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| − | '''INFERMENTAL - International - Fermentum - Mental''', initiated by the Hungarian filmmakers [[Gábor Bódy]] and [[Vera Bódy]] in | + | '''INFERMENTAL - International - Fermentum - Mental''', initiated by the Hungarian filmmakers [[Gábor Bódy]] and [[Vera Bódy]] in 1980, was the first international videocassette magazine that published video artworks in part or whole, trailers, and reports (lasting 1-20 minutes) from around the world. Appearing annually with a total running time between four and six hours, each issue was compiled and edited in a different location. From the first issue (Berlin, 1982), which was published on an electronic billboard during the Berlin Film Festival and co-edited by Astrid Heibach and Gábor Bódy, who in 1980 initiated the ‘international recorded imagery project), to the last issue (Skopje and Osnabrück, 1991), a total of 660 works were gathered. Infermental was conceived neither as festival nor gallery, but as a ‘running information memory' (Oliver Hirschbiegel) that bundled together excerpts, documents and events according to thematic and intellectual context. |
Following the death of Gábor Bódy, his wife Vera Bódy was responsible for co-ordinating the project. The complete magazine archive, including 10 issues + 1 special issue (altogether about 70 hours and more than 1500 artists from 36 countries, has been on permanent loan to the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe since 1992 - and are publicly available via its Jukebox-System. | Following the death of Gábor Bódy, his wife Vera Bódy was responsible for co-ordinating the project. The complete magazine archive, including 10 issues + 1 special issue (altogether about 70 hours and more than 1500 artists from 36 countries, has been on permanent loan to the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe since 1992 - and are publicly available via its Jukebox-System. | ||
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| − | + | Infermental_rueck.jpg | |
| + | Videography_Infermental_1-3_1984.webp|Videography Infermental 1-3, 1984 | ||
| + | Infermental_1981-1991.webp|Infermental Editions 1981-1991 | ||
| + | Infermental_1983.jpg | ||
| + | Infermental_1986.jpg|Exhibition poster Infermental 1980-1986, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Apr. 10 - Apr. 13, 1986 | ||
| + | Infermental_1988.jpg|Poster Infermental 1980-1988 | ||
| + | Infermental_1988 rueck.jpg|Infermental 1980-1988: Description of each edition | ||
| + | Infermental Projektbeschreibung.webp|Projektbeschreibung / Sketch of the project (German) | ||
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| − | + | == Video editions == | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Berlin/West, Germany, 1982 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 37 contributions, 8 countries, 4 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Gábor Bódy]], [[Astrid Heibach]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Gusztáv Hámos]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 2 | |
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| − | + | Hamburg, Germany, 1982/83 | |
| − | + | 77 contributions, 15 countries, 6 hours | |
| − | + | Editors: [[Oliver Hirschbiegel]], [[Rotraut Pape]] | |
| − | + | Supervisor: [[Vera Bódy]] | |
| − | + | ; Infermental 3 | |
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| − | Editors: | + | Budapest, Hungary, 1983/84 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 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 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Lyon, France, 1985 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 102 contributions, 14 countries, 7 hours |
| + | Editors: FRIGO ([[Gérard Couty]], [[Mike Hentz]], [[Christian Vanderborght]]) | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Astrid Heibach]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 5 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1986 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 39 contributions, 13 countries, 5 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Leonie Bodeving]], [[Rob Perrée]], [[Lydia Schouten]], | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Egon Bunne]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 6 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Vancouver, Canada, 1987 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 59 contributions, 25 countries, 6 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Vera Bódy]], [[Hank Bull]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Gérard Couty]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 7 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Buffalo, USA, 1988 |
| − | + | 58 contributions, 17 countries, 5 hours | |
| + | Editors: [[Tony Conrad]], [[Chris Hill]], [[Peter Weibel]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Rotraut Pape]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 8 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Tokyo, Japan, 1988 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 73 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Keiko Sei]], [[Alfred Birnbaum]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Mike Hentz]], [[Hank Bull]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 9 | |
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| − | Editors: [[ | + | Wien, Austria, 1989 |
| − | Supervisor: [[ | + | 45 contributions, 15 countries, 5 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Ilse Gassinger]], [[Graf + ZYX]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Chris Hill]] | ||
