82-#NO_MARXIST_IN_THE_WHITE_HOUSE DANIEL KÖTTER. COMMUNAL RETREAT, 2012, 15'
Following the traces of Glenn Gould and his so-called Solitude Trilogy up north at Lake Superior seemed a welcome alibi for a Middle-European to explore a little bit of what is called THE NORTH for Canadians, what it means to drive hours and hours without one single settlement, having the car radio and the camera as sole companions. And what community might mean under the circumstances of the periphery. What I brought back from there? The certainty that there is definitely no marxist in the White House! And that even in the most remote retreat: Beware of the dogs!
Daniel Kötter (b.1975) is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater.
Following the traces of Glenn Gould and his so-called Solitude Trilogy up north at Lake Superior seemed a welcome alibi for a Middle-European to explore a little bit of what is called THE NORTH for Canadians, what it means to drive hours and hours without one single settlement, having the car radio and the camera as sole companions. And what community might mean under the circumstances of the periphery. What I brought back from there? The certainty that there is definitely no marxist in the White House! And that even in the most remote retreat: Beware of the dogs!
Daniel Kötter (b.1975) is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater.
83-#NO_REAL MAYA DEREN. MESHS 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.
85-#DOUBLE_SIGN ALBRECHT PISCHEL. ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, 2014, 1'13”
A kinetic video flickering a sign of medicine and perhaps also death?
Albrecht Pischel (b. 1981) is a German artist, lives and works in Berlin. His conceptual art practice comprises photography, film, installation, ready-mades, sound, and performance and aims at the transgression of boundaries between disparate mediums, genres, and cultures.
A kinetic video flickering a sign of medicine and perhaps also death?
Albrecht Pischel (b. 1981) is a German artist, lives and works in Berlin. His conceptual art practice comprises photography, film, installation, ready-mades, sound, and performance and aims at the transgression of boundaries between disparate mediums, genres, and cultures.
86-#PRIMAL_ENCOUNTER_WITH_AFFECT HAIG AIVAZIAN. THE UNREALIZED POTENTIAL OF A DOUBLE RAINBOW, 2011, 5'27”
In 2010, a video posted on Youtube entitled Yosemite Bear mountain double rainbow went viral...
Haig Aivazian (b.1980) is a Lebanese artist and curator who creates installations, drawings, sculpture and performances that connect a political reflection to biographical references.
In 2010, a video posted on Youtube entitled Yosemite Bear mountain double rainbow went viral...
Haig Aivazian (b.1980) is a Lebanese artist and curator who creates installations, drawings, sculpture and performances that connect a political reflection to biographical references.
87-GUEST//KEYNA ELEISON
curator and art educator
#THIS_IS_A_BREATHING_BODY CARLA SANTANA. RECÔNDITA, 2017, 2'22”
What exists or emanates from the soul. Something that cannot easily materialize. The work addresses the subjective experiences and social questions concerning black women in Brazilian society.
Carla Santana (b. 1995) is a Brazilian artist, and a member of the Rio de Janeiro based Trovoa Collective.
Keyna Eleison is a griot of shamanic heritage, a narrator, a singer, an ancestor chronicler. By way of earthly background, she’s a prolific museum, gallery and street independent art curator and educator based in Rio de Janeiro.
curator and art educator
#THIS_IS_A_BREATHING_BODY CARLA SANTANA. RECÔNDITA, 2017, 2'22”
What exists or emanates from the soul. Something that cannot easily materialize. The work addresses the subjective experiences and social questions concerning black women in Brazilian society.
Carla Santana (b. 1995) is a Brazilian artist, and a member of the Rio de Janeiro based Trovoa Collective.
Keyna Eleison is a griot of shamanic heritage, a narrator, a singer, an ancestor chronicler. By way of earthly background, she’s a prolific museum, gallery and street independent art curator and educator based in Rio de Janeiro.
88-#GO_BACK_TO_THE_SOURCE ANAIS-KARENIN. GÉLIDO SERTÃO, 2018, 4'10”
Between 2017 and 2018, Anais made trips to Japan and the backwood of Ceará, Brazil. From the tracks, remains, and cracks she proposes a connection between the Brazilian backwood (known as “sertão”) and Japan. Looking at these two diasporas, seeks to constitute unique readings that return to understandings about the still, starting from personal experiences translated into aesthetic experiences.
