2. #DEMAND_THE_FUTURE_YOU_IMAGINE DANILO CORREALE. REVERIE - On The Liberation From Work - Chapter 2, 2017, 18’23"
This hypnotic exercise will guide you on a peaceful journey of the mind to explore the realm where work is no longer needed, and where the dream of universal basic income has finally succeeded. Using this album in the privacy of your home, you can learn an age-old ritual that is helpful in becoming more alert, refreshed, and prepared to join collectively higher challenges. You will need to relax and adjust your seating (following the simple, provided instructions), and my voice will go with you.
Danilo Correale (b.1982) is an artist and researcher from Naples, Italy. His work he analyzes aspects of human life, such as labor-leisure, and sleep under the lenses of time and body.
This hypnotic exercise will guide you on a peaceful journey of the mind to explore the realm where work is no longer needed, and where the dream of universal basic income has finally succeeded. Using this album in the privacy of your home, you can learn an age-old ritual that is helpful in becoming more alert, refreshed, and prepared to join collectively higher challenges. You will need to relax and adjust your seating (following the simple, provided instructions), and my voice will go with you.
Danilo Correale (b.1982) is an artist and researcher from Naples, Italy. His work he analyzes aspects of human life, such as labor-leisure, and sleep under the lenses of time and body.
11. #TO_STRIVE_TOGETHER ADELITA HUSNI-BEY. AFTER THE FINISH LINE,2015, 12'53"
A video about the impulse to perform and compete told by teenagers athletes.
Adelia Husni-Bey (b.1985) is an Italian-Libyan artist and researcher. Working with activists, architects, jurists, schoolchildren, spoken word poets, actors, urbanists, physical therapists, athletes, teachers and students across different backgrounds her work focuses on unpacking the complexity of collectivity.
A video about the impulse to perform and compete told by teenagers athletes.
Adelia Husni-Bey (b.1985) is an Italian-Libyan artist and researcher. Working with activists, architects, jurists, schoolchildren, spoken word poets, actors, urbanists, physical therapists, athletes, teachers and students across different backgrounds her work focuses on unpacking the complexity of collectivity.
24. #CASA_GRANDE JONATHAS DE ANDRADE. O CASEIRO, 2016, 7'
A dialogue between two eras in the same house in Recife, northeast Brasil.
In 1959, the daily life of the sociologist and writer Gilberto Freyre, famous for
his seminal work “The Masters and the Slaves” and in 2016, a housekeeper
goes about his daily chores, handling objects and occupying spaces that echo
relationships founded on race and class.
Jonathas de Andrade (b.1982), lives and works in Recife. Anthropology, pedagogy, politics and morals are the lines of inquiry pursued by the artist to recount the paradoxes of modernist culture.
A dialogue between two eras in the same house in Recife, northeast Brasil.
In 1959, the daily life of the sociologist and writer Gilberto Freyre, famous for
his seminal work “The Masters and the Slaves” and in 2016, a housekeeper
goes about his daily chores, handling objects and occupying spaces that echo
relationships founded on race and class.
Jonathas de Andrade (b.1982), lives and works in Recife. Anthropology, pedagogy, politics and morals are the lines of inquiry pursued by the artist to recount the paradoxes of modernist culture.
25. #ONLY_THE_NIGHT_CAN_KISS_ME RANIA STEPHAN. 64 DUSKS, 2014, 5'45"
64 Dusks formed part of Rania Stephan’s investigation of Soad Hosni’s life and death. A major star of Egyptian cinema, Hosni mysteriously fell from the balcony of the seventh story of Stuart Towers, London one evening in June 2001. Stephan returned repeatedly to the scene of her suicide in the summer of 2010, filming a circumambulation around the site.
Rania Stephan (b.1960) is a filmmaker and artist based in Beirut. Her films, while crossing genres, display a long-running investigation of certain themes, such as the negotiation of personal and public archives, and a focus on what she calls "the archaeology of images, identity, and memory."
64 Dusks formed part of Rania Stephan’s investigation of Soad Hosni’s life and death. A major star of Egyptian cinema, Hosni mysteriously fell from the balcony of the seventh story of Stuart Towers, London one evening in June 2001. Stephan returned repeatedly to the scene of her suicide in the summer of 2010, filming a circumambulation around the site.
Rania Stephan (b.1960) is a filmmaker and artist based in Beirut. Her films, while crossing genres, display a long-running investigation of certain themes, such as the negotiation of personal and public archives, and a focus on what she calls "the archaeology of images, identity, and memory."
