ART within: the artist in the workspace
Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:17 |
The programme of the screening (total length 1:30 hours approximately):
1. “Live Drum 'n' Voice” - Scratch Attitude –
2. “Artist: Oleg Burjan” - Peter Kirusha – This video is about the artist preparing for the creative process.Sometimes such preparations take more time that the desired creation itself. Here, mostly close-ups are used to obtain further insight into the artist’s psychology.
3. “Appearance” - Rolina Nell – The film is showing the artist while working on the installation appearance at the Pirozi Street neighborhood, a very traditional neighborhood in East Tehran, Iran. The installations show shapes of women cut out white wallpaper. At the streets of Iran it looks like they do not have an identity, they all wear black. The artist was impressed by the women who wear little tiny details to show their own identities.
4. “Der Held & Ich / Me, Myself & the SuperHero” - Catherina Conrad –
Superhero is hitchhiking on his way from Munich to Finland. Without any money and super abilities he is in need of other people's help. The film tells about Johnny Amore as a person and as an artist in a constant conflict between the norms of society and the urge to realize his own ideas.
Three short videos under the same title talking about the artistic process. However, only the middle one takes place in the artist's studio.It adapts sound from a classic martial arts movie (Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon") to tell a vignette about a young artist, alone in his studio, interacting with the idea of art history in the form of Jackson Pollock. The clichés of the martial arts narrative match up with the general cliché of an artist's relationship with the past and the specific clichés of abstract expressionism.
PLACingCROSSingCIRCle is a art documentary movie having the same name as the art project. It developed in Romania, in Cucuteni village, county Iasi. The project consisted of three elements: placing, crossing and circle (installation, performance and land-art). The theme was ephemeral condition of human and the superior values of the spirit. The idea of complementary between man and woman is brought into discussion using as a method of expression Neolithic ornament belonging to Cucuteni Culture.
The video shows some of the energy in which this solo exhibition was created.
8. “Capital” - Marianna and Daniel O'Reilly -
This film presents a conjunction between two different records inspired by the prospect of a short stay in Rome. The first record was borne out of the question ‘How does one take an original photograph in this most photographed of cities?’ and the second comes from a letter written by a philosopher to his own future self which is to be read in ‘The Eternal City’. By combining these two separate enquiries we see a parallel emerge between the concepts of historical time and psychological time; an individual man’s future is defined amidst the ruins of Man’s past whilst, simultaneously, an individual man’s past leaps forward to seize upon and ruin the prospects of Man’s future.
The video is a record of 12 hours painting – performance – installation “The Circle” by London / Papa Westray based artist Ivanov, which took place in May 2008 in Berlin
In this video Lemeh42 are building a part of the scenario for their last work “Cuore di legno” (Wood heart). This work focuses on the practical part that is, lots of people usually don't think about it, the essential of art, the art in its making. Moreover, according to their ironical state of mind, they decided to apply a time lapse effect to the original video and add a particular soundtrack. This has been done not to make the video less serious, but as an homage to the silent era of cinema. They aim to reflect on ho
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