As the influence of the virtual expands, integrates and maps itself across the material, strange objects, banal byproducts, ghost imagery and radical events appear in our homes and spatially across the landscape. Closed social systems lodged in...
Out (Tse) is a highly disturbing mixture of documentary and exorcistic horror film made by the radical American-Isreali artist Roee Rosen. The key scene depicts a sadomasochism session, where a chained young woman is beaten on her behind. Instead of verbalising her pain...
Using the video camera on his iphone Wong records the immediate aftermath of a car accident. Crossing the street, we hear a horn blaring, we see the front of a red car that has crashed into the rear end of a green car, the camera shifts we see into the interior of the red car, the drivers side door is wide open, the airbag is inflated. The view further shifts, someone is...
Transformance is a video-event-work that activates and documents a six month durational performance. Over this period of time, Nina Kurtela establishes a daily practice of visiting and witnessing the changes at the building site of the Uferhallen, Wedding, Berlin. She is spectator to the making of an institution, an art institution, the making of the theater stage. The camera acts...
Vertical Distractions is based on the city of Frankfurt/M and its skyline. Feser explores the architecture that he sees and its effect on the body. He develops physical extensions of the body that strangely oscillate between clothing, prosthesis and...
This video explores the themes of dispossession and repression. It was produced using sequences broadcast on the Web and scenes filmed in an abandoned house. It includes shots of the Olympic flame relay...
Humans mount themselves on gigantic robots and enjoy to be centrifuged. That‘s what happens in amusement parks. Machines with the power of tanks and the voices of demonic entertainers offer 5 minutes of anti gravity therapy. Based on...
544/544 (Up /Down) is the second composition in a series reflecting on various aspects of Hanne Darbovens work and music. Darboven (29 April 1941- 9 March 2009) best known for her large scale installations consisting of handwritten tables of numbers was a composer as well. Darboven’s Requiem itself...
The Bath House is a cinematic re-imagination of a 1930s Russian constructivist play written by Vladimir Mayakovsky and directed by Vesevolod Meyerhold. The work is set at the modernist Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh, Scotland.
A fragmented view of a city provides this poetic examination of disclosing and withholding, what is and isn't seen, and once it is seen, how is it read?