26-#THE_EVERYDAY CHANTAL AKERMAN. LA CHAMBRE, 1972. 11’
In La chambre, Akerman draws from a “discourse of the everyday” in order to create a series of ultimately ambiguous contrasts and metaphors. The camera literally spins in circles, gesturing to the patriarchal entrapment of a woman in the domestic space; it is repetitive, there is no escape. breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
Chantal Akerman(1950-2015) is a Belgian filmmaker who took a profoundly personal and aesthetically idiosyncratic approach to film form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and religion.
In La chambre, Akerman draws from a “discourse of the everyday” in order to create a series of ultimately ambiguous contrasts and metaphors. The camera literally spins in circles, gesturing to the patriarchal entrapment of a woman in the domestic space; it is repetitive, there is no escape. breakthrough formal experiment is the first film the director made in New York.
Chantal Akerman(1950-2015) is a Belgian filmmaker who took a profoundly personal and aesthetically idiosyncratic approach to film form, using it to investigate geography and identity, space and time, sexuality and religion.
29. #APOCALYPSE MICHAEL JOHN WHELAN. THE MEMOIRS OF A MADAM, 2007
6’30" 16mm
This 16mm film work is made up of fragments of appropriated German educational films about volcanic activity. Once cut together, the length of film was then written on using the text The Memoirs of a Madman by Leo Tolstoy. The text is written longitudinally along the film so to read the text one would have to view the film centimeter by centimeter.
Michael John Whelan (b.1977) is an Irish visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
6’30" 16mm
This 16mm film work is made up of fragments of appropriated German educational films about volcanic activity. Once cut together, the length of film was then written on using the text The Memoirs of a Madman by Leo Tolstoy. The text is written longitudinally along the film so to read the text one would have to view the film centimeter by centimeter.
Michael John Whelan (b.1977) is an Irish visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
53. #LACK_OF_FEELING JUMANA EMIL ABBOUD. I FEEL NOTHING, 2013, 8'07"
GUEST//AARON CEZAR
Aaron Cezar is the founding Director of Delfina Foundation (London), where he develops and oversees its interrelated programme of residencies, exhibitions and public platforms
This project began as a multi-faceted investigation into the sense of touch: lack of feeling, the relationship between the body and memory; between land and it's "spiritual" history, superstitions, old wives' tales, sacred stones and talismans as once deeply woven within Palestinian identity. I Feel Nothing is a video-poem inspired from these ideas, and from Palestinian fairytale The Handless Maiden. Metaphorical throughout, a relationship is recounted, though remains ambiguous if it is between a man and a woman, life and death, the past and the present, or an individual and a homeland.
Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971) lives and works in Jerusalem, Palestine. She uses drawing, video, performance, objects and text to navigate themes of memory, loss and resilience. She poses questions related to memory as read through the body, through folklores and folktales, through home and homeland, and through cultural ritual or practice.
GUEST//AARON CEZAR
Aaron Cezar is the founding Director of Delfina Foundation (London), where he develops and oversees its interrelated programme of residencies, exhibitions and public platforms
This project began as a multi-faceted investigation into the sense of touch: lack of feeling, the relationship between the body and memory; between land and it's "spiritual" history, superstitions, old wives' tales, sacred stones and talismans as once deeply woven within Palestinian identity. I Feel Nothing is a video-poem inspired from these ideas, and from Palestinian fairytale The Handless Maiden. Metaphorical throughout, a relationship is recounted, though remains ambiguous if it is between a man and a woman, life and death, the past and the present, or an individual and a homeland.
Jumana Emil Abboud (b. 1971) lives and works in Jerusalem, Palestine. She uses drawing, video, performance, objects and text to navigate themes of memory, loss and resilience. She poses questions related to memory as read through the body, through folklores and folktales, through home and homeland, and through cultural ritual or practice.
54. #I_WANT_TO_SEE_YOU_AGAIN AKRAM ZAATARI. TOMORROW EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT, 2010, 11’40"
On a typewriter, a conversation takes place between two men who separated in 2000 and decided to meet up again 10 years later, one attempting to win back the other.
Akram Zaatari (b.1966) is a Lebanese visual artist, filmmaker and photographer. He is concerned with notions of desire, resistance, memory, surveillance and, in particular, with the production and circulation of images during wartime.
