"INDEX I & II", Installation, 2008
"INDEX I & II" consists of two depictions of personal music collections and the appendant hi-fi stereo systems of two Berlin inhabitants. In the style of technical explosion drawings known from manuals the information architectures of the actual collections have been reconstructed true to scale on location in the persons' apartments, leaving no detail out. Books, displayed next to the drawings, list each individual item of the person's music collection and system. Taking music and one's personal history of music listening as a sophisticated code to trace back experiences and memories, the installation portraits two individuals and the same time a fraction of the city of Berlin. With the two persons being of different generations, the depicted music collections strikingly demostrate the changes that our daily music practises have undergone.
Jan Rohlf is a multidisciplinary artist and independent curator. He was born in 1975 in Tübingen, Germany. Since 1994 he lives and works in Berlin. He studied Experimental Media Design at the Universität der Künste (UDK) Berlin. He is one of the founders of club transmediale – international festival for adventurous music and related visual arts (CTM). In 2005 he co-founded DISK – Sound & Image Initiative e.V., an association dedicated to the promotion of experimental music and visual arts within the music context. Since 2004 he co-organizes the studio house Inn.to in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg and the project space General Public.
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