Jens Haaning, ‘Turkish Mercedes’ (1996)
A Mercedes Benz with Turkish license plates and loudspeakers on the roof, broadcasting jokes in Turkish in Kreutzberg, Berlin, an area dominated by Turkish immigrants.
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Mircea Cantor
Mircea Cantor, stills from ‘The Landscape Is Changing’ (2003)
Single-channel video with sound, 22 min.
Sharon Hayes
Sharon Hayes, ‘In the Near Future’ (2009)
In the Near Future is a staged set of anachronistic and speculative protest actions in an investigation into the figure of the protester, the speech act of the protest sign and the contemporary political construction of public space and public speech.
Robert Smithson & Nancy Holt
‘Swamp’, a film by Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt (1969)
Robert Smithson said of the film :”it’s about deliberate obstructions or calculated aimlessness”. This was attained by having Holt walk through the swamp while simultaneously filming, only seeing where she was walking by looking through the lens of her Bolex camera, as Smithson gave her verbal instructions which he recorded as he spoke them.
Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel, ‘Permanent Vacation’ (2008)
Two computers hooked up to the Internet, sending “Out-Of-Office”-Email responses to each other.