On a typewriter, a conversation takes place between two men who separated in 2000 and decided to meet up again 10 years later, one attempting to win back the other.
Akram Zaatari (b.1966) is a Lebanese visual artist, filmmaker and photographer. He is concerned with notions of desire, resistance, memory, surveillance and, in particular, with the production and circulation of images during wartime.
59. #DIRTY_POLITICS CLARISSA TOSSIN. WHITE MARBLE EVERYWHERE, 2009, 5'42"
My house describes the genesis of House music and of its creator. The track tells of the birth of a universal language that man experiences through dance, to search for spiritual values of unity and brotherhood. The site, main character of the video, is a private house, part of a buildings complex of a historic popular working- class neighbourhood of Rome. M., the owner (he asked to remain anonymous), was born in 1947, and began to paint and collect lost items when very young. Its first image, a saint, was hung on the wall above the bed in 1971. The gateway does not have a lock. The house is always open.
Giorgio Orbi (b.1977) is an Italian artist born in Rome. Before beginning to regularly exhibit his work in art spaces, he took part in the Italian underground music and art creative scene of the nineties. He is a writer, musician, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and alpinist.
My house describes the genesis of House music and of its creator. The track tells of the birth of a universal language that man experiences through dance, to search for spiritual values of unity and brotherhood. The site, main character of the video, is a private house, part of a buildings complex of a historic popular working- class neighbourhood of Rome. M., the owner (he asked to remain anonymous), was born in 1947, and began to paint and collect lost items when very young. Its first image, a saint, was hung on the wall above the bed in 1971. The gateway does not have a lock. The house is always open.
Giorgio Orbi (b.1977) is an Italian artist born in Rome. Before beginning to regularly exhibit his work in art spaces, he took part in the Italian underground music and art creative scene of the nineties. He is a writer, musician, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and alpinist.
60. GUEST//ANTONIA ALAMPI
curator, researcher and writer born to Southern Italy and currently based in Berlin, where she is Artistic co-director of SAVVY Contemporary.
#HOUSE_IS_A_FEELING GIORGIO ORBI. IN THE BEGINNING, 2012, 13'33"
My house describes the genesis of House music and of its creator. The track tells of the birth of a universal language that man experiences through dance, to search for spiritual values of unity and brotherhood. The site, main character of the video, is a private house, part of a buildings complex of a historic popular working- class neighbourhood of Rome. M., the owner (he asked to remain anonymous), was born in 1947, and began to paint and collect lost items when very young. Its first image, a saint, was hung on the wall above the bed in 1971. The gateway does not have a lock. The house is always open.
Giorgio Orbi (b.1977) is an Italian artist born in Rome. Before beginning to regularly exhibit his work in art spaces, he took part in the Italian underground music and art creative scene of the nineties. He is a writer, musician, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and alpinist.
curator, researcher and writer born to Southern Italy and currently based in Berlin, where she is Artistic co-director of SAVVY Contemporary.
#HOUSE_IS_A_FEELING GIORGIO ORBI. IN THE BEGINNING, 2012, 13'33"
My house describes the genesis of House music and of its creator. The track tells of the birth of a universal language that man experiences through dance, to search for spiritual values of unity and brotherhood. The site, main character of the video, is a private house, part of a buildings complex of a historic popular working- class neighbourhood of Rome. M., the owner (he asked to remain anonymous), was born in 1947, and began to paint and collect lost items when very young. Its first image, a saint, was hung on the wall above the bed in 1971. The gateway does not have a lock. The house is always open.
Giorgio Orbi (b.1977) is an Italian artist born in Rome. Before beginning to regularly exhibit his work in art spaces, he took part in the Italian underground music and art creative scene of the nineties. He is a writer, musician, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and alpinist.
62. #AN_INCALCULABLE_LOSS SPIKE LEE. NEW YORK NEW YORK, 2020, 3'30"
Spike Lee's film is a tribute to New York City, its people, and the doctors and nurses working relentlessly in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (b.1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, actor, and professor.
Spike Lee's film is a tribute to New York City, its people, and the doctors and nurses working relentlessly in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (b.1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, actor, and professor.
