Laurie Anderson
Walking & Falling
1990
I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn’t find you. I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day. But I couldn’t find you. I couldn’t find you. You’re walking. And you don’t always realize it, but you’re always falling. With each step you fall forward slightly. And then catch yourself from falling. Over and over, you’re falling. And then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.
May 13, 2007
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Change blindness
Godard
Cedric Bobay
Gas
Lichtprojektion auf den Gasometer der Thyssen-Krupp Stahlwerke, Dortmund
Internationale Kulturtage der Stadt Dortmund
2004
April 22, 2007
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Saskia Olde Wolbers
Olde Wolbers’ video films blend the visual with the spoken word. The protagonists’ most intimate personal details are divulged by a mesmerizing voiceover. Mysteriously, we never actually see the main characters, although their presence is palpable in the desolate, science-fiction interiors, landscapes and underwater worlds that captivate our gaze.
Placebo
DVD, video projection on 350 x 262 x 30 cm box
6 min. loop
Stereo sound, seats
Voice-over: Sukie Smith
2002
Interloper
DVD, video projection on 350 x 262 x 30 cm box
6 min. loop
Stereo sound, seats
Voice-over: Ian Michie
Sounds: Jem Finer
2003
(Bedankt Efrim + Ido)
April 20, 2007
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Nam June Paik
Carmen Freudenthal & Elle Verhagen
Carmen Freudenthal (photographer) and Elle Verhagen (stylist) have been working as a photographer / creative team since 1989.
Their collaboration with fashion designers, performers and other artists results in a big variety of work, which is, at the same time, always recognizable by a typical humoristic approach of daily life and an undeniable own style, using and abusing contemporary imagery.
February 4, 2007
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Thomas Demand
Thomas Demand’s work combines conceptualism, photography and film, using a process of construction, representation and repetition. Demand starts the process with a pre-existing architectural exterior or interior image often culled from the media, history, or from his own memory. He then meticulously re-creates this image into an elaborate life-sized model constructed from coloured paper and card. Finally he photographs this painstakingly created paper construction before destroying it. It is the representation of this sculpture in the form of photography or film, enlarged to mural size, which is exhibited. Demand’s immaculate photographs could be actual places, compellingly real yet strangely artificial; devoid of people and graphics his images are uncannily sanitised and ambiguous.
Thomas Demand was born in Munich in 1964 and now lives and works in Berlin, having completed his studies in Germany, London and Paris.
Recorder
Escalator
Copyshop
Diasec
199 x 258cm
C-Print
VG Bild Kunst, Bonn /
DACS, London
2006
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William Lamson
“Flight”
The pursuit of flight, no matter how flawed or hopeless the attempt, places the amateur in the heroic position of trying to transcend his place on earth. This project investigates the flight endeavor as it represents both the physical desire to escape earth and the metaphysical hope to connect with the divine.