This is the website of the German artist Anke Eckardt.

Her work encompasses art, research and teaching.
She is Professor of Fine Arts at Kunstuniversität Graz /
University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
Anke Eckardt lives in Austria.

Photo: Nihad Nino Pušija. Of Urinals and Ornaments, installation view, Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch, Berlin
Text excerpt: Marie-Therese Bruglacher

For more information about the installation please click on the photo.

For more information about the installation please click on the photo.

||| The Appearance (of a Free Will) 2020

Multimedia Installation and Booklet by Anke Eckardt at CTM Festival Berlin 2020
You can click on the picture to find a video and more information.

Exhibition: 26th of May - 5th of July 2018
Opening: 25th of May 2018, 7pm Vernissage with Performance
with Jiyun Park and Nils Herzogenrath



HAUT dry/wet makes it possible to perceive the architecture of the MAKK main hall as a sounding body.

In "De re aedificatoria" (ca. 1443 - 1452) Leon Battista Alberti develops the topos that the body of a building is covered by a skin of several layers of plaster, a dress that corresponds to its individual social position. At the beginning of the 20th century, this concept of architecture as representation changed from the ground up; the naked, smooth wall - the skin lying under the clothing - became visible.

Based on this, the Cologne-based artist Anke Eckardt chooses her material for the installations: special loudspeakers in combination with acoustic materials as sculptural objects. A dodecahedron, a spherical loudspeaker, communicates with the surrounding space. Used in acoustic research for measurements, it radiates impulses in 360 degrees, body and skin of the architecture respond with reflections. The construction of space also takes place on the basis of a critical examination of technology. Developed by the American military, extremely directional ultrasonic loudspeakers serve, among other things, the police of various nations for crowd control, the targeted manipulation of demonstrations by means of sound. In the exhibition, power-reduced sonic beams are used indirectly. A central question in Eckardt's work is: Who defines public space and how does space determine social behavior?

HAUT dry/wet combines the opposing principles: acoustic wisp lights overlap with a dialogue between sphere and space, latex and foam cubes reflect and absorb sound. In interaction they activate and transform the space in its aesthetic and social effect and thus define our auditory perception.

The exhibition will be complemented by a performances on 25.05.2018.

Credit Photos: Holger Kist

|||     BAU KUNST ERFINDEN - TRANSDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PLATTFORM:



I am part of the transdisciplinary research platform BAU KUNST ERFINDEN at the University of Kassel.
BUILDING ART INVENTION (click link).

Within my ongoing PhD project POLA (Parametrical Open Field Low Frequency Absorbtion) I research ways of sound insulation / noise control in public space - particularly next to highways, spaces of transit.
The focus is on the layer of material. The development of novel low-cost-high tech materials on macro, micro and nano-scale open up new sculptural as well as new technological approaches.

||||     PUBLICATION: ANKE ECKARDT´S ARTIST BOOK AT REVOLVER PUBLISHING (click link).

||||     VIDEODOCUMENTATION OF THE AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION ‘GROUND' BY ANKE ECKARDT


From July 2014 at Skanu Mesz sound art exhibition, Riga, Latvia.
If possible please watch it in HD (at Vimeo) and with good loudspeakers!

||||     EXIT & VIA FESTIVAL (FR) - "STALKER 2" AUDIOVISUAL INSTALLATION BY ANKE ECKARDT

Library of the Unwanted is the first project from newly formed English/German collaboration UPAETH. Consisting of sound artists, Toby Heys and Anke Eckardt and light artist Ulf Pedersen, UPAETH will create a sound and light installation for the music section of Manchester’s iconic central library.

For more information please click on the photo.

ARTISTS: Toby Heys, Anke Eckardt and Ulf Pedersen

This project is supported using public funding by Arts Council England and by TRACTION.
Dates: 10 December - 13 December 2015
Place: Manchester Central Libray, UK

||||     PRESENTATION AT THE SOUNDSTUDIES SALON, PUBLIC SCHOOL, LOS ANGELES
ANKE ECKARDT - AETHETICS AND ACOUSTICS / ONGOING PROJECTS (click link).

