Elsewhereness:Yokohama will be screened in Germany. Yokohama was the first in the Elsewhereness series by me and Robert Willim. The other videos can be seen at http://www.elsewhereness.com
About the screening.
Directors Lounge presents experimental films all around Japan
We will participate in this year´s 日本デ , the 10th Japan-Day in Duesseldorf, celebrating the 150 anniversary of Japanese-German diplomatic relations.
DL: Short Cuts to Japan, screened on october, 15 at theBlack Box cinemawill be dedicated to Japan in experimental cinema and video art. Films included will cover a wide range of “Japans”, from fictional to historical to personal…
films by Ciro Altabás, Marina Chernikova, André Werner, YukihiroTaguchi, Jean Gabriel Périot, Matthew Dotson & Bart Woodstrop, Anders Weberg & Robert Willim, GUP-py, Kazuhiko Kobayashi, Akinori Okada & Masataka Ohta (pictured: Ansoku No Basyo, 2010)
curated by Julia Murakami
many thanks to Sascha Lueck and whiteconcepts for their support!
On September 24th, the open air Museum Kulturen in Lund will arrange a day with a number of events on the theme of folklore and superstition.
They will screen the series Folkliv (Folklife, link to the series on iTunes U) in the auditorium during the day.
Folkliv is a TV-series by Anders Weberg and Robert Willim together with ethnologist Mia-Marie Hammarlin and The Folklife Archive in Lund.
It was sent on National Tv (Kunskapskanalen/Svt) in Sweden 2010/2011.
Here’s more info in Swedish:
Vad vet vi egentligen om livet i Sverige under bondesamhället? Följ med till gränslandet mellan fantasi och verklighet, när nu bild, ljud och berättelser ur Folklivsarkivet i Lund presenteras på ett nytt sätt.
Serien består av tio avsnitt på sex minuter vardera. Syftet är att gestalta svensk folkkultur och sägner från framförallt 1800- och det tidiga 1900-talet på ett nytt och fantasieggande sätt.
Programmen baseras på arkivmaterial från Folklivsarkivet i Lund. Bilder och musik vävs samman med berättelser om seder och bruk samt mustiga skrönor till en suggestiv audiovisuell blandning.
Projektet har drivits av etnologen och konstnären Robert Willim samt konstnären Anders Weberg, i samarbete med etnologen och speakern Mia-Marie Hammarlin. Arbetet har skett med stor hjälp av arkivarierna Charlotte Hagström och Göran Sjögård samt musikarkivarien Patrik Sandgren på Folklivsarkivet.
The Elsewhereness series deals with questions of site specificity, juxtaposing the nomadic with the place-bound. Early site specific artworks in the 1960-70 were often massive in form and commented the commodifications of the prevailing artworld. Many works were made in harmony with artist Richard Serras expression” to remove the work is to destroy the work”. The work was place-bound. Site specific art has since then been mixed and transformed. Often its about the social, about engagement and relations between people living in a certain place and visiting artists.
Elsewhereness twist these approaches. It is instead about the ephemeral, about alienation and non-presence. It takes the possibilities of digital media for site specific art to its extreme. It’s also in a way a caricature of the ideas of the art worlds commissions creating a “one place after another”-dynamic that Miwon Kwon writes about in her discussion of the history of site specific art (2002). Elsewhereness is about the artists NOT being there. The artists are elsewhere, touching from a distance.
Elsewhereness is based on a number of site specific audio-visual works. The works are made solely from audio and videomaterial found on the web, material that emanate from a specific place. The audiovisual pieces are manipulated and composed into a surreal journey through an estranged landscape. The films are based on the culturally bound and stereotypical preconceptions of the artists.
The finished Elsewhereness work can be downloaded into a media player or mobile phone and enjoyed when walking around the surroundings of the specific place, from where the material emanate.
Previous commissions:
ELSEWHERENESS:NEW ORLEANS, Commissioned by Ethnographic Terminalia 2010, New Orleans. USA.
ELSEWHERENESS:UTRECHT, Commissioned by IMPAKT 2010, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
ELSEWHERENESS: MANCHESTER, Commissioned by FutureEverything 2010, Manchester, UK.
ESLEWHERENESS: CAPE TOWN, CAPE 09 Art Biennale, 2009, Cape Town, South Africa.
ELSEWHERENESS: YOKOHAMA, Dislocate 08 Festival, 2008, Yokohama/Tokyo, Japan.
As the series expands, a number of places will be joined into a web of surreal associations, saying something about the various places but also about cultural preconceptions.
Elsewhereness:Cape Town by me and Robert Willim as part of the City Breath project curated by Kai Losgott will be screened at Sattal a magnificent place in the Himalya mountains not too far in distance to New Delhi, where the annually CeC – Carnival of e-Creativity is taking place – 18-20 February 2011.
