EXHIBITION INDUSTRIAL (Research) 14 September 2013 - 26 January 2014 HMKV at the Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity INDUSTRIAL (Research) asks how the industry has affected people and how music, literature and art reacted to this violence described by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno in The Culture Industry (1944). "The might of industrial society is lodged in men's minds", they wrote - for good, we might add. One has to imagine this "might" as a disciplination of the body and the mind, a huge industrial machine that adapts the human body - through disciplination, standardisation and de-individualisation - to its needs and conditions until it functions as effectively as possible. Echoing this vision, Heiner Müller observed in The Hamlet Machine (1977): "I want to be a machine. Arms to grasp legs to walk no pain no thoughts". For this exhibition, curators Inke Arns and Thibaut de Ruyter have researched and travelled extensively to compile an archive of stories, images, books, films and music around the concept of industry. In INDUSTRIAL (Research) visitors are encouraged to take part in their research by leafing through collections of photographs, watching videos, looking at paintings and browsing through documentation. INDUSTRIAL (Research) is simultaneously a work place, research lab and repository - an invitation to familiarise oneself with a subject matter that merges local and global concerns as well as historic and current developments which have only just begun. Curated by Dr. Inke Arns & Thibaut de Ruyter. Opening: 13 September 2013, from 7pm Opening hours: Tue+Wed 11am-6pm, Thu+Fri 11am-8pm, Sat+Sun 11am-6pm, bank holidays 11am-6pm Location: HMKV at the Dortmunder U (6th floor / gallery) Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse, 44137 Dortmund, Germany Duration: 14 September 2013 - 26 January 2014 Guided tours: each Thursday, 6pm and each Sunday, 4pm included in the HMKV entrance fee FURTHER EVENTS (SELECTION): INDUSTRIAL (Research) Matinées Every Sunday, 1:00 pm included in the HMKV entrance fee Commented DJ sets with guests, artists' talks, lectures, concerts, film screenings With: Dimitri Hegemann, Max Dax (tbc), Thibaut de Ruyter, Martini, Hellmut Neidhardt, Birgit Richard (tbc), Richard Ortmann (tbc), VIBRÆ, Jens Heitjohann, Axel Braun, Carmen Losmann, Invisible Playground, Dr. Inke Arns, Fabian Saavedra-Lara, and others NEW INDUSTRIES CONFERNCE - Money and Debt in the Post-Industrial World Conference 16 -19 January 2014 Further information, detailed dates and programme: http://www.hmkv.de INDUSTRIAL (Research) is part of the NEW INDUSTRIES FESTIVAL http://www.hmkv.de/programm/programmpunkte/2013/Ausstellungen/2013_New_Industries_Festival.php Videoproduction by David Figura (http://kulturfilm.eu) Music: N(18) + Tzesne "The Hiding Place" taken from N(18) http://www.n-1511.com Tzesne "Carrissals" http://www.seriesnegras.org Denovali 2011 http://www.denovali.com

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