open Tue: 11 am - 8 pm Wed: 11 am - 5 pm Thu-Sun: 11 am - 8 pm                                   intro concept works info events   credits   press     german version Stefan Altenburger Cédric Bobay etc. publications Christoph Büchel Fatma Charfi collectif_fact Eric Hattan Andreas Hofer Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler Steeve Iuncker Park Junebum Dagmar Keller / Martin Wittwer Franticek Klossner Chantal Michel Frédéric Moser / Philippe Schwinger Marco Poloni Christian Robert-Tissot   hartware medien kunst verein will be presenting the exhibition "So wie die Dinge liegen" (as matters stand) from 1 May to 4 July; the exhibition was conceived by Hans D. Christ and Iris Dressler as part of "scene: schweiz in nrw", the 37th International Culture Days of Dortmund with Switzerland. "So wie die Dinge liegen" comprises works of photography and video, which explore the spatial concepts of the modern-day subject, i.e. its emplacement in the world, in a variety of different ways. The artists scrutinise constructs of national territories, urban models, architecture, and private interiors, along with the fictitious pictorial and illusory spaces of the self. The analyses focus on the self-images and ideologies reflected in these spaces. With the instruments of modern image technologies, the artists create their own, displaced concepts of space and spaces of narrative, within which things are never as they appear at first sight. The exhibition is supplemented by a three-day film and lecture programme compiled by Katrin Mundt that will focus on the concepts and contradictions of national territories and identities from 4 to 6 June. Parallel to the exhibition, the Dortmund based labels "genesungswerk", "sternschaltung" will be organising concerts and performances centred on electronic pop music on the four Fridays in May. An exhibition catalogue is planned. The venue for the exhibition is the new PhoenixHalle in Dortmund, that opened in October 2003 with the very successful exhibition "games. Computer games by artists". The 2200 sq. m hall – and former spare parts warehouse – at the disused Phoenix West blast furnace works has been used to showcase international media art projects since 2003. The extensive supporting programme for "So wie die Dinge liegen" will also take place here. The exhibition is organised by medien_kunst_netz dortmund, an association comprising hartware medien kunst verein, Museum am Ostwall, Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund, and Dortmund University. Co-operation partners are dortmund-project and Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft NRW, who are developing the Phoenix site.