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8/1/2004

My Story

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam

Emmanuelle Antille, Susanne Berkenheger, Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukaçs, Olia Lialana, Shahryar Nashat, Jogchem Niemandsverdriet, Tabaimo

Although the manner in which stories are told and visualized changes, narrative has not lost its power. Our lives take on form with the help of stories. We learn by means of stories, we define stories, deconstruct stories, and of course tell stories. In the exhibition "My Story" Stories Visualized, the Netherlands Media Art Institute shows the various ways in which artists visualize a story: multiple screens, spatial montage and interactive approaches. In personal, insistent and fanciful ways the artists tell stories about people and their lives, posing questions about the definitions of reality.

In The Red Cabin (a part of Angels Camp, 2003), the characters do not feel at home in this world. They therefore decide to begin a new life in which they will determine their own norms and values. "And Angels Camp is our cry / The place where we buried our dreams / Our soiled virginity / And all the lost things we'll never again see." Emmanuelle Antille alternates apparently insignificant images with extremely suggestive images and scenes. The work is characterized by "tainted innocence". As a viewer you try to get a grip on the created world, but just as in her earlier work the characters themselves give little away.
http://www.angelscamp.ch

The installation Crossing the Rainbow (2003) by Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukaçs is shown with the aid of two projections and is about the lives of two young people. They tell - sometimes in a cloyingly sweet way - about each other and the relation in which they find themselves. The split screen allows the scenes to sometimes supplement one another, while at other times the two stories are played against each other. Now and then the camera takes over the narrative in order to visualize the story in some associative manner.

A conversation between two persons slowly comes into being as the user clicks the computer mouse in My Boyfriend Came Back from the War (1996) by Olia Lialana. "My boyfriend came back from the war. After dinner they left us alone." The mental world of the two people who were separated from one another and now try to come back together is slowly unraveled. Lialana uses the possibilities of hypertext to tell multiple stories simultaneously within one screen. Various frames can be opened, providing parallel and associative narratives.

Die Schwimmeisterin (UK version, 2004) by Susanne Berkenhegen also works in the same way. She herself terms her work Internet literature. This internet project is primarily based on text and graphic references. Without the help of the visitor, nothing happens. But after a number of mouse clicks a virus, 'hai75', is activated. The virus tries to slowly but surely tempt the visitor to certain choices that lead to the death of the central character. At the end of the story the route followed becomes visible, and the reader is once again confronted with the events.
http://www.schwimmeisterin.de

Laterally Yours (2002): "I should have known better. If I hadn't hidden in there they would have found me out. And if I hadn't hidden out they would have caught me where I sleep. I didn't know it was all over until it was too late." In this work Shahryar Nashat shows how fantasy gets a place in imprisonment, how it leads to alienation, and in what manner anxiety takes shape. In the multichannel installation image and sound come at the viewer from different sides. The setup allows the story and the facts in the video to confirm or contradict each other.
http://www.shahryarnashat.com/

In NobodyHere (1998-present) Jogchem Niemandsverdriet lives on the Internet. His identity is shaped by the small stories that he tells and visualizes, through which the viewer can click. The one-to-one interaction and the personal stories make Jogchem a personal, virtual friend, someone with whom the visitor to the site can enter into a relationship. Now and then Jogchem asks for advice, to which the viewer can respond by e-mail. The adventures and stories that are created subsequently become linked with one another at multiple points.
http://www.nobodyhere.com

Tabaimo investigates social and cultural tensions in Japan. She visualizes the traditions, gender differences, family relations and cultural etiquette. The everyday worries of a housewife are revealed in Little Japanese Kitchen (2003). Tabaimo shows us this apparently unusual banality raw and unvarnished. The subtle and detailed animations are recognizable and disorienting at the same time. She presents her story without commentary, but with a razor-sharp realism.

Image: Emmanuelle Antille The Red Cabin (part of Angels Camp, 2003)

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In addition:

Discussion / presentation evening with Mediamatic and Submarine.

Film evening in which a number of artists shed light on their inspiration by means of film, video and other fragments.
January 10 - March 8, 2004

Opening January 9, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

For more information / visual material:
Danielle van Drie (communications) T +31 (0)20 6237101
Annet Dekker (exhibitions) T +31 (0)20 6237101

Exhibition is open Tuesday - Saturday 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Admission: EUR 2,50 / 1,50

Netherlands Media Art Institute
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
NL 1016 EV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
T +31 (0)20 6237101
F +31(0)20 6244423

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