Fuzzy Dark Spot

I have a fuzzy dark spot on my lens

The book FUZZY DARK SPOT accompanying the exhibition at the Falckenberg Collection / Deichtorhallen Hamburg examines in 56 positions how video as an artistic medium is used to interpret social and media irritations and manipulations. This refers to television, enlightenment movements of the counter-public in the 1970s, the use of video as a surveillance medium as well as a means of artistic narration as a psychosocial mirror or instrument of self-optimisation in the digital present. The great influence of video images on collective memory and consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries makes doubts about the image, discomfort with the familiar and mistrust of truth claims important motifs for artistic reflection. The title of the exhibition brings these strands together and describes a nebulous, blurred point, place or state lying in the dark. The term Fuzzy Dark Spot comes from an internet forum in which people discuss mould that has contaminated camera lenses. The exhibition, curated by Hamburg video artist Wolfgang Oelze, takes a comprehensive look at the work of Hamburg artists in the context of the Falckenberg Collection.

Artists:
Vito Acconci, Gabor Altorjay, John Bock, Claus Böhmler, Öyvind Fahlström,
Harun Farocki, Jeanne Faust, Lee Friedlander, Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Rosanna Graf, Britta Gröne/Peter Piller, Romeo Grünfelder, Christian Jankowski, Volko Kamensky, Naho Kawabe, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Nina Könnemann, Till Krause, Vlado Kristl, Lene Markusen,
Paul McCarthy, Aurelia Mihai, Ernst Mitzka, Vanessa Nica Mueller, Karina Nimmerfall, Wolfgang Oelze, Tony Oursler, Nam June Paik, Stefan Panhans, Rotraut Pape/Raskin, reproducts, Rainer Korsen/Gerd Roscher, Oliver Ross, Gerhard Rühm, Swen Erik Scheuerling, Corinna Schnitt, Paul Spengemann, Hans Stützer, Mike Mandel/Larry Sultan, Inga Svala Thorsdottir, Helena Wittmann, Steffen Zillig

Exhibition:
Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg-Harburg, 13/4-3/11/2019