Video_Home_Video_Echange

VideoHomeVideo_Echange

Graphic Design: Irena Wölle

Video Home Video Exchange was an activity placed in the context of the modernist white cube with the aim of breaking up the traditional use of the space and creating a constantly changing set of information provided by the visitors themselves. The exchange of videos and films was a strategy used to motivate the local audience to take an active part in their cultural institution, the Westfälisher Kunstverein. The act of trading —visitors could swap their private home videos for feature films— motivated participation and introduced an economy of exchange into the film/video distribution context which was the usual practice among hobby collectors in the past. Home videos gradually became part of the exhibition, and showed the interiors and private lives of the participating local audience, which became an antidote to the otherwise generally uptight and closed environment of Münster life.

Video: Compilation of home videos from participants edited by Apolonija Šušteršič:

0:00.14 Max Sudhues: Homevideo

0.06.36 Oliver Feldman: Straßenfest

0.18.25 Yvonne Roeb: Ein Hundeleben

0.23.04 Jens – Christian Bülskämper: Mittag in Münster

0.53.29 Verena Püschel: Wohnungsführung

0.57.23 Antonia Low: ein Frauenzimmer

1.15.14 Phillipp Lukowski: Caspar & Konstantin

1.25.00 Mark Formanek: Kein Titel, aber Lebensmittelpunkt

1.29.59 Stefan Silies: Zu Hause

1.57.01 Ilona Johanna Plattner: Ende der Geschichte