| − | + | ; Infermental 10 | |
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| − | 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]]). | + | Osnabrück / Skopje, Germany / Yugoslavia, 1991 |
| − | (Vera Bódy) | + | 51 contributions, 16 countries, 6 hours |
| + | Editors: [[Heiko Daxl]], [[Evgenija Dimitrieva]] | ||
| + | Supervisor: [[Keiko Sei]] | ||
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| + | ; Special Issue NRW | ||
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| + | 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) | ||
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* Infermental 1980 - 1986 ; the first international magazine on videocassettes / [coord. Veruschka Bódy]. - Cologne, 1986. - 162 p. - ISBN 3-7701-2099-X | * Infermental 1980 - 1986 ; the first international magazine on videocassettes / [coord. Veruschka Bódy]. - Cologne, 1986. - 162 p. - ISBN 3-7701-2099-X | ||
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* Infermental 1-3: Edition I, Berlin, 1982; Edition II, Hamburg, 1982/83; Edition III, Budapest, 1984 / Veruschka Bódy. - 11 p. | * Infermental 1-3: Edition I, Berlin, 1982; Edition II, Hamburg, 1982/83; Edition III, Budapest, 1984 / Veruschka Bódy. - 11 p. | ||
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* Infermental 4: Edition 4, 1985, Frigo - Lyon / Vera Bódy. - 10 p. | * Infermental 4: Edition 4, 1985, Frigo - Lyon / Vera Bódy. - 10 p. | ||
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* Infermental 5: The Image of Fiction : International Videoart. - Con Rumaore, Rotterdam / Ed.: Leonie Bodeving, Rob Perée, Lydia Schouten. - 1986. - 52 p. | * Infermental 5: The Image of Fiction : International Videoart. - Con Rumaore, Rotterdam / Ed.: Leonie Bodeving, Rob Perée, Lydia Schouten. - 1986. - 52 p. | ||
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* Infermental 6: New World Edition. - Vancouver / ed. by Hank Bull and Veruschka Bódy. - 1987. - 18 p. | * Infermental 6: New World Edition. - Vancouver / ed. by Hank Bull and Veruschka Bódy. - 1987. - 18 p. | ||
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* Infermental 7: A Travelling Exhibition of World video. Buffalo, New York Edition / Ed.: Chris Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Weibel. - 1988. - 28 p. - ISBN 0-936739-11-8 | * Infermental 7: A Travelling Exhibition of World video. Buffalo, New York Edition / Ed.: Chris Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Weibel. - 1988. - 28 p. - ISBN 0-936739-11-8 | ||
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* Infermental 8: In the Afterglow of TV Land ; the Tokyo Edition / Ed.: Keiko Sei and Alfred Birnbaum. - 1988. - 41+43 p. | * Infermental 8: In the Afterglow of TV Land ; the Tokyo Edition / Ed.: Keiko Sei and Alfred Birnbaum. - 1988. - 41+43 p. | ||
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* [http://web.archive.org/web/20070912014650/http://infermental9.grafzyx.at/ Infermental 9: Herz von Europa = Heart of Europe] / Ed.: Ilse Gassinger and Graf + ZYX. - Vienna, 1989. - 120 p. | * [http://web.archive.org/web/20070912014650/http://infermental9.grafzyx.at/ Infermental 9: Herz von Europa = Heart of Europe] / Ed.: Ilse Gassinger and Graf + ZYX. - Vienna, 1989. - 120 p. | ||
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* Infermental 10: da - zwischen - hier = there - between - here / Ed.: Heiko Daxl and Evgenija Dimitrieva. - Osnabrück, Skopje, 1991. - 72 p. | * Infermental 10: da - zwischen - hier = there - between - here / Ed.: Heiko Daxl and Evgenija Dimitrieva. - Osnabrück, Skopje, 1991. - 72 p. | ||
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* "Infermental", ''OMNIBUS'' 6, 1982. {{de}} | * "Infermental", ''OMNIBUS'' 6, 1982. {{de}} | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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[[Hungary#Video_art]] | [[Hungary#Video_art]] | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
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* [http://www.infermental.de/ Infermental website by ZKM] | * [http://www.infermental.de/ Infermental website by ZKM] | ||
* [https://archive.org/details/axis-gabor-body AXIS], eds. Veruschka Bódy and Gábor Bódy, 1986, 117 min. A video anthology based on the Infermental video magazine. | * [https://archive.org/details/axis-gabor-body AXIS], eds. Veruschka Bódy and Gábor Bódy, 1986, 117 min. A video anthology based on the Infermental video magazine. | ||
Revision as of 17:00, 18 April 2025
INFERMENTAL - International - Fermentum - Mental, initiated by the Hungarian filmmakers Gábor Bódy and Vera Bódy in 1980, was the first international videocassette magazine that published video artworks in part or whole, trailers, and reports (lasting 1-20 minutes) from around the world. Appearing annually with a total running time between four and six hours, each issue was compiled and edited in a different location. From the first issue (Berlin, 1982), which was published on an electronic billboard during the Berlin Film Festival and co-edited by Astrid Heibach and Gábor Bódy, who in 1980 initiated the ‘international recorded imagery project), to the last issue (Skopje and Osnabrück, 1991), a total of 660 works were gathered. Infermental was conceived neither as festival nor gallery, but as a ‘running information memory' (Oliver Hirschbiegel) that bundled together excerpts, documents and events according to thematic and intellectual context.
