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Every Word You Say, 2014

Sound installation, films

GermanEnglish

Clemens von Wedemeyer is presenting an almost purely acoustic show for his solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Braunschweig. It is dedicated to the history of the Deutsches Spracharchiv (German Language Archive), the work of its founder, the linguist and neurologist Eberhard Zwirner, and the ideas behind phonometry, which he decisively influenced. The archive once temporarily resided in the Villa Salve Hospes— the present home of the Kunstverein.

The exhibition brings together historical, scientific and fictional narratives on their same premises. Von Wedemeyer has developed an audio parcours through the building that explores the voice as an acoustic phenomenon as well as the constitutive characteristics of the human speaking apparatus. Interactive acoustic pieces make the permeation of architecture and history tangible and simultaneously negotiate the future of language as a means of communications and as an identificational factor. Historical audio documents and installations featuring computer-based sound syntheses developed especially for the exhibition will be presented alongside each other, sketching out a non-linear history in the blend of fact and fiction. The sound—generated by speech and noises—constructs a filmic space and forgoes traditional images.

“Every Word You Say” is an artistic collaboration with Moritz Fehr and Lukas Hoffmann. Curated by Hilke Wagner.

Clemens von Wedemeyer is presenting an almost purely acoustic show for his solo exhibition at the Kunstverein Braunschweig. It is dedicated to the history of the Deutsches Spracharchiv (German Language Archive), the work of its founder, the linguist and neurologist Eberhard Zwirner, and the ideas behind phonometry, which he decisively influenced. The archive once temporarily resided in the Villa Salve Hospes— the present home of the Kunstverein.

The exhibition brings together historical, scientific and fictional narratives on their same premises. Von Wedemeyer has developed an audio parcours through the building that explores the voice as an acoustic phenomenon as well as the constitutive characteristics of the human speaking apparatus. Interactive acoustic pieces make the permeation of architecture and history tangible and simultaneously negotiate the future of language as a means of communications and as an identificational factor. Historical audio documents and installations featuring computer-based sound syntheses developed especially for the exhibition will be presented alongside each other, sketching out a non-linear history in the blend of fact and fiction. The sound—generated by speech and noises—constructs a filmic space and forgoes traditional images.

“Every Word You Say” is an artistic collaboration with Moritz Fehr and Lukas Hoffmann. Curated by Hilke Wagner.

Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition views Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Every Word You Say, 2014, Exhibition view Kunstverein Braunschweig

Exhibition views Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2014

Caption: Clemens von Wedemeyer, Documentation of the exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig, 2014

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born in 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, currently lives and works in Berlin and holds a professorship for media art at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. The artist and filmmaker studied photography and media at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and graduated as Meisterschüler of Astrid Klein in 2005. Clemens von Wedemeyer participated in group shows such as the 1st Moscow Biennale (2005), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster in 2007, the 16th Biennale of Sydney (2008) and dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). He had solo shows among others at MoMA PS1, New York, ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, the Barbican Art Centre, London, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Hamburger Kunsthalle. “ESIOD 2015” premiered at the 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Berlinale) in 2016.

Most recently Wendemeyer´s work has been displayed in solo exhibitions such as Im Kontext der Sammlung: Clemens von Wendemeyer (Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Vaduz 2023) and BAKHMUT (Albertinum Dresden 2023).



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