Alexander Vaindorf
dal 16/1/2006 al 2/2/2006
Segnalato da
16/1/2006
Alexander Vaindorf
Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck
Through the use of documentary stylistic devices and the de-construction of media storytelling formats into parallel screened narratives, the artist drafts a socio-cognitive status report of the present whose relevancy reaches well beyond the borders of the zone observed. His recent videos derive their material from extensive fieldwork the artist has done among marginalised groups in and from the ukraine at places they share in common.
Fallen out of the cold
Alexander Vaindorf’s recent videos and video installations derive their material from extensive fieldwork the artist has done among marginalised groups in and from the ukraine at places they share in common. within the relation to vast collectively shared topics - illegal immigration followed by losses of initial context, issues of double identity and the occurrence of parallel, informal economies / closed communities - vaindorf concentrates his work on individuals who involuntarily became a part of these processes. at the same time the videos grasp a time fragment in the current history of the unified europe where considerable numbers of people are not only excluded, but, as the artist insists, also subject to a “contemporary form of slavery".
Ukrainian work migrants at their sunday meeting point in the parco di resistenza in rome; children born in the chernobyl area in the year of the accident, now facing memories and reality forced upon them as they gather in a sanatorium; people at a hospital undergoing special therapy sessions in order to eliminate the mental after-effects of a prior participation in mass hypnosis - through the use of documentary stylistic devices and the de-construction of media storytelling formats into parallel screened narratives vaindorf drafts a socio-cognitive status report of the present whose relevancy reaches well beyond the borders of the zone observed.
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1965 in Odessa, f. CCCP. Lives and works in Stockholm.
Education:
2001-2002 Royal Art Academy, Stockholm. Postgraduate.
1998-2000 Columbia University, New York. SoA/Visual Arts, Master of Fine Arts.
1999-2000 Columbia University, New York. Sociology Department.
1995-1998 Konstfack University College, Stockholm, BA of Fine Arts.
Fellowships, Residencies & Awards:
NIFCA West Balkan AiR 2005 residency at the Centre for Contemporary Arts -Belgrade, Serbia. Nov-Dec 2005
Residency at Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen Innsbruck, Austria. Aug - Oct. 2005
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation grant, 2005
The Arts Grants Committee, Sweden. One year grant, 2004
Nominee for Diesel New Art award, 2004
Residency at Scandinavian Artists Collegiums in Rome, Italy. 2004
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation grant, 2003
Art Academy Stockholm Award, 2003
Recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation grant, 1999-2000
Merit Scholarship Awards, Columbia University, 1998 and 1999 Teaching & Lecturing Art Academy Department, Trondheim University, Norway. Fall 2005
Royal School of Architecture/Memory Games field studies. Stockholm’03
Royal School of Architecture/Memory Games field studies. Belgrade’02
Royal Art Academy Stockholm. Video department, 2002
Columbia University TA Visual Arts, 2000
Opening: January 17
Kunstlerhaus Buchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13 - Innsbruck (Austria)