CITY BREATH Festival of Video Poetry and Performance
4 South African cities. 20 short experimental films. 4 minutes each.
CITY BREATH. 2009. 01:07:11. DVD. Experimental film selection from South Africa.
Curator / director: Kai Lossgott.
Filmmakers / artists / choreographers / poets: Terry Westby-Nunn, Louise Coetzer, Lolette Smith, Colleen Alborough, João Oreccia, Khanyisile Mbongwa, James Tayler, Niklas Zimmer, Mandilakhe Yengo, Alude Mahali, Ananda Fuchs, Tanya van Schalkwyk, Mduduzi Nyembe, Bandile Gumbi, Maia Grotepass, Mark Wilby, Fabian Oliver Wargau, Nileru, Jeanette Ginslov, Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman, Koeka Stander, Rat Western, Maaike Bakker, Sean Buch, Emma Jane Laurence, Anders Weberg, Robert Willim
As screened in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Grahamstown, Vancouver, and Marseille.
“Whichever film you watched, it’s unlikely that you would have ever seen anything like it before.“Cue, National Arts Festival, Grahamstown
CITY BREATH. 2009. 01:07:11. DVD. Experimental film selection from South Africa.
Curator / director: Kai Lossgott.
Filmmakers / artists / choreographers / poets: Terry Westby-Nunn, Louise Coetzer, Lolette Smith, Colleen Alborough, João Oreccia, Khanyisile Mbongwa, James Tayler, Niklas Zimmer, Mandilakhe Yengo, Alude Mahali, Ananda Fuchs, Tanya van Schalkwyk, Mduduzi Nyembe, Bandile Gumbi, Maia Grotepass, Mark Wilby, Fabian Oliver Wargau, Nileru, Jeanette Ginslov, Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman, Koeka Stander, Rat Western, Maaike Bakker, Sean Buch, Emma Jane Laurence, Anders Weberg, Robert Willim
As screened in Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Grahamstown, Vancouver, and Marseille.
Elsewhereness:Cape Town as part of the CologneOFF VI, City Breath curated by Kai Losgott is screened
by The Academy of Electronic Art in New Delhi under the title: “Edgelogue”
date 11-12 December 2010
location: Alliance Francaise New Delhi
Ethnographic Terminalia 2010 has centered its exhibitions at the Du Mois Gallery in the Freret Corridor of New Orleans. We are curating the work of twenty-three artists in this unique converted shotgun-style house. This year we are particularly excited to be showing the first North American installation of Susan Hiller’s The Last Silent Movie. The exhibition is open from 11am to 7pm, Thursday to Saturday until December 4th. We are holding an opening reception on November 19th at 7pm.
Du Mois Gallery
November 7th to December 4th, 2010
4921 Freret St., New Orleans [link to map]
Thu-Sat 11 am – 7 pm
Artists: Ryan Burns, Anthony Callaway, Candy Chang, Roderick Coover, Lina Dib, Dada Docot, Kate Hennessy and Richard Wilson, Susan Hiller, Ahmad Hosni. Jenn Karson, Stephanie Keith, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jan Lemitz, Nicola Levell and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Tom Miller, Fiamma Montezemolo, Juan Orrantia, Simon Rattigan, Dona Schwartz, Trish Scott, Travis Shaffer, Trudi Lynn Smith, Stephanie Spray, Patricia Tusa & Don Fels, Robert Willim & Anders Weberg
Elsewhereness:New Orleans
Elsewhereness: New Orleans is the latest part in the Elsewhereness series. Following cities like Yokohama, Cape Town, Manchester and Utrecht it’s now time for New Orleans. The Elsewhereness series deals with questions of site specifity, juxtaposing the nomadic with the placebound. Early site specific artworks in the 1960s – 70s were often massive in form and commented on the commodification of the prevailing artworld. In keeping with artist Richard Serra’s expression “to remove the work is to destroy the work”, most of this work was place-bound. Site specific art has since then been transformed. Often it is about the social, about engagement and relations between people living in a certain place and visiting artists.
Elsewhereness subverts these approaches. It is instead about the ephemeral, about urban alienation and non-presence. It takes the possibilities for digital media in relation to site specific art to its extremes. It is also in a way a parody of the history of site specific art creating “one place after another”, a dynamic that Miwon Kwon (2002) writes about in her discussion of the history of site specific art. Elsewhereness is about the artists NOT being there. The artists are elsewhere, touching from a distance.
The works in the Elsewhereness series are made solely from audio and video material found on the web, material that emanates from a specific place, in this case the place is New Orleans. The audiovisual pieces are manipulated and composed into a surreal journey through an estranged landscape, based entirely on the culturally bound and stereotypical preconceptions of the artists about the actual location.