Anais-Karenin (b. 1993) is a Brazilian artist, working on objects and installations searching for an ecology’s experiences between art and nature.
Between 2017 and 2018, Anais made trips to Japan and the backwood of Ceará, Brazil. From the tracks, remains, and cracks she proposes a connection between the Brazilian backwood (known as “sertão”) and Japan. Looking at these two diasporas, seeks to constitute unique readings that return to understandings about the still, starting from personal experiences translated into aesthetic experiences.
Anais-Karenin (b. 1993) is a Brazilian artist, working on objects and installations searching for an ecology’s experiences between art and nature.
89- #OCCUPATION_NEVER_STOPPED RAZAN ALSALAH. YOUR FATHER WAS BORN 100 YEARS OLD AND SO WAS THE NAKBA, 2018, 07’
Oum Ameen, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Maps Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.
Razan AlSalah (b.1987) is a Lebanese-Palestionian artist who works across a range of image, text and installation practices investigating the politics of dis/appearance of places and bodies in colonial image worlds - photographic// digital// virtual - breaking these thresholds of view into elsewheres here - where colonialism no longer makes sense.
Oum Ameen, a Palestinian grandmother, returns to her hometown Haifa through Google Maps Streetview, today, the only way she can see Palestine.
Razan AlSalah (b.1987) is a Lebanese-Palestionian artist who works across a range of image, text and installation practices investigating the politics of dis/appearance of places and bodies in colonial image worlds - photographic// digital// virtual - breaking these thresholds of view into elsewheres here - where colonialism no longer makes sense.
90- #BINGING. ATALAY YAVUZ, BUTTER, 2013, 14’32”
Isn't it so nice that people have sculptures in their fridges? They just didn't know.
Atalay Yavuz (b.1988) is a Turkish artist who alters readily available materials and our perception of them. Yavuz's work shares the approach of Process Art, a movement in the US and Europe in the mid-1960s, whereby installations included their process and/or interaction and experience as a key feature.
Yavuz’s video was suggested by Mari Spirito, founder and curator of Protocinema.
Protocinema is a nonprofit art organization that makes transnational, site-aware exhibitions around the world, based in İstanbul. Collaborations, interventions and exhibitions are presented in spaces specific to each artist. Founded in 2011 by Mari Spirito, Protocinema creates opportunities for emerging and established artists from all regions to realize new work and exhibit existing work, in a variety of contexts that are accessible to a wide range of individuals
91- #REGULATED_PUBLIC_SPACES. Aline Motta. Poupatempo, 2015, 2'47"
The video discusses invisibility and it deals with standardization of everyday life. The more one is classified as a “citizen”, the more individuality is canceled out. Bodies become an amorphous mass, without identity, surreptitiously integrated into the urban landscape. Is this how we save time?
Aline Motta (b. 1974) is a Brazilian artist. She works with photography, video, installation and performance.
The video discusses invisibility and it deals with standardization of everyday life. The more one is classified as a “citizen”, the more individuality is canceled out. Bodies become an amorphous mass, without identity, surreptitiously integrated into the urban landscape. Is this how we save time?
Aline Motta (b. 1974) is a Brazilian artist. She works with photography, video, installation and performance.
Booked The Movie from Karmelo Bermejo on Vimeo.
92- #FILL_THE_THEATRE_WITH_SPECTACLE KARMELO BERMEJO. BOOKED THE MOVIE, 2008, 19’19"
The artist bought all the tickets for Saturday’s number one ranked film at 10pm with public money, so that nobody can watch the film… The video, (the only part of the installation selected for this exhibition) is documenting an empty room from the beginning to the end of the movie… As we are watching the theatre waiting to be filled up or for something to happen. The absence of usual movement, allows the manifestation of another form of spectacle to occur.
Karmelo Bermejo (b.1979, Malaga) is a Spanish artist. He seeks to reveal the value systems, whether religious, commercial or of prestige, that influence the various structures sustaining the world.
92- #FILL_THE_THEATRE_WITH_SPECTACLE KARMELO BERMEJO. BOOKED THE MOVIE, 2008, 19’19"
The artist bought all the tickets for Saturday’s number one ranked film at 10pm with public money, so that nobody can watch the film… The video, (the only part of the installation selected for this exhibition) is documenting an empty room from the beginning to the end of the movie… As we are watching the theatre waiting to be filled up or for something to happen. The absence of usual movement, allows the manifestation of another form of spectacle to occur.
