INFERMENTAL

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INFERMENTAL is the first international magazine on videocassettes, initiated by the Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Bódy in 1980.

International + Ferment + Experimental = Infermental

The 11 editions of INFERMENTAL were published between 1980 and 1991 with an alternating series of editors from different countries. Each issue annually assembled approximately 5 to 7 hours of the audio-visual work that represented the latest tendencies in this area.

Infermentals' 10 issues + 1 special issue amounted to about 70 hours of material from more than 1000 artists from 36 countries. Among the numerous participating artists were Gary Hill, Rafael Montañez Ortiz, Jon Jost, Marina Grzinic and Aina Smid, Joan Jonas, Yello, Ulrike Rosenbach, Hiroshi Ito, Mona Hatoum, Paul Garrin, Steina and Woody Vasulka.

Veruschka Bódy who co-ordinated the project after Gábor Bódy's death in 1985. She recently stated upon looking back on ten years activity that “the annual anthologies, published by local editors (artist groups from 12 cities), are in fact a rich find for semoticians, topologists and visual philosophers. With this now 65 hours long video archive, a vocabulary of the 1980’s has been made available to the public”.

The INFERMENTAL collection is accessible to the public as a permanent loan at ZKM | Center for Art and Media .

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Infermental 1

Berlin/West, Germany, 1982 37 contributions, 8 countries, 4 hours

Editors: Gábor Bódy, Astrid Heibach Supervisor: Gusztáv Hámos

Infermental 2

Hamburg, Germany, 1982/83 77 contributions, 15 countries, 6 hours

Editors: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Rotraut Pape Supervisor: Vera Bódy

Infermental 3

Budapest, Hungary, 1983/84 99 contributions, 18 countries, 6 hours

Editors: Peter Forgacs, László Beke Co-editors: Malgorzata Potocka, Peter Hutton, Egon Bunne Supervisor: Rotraut Pape Production secretary: Zoltán Bonta

Infermental 4

Lyon, France, 1985 102 contributions, 14 countries, 7 hours

Editors: FRIGO (Gérard Couty, Mike Hentz, Christian Vanderborght) Supervisor: Astrid Heibach

Infermental 5

Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1986 39 contributions, 13 countries, 5 hours

Editors: Leonie Bodeving, Rob Perrée, Lydia Schouten, Supervisor: Egon Bunne

Infermental 6

Vancouver, Canada, 1987 59 contributions, 25 countries, 6 hours

Editors: Vera Bódy, Hank Bull Supervisor: Gérard Couty

Infermental 7

Buffalo, USA, 1988 58 contributions, 17 countries, 5 hours

Editors: Tony Conrad, Chris Hill, Peter Weibel Supervisor: Rotraut Pape

Infermental 8

Tokyo, Japan, 1988 73 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours

Editors: Keiko Sei, Alfred Birnbaum Supervisor: Mike Hentz, Hank Bull

Infermental 9

Wien, Austria, 1989 45 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours

Editors: Ilse Gassinger, Graf + ZYX Supervisor: Chris Hill

Infermental 10

Osnabrück / Skopje, Germany / Yugoslavia, 1991 51 contributions, 16 countries, 6 hours

Editors: Heiko Daxl, Evgenija Dimitrieva Supervisor: Keiko Sei

Special Issue NRW

Wuppertal, Germany, 1984/85

This edition presents a selection of works mainly from Germany's state North Rhine-Westphalia from 1984. The editors couldn’t find philosophical-visual trend directions from the submitted works. Nevertheless this issue excels in the high quality of individual works (Joan Jonas, Marcel Odenbach, Birgit Antoni). (Vera Bódy)