Two exhibitions
dal 30/6/2004 al 18/7/2004
Segnalato da
30/6/2004
Two exhibitions
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (old venues), Berlin
Free Room is a new artistic interpretation of 'If', a film portrait of society in which one of the great outsiders of British cinema, Lindsay Anderson, depicts the system of elite private schools in England. For his video installation, Alex Morrison restages individual scenes from Anderson's film and presents them to the audience in three parallel video projections. With 'Spaceistheplace' at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Pash Buzari is presenting the first part in a trilogy of exhibitions to be continued at other venues.
Alex Morrison (Kanada) - Free Room
Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Studio 2
Pash Buzari
Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Studio 3
Free Room is a new artistic interpretation of 'If', a film portrait of society in which one of the great outsiders of British cinema, Lindsay Anderson, depicts the system of elite private schools in England.
For his video installation, Alex Morrison restages individual scenes from Anderson's film and presents them to the audience in three parallel video projections. In this way he employs the film original, which was made at the time of student protests in 1968, to compare and contrast motifs of individual freedom and social order, role play and authenticity, idealism and subversion.
Anderson's impressive images of one pupil's revolt against the senselessness of school rules and rituals are thus used as a social metaphor and demonstrate Morrison's main interest: an investigation into the delimitation between public and private spheres and a view of the conflicts that emerge from this kind of delimitation.
In Anderson's film, the revolt turns into a rebellion that leads to armed resistance and throws the campus into anarchy and chaos. Alex Morrison separates these images from the context of 1968 and translates them into an altered artistic present.
2nd July – 18th July 2003, Studio 2
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Pash Buzari
With SPACEISTHEPLACE at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Pash Buzari is presenting the first part in a trilogy of exhibitions to be continued at other venues. The cineaste's environment consists of photographic and architectural components combined to create a constellation then shown as a counterpoint to an installation employing light. The exhibition is based on Buzari's continued investigation into imaginary portrayals of light, space and consciousness in various science fiction films, and adapts material from films including Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Solaris and THX. In the process, the exhibition's main concern is to examine how film surfaces suggest space and light effects point to hidden, cryptic spheres.
Buzari's project not only directs its sights towards the canon of science fiction entertainment. Its title already points beyond Hollywood, quoting a film by the jazz philosopher Sun Ra, whose fantastic ideas and notions of space are a part of the exhibition, like experimental string theories of physics and their attempts to explain the world: 'Both models share the assumption – and that is precisely what interests me – that in a subtle way, sound/noise/ tone, as an immaterially and at the same time virtually repeated effect, offer a kind of matrix for these psychedelic - in the best sense of the word - fantasies explaining the world.' (Pash Buzari)
In the picture: 'Free room'
2nd – 18th July 2004, Studio 3
Opening : 1 July 2004 at 7pm
2. – 18. Juli 2004
Image: a work by Alex Morrison
Künstlerhaus Bethanien GmbH
Mariannenplatz 2, D-10997 Berlin