[rohrpost] Diesen Donnerstag: Back to Berlin

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NewYorkRioTokyo 

Back to Berlin <http://www.nyrt.net/wordpress/?p=185> 


An exhibition of video works by  <http://www.machinehunger.com.au> Linda
Wallace 

 Wallace01.jpg <http://www.nyrt.net/wordpress/wp-content/Wallace01.jpg> 

VERNISSAGE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 7 PM, ARTIST TALK 5 PM
Open from January 31 to February 11
Tuesday to Sunday 12 noon till 8pm

Back to Berlin is a transmediale <http://www.transmediale.de/>  partner
event.

The video works showing in Back to Berlin speak to the experience of
being between places, of being both here, there and there, all the time
immersed within the strange overlap of televisual non-space and lived
realities.

The three video works are filters for one or another global media event.

entanglements <http://www.machinehunger.com.au/entanglements/>  takes as
its starting point the 2003 invasion of Iraq as seen through the siphon
of Australian television. Concurrent with the invasion was the hit
series The Block, a home renovation competition. These and other images,
for example, pictures from the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege are woven
together and projected through curtains, as television becomes the
window on the world.

The three-screen LivingTomorrow
<http://www.machinehunger.com.au/LivingTomorrow/>  began as one thing
and ended as something quite different as a huge event pierced the
narrative mid-production. This event was the murder of Dutch filmmaker
Theo van Gogh in late-2004. The murder is woven into a larger story told
by hand-made subtitles over segments cut from the soap opera "The Bold
and the Beautiful?, itself the highest rating television show on the
planet watched daily by over 450 million people.

TOR, the most recent work is by comparison simpler and shows snippets
from the journey on the M19 bus down Berlin?s Kurfuerstendamm on the
evening of Germany?s win over Argentina in the 2006 World Cup. The faces
in TOR beg the question: who are the Germans?

"The art of Linda Wallace invites us to reflect upon our televisual
environment. Day-time soap operas, classic cinema, European song
contests, news broadcasts and the pervasive images of war and terrorism
are juxtaposed and interspersed in both linear videos and multi-screen
projections. Her work takes as its starting point the context of
communications media which she describes as "a vast labyrinthine
media-datascape?. Our relationships with both the natural and urban
environment, and with each other, are increasingly negotiated via
electronic means. This is a world in which commercial television
actively maintains conventional and homogenous categories around
identity, politics and gender. In response, Wallace fragments, re-mixes
and re-dubs the television image, introducing a spectrum of meanings
back into the digital screen. This is not to say that she is attempting
to reinstate a kind of ?truth?. Rather, her project forges links between
cultures as they are mediated in a televisual landscape.? 
(from the essay
<http://www.machinehunger.com.au/LivingTomorrow/Lynnessay.pdf>  by
Victoria Lynn-German translation coming soon)

presented by www.reloadingimages.org and www.nyrt.net 

NewYorkRioTokyo e.V. / Eberswalder Str. 4 / 10437 Berlin Prenzlauer Berg