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VIDEOS : PREVIEW
Etchings, 5'23'', 2003
Dawn Scarfe, UK
www.dawnscarfe.co.uk
| Etchings was developed during
the artist’s residency* in The Old Dairy, a listed building
in Headington Park, Oxford, UK, 2003. Dawn found the Dairy
to be a very evocative space, with interesting acoustic properties.
She observed how sounds from outside reverberated through the
space, and how different patterns of light filtered through
the windows over time. Interested in uncovering more of the
sonic character of the space, Dawn began a series of actions
to ‘sound’ the Dairy as if it were an instrument,
using found materials such as sticks and chains to scrape along
the walls, drop on to the floor, and to play the air. She noticed
how it was possible to get a wide range of tones from swinging
a stick at different speeds, and the Etchings video
documents the artist’s attempts to play scales with a
stick in the space. The footage is played in slow motion to
highlight the reverberant effects of the artist’s actions,
and to emphasise the physicality of the resulting impressions
made in the air. |
Desert Walker, 2'12'', 2006 + Various
Luke Fischbeck + Sarah Ra Ra, US
www.hawksandsparrows.org
www.glaciersofnice.com
Luke and Sarah live in
a very small freestanding house in Los Angeles. They are
attempting to grow as much of the food they eat as possible.
They make music together as "lucky dragons" or
as "glaciers" and also large-scale collaborative
drawings and prints as "sumi ink club". When asked
to describe their agenda in art making, they say equality,
balance, harmony, beauty, plenty, and joy. but that's not
very specific. Specifically, everything they make addresses
in some way acts of giving and owning, group identity, speaking--especially
using one's own voice in magic ways, and beyond that--spirits
and ghosts and mirrors and twins and multiples and uncanny
dancing.
By whatever turns of luck or coincidence they have exhibited
and performed at such venues as the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the
Kitchen (New York), PS1 (New York), Schirn
Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), David Kordansky Gallery (Los
Angeles), Machine Project (Los Angeles), Cinders
Gallery (New York), Exit Art (New
York), the Tank (New York), ZKM (Karlsruhe), Portland
Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute
for Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. |
Sliding Whites, 8'38'', 2003
Eric Siu Chi-man,Hong Kong
‘White as color is just a fluid concept.
White of ice, white of paper, white of milk, white of cloud… white
of air, liquid and solid, the whites are all different and
each of them owns unique property. The fusion of Materials
and Eyes reveals the truth of colors. Sliding Whites ---
an experiment on the TV cells, the representation of color
and the originality of digital image.’ |
The Polarbear Split, 6'08'', 2006
Pencil on paper, 70 x 600 cms
Martin Skauen, Norway
www.martinskauen.com
| This 6 meter long drawing is based on the
civilization of the New World. It is a charged map of humanity
at its most unhinged, dealing irreverently with the subject
of fanaticism and how it manifests itself in religion, sex
and youth culture. The subject matter is politically charged,
but Skauen manages to avoid self-righteousness and inject humour
into what is otherwise a morally desolate portrait of civilization.
Skauen has filmed the drawing, which he refers to as a ‘script’,
and specifically composed music with his band Det Svenska Folket,
to accompany the film. The camera sweeps over and settles on
Skauens’ detailed depictions of manic people and hybrid
creatures, pulling the viewer into an, often, uncomfortable
encounter with the darker sides of humanity. The drama, pathos
and detail of the drawing are exaggerated by the motion and
focus of the camera and the charismatic soundtrack. web: www.martinskauen.com |
The Fox Hunt, 6'58", 2006
Discriminating Gentlemen's Club, Canada
www.dgc-cga.org
Suitwatcher's Anonymous, 6'34'', 2003
Erik Schmidt, Germany
Black or White, 1'46'', 2004
Wuttin Chansataboot, Thailand
Deleted Scenes, 9'44" 2002
Alex Pensato, Canada
Membrane, 14’18”, 2006
Zbigniew Karkowski + Atsuko Nojiri,
Japan
As They Pass, 6'45'', 2006
Brigitta Bödenauer, Austria
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