“You don’t make a movie, the movie makes you.” – Jean-Luc Godard
Laure Prouvost wins Turner prize 2013
A French artist who examines our relationship with the past using the technology of the Instagram generation has been named the surprise winner of the Turner prize.
Penelope Curtis, the Tate Britain director and chair of the judges, said the panel was drawn into Prouvost’s work “more deeply than they imagined they would be”. Judges were unexpectedly moved by work that “had a real richness of texture. It was both handmade and technologically current.”
Prouvost was shortlisted for a piece first shown as part of a Kurt Schwitters exhibition at Tate Britain. Prouvost was intrigued by the artist’s partner, Edith Thomas, nicknamed Wantee because of her habit of asking “want tea?”.
From that starting point, Prouvost wove in a fictional story about her grandfather – a close friend of Schwitters and also a conceptual artist – who she fashioned as bottom-obsessed. Prouvost often references her grandfather, who in her fictional world once decided to tunnel to Africa through the living room floor and never came back. The story is told in a film shown in a gloomy room that could be straight out of the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
For the Derry show Prouvost added a companion film about the dreams of her grandmother about riding a motorcycle and disco dancing that is viewed from a sloped, carpeted area.
more at | The Guardian
pictured: Part of Laure Prouvost’s work ‘Wantee’. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
Color Jam
For her first major public art installation since she turned Madison Square Park into a giant, bright playground, Jessica Stockholder is giving a similarly primary-hued makeover to a busy intersection in downtown Chicago. The project at the corner of Adams and State streets, “Color Jam,” is due to be completed today.
The huge piece, which spans building façades, sidewalks, streets, and even the bases of lampposts, is part of the ArtLoop program to bring public art to Chicago’s downtown Loop.
sfmoma: The predecessor of Stockholder’s Cross Hatch
BELOW THE EQUATORIAL BELT
Buenos Aires Oculto and Canal X extend DL’s reach to the southern hemisphere
Directors Lounge’s central 2013 event, [DL9],* racked up a significant global representation – when the smoke had cleared, it emerged that films from 54 countries were among those that made the cut. Included in the number were entries from six sub-equatorial countries, a decent showing, to be sure, but not one that couldn’t stand fleshing out.
Gonxalo Martin Collado is a gentle multi-art guerilla, a tireless champion of contemporary (in particular, film) culture who has headed up operations that have given Argentina and an ever-growing part of South America the enigmatic, activism-tinged Canal X. This is Internet TV built on an eye-catching, subtextual backbeat. In addition, Collado helms Buenos Aires Oculto (freely translatable as “The Dark Side of Buenos Aires”), which takes the hidden (moments and points of view) and throws them onto the screen in an annual festival-rush of very short visions (around one minute each: “un minuto, una historia”), as well as presenting photographic and other works. We see shades of our own DL working out of a European base and are joining forces from both sides to further our respective firmaments.
You will need to brush up your Spanish to make your way around the attention-grabbers on offer here (which you’ve been meaning to do anyway, ¿verdad?), but it will be worth it – the cheapest, fastest, safest trip you can take to the real and true Deep South. Our intent: to bring more of these Latin American visions and visionaries to you, whether in Berlin or elsewhere on our travels. Seguimos creciendo!!!
* The 9th Berlin International Directors Lounge
Pictured: Collado expels mystic golden smoke on a stopover in Berlin,
photo: kt/DL
Bust-up of the moment
It’s Stay For The Credits’s tradition to post this Buster Keaton montage set to Radiohead every time I get an influx of subscribers. Enjoy, film friends.
Blood, Sweat and Guts: The Threat
What a bracing, lean and mean movie this is; a tense, simple, yet vigorously acted action/hostage picture with not an ounce of flab on it.
Charles McGraw in Felix E. Feist’s The Threat (1949). Read my piece at Sunset Gun.
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Media Art from Croatia at Collegium Hungaricum – CHB, 22.- 24. 11. 2013, Berlin, Germany
Media Art from Croatia at at Collegium Hungaricum – CHB, 22.- 24. 11. 2013, Berlin, Germany
“Kroatien Kreativ 2013” is the program with which contemporary Croatian culture will present the German public with its creative potential, in socio-critical, experimental and innovative terms as well as drawing from its cultural heritage, making visible the distinctive nature and importance of Croatia and its positioning in the common European House.
Ingeborg Fülepp curated an impressive collection of contemporary media art from Croatia. The compilation of about 40 short films and installation works covers a wide range from the early media pioneers to the fresh talents of today.
Artists: Ana Bilankov, Iva Matija Bitanga, Tomislav Brajnović, Jasenka Bulj, Andrea Crnković, Dunja Donassy, Sandro Đukić, Alen Floričić, Ivana Franke, Darko Fritz, Ingeborg Fülepp, Boris Greiner, Tea Hatadi, Ana Hušman, Igor Juran, Ivan Marušić-KLIF, Vladislav Knezević, Alem Korkut, Nina Kurtela, Dalibor Martinis, Toni Meštrović, Martina Mezak, Kata Mijatović, Nadija Mustapić, Zoran Pavelić, Nika Radić, Tanja Ravlić, Davor Sanvincenti, Goran Škofić, Slaven Tolj, Mirjana Vodopija, Vlasta Žanić
Curator
Ingeborg Fülepp
Partner: Directors Lounge, Berlin
pictured: still from Nightriders by Ana Bilankov, 2011
“if you’ve got nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to worry” (if you worry …)
Kino Central 18. – 22.11.2013
This November, the Kino Central will once again present the videos of artists working with our good fellas, the Medienwerkstatt Berlin. The theme of our upcoming screening is “Supervision.” This theme was chosen in response to increased public sensitivity concerning issues of surveillance in our everyday environment, and the phenomena of the evaluations of these observations running out of control.
The Medienwerkstatt was installed in 2008 by the Kulturwerk of bbk berlin with public funds as a workshop of artists for artists to further their practice and gain valuable skills. Besides the many technical facilities available to users of the Medienwerkstatt, such as the Media Lab and Green Screen room, the media workshops themselves strengthen and interlink mutual support networks among artists.
For over 15 years the Kino Central has set up as one of the most interesting repertory cinemas in Berlin. During the last years The Central was distinguished regularly for its prominent annual program, including premieres, cinematic specific features, discoveries and innovations.
artists: Karla Albert | Nathalie Becher | Sandra Becker 01 | mobtik | Christa Biedermann | Jan Brand | Roberto Duarte | Lioba von den Driesch | Ilka & Volane Forst | Brigitte Geier | Ron Hagell | Heike Hamann | Constantin Hartenstein | Susanne Hoffmann | Katzengold (Nicole Messenlehner / Wolfgang Kriener) | Maria Koehne | Chat | Herbert Liffers | Marisa Maza | Astrid Menze | Ottjörg A.C. | Sharon Paz | Fried Rosenstock | Anja Ross | Gerhard Schuhmacher | Tobias Sjöberg | Wojtek Skowron | Anna Wignell | Kerstin Wittelmeyer | Barbara Wolters | Jo Zahn
from 18. – 22.11.2013, each day at 4.15 pm
Kino Central, Rosenthaler Str. 39, 2.HH 10178 Berlin
entry based on donation
pictured: Alle Macht dem Super 8, Gerhard Schuhmacher