The last speech of Joseph Beuys „Thanks to Lehmbruck“ that he gave eleven days before he died and parts of his lecture „speaking about Germany“ for the first time as original sound. For Beuys art start with listening and in language. Touching documents on the future of the sculpture. No...
In November 2008 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel made live recordings with Jake and Dinos Chapman in the run-up to their “Memento Moronika” show in Hanover. The theme, how could it be otherwise, the hell and its inmates. Its about Lucifer and his darksome paradise, tantalisation and...
On September 15th 2010 Robert Eikmeyer and Alistair Hudson met Jeremy Deller in his flat in London to talk about his work. For many years now, Deller has been at the forefront of a generation of artists who operate within the social arena, orchestrating real life scenarios to illuminate the wider...
This Dix is nearly unknown. In nobody’s dept beside his own eye that records everything blow-by-blow and his daemon. This daemon guides him through the trenches and the inhuman battles of World War One, in the abysses and excesses of the metropolises and, when nobody expected, to the landscapes...
One day after his programmatic Berlin statement in the overcrowded Hamburger Bahnhof Liam Gillick answered in a nearly intimate interview – aside the turbulences around “the Brit, who was surprisingly nominated to represent Germany at the Venice Biennale in the German pavilion” concerning...
The 3 audio cds contain nearly all the still existing recordings of Ernst Jünger. The editors, Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel, went through a multitude of audio documents, which in many cases were especially restored and digitized for this production. Besides the audio archives of the radio...
Kippenberger torn between searching for himself and the permanent trying to fill a gap. Since the early 1990s till his early death in 1997 Martin Kippenberger had felt the need to give long interviews to friends and strangers. Many of them knew his views from the nightlong pubcrawls, but in the...
“I love people coming out of darkness” claims David Lynch and that’s exactly how he comes across on this new release. Seldom has he shown and offered so much of his person, describing his work and his working process. In autumn 2010 Brigade Commerz were able to speak to Lynch at the...
In September 2009 Robert Eikmeyer and Thomas Knoefel met Jonathan Meese in the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar. Meese at his best. From his continuous visits in pornshops, Adolf Hitler, the black death, his “Germania”, bloody tea, hands chopped off, Marquis de Sade, to lolitas and the arse chink...
In the run-up to the dedication of the 27 meter long mural “The Hornet” Brigade Commerz met Sarah Morris in Düsseldorf to talk about her films and paintings. The New York based artist creates a fascinating interplay between surfaces and their context which demonstrates that one cannot trust...
The stage design for the Lulu production of the Salzburg Festival 2010 was made by Daniel Richter. Brigade Commerz met the artist in his flat after an exhausting rehearsal day – spent him a bottle of redwine and a packet of cirgarettes – and covered a broad range of topics ranging from the...