{"id":1003,"date":"2024-04-24T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/air.uni-siegen.de\/?page_id=1003"},"modified":"2024-04-24T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T10:12:14","slug":"fort-archive-of-sorrows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/air.uni-siegen.de\/en\/fort-archive-of-sorrows\/","title":{"rendered":"Residency 2022\/ 23: Artist duo FORT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Residency 2022\/23:
Artist duo FORT<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Founded in 2008, FORT is a female artist duo consisting of Alberta Niemann (*1982 in Bremen) and Jenny Kropp (*1978 in Frankfurt am Main). The main focus of their works are everyday objects of private and public space which have been rebuilt or subtly distorted. As such, these works always tread a fine line between the familiar and the uncanny, between the serious and the humorous. Consciously, FORT play with images of memory and longing in which the intimacy of the known is transformed into the distressing or the absurd. Their works have been shown, among others, at the Kunstwerke Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw as well as the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover and have been awarded prestigious scholarships and prizes such as the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship and the Cremer Prize. Since 2023 the artists have been professors of sculpture at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts in Kiel. They live and work in Berlin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Novel work for public urban space
“Archive of Sorrows” (2023)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The scholarship holders of the residency year 2022\/23 are Jenny Kropp and Alberta Niemann of the artist duo FORT. The result of their residency is the novel work \u2018Archive of Sorrows\u2019 (ger. Archiv der Sorgen<\/em>), a multi-channel sound installation with talking raven animatronics. Standing together as a group, the ravens share with each other individually as well as chorally sorrows and concerns, reservations and fears of the people living in Siegen across all age groups and life biographies. Their voices were recorded by actors Hassan Akkouch, Sophie Rois, Lars Rudolph, Lilith Stangenberg and Oskar Luzoro Tonke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the same title, the exhibition \u2018Archive of Sorrows\u2019 was launched on October 25, 2023 in the lobby of the Siegen City Hall. Following this, the exhibition was open to the public until December 8, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fotos: Philipp Ottend\u00f6rfer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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