Date: March 12, 2015
Place: The Public School LA, 951 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Tickets: Free entrance


The SOUNDSTUDIES SALON is initiated by Tyler Adams. On March 12 Anke leads an open discussion about the aesthetic and acoustic aspects of three of her ongoing projects: a sonification of the multiple proportions of the 'How House' in Silver Lake, Los Angeles in collaboration with German sculptor Sandra Peters, the creation of translational and cross-modal sensory experiences for DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA, a transdisciplinary artistic research project based at the Department of Digital Art at University of Appled Arts Vienna, Austria, and a collaborative research project on a passive/active noise cancellation system for highways, initiated by the platform BUILDING ART INVENTION at the University of Kassel.

BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall of light and sound.
Like any other wall, it redefines an existing architectural space. Instead of stone, this wall consists of dynamic, ephemeral media: beams of light within the air and ultrasound. Unlike countless separative and immaterial walls in society BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is a wall people can walk through.



BETWEEN | YOU | AND | ME is funded by the  ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE GRANT OF THE SAXON STATE MINISTRY FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, RESEARCH AND THE FINE ARTS 2011 (click link).
This grant is awarded in co-operation with City of Dresden and, co-funded by CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013) in framework of European networking- and co-operation project  E.C.A.S. – NETWORKING TOMORROWS´S ART FOR AN UNKNOWN FUTURE (click link) ’ __organised by: TRANS-MEDIA-AKADEMIE HELLERAU e.V. (click link).

The GROUND is in motion. Thus it will move the visitors which stand on it. The motion of the ground can be felt via the equilibrium sense (sense of balance), can be seen and can be heard. The grinding, sanding, pushing, bouncing, vibrating, creaking of the mechanically moved material will produce a varity of tonal qualities with diverse roughness and awakes associations of earth quakes, tectonical plates in motion, but also of the diffuse experience of loosing the ground. In 1934 Husserl wrote about the ground as reference for the perception of space and the perception of self, ‘Now, when I “conceive” the earth as a moved body, I use a ground to which all experience of bodies, and hence all experience of continuing to be at rest and in motion, is related.’ (Husserl, 1934). Vilem Flusser as an emigrated jew wrote about a hovering self over the abysm in his auto-biography 'Bodenlos’ (‘Groundless’). In his book 'Vampyrotheutis Infernalis' Flusser analyses the floating 'otherness' of a huge octopus in the deep sea and draws a line to the psychology of human beings.

Concept/Realisation/Composition: Anke Eckardt
Construction: hertzer GmbH, Berlin
Thanks to: Marcus Schmickler

Co-funded by BA Pankow von Berlin - Amt für Weiterbildung und Kultur, Fachbereich Kunst und Kultur and Einstein Foundation Berlin, realized with the support of the Graduate School of the Arts and Sciences.

Prototype:
reduced fragment, size: 10,5m2 vertically moved
42 elements of concrete
42 elements for vertically pushing impulses

Final Installation (January 2014):
size: 30m2, vertically and partly horizontally moved
84 elements of concrete
72 channels of vertically pushing impulses
6 rows of horizontal motion

|||     PANEL "GROUND - DEBATTE ÜBER DEN BODEN" INITIIERT VON ANKE ECKARDT IM RAHMEN DES "SALON FÜR ÄSTHETISCHE EXPERIMENTE" (click link).

Datum: Mi, 25.09.2013 um 19h
Ort: Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin

ZUM PANEL: GROUND - Debatte über den Boden
In ihrem künstlerischen Forschungsprojekt GROUND beschäftigt sich Anke Eckardt mit dem Boden und der Boden-
losigkeit. Das Panel soll verschiedene Denkräume eröffnen. In Anknüpfung an die Anthropozän-These wird gefragt, mit welchen Methoden der Mensch in die Erdsystemanalyse im Rahmen der aktuellen Klimafolgenforschung einbezogen wird. Desweiteren wird der Boden aus erkenntnistheoretischer, philosophischer Sicht betrachtet. Anke Eckardt baut derzeit eine Installation, bei der die Besucher direkt auf einem sich bewegenden, instabilen Boden stehen. Im Rahmen der disziplinenübergreifenden Debatte eröffnen sich Fragen nach Formen der Wissensproduktion und Wissensrepräsentation. Es gilt Daten, Denkmodelle und künstlerische Transformationen kritisch zu betrachten und auf eine denkbare Emergenz hin zu untersuchen.

