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Lake Eerie

by Robert Stokowy

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Lake Eerie - Part 1 43:12
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Lake Eerie - Part 2 51:12

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Lake Eerie (2023) is a composition made for the exhibition "The Horror in Printmaking”

At KGW, Cologne, Germany
August 4th - September 1st

The piece was created as a conceptual extension based on the exhibition's themes and artworks.

The piece consists of conventional outdoor sound recordings made in Germany, USA, South Korea, Russia, and Japan over the past eight years. While the origin of these sounds is unimportant, their sonic textures became the key criteria for the composition's material selection. To know which direction to take with this piece, I decided to combine the exhibition's theme with my own selection of pieces that (re-)present horror in printmaking. Among these artworks are: Li Hua’s Struggle, Leopoldo Méndez's The Peoples Revenge, Eugène Delacroix's Mephistopheles dans les airs, Charles Joshua Chaplin's - La Morte, Richard Ray Whitman - Do Indian Artists Go To Santa Fe When They Die….?, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi's Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre. These visual influences in combination with the selected sounds were combined using a phenomenological approach - a compass that guided me through the piece as I arranged it.

The outcome is a roughly 95 minute piece that is audible at the KGW. If you wish to listen to a the piece in it's entirety you can do so here.


About the installation:

The crises of our time seem to follow one another ever more closely. But they are not new: our fight against nature, against other people or against imaginary monsters has occupied mankind for thousands of years. And just as long artists have been dealing with the horror, the creepy and the uncanny.

Printmaking in particular has always played an important role in dealing with people's fears in wars, hardship and misery and creating an image of their time that enables a new perspective on said fears and their causes.

The KGW (Cologne Printmaking Workshop) has therefore brought together artists from all over Germany who, armed with a keen eye, cutting humor and sharpened tools, face the monsters of our time. Current crises, age-old human fears and personal demons are the inspiration for the works that can be seen from August 4th in Cologne.

The exhibition "The Horror in Printmaking" and its supporting program are also a journey through the history of artistic printmaking, from Dürer to artificial intelligence. It shows how artists of different generations have dealt with the fears that still haunt us all today.

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released August 4, 2023

recordings & production: robert stokowy

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