Introduction

The Berlin artist and composer, Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, will be presenting his multidisciplinary project, entitled sonArc::project, at the Württembergischen Kunstverein in Stuttgart from the 24. February to the 29. April, 2007. The work moves between the fields of electricity research, video, spatial installation and performance.

Since the 1990s, Sonntag, whose artistic roots reach back to the minimal- and concept art as well as to the so-called new and experimental music, has repeatedly cooperated with scientific laboratories. Alongside the examination of human perception, the question at the centre of his artistic work concerns the visions of modernity – an unfinished project.

With sonArc::project, a project cycle in alternating aesthetic formats, the artist has been in search of the essence of electricity as well as the possibility of domesticating lightening since 2003: that is, in search of the electric/electronic sources and, at the same time, visions of our media age.