Installation, Photography and Sound
by Maike Häusling in cooperation with Goh Lee Kwang
Exhibition: Opening on 27 October 2018 at 8pm, Lostgens’
„CAN / CANNOT“ is a typical proverb in Kuala Lumpur that can be understood with any linguistic background and is often used for fast communication. The title of the exhibition shows the characteristics of the metropolis with its diverse cultures and religions – the living side by side and at the same time apart from each other, the simultaneous stepping aside and overlapping, and creating something new and unique in the same moment.
The three months stay in a foreign country – getting to know and experiencing new cultures and languages – facilitated an artistic fieldwork. A journey of collecting sounds and architectural photographs and capturing of opposites in a city that is in the middle of a radical changing process. Especially fascinating was the dense and convoluted architectural landscapes – a juxtaposition of different styles, formations, corners, roofs and fronts with the most versatile arrangement of surfaces and colors; side by side of big construction areas, historic places, sacred sites, freeways and skyscrapers.
Details of this cityscape are photographically portrayed and are interwoven with movable paperworks and a sound collage by Goh Lee Kwang, creating a site-specific installation within the framework of the exhibition.
Workshop: How to find an idea!? The development of artistic ideas for installations in a public space.
28 October 2018, 11am-5pm
The focus of this workshop will be the development of artistic ideas for installations in the public space. First of all, Maike Häusling will present a few examples of her site-specific installations. Afterwards, the participants will explore their immediate environment: what is striking to the eye, what is disturbing, what is pleasing, what could be changed by an artistic intervention?
The sites and places will be photographed and afterwards graphically reworked and complemented with ideas for installations.
The workshop is mainly addressing art students and young artists, but anyone interested in the subject is most welcome to participate.
The workshop is free of charge. Please register until 26 October at
newsletter-programme-kl@goethe.de
Maike Häusling, * 1974 in Köln (Germany) studied at the University of Art and Design in Offenbach (Germany), based in Frankfurt a.M. (Germany), works at Studio basis e.V., Frankfurt a.M.
She uses different media, for example painting, sculpturing, installation, video, as well as collaborating with other artistic disciplines.
Goh Lee Kwang is a sound and new media artist and the founder of the platform Switch ON for electronic and experimental arts based in Kuala Lumpur.
Exhibition by Maike Häusling from Frankfurt a. M., artist of the residency exchange between Kuala Lumpur and Frankfurt a. M. initiated by the city of Frankfurt, Basis e.V., lostgens’ Contemporary Art Space and the Goethe-Institut Malaysia.
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