Nik Nowak’s Panzer (2011) is a sound system made from metal frame of garbage container which works on the principle of hydraulics. It is made in the manner of Jamaican sound systems but places itself in contemporary sound research that problematize sound as the mean of manipulation and control of the crowds in contemporary society. The project is thus a crossroad of contemporary theoretical research in the field of sound, sound art, popular culture and scientific research in the field of military technologies. Panzer works as mobile sound system which through the form of intervention in public spaces reflects Jamaican musical culture from 70′s that is highly present in modern club culture and in electronic dance music. Panzer is an excellent example of coexistence of different concepts in contemporary sound art and in popular culture. The work was premiered at Todays Art festival 2012 and later on CTM in Berlin.

Nik Nowak is younger German artist, who lives and works in Berlin. Between 2001-2007 he studied Fine Arts at Universität der Künste (UdK) and finsished his master degree by prof. Lotar Baumgartner. Later on he studied also in Shanhgai and New York City. In his work Nowak is entering the traces of electornic music in the contemporary art environment, in the field of sculptures that has in Germany more than thirty years of tradition under the term Klangkünste. In wider context we can place his work in sound art. He is most interested in mobile, moving sound sculptures, which at the same time operate as mobile sound systems with which he is penetrating gallery spaces, clubs and public spaces in the form of sonic intervetions. He has so far present his work in Den Haag, moscow, Berlin, Hamburg, Wien and Shanghai.

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Jan Vormann has in a project, urban spatial intervention Dispatchwork, created a real international platform, which through play and playfulness through participation creates a subtle manifestation of the fusion of art and everyday life, through which the artist intervenes in urban greyness of everyday life. Plastic cubes as a material with which Vormann built in gaps, cracks and holes in the urban landscape, not only embodied game, the first children’s contact with the architecture, but also the object of popular culture, with its distinctive coloring becomes critical commentary, satire of complex urban structures in the city. Work has become a global phenomenon, and Dispatchwork an international network, to which we invited everyone.

Young German artist Jan Vormann quickly earned a reputation in the art world for his kinetic sculptures and installations and in recent years particularly with his project Dispatchwork, an intervention in the public space, with which he in a witty way repairs, patches and builds in holes with material of popular culture – with well known plastic construction pieces Lego. It is not superfluous information that Vormann studied monumental art and restoration. With an extremely successful project he has been for three years traveling around the world and repaired old buildings and monuments , including the Great Wall of China and buildings in Venice. Vormann in the last six years has  exhibited worldwide in galleries in Paris, Berlin, Barcelona , Linz, Taipei, Atlanta, New York , St . Petersburg , Belgrade, Tel Aviv, Moscow, Rome, Tehran, Amsterdam and elsewhere. Vormann is a resident of an international residency project TRIBE at Sonica.

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