Spatio-temporal loops for the eye of the beholder

In the ancient Indian gamble of snakes and ladders, both of the mentioned elements are crucial for the structure of the simple board game, but also quite literally play out the back and forth in time and space representing the twists of fate, as Salman Rushdie interprets it aptly in his book Midnight’s Children …

Failure as springboard to success

By accident I am just discovering Chris Kraus, film-maker, writer and co-editor of Semiotext(e) as I came across the announcement for Performative Philosophy: The films and writings of Chris Kraus and Semiotext(e) at Monash University Museum of Art. An event I certainly wanted to visit, if it weren’t that far down under.

Performative Philosophy: The …

CELLOLUID. CAMERALESS FILM

... cannot say much more at the moment, as that I definitely want to see this exhibition at the Schirn in Frankfurt!
“Celloluid. Cameraless Film” at the Schirn, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
The exhibition “Celluloid. Cameraless Film” the Schirn, Frankfurt, focuses on a particular art film genre … .. in which footage is produced by creating …

The voices of Küba

Berlin’s Tanas Gallery (Gallery for Contemporary Turkish Art) shows currently the prize-winning 2004 work “Küba” of Kutlug Ataman.
The installation of 40 interviews on old-fashioned TV models, each supplied with an individual 2 second hand chair, creates a chorus of voices each telling their own story. In front of the monitor one is solely confronted …

Welcome to Nollywood and This is Nollywood

Two recent films will help everyone interested to get information and some insight into the phenomenon of ‘Nollywood’ – the nigerian video feature film industry – a not so recent, but increasingly developing cinema of its own standards. The 2006 production This is Nollywood by Franco Sacchi describes itself as a documentary film that …

performative aspects of identity

The ‘performative’ works of Berni Searle play with the appearance and disappearance, visibility and invisibility of the body. Revealing and not revealing, they create, in the process, scenarios in which nothing is ever entirely apparent. (link)Just recently I came across the performance work of the artist Bernie Searle, who is born in South Africa, ...

INFERMENTAL – International – Fermentum – Mental

- ... currently exhibited at the ZKM medialounge is an overview of the archived material of this first international magazine on videocassettes which gets accompanied by an online database accessible at www.infermental.de.
‘Infermental’ was the first international videocassette magazine that published video artworks in part or whole, trailers, and reports (lasting 1-20 minutes) from around …