Elsewhereness is also a comment on ethnographic practices, which are often associated with empirical intimacy and the possibility of coming close to people in various contexts. In some art, and often site-specific art, ethnography has been embraced. Hal Foster (1995) writes some critical words about this in “The Artist as Ethnographer”. Elsewhereness is not a reverberation of Fosters’ critique, but it can still give some perspective on ethnographic and socially oriented site-specific art. Within ethnography and socially oriented site-specific art we’ll often find certain ideals embraced: participation, proximity and ideas about being “loyal to the field”, bearing witness, giving voice to people etc. Elsewhereness is instead a site-specific work where distance and even alienation is evoked. Not in order to achieve some kind of nihilistic stance, but to examine the elongations of the site-specific and the ends of ethnography.
12-29 November 2010
Opening reception 12 November 19:30
Mannheim Barock Castle
Three guest curators, Klaus W. Eisenlohr (Berlin), Hans W. Koch (Köln) und Thomas Lühr Frankfurt/M.) present video and sound works.
Barock Castle Catacombes: Tom Skipp’s 3-channel work Stormwater, which explores Europe’s biggest stormwater reservoir before the flood
Container 1: Urban Research Screening and Installation”urban interference and the city’s symbols”
The success of modern cities is connected with relative security and trust in the social contract between citizens. As Jan Philippe Reemtsma states: “If I happen to drop into a violent situation, I will neither be made responsible for not being armed, nor for having failed to defend myself.” (memory-quoted). Although this unwritten contract is part of the production of modernity, urban myths and symbols often tell about violent situations. Therefore, films about urban symbols often deal with the uncanny. They thus touch the precarious balance between the violence of law enforcement and undisclosed threats of decay.On the other hand, with urban interventions, artists try to play a more active role in society . Some artists see themselves as “political activist” and try to change politics and society; others just try to reach a different, more divers audience; or, they like to reach out for a seemingly impossible dream. All of them, however, share visions and ideas about urban life. And those inspirations may be infectious!
Videos:
- Seven After Eleven, 2008 (Christina McPhee US)
- Play Ground, 2009 (Rinat Edelstein IL)
- Descend, 2009 (Pablo Useros ES)
- Fragments of the Los Angeles River, 2009 (Richard O’Sullivan UK) - Elsewhereness: Yokohama, 2008 (Anders Weberg + Robert Willim SW)
- Sintia, (Jose Matiella +Ivan Meza MX)
- Buda, 2009 (Beatriz + Carlos Matiella MX)
- Easy Rider, 2006 (Pilvi Takala FI)
- Jalkeilla Taas (Up And About Again), 2009 (Maarit Suomi-Väänänen FI)
- Amusement Park, 2001 (Pilvi Takala FI)
- Drive, 2008 (Elham Rokni IL)
- Simulacro, 2005 (Hector Falcon MX)
- Moel Yad, 2009 (Hadas Tapouchi IL)
- Night Meter, 2000 (Yaron Lapid UK)
- Interception 2007-2009 (Roch Forowicz PL)
- Stormwater / Estanque de tormentas (Tom Skipp ES)
Tomorrow Thursday November 11 me and Robert Willim will be on stage at the 27th Kasseller DokFest where we will perform our audio visual piece Sweden for Beginners.
We will play at the DokFestLounge 22.30. link to program.
If you are nearby .. come and say hi ..
Sweden for Beginners
SfB is an imaginative journey through the spaces, the life and everyday world of this Scandinavian country, a way to experience beyond the power of words.
Artists Anders Weberg and Robert Willim have used fieldrecordings and material from various Swedish settings to form an audiovisual live performance.
The artwork will be surrealized as an affective exposé through live improvisation. Stereotypes of Sweden, like the Bergmanesque gloom, erotica and nature romanticism will be invoked in this imaginary journey through Sweden of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Elsewhereness:Cape town as part of the City Breath project will be screened at the Bioscope in Johannesburg November 6-7.
CITY BREATH Festival of Video Poetry and Performance
4 South African cities. 20 short experimental films. 4 minutes each.
6 November 2010, 8:00 PM
7 November 2010, 3:30 PM
The Bioscope, Main Street Life, Johannesburg
As screened in Cape Town, London, Berlin, Edinburgh, Grahamstown, Vancouver, and Marseille
Please note the same films will be screened both nights.
CITY BREATH. 2009. 01:07:11. DVD. Experimental film selection from South Africa.
Curator / director: Kai Lossgott.
Filmmakers / artists / choreographers / poets: Terry Westby-Nunn, Louise Coetzer, Lolette Smith, Colleen Alborough, João Oreccia, Khanyisile Mbongwa, James Tayler, Niklas Zimmer, Mandilakhe Yengo, Alude Mahali, Ananda Fuchs, Tanya van Schalkwyk, Mduduzi Nyembe, Bandile Gumbi, Maia Grotepass, Mark Wilby, Fabian Oliver Wargau, Nileru, Jeanette Ginslov, Erica Luttich, Anni Snyman, Koeka Stander, Rat Western, Maaike Bakker, Sean Buch, Emma Jane Laurence, Anders Weberg, Robert Willim.
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