Bernd Herzogenrath
(C)ovid's Metamorphoses (7CD + 2DVD Boxset + Book)
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Big Tip! With a wide range of work by sound artists and musicians, writers, filmmakers, photographers, and visual artists, (c)ovid's Metamorphoses uses the Covid-19 pandemic and its far-reaching consequences as an instrument for change, artistic and otherwise. A play on experiment across various fields of artistic practice, all featured work revolves around ideas of transmission and inspiration, conjuring up a massive body of vital and daring artistic expressions unashamedly avant-garde.
(c)ovid's Metamorphoses is a project initiated by Bernd Herzogenrath, professor of American literature and culture at the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main and sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek. It features contributions from artists from the worlds of film, sound art and music, writing, visual art, and photography, intent on upsetting the idea behind (c)ovid's Metamorphoses, metamorphosis and progress through violence, and defining the Covid-19 epidemic as a possible counterbalancing act to the myths underlying Western culture. Throughout all the work presented here runs the idea of playfulness as a fundamental artistic act. Infection and transmission allow for an artistic practice that leaves behind the myths that have defined Western culture for centuries.
(c)ovid's Metamorphoses features an incredible amount of sound pieces, films, texts, photographs, drawings, comics, and paintings produced by a host of artists working in the vanguard of their respective fields. An intertextual play on beauty and meaning makes for art pieces that often get lost in transmission and dwell on an existence beyond the common definitions both aesthetic and moral that run through our culture. All participating artists have exchanged ideas and pieces, fading out myths by way of the game of The Broken Telephone. Through the interplay of infection and information, information chains and sources of infection, new meanings spread, in spaces defined and determined by all artists.
Format
The (c)ovid's metamorphoses box contains seven CDs, two data DVDs with short films, and a 200 pages full-color book with texts, photographs, drawings, and paintings. Neither the music nor any of the other work comprised in the box is available digitally.
Sound
Maja S K Ratkje (NO), bergsonist (MA/US), Suk-Jun Kim (KR/UK), Michael Gordon (US), Bill B. Wintermute (DE), Raphael Kariuki (KE), Jacob Cooper (US), Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir (IS), Opubo Braide (ZA), Lee Scratch Perry (JM/CH), Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire) (CA), Obsolete Capitalism (IT), Tomas Saraceno (AR), Shira Legmann (IL), Reinhold Friedl (Zeitkratzer) (DE) , Dalibor Kocian (SK), Lucrecia Dalt (CO), Marc Richter (DE), Gareth Davis (UK/NL), Lawrence English (AU), Lane Shi Otayonii (CN), Ensemble Klang (NL), Jelena Glazova (LV), Steven R. Smith (US), James Yorkston (SCO), Jonas Noack (DE), Rehab Hazgui (TN), Laima Jansone (LT), Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) (UK), Joseph Kamaru (KMRU) (KE/DE) , Thomas Köner (DE/HR), Anthony Joseph (TT/UK), David Rothenberg (US), Francisco López (ES), Lasse-Marc Riek (DE), Frauke Berg (DE), Geraldine Vanspauwen (BE), Thelmo Cristovam (BR), João Castro Pinto (PT), Pablo Sanz (ES), DinahBird (FR), Stefan Militzer (DE), Janko Hanushevsky (AT/DE), Sally Ann McIntyre (AUS/NZ), Achim Zepezauer (DE), Julia Mihaly (DE), Roland Etzin (DE), Charlotte Höchsmann (DE), Constantin Gröhn (DE), Goh Lee Gwang (MY), Siri Austeen (NO), Johannes Krause (DE), Matthias Engelke (DE), Angélica Castelló (MX/AT), Sergio Armaroli (IT), Eva Pöpplein (DE), Nicola Di Croce (IT), Mikel R. Nieto (ES)
Text
Christoph Collenberg (DE), Christine Wunnicke (DE), Anna Tsing-Lowenhaupt (US), Allen C. Shelton (US), Stefano Oliva (IT) , Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (DE), Ally Bisshop (AUS/DE), Jane Bennett (US), Bernd Herzogenrath (DE), Sheree Renée Thomas (US), Rosi Braidotti (NL), Michael Marder (UK), Andreas Stroehl (DE), Tom McCarthy (UK/DE), Reinaldo Laddaga (AR), Hanjo Berressem (DE), Eugenie Brinkema (US), Christina Kubisch (DE) , David Vélez (CL/UK), Lin Chi Wei (TW), Jörg Piringer (AT), Gustavo Valdivia (PE), Budhaditya Chattopadhyay (IN), Angus Carlyle (UK), Cathy Lane (UK), Eva Weingärtner (DE), Viv Corringham (AU), Annea Lockwood (US/NZ), Tobias Schmitt (DE), Christopher DeLaurenti (US), Brandon Labelle (US/DE), Sarah Kazmi (PK/NO)
Image
Zuzana Lazarova (CZ), Marketa Kinterova (CZ), Eva Jeske (DE), Graeme Gilloch/Michael Hall (UK), Michal Macku (CZ), Stefan Fricke (DE), Michael Wesely (DE), Suraya Md Nasir (MY), Verena Freyschmidt (DE), Jaanika Peerna (US), Nicholas Jones (UK/NO), Caroline Streck (DE), Wieland Krause (DE), Alexandra Deutsch (DE), Arash Akbari (IR), Maria Wang Kvalheim (NO), Jaime Jiron (ES)
Film
Bill Morrison (US), Sebastian Wiedemann (CO), Péter Lichter (HU), Hedvika Hlavackova (CZ), Austine Lordlaz (NG), Ali Beidoun (Fotonik Noise) (LB), Karel Doing (UK), Kaveh Nabatian (Bell Orchestre) (CA), Vincent Moon (FR), Dodda Maggý (IS), Ayman Nahle (LB), Eisuke Yanagisawa (JP), Margrethe Iren Pettersen (NO), Philipp Bückle (DE), Ville Tanttu (FI), Ana Maria Micu (RO), Xu Xin (CN), Manfred Waffender (DE), Elly Stormer Vadseth (NO), Claus Stoermer (DE), Darius Ciuta (LT, Evangelos Papadopoulos (GRE/DE)
Release notes
Excerpt from the book's preface (by Bernd Herzogenrath): [...] Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses creates series, it processes transformations in which what is said and meant is transformed through the media, text into image, image into sound, sound into thought, thought into form, form into substance and back again. The transformations are substantial, as in Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which mostly humans are transformed into a component of botanical, animal, mineral or atral nature. Here is an example of a…