Karmelo Bermejo (b.1979, Malaga) is a Spanish artist. He seeks to reveal the value systems, whether religious, commercial or of prestige, that influence the various structures sustaining the world.
Rear Window from Ghassan Salhab on Vimeo.
93-#BEIRUT_SPRING_2020 GHASSAN SALHAB. REAR WINDOW, 2020, 5'28"
Shot in Beirut during Covid-19 lockdown while the Lebanese Revolution was on a halt.
Ghassan Salhab (b. 1958) is Lebanon’s most prominent independent filmmaker and scenario writer.
94- GUEST // GABRIEL BOGOSSIAN
Independent curator, editor and translator from Rio de Janeiro /associate curator of Videobrasil
#ISOLATION_ALIENATION MARCELLVS L. 9493, 2011, 11’16”
Protected by a camping tent in the midst of a windstorm, a boy is distracted playing an electronic game. The shapes of the tent suggest biological structures, such as cells or organs, and compose, together with the sounds of the game and of the wind, an environment at the same time artificial and cozy, where alienation and await combine. The work is part of the series Videorizomas, where the artist investigates the potential of the concept of rhizome, shifting it from philosophy to art.
Marcellvs L. (b.1980) is a Brazilian artist whose work with sound and moving image takes the form of videos and video installations. Dilated times and an acute photographic perception, which alter the perception of the ordinary, are often found in the artist’s production.
Independent curator, editor and translator from Rio de Janeiro /associate curator of Videobrasil
#ISOLATION_ALIENATION MARCELLVS L. 9493, 2011, 11’16”
Protected by a camping tent in the midst of a windstorm, a boy is distracted playing an electronic game. The shapes of the tent suggest biological structures, such as cells or organs, and compose, together with the sounds of the game and of the wind, an environment at the same time artificial and cozy, where alienation and await combine. The work is part of the series Videorizomas, where the artist investigates the potential of the concept of rhizome, shifting it from philosophy to art.
Marcellvs L. (b.1980) is a Brazilian artist whose work with sound and moving image takes the form of videos and video installations. Dilated times and an acute photographic perception, which alter the perception of the ordinary, are often found in the artist’s production.
Piscina from
95-#STUCK_IN_A_MAZE LIA CHAIA. PISCINA, 2013, 6’50"
Literally swimming in a labyrinth…
Lia Chaia (b.1978) is a Brazilian artist whose work investigates the tensions of everyday life.
Literally swimming in a labyrinth…
Lia Chaia (b.1978) is a Brazilian artist whose work investigates the tensions of everyday life.
96-#OBJECTS_WILL_REMAIN IAN SCHULER. ADEUS AS COISAS, 2019, 16'57"
The secret life of objects.
Ian Schuler is a Brazilian filmmaker who lives and works in Portugal.
The secret life of objects.
Ian Schuler is a Brazilian filmmaker who lives and works in Portugal.
97-#BARBARIC_VOYEURISM JAIME LAURIANO. JUSTIÇA E BARBÁRIE, 2017, 2'30"
Texts and images of people, mostly black men, tied to public poles populate the headlines of major Brazilian newspapers. In their digital versions, such news gains repercussion in the comments left by the readers who, excited by such events, elevate the "vigilantes" to national heroes. In Justice and Barbarity are presented images of lynchings that occurred in Brazil. Along with the images, dialogues taken from comments from readers of the largest Brazilian digital newspapers are added. In common, images and commentaries naturalize the violence perpetrated by civil society, transforming murderers into vigilantes. Such practice actualizes, in a perverse way, the Brazilian colonial and dictatorial past.
Jaime Lauriano (b.1985) is a Brazilian artist whose works synthesize the content of his researches and formalization strategies, calling us to examine the structures of power involved in the production of history.
Texts and images of people, mostly black men, tied to public poles populate the headlines of major Brazilian newspapers. In their digital versions, such news gains repercussion in the comments left by the readers who, excited by such events, elevate the "vigilantes" to national heroes. In Justice and Barbarity are presented images of lynchings that occurred in Brazil. Along with the images, dialogues taken from comments from readers of the largest Brazilian digital newspapers are added. In common, images and commentaries naturalize the violence perpetrated by civil society, transforming murderers into vigilantes. Such practice actualizes, in a perverse way, the Brazilian colonial and dictatorial past.
