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- 16.11.2008 Kuratoren aus Ost- und Mitteleuropa II: Elena Sorokina Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded Vernissage:
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Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded Yevgeny
Fiks Umgangssprachlich
umfasst der Begriff „Ereignis“ zwei verschiedene Bedeutungen:
einmal ein Die Gruppe REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT beobachtet BewohnerInnen des Berliner Bezirks Marzahn dabei, wie sie den neu eröffneten Japanischen Garten besuchen. Alexander Vaindorf untersucht einige ungewöhnliche Therapiesitzungen, Katarina Zdjelar filmt einen Amateur- Chor dabei, wie dieser John Lennons „Revolution“ singt, und Ana Hušman verspottet ein perfektes Abendessen mit geladenen Gästen. Man könnte sagen, dass die TeilnehmerInnen oder SchauspielerInnen in diesen Videos sich selbst spielen, während sie Grenzen erproben. Indem sie diese freiwilligen ‚zeremoniellen Verhaltensweisen’, die heutzutage derart um sich greifen, analysieren, lenken die KünstlerInnen in der Ausstellung unsere Aufmerksamkeit auf aktuelle Veränderungen in der Bedeutung von Grenzen und sozialen Verboten. Mit
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Yevgeniy
Fiks
Lenin for your Library?, 2007
100 copies of "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism"
by V.I. Lenin were sent out to the addresses
of World's major corporations, including Gap, Coca-Cola, General Electric,
and IBM among many others. In an enclosed letter, it was stated that the
book was a donation to the corporate library. Out of 100 copies, 14 were
accepted and "thank you" letters were received. 20 copies were
returned together with letters stating various reasons for rejection,
including a particular focus of the library or their policy not to accept
any gifts or
donations from private individuals. The fate of the remaining 66 copies
remains unknown.
Commemorative
CPUSA Stamps, 2007-2008
The artist published US postal stamps baring portraits of historical leaders
of the Communist Party of the USA, including Mother Ella Reeves and William
Z. Foster among others. Eight different stamps (eight different portraits),
ten with each portrait, eighty stamps total. During 2007-2008 Yevgeniy
Fiks was using these stamps on envelops when he pays his monthly utility
bills to corporations (Time Warner Cable, Con Edison, T-Mobil, CitiMortgage,
Verizon, and other corporations). Fiks subverts the concept of a “commemorative
stamp” baring portraits of historical figures by putting on stamps
faces of forgotten and repressed leaders of American
Communist Party and using these stamps in his everyday life. (Yevgeniy
Fiks)
Kent Hansen
und Jo Zahn (for TV-TV)
Ceci n'est pas une interview, 2008
“Ceci n`est pas une interview” is a TV series developed by Kent
Hansen and Jo Zahn. The first volume of “Ceci n'est pas une interview”
was broadcast for the first time at the Parisian local TV station La Locale
2007. In the production a high end camera is handed to random groups in
the streets of cities around the world. Presenting themselves as a TV-crew
they invite the groups to record their get-together. The TV-crew then
leaves the place, and returns after a while to retrieve the camera. The
single edited sequences last for approx. 6 minutes." (Kent Hansen)
Ana Husman
Lunch, 2008
Video, 16’30“
Gulnara
Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev
Something about Contemporary Nomadism, 2006
Video, 12’30“
Franck
Lebovici, Giulia di Leonarda, Armin Linke
Sommet de la méditerranée, 13 juillet 2008, Grand Palais
REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
The Japanese Garden, 2008
Video, 9’38“
Idea and concept REINIGUNGSGESELLSCHAFT and Gaby Steiner
The Japanese Garden is located at vacation park Berlin Marzahn in the
"Gardens of the World". The employee of a security firm is on
guard duty there. It is his job to announce behavioural rules and information
about the cultural meaning of the place. To reach all the visitors with
his message he has to repeat his directions again and again. In addition
the film shows a staff member who rakes the small stones of the garden
every morning in a similar repetitive way. The remake of a non European
garden in the middle of a prefabricated housing area at the periphery
of Berlin causes notable cultural interferences. An environment that is
intended to be spiritual merges with the behaviour of the staff and visitors
of a middle European leisure facility. The result is a culture of simulation
that causes the disappearance of borders between different forms of culture.
Alexander
Vaindorf
Every word is becoming, 2008
Video, 2’36“
The video contains personal definitions of wealth collected via survey
forms on the web. “Global” submissions - dominant values in
western society are visualized as a text subtitles. During the entire
video its background fades throughout the full colour spectrum, as each
colour assigned to each
definition and its value. The speed of the video is ten times faster then
normal which limits the reading
possibility to only a few words at a time, as those become keywords.
Using similar mechanisms as in advertisement the video correlates to a
"modern" rapid life style, contradicting
the “actual” time needed to reflect on ones life values. (Alexander
Vaindorf)
Katarina
Zdjelar
Everything is gonna be, 2008
Video, 3’35“
The video was made with an amateur choir from the Norwegian peninsula
of Lofoten, which
might as well have been Burgh-Haamstede, The Netherlands (hiding behind
the dunes) or
Dornstetten, Germany (on the rim of the Black Wood) or San Domenico, Italy
(the little village
from which you can see Florence), or Héricourt, France (one of
these little villages that
gave its name to a great battle). (Frans-Willem Korsten, 2008)
Weitere Documentationen zu dieser Ausstellung: http://c-m-l.org/?q=node/346
Elena
Sorokina is a Paris/Brussels based curator and writer. A Whitney ISP
fellow, she recently
curated "Petroliana" at the Moscow Biennial 2007, "Laws
of Relativity" at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin,
and "On Traders' Dilemmas" at YBCA, San Francisco. She writes
for Artforum, Moscow Art Magazine and other publications.
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