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How do the Burmese continue to live under a dictatorship that for the past two generations has curbed any form of hope? Along the Irrawaddy River appear signs of resistance of a people deprived of its guide, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was viciously attacked and locked away. The inner voices of exile express the sufferings of a wounded nation.

Born in Paris in 1963, François Rosolato is an author, director, actor, and director of photography. After finishing his film studies at the Ecole Nationale Louis Lumière, he began working behind the camera for fictions and later for documentary productions. Attracted by non-fiction, he at the same time touched upon directing with a very personal point of view. He attained financial backing in the margin of the French television channels? formatted universe.

The United Nations building in New York at night. Douglas Ross films an architecture void of animation, except for the intermittent flickering lights.

Douglas Ross was born in Brockton, MA, USA, in 1969. He lives and works in New York City. His work has been exhibited at the Miami Contemporary Art Museum; at the Rotterdam Film Festival; in Turin; at the KW Contemporary Art Institute in Berlin; the PS1 Contemporary Art Centre; and MoMA, the Walker Art Centre. He has also completed artist residencies and exchange programs in Japan.

NOUVEAU SYNOPSIS 09/04/08: Trilling scrolls right to left across the screen, recombining footage from the early 80s television program "Three's Company" into a sequence of traveling gestural loops. Trilling is about physical humor. It emerged out of a curiosity about my childhood obsession with the well-known sitcom "Three's Company". The show was written for adults, but through the actor?s performances it conveyed a humor that enabled anyone (including children) to laugh out loud. The physical comedy became the vehicle for the narrative, expressing the humor of the show in a way that words could not. Unlike verbal comedy, which needs time to register and be translated before we recognize its wit, physical humor is immediate; awkward bodily movement can trigger an uncontrollable hysterical response. By excerpting and reformatting physical gestures from the actors in the show, I constructed a new narrative in collaboration with Trumpeter Taylor Haskins. Haskins composed the music spontaneously, creating a unique improvised response to each clip that fold together into a unified whole. ANCIEN SYNOPSIS: Trilling recombines footage from the early 80s sitcom "Three`s Company" into a sequence of travelling gestural loops. Trumpeter Taylor Haskins collaborated on the audio track, creating a unique improvisational response to each clip.

Catherine Ross works in video and photography, framing gestures of performances that often go unnoticed in their original context. Isolating the movements of humans and/or objects, her videos create new musical sequences that reveal an inseparable relationship between motion and sound. Here she finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including venues in Brazil, Finland, Ireland, England, Canada and the United States. Ross attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2002, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2003 and received a 2005-06 residency from The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Ross was recently awarded "Best International Short Award" at the 2006 Darklight Festival (Dublin, IRELAND). She received her BA in studio art from Dartmouth College in 1994. Catherine Ross lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Théodolitique (2015) merges the geodetic and the filmic, linking the very long history of land surveying with the comparatively new technologies of film-making. Connecting these two methods of visual observation and recording, Théodolitique documents student surveyors from the école des Métiers du Sud-Ouest-de-Montréal as they take an outdoor exam over the course of a single day. The project utilizes a wide range of filmic and acoustic techniques ? including a parabolic microphone to capture distant audio, and a custom built ?theodocam? to provide a surveyor?s eye view ? to reflect and mimic how the students move, think and learn their trade. Recorded on a designated practice field adjacent to the école des Métiers, Théodolitique is a film that is both chorographic and choreographic.

The works of David K. Ross are concerned with the processes and activities which enable infrastructural monuments, cultural institutions, and architectural structures to exist. Using photography, film and installation to carry out these inquiries, he examines the performative capacities of un-scripted activities, along with the relationships that exist between the recorded event and its re-presentation in physical space. These inquires have been applied to various projects including a study of the enigmatic activities of student land surveyors, the uncanny and oneiric qualities of a series of rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago, the nuanced and poetic movements of dancers about to perform, the mythic and sublime qualities of an urban lighting fixture in Montréal, the quietude of artists’ storage spaces, and a close examination of colour coded art shipping crates.

Appréhendées comme un voyage mental, visuel et sonore proche de l’esprit surréaliste, les images se succèdent au rythme de l’énonciation mystique du thàme astral de Ersnt dressé par un astrologue de Sedona, également saxophoniste, qu’il a lui-même dressé après avoir constaté une erreur dans l’heure de naissance de celui commandé par Breton en 1930. Sa voix off accompagne le spectateur. à la fois atmosphère sonore et piste narrative, elle parait guider cette chasse au fantôme - probablement celui de l’esprit de Max Ernst qui, partout, imprègne les lieux. Tandis que la mélodie rappelle les bandes sonores de méditation disponibles dans les boutiques de souvenirs de la ville, la désynchronisation répétée des rushes dans le temps évoque, tel ce chat dont le corps se dédouble, le “voyage astral” cher aux surréalistes, l’expèrience de hors corps, la sensation de flottement. Dans son film Real Estate Astrology (2015), Maxime Rossi développe une réflexion à facettes pour portraiturer un lieu. Il confronte deux états de narration entre lesquels le spectateur peut osciller, du diagnostic des traces objectives d’une quète, real estate, au pronostic à valeur prédictive d’une vie dressé d’après l’interprètation stellaire, astrology.

Le travail de Maxime Rossi contourne les limites de genre prédéfini comme de style pour puiser ses formes et son inspiration dans de multiples sources : l’histoire de l’art, l’ethnographie ou la littérature. L’impressionnant éventail des registres provoque une étrange narration, que l’artiste utilise pour dévoiler des vérités en portant un nouveau regard sur des sujets que nous pensions connaître avec certitude. À travers le prisme kaléidoscopique d’une pratique complexe et hétéroclite mêlant la sculpture, l’installation, la performance, la scénographie et la vidéo, Maxime Rossi ignore l’idée même de catégories et propose une discipline singulière qui convoque la « beauté convulsive » chère aux surréalistes. Maxime Rossi est né en 1980, il vit et travaille à Paris, France. Son travail a fait l’objet de projections au Centre Pompidou, Paris et au MUMOK, Vienne (Autriche). Il a notamment été montré dans le cadre d’expositions personnelles et collectives au Palais de Tokyo, Paris, à l’Emba / Galerie Édouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, à la Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, à La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, à la 19e Biennale de Sydney, au S.M.A.K. de Gent ou au Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, Suisse.

Avec « Sister Ship » [le navire de la Soeur], Maxime Rossi propose une nouvelle étape de son projet d’envergure inspiré par Soeur Corita Kent (1918-1986), religieuse américaine ayant quitté les ordres en 1968 et connue pour avoir contribué à la culture pop. À partir des années 1960, cette soeur a effectivement développé une pratique artistique en produisant des affiches sérigraphiées qui entremêlent slogans publicitaires, paroles de chansons et versets religieux. S’inspirant de ce personnage hors-normes, Maxime Rossi propose une installation dynamique de cinéma élargi qui regroupe une vidéo spatialisée dans La Halle des bouchers et des éléments de décor scénique colorés. Cette comédie musicale décalée combine les séquences du film documentaire Pygmée Blues (2013) tourné le long du fleuve Congo, avec une bande son constituée de la transcription d’un livre sur Soeur Corita, chantée par Emma Daumas accompagnée de musiciens africains.

Le travail de Maxime Rossi contourne les limites de genre prédéfini comme de style pour puiser ses formes et son inspiration dans de multiples sources : l’histoire de l’art, l’ethnographie ou la littérature. L’impressionnant éventail des registres provoque une étrange narration, que l’artiste utilise pour dévoiler des vérités en portant un nouveau regard sur des sujets que nous pensions connaître avec certitude. À travers le prisme kaléidoscopique d’une pratique complexe et hétéroclite mêlant la sculpture, l’installation, la performance, la scénographie et la vidéo, Maxime Rossi ignore l’idée même de catégories et propose une discipline singulière qui convoque la « beauté convulsive » chère aux surréalistes. Maxime Rossi est né en 1980, il vit et travaille à Paris, France. Son travail a fait l’objet de projections au Centre Pompidou, Paris et au MUMOK, Vienne (Autriche). Il a notamment été montré dans le cadre d’expositions personnelles et collectives au Palais de Tokyo, Paris, à l’Emba / Galerie Édouard-Manet, Gennevilliers, à la Fondation François Schneider, Wattwiller, à La Halle des bouchers, Vienne, à la 19e Biennale de Sydney, au S.M.A.K. de Gent ou au Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève, Suisse.

Nicolas Rossi, geboren 1978 in Thonon-les-Bains (F), studierte, nach einem Gaststudium bei Gerd Roscher in Experimenteller Filmkunst an der HFBK Hamburg, an der Bauhaus Universität Weimar, bevor er 2012 die Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig als Meisterschüler absolvierte. Aktuell forscht er im Rahmen eines wissenschaftlich-künstlerischen Projekts namens „Essayismus als Tool der Kritik im Zeitalter der hybriden Bewegtbildformate“ an der Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf.

ARCHIPELAGO was filmed in the ruins of a former Soviet gulag, where prisoners were forced into hard labor to quarry limestone. After the collapse of the USSR, the infrastructure that prevented flooding fell into disrepair, submerging the prison beneath the waters of Lake Rummu in Estonia. In recent years, Estonian authorities have transformed the area into a recreational park, inviting tourists and families to explore this once-hidden place—a layered testament to collective memory and history. Through a blend of static and weightless filming styles, Archipelago contemplates the passage of time and nature’s quiet reclamation, offering a reflective perspective on impermanence and transformation

Sergei Rostropovich (b. 1986) is a New York-born filmmaker and photographer based in Paris. After graduating from the International Film School of Paris, he began his career as an assistant director on Faust by Alexander Sokurov, which won the Golden Lion at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. He went on to direct a range of short films, including Ophelia, which premiered at the New York Film Festival in 2014, marking his shift toward non-narrative video work. Rostropovich’s art explores the fleeting nature of human experience, balancing moments of celebration and ritual against darker themes of violence and inevitable decay. Through his video and photographic work, he contemplates life’s fragile beauty and the quiet, constant force of entropy, capturing a world where joy and impermanence are inextricably linked.

;Yerevan, Armenia, in the illigible secret of the country imprisoned in its shadows in its nights of the underground nights of the basements trains for nowhere the quiet splendor of the mountains mystical paradox mutism and song the voices of the prisons ephemeral traveler light sleeper

Born on May 29, 1951 in Montpellier, Martine Rousset resided in Sète, France until 1975. She studied Philosophy of Cinema at the Université Paul Valery of Montpellier. As a director, she focuses on light and script. She has worked in cinema since 1977, and has been working as an expert beside Suzanne Pagé since 1978 in the audiovisual department of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris.

Un homme filme le vivant. Il l’archive dans des préparations humides paradoxales . Des images en fluide qui pourraient lui survivre. En 2100, sa fille aura 86 ans. Il en aura 129.

Philippe Rouy est réalisateur. Sa trilogie consacrée à la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima, 4 bâtiments, face à la mer, Machine to Machine et Fovea centralis, a été présentée, entre autres, au FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel, Mumbai Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.

À Fukushima daiichi, le ventre de la centrale nucléaire effondrée maintient pour encore très longtemps les humains à distance. Seules d’autres machines peuvent s’en approcher. Elles filment pour les hommes ce qu’ils ne peuvent plus voir. Entre mouvements pendulaires lancinants et pénétrations gyroscopiques, ces images annoncées par l’exploitant comme des explorations scientifiques rigoureuses s’avèrent être des plongées chaotiques et hallucinées au cœur d’un magma radioactif irréductible.

Philippe Rouy vit et travaille à Paris. Ses films sont montrés dans des festivals et des lieux de diffusions tels que FIDMarseille, Torino Film Festival, Rotterdam IFF, Jihlava IFF, UnionDocs New York, Cinéma Spoutnik de Genève, Cinema Nova de Bruxelles, etc...

In June 2011, the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant set a livecam on site. Displaying a fake transparency, this propaganda tool shows the unique images of an endless disaster. A single, continuous, static shot reveals a lethal landscape exuding an invisible toxicity and a strange, paradoxical beauty. Earthquakes, shrouding mists, smoke coming out of the reactors, ravens flying across the sky, radioactive rains... those images of a geographical landscape wiped off the map follow on from each other outside the human timeline. Yet, a defiant gesture made by an anonymous liquidator towards the ocular device takes us back from this forbidden outerworld.

Philippe Rouy lives and works in Paris (France).

"After the bridge, starts the land of ghosts" (Dracula - Bram Stocker)

Vincent Royen was born in May 1968. He studied in Marseilles´s Fine Arts School- Luminy. He obtained his superior studies diploma in plastics arts in 1994. Since 1995, he has been living and working in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and took part in the realization of several AV/cinema works among which: - "Kyrie ou le début du Chaos" (fiction, 35mm, 15 min., 1998): filmmaker assistant/artistic director: - "Jusqu´à 120 ans" (documentary, digital, 70 min., 2002): co-direction - ULALAPA (fiction/doc - digital, 12 min., 2003): co-direction, editing, sound - LOGOLOGO (fiction - digