From: Irving Weiss <irving-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Arnold Dreyblatt exhibit
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:10:18 GMT



The Jewish Museum  at 1109 5th Avenue and 92nd Street, NYC 10128 (212-423-3200) 
will be featuring an exhibit from September 9, 2001,  through February 10, 2002. 
(www.thejewishmuseum.org) consisting of

                     Ben Katchor: Picture-Stories 
                     Doug and Mike Starn: Rampart's Cafe
                     Arnold Dreyblatt: The Re-Collection
                     Mechanism 

I want to call attention to the installation of the American artist Arnold 
Dreyblatt: The Re-Collection Mechanism, 

Since Arnold Dreyblatt has been living in Berlin from the mid-1980^Òs on, his art 
is very little known in this country, although as a composer and interactive 
electronic installation artist, it has been seen and heard throughout most 
countries of Western and Eastern Europe. Although this will be his first 
installation in the U.S. performances of his New Orchestra of Excited Strings   
have been heard in Boston, at MIT, and New York City in the last two years.

On October 28 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, there will be a Bang On 
A Can Marathon Performance of  Dreyblatt^Òs New Orchestra of Excited Strings.

The works of an artist in which the sensory elements of living space are most 
important are not easy to describe^×even if they are also based on texts and 
archival material. The main reason why poets, writers, and conceptual artists as 
well, as painters and musicians would be interested in finally encountering 
Dreyblatt pieces in North America, can be found in knowing about the biographical 
encyclopedia Who^Òs Who in Central & Eastern Europe. 

This book has formed a vital part of various works of Dreyblatt^Òs art based on 
the forces of memory, recollection, and recording of photographs and texts of 
20th century European social experience.

Dreyblatt discovered the Who^Òs Who book in a Turkish bookstall in 1985. It had 
originally been published in English in 1935 and later revised. He  adapted  it 
to his own uses as a project in recovering and re-activating  historical and 
biographical memories. These two editions were the first and last  mid-European 
biographical dictionaries to be published until Who's Who in the Socialist 
Countries of Europe came out in 1989. (The revised Who^Òs Who of 1935 is now 
available in a recent German translation.)

As can be seen from its title, The Recollection Mechanism,  opening at the Jewish 
Museum September 9, is part of Dreyblatt^Òs archival enterprise which took 
different forms over the years (The Memory Projects, The Spaces of Memory, The 
Reading Room). They stem from Dreyblatt^Òs revitalizing the 20th century anonymous 
European experience of being caught up in historical tides.

Dreyblatt^Òs works have been seen and heard in various cities of Germany, 
Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, and Luxembourg for the last fifteen years.

Consult his website at www.dreyblatt.de/ for more complete information. Or e-mail 
me as above. I don^Òt represent The Jewish Museum^×I  know Arnold Dreyblatt^Òs work 
as a visual poet and friend. 

Irving Weiss
http://members.tripod.com/~sialbach/








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