Emmanuelle Antille: installation video, photographies. Masaki Fujihata: new media installation.
Emmanuelle Antille
"Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing,
beating over and over, not to stop feeling," 2005
Video installation, photographs
Emmanuelle Antille'snew series of works, grouped under the collective
title "Tornadoes of My Heart," comprises three video installations, a
feature-length film, and some 30 photographs.
The Center for Contemporary Images will focus on one of the three
installations, Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing, beating
over and over, not to stop feeling. The first of these three videos was
shown this summer at Art Unlimited during the Basel Art Fair; the final
piece of the trio will be the subject of a show at the Jeu de Paume in
Paris this autumn.
This new group of works takes shape around the lives of six teenagers
in a small suburban community. Through a collection of intense, brutal,
off-beat scenes that the artist has filmed with raw realism, viewers
will find themselves plunged into the world of these young people.
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Masaki Fujihata
The Center for Contemporary Images is pleased to present together for
the first time four of the artist’s Field Works, the latest of which,
Landing Home in Geneva, was created this summer in Geneva in
collaboration with the postgrad students of the new-media program at
HEAA.
Kitted out with his equipment, Fujihata records the regions he visits,
inviting us to tag along with him on his singular walks. Each of the
sites where these walks take place was chosen in terms of the
possibility of developing a project there linked specifically with its
geography and history. In Field-work@Alsace, for instance, it was the
border between Germany and France that was explored, while in
Field-work@Mersea, the creation of a collective memory determined the
walks taken by the participants around the island. As for
Field-work@Geneva, the routes followed by interpreters and translators,
who are to make their way to a place where they feel “at home,†will
sketch out a number of circular itineraries.
All of the material (images, interviews, spatial coordinates, camera
positions) gathered in the course of these trips is brought together in
a computer. At the editing stage Fujihata cuts and recomposes the
itinerary along the route recorded by the GPS, attaching frames—their
orientation and movements—to its tangled threads and thus staggering
the shots throughout the space-time. Viewers can then see recreated on
the projection screen the different views captured during the walk.
These are exactingly restored to their spatiotemporel sequence thanks
to the coordinates furnished by the GPS, which serves as a thread
running through the reading.
This three-dimensional cartography introduces a topography that
immerses viewers in the experience of a virtual excursion. They
navigate in front of a screen, building other stories while following
the GPS itinerary, which guides them through the twists and turns of a
landscape that has been laid out by multiple points of views...
Image: Emmanuelle Antille , Floating, crashing, spinning, spitting, kissing, beating over and over, not to stop feeling, 2005
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Shows opening Wednesday 7 September starting at 6 P.M.
Center for Contemporary Images, Saint-Gervais Genève
5, rue du Temple, CH - 1201 Genève
Tuesday - Sunday, noon to 6 P.M.