A solo-exhibition by Anne Duk Hee Jordan

The exhibition The Worm: Terrestrial, Fantastic and Wet is conceived as a sensory room installation, whereby the viewer gets a fascinating insight into the world of worms. Anne Duk Hee Jordan explores the biological, physiological and sexual facets of worms and creates a completely new work that consists of soft sculptures, printed textiles, video projections and sound performances. At the entrance of the exhibition space, a tubular tunnel, consisting of extra-tactile material, invites the visitor to the inside of the worm’s body. In the middle room the artist creates a magical world where numerous neon-colored sculptures appear out of the darkness. One hears a subliminal sound composition that continues up to the third and last room where a newly created video work with close-ups and macro views of the worms’ realm makes visible to us what one otherwise cannot perceive.
Limited spaces for the opening on July 16 2021, 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM with livemusic by DJ Female Macho. Please register here and come with a negative COVID test or proof of your completed vaccination.

Tickets Online
7€ • reduced price 4€
OPENING HOURS: Wed-Sun 12-20h

Accompanying Programme

SAT • 17.07.2021 • 5:00PM—6:30PM
SCHWEINCHEN: DISCUSSION AND FILM SCREENING
Anne Duk Hee Jordan in conversation with criminal biologist Dr. Mark Benecke and screening of Schweinchen (Piglets) – Ein Dekompositionsfilm
Five dead piglets, one camera and a week of time — these are the only things needed to make the short film Schweinchen, which accompanies a study in decomposition carried out by criminal biologist Dr. Mark Benecke. But it is more than an objective documentation of the decomposition process. “We are all just part of a transitory process. No one lives forever and we all dissolve back into the components from which we came,” Benecke says. Artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan talks with Germany’s most famous forensic expert about the fascinating subject of worms. Jörg Buttgereit, artistic director of the Schweinchen, and editor and producer Michal Kosakowski will also be present.

SAT • 24.07.2021 • 5:00PM—6:30PM
CHARME OHNE DARM: LECTURE AND DISCUSSION
Anne Duk Hee Jordan in conversation with marine biologist Prof. Dr. Nicole Dubilier and lecture Charme ohne Darm — der Meereswurm Olavius algarvensis.
Nicole Dubilier, director of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, researches symbioses between bacteria and invertebrate marine animals. Her research has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of the interplay between the partners of such symbioses and their importance for the marine ecosystem.

SAT • 07.08.2021 • 7:00PM & 7:30PM
AUDIOVISUAL SOUND PERFORMANCE
Live performance of the exhibition soundtrack with composer Perera Elsewhere
Using her own voice, a trumpet and layers of evolving synthesizer recordings, Perera Elsewhere creates a complex and meandering audio landscape to accompany the magical images of self-reproducing worms. Limited visitor numbers. Two performances.

SAT • 14.08.2021 • 5:00PM—6:30PM
DISCUSSION: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF DISGUST
Anne Duk Hee Jordan in conversation with the new director of the HKW, curator, author and biotechnologist Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on worms and the work of the artist. They will discuss the socio-cultural meaning of the worm in society and possibilities for transforming disgust.

SAT • 28.08.2021 • 7:00PM & 7:30PM
AUDIOVISUAL SOUND PERFORMANCE
Live performance of the exhibition soundtrack with composer Perera Elsewhere.

SUN 8.08 • WED 11.08 • WED 18.08 • 3:00PM—4:00PM: for children from 9 years // SUN 15.08 • SUN 22.08 • WED 25.08 • 3:00PM—4:30PM: for adults
BECOMING WORM: PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS
With actor and theatre pedagogue Anne-Marie von Löw
What worms away at you? What sort of worm are you? How does it feel to be a worm? How do we move when we suddenly become a worm? In a succession of workshops we will activate our senses and experiment with how it feels to squirm. Using sound and dance, we will enter into the world of the most ancient of all animals: the worm.

EXHIBITION TEAM
artist: Anne Duk Hee Jordan • curator: Pauline Doutreluingne • sound design: Perera Elsewhere • set design and video editing: Simone Serlenga • textile design: Yoon Kye Hee • confection: Hidir Celic • artist assistance: Emilia Urbanek, Yen Chun Lin, Boris Deben • technical supervisor: Uwe Rommel • curatorial assistance: Anneli von Klitzing • graphic design: Andrea Macias-Yañez • authors: Inka Gressel, Susanne Weiß • robotics: Andreas Marckscheffel • workshops: Ann-Marie von Löw • translation: Lucy Powell • exhibition documentation: Kun Liang • mycelium chair design: Luca Bendandi • exhibition photography: JJ Falsetta • Into the Wild, in Kollaboration mit Herbarium Leipzig