Biokinetics - The War of the Microbes

It was in the 60s of the last century that the pores of our senses openend up. Was it the mescaline impregnated pictures of a Henri Michaux, was it the LSD-borne dreams of a Timothy Leary. Was it the wounds of the second  world war, written down in the palm sized drawings of a »WOLS« (Wolfgang Schulze)

It was the high period of kinetics of a Jean Tinguely, of a Gerhard von Graevenitz, of the seriell paintings of a Victor Vasarely, generated from the value inverted pragmatism of emptiness of a Marcel Duchamp.

Everything screamed out for new art. Now it had to arrive, the biologically based kinetic. A word was spit out: Biokinetic. Realised for the first time in 1969 in the Musem Schloss Morsbroich of the city of chemistry, Leverkusen, the museum which had shortly before become a lanching pad into the infinite blue space of an Yves Klein.

 


Biographie

HA Schult is a German installation, hapenning and conceptual artist. He studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1958 to 1961. In 1971 he was a visiting professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and in 2009 founded the ÖkoGlobe Institute at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In the 60s he invented the term Biokinetik and laid his main focus of work on the social fauna of cities and landscapes, which resulted in such artworks as Trees for Peace shown in the Zollverein in Essen (2003) and his famous Trash People, which were exhibited in Paris (1999), Moskau (1999), Peking (2001) and Kairo (2002). His work was exhibited internationally as part of numerous private and public collections in many museums and he also participated twice in documenta 5 and 6 in 1972 and 1977.