VIDEO ART
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BONAR
The storms brought the rain, soaked up by a thirsty country. The wetlands turn into a mystical place, awaiting the lakes to fill once more. Tread with care, my soul, as the soil gets smoother, feeling the cold under my toes, wondering, which step will make my body sink deeper into the ground. Touching more intensely what belongs…
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NEW ARRIVALS
ABOUT This video installation expresses how we belong to land and culture, based on our individual and collective history and the ever-changing image of society. The port is explored as a place of transition, and as a local point of arrival and departure.The performers enact the connection between people and place and how a sense…
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URBANISATION
performed by Emma Benischauer, Bugs Boyd, Shenae Coppola, Mayra Dinelli, Elisabeth Eitelberger, Jonia Guimaraes, Jack Hagan, Eden McCombe ABOUT In urban space, people of all ages meet and pass each other in different ways. Here we are, surrounded by movement and stillness at the same time. We can rush along, pause, or pay attention to…
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ZWANGSVERPFLICHTUNGEN
Systematische Zwangsverpflichtungen führen zu dynamischen Verhaltensstörungen The performance series in various public spaces in Austria (Vienna, Linz and Krems) discusses systematically and periodically repeated behaviour patterns that people show on a daily basis.Some influence our way of living – more or less – while others even cause dysfunctional behaviour.When we occupy different spaces, cultural structures…
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HAUNTED
the human creature … tries to take first place … no matter what … without any compromise … we even accept tremendous efforts … to reach success, prosperity and prestige … and if for any reason … a tiny piece is missing … we panic … Haunted – video acts question how we can actively position us in this world but how…
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SYMPTOMS
6:00 min Video ReMix of the Commissioned Artwork SYMPTOMS 2010 by bello benischauer Courtesy of LIA-Lab Inter Arts, Helmi Vent, University Mozarteum Salzburg With this commissioned work the artist appears as the personified spirit of the situation. He uses and transforms filmed LIA material and paints and works with it. In using himself as a…
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OFF-SEASON
in collaboration with SlowForward (Austria) ART IN PROCESS produced a video/sound installation in Sydney, which was used as a backdrop projection for a live performance by SlowForward at the Art in the Park Festival,Vienna This is not the place to go for a swim (metaphorically spoken)! From our studio at Artspace we can see the Navy base along the…
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INTERNAL ROOM
Each participant of previous Seasons and other selected artists were invited to submit a work to be included in the production of the last Emotional Season, Internal Room. Individual pieces were then further developed and brought into each other’s context. Participants created her/his own performance following certain guidelines. It meant to be a performance within…
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THE CLONED CITY
The Cloned City developed through onsite explorations in New Dubai, one of the fastest growing City environments worldwide; confronted by utopian looking buildings and suburbs that seem to develop the Western Lifestyle to the extreme; controlling nature, man made islands for luxurious life style and comfort are set in contrast to the still existing old…
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CHRISTMAS
in collaboration with PATRICK TAGOE TURKSON (Ghana), MICHAEL VANDELEUR (Australia), SORA TAKAYAMA (Japan) and SINA MOSER (Austria): performances took place in Australia, Austria, Ghana and India – September to December 2009 – final work was developed in Fremantle,Western Australia VIDEO STILL EMOTIONAL SEASONS – CHRISMAS Blu-ray DISC distributed and available through BLOOMSBURY VIDEO LIBRARY, is home to a rich, growing range…
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GHANA CHILD
In Kumasi, I wanted to visit a private house and made contact with a man, who invited me in. His young child was sitting on the floor, eating his lunch out of a bowl. It did not recognise me and was completely absorbed by its action, but started to look to the camera, which I placed in…
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SUEX-FOUR-WALL INSTALLATION
SUEX is an installation consisting of four videos in relation to four different sound compositions. Basis is an aphorism by AIP in 16 sequences. The text is translated into Hebrew, Japanese and Noongar (language of Indigenous Australians, southwest corner of Western Australia).The text was recorded in each language, building the main sound. The four videos…