Thursday 4 August 2016

MCP501 Proposal Year 1 - Final Proposal

MFA: Year One Proposal - Module 501
Submission Date Full Name
01 – Title of project: tbd Camp Moschendorf (investigation of identity)

Ira Hoffecker-Sattler


02 – Name of student and any collaborators and their roles
student Ira Hoffecker
collaboration/interview with Dr. Peter Gary, Holocaust survivor,and collaboration with composer and musician Concetta Abbatte for one of the recordings for the sound piece


03 – Advisors :  Andrew Cook for studio and Caroline Koebel for the research 


03.A - Please check off all areas that relate to your work:
If other or additionally was selected please elaborate here:

Memory, Forgetting, Trauma and the Archive Other or additionally:
Identity of a certain place over the course of time



04 – Description of proposed project or body of work – practical element
The project is an installation consisting of several elements:

Painting: I am planning to create a body of paintings. I want to push myself further and bring myself more into the work and go away from 'only' creating maps. As discussed with Andrew I plan to create 4 to 6 big paintings over the next 12 months. 

Soundpiece: details in the first year proposal blog, sound piece consisting of 5 loops juxtaposing current right wing extremist voices to voices of : a ) holocaust survivor Dr. Peter Gary, my own voice reading paul Celan, voices from the Wannsee Conference and the voice of Hitler and his 'Prophezeiung' speech
I will be closely looking at the work of the following artists:-Sound artists: Georg Klein, Timo Kahlen, Susan Hiller, Janet Cardiff, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon. Nick Couldry’s book: ‘Why Voice Matters’

-Text/sound installation: Jenny Holzer



05 – Description of project report or thesis – written element

First I thought I would compare sound artists or installation artists but I have come to the conclusion to compare contemporary artists who investigate German identity. I have not decided who exactly these will be, but I will be researching the following artists (and certainly research more) : -Christian Boltanski, Annette Lemieux, Shiman Attie, Gunter Demnig, Karl Biedermann, Susan Hiller, William Kentridge, Georges Perec (species of spaces), Anton Kaes: Germany in Transit, Michael Verhoeven: ‘Das schreckliche Maedchen’,

      Italo Calvino ‘Invisible Cities’, Bachelard ‘Water and Dreams’, Doris Salcedo



06 – Anticipated results, e.g. documentation, performance, script, intervention, website, exhibition, book, journal

the result would be an installation piece containing several, different mediums (paintings/sound/written text scrolling down the wall) and a thesis.




07 – Initial bibliography for written element and artists I would like to research during the coming months:
Research:
-installation: Tatiana Trouve, Isa Getzken, Alecia KwadeAndro Wekna, Cornelia Parker
-using own body Carrie Mae Weems, Frieda Carlo and Kiefer etc
-Painters : Brooks Cashbough, Michael CorelloSebanstian Alsfeldt, Matthew Dibble, Anna Maria Kursawe, Joanne Greenbaum, Caroline von Heyl, Brian Rutenberg, Terry Winter, Albert OehlenEmily Kame Kngwarreye, Joyce Kozloff, Jon Cattapan, Brice Marden,
-Sound artists: Georg Klein, Timo Kahlen, Susan Hiller, Janet Cardiff, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon. Nick Couldry’s book: ‘Why Voice Matters’
-Text/sound installation: Jenny Holzer
-Maps systems, cities : Manuel Lima, Jonathan Parson, Leyla Curtis
-Investigating identity in contemporary art:  Christian Boltanski, Annette Lemieux, Shiman Attie, Gunter Demnig, Karl Biedermann, Susan Hiller, William KentridgeMichael Verhoeven: ‘Das schreckliche Maedchen’, Doris Salcedo

initial Bibliography
- Dr. Norbert Kampe: The Wannsee Conference and the Genocide of the European Jews, House of the Wannsee Conference, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-9808517-8-7
- Huyssen, Andreas : Twilight Memories, Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia, Published in Great Britain by Routledge, 1995, ISBN HB 0415 909341 1,
Georges Perec 'Species of spaces and Other Pieces', Penguin Books Ltd. London, ISBN 978-0-141-44224-2
Anton KaesGermany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005. Co-edited with Deniz Göktürk and David Gramling. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007
Review article by Tim Cole : Scales of Memory, Layers of Memory: Recent Works of Memories of the Second World War and Holocaust, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan., 2002), pp. 129-138
journal : history, aesthetics and Contemporary Commemorative Pracitice in Berlin, John Czaplicka, New German Critique, No. 65, Cultural History/Cultural Studies (Spring - Summer, 1995), pp. 155-187
[Journal]
 Italo Calvino ‘Invisible Cities’, published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editors
Susan Hiller : The Provisional Texture of Reality: JRP/Ringgier, Zurich & les Presses du reel, Dijon 
Bachelard ‘Water and Dreams’, 
- Peterson, Abby: Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Cultural Sociology, Academic Journal, September 2012, ISSN: 1749-9755
-Saltzman, Lisa: Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz; Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-521-630-33-9

8 research statement: how do artists (abc) investigate identity and juxtapose events from the past to today? 

9 in my work I am looking at the different historic layers of certain places like for example Berlin and am interested in the different identities one place can have over time. As a German I am interested in how society dealt and deals with coming to terms with the past, discussing collective memory, forgetting, suppressing, accepting the past as our heritage, remembering and working through this trauma etc. In my painting work I overlay different maps from the past and from today to talk about these layers. In further projects for my MFA now, like a sound piece, I would like to create an additional body of work, still painting simultaneously, that juxtaposes events from the past to current events. As mentioned in my blog 'First year proposal', I would like to focus in my work on one former camp (forced labour camp during Nazi times, then refugee camp, now fabrication hall), Camp Moschendorf in Bavaria, Germany, for my MFA piece. 


10a artists to compare: initially I thought I should be comparing sound artists or installation artists but have come to the conclusion that I want to compare three different artists who investigate identity: during the next months I will be further researching the work of : Christian Boltanski, Annette Lemieux, Shiman Attie, Gunter Demnig, Karl Biedermann, Susan Hiller, William KentridgeDoris Salcedo and others
and then decide in the fall who those three artists should be. 

10B. Provide one to three themes, questions, topics, issues, threads etc. to discuss, compare and contrast which are relevant to your work. IDENTITY, HISTORIC LAYERS, MEMORY

10c I will look at other artists that talk about historic identity. As mentioned in 10a I would like to decide first who I will eventually do my research on in order to pursue my theme of investigation of identity. I will ask how these artists talked about our recent history/trauma/collective memory in their work. Also I am interested in discussing artists' work, who juxtapose events from the past and compare them to today’s times and events, just as I want to do in my sound piece.

10d The sound project (which I have explained in more detail in my blog 'first year proposal) will support my creative work in that I will be using a different, actually an additional medium than painting and would like to create an installation that consists of different mediums. My research will consequently go into different directions, focussing though, on artists who discuss identity, working with any medium. So far in my work, I have only used painting and sculpture to investigate identity. In the past I have ‘just’ created one series of paintings after the other, never really considering its presentation. Now, I would like to prepare an installation that combines several mediums, talking about the same theme. Painting, sound, video, photography etc and think about how I would install the work in a big gallery space. 
10E. Are you excited to get started reading and writing about what you are researching?
Yes