[spectre] Preview of the project: huwwara _ anybody, looking

[Marieke Istha]

January 30 – January 31 2010

Preview of the project: huwwara _ anybody, looking

Opening Friday January 29th, 18.00 – 20.00
Official opening by Andreas Broeckmann 19.00 hrs

With pleasure we announce the preview of the project huwwara _ anybody, 
looking by the artists collective Knowbotic Research. It’s a project 
they have realized with the help of the Artists in Residence Program at 
NIMk. The installation huwwara _ anybody, looking is being exhibited at 
NIMk firstly as a preview and will afterwards be shown amongst other 
places at FACT, Liverpool and the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art, Oldenburg.

a participative dis/play
A female voice recounts the TV-report about an interrupted and failed 
suicide attack by a Palestinian boy on an Israeli checkpoint. Or is the 
voice narrating a dream about the hybridisation of the suicide bomber 
with a military robot and its surrounding security architecture, merging 
both and turning them into an undecodable, computer-animated being?

huwwara _ anybody, looking is an installation consisting of different 
sets, media and viewing formats (an audio piece, a single-screen 
computer animation, a double-screen interactive video). The installation 
is based on the re-enactment of video footage, archived on Youtube, of a 
report from Israeli TV Channel 2. The installation enables the observer, 
placed in a "third position", a vexing immersion into his/her ways of 
looking at, and perceiving of, extremely overcoded protagonists such as 
suicide bombers and high-tech military actors. Interjected is a doubled, 
apparently inconspicuous view of the neutral silhouette of a Palestinian 
city at night. The display of the restaged TV scene provides access to a 
"narrative of strangeness", an opaque extension to the existing 
demonizing imagery applied from both sides of the political antagonism 
in the Middle East, as well as a displacement of super-hero figurations 
from adolescent role model techniques.

The collective Knowbotic Research consists of the artists Yvonne Wilhelm 
(*1962), Christian Huebler (*1962), and Alexander Tuchacek (*1962), who 
are based in Zurich/Switzerland. The group experiments with urbanity, 
the construction of knowledge and political representations in public 
spheres. http://krcf.org/krcf.org/

Opening hours Saturday January 30th and Sunday January 31st from 13.00 – 
18.00 hrs, free entrance


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