THE WARTBURG MIX
experimental radio piece (German)
2022
broadcasted on Wartburg-Radio and Sphere Radio
Minnesang meets battle rap, an ultra-religious noblewoman dresses in vocoder, Martin Luther and Lee "Scratch" Perry chase the devil out of earth and Manfred Krug reports from the off. In the experimental audio piece "The Wartburg Mix", media artist Lis Schröder deals with a rather unique historical place. The Wartburg in Eisenach was long exaggerated as a German national symbol and is still the target of teutonistic projections. But since the Middle Ages it has also been a place of cosmopolitanism, the arts and radically non-conformist lifestyles. Poets and intellectuals met here, Elisabeth of Thuringia lived an early version of giving up privilege here, Luther started a language revolution with his translation of the Bible. Elisabeth "Lis" Schröder takes up these aspects, combines them with contemporary themes and aesthetics, integrates feminist and pop culture readings and mixes fragments of found audio material with field recordings, her own texts, talk and music.
DÜSSELDORF
an audiovisual study
2021
song, video, research
What do Joseph Beuys, Heino and Kraftwerk have in common? And what has Lis Schröder got to do with it?
An artistic view on Düsseldorf's (pop)cultural heritage taken from the Westphalian periphery.
Was haben Joseph Beuys. Heino und Kraftwerk gemeinsam? Und was hat Lis Schröder damit zu tun?
Ein Blick auf das (pop)kulturelle Erbe der Stadt Düsseldorf aus der westfälischen Peripherie.
TEAR UP
mixed media project
since 2020 (work in progress)
"Tear Up" (to tear up - den Tränen nah sein, mit den Tränen kämpfen) is an ongoing mixed media work currently containing:
The Flood (Cryleys), digital painting, 2020; Sadness Pants (Traurigkeitshose), print on fabric, 2020; Cryley, digital painting/readymade, 2020
background motif: Bruce Nauman, "Square Depression", 2007 (built für Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007, dismantled in 2020)
These artworks quote emojis from the emoji palette of Apple macOS Mojave version 10.14.6.
ETWAS WEICHES GEGEN DAS DU DICH LEHNST
(Something Soft That You Lean Against)
song & video
2018 - 2020
ETWAS WEICHES GEGEN DAS DU DICH LEHNST
(Something Soft That You Lean Against)
12" vinyl record (edition of 100)
2019
Listen:
ÜBERARBEIT
(WORK ON WORK)
installation & song
created for "Arbeit und Liebe" residency, atelier automatique, Bochum
2019
AUTOTUNE UND ANGST
audio essay for Institut für Betrachtung radio show, dublab.de (German)
2018
WIR ALLE MACHEN FEHLER
(WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES)
performance with singers of Domchor St. Paulus / St Paul Cathedral Choir
5 June 2018
St. Paulus-Dom / St Paul Cathedral, Münster
words, melody, choreography: Lis Schröder
singers:
Birgitta Frey, Sr. Gerhardis, Philipp Gregor, Margi Gufler, Birgit Hagenhoff, Annette Hüffmeier, Stefan Lütkecosmann, Renate Oeing, Liselotte Ollendorff-Werner, Christina Tahashi, Krista von Lützau, Hedwig Wetzel, Marion Wommelsdorff, Martin Wünsch
Originalton anhören / listen to original soundtrack
IN A WHITE ROOM
installation
smartphone, video loop, headphones, vocal loop
2018
ETWAS WEICHES GEGEN DAS DU DICH LEHNST (Wewerka Version)
(SOMETHING SOFT THAT YOU LEAN AGAINST – Wewerka Version)
performance at Wewerka Pavillon, Münster
4 December 2017
song, light, setting: Lis Schröder
artistic realization and performance:
Josephine Bode (sub great bass recorder, voice)
Rutger Muller (live electronics)
Lis Schröder (voice)
photos: Sven Helms, Daphne Klein
DAS ANGST-GAME UND DAS LOVE-GAME
performance at Wewerka Pavillon, Münster
20 November 2017, 7 p.m. til 7.30 p.m.
concept, light, setting: Lis Schröder
performers: Tina Dunkel, Anne Staab
photos: Ilsuk Lee
LOVE HURTS (Wewerka Version)
performance at Wewerka pavillon, Münster
7 November 2017
concept, choreography, light, setting: Lis Schröder
performers: Fridolin Mestwerdt, Moritz Riesenbeck
music: Nazareth
photos: Ilsuk Lee
ETWAS WEICHES GEGEN DAS DU DICH LEHNST
(SOMETHING SOFT THAT YOU LEAN AGAINST)
installation
exam exhibition at Kunstakademie Münster
steel, water, carpet, smartphone, video loop, dimmed neon light, song
2017
LOVE HURTS
performance at Kunstakademie Münster
2017
concept, choreography, setting: Lis Schröder
performers:
Peter Lepp, Mira Reeh (cast 1); Yoana Tuzharova, Lis Schröder (cast 2)
UNRUHE
(UNREST)
poster
2016
ANARCHIA IN ARCADIA
neon writing
Dortmund, Rheinische Straße, 2016
for Emscherkunst 2016
SICHER
(SECURE)
projection and video
Münster, harbour, 2016
for Förderpreisausstellung der Freunde der Kunstakademie Münster, Kunsthalle Münster
ET IN ARCADIA EGO
four channel video and sound installation
9'38''
Auszug ansehen / watch snippet
2015/16
A DAILY WORK
01/01/2013 - 31/12/2013
performance, drawing, installation
Sammlung Stefanie & Ernst Gallner
In 2013 I typewrote the word Freiheit on an A4 sheet every day. Except of some days where I did not type, only wrote the date on a blank sheet and put it in the pile.
photos: Wolf Moritz Cramer