DREAM/RE-DREAM

Plucking, muting, turning, switching, waiting.

You're invited to the launch event for the new Drop City Centre exhibition.

Artist Christian Jendreiko (born 1969, Recklinghausen) will give a new performance for the Laing Art Gallery.

Jendreiko is working on the design of ‘Instrumentalaktionen’ in the form of verbal notations and has been invited by museums, galleries and institutions all over the world to realise them.

In 2003 a set of his compositions were included into the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Jendreiko’s verbal notations are a fictional theory of action that produces its own reality, which take the form of performances. The verbal notations function as a tool to invent settings where possibilities of both thinking and acting manifest that could not have been pre-imagined or anticipated. This method can be read as an individual contribution to the methodological approaches of speculative realism.

Jendreiko loves to collaborate with other artists. For the last thirty years Jendreiko has been working with Stefan Werni on the duo Werni & Jendreiko developing their shared concept of ‘Spekulative Elektronik’ (‘Speculative Electronics’). Since 1998 he has been a member of the Düsseldorf-London-based artist group hobbypopMUSEUM.

Jendreiko was visiting professor at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Nuremberg and is currently teaching at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf.