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A U S S T E L L U N G
BODYTEXT
kuratiert von Dirk Lebahn
21. Dezember 2013 — 25. Januar 2014
Eröffnung | Freitag 20. Dezember 2013 | 19 Uhr
Arnold Dreyblatt (Berlin)
Ossi Fink (München)
Russel Floersch (NY)
Rita Hensen (München)
Steve Johnson (London)
Ulla Maibaum (München/London)
Wolfgang Schlegel (Berlin)
Frances Scholz (Köln)
Marcus Steinweg (Berlin)
Mark von Schlegell (Köln)*
*Multiple–Präsentation LOVE THE CLEAR DARK (2014 REMIX)
Mark von Schlegell mit Stefan Müller und Dirk Lebahn
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S C R E E N I N G
TEXT TISSUE ANIMAL BODY
Shelly Silver proposes two evenings of images and sounds for BODYTEXT.
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—PART ONE—
Freitag | 24. Januar 2014 | 20 Uhr
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Text derives from the Latin textus (a tissue), which is in turn derived from texere (to weave). Weaving a story, a fable, one can think of a kind of clothing, protecting, decorating oneself in words. But what if one takes this textus, this body of language as bodily tissue? And what happens when words exude and finally separate themselves from a body in the form of spoken sounds, garbled or articulate. Is a gesture also a text, and what then the series of sounds provoked by that gesture? How might this relate to other species made up of similar stuff? What about other things that exit or enter the body, our body, their bodies? What is the difference between this tissue we're made of and the tissue of language and culture and laughing and artifice and marble sacks and jewels and guns and cunnilingus and semen stains and schools and fish and death?
TEXT AS BODY
ANIMAL AS BODY
BODY AS GESTURE
GESTURE AS TEXT
TEXT AS BODY
SOUND AS BODY
BODY
be wary the weak of heart
Eileen Myles
School of Fish
Audio | 1997 |1:50
EILEEN MYLES is an American poet and writer who has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, libretti, plays, and performance pieces over the last three decades.
http://www.eileenmyles.com/
Yvonne Rainer
Hand Movie
16mm | 1966 | 5:00
YVONNE RAINER is a dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and co-founder, in 1962, of the highly influential Judson Dance Theater in New York. After studying at the Martha Graham School and with Merce Cunningham, she began to choreograph works through which she could challenge traditional notions of dance performance. Most notably in Trio A (first performed in 1968 as part of the larger work The Mind is a Muscle), Rainer utilized a flow of mundane movements to complicate the performer/audience relationship and to draw attention to the body as a functional object—a strategy that finds its parallels in Minimalism. Her work in the 1970s, increasingly film-based, became more oriented toward content and context while still maintaining a focus upon form. Her Film About A Woman Who... (1974) drew attention to the place of women in a male-dominated society. Later films, such as Privilege (1990), have continued this theme, with treatments of menopause and aging, breast cancer, and homosexuality. They repeatedly demonstrate Rainer's belief in the importance of presenting the female body and the female voice through the critical and self-identifying eye of the female artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Rainer
Run Wrake
Rabbit
Video | 2005 | 8:30
RUN WRAKE was born on November 24, 1963 in Yemen as John Wrake. Run worked as a freelance animator after graduating from the Animation MA course atthe Royal College of Art in 1990. He produced several self-financed short films alongside commercials, titles, and music videos, notably for Howie B, U2 and The Charlatans. For many years he contributed regular illustrations to NME magazine. He died on October 21, 2012 in Ashford, Kent, England.
http://animateprojects.org/films/by_artist/w/r_wrake#sthash.iV3IoYuk.dpuf
Jenny Perlin
Neither a winding nor an unwinding
16mm | 2010 | 4:40
JENNY PERLIN is known for her films, videos, installations, and drawings. Her projects draw on her interests in history, cultural studies, literature and linguistics. Working with and against the documentary tradition, her films incorporate innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and both personal and collective history.
http://www.nilrep.net/
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Cunnilingus in North Korea
Flash animation | 2003
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (장영혜중공업) is a Seoul-based Web art group is a consisting of Young-hae Chang and Marc Voge. The group formed in 1999. Young-Hae Chang, is a Korean artist and translator with a Ph.D in aesthetics. Marc Voge is an American poet who lives in Seoul.
