STUDIO HALLO (2018)
4 part video series, HD, color, sound
all episodes at www.studiohallo.de

People say: “When something like STUDIO HALLO pops up, it can come as a shock or as some kind of wake-up call. Or it can be a scene of sheer pleasure – an unnamed condensation of thought and feeling. Or an alibi for all the violence, inequality and social insanity folded into the open disguise of ordinary things. Or it can be a flight from numbing routine and all the self-destructive strategies of carrying on.”

Performative, post-documentary, local online TV format with germs and ideas worth spreading. Television, like all mass media, is mediating between individuals and their relation to the world. Topics, that are addressed in the Do-It-Yourself mass media production “Studio Hallo” are never negotiated independently, but always in relation to other micro or macro sociological snippets, thereby foregrounding their contingency. The four episodes use man-on-the-street interviews, choreographies, documentary material and improvisations to grapple with the weather, contagion, inequality, fear and the question of social participation and responsibility.

CREDITS
Created by: Ale Bachlechner, Jonathan Kastl & Felix Zilles-Perels
Performers: Elsa Artmann, Ale Bachlechner, Matthias Conrady, Samuel Duvoisin, Franz-Xaver Franz, Bryce Kasson, Olivia Platzer, Lia Sudermann, Felix Zilles-Perels, u.a.
Live Cameras: Paul Faltz, Marie Zahir
Technical Director: Jonathan Kastl
Animation: Stefan Ramírez Pérez
Stagedesign: Wiebke Strombeck
Music: Julian Prießen
Additional Editing: Sarah Weber

original online broadcast dates
episode 1 (33 min, HD)- jan 28th 2018
episode 2 (35 min, HD)- march 4th 2018
episode 3 (27 min, HD)- april 21st 2018
episode 4 (25 min, HD)- november 9th 2018

shown at
RESPONSIBILISATION exhibition at Nordrhein-Westfälische Akadmie der Wissenschaften und der Künste in Düsseldorf, Nov. 9th-22nd 2018
EMAF European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, April 24th – May 26th 2019
HilbertRaum Berlin as part of the programme THE BENEFITS OF DISORDER August 4th 2019
Temporary Gallery Cologne as part of “I am the danger! The Art of TV Series: Episode 2” Nov 30th
Mañana Bold im Husslehof Frankfurt Feb 28th
TRAP, group show at Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Oct 24th 2020 – Jan 31st 2021