Inter Hoch 3 - Festival

In the organizer's words:

Inter to the power of 3
Intermedia × International × Intergenerational
"Inter Hoch 3" is an interdisciplinary festival in three stages that recalls the legendary festival
"Intermedia I" 40 years ago (1985, Coswig) - a moment of artistic self-empowerment in the GDR.
self-empowerment in the GDR. In cooperation with various partners and together with contemporary
contemporary witnesses and today's artists, we are tracing what remains, what has been forgotten - and
what emerges from it. "Inter Hoch 3" invites us to visualize ruptures, transitions and resonances between
generations, scenes and countries - as a collective search for traces between past and present.
past and present. In an examination of historical intermedia, organically developing exhibitions and
organically developing exhibitions and projects in collaboration with Zonic (Leipzig), Studio
Bubec (Prague) and students of the HfBK Dresden will accompany the announced events throughout the entire period.
(Shifts in the program are possible, see current information at www.zentralwerk.de)
Supported by the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the German-Czech Future Fund. In cooperation with
Zonic (Leipzig), Studio Bubec (Prague), students of the HfBK Dresden, supported by Pilsner Urquell.
Part 1: Intermedia 1985 in Coswig - films, talk, presentation, live music
Fri 14.11., 8 pm:
Film: Traces of the Performative - The Intermedia I in Coswig 1985 (dir: Thomas Claus, 2017, 45 min).
The documentary filmmaker Thomas Claus, himself a contemporary witness of the Intermedia festival, reconstructed 2017
for the exhibition "Geniale Dilletanten - Subkultur der 1980iger Jahre in West- und Ostdeutschland" at the
Dresden Albertinum as a dazzling montage of interviews with participants,
a myriad of photos and noise attacks from rediscovered audio documents. An ideal
introduction.
Talk: Intermedia I, Coswig 1985: A look back with Christoph Tannert, Osmar Osten, Christine Schlegel and Jürgen Gutjahr.
Schlegel and Jürgen Gutjahr
A direct look back at "Intermedia I" from different perspectives. With Christoph
Tannert as one of the main organizers in the bridging function between art and subculture,
the artist Osmar Osten, who took part in a painting action to the sounds of the Rennbahnband, Christine
Schlegel, to whose Super8 films the dancer Fine performed live, and Jürgen "Chaos" Gutjahr,
former singer of Leipzig's first punk band Wutanfall, who performed live with his radical industrial
performance project Pffft...! divided the audience.
Live:
MCH Trio (Prague)
Mikolas Chadima founded the MCH Band in 1982, having previously been a pioneer with the prog rock band Extempore.
Extempore, a pioneer of Czech punk, and a member of the performance group
performance group Kilhets, which he released alongside others on Fist Records, probably the earliest
the earliest illegal cassette label in the East. At the same time, he was networked in the West. Thus he performed
1981, once out of the country, in London with Chris Cutler and members of This Heat or
The Work. Crossing borders also meant that he set German texts to music, including those
of the ex-GDR dissident Jürgen Fuchs. Relegated to the underground in the 1980s as a co-signatory of Charta 77
in the underground in the 1980s, he also published the samizdat book "Alternativa" in 1987, a
personal overview of the scene. The MCH Band developed a specific, always experimental and
experimental and often dark sound, which in the mid-1980s, at the time of Intermedia I, also incorporated
elements of psychedelic industrial when they recorded concept albums based on Orwell's "1984".
Pffft...! (Berlin)
Founded in 1983/84 by two ex-members of Leipzig's first punk band, Wutanfall.
Pffft...! stood for the consistent step towards industrial, whereby tape loops and metal percussion
were joined in the early phase by the performative interludes of artist Hans-Joachim Schulze, who
who opened up new fields of action after the end of his group 37,2. Their performance in Coswig, where
Schulze was carried out of the hall by the Stasi, sparked both enthusiasm and indignation and
and thus remained particularly memorable. In 2026, Pffft...! around Jürgen "Chaos" Gutjahr is still cultivating the
noise, with an intensity enriched by four decades of experience.
Sat 15.11., 8 pm:
Live:
Zuby Nehty (Prague)
Zuby Nehty are part of a long development in the wake of two bands that were the first all-female
of the New Wave scene in the East. Founded in 1980 as Plyn, who were blacklisted in 1983
blacklisted in 1983 and therefore continued as Dybbuk from 1984, from which the more mixed
1990s gave rise to the more mixed Zuby Nehty. Their sound partly has something of the
fragility of early post-punk bands such as the Raincoats, which only emerged later, but is above all completely
but above all it is completely independent.
Sun 16.11., 7 pm:
Presentation: Intermedia I as international imagination
Coswig 1985 was an event aimed solely at the GDR and drawing on its scene. In
Christoph Tannert and Alexander Pehlemann, both connoisseurs and enthusiasts and often partners of
and often partners of Eastern European art and subculture, want to use short portraits to
imagine which possible participants there would have been in 1985 if the program had been
could have been extended to Eastern Europe. A thought experiment as an excursion into often unknown
creative fields of the "Eastern Bloc" neighborhood, which at the same time takes the GDR events into comparison.
in a comparison.
Film: "Night Song of the Dog" (Hungary, 1983, D: Gábor Bódy, 150 min)
This film by director Gábor Bódy, who died in 1985, was shown several times in the GDR and was extremely inspiring to parts of the scene.
director Gábor Bódy, who died in 1985, is an interesting attempt to depict a wild reality using mixed film techniques.
to depict a wild reality. The linear narrative, including a possibly false priest, an astronomer
a possibly fake priest, an astronomer with a shaman punk band or an officer's wife who seeks to break out as a
who seeks to break out as a singer, is interspersed with Super 8 excerpts that reflect a child's
and videos showing two of the most important Hungarian underground groups: A.E.
Bizottság and Vágtázó Halottkémek aka Frenzied Coroners. A thought-provoking metaphor
about faith, poverty of faith and longing for love, spontaneous and associative, full of ludicrous symbols and
symbols and actions.