Gäste:
Prof. Dr. Claus Pias, Medientheoretiker, Philosoph des Digitalen; Kybernetik-Spezialist
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Lucht, Physiker, Nachhaltigkeitswissenschaftler, Forschungsfeld Erdsystemanalyse
Anke Eckardt, Klang- und Medienkünstlerin
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Alberto de Campo

ZUM SALON FÜR ÄSTHETISCHE EXPERIMENTE:
Der Salon widmet sich Projekten und Ansätzen, die die unterschiedlichsten wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und künstlerischen Genres miteinander ins Gespräch bringen. Der Salon für Ästhetische Experimente ist eine Kooperation des Haus der Kulturen der Welt mit der Graduiertenschule für DIE KÜNSTE UND DIE WISSENSCHAFTEN.

|||     ARTIKEL "VERTIKALITÄT UND MACHT. DREI HÖRSTUDIEN: 1945 – 1965 – 2012" VON ANKE ECKARDT
IN DER ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR SEMIOTIK, DOPPELHEFT IM JAHR 2013 MIT DEM THEMENSCHWERPUNKT "SITUATION UND KLANG - ZU SEMIOTISCHEN ANSÄTZEN IN DER KULTUR- UND MEDIENWISSENSCHAFT DES KLANGS" (click link).

Herausgeber: Holger Schulze
Mit Beiträgen von: Susanne Binas-Preisendoerfer, Jochen Bonz, Christa Brüstle, Anke Eckardt, Veit Erlmann, Franco Fabbri, Annie Goh, Carla Müller Schulzke, Ulrike Sowodniok
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem internationalen Forschernetzwerk der DFG >Sound in Media Culture: Aspects of a Cultural History of Sound< http://www.soundinmediaculture.net

Zusammenfassung "Vertikalität und Macht. Drei Hörstudien: 1945 – 1965 – 2012": Die Autorin unternimmt eine Grundlagenstudie, um das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen den Nutzungsstrukturen innerhalb des vertikalen Raumes und der Repräsentanz bzw. Inszenierung von Macht zu untersuchen. Kulturgeschichtlich, aus Perspektive einer Historischen Anthropologie des Klanges, richtet sie ihr Augenmerk neben den klanglich-physischen Aspekten vor allem auch auf die psychologische und politische Dimension des Hörens. Zur Analyse wird darum ein Kategoriensystem genutzt, welches sowohl das Erklingende als auch das Gehörte in seiner physischen und seiner semiotischen Dimension erfasst. Situationen vertikalen Hörens werden dabei anhand von drei historischen und aktuellen Fallstudien analysiert: 1965 als die Regierungen der DDR und der Sowjetunion Düsenjets über der Berliner Kongresshalle in Westberlin fliegen ließen; 1945 als sowjetische Soldaten auf dem Dach des Berliner Reichstages ein Siegerritual durchführten; und 2012 als die Berliner Polizei am 1. Mai über Berlin-Kreuzberg einen Hubschraubereinsatz flog.

