[spectre] Raum 3 Berlin >> 17-25. Juni >> Biennale! Artists Film and Video

[Alena Williams]

 >>> Biennale! Artists Film and Video

 >>> Raum 3 Berlin, Ziegelstrasse 20, 10117 Berlin

 >>> Eröffnung, Friday 17. Juni 2005, 7 - 10 PM


This Friday, Raum 3 will launch an eight day presentation of a 
selection of works from the 2005 'Biennale! Artists Film and Video,' 
which was originally organized by Anthony Gross for the 
temporarycontemporary, a small non-profit art space in London. A total 
of eight works will be featured as a projection over the next week, and 
will also be available for viewing on demand.

OPENING NIGHT FEATURE
FRIDAY, 17. Juni 2005, 7-10 pm

Mark Aerial Waller's Reversion of the Beast Folk (2004)
a ritualistic recreation of HG Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau"

Working through drawing, props, and site specific sculpture and 
installation, Waller has been engaged in a critical re-evaluation of 
cinema. He is the founder of The Wayward Cannon, a platform for 
event-based interventions in film and television. His projects are 
typically durational, and introduce a specific relationship between the 
films and the spaces in which they are presented; they have included: a 
15-hour monument to Fassbinder's "Berlin Alexanderplatz" (1980) and 
"Simon & The Radioactive Flesh" a compilation of artist video's which 
aim to adulterate Louis Bunuel's "Simon of the Desert" (1965). 
Reversion of the Beast Folk (14 min) will be screened continuously from 
7 to 10 pm on Friday evening, and features an accompanying light show. 
This event represents the first presentation of Waller's work in 
Berlin.


SATURDAY, 18. Juni:	Jen Wu
					YouthInAsia1: Killing Me Softly (2005)
Wu uses personal experience as source material for the production of 
installation work and video. In YouthInAsia, home-video footage of one 
of the artist's teenage piano recitals is deployed to comment on the 
ritualized violence of social interactions.

SUNDAY, 19. Juni: 		Damon Packard
					Reflections of Evil (2002)
In execution and tone, Reflections of Evil is both a fairy tale and a 
horror film set against the backdrop of Los Angeles' most visited theme 
parks. Since its release, the work has achieved a cult status, and is 
as much a grotesque comedy as it is a cruel engagement with Steven 
Spielberg's Hollywood.  120 min

MONDAY, 20. Juni: 		Lu Chunsheng
					The History of Chemistry (2004)
A captain and crew traverse a sparse landscape-- a journey which begins 
in a rocky coastal terrain and eventually reaches an industrialized 
site. Nearly without dialogue, the narrative arc of The History of 
Chemistry is a productive working through of absence, and the 
negotiation of psychic and physical space.  29 min

TUESDAY, 21. Juni: 	David Blandy
					What is Soul? (2002)
In What is Soul?, Blandy is seated in a bedroom as he lip-syncs to R&B 
and hip-hop music. The work actively participates in the debates 
surrounding the commercial marketing of so-called "ethnic" and "urban" 
music to white audiences;  as we watch the video, the authenticity of 
the artist's identification with black experience is called into 
question.

WEDNESDAY, 22. Juni: 	Josefina Posch
					No Comment (2003)
A snippet of the news shot during the American invasion of Afghanistan 
is excerpted and slowed down. At this reduced speed, the colors which 
characterize the standard news set and the station logo become 
hyperreal, as much as the asinine giddiness of the newscasters turn 
sinister.

THURSDAY, 23. Juni: 	Oriana Fox
					Consciousness, Understanding N' Trust (2004)
Fox assumes a number of feminine guises in her work, roles which 
ultimately do not offer the most flattering depiction of female social 
dynamics. In this highly post-feminist work, the artist's campy 
performance take place within a range of domestic spaces that act as a 
forum, allowing her to explore questions of her own identity.

FRIDAY, 24. Juni: 		Francis Lamb
					The Fantasist (2003)
Lamb writes that she is interested in "how representations of space 
specific to film affect both our imagination and our perception of our 
environment." She isolates specific moments in film and re-edits them 
in order to emphasize the emptiness and artificiality of its 
constructed worlds. As part of this project, she has used video in The 
Fantasist as a means of unveiling cinematic conventions and the 
discourses which surround it.

Raum 3 is the project space of Bootlab e.v., a non-profit organization, 
which hosts a number of groups and individuals working on media related 
projects. Our research interests include ASCII strategies, 
surveillance, copyright, wireless networks, free radio (reboot.fm), and 
Open Source. Located in Berlin-Mitte, Bootlab is housed in the former 
Telegraphy Center of Berlin, which also once served as the headquarters 
for the East German Telecom. Bootlab has received project support from 
the European Culture Commission, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, the 
Heinrich Boell Stiftung and the Berlin City Council.

Contact and Hours

Bootlab: RAUM 3
Ziegelstrasse 20 - 10117 Berlin-Mitte
S-Bhf Oranienburger Strasse
Mo-Sa: 14-18 Uhr, So: 16-20 Uhr

T: +49 (0)30 26329577, M: +49 (0)176 235 949 26
http://www.bootlab.org/raum3
http://www.temporarycontemporary.com

for more information, please contact: alena at bootlab.org