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On 26th July, the Media Arts Lab of Künstlerhaus Bethanien
will be demonstrating the fact that Media Art may turn into an existential
risk. Heath Bunting, Kayle Brandon and Kate Rich intend to teach
the participants of their workshop the art of climbing over fences. |
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The team with its famous past in the sphere of Media Art
aims to literally realise an old promise of the Internet: the overcoming
of boundaries and territories. Here you can learn how to ignore
the architecture of security... put your name down now.
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The DZ Bank AG has been promoting the work of young artists
in the field of contemporary artistic photography since 1993. Prizes
are presented in the disciplines “artistic photography”
and “accelerated photography/video art” and each is
endowed with 12,000 Euros. The awards for 2002/2003 went to Elias
Hassos and Salla Tykkä. While Hassos records fragments of reality
in classical individual images without any narrative structure,
Tykkä received the award for video works demonstrating an obvious
autobiographical content. |
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She illuminates the conflicts and emotions that every
one of us may experience in the course of life: futility, disappointment,
pain, speechlessness – but also hope.
(Until 10th August 2003) |
Until 2nd August, the gallery K + S will continue its
show of photographs by the Berlin artist Andreas Rost. The works
are documentary/
political in character, picturing people in their everyday lives
in an initially unspectacular way. These scenes are then compared
and contrasted with images of mass events and the rituals associated
with them.
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At this year's Vienna
Biennial, Heman Chong from Singapore (born 1977) is presenting a
troop of monitors which appear to have been summoned for a choreography
of standardisation. But the DVD films that he shows in these monitors
reveal precisely the opposite of normalisation: 19 people attempt
to reproduce the same dance sequence, all the more clearly demonstrating
the individual differences in their interpretation. Each one fulfils
his/her task in a different, distinctive manner. The sequences were
filmed in Berlin during Heman Chong's period of residence as a guest
at the Künstlerhaus. The experience of cultural norms and their
individual acquisition that he gained in the process is also demonstrated
by the background sound to his Venetian installation: the visitor
hears a taped course of lessons in the German language.
(Continues until 4th November in the Singapore pavilion at the Fondazione
Levi / Palazzo Giustinian-Lolin, San Vidal - Venice) |
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