Atmospheric Algorithms

[2024]

Performance with electronic instrument

Collaboration between Jenny Brockmann (artist and master student of Rebecca Horn), Antonio Paucar (artist and master student of Rebecca Horn), Rebecca Raue (artist and master student of Rebecca Horn), Nina Rhode (artist and master student of Rebecca Horn), Aleksandra Selivanova (curator), Yorgos Sapountzis (artist and master student of Rebecca Horn), Ute Ackermann (curator Bauhaus Museum at Klassik Stiftung), Ulrike Bestgen (director Bauhaus Museum at Klassik Stiftung), Annette Ludwig (director Museums at Klassik Stiftung), Volkhard Knigge (former director of Buchenwald Memorial).

For “Concertare Forte – Reminiscence to Rebecca Horn’s Concert for Buchenwald” Jenny Brockmann collaborated with four other master students of Horn. She presented the performance “Atmospheric Algorithms” alongside Rebecca Horn’s installation and related with it to the problem of orientation. In the electronic age of AI, ChatGPT and IoT, that information is becoming a new kind of environment, forming something like an atmosphere around us. The intervention explored what an atmosphere means, how internal and external characteristics create a mood for humans, and how humans both shape this atmosphere themselves and are shaped by it when interacting with the human and non-human. In this context, the means of artistic research were used to orientate in the algorithmic structure of existing or newly emerging atmospheres and to understand how individual atmospheres are constructed and encoded [1]. Which parameters shape the atmospheres and which systems can simulate the senses or alter perception? How does a political consciousness arise from it? The compass in this mental cartography is the artist’s own body following the sound: a body that becomes either a conductor or an obstacle for sound waves: a conductor or an obstacle for memories.

In collaboration with: Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Workshop Rebecca Horn, and Kunstfest Weimar.

Funded by Thüringer Kulturstiftung.