Critique of Pure Image - Between Fake and Quotation
The Exhibition
8 October-8 November 2005
Center for Contemporary Art "Ancient Baths"/"Bania Starinna", Plovdiv, Bulgaria and two further locations in town: billboard at the corner Blvd “6-i septemvri”/Main Street; installations in the main hall of the central train station.
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Last updated: 2005-12-26
Video installation and 6 digital prints, 2003.
Tirana-Prishtina 385 km: Escaping the Matrix
Three-screen video installation with comfortable sitting area, 2005.
Video film between documentary and fiction, 68 min., 2004.
Film about the Bulgarian copy of the Apple II computer, produced in Pravetz, reverse engineering, the green card and women in this business.
3 video compilations (No. 2-1, 50 min., 2002; No. 2-2, 40 min., 2002; No. 3, 60 min., 2003).
The Centre of Attention Magazine shows a “best of” through images of recent shows and performances, art videos and BBC interviews.
Feature film, 74 min., 1966. Downloaded and reassembled in small bits coming from the computers of her wired fans across the world via the shared peer-to-peer networks.
Stop Motion Studies – Series 13
Video film installed on the electronic advertising panel in the main hall of the central train station in Plovdiv, 7 min., 2004.
Powerplay – Untitled and ROM Series
4 digital prints on canvas, 2004; 5 digital prints, 2004.
Feature film, 87 min., 1973. Downloaded and reassembled in small bits coming from the computers of his wired fans across the world via the shared peer-to-peer networks.
Flash animation, comparative view between an Eastern European family archive and Western professional photographs, 2004.
Mixed-media installation with a computer server with hardware and software specifi ally produced by Etoy, telephone installation, 2002.
Self-criticism – Pure Image, Quotation, Fake
Selected piece of original wall of the exhibition space, its digital print reproduction and its hand-painted copy on canvas, each 300 x 150 cm, 2005.
Mixed-media installation with a specific space, text and a selection of unfinished or abandoned videos, 2005. Included in the selection are videos by Gernot Wieland, Aleksander Komarov, Irina Botea, Enisa Cenaliaj, Christina Hemauer, Susanne Kriemann, Petra Maitz, Irene Weingartner, Kunstfly, Philippe Winninger, Ursula Palla, Aurelio Kopainig and Paulina Egle Pukyte.
Dreams-World: Work in progress
Video installation with selected videos, 2001-2005.
that’s revolution – ads & revolt
Specific thematic selection by the author of 30 digital prints of ads from 1967-today.
(video film between documentary and fiction, 28 min., 2003) and
(documentary video portrait, 20 min., 2003)
Mixed-media installation, actual working bar, oversize teddy bear, objects, video interviews plus performance, 2005.
(video film, 2002) and
The Funeral of Georg Paul Thomann
(video film, 2005)
Mixed-media installation with 2 video films and digital prints.
Collection of 4 postcards with Musovikian flags selected from a flash animation, 2005. Cf. the info section of the exhibition space.
(video animation, 4’45’’, 2004) and
(2 objects, real-size flags, 2004)
3 short video films installed on the electronic advertising panel in the main hall of the central train station in Plovdiv, respectively 26’’, 24’’ and 30’’, 2004.
Digital print/billboard installed in the central city space at the corner “6-i septemvri”/main street, 2004.
of video performances, public actions, documents and objects: Second Hand, Testosterone for All, Neosexism, Piss Police, S-C-U-M
Documentation in DVD format with a focus on the 1980s protests and riots in Zurich against the funding of the opera house, and for free, non-commercial spaces for the production and presentation of independent art and culture.
Free West Copy East Trade – Shifts in the Flow of Information
(photo installation, 2004-2005),
Auto Portraits – Collective and Alternative Initiatives In Vilnius At This Moment
(photo installation, 2004-2005) and
Daily Conversations – Recorded
(compilation of video interviews, 2005)
(video, 83 min., 2005),
The Horribly Stupid Stunt (Which Resulted in His Untimely Death)
(video, 23’39’’, 2001),(video, 3’20’’, 2004),
(video, 1’44’’, 2004),
(video, 3’03’’, 2004)
Video installation and one digital print, 2004-2005.
KR WP (Representative Guards of the Polish Army)
Video film, 7’50”, 2000/2001.
Video, 23’20”, 2003 (new editing 2005, with English subtitles).