Raum 106 ist eine Klasse, ein Studio, eine Bibliothek und eine Publikation. Die vorliegende Publikation wurde von der Klasse Prof. John Morgan an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf gestaltet. Sie erscheint jährlich: Die nächste Ausgabe wird zum Akademierundgang im Februar 2021 publiziert.
Raum 106, Issue nr. 3
German Afternoons
2020
Production/Editorial/Design
Klasse John Morgan
Stefan Bauer
Pia Bendfeld
Marlon Bösherz
Christiane ‘Polly’ Bücek
Bastian Buddenbrock
Christopher Burke
Sarah Ehrlenbruch
Boaz Yosef Friedman
Thomas Grünfeld
Jan Hunkemöller
Stella Jermann
Laim Kim
Lisa Klinger
Stefan Kürten
Maxi-Magdalena Lorenz
Harkeerat Mangat
Andrea Marcellier
Vivien Mohamed
Karólína Rós Ólafsdóttir
Remco Reijenga
Rosa Sarholz
Thomas Artur Spallek
Nicola Tyson
Sophie Urban
Simon Wienk-Borgert
Carl Williams
Anna R. Winder
Yeoleum Yoon
Klasse Prof. John Morgan
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Eiskellerstraße 1
40213 Düsseldorf
Printed by Druckerei Kettler,
Bönen/Westfalen, Germany
ISBN 978-3-9821578-0-1
Thank you
Prof. Robert Fleck
Antony Hudek
Catherine Hyland
Gunnar Kettler
Marvin Prang
Alex Sainsbury
Adrien Vasquez
Tom Weaver
Jana Weißflog
Emma Murphy and Sadie Coles HQ
Lucas Page and Petzel Gallery
© 2020 The contributors,
Klasse John Morgan
Anger, Kenneth
His mother was a costume designer in Hollywood.
Aquazoo
Wuhuu sharks!
B., Ornella
Maiden name of Buddenbrock, Bastian.
Bayer, AG
In 1898 introduced C21 H23 NO5 onto the market. Said they stopped production in 1931
Beckmann, Max
»Meine Kunst kriegt hier zu fressen« sagte er über den ersten Weltkrieg.
Bendfeld, Pia
personified neurosis.
Beuys, Joseph
Artist. Human Being.
Bo Bardi, Lina
Routine and communal places made man forget the natural beauty of ‘moving in space,’ of his conscious movement, of those little gestures…
Bookstore
A room you can spend a lifetime in.
Bösherz, Marlon
Artist, writer, musician. He gets up so early every morning, don’t ask me why.
Buddenbrock, Bastian
professional dilettant in a lot of fields; quite fond of pseudonyms.
Brulard, Henry
An enthusiast in every sphere who, gradually disillusioned and enlightened, ends by devoting himself to the culte des hôtels.
Burke, Christopher
Who has designed typefaces, but now mostly designs sentences.
Celeste
A typeface caught in between British common sense and German Sachlichkeit.
Christ, Jesus
Son of god.
Cointreau
Allgemein bezeichnet Cointreau den klassischen Triple Sec mit weißem Etikett.
Dungeness
Some place on an isle; tongue of land.
Dutch
Language between German and English.
Eichelhäher
Where I wrote he I also could have written she, because the male and the female look identical.
.exe
If we look at our own code, our dna, our entire ‘operating system’ – it’s equivalent to 600 compressed megabytes. That is smaller than any other modern operating system, smaller than Linux, Windows, iOS or any other such system. So the algorithms of our program might not be too complicated.
Filliou, Robert
Fought in the Resistance.
Freud, Sigmund
Phallic-centered psychoanalyst and no fan of female sexuality.
Friedman, Boaz Yosef
Also misses John Baldessari.
Gaye, Marvin
Knows what’s going on.
Gisela
Female forename, deriving from the Old High German word gīsal, meaning ‘pledge’.
Grünfeld, Thomas
It’s said that he sleeps in black & red blankets and that he loves mayo
Hand, the left one
Normally used to hold my right hand, am I ambidextrous or is it a blooper, you decide.
Hunkemöller, Jan
Could never decide wether he wanted to be a scientist, philosopher, poet, artist or mage. Fails to properly be anything of the above. Tries to become so good at failing that it could be mistaken for success.
Jeschke, Lisa
hates the word ‘hubby’.
