Exhibition The Oil Show (HMKV)
The works in the exhibition of the Hartware MedienKunstVerein deal with our dependency on oil and the economic, political, and social entanglements and consequences of this growing dependency. The exhibition analyses the effects of globalisation by following the trail of the pipeline which leads the oil mined on the shores of the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea (Ursula Biemann). It travels to the Niger Delta, into the ›Heart of Darkness‹, where a “fierce war for oil” (Die Zeit) has been raging for nearly forty years (Mark Boulos, George Osodi). It leads us to the burning oil wells in Kuwait (Werner Herzog), to the Japanese island of Hashima, the Egyptian oasis Al Qasr and the Texan town of Electra (Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Thomas Nordanstad). It comments on the planned construction of the Gazprom Tower in Saint Petersburg (Chto Delat?) and investigates the financial structure of The World in Dubai (Christian von Borries). Last but not least artists themselves are drilling for oil, on site in Dortmund, transforming the Dortmunder U into a gigantic oil refinery (UBERMORGEN.COM).
With works by: Ursula Biemann (CH), Christian von Borries (DE), Mark Boulos (US), Heath Bunting (UK), Bureau d'Etudes (FR), The Centre for Land Use Interpretation (US), Chto Delat (RU), Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Thomas Nordanstad (SE), Werner Herzog (DE), Mark Lombardi (US), Michael Mandiberg (US), George Osodi (NG), Natascha Sadr-Haghighian (DE/Iran), UBERMORGEN.COM (AT/CH) and others
Curated by: Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV)
Duration: 12 November 2011 – 19 February 2012
Venue: Hartware MedienKunstVerein at Dortmunder U (3rd floor)
Further information: www.hmkv.de
Framework programme
Fri, 11 November, 19:00 – 24:00 h, HMKV (3rd floor)
Opening of the exhibition The Oil Show (free admission)
Sat, 12 November, 16:00 h, HMKV (3rd floor)
Guided tour with the curator Dr. Inke Arns through the exhibition The Oil Show
Fri, 18 November, 20:00 h, HMKV (3rd floor)
Exhibition film programme
Further dates: 25. Nov., 2. Dec., 9. Dec., 16. Dec., 13. Jan., 20. Jan. 27. Jan., 3. Feb., 10. Feb., 17. Feb., 20:00 h