| CD1 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-6 | |||
| 1-1 | metamorphosis i-3 | 6:26 | |
| 1-2 | metamorphosis i-4 | 2:23 | |
| 1-3 | metamorphosis i-5 | 33:07 | |
| 1-4 | metamorphosis ii-3 | 9:25 | |
| 1-5 | metamorphosis ii-4 | 9:06 | |
| 1-6 | metamorphosis ii-5 | 11:21 | |
| CD2 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-8 | |||
| 2-1 | metamorphosis ii-6 | 11:36 | |
| 2-2 | metamorphosis ii-6 | 2:28 | |
| 2-3 | metamorphosis iii-0 | 25:18 | |
| 2-4 | metamorphosis iii-6 | 23:24 | |
| 2-5 | metamorphosis iii-re: | 7:12 | |
| 2-6 | metamorphosis iv-0 | 0:07 | |
| 2-7 | metamorphosis iv-6 | 1:22 | |
| 2-8 | metamorphosis iv-re: | 1:32 | |
| CD3 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-14 | |||
| 3-1 | metamorphosis v-2 | 1:20 | |
| 3-2 | metamorphosis v-3 (Dissolve) | 4:11 | |
| 3-3 | metamorphosis vi-2 | 4:31 | |
| 3-4 | metamorphosis vi-3 | 4:02 | |
| 3-5 | metamorphosis vii-2 | 4:35 | |
| 3-6 | metamorphosis vii-3 | 3:25 | |
| 3-7 | metamorphosis viii-2 | 4:26 | |
| 3-8 | metamorphosis viii-3 | 4:38 | |
| 3-9 | metamorphosis viii-re | 0:38 | |
| 3-10 | metamorphosis ix-1 | 4:18 | |
| 3-11 | metamorphosis ix-1 | 4:57 | |
| 3-12 | metamorphosis ix-1 | 6:09 | |
| 3-13 | metamorphosis ix-2 | 3:51 | |
| 3-14 | metamorphosis ix-3 (Obsolete Capitalism :: Black Magick Spell) | 7:14 | |
| CD4 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-13 | |||
| 4-1 | metamorphosis x-1 | 5:42 | |
| 4-2 | metamorphosis x-2 | 7:48 | |
| 4-3 | metamorphosis x-3 | 9:45 | |
| 4-4 | metamorphosis xi-1 | 1:49 | |
| 4-5 | metamorphosis xi-3 | 7:18 | |
| 4-6 | metamorphosis xi-4 | 8:23 | |
| 4-7 | metamorphosis xii-2 | 2:29 | |
| 4-8 | metamorphosis xii-3 (re-visiting of Matrice Inconnue) | 4:53 | |
| 4-9 | metamorphosis xii-4 | 4:42 | |
| 4-10 | metamorphosis xiii-0 | 0:26 | |
| 4-11 | metamorphosis xiii-1 | 1:26 | |
| 4-12 | metamorphosis xiii-2 (Spider's Texture Gently Covering C-Ovids Execution of Orpheus by Stoning) | 4:44 | |
| 4-13 | metamorphosis xiii-5 | 4:43 | |
| CD5 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-8 | |||
| 5-1 | metamorphosis xiv-0 (Fama) | 5:53 | |
| 5-2 | metamorphosis xiv-1 | 13:39 | |
| 5-3 | metamorphosis xiv-2 | 2:25 | |
| 5-4 | metamorphosis xiv-5 | 16:31 | |
| 5-5 | metamorphosis xiv-re: | 3:11 | |
| 5-6 | metamorphosis xv-0 | 4:26 | |
| 5-7 | metamorphosis xv-2 | 7:50 | |
| 5-8 | metamorphosis xv-3 | 3:45 | |
| CD6 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-8 | |||
| 6-1 | metamorphosis xv-5 | 11:26 | |
| 6-2 | metamorphosis xv-6 | 11:29 | |
| 6-3 | metamorphosis xv-re: | 11:29 | |
| 6-4 | metamorphosis xvi-0 | 6:43 | |
| 6-5 | metamorphosis xvi-2 | 6:52 | |
| 6-6 | metamorphosis xvi-3 (The Glitch) | 5:39 | |
| 6-7 | metamorphosis xvi-4 | 6:44 | |
| 6-8 | metamorphosis xvi-5 | 5:54 | |
