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MOMENTUM BOX EXHIBITIONS
5 March – 30 April 2016
Featuring a Selection of Videos Presented at
GANZ GROSSES KINO for KIK EIGHT>>
Hannu Karjalainen // Bjørn Melhus
Theo Eshetu // David Krippendorff // Varvara Shavrova
Curated by Rachel Rits-Volloch
5 – 20 March 2016
Hannu Karjalainen
The House Protects the Dreamer (2014)
16 mm film scanned to HD Video, sound, 14’8″
THE HOUSE PROTECTS THE DREAMER is an experimental narrative film about a fictive modern architect’s creative process. The dreamlike film follows the architect and her assistant producing experiments that verge on the absurd. It is a film about faith, disillusionment and renewal. The film was shot in and around a 1960 Aulis Blomstedt villa in Helsinki and features Heli Haltia and Dwayne Strike. Music composed by Infinite Livez and Hannu Karjalainen.
23 March – 3 April 2016
Bjørn Melhus
Freedom & Independence (2014)
4K Video, sound, 15′
FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE confronts neoliberal elitist thinking using generic media fragments of religious prophecies about the end of time in the setting of a privatized habitat marked by architectures of megalomania. It is a tour de force using elements of fairy tales, musicals, comedy and horror films to scour our global psyche for ingrained promises of salvation, childhood traumas and the work ethic as it is affected by our desire for self-improvement.
6 – 10 April 2016
Theo Eshetu
The Festival of Sacrifice (2012/2016)
Single-channel version of a 6-channel video installation, sound, 16′
THE FESTIVAL OF SACRIFICE depicts the ritual slaughter of a goat at the end of Ramadan, filmed by Eshetu on the Kenyan island of Lamu. Through multiple mirroring the extreme footage is sublimated into a series of images that resemble traditional Islamic ornamentation. The skilled dissection of the animal body is reflected in the kaleidoscopic dissolution of the video images. Music composed by Theo Eshetu. Shown here in a single-channel version of a ten-channel installation, MOMENTUM celebrates the addition of this phenomenal work to the MOMENTUM Collection.
13 – 17 April 2016
David Krippendorff
Nothing Escapes My Eyes (2015)
HD, color, stereo, 13’43”
NOTHING ESCAPES MY EYES (2015) is about a silent transformation of a place and a human being. Inspired by the texts of Edward W. Said, the poems of Mahmoud Darwish and Verdi’s opera Aida, the film depicts in a metaphoric form current issues of cultural identity, loss and the pressures to conform. With no dialogues, the film is backed by a musical excerpt from Aida whose lyrics express the difficulties of being loyal to one’s country and cultural identity. The personal and urban transformation tackles on issues of identity, loss and disorientation as a result of historical colonialism and contemporary globalization.
20 April – 30 April 2016
Varvara Shavrova
The Opera (2010)
HD Video, sound, single-channel version of a 6-channel installation, sound, 21’23”
THE OPERA was originally commissioned (2010) as a multi-channel video projection for the Espacio Cultural El Tanque, an empty oil tank in Tenerife, and subsequently shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. This work is an insight into the fragile world as well as social and human aspects of the Peking Opera, one of China’s most revered aspects of cultural heritage. The Opera focuses on the transformation of the Peking Opera artists from male to female, and from female to male. Shavrova investigates issues of personal identity, sexuality and gender bending as they are manifested by both traditional and contemporary culture in modern day China. The Opera is accompanied by a specially commissioned music score written by the Beijing based composer Benoit Granier, that incorporates elements of traditional Chinese and contemporary electronic music. MORE INFO HERE >>
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