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Achim Wollscheid (b. 1959, Germany) is a media artist whose work has moved across sound, video, architectural space, and interactive installation for more than four decades. He was a co-founder of Selektion, the Frankfurt imprint he ran with Ralf Wehowsky and others from the late Eighties onward as a production-and-distribution organisation for experimental music and documentation of information systems. Wollscheid's sound-work has appeared under his own name and under the pseudonym S.B.O.T.H.I. (Swimming Behaviour Of The Human Infant).
The Films VHS documents Wollscheid's video work, part of the Selektion imprint's consistent interest in multimedia documentation (the label's catalogue also includes Selektion Video with M. Caspers, H. Maus, and Wollscheid, released as cassette-plus-VHS for simultaneous playback). Wollscheid's practice has always positioned the sound-work as one component of a wider intermedia investigation, and the VHS format gave him the medium-specific tool for the visual end of that investigation.
His later work would lead him to interactive online sound-art commissions (including Nonrepetitive for Tate in 2011) and to architectural-scale installation projects, including his striking 1996 proposal to transform a deserted Frankfurt industrial complex into "a poly-rhythm box" by attaching a computer-generated clapper to each of its 1400 windows. A rare document of one of the most consistently exploratory figures of the Selektion / Frankfurt experimental-music scene.