Summary "Verticality and Power. Three studies of listening: 1945 - 1965 - 2012": The author undertakes basic research on the relation between the structures of use in regards to vertical space and the means of representation and performativity of power. From the perspective of cultural history and especially from a historical anthropology of sound she concentrates not just on sonic and physical aspects but furthermore on the psychological and political dimensions of listening. For the analysis she applies a set of categories to approach the actual sounds as well as the hearing experience in its physical as well as its semiotic dimension. She analyses situations of vertical hearing by means of three historical and contemporary case studies: 1965 when the governments of the GDR and the USSR sent fighter jets over the Berliner Kongresshalle in Western Berlin; 1945 when soviet soldiers performed a triumphant ritual on the roof of the Berlin Reichstag; and 2012 when the Berlin police undertook a helicopter operation over Berlin-Kreuzberg on May 1st.

|||     DYS-)FUNKTIONEN KLANGLICHER GESTALTUNG: VON DER MILITÄRMUSIK BIS ZUM
         PERSÖNLICHEN KLINGELTON. (click link)

In Kooperation mit dem IDZ http://www.idz.de veranstaltet das DFG-Forschungsprojekt "Funktionale Klänge"
am Institut für Kulturwissenschaft der Humboldt-Universität Berlin eine Roundtable-Diskussion.

Datum: Fr/Sa 14./15.12. 2012, Do 7.02.2013 19:30
Ort: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Kulturwissenschaft, Georgenstr. 47, 10117 Berlin

Wie werden mediatisierte, nicht-sprachliche Klangzeichen, sogenannte funktionale Klänge, erlebt und wie ist ihre Gestaltungstheorie kulturwissenschaftlich zu beschreiben? Was sind die historischen Vorläufer und Traditionen der Klanggestaltung, und welche aktuellen Probleme der Gestaltungspraxis gibt es?
Wir laden dazu ein, mit WissenschaftlerInnen, GestalterInnen und KünstlerInnen über diese Fragen zu diskutieren.
Eine klangkünstlerische Performance von Anke Eckardt und Tiago da Costa e Silva steht dabei im Zentrum der Diskussion unter dem Titel DYSFUNKTION: EINE HOMMAGE AN BRUCE NAUMAN´S DAYS.

Participants:
Silke Wenzel (Musikwissenschaftlerin, HFMT, Hamburg)
Cornelius Ringe (Senior Partner, Audio Branding Academy, Hamburg)
Anke Eckardt (Klang- und Medienkünstlerin, Berlin)
Tiago da Costa e Silva (Philosoph, Berlin/São Paulo)

Hosts:
Holger Schulze (Klanganthropologe, Sound Studies Lab, Berlin)
Carla Müller-Schulzke (Kulturwissenschaftlerin, Sound Studies Lab, Berlin)

|||   PRESENTATION OF MY ONGOING ARTISTIC RESEARCH PROJECT @ THE
    "CONFERENCE ON PRACTICE.BASED RESEARCH IN ART AND DESIGN " (click link).


I was invited to present my ongoing research project "SONIC BEAM ))) - ON THE PERCEPTION OF ULTRA-DIRECTED ACOUSTIC RADIATION." at the "CONFERENCE ON PRACTICE.BASED RESEARCH IN ART AND DESIGN" at the Bauhaus-Universität in Weimar.

Date: 1-3 December 2011
Adress: Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Fakultät Gestaltung, Ph.D. Promotionsstudiengang Kunst und Design / Freie Kunst, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7, 99423 Weimar, Germany

Photo: Sebastian Prince

||| INTERVIEWS ||||




|||   SHORT INTERVIEW FOR EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION

After the presentation of my SOUND SCULPTURE ‘ ! ’ MULTICHANNEL at the TODAYSART festival 2010 in The Hague, NL, Hugo Verweij, who runs the very inspiring website EVERYDAY LISTENING / SONIC INSPIRATION (click on link) reviewed my piece and asked me for a short interview within his series FIVE SOUND QUESTIONS TO ...
I felt very much honoured to take part and you can find the short interview, which just came online on Friday, Octobre 22, here: link (click)



||||   VIDEOINTERVIEW at TODAYSART FESTIVAL

There is another video-interview I gave at the TODAYSART FESTIVAL itself in The Hague on 25 September 2010. To see the 2:44min video please follow the   link (click)




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On the topic of verticality and illusions.
70cm x 65cm.
Edition of 10.
Signed by the artist.
Photoprint on Alu Dibond.

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