65. #ON_BOREDOM ADRIEN MISSIKA. REGARDE LES MOUCHES VOLER, 2012, 6'06"
The video Regarde Les Mouches Voler opens up completely different temporal levels, asynchronism and shifts in perception. In this work, a fly is recorded crossing the field of view with the help of a high-speed imaging technique borrowed from the scientific world. In exaggerated slow motion and constant anticipation, we trace a movement that normally can't be perceived by the human eye. Each individual wing beat seems almost cumbersome and monumental. The perceived film time is diametrically opposed to the actual flight time. In the spirit of the French expression "Regarde Les Mouches Voler" (en. “to stare into space”; literally “to watch flies”), stasis and motion collide and create a timeless zone in the realm of idleness and boredom.
Adrien Missika (b. 1981) is a French artist whose work encompasses photography, video, sculpture and installation, through which he shares finds encountered during his travels, playing on the idea of an exotic representation of the places he visits.
The video Regarde Les Mouches Voler opens up completely different temporal levels, asynchronism and shifts in perception. In this work, a fly is recorded crossing the field of view with the help of a high-speed imaging technique borrowed from the scientific world. In exaggerated slow motion and constant anticipation, we trace a movement that normally can't be perceived by the human eye. Each individual wing beat seems almost cumbersome and monumental. The perceived film time is diametrically opposed to the actual flight time. In the spirit of the French expression "Regarde Les Mouches Voler" (en. “to stare into space”; literally “to watch flies”), stasis and motion collide and create a timeless zone in the realm of idleness and boredom.
Adrien Missika (b. 1981) is a French artist whose work encompasses photography, video, sculpture and installation, through which he shares finds encountered during his travels, playing on the idea of an exotic representation of the places he visits.
70. #DESERTED_ARCHITECTURE SISKA. A TRAGIC TALE OF FIRE WATER AND RADON, 2014, 5'03"
This video was shot in Bad Gastein (Austria) inside the local Congress Center, a modernist concrete building with red interior built in the 1960’s and that has been deserted since the 90’s. The architect Gerhard Garstenauer, one of the few representatives of alpine modernism created a building in stark contrast to the Belle Époque environment of the small city that once used to serve as a hotspot for aristocrats and politicians since its emergence as a spa location during the 18th and 19th century. Buildings of both eras are now left behind in a desolate state, making them seem utterly historical. The video functions as a trailer for a jet set crime film shot on super8 color negative film.
Siska (b.1984) is a Lebanese visual artist whose practice is often centered on archeology examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collective pasts. Using an intuitive approach, stretching documentary forms towards fictional territories, he extracts a poetic, almost fairy-tale quality to the narratives he explores.
This video was shot in Bad Gastein (Austria) inside the local Congress Center, a modernist concrete building with red interior built in the 1960’s and that has been deserted since the 90’s. The architect Gerhard Garstenauer, one of the few representatives of alpine modernism created a building in stark contrast to the Belle Époque environment of the small city that once used to serve as a hotspot for aristocrats and politicians since its emergence as a spa location during the 18th and 19th century. Buildings of both eras are now left behind in a desolate state, making them seem utterly historical. The video functions as a trailer for a jet set crime film shot on super8 color negative film.
Siska (b.1984) is a Lebanese visual artist whose practice is often centered on archeology examining sociopolitical narratives in relation to personal and collective pasts. Using an intuitive approach, stretching documentary forms towards fictional territories, he extracts a poetic, almost fairy-tale quality to the narratives he explores.
71. #CORRUPTION_SCHEMES MONIRA AL QADIRI. RUMORS OF AFFLUENCE, 2012,04'
Corruption, like many ethnic traditions and histories, can also have a history, base and a ‘culture’ surrounding it, evolving and mutating over long periods of time. This video is an attempt to illustrate the historical and cultural tradition of corruption and excessive affluence in Kuwait, through the use of rumors as the main subject matter.
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is currently based in Berlin.
Corruption, like many ethnic traditions and histories, can also have a history, base and a ‘culture’ surrounding it, evolving and mutating over long periods of time. This video is an attempt to illustrate the historical and cultural tradition of corruption and excessive affluence in Kuwait, through the use of rumors as the main subject matter.
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is currently based in Berlin.
75. #DISASTER_PORN ALISON NGUYEN. DESSERT-DISASTER,2017-2018, 3’54"
A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the conditions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.
Alison Nguyen’s (b.1986) work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream visual language and technology in video, installation, and new media works.
A found footage work which compares the parallel cinematic language of dessert commercials with that of ‘disaster porn’ found in the news and on the Internet. The sound, pulled from pedestrian-produced videos of demolitions, disasters, and storms, expresses the conditions of the contemporary crowd; its insatiable appetite for destruction and arousal; its inattention, its inability to look away; its anxiety and its ecstasy.
