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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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SYNCHRONISATION TRIAL
nakedness – as a symbol and linkage to birth and human identity/alikeness: an artistic outcry to leave the comfort zone of a materialistic society how would it feel to stand there instead of the artists? written on their bodies = world population number at the time of their births on 18.12.1974 (left) / 15.06.1966 (right) below =…
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NO INTERMISSION
… addresses cultural patterns and behaviour systemsin history and cross-culturesymbolisation of certain itemsin context to the human beinghow certain items receive iconographical relevancetend to influence our visual perceptionwhy do we see things the way we recognisethem considering particular cultural traditions The single video installations and particularly in their relation to each other and to the…
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FRÖNEND
… our doubts… are like a gate… that we have to walk through… every single day… If we breath calmly and connect with space… emotionally, we can manage to keep our wariness at bay… dreams are men’s elixir of life… FRÖNEND (German for the word “indulging”) is a video triptych in the style of the…
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FAITHFUL NIGHT
to provide hope for this world to find peace to prove to oneself that it’s never too late to raise your concern about global issues the belief that religions, races and peacemaking powers will finally unite, does exist a rogation to Jesus, a conversation with Allah, a connection to Krishna we must make a conversation…
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IT’S FINE NOW
They show ironically and on a metaphorical level, how we handle/tend to ignore our actions’ multiple repercussions. Pretending to care, we use a gun to make peace; we help to protect certain animals, but eat meat; donate money to the Third World while indulging in a mass consuming habit; nourish and cherish a house plant despite…
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FILE994.11
The video performances made in this context are based on the following concept: Bello’s initial idea: a woman taking different books out of a box, quoting passages, and putting them back in the box. Looking for material, Bello went to the Fremantle Library. He explained there briefly his idea and our general interest in this country’s past…
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AGAINST ONESELF
… existence formed by disciplinetrying to protect ourselves through the adoptionof different cultural behaviours/movements/teachingsperhaps to get rid of the guilt we feel about living a good lifeperhaps to redirect our energy to prepare for disasterswhich can be anything we imagine ourselvesbased on individual paranoid imaginationscaused by our very own fears and frustrationswhich we all develop…
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UNTAUGLICH
a video installation: under the German title Untauglich, which means ineligible for military service, the artist looks into transnationally existing forms of social and/or political constraints. He addresses certain aspects of how we act and fit/do not fit into the generally expected behaviour patterns of a human life that one finds specifically defined by culturally shaped…
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JAMITTENEIN
… continues in the style of the EXISTENCE THEATRE, a term growing from a specific style of art performances, created by AIP that question certain aspects and daily banalities of human identity/identities in a globalised world, while depending on a strong experimental character and by using methods of improvisation/action. What do we really know: about…