Over the past ten years, it is estimated that… International Organization for Migration Around 30,000 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean. An incredibly high number, and according to Stefan Winter, that is exactly a central problem. “Numbers of thousands of deaths fade away and have no effect if there is no human component,” says the Munich musician and artist, who is best known here as the head of the fine, multidisciplinary Music labels Winter & Winter knows. Winter founded the label with Mariko Takahashi in 1995, and the two have been making art together for years. Your most recent work “The Raft of Medusa“, a mixture of multimedia spatial installation and performance, can be seen from October 17th in Pavilion 333 next to the Pinakothek der Moderne.
The theme of the work: dying in the Mediterranean. A tragedy that continues every day and must stop, as Stefan Winter, Mariko Takahashi and the textile artist Karen Modrei, who is also involved in the project, put it in an accompanying text. The specific reference point is a shipwreck off Lampedusa on October 3, 2013 and an interview with a fisherwoman who rescued drowning people that day despite a ban. This real incident is interwoven with a cinematic and sound adaptation of the painting of the same name by Théodore Géricault. Karen Modrei will also knit a fabric for 90 hours over the 15 days of the exhibition. And rotating speakers will recite the names and dates of people who died while fleeing.
According to Winter, the film footage was shot in Lampedusa and Africa. And he says: “Our work consciously awakens empathy, tells of individual fates, reminds us that behind every number there is a person.” To go deeper into the whole thing, the director of the NS documentary will be at the opening on October 17th at 7 p.m. Center Mirjam Zadoff with the co-editor of the book “Cause of Death: Escape. An incomplete list” Kristina Milz speak. One day later, Ellen Trapp will present her documentary “Death before Lampedusa” at 5:45 p.m. and discuss it with the journalist Natalie Amiri and the writer Gerd Heidenreich. At another event on October 23rd at 7 p.m Habibi Kiosk of the Kammerspiele The activist and former boat refugee Tareke Brhane is a guest.
The Raft of the Medusa, spatial installation and performance, Thursday, October 17th, 7 p.m. (opening) to November 3rd, Tuesday to Sunday, 3-8 p.m., Pavilion 333 next to the Pinakothek der Moderne, Türkenstr. 15, www.winterandwinter.com