Jaime Lauriano (b.1985) is a Brazilian artist whose works synthesize the content of his researches and formalization strategies, calling us to examine the structures of power involved in the production of history.
98-#NO_ESCAPE CARLA CHAIM. TROPICOS, 2015, 4'08"
Tropicos explores the relationship and interaction between elementary geometric shapes and the body and space.
Carla Chaim (b.1983) is a Brazilian artist who works with different medias such as drawing, sculpture, video and installation. She uses the body as a central element in her practice, thinking about it as a place of conceptual discussion and exploring its physical and social limits.
Tropicos explores the relationship and interaction between elementary geometric shapes and the body and space.
Carla Chaim (b.1983) is a Brazilian artist who works with different medias such as drawing, sculpture, video and installation. She uses the body as a central element in her practice, thinking about it as a place of conceptual discussion and exploring its physical and social limits.
99-#ONE_MINUTE_MEDITATION WILLIAM KENTRIDGE. SYBIL DAYS WILL BECOME YEARS, 2019, 0’56”
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.
100- #DON'T_FORGET_TO_MASTURBATE RENATO BEZERRA DE MELLO. O GOZO, 2020, 0'54"
Pleasure is power.
Renato Bezerra de Mello (b. 1960) is a Brazilian artist, working with video, drawing and embroidery.
Pleasure is power.
Renato Bezerra de Mello (b. 1960) is a Brazilian artist, working with video, drawing and embroidery.
101- GUEST// SOLANGE FARKAS
head curator of the Sesc_Videobrasil association, Festival then Biennial in São Paulo since 1983
#I_AM_HAVING_VISIONS. COLETIVO MADEIRISTA. ALEGORIA, 2012, 3’33”
In the shamanic visions induced by peyote—a psychotropic substance—described in books like The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the Peruvian author Carlos Castañeda often mentions the visualizations of ovoid forms, which the author interprets as manifestations of human figures in their primordial spirituality. Here, the artists use distorted images of a Carnival samba school parade to recompose such a vision.
Coletivo Madeirista, based in Porto Velho, is a group of artists and thinkers that came together in 2001 to produce and discuss contemporary art, literature, and poetry.
head curator of the Sesc_Videobrasil association, Festival then Biennial in São Paulo since 1983
#I_AM_HAVING_VISIONS. COLETIVO MADEIRISTA. ALEGORIA, 2012, 3’33”
In the shamanic visions induced by peyote—a psychotropic substance—described in books like The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the Peruvian author Carlos Castañeda often mentions the visualizations of ovoid forms, which the author interprets as manifestations of human figures in their primordial spirituality. Here, the artists use distorted images of a Carnival samba school parade to recompose such a vision.
Coletivo Madeirista, based in Porto Velho, is a group of artists and thinkers that came together in 2001 to produce and discuss contemporary art, literature, and poetry.
102- #HOLD_ON_TIGHT. BASEL ABBAS AND RUANNE ABOU-RAHME. ONLY THE BELOVED KEEPS OUR SECRETS, 2016, 10’09”
Only the beloved keeps our secrets invites us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might once again reappear.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (both b.1983) work together across a range of practices, investigating the political, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound/image performances.
Only the beloved keeps our secrets invites us to consider the forms of entanglement between the destruction of bodies and the erasure of images, and the conditions under which these same bodies and images might once again reappear.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (both b.1983) work together across a range of practices, investigating the political, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound/image performances.
103-#IF_ONLY. PIPILOTI RIST. EVER IS OVERALL, 1997, 4’07”
In Ever Is Over All, Rist transforms a destructive impulse into a hopeful, cathartic gesture.
Pipiloti Rist (b.1962) is a Swiss artist whos practice is rooted in popular culture, technology, and historical feminist video art.
In Ever Is Over All, Rist transforms a destructive impulse into a hopeful, cathartic gesture.
Pipiloti Rist (b.1962) is a Swiss artist whos practice is rooted in popular culture, technology, and historical feminist video art.
