Hörner/Antlfinger

The Sky is Our Sea and the Trees are Our Land

In search of the ancestors of their deceased companion Karl, Hörner/Antlfinger travel to the natural history collection of the Musée...

SEEDS

In June 2022 we travelled to Uganda to see free-living African Grey Parrots. There we met Nick Byaba, a young...

Giselle Flower

The footage of Giselle was taken on early morning walks together in the park. Black cardboard leaves frame the video...

König*Innen

Non-human animals learn, pass on their knowledge, organise themselves in communities. Much of this is visible in their architectures –...

Visiting Octopus

“Why look at Animals?” John Berger asked in his famous essay from 1977, in which he analysed the estrangement of...

Karl’s Islands

2019 Installation, quilt made of velvet, 210×270 cm, Photography, Weathered Branch, Sound “[…] life is a product of putrefaction, and...

Unknown Parrot with Princess

Unknown Parrot with Princess is based on a collection of paintings, dating from the 15th to the 20th century. The double portraits show women and birds in a “complicated agencement”...

Five Conversations with Taxidermied Animals

All non-human animals in natural history collections have a story. Their stories are often closely linked to that of human animals (albeit involuntarily) ...

Site d’atterrissage pour les voyageurs dans le temps

Zeitreisen sind ein alter Menschheitstraum, wir kennen das Sujet aus Science-Fiction-Literatur und Filmen, in denen meist mittels einer Zeitmaschine ...

Back to the Future, Forward to the Past

Since 2005, Hörner/Antlfinger have been working on a processual complex of works called “Time Travel Experiments – Speaking with the Unconscious Social Mind” ...

SARAJEVO TIME TRAVEL AGENCY, PASTS PRESENTS FUTURES

Sarajevo is filled with travel agencies. Everyone dreams of travel even if not everyone can afford it ...

Every Day, in Every Way I’m Getting Better and Better

Wenn Künstler sich mit der Zukunft beschäftigen, blicken sie nicht nur nach vorn, sondern reisen auch in die Vergangenheit ...

Tales of a Parrot, Rereading the Tooti Nameh

The “Tooti Nameh” or “Tales of a Parrot” is a collection of stories of Indian origin written down in Persia...

Figure No. 1 (small demon)

Dämonen werden in der Regel heraufbeschworen, wir müssen sie in unserer Welt willkommen heißen. Es handelt sich um machtvolle Konstrukte,...

MILK

Video Installation

Two Homes

»Two Homes« is based on found footage films, showing the life of a bird from the perspective of a Japanese...

Rabbits – Getting an Idea of Something. Thinking Things through to the End

“Rabbits – Getting an Idea of Something. Thinking Things through to the End” is about places that most of us...

Factory ≠ Farm

Conceived as a research project in the Oldenburg region, the exhibition Discrete Farms at the Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art explored...

KRAMFORS

KRAMFORS is based on the deconstruction of the eponymous leather sofa from a Swedish furniture chain. In the sculptural process,...

Dream Water Wonderland

Since the advent of nuclear power in Germany, two sites have become synonymous with the end of a technological-feasibility fantasy...

Istanbul Time Travel Experiment

„ (…) In fact, the discovery process started at a place like this one: That place looks like it has...

The Caves of Lacan

This series of eight automatic drawings ushers us into a world of snapshots, showing organic composites based on a fantastic...

Le Chat Noir

Today as in the past, superstition yields strange fruit, promising compact explanations for a world that is ever harder to...

Le nouveau OMIZA

Since the mid-1980s HONDA has been working on the development of humanoid robots for use within the human environment. ASIMO,...

Contact Call

The two-part room installation Contact Call makes use of the most effective “mating calls” of our time, employing the competing...

Meditation for Avatars

“Meditation for Avatars” was the first meditation experiment conducted within a computer network. Since September 6, 2006, the day on...

Mapping Chaos

The origin for “Mapping Chaos” was memory – memory of things from our habitat. Details of the contents of cupboards,...

Sofia Time Travel Experiment

In summer 2005, we began to devise a series of time travel experiments in which the city of Sofia was...

They Read/Sie Lesen

In the town of Heidenheim fourteen locations are fitted with respectively one LCD display on which an invisible text is...

Infinite Land

“O’er Mithgarth Hugin | and Munin both Each day set forth to fly; For Hugin I fear | lest he...

Model Juvenile

The 3-D projection shows a spaceship en route to an uncertain future. Cameras orbit through the various decks in the...

Lunch in a cross-species household

It is lunchtime in the patchwork family. Human and non-human relations gather to prepare and partake of what in many...

L’après-midi d’un avatar

A night-time landscape. Two human avatars are strolling down a road. They talk about various communities, especially ones with non-human...

Monkey King

The Monkey King works at the foot of the sacred mountain Wutai Shan for one of the new self-employed entrepreneurs...

Kagoshima

After three days confined to bed with acute fever in Kagoshima we spend an afternoon visiting one of Japan’s largest...

I want to believe

“I Want To Believe. Mountain Tent With Sleeping Yeti” conjoins mediatheoretical deliberations with ironic elements as an excursion in Net...

I cant do anything without you

1999 Installation 2 painted keyboards connecting cable

Snowwhite and Dwarfs

A plastic Snow-White offers sanctuary to seven dwarves below her majestic cloak. ”At the touch of a button the cranky...

Two Lives? A Debate

“Two Lives? A Debate” is based on e-mail interviews with artists and scientists, whose everyday life and work is substantially...

Fuzzy & Logic

Through the eyes of the two characters ”Fuzzy” and ”Logic” the viewer sees various visual worlds: a hand brushing along...

Monokroms, EitherOr

Monokroms is an interactive film about the way in which experiences – direct and mediated – constitute our mode of...

Possible Selves

“Possible Selves” is a game that begins on a psychologist’s desk. Visitors who fiddle about with his computer initially gain...

40 Talks about Art und Labour

1992 Interviews with artists und trade unionists Photo wall 1,65m x 4,80m

AEG, Corporate Image Linked

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