TRUE CRIME
THE WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION 2021 HAVE BEEN SELECTED!
In the international competition for videomapping and façade projection with the annual theme "True Crime", everyone interested was able to submit their artistic work in form of a 30 second video clip. After the end of the public voting and the consultations of our expert jury, the winners for this year's competition locations have been selected:
The winning contributions 2021
Bastille – „Blessing to Misfortune“ by John Tettenborn & Kourtney Ross
At the Bastille, the artists will tell the story of the ill-fated maid and child murderer Johanna Catharina Höhn, who was imprisoned at this place with high probability until her death by beheading on the 28th of November 1783. In doing so, they want to draw attention to comparable tragic stories of young women who once murdered their newborn children out of desperation and under great social pressure.
For their projection on the Bastille, they use disjointed facade-like panels similar to those of a graphic novel.
Artist Facts:
John Tettenborn is a Berlin-based Motion Designer specializing in Motion Graphics for Projection Mapping Animations. He has a long experience working for Agencies, mainly with the RE:SORB Collective.
Kourtney Ross is a Berlin-based composer and Violinist. She studied at the world renowned contemporary music school, Berklee College of Music in Boston (Massachusetts, USA) and has a Bachelor of Music in Contemporary Writing and Production.
RE:SORB is an artist collective based in Berlin. They have more than 15 years of experience working for agencies, art festivals and clients alike. Their artworks have been projected on the Brandenburg Gate, German presidential office, Victory column in Berlin, Bolshoi Theater in Moscow and the Torre Latinoamericana in Mexico City.
Altenburg – „Der rote Faden“ by Vanessa Cardui
Franz Liszt once resided in the Altenburg. After the uprising of 1848, Richard Wagner also found shelter with the composer in the Altenburg as a wanted revolutionary.
The graphic animations of the artist draw with a red thread sketchy memories of that time on the facade of the Altenburg: on the one hand the bloody riots and street fights of the March Revolution, on the other hand the striving for freedom and unity, which moved to that uprising. The projection is accompanied by the composition "Am Grabe Richard Wagners" by Franz Liszt. He had composed this piece for the funeral of his son-in-law Richard Wagner. It unites the coming into being and passing away, the blossoming, the rebellion and the failure of that revolution, which are figuratively written down on the facade.
Artist Facts:
Vanessa Cardui finished her double diploma of „art and culture“ at University Hildesheim in Germany as well as „médiation culturelle de l’art“ at Université de Provence in France. After her studies of arts she was living and working in Hong Kong for 5 years. Now she is back in Berlin working in her atelier on her new animation films. Vanessa Cardui was already exposing in several international exhibitions in Australia, Argentina, Finland, Russia, Hong Kong and Germany.
The Festival 2021
As a festival for projection art and media architecture, the Genius Loci Weimar Festival combines many different genres: architecture, media art, design, performing arts and fine arts. In the past competitions, artists from all over the world have dealt with the historical sites of the classic city and the young art form of videomapping.
The history of Weimar is far broader than its “golden” and “silver” eras. Many a culture war has been fought within the city walls and countless tragic figures have passed through its dwellings and dungeons: In its 10th edition, Genius Loci dedicates itself to this dark side of Weimar with the annual theme "True Crime" and will begin the tour at the Bastille Ensemble, a veritable institution of princely power in Weimar. It is also where the young maid and child murderer Johanna Catharina Höhn was most likely incarcerated until her execution by beheading. The tour continues on the south facade of the Baroque Weimar City Castle and onward to the Marstall, the Former ducal stables with its former Gestapo cellars. Then it’s up to the Goethe- and Schiller Archive and finally to the Altenburg, where Franz Liszt hid the young Richard Wagner, who was wanted as a revolutionary, terrorist and subversive after the failed May uprising in Saxony in 1849.
Last year, the festival could not take place due to the pandemic. But of course the winning atworks of the competition 2020 are not gone – the festival 2021will include the as yet unscreened public presentations besides this year's winning works at the Marstall, the Goethe- and Schiller Archive and the Altenburg. As such, this year’s festival in its jubilee edition will for the first time encompass four main locations and five artworks.
Genius Loci Weimar takes place in cooperation with the festival organisation MXPerience gUG. The festival is also supported by the Thuringian Ministry of Economics, Science and Digital Society, the State Chancellery of Thuringia, the City of Weimar, the Sparkasse Central Thuringia, the Weimarer Wohnstätte GmbH, the Best Western Premier Grand Hotel Russischer Hof, Epson, Logando and rebeam.
Genius Loci Weimar | Festival for Videomapping and Façade Projection | September 24-26, 2021
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