Alison Nguyen’s (b.1986) work explores the ways in which images are produced, disseminated, and consumed within the current media landscape, exposing the socio-political conditions from which they arise. Creating strategies for dissent, she re-articulates mainstream visual language and technology in video, installation, and new media works.
81. #WHEN_THE_STATE_IS_THE_ERNEMY REGINA JOSE GALINDO. TIERRA, 2012
The video presented here is a shorter version of Regina José Galindo’s 33 minute-long work Tierra.
In 2012, José Efraín Ríos Montt, the former President of Guatemala, was accused of genocide and crimes against humanity; Regina José Galindo’s video is a haunting reinterpretation of the atrocities recounted during his trial. Tierra begins with the artist standing naked in a verdant field, the tranquility of which is shattered by an earth-moving machine. Here, Galindo alludes to the incident in which innocent citizens were murdered and cold-heartedly buried in a bulldozer-dug mass grave. The stark contrast between the machine’s huge, armored bulk and the artist’s vulnerable body captures the injustice of Montt’s regime, while the abyss that grows around her serves as a poignant symbol of the despair and alienation born of political violence in general, and Montt’s post-conviction acquittal in particular.
Regina José Galindo (b.1974) is a Guatemalan visual artist and poet whose main medium is performance. Her work explores and accuses the ethical implication of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination as well as human rights abuses arising from the endemic inequalities in power relations of contemporary societies.
The video presented here is a shorter version of Regina José Galindo’s 33 minute-long work Tierra.
In 2012, José Efraín Ríos Montt, the former President of Guatemala, was accused of genocide and crimes against humanity; Regina José Galindo’s video is a haunting reinterpretation of the atrocities recounted during his trial. Tierra begins with the artist standing naked in a verdant field, the tranquility of which is shattered by an earth-moving machine. Here, Galindo alludes to the incident in which innocent citizens were murdered and cold-heartedly buried in a bulldozer-dug mass grave. The stark contrast between the machine’s huge, armored bulk and the artist’s vulnerable body captures the injustice of Montt’s regime, while the abyss that grows around her serves as a poignant symbol of the despair and alienation born of political violence in general, and Montt’s post-conviction acquittal in particular.
Regina José Galindo (b.1974) is a Guatemalan visual artist and poet whose main medium is performance. Her work explores and accuses the ethical implication of social violence and injustices related to gender and racial discrimination as well as human rights abuses arising from the endemic inequalities in power relations of contemporary societies.
83. #NO_REAL MAYA DEREN. MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, 1943, 14'
A short experiment film directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The surrealist film’s narrative is circular and repetitive, depicting a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.
Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) was an American surrealist filmmaker. She was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.
A short experiment film directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The surrealist film’s narrative is circular and repetitive, depicting a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.
Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) was an American surrealist filmmaker. She was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.
84. #THE_VALUE_OF_AN_ECONOMIC_CRISIS LUISA CALLEGARI. DINHEIRO E A MEDIDA DE TODAS AS COISAS, 2015, 2'25”
It is just a piece of paper...
Luisa Callegari (b. 1994) is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker, whose work tackles subjects such as the body, gender constructions, sexuality, motherhood and the contradictions of the female world.
It is just a piece of paper...
Luisa Callegari (b. 1994) is a Brazilian artist and filmmaker, whose work tackles subjects such as the body, gender constructions, sexuality, motherhood and the contradictions of the female world.
35/84 - #BEWARE_OF_COMFORT_FOOD IAN SCHULER. THE NIGHT OF THE BURGER, 2020, 9’.
The night rushes in the city of snacks.
Ian Schuler is a Brazilian filmmaker and PHD student at UERJ.
The night rushes in the city of snacks.
Ian Schuler is a Brazilian filmmaker and PHD student at UERJ.
99. #ONE_MINUTE_MEDITATION WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. SIBYL DAYS WILL BECOME YEARS, 2019, 1’00"
One long minute.
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again.
One long minute.
William Kentridge (b. 1955) is a South African artist best known for his prints, drawings, and animated films. These are constructed by filming a drawing, making erasures and changes, and filming it again.
114. #DECONFINEMENT CLARA IANNI. HAUS DES STATISTIK, 2012, 5’25"
Are we ready to open the doors?
Clara Ianni (b.1987) is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo.
Are we ready to open the doors?
Clara Ianni (b.1987) is a Brazilian artist based in São Paulo.