104-#KNOW_THY_NEIGHBOR. WONG PING. 太陽留住我 STOP PEEPING, 2014, 3’48”
In Stop Peeping, the narrator, obsessed with a female neighbor he observes through a peephole, collects her sweat to make a Popsicle for his own consumption.
Through animation, sculpture, and immersive installations, Wong Ping (b.1984) creates disturbing and crude narratives that challenge conventional concepts of human desire, obsession, shame, isolation, and repressed sexuality.
In Stop Peeping, the narrator, obsessed with a female neighbor he observes through a peephole, collects her sweat to make a Popsicle for his own consumption.
Through animation, sculpture, and immersive installations, Wong Ping (b.1984) creates disturbing and crude narratives that challenge conventional concepts of human desire, obsession, shame, isolation, and repressed sexuality.
105-#LEARN_SOMETHING. RODRIGO MOREIRA. VOCABULÁRIO / CURSO INTENSIVO PORTUGUÊS - INGLÊS / PRONÚNCIA / MÓDULO I / VERSÃO ILUSTRADA, 2016, 4'52"
We know that you are taking online classes, so what are you learning at a deeper level?
Rodrigo Moreira (b. 1983) is a Brazilian visual artist based in New York. He works mostly in photography, photo-collage, video and installation.
We know that you are taking online classes, so what are you learning at a deeper level?
Rodrigo Moreira (b. 1983) is a Brazilian visual artist based in New York. He works mostly in photography, photo-collage, video and installation.
106-#BURNING ANTOINE D'AGATA. LA VIE NUE, 2020, 7'53"
La Vie Nue draws us into a hallucinating journey: from the incandescent set of a city under lockdown, with few people wandering aimlessly, to a hospital where the nurses and the patients carrying the virus are applying a daily ritual of life and death gestures.
Antoine d'Agata (b.1961) is a French photographer and film director whose work often deals with topics such as addiction, sex, and prostitution.
La Vie Nue draws us into a hallucinating journey: from the incandescent set of a city under lockdown, with few people wandering aimlessly, to a hospital where the nurses and the patients carrying the virus are applying a daily ritual of life and death gestures.
Antoine d'Agata (b.1961) is a French photographer and film director whose work often deals with topics such as addiction, sex, and prostitution.
107-#FIND_YOUR_ROOTS YNAIE DAWSON. ANTROPOPHAGIC RECIPE, 2020, 2’59"
We begin by unpeeling our most rooted beliefs in order to observe how deeply affected we are…
Ynaiê Dawson (b.1979) is a Brazilian visual artist, member of the OPAVIVARÁ collective.
We begin by unpeeling our most rooted beliefs in order to observe how deeply affected we are…
Ynaiê Dawson (b.1979) is a Brazilian visual artist, member of the OPAVIVARÁ collective.
DESENHO / CANTEIRO from Wagner & de Burca on Vimeo.
108-#PROTECT_YOURSELF BÁRBARA WAGNER & BENJAMIN DE BURCA. DESENHO/CANTEIRO | PLAN/PLAT, 2014, 12’12”
A video collage on the real estate market in Brazil and the rise of gated communities.
Bárbara Wagner (b.1980) & Benjamin de Búrca (b.1975) have been collaborating since 2011. The Brazilian-German duo is interested in the space documentary and art both share. Their more recent investigations concentrate on collective practices and traditional rituals specifically manifested in the body of youths living in the peripheries of Brazil’s Northeast which lose their connotations of symbolic resistance to become products of the tourism and entertainment industry.
A video collage on the real estate market in Brazil and the rise of gated communities.
Bárbara Wagner (b.1980) & Benjamin de Búrca (b.1975) have been collaborating since 2011. The Brazilian-German duo is interested in the space documentary and art both share. Their more recent investigations concentrate on collective practices and traditional rituals specifically manifested in the body of youths living in the peripheries of Brazil’s Northeast which lose their connotations of symbolic resistance to become products of the tourism and entertainment industry.
109-#NATURE_MORTE PEDRO FLUTT. STILL ALIVE, 2020, 2’
The video came out of a quarantine experiment. Impermanence and reframing make up a still life. From its decomposition, new beings emerge, as alive as the rest of its existence.
Pedro Flutt (b. in 1988) lives in Rio de Janeiro. He has been working as art director and set designer for 10 years.
