LODGERS #6 Ultra Eczema
The LODGERS programme is a collaboration between AIR Antwerpen and M HKA . We welcome imaginative artistic initiatives to come and occupy the 6th floor at M HKA. The programme offers a unique opportunity for public interface, to organisations and initiatives who focus specifically on producing and commissioning, and who do not have their own public space. These LODGERS might be publishers, commissioning agencies, research initiatives, labels, collectives, discussion platforms and other initiatives experimenting with artistic practice who would be interested to live, work and perform in Antwerp.
LODGERS are welcomed from "Eurocore" – the combined region of Benelux and the Rheinland. Free entrance to visit our LODGERS. Come and say hello!
The LODGERS programme is co-curated by Nav Haq, Senior Curator at M HKA, and Alan Quireyns, Artistic Director at AIR Antwerpen.
Dennis Tyfus' practice takes its clearest shape with Ultra Eczema (UE): more than just a label in the traditional sense of the word, it's a sequence of catalogue numbers. The first two releases were magazines, then several vinyl records appeared, and books, T-shirts and posters. From UE50 on – a tattoo on Tyfus' fist – it becomes clear that the label is primarily a numbering: an alternative way to divide time, to step into one's own footprints and to keep the beat.
Ultra Eczema is not only composed of what is released but, as a linear numbering of an artistic practice, it keeps the various activities of Tyfus together. Whether a gallery exhibition of his own art, the organisation of a concert, the design of a flyer or the radio programme Tyfus Time on local independent Radio Central – Ultra Eczema draws a straight line through the variety of activities, connecting the points.
Apart from an indication of his pace, for Tyfus, Ultra Eczema is also the ideal place to combine his interests and influences with work of his own. It's an expression of the effort an obsessive collector makes to find something, riveted to the efforts of a tireless maker to do something. In this way Tyfus discovers – not as detached observer or critic, but as a producer on the first row, as someone who wants to interfere – influences on his work in the history of punk, experimental music, sound poetry and the visual arts.
Ultra Eczema gradually develops a geographical circuit too. Besides records, magazines and books – all mental spaces – there are also organised events. Gunther and City Limit, both Antwerp locales, interfere in a direct physical way, by looking for a surplus in the city to fill in. For LODGERS, Ultra Eczema proposes a 'Residential Area' in which guests are invited with whom Tyfus already collaborated in the past.
05.05 – 14.06.2016
Caned Icoda
Under the name Caned Icoda, visual artist and musician Giovanni Donadini makes installations, music, furniture, clothing,... to create total happenings.
14.06 – 17.06.2016
Menstruation Sisters
The Australian duo Oren Ambarchi and Nik Kamvissis delivers image and sound and works towards a live concert on 16.06, at 21u..
16.06.2016 (21u.)
Dennis Tyfus : Summer Whine
Dennis Tyfus presents UE215. Summer Whine is a book that brings together recent drawings of the artist.
18.06 – 03.07.2016
Albert Mayr
The Austrian artist and musician Albert Mayr makes instruments, installations and drum machines that are powered by water.
05.07 – 24.07.2016
Peter Fengler & Dennis Tyfus
Having previously worked together on, amongst others, a sculptural record box and a self-cut single full of militant songs, Rotterdam artist Peter Fengler and Dennis Tyfus