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18th April 2008: 8pm
19th December 2007: 7pm
Videos by:
Fabienne Audeoud
Stephen Connolly
Miranda July
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
Fabienne Audeoud & John Russell
Szuper Gallery: Susanne Clausen & Pawlo Kerestey
Sari Tervaniemi
curated by
Susanne Clausen and Sari Tervaniemi
'Loving Revolution' negotiates the real and discusses the basic meaning of the word political: people negotiating the rules of living together with the aid of fiction. Here 'together' means in some kind of relationship. The different voices of the artists define personal politics between, and reveal special behaviour of, human beings. Reality is re-negotiated while the personal is becoming political. Private situations point to a bigger picture, personal behaviour influences but also projects the political in general.
How do the subjects feel when subjectivity itself is a commodity? Don't repeat yourself, invent yourself each and every time. The subject is on the move, without ever getting anywhere, a lifelong work effort? What does love look like in a post-industrial society where everyone is a self-supporting enterprise and is asked to take care of themselves.
Marx’s alienation, which was central in explaining the workers relation to the process and product of labor – had strong emotional overtones. He discusses alienated labor as a loss of reality, in his words a loss of the bond to the object. According to Durkheim, ‘solidarity’ is nothing but a bundle of emotions binding social actors to the central symbols of society. Here is a culture in which emotional and economic discourses and practices mutually shape each other, thus producing what can be viewed as a broad, sweeping movement in which affect is made an essential aspect of economic behaviour and in which emotional life follows the logic of economic relations and exchange. Market based cultural repertoires shape and inform interpersonal and emotional relationships, while interpersonal relationships are at the epicenter of economic relationships. (Eva Illouz)
Fabienne Audeoud
Kiss Me, 3:30
2006
Screening format DVD
Kiss me is a music video by artist and musician Fabienne Audeoud, and is part of part of her album project.
« Is it real ?» like they say in songs/ ontological mess baby
If I got transcendence, why am I like a parrot baby
Reciting my shopping list like a sound track to the hard core film in my head baby
Repeating my name like Im gonna lose it
Oh its so hot, oh its so hot ...
www.fabienneaudeoud.com
Stephen Connolly
Film for Tom
2005
Dur: 12:06 mins
anamorphic video
A lyrical homage to a friend and formative influence. Tom is eloquent and effusive, yet finds no resolutions to issues that haunt him.
Yet to whom is he speaking - is it a lecture ? And in the film a dramatic offscreen event complicates our apprehension of a domestic space.
www.bubblefilm.net
Miranda July
Getting Stronger Every Day
2001, Dur. 06:30, Digital video/ Screening format DVD
"There are two movies I saw on TV about boys who were taken from their families and then returned to them years later. One boy was on a fun spaceship for years and the other boy was kidnapped and molested. These boys were never the same again and they just couldn't re-integrate into the family. I saw these movies when I was little. I've often described them to people, always paired together. They are sort of the comedy and tragedy version of the same story and it is a mundanely spiritual story. Getting Stronger Every Day includes these boys' tales, but they are like mystical objects placed on the living reality of the man storyteller. In other parts of the movie actual mystical objects hover in peoples lives without a myth or story attached. I like to think about how these dimensions interact simply and can be enacted: real life / story / worldly / spirit / video / flat drawing."
http://mirandajuly.com
John Russell and Fabienne Audeoud
John Russell Kills Fabienne Audeoud in the Style of William Burroughs
2001
Dur: 5:00 mins
digital video
The pair stage a "murder", whereby John Russell pulls a revolver on Audeuod, shoots her and document the event. The work is a tribute to the late writer William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, who shot his wife "for the hell of it".
www.frozentears.co.uk
Szuper Gallery
I will survive
2007
Dur: 6:56 min
HD DVCPRo
Screening format DVD
Can love be genuine and at the same time for sale?
If it is purchased, it obeys a calculation, and hence it is dependent on something other than itself, is instrumentalised, and hence devalued. If it lies beyond calculation, however, it contradicts the supreme premises of our economic order, by which standards it is dangerous nonsense.
A video performed by Susanne Clausen and Pawlo Kerestey, masquerading as their own younger and older selves.
www.szuper.org
Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen
COMPLAINTS CHOIR
DUR: 8:40 min
Screening format DVD
Does your neighbour give folk dance classes above your bedroom? Does your boss have nicer shoes? Is your wife snoring? Why is the CTA always late? - If you like to complain, come and join the Complaints Choir. Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen are touring all over the world, inviting people to complain about anything they want and to sing their complaints out loud with fellow complainers. The complaints are transformed into an impressive choir song within a complaints workshop - with a help of a local musician.The first Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham in 2005. After sweeping successes in Europe the complaints choir movement has now finally reached the heart of America (by detour of Canada and Alaska). All the complaints choirs of the world can be seen at www.complaintschoir.org.
Sari Tervaniemi
You Kill Me
2006
Dur. 07:23 min.
16 mm film
Screening format: DVD
You Kill Me is a love story dressed in a Vampire tale. The short film is both time playful and sad, it talks about mental violence, that occurs when the other refuses to communicate. Romantic locations recall 80s The Smiths' rock videos, films noir style with a twist of humor. The sound scape and performance are physical. Protagonists are two male vampires, Victor and Vlad. They are based in an office in Punavuori, in Helsinki's city centre where they like to hang out with their computers. At night they predate women but abandon them at dawn. Mina is Victor's victim who does not give up easily.