The video came out of a quarantine experiment. Impermanence and reframing make up a still life. From its decomposition, new beings emerge, as alive as the rest of its existence.
Pedro Flutt (b. in 1988) lives in Rio de Janeiro. He has been working as art director and set designer for 10 years.
110-#FAREWELL MARCIA FERRAN & LIGIA NOBRE. COUNTER-MEMORY: BRASILA (ongoing project), 2017, 9’16"
This video-letter is part of an ongoing artistic research that focuses on the cemetery of Brasilia, the last function planned in the pilot plan by Lucio Costa in 1956. Neither chronological nor linear, it seems to be in a spiral that operates the evolution of Brasilia. Almost mundane element of the landscape - the cemetery - at the same time renegade and inseparable from the urban, it reveals an economy, planning and politics of death.
Marcia Ferran (b.1968) is a Brazilian architect, researcher and Professor at the Art and Cultural Studies Department at UFF, currently based in Rio de Janeiro, whose production have been dealing with ideas of hospitality, theatricality, and cultural policy.
Ligia Nobre (b.1973) is a Brazilian curator, artist and researcher, currently based in São Paulo, whose practice deals with multiple languages and collective initiatives.
This video-letter is part of an ongoing artistic research that focuses on the cemetery of Brasilia, the last function planned in the pilot plan by Lucio Costa in 1956. Neither chronological nor linear, it seems to be in a spiral that operates the evolution of Brasilia. Almost mundane element of the landscape - the cemetery - at the same time renegade and inseparable from the urban, it reveals an economy, planning and politics of death.
Marcia Ferran (b.1968) is a Brazilian architect, researcher and Professor at the Art and Cultural Studies Department at UFF, currently based in Rio de Janeiro, whose production have been dealing with ideas of hospitality, theatricality, and cultural policy.
Ligia Nobre (b.1973) is a Brazilian curator, artist and researcher, currently based in São Paulo, whose practice deals with multiple languages and collective initiatives.
111-#LIFE_GOES_ON ABOUNADDARA COLLECTIVE. I DREAM OF SPRING, 2016, 2’42"
Shot in 2016 in Syria in the midst of the ongoing civil war.
Since the start of the Syrian uprising in spring 2011, the Abounaddara collective has been engaged in a war of images unfolding on several fronts. First of all, there is a battle against the Syrian regime: its state propaganda, the strategy of murdering peaceful demonstrators during the uprising, the bombs launched against the population during the civil war. There is also the relentless battle against the media coverage of the Syrian conflict, insofar as mainstream media render invisible the thousand-and-one faces of the “revolution” (Abounaddara continues to use this term to describe the situation in the country)—a revolution that is trapped in the grotesque outside perception that there are now only two protagonists confronting each other: the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad on one side, jihadist extremists on the other.
Dork Zabunyan, excerpted from the documenta 14: Daybook
Abounaddara is a collective of anonymous filmmakers from Syria.
Shot in 2016 in Syria in the midst of the ongoing civil war.
Since the start of the Syrian uprising in spring 2011, the Abounaddara collective has been engaged in a war of images unfolding on several fronts. First of all, there is a battle against the Syrian regime: its state propaganda, the strategy of murdering peaceful demonstrators during the uprising, the bombs launched against the population during the civil war. There is also the relentless battle against the media coverage of the Syrian conflict, insofar as mainstream media render invisible the thousand-and-one faces of the “revolution” (Abounaddara continues to use this term to describe the situation in the country)—a revolution that is trapped in the grotesque outside perception that there are now only two protagonists confronting each other: the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad on one side, jihadist extremists on the other.
Dork Zabunyan, excerpted from the documenta 14: Daybook
Abounaddara is a collective of anonymous filmmakers from Syria.
112-#DRAINED RAPHAEL COUTO. PAUTA, 2013, 4’19"
Can you read between the lines? A study of body and silence.
Rafael Couto (b.1983) is a Brazilian artist, working with performance, photography and video.
Can you read between the lines? A study of body and silence.
Rafael Couto (b.1983) is a Brazilian artist, working with performance, photography and video.
113-#KEEP_YOUR_ENEMIES_CLOSER CARLOS MOTTA. WE THE ENEMY, 2017, 3’49"
Who is the enemy?
Carlos Motta (b.1978) is a Colombian artist based in New York. His interdisciplinary practice includes cinema, photography and sculpture.
Who is the enemy?
Carlos Motta (b.1978) is a Colombian artist based in New York. His interdisciplinary practice includes cinema, photography and sculpture.
Haus der Statistik from Clara Ianni on Vimeo.
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.
115-#SURVIVORS CHARWEI TSAI 蔡佳葳 & TSERING TASHI GYALTHANG. SONGS OF CHUCHEPATI CAMP, 2017, 17’03”
The earthquake victims in Kathmandu from Chuchepati Camp sing songs expressing their feelings. Some sang traditional Nepali folk songs while others improvised their life stories, emphasizing common values and the simplest of human desires: to be free from suffering.
Charwei Tsai (b.1980) is a Taiwanese multimedia artist with a politically engaged performative practice.
Tsering Tashi Gyalthang is a Tibetan filmmaker.
The earthquake victims in Kathmandu from Chuchepati Camp sing songs expressing their feelings. Some sang traditional Nepali folk songs while others improvised their life stories, emphasizing common values and the simplest of human desires: to be free from suffering.
Charwei Tsai (b.1980) is a Taiwanese multimedia artist with a politically engaged performative practice.
Tsering Tashi Gyalthang is a Tibetan filmmaker.
116-#WHEN_THE_MACHINES_STOP MIKHAIL KARIKIS & URIEL ORLOW. SOUNDS FROM BENEATH, 2011-2012, 6’44”
Sounds from Beneath centers on a sound work for which a coal miners’ choir is invited to recall and vocalise the subterranean noises of a working coal mine. The sunken mine transforms into an amphitheatre resonating sounds of underground explosions, mechanical clangs cutting the coal-face, wailing alarms and shovels scratching the earth, all sung by Snowdown Colliery Choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines. Sounds from Beneath extends Karikis’s exploration of the sculptural and political dimensions of voices and their relation to professional identity and marginalization, and connects with Orlow's interest in landscape as a site of memory and history.
Mikhail Karikis (b.1975) is a Greek/British artist based in London and Lisbon. His work embraces moving image, sound and other media to create immersive audio-visual installations and performances which emerge from his long-standing investigation of the voice as a sculptural material and a socio-political agent.
Uriel Orlow (b.1973) is a Swiss-born artist who lives and works in London and Zurich. His multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, blind spots of representation and plants as political actors.
Sounds from Beneath centers on a sound work for which a coal miners’ choir is invited to recall and vocalise the subterranean noises of a working coal mine. The sunken mine transforms into an amphitheatre resonating sounds of underground explosions, mechanical clangs cutting the coal-face, wailing alarms and shovels scratching the earth, all sung by Snowdown Colliery Choir grouping in formations reminiscent of picket lines. Sounds from Beneath extends Karikis’s exploration of the sculptural and political dimensions of voices and their relation to professional identity and marginalization, and connects with Orlow's interest in landscape as a site of memory and history.
Mikhail Karikis (b.1975) is a Greek/British artist based in London and Lisbon. His work embraces moving image, sound and other media to create immersive audio-visual installations and performances which emerge from his long-standing investigation of the voice as a sculptural material and a socio-political agent.
Uriel Orlow (b.1973) is a Swiss-born artist who lives and works in London and Zurich. His multi-disciplinary practice is concerned with residues of colonialism, spatial manifestations of memory, blind spots of representation and plants as political actors.
117-#TOGETHER LUCFOSTHER DIOP. WE ARE ONE, 2009-2010, 05'38"
As he outstretches his hand to the world, the artist is trying to question the nature of human relationships, and to draw attention to the contradictions and complexity of social relations essentially marked by conflict and mistrust.
LucFosther Diop (b.1980) is an artist from Douala, Cameroon currently based in Rotterdam. He Seeks out visual strategies to express specific aspects of the influences and impacts of neo-colonialism and imperialism, particularly on the African continent, and on the world in general.
As he outstretches his hand to the world, the artist is trying to question the nature of human relationships, and to draw attention to the contradictions and complexity of social relations essentially marked by conflict and mistrust.
LucFosther Diop (b.1980) is an artist from Douala, Cameroon currently based in Rotterdam. He Seeks out visual strategies to express specific aspects of the influences and impacts of neo-colonialism and imperialism, particularly on the African continent, and on the world in general.