Kiefernstraße
It’s the smell of freedom.
Klinger
German surname, deriving from a dynasty of sword makers.
Kürten, Stefan
who uses charcoal almost exclusively for barbecue garden parties.
Lisa
Female forename, short form of Elisabeth, deriving from the Hebrew name אֱלִישֶׁבַע Elisheva, meaning ‘My God is an oath’.
Löwe
(Panthera leo, veraltet/poetisch/mundartlich Leu).
Marcellier, Andrea
An attempt of decoration.
Melancholy
Sublimation is everything.
Miura, Frank
The ‘Handling Instructions’ included in every Frank Miura box states that the timepeice is not resistant to perspiration, atmospheric pressure changes or temperature changes. The user takes full responsibility for any damages resulting from something as minor as the watch hitting a door, or dropping from a hight of 2cm. ‘When the time delay becomes too large’, it reads, ‘the user should adjust the time accordingly. This may need to be done everyday’.
Mitscherlich, Alexander and Margarete
Psychoanalysts and authors of Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behavior (1967)
Morgan, Guten
see Morgan, John.
Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona
Professor of Environmental Studies at York University (CA), editor of Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire (2010). She works at the intersections of queer, trans* and feminist ecologies, environmental studies, philosophy, and (bio-)politics.
Myriade
Mehr bis zum Schwindel.
Naked handshake deal
George Bush and Saddam Hussein, naked, meet on a hill and discuss what to do. Nobody will die. A lot of people are happy. After discussing everything you shake hands and the deal is fixed.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
Moustached philosopher/classical philologist who was appointed professor at age 25 and later got mad. Loved music, hated headaches, consistently ambivalent about everything else.
Not available
Canon eos 600d & Minolta Riva Zoom 140.
Oceanus Germanicus
I learnt how to swim there.
Ono, Yoko
or Yoko Ono.
Oder 2000, (LEAVE TO REMAIN)
Some piece of paper, imperative.
Peter
Male forename, deriving from the Greek word Πετρος Petros meaning ‘stone’.
Pilgrim, Billy
Fictional character of Kurt Vonnegut. Learnt how to time travel. Figured out that history was inevitable, time was simultaneous, and that everything was fine. Didn’t read Sebald.
Polly
What about starting a band? X-Ray Spex?
Poppins, Mary
Users also ask: does a spoonful of sugar really help the medicine go down?
Prine, John
An Angel from Montgomery.
Puffin, The
They are unhappy in an aquazoo. German – british newformed melancholic punkband.
Reijenga, Remco
Especially likes grown-up trees.
Renner, Paul
Discovered there was no Futura in nostalgia.
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Whose mother dressed him up like a girl until he was 9 years old.
S6
No toilets on board.
Schröter, Carlo
Butter tester in the Käseunion in Switzerland, pub owner, merchant and also restorer of church windows.
Shingle Street
The most abandoned spot in the entire region.
Sophie Isabel Urban & Simon Wienk-Borgert
Artist couple, double trouble.
Spengler, Oswald
The Nazis held Spengler in high esteem. Their gratitude, however, was not boundless; when they came to power, and he declined to join in the ‘Heil Hitler!’ chorus, they brusquely shouldered him aside. But by that time his contributions had been incorporated in their ideology, and in this guise Spengler lives today in the minds which decide war and peace in Europe.
Spoerri, Daniel
To whom we owe this glossary.
Stewart, Rod
Who learned ‘It Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song’, when his father gave him his first guitar.
Temporäres Lächeln, comfort fit
Das Produkt ist sehr sehr schlecht und ich bin sehr enttäuscht.
Tschichold, Jan
Who was an ascetic typographer, and evidently a good dancer.
UK Border Agency
La personne est maintenant remise a la police aux frontieres.
Weyhe, Maximilian Friedrich
Classicist landscape architect (1775 – 1846). Do you know any park in Düsseldorf? Yes? It’s probably by him.
Williams, Carl
Gave up anecdotes for the New Year.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Last words: ‘I’d quite like to have composed a philosophical work which consists entirely of jokes. Sadly I didn’t have a sense of humour.’
Zhaklis, Janis
A street fighting man who saw a red red door and wanted to paint it black.
Цой, Виктор
Lead singer of Кино, the band shown to me by my favourite Russian lover girl, Elvira.