Following the death of Gábor Bódy, his wife Vera Bódy was responsible for co-ordinating the project. The complete magazine archive, including 10 issues + 1 special issue (altogether about 70 hours and more than 1500 artists from 36 countries, has been on permanent loan to the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe since 1992 - and are publicly available via its Jukebox-System.
Videography Infermental 1-3, 1984
Infermental Editions 1981-1991
Exhibition poster Infermental 1980-1986, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Apr. 10 - Apr. 13, 1986
Poster Infermental 1980-1988
Infermental 1980-1988: Description of each edition
Projektbeschreibung / Sketch of the project (German)
Video editions
- 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)
- Infermental 1980 - 1986 ; the first international magazine on videocassettes / [coord. Veruschka Bódy]. - Cologne, 1986. - 162 p. - ISBN 3-7701-2099-X
- Infermental 1-3: Edition I, Berlin, 1982; Edition II, Hamburg, 1982/83; Edition III, Budapest, 1984 / Veruschka Bódy. - 11 p.
- Infermental 4: Edition 4, 1985, Frigo - Lyon / Vera Bódy. - 10 p.
- Infermental 5: The Image of Fiction : International Videoart. - Con Rumaore, Rotterdam / Ed.: Leonie Bodeving, Rob Perée, Lydia Schouten. - 1986. - 52 p.
- Infermental 6: New World Edition. - Vancouver / ed. by Hank Bull and Veruschka Bódy. - 1987. - 18 p.
- Infermental 7: A Travelling Exhibition of World video. Buffalo, New York Edition / Ed.: Chris Hill, Tony Conrad, Peter Weibel. - 1988. - 28 p. - ISBN 0-936739-11-8
- Infermental 8: In the Afterglow of TV Land ; the Tokyo Edition / Ed.: Keiko Sei and Alfred Birnbaum. - 1988. - 41+43 p.
- Infermental 9: Herz von Europa = Heart of Europe / Ed.: Ilse Gassinger and Graf + ZYX. - Vienna, 1989. - 120 p.
- Infermental 10: da - zwischen - hier = there - between - here / Ed.: Heiko Daxl and Evgenija Dimitrieva. - Osnabrück, Skopje, 1991. - 72 p.
On Infermental
- "Infermental", OMNIBUS 6, 1982. (German)
- "Infermental - Innovationen der visuellen Sprache: Experimental-Video-Projekt von Gábor Bódy", Zitty 13, 1982, p 66. Interview with Gábor Bódy about Infermental 1. (German)
- Don Ranvaud, "Infermental", Framework: A Film Journal 19, 1982, p 52. Announcement of Infermental 1.
- Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, "Infermentalisch", Frankfurter Rundschau, 16 Feb 1983. (German)
- Oliver Hirschbiegel, "Über Infermental", 1984. (German)
- Emmanuel Stein, "Boxhandschuhe über der Theke", Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 10 Apr 1986. About the exhibition Infermental 1980-1986 in Cologne at Kölner Kunstverein. (German)
- "Auf der elektronischen Bühne Europas - Infermental", Stadt Revue 11:5, 1986, pp 110-111. (German)
- Maurice Nio, "Infermental 5. The Image of Fiction", Mediamatic 1:2, 1986. (English)
- "Infermental - Das elektronische Network der achtziger Jahre", in Ars Electronica 1987, Linz, 1987.
- Vera Body, "Infermental IX - Edition Wien", in EMAF 1989, 1989. (German)
- Rotraut Pape, "Infermental. Wie ein unabhängiges Netzwerk entsteht", in Dagegen-Dabei-Katalog, Hamburg, June 1998. (German)
- Dieter Daniels, "4. Edition von INFERMENTAL: Frigo, Lyon, Frankreich", n.d. (German)
- Tomasz Załuski, "Infermental. Pierwszy międzynarodowy magazyn na kasetach wideo (1981-1991)", in Wideo w sztukach wizualnych, eds. Ryszard W. Kluszczyński and Tomasz Załuski, Łódź: Wydawnictwo UŁ, and Lubin: Galeria Labirynt, 2018, pp 205-246. (Polish)
See also
Links
- Infermental website by ZKM
- AXIS, eds. Veruschka Bódy and Gábor Bódy, 1986, 117 min. A video anthology based on the Infermental video magazine.
- Video Digest Magazine, a magazine and exhibition taking up impulses from historical video magazines such as Infermental, Video Congress and Zapp Magazine, 2023.
- Infermental on MediaArtNet
- Wikipedia
- Wikidata: Editions, Contributors, Organisations.
