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INFERMENTAL 4, Lyon France 1985

I remember

We (the INFERMENTAL´s editors) are not art-historian, so to have some credibility, we have to use some precautionary measures when we talk about our experience… We have to be « modesty sincere », using, for example, some personal anecdotes, some « I remember ».

Doing INFERMENTAL for me was absolutly genial… My best friends are from the INFERMENTAL network. I completed (a lot) my tolerance-learning when I deed my INFERMENTAL number…

INFERMENTAL was not a sinecure, it was not so respectable to be media-artist (or to be friendly with…) at this time… Be an « INFERMENTAL-Editor » was not so easy.

First we needed the connection, the magic « key », a manner of « initiator ». For us, « le Frigo », Mike A. Hentz was the « guy ».

And a crew, a team, a location with a « alternative-fame » and technical possibility (kinda bureaucraty and some solution for editing the number: money and machines).

INFERMENTAL was for me a straight « direct democraty » with chic and « panache » !

Our personal supervizor (Astrid Heibach) was a garanty of our freedom : « Please, interest me !» was the slogan !

We were complety free with our choices and the « general-looking » but with some strong intuitive positive drive with the other numbers, a manner of « Cadavre Exquis ».

It was not only about media, more about information and exchange, « crossover » and « transgender ». The Wall was here, beetween us, something to break with reason…

INFERMENTAL was not a « ego-competition », not only but a verification of the « modernity-atmosphere » year by year… A sort of « imaginery Museum of the present time », an utopia of the 80’…

But with step back, and it was not premeditaded, INFERMENTAL is the only « complete and exotic video archive » from the 80’, the hinge beetween analogic and digital in the mass-medias!

What could be better than the list of the 10 numbers to show the diversity and the broadmindedness of INFERMENTAL!

Gerard Couty TXT Hamburg show INFERMENTAL, Kampnagel 1995

Archives in ZKM  Karlsruhe

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE ON VIDEOCASSETTES

INFERMENTAL -1 9 8 1 – 1 9 9 1

INFERMENTAL I

WEST BERLIN 1982

Duration: 4 hours

INFERMENTAL II

HAMBURG 1982/1983

Duration: 6 hours

INFERMENTAL III

BUDAPEST 1983/1984

Duration: 6 hours

INFERMENTAL IV

LYON 1985

Duration: 7 hours

INFERMENTAL V

ROTTERDAM 1986

Duration: 5 hours

INFERMENTAL VI

VANCOUVER 1987

Duration: 5+1 hours

INFERMENTAL VII

BUFFALO 1988

Duration: 5 hours

INFERMENTAL VIII

TOKYO 1988

Duration: 5 hours

INFERMENTAL IX

WIEN 1989

Duration: 5 hours

INFERMENTAL X

OSNABRÜCK/SKOPJE 1991

Duration: 6 hours

INFERMENTAL SPECIAL ISSUE

NRW WUPPERTAL 1985

Duration: 4 hours