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Simon Senn
‘Clichy-sous-Bois’ (2010) by Simon Senn
Two young residents of Clichy-sous-Bois are introducing themselves and are answering the questions from the interview given to them. The questions are constructed from derogatory stereotypes associated with youth and are openly provocative, moralistic and pejorative. Gradually, they begin to get excited and end up by attacking the cameraman who runs away.
The video is separated in two episodes: the interview and the attack. By reversing the temporality of the narrative in showing the violent reaction before its provocation, the video starts with a spectacular action.
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Nasan Tur
The video installation ‘Collective Notice’ (< click to see a video) contains portraits of 10 people who disappeared in their homelands because of their political activities. Nasan Tur commissioned street artists to draw portraits of these people who are still missing. In the installation visitors see the materialization of these portraits in a period of 9 hours.
Oscar Muñoz
Oscar Muñoz, ‘Re-Trato’ (2003)
A video of Muñoz painting a portrait in water on a hot stone over and over, while it evaporates and vanishes.
Paul Julian
‘The Hangman’ (1964) by Paul Julian
‘The Hangman’ is a cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi.
It is available for free download at Archive.org.
Andreas Templin
A 5 minute excerpt from ‘As if to nothing’ (2008) by Andreas Templin
The video ‘as if to nothing’ is comprised of a selection of statistical data of the earth and its population. This data, created by various governmental and intergovernmental sources and displayed in a specific and subjective interdependency, is combined with the highly dramatic second move of Bruckner’s 7th symphony which is being looped for the screening. The video-installation is in fact a computer-programme which utilizes the internal clock of the computer to calculate the statistical algorithms, which are updated on a yearly basis.