Monitoring
dal 8/11/2011 al 12/11/2011
Segnalato da
Jan Bode
Gair Dunlop
Ulrike Franke
Michael Loeken
Christoph Girardet
Chaja Hertog
Nir Nadler
Ryota Kuwakubo
Annika Larsson
Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube
Stefan Panhans
Anu Pennanen
Bjoern Perborg
Ana Esteve Reig
Rebecca Ann Tess
Rolando Vargas
8/11/2011
Monitoring
Different venues, Kassel
28th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival. This year, 14 installations by artists from six countries, selected out of more than 300 submissions. The exhibition focuses on installations, which contrast the single-channel projection as used in movie theatres and thereby exploring and creating new possibilities of projecting.
The exhibition Monitoring, which has been hosted by the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
since 1997, deals with contemporary positions of media art. Since the exhibition does not have a preset
topic, it is flexible to react to current developments of media art and to display a broad spectrum. 14
installations were chosen from more than 300 submissions.
One focus of this year’s exhibition is to take a closer look at film-analytic questions. Many of the
displayed artists deal with the new cinematographic visual memory, “dissect” it and put it back
together again. Thereby the usual viewing patterns are questioned and structures and mechanisms of
generating images are revealed: Christoph Giradet refers to the genre of the German “Heimatfilm” of
the 1950s, Rebecca Ann Tess shows the classic figure of the detective in different film-periods, Jan
Bode faces the internalization of the idol figure of “Rocky” and Dennis Neuschäfer-Rube deals with the
classic film “The Wizard of Oz”.
Other works discuss the interface of documentary and fiction (Anu Pennanen, Gair Dunlop), raise
questions of how to archive materials (Rolando Vargas) or turn towards the communication boundaries
between people (Annika Larsson, Stefan Panhans).
All installations displayed in the exhibition are nominated for the „Golden Cube“ endowed with 2,500
Euro for the best media installation. This prize is donated by the Kassel software company Micromata
and will be awarded at the BALi Cinema on November 13, 2011 at 8 pm.
Jan Bode: Yo Adrian, I did it!, Kassel / Rotterdam
Gair Dunlop: Atom Town: life after technology, Fife (GB)
Ulrike Franke / Michael Loeken: OPEL, Bochum
Christoph Girardet: Silberwald, Hannover
Chaja Hertog / Nir Nadler: In het Land der Blinden, Leiben (NL)
Ryota Kuwakubo: The Tenth Sentiment, Tokio
Annika Larsson: BLIND, Berlin / Stockholm
Dennis Neuschaefer-Rube: The Wizard of Oz experiment, Bielefeld
Stefan Panhans: SORRY, Hamburg
Anu Pennanen: La ruine du regard, Paris / Helsinki / Berlin
Björn Perborg: Geschichten aus dem Koffer, Berlin
Ana Esteve Reig: Verlorene Paradiese, Kassel
Rebecca Ann Tess: A Crime must be Committed, Frankfurt
Rolando Vargas: Eight-Times-Twenty-Five (diptych), Washington / Baltimore / Bogotá
Monitoring is a cooperation between the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kulturdezernat / documenta Archive and Stellwerk.
Upon request, we will gladly provide further information and pictures.
A detailed catalog will be available free of charge as of October 24, 2011.
Image: Versicherungsvertreter - Die erstaunliche Karriere des Mehmet Göker (Klaus Stern)
Press contact Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival:
Kim-André Schulz
Mobile: +49.176.99476162
Fax: +49.561.7076433
Email: presse@filmladen.de
Opening: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 7 pm, Kasseler Kunstverein
Venues:
Kasseler Kunstverein
Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, 34117 Kassel
Opening hours
Wednesday, Nov 9, 7–11 pm
Thursday, Nov 10, 11 am–10 pm
Friday, Nov 11, 11 am–10 pm
Saturday, Nov 12, 11 am–10 pm
Sunday, Nov 13, 11 am–7 pm
KulturBahnhof Kassel (Südflügel, Stellwerk)
Rainer-Dierichs-Platz 1, 34117 Kassel
Opening hours
Wednesday, Nov 9, 7–11 pm
Thursday, Nov 10, 5–10 pm
Friday, Nov 11, 5–10 pm
Saturday, Nov 12, 5–10 pm
Sunday, Nov 13, 5–8 pm
Entry is free of charge at all venues!