| CD7 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 AUDIO 1-13 | |||
| 7-1 | metamorphosis xvi-6 | 6:44 | |
| 7-2 | metamorphosis xvi-re: | 6:47 | |
| 7-3 | metamorphosis xvii-2 | 2:41 | |
| 7-4 | metamorphosis xvii-3 | 2:26 | |
| 7-5 | metamorphosis xvii-5 | 2:21 | |
| 7-6 | metamorphosis xviii-2 | 5:43 | |
| 7-7 | metamorphosis xviii-3 | 5:46 | |
| 7-8 | metamorphosis xviii-5 | 5:44 | |
| 7-9 | metamorphosis xix-1 | 4:41 | |
| 7-10 | metamorphosis xix-2 | 1:59 | |
| 7-11 | metamorphosis xix-3 | 3:56 | |
| 7-12 | metamorphosis xix-5 (Demento.wav) | 3:53 | |
| 7-13 | metamorphosis xix-6 (Boca Abajo) | 3:44 | |
| DVD1 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 VIDEO 1-27 | |||
| 8-1 | metamorphosis i-2 (Morning Prayer) | 6:20 | |
| 8-2 | metamorphosis i-3 (Morning Prayer) | 6:20 | |
| 8-3 | metamorphosis ii-2 (Staging) | 9:12 | |
| 8-4 | metamorphosis ii-3 (Staging) | 9:22 | |
| 8-5 | metamorphosis ii-4 (Staging) | 9:12 | |
| 8-6 | metamorphosis iii-1 | 7:00 | |
| 8-7 | metamorphosis iii-1 | 7:00 | |
| 8-8 | metamorphosis iii-5 | 0:14 | |
| 8-9 | metamorphosis iv-1 | 2:34 | |
| 8-10 | metamorphosis v-0 (Creation) | 4:05 | |
| 8-11 | metamorphosis v-1 (The Duel) | 1:13 | |
| 8-12 | metamorphosis v-2 (The Duel) | 1:20 | |
| 8-13 | metamorphosis v-3 (Dissolve) | 4:39 | |
| 8-14 | metamorphosis v-6 | 0:53 | |
| 8-15 | metamorphosis v-6 | 2:24 | |
| 8-16 | metamorphosis v-6 | 0:45 | |
| 8-17 | metamorphosis v-6 | 2:04 | |
| 8-18 | metamorphosis v-re: (Humanature) | 0:21 | |
| 8-19 | metamorphosis vi-0 | 4:28 | |
| 8-20 | metamorphosis vi-1 | 3:57 | |
| 8-21 | metamorphosis vi-re: | 5:12 | |
| 8-22 | metamorphosis vii-4 | 4:20 | |
| 8-23 | metamorphosis viii-4 | 2:00 | |
| 8-24 | metamorphosis ix-4 | 7:14 | |
| 8-25 | metamorphosis x-4 (Walls) | 9:58 | |
| 8-26 | metamorphosis xi-5 | 8:21 | |
| 8-27 | metamorphosis xii-5 | 4:39 | |
| DVD2 / Ⓒovid's Metamorphoses 2020-2022 VIDEO 1-20 | |||
| 9-1 | metamorphosis xiii-4 (That Buzz) | 4:42 | |
| 9-2 | metamorphosis xiii-5 (That Buzz) | 4:42 | |
| 9-3 | metamorphosis xiii-5 (That Buzz) | 4:42 | |
| 9-4 | metamorphosis xiv-4 | 0:23 | |
| 9-5 | metamorphosis xv-4 | 11:24 | |
| 9-6 | metamorphosis xv-4 | 11:25 | |
| 9-7 | metamorphosis xv-re: | 11:26 | |
| 9-8 | metamorphosis xvi-4 | 6:41 | |
| 9-9 | metamorphosis xvi-4 | 6:41 | |
| 9-10 | metamorphosis xvi-re: | 6:45 | |
| 9-11 | metamorphosis xvii-1 | 2:22 | |
| 9-12 | metamorphosis xvii-2 | 2:35 | |
| 9-13 | metamorphosis xvii-3 | 2:22 | |
| 9-14 | metamorphosis xvii-6 | 2:22 | |
| 9-15 | metamorphosis xviii-1 | 5:41 | |
| 9-16 | metamorphosis xviii-6 | 5:42 | |
| 9-17 | metamorphosis xix-4 (Memento) | 3:51 | |
| 9-18 | metamorphosis xix-4 (Memento) | 3:51 | |
| 9-19 | metamorphosis xix-5 (Demento.mp4) | 3:51 | |
| 9-20 | metamorphosis xix-6 (Boca Abajo) | 3:51 | |
- Bernd Herzogenrath
- Creative Director [Idea], Curated By
- Lasse-Marc Riek
- Curated By
- Vildana Memic
- Design
- Lorenz Lindner
- Mastered By [Audio]
