festival and later on along with Hermann Kretzschmar, the festival “ROT” for contemporary music, installations and audio art, in the “Kuenstlerhaus Mousonturm” Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2014 together with Katharina Mayer „Reihe Löschen“ at Onomato, Düsseldorf Teaching 1995-2013 Christoph Korn teached „free improvised music“ and Aesthetics at the University of Applied Sciences, Frankfurt. He is guest lecturer at several universitys. Performances/ Exibitions/Compositions/Direction/Releases (selected works) exhibitions 2015 FILE 2015 - Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo (BR) screening of the film works „Pneuma“ and „Eingedenken“. 2014 Input / Output – Schnittpunkt Worpswede, Barkenhoff / Heinrich-Vogeler- Museum, Worpswede. With works by Nevin Aladağ, Nina Canell, Nezaket Ekici, Terry Fox, Dani Gal, Daniel Knorr, Christoph Korn, Santu Mofokeng, Anna Oppermann, Dan Perjovschi, Simone Schardt & Wolf Schmelter, Christine Schulz, Katharina Sieverding, Emmett Williams. kuratiert von Katharina Groth und Jost Wischniewski 2014 Gesicht (face), 12 hour long film work, screening, Cinemateca Lisbon, within the international Symposium Philosphy and Film 2014 stereo, sound installation, a/bove, Düsseldorf 2013 Vom Himmel hinter den Lidern, exhibition together with Peter Ewig, Institut für Skulpturelle Peripherie, Düsseldorf 2013 Gesicht (face), 12 hour long film work, Wandelweiser Klangraum 2013, Kunstraum Düsseldorf 2012 Listen to your City. A tower full of sound (dedicated to John Cage), (group exhibition), Copenhagen Art Festival, Knippelbro bridge, Copenhagen (DK) 2012 SOUNDS LIKE SILENCE. Cage – 4'33'' – Stille. 1912 – 1952 – 2012, (group exhibition), Hartware Medienkunstverein Dortmund (D) 2012 Sound Art. Sound as a Medium of Art, (group exhibition), Center for Art and Media, ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe 2011 Austerlitz Duplicate, Video Installation, Museum of Modern Art Serralves, Porto (PT) 2010 WORK MAKES THE WORK, Eisentrager Howard Gallery (group exhibition), Department of Art & Art History, University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2010 IN BETWEEN, Sound exhibition at The Communications Museum (group exhibition), part of RADIA LX 2010, International Radio Art Festival, Lisbon 2009 Institute for Social Research, Installation, (solo exhibition), gallery Lumiar Cité, Lisbon 2009 Waldstueck, WEB Installation, Ars Electronica (group exhibition), www.waldstueck.net , Prix Ars Electronica, Hononary Mention (Digital Musics), Linz 2009 NON Machines, (solo exhibition) Digital Art Museum in cooperation with media art Festival Transmediale, Berlin 2008 Waldstueck, www.waldstueck.net as a room based sound installation, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, (group exhibition) 2008 Waldstueck, www.waldstueck.net as a room based sound installation, (group exhibition), media art festival “File Electronic language international Festival”, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro 2007 Sorge und Kapitalismus, www.sorgeundkapitalismus.de, as a room based sound installation, (group exhibition) media art festival, Transmediale Berlin, Akademie der Künste 2002 Hyperghetto , www.hyperghetto.de, as a room based sound instllation. media art festival File Hipersonica 2003 (group exhibition), Sao Paulo, (BR). media art festival Tourist City (group exhibition), Bremen (D). art space Parkhaus (solo exibition), Düsseldorf (D) 2002 Volksliedmaschine, sound installation, Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, intermedium 2 (group exhibition), Center of Media Art and Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe Performances 2015 Guitar solo at art space Clang, Duesseldorf (D) 2011 Several Silences, music theater, with Michaela Ehinger. Coproduction EMT Frankfurt and MUNK Duesseldorf. Premiere: FFT Duesseldorf 2009 Difference, audio performance together with Carlos Zingaro, Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto (P) and Goethe Institute Lisbon. 2009 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, Angelica Festival, Bologna 2007 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, sound art series at la casa encendida, Madrid 2006 KOMET, electronic music theater , (Augst/Daemgen/Dézsy/Ehinger/Korn), commissioned by Schumannfeste Düsseldorf, Altes Kesselhaus, Böhlerwerke , Düsseldorf 2005 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (D) 2005 JUGEND. Volume 01: Freud, electronic music theater, Augst/Daemgen/Dézsy/Korn, Festival Forum Neue Musik, Deutschlandfunk Cologne and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm/Frankfurt 2004 Blank plays Duden, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna. TAKTLOS Festival, Bern. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg 2003 blank meets Pettibon, Performance, Oliver Augst/Rüdiger Carl/Christoph Korn/Raymond Pettibon, Taktlos Festival, Bern (CH), pol Festival, Frankfurt (D) Podewil Festival x-tract Sculpture Musicale, Berlin (D), Philharmonie Cologne (D) 2003 Marx, electronic music theatre, Augst/Daemgen/Dezsy/Korn, "Ars Electronica", Linz 2002 Marx, electronic music theatre, Augst/Daemgen/Dezy/Korn, Festival for contemporary music, Vienna Modern/Vienna 2002 check mate, Audioperformance. Oliver Augst/Christoph Korn, art radio ORF, Vienna intermedia work and radioplay 2014 Eingedenken, intermedia radioplay for Audio, Video und Web, www.eingedenken. de, Production Südwestrundfunk 2014 2012 “I speak this text”, Version for 2 speakers, The Mews Radio Program (London), Resonance FM (London), Mobile Radio Project (at the 30th Bienal Sao Paulo) 2010 Jossgrund Oberndorf, radioplay, Production and premiere broadcasting by Hessischer Rundfunk 2010 2010 Arbeit, Live Radioplay, by Burkhard Beins, Christoph Korn, Christian Reiner, Marion Wörle, premiere ZAM Labor Cologne, premiere broadcasting radio art Festival RadiaLx 2010, Lisbon 2009 Difference, electroacoustic composition in cooperation with Carlos Zingaro, Museu de Arte Contemporãnea de Serralves, Porto (P) and Goethe Institut Lisbon, premiere broadcasting Sept. 2010, DeutschlandRadio 2009 I speak this text, audiomodel, Production and premiere broadcasting by Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt 2009