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Andrea Tippel was born in 1945 in Hirsau in the Black Forest and grew up as the middle of three sisters in Bremen. Her parents were the architects Maria Alexandra Mahlberg and Klaus Tippel. In 1971, Tippel moved to Berlin and began creating drawings, objects, composites, texts and books, as well as a few oil paintings. Tippel was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 1997 and co-founded the Dieter Roth Academy (DRA) in 2000. She passed away in 2012 in Berlin. From the early 1990s onwards, Andrea Tippel frequently recorded audio works including readings, songs and field recordings. Her literary centerpiece undoubtedly is Ich Und Sie, a novel composed entirely of three-letter words (TA 160CD). This 7" single collects three improvised songs, originally titled seltsame Lieder/improvisiert, recorded to cassette tape presumably in the mid-to-late 1990s. All three tracks are playful and funny, but at the same time they unfold three philosophical topics, typical of Tippel's dry humor: The first song, "hotduiknow", is a sprechgesang loop of the epistemological question "How do I know?", without a final universal answer: How do we know that we know what we know? "Herr Kurzweil + Herr Frommherz" is based on a children's song well-known throughout Germany: "Der Kuckuck und der Esel" (The Cuckoo and the Donkey). Its lyrics, describing a quarrel between a cuckoo and a donkey about who of the both was the better singer, are by Hoffmann von Fallersleben, who also wrote the text of the German national anthem. Tippel transformed the two 19th-century animals into two 20th-century futurists, asking who has the better vision of the future: Ray Kurzweil, scientist, book author, and now a director of engineering at Google, or Fridolin Frommherz, a fictional German scientist from the novel Vom Mars zur Erde (1914) by utopian Albert Daiber. Frommherz, living in the year 2222, decides to stay on Mars as the only member of an expedition group, deeply impressed by a higher civilization found on the red planet. The last song, "when i die please do what you want (Testament)", brings up another philosophical question: Who decides over my body when my mind is absent? and is it still my body? But the song turns the Descartes body/mind question into a kitsch chanson, a stereotypical imitation of a "foreign", sexually attractive woman, unfortunately with a dead body. Reproductions of drawings by Andrea Tippel on the sleeve and on the labels; includes postcard; Edition of 200.
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Ich Und Sie -- ein Roman aus dreibuchstabigen Wörtern (Me and Her -- a novel of three-letter-words) was a work Andrea Tippel started in 1993 and finished in 2009. As the title suggests it consists entirely of three-letter-words. Two CDs in full-color, six-panel DVD-sized digipak; illustrated with pages of the manuscripts of Ich Und Sie, a biographical text, chronology of the work in English by Marc Schulz, and the text "The Speaking Art of Andrea Tippel" by Dorothy Iannone, written in 2019 especially for this publication. Edition of 250.
Andrea Tippel was born 1945 in Hirsau/Black Forest, and grew up as the middle of three sisters in Bremen. Her parents were the architects Maria Alexandra Mahlberg and Klaus Tippel. In 1969, she was a state-certified actress (Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna and Berlin), then studied philosophy and psychology in Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. In 1971, Tippel moved to Berlin and started to create drawings, objects, composites, texts, and books, as well as a few oil paintings. In 1974 she had her first exhibition with Tomas Schmit, started to produce artist books in 1980, and editions for various galleries from 1987. She maintained close friendships with Suzanne Baumann, Henriette van Egten, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dorothy Iannone, Dieter Roth, Tomas Schmit, Jan Voss, and Emmett Williams. Tippel was appointed as a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg in 1997, and co-founded the Dieter Roth Academy (DRA) in 2000. She passed away in 2012 in Berlin.
"... Here is a tale, a brilliant tale, one cannot deny, which, even as it astounds us through her perseverance, drives us crazy with a foreboding that this may well be an endless tale. And perhaps this purely personal response to the Speaking Art of Andrea Tippel may well have amused its creator who often found meanings which, understandably or not, had eluded others ... " --Dorothy Iannone, "The Speaking Art of Andrea Tippel" (excerpt). German language.
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