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents
Steve Reinke
beaverskullmagickmaster
Video | 2010 | 6:00
"Reinke is so skilled and at ease with the video medium that he seems to have no fear or hesitation addressing just about any topic that human beings might get tangled in, from sex and evermore bizarre rituals of attraction and betrayal through to some of the most frivolous but poignant obsessions and self-delusions that people indulge in to keep despair or boredom at bay."
--Ross Gibson, How Photographs Are Stored in the Brain, Remembrance and the blog,www.fennelplunger.com
WEBSITE: www.myrectumisnotagrave.com
Allen Ginsberg, etc.
The Laughing Song
Audio | 1979 | 1:25
ALLEN GINSBERG (born Irwin Allen Ginsberg) was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation.
Shelly Silver
small lies, Big Truth
Super 8 | 1999 | 18:48
Quoting from the established genres of experimental, documentary, and fiction film and television, Shelly Silver's work is funny, poetic and formally beautiful, seducing the viewer into pondering such difficult issues as the cracks in our common assumptions, the impossibility of a shared language, and the ambivalent yet overwhelming need to belong—to a family, nation, gender, or ideology. Exploring the psychology of public and private space and the seduction and repulsion of voyeurism, Silver's work elicits equal amounts of pleasure and discomfort.
Doug Skinner & Michael Smith
Mr. Woodie's Goodies (#1)
16mm | 1992 | 2:35
MICHAEL SMITH is a performance artist based in New York and Austin Texas. In the 1980's he was perceived as 'the quirky Ed Sullivan' of the time. He is best known for his performance persona named Mike, an innocent character who continually falls victim to trends and fashions.
DOUG SKINNER is an American composer, writer, actor, lecturer, speaker, ventriloquist and writer.
Steve Reinke
boy/analysis: an abridgement of melanie klein's "narrative of a child analysis"
Video | 5:26 | 2009
Gretchen Bender
artificial treatment
Audio | 1988 | 2:47
GRETCHEN BENDER was a pioneering video artist who worked most often with popular media.
http://bombsite.com/issues/18/articles/844
Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night
Audio | 1951 | 1:34
DYLAN MARLAIS THOMAS was a Welsh poet and writer
http://www.dylanthomas.com/
Shelly Silver
mankind : creature
Video | 1:09 | 2014
SHELLY SILVER, is a New York based video artist and filmmaker. She is your mistress of ceremonies in absentia.
www.shellysilver.com
running time: 59:30 (approx)
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—PART TWO—
Samstag | 25. Januar 2014 | 20 Uhr
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WHERE'S THE BODY?
Alberto Cabrera Bernal
Las Variacones Schwitters
6:00 | 2012
A drowning man, a running man, a sick man, a sick woman, a smiling woman, a grimacing woman.
A speeding boat, a crashing car, an exploding house.
An eagle, owl, turkey, fly, shark, soldier, snail.
Jump, pump, punch, scream.
ALBERTO CABRERA BERNAL edits, organizes, presents, barrages us with 3 variations of short clips of feature films, trailers, newsreels, advertisements and countdown leader.
The logic of each variation is viscerally perceptible and cognitively inexplicable.
Shelly Silver
The Houses that are Left
16mm | Video | 1991 | 52:00
In the distant past of 1991, when documentaries were documentaries and movies were movies and tv was… when films rarely cross-pollinated with movies or television or advertising…back in those so-called innocent days when text in feature films was relegated to opening and ending credits and subtitles… I made a film called 'The Houses that are Left."
By taking a mundane (love triangle) yet moving (friendship triumphing over betrayal) yet primal (dead, Dead!) yet supernatural (those dead watching the living live) story, I hacked together, cut by cut, scene by scene, close approximations of the sit-com, the black and white art house film, the man-on-the-street documentary. As this couldn't possibly be enough, I added explanations/interruptions/ small anarchic explosions in the guise of inter-titles, reminiscent of those used in silent films.
Why did I feel the need for this overabundance, this joining of the actual and the imaginary? Because a close friend had inexplicably died of Aids shattering my small safe universe. Because the city I grew up in was becoming an increasingly impervious and hostile environment. Because the movies that were being made weren't the movies I wanted to see. Because the world I inhabited wasn't the one I wanted to live in.
The old forms were inadequate, even useless and destructive. I made 'The Houses that are Left' to eat and digest and regurgitate these old forms into a new more useful one.
When the possible becomes impossible it is necessary to believe that the impossible can become possible.
