BANKLEER (Berlin)
"Reale Reste", 2006
Video,colour, sound on DVD, 24 min
edition 5
studio photographs making of the video, 30 x 40 cm
Helmet with chocolate fountain on top
The backdrop to this piece are the living dead, the so-called zombies: When the statistics have reached capacity, the excluded return. Their search for salvation brings them back to the place of their symbolic death … We make use of the archetype of the zombie as it has entered into cultural memory via Homer's Odyssey , Haitian voodoo and Hollywood movies, in our quest for a direct confrontation with true universality. reale reste / real remnants wants to make visible what is excluded in all-inclusive post-politics [Agamben/Rancière] and how this excluded dimension can be politically realized in a new way.
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OLIVER RESSLER (Wien)
"This is what democracy looks like", 2002
Video on DVD, 38 min
The video tackles the events of 1 July 2001, surrounding a demonstration against the World Economic Forum - a private lobbying organization of major capital - meeting in Salzburg at the time. "At those meetings, in the absence of the public, billion dollar deals are set into motion by the self-appointed 'global leaders.' These deals bring wealth and prosperity to a few, and exploitation and poverty to many. To assure the orderly proceedings of economic globalization, the conference facilities, located in the center of Salzburg, are largely blocked off and all demonstrations are forbidden other than a rally at the square in front of the train station." This video gives insight into the course of events of the first "anti-globalization demonstration" in Austria, which was forbidden by the police, 919 demonstrators were encircled in a police blockade and detained for over seven hours.
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MARKUS DORFMÜLLER (Hamburg)
LAGER / CAMP, 2004-2005
24 Photos installation on a 4 x 4 m wooden square band
edition 1 + 1ap
Markus Dorfmüller‚s work documents the hidden surfaces, which are well visible for a public but hidden regarding their contents. From 2004, Dorfmüller photographed all refugees camps set up in Germany. There, asylum seekers are detained for a short or a longer period or even until their deportation. The work unmasks the surrounding landscapes and zones where these camps are located ˆ behind a wood or supermarket, in a rural neighborhood or residential area. The photographs can be described as landscape studies of semi-urban places, which do net tell about the specific histories of the place. Only the visible surface tells about their existence. What occurs „behind the scenes‰ can only be fathomed from reports and non-verifiable information.
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PETRA GERSCHNER (Munich)
Selection from the series:
"what does memory mean to you?", 2007
50x75cm, c-print, edition 5
"Intentional Entrances"2000, with Lisa Endriss
lightbox, 80x80cm
edition 1/1 + 1ap
Petra Gerschner's photo installation traces journeys, the artist has taken to let the constant movements and transformations of the environment become manifestations of the traveler's fast modes of perception. The changing experiences with time and space formed the post-modern and post-colonial subject who has been exposed to a loss of maps and attaches less importance to geographical departure and arrival points than to interim stages, which can only be perceived in passing, thus concentrating on the significance of visual, linguistic and cultural codes of interaction. Often, a discrepancy between the visual and the linguistic content and its cultural context occurs to pose questions about possible constellations of the actual plots or scenes.
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