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Why?
Very few things in human life repeat themselves as precise as birthdays do. Everybody has birthday once a year. To pay additional attention to quarter and half centuries are considered to be especially fancy for festivities of such kind. In the field of german non-profit organizations one is already happy about a decade.

Why?
Stimulated by the "Het Apollohuis" of Eindhoven and the "Experimental Intermedia Foundation" of NYC the Dortmund-based non-profit-organization "mex" was founded on Santa-Claus-day of the year of 1992 and unexpectedly so fare didn’t get resolved. Also it seemed that mex successfully managed to stay small instead of becoming deformed to a thing that we call an institution. Throughout notorious and continuos co-operations with likeminded ladies and gentlemen within Germany and abroad, a living and still branching network was constructed, that naturally gained national and international acceptance and attention. Over the years mex tried to present artists that where hardly ever or not often enough presented to the international audiences of the national basements and vice versa. The focus was always on the experimental character of the art work that was presented and hopefully never distracted by attempts to establish an artistic genre or any sort of status quo. Naturally mex would mostly like to thank the many artists that created, generated and produced the success of anything presented themselves. However, we would also like to thank the Kulturbüro of the City of Dortmund, who managed continued support of a project, that happens to become untypical for todays standards in cultural politics, as we are neither interested in quantities, nor surface. "zehn" presents "new" positions and artists as well as a selection of artists that have been of great influence if not existential for the definition of "mex".

The concerts and installations are not placed in our beloved basis-basement in the Künstlerhaus, but within the abandoned apartments and storage-spaces of the Brückstraße, a quarter that was formally known for its beauty from within (and a lot of strange things on the outside). But who is interested in the reason of a party, anyway.
Because

Jens Brand / mex

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concerts
11. Dezember 2002
wednesday | 19:30 h

Sam Ashley
Guy De Bièvre
Eva -Maria Kollischan
Paul Panhuysen
Kirsten Reese
An Seebach + Marina Thies
Volker Straebel
Heinz Weber
Anne Wellmer

Sam Ashley
"seeing things"
A dance piece exploring that experience where one "thinks" one sees something that isn't there. The curious thing is how one doesn't actually "think" that. Instead, one actually (perhaps only briefly) sees something. Then one realizes what is "real" and one's perception of the world re-shapes itself accordingly. SEEING THINGS was first performed 20 years ago. I have often had the idea that it would be nice to perform it again, but I never did so. Since this is an anniversary event--a celebration of 10 years of MeX--it seemed like an occasion for me to look back as well. I look forward to performing this piece again.

Guy De Bièvre
Dead Cat on the Nile
(mixing them up)
für delta microcontroller
The belgium composer Guy De Bievre is world famous for his deconstructivist view on the world and a delightfull and elegant constructivist fusion of blues, complex feed back structures and christmas wine serving.http://www.guydebievre.de.vu/

Eva-Maria Kollischan
"Zwei Geschichten", Video
Eva-Maria Kollischan deals with the things that are minor matters. Her videos, photographs and installations show the world from its backside. "Two Stories” is a fairytale video that leads into a doubled emptiness.

Paul Panhuysen
"Radio Köln" vom Platz des himmlischen Friedens

Kirsten Reese
flute & electronics

An Seebach + Marina Thies
"Ziemlich staubig ist es in der Sahara" Computeranimation
The work from Dortmund artists An Seebach and Marina Thies takes them to the ultimate dust free space. In their clean micro fiction pixel dust floats loaded with voltage into the depths of the empty-swept Milky Way. In this utopian micro cosmos dust grains as large as boulders whirl up and settle onto smooth surfaces, only to be carried away to ever new galaxies and fog worlds. But sudden death comes to the floating pixels when a subspace gap sucks them into a time vacuum. http://www.kuenstlerhaus-dortmund.de/atel-Seebach.html

Volker Straebel
"Guben, 1625" für Computer
The 4-channel-piece is based on a recording of an electric locomotive found and attended in the railway-station of Guben. It balances the sound so carefully on the edges of hum and noise that one totally forgets to ask what the "1625” means.http://www.straebel.de/praxis

Heinz Weber
bass – 110
"100 bowed and caressed greetings for the tenth year. It is art to make the heavy light, but never forget that this are the moments when the air gets thinner. "bass 110" are 110 bases or one bass added 110 times. "
Heinz Weber, sort of translated by Jens Brand

Anne Wellmer
"travelling barefoot – mappings"
für Computer & Video
layers of maps, maps representing sonic events, locations on the map where the musicians process the video image with their sound, other places where
the map starts to process the sound of the musicians - "mappings" is a journey with an interactive improvising map. It is a journey through a computer program by two powerbooks and one to three performers. Thoughts about home ('heimat') and leaving it behind by vilem flusser and doretti neander are woven into the structure of the piece. Every performance is a unique movement through the landscape of the piece. "mappings" is a work in progress. 'the map', a collage of flight charts, is not an image of where sounds were produced or recorded. it is a representation of movement and dislocation and of the desire to be somewhere else.

exhibition
13. Dezember 2002
friday | 19 h
vernissage

Maria Blondeel
Jozef Cseres
hans w. koch
Eva -Maria Kollischan
Phill Niblock
Paul Panhuysen
An Seebach & Marina Thies

17.12.02 - 11.01.03
//Installation

finissage
11.January 2003
saturday | 18 h
Judy Dunaway
Ballon-concert
http://jdunaway.web.wesleyan.edu

The exhibition tries to give a compressed imprint what kind of chaos can happen if somebody tries to show the artistic past, the present and the future of an concert and exhibition program within two and a half rooms all at the same time.

Maria Blondeelinstalls sound, light and video, that will not be uninfluenced or ininfluenced by the audience, the Eigelstein and the
daytime.http://listen.to/street_work

Jozef Cseres presents and entire museeum and a heaven of violins. The sound installation of hans w koch touch each sailors heart, ...but also
will not leave the audience untouched.

hans w. koch will be there.

Paul Panhuysen who helped mex for many many centuries will fill a wall withgraphics and calculations.

Eva-Maria Kollischanwill show what is beyond and what is behind.

Phill Niblock, another godfather of mex, will please us with transparencies.
http://experimentalintermedia.org/

An Seebach and Marina Thies will give deep insights into a psychedelic universe made of household leftovers and dirt.
http://www.kuenstlerhaus-dortmund.de/atel-Seebach.html

Christa Marek offers a jolly view on ten years of mex-design...

Finally Judy Dunaway hopes that nobody shows up who is younger then 12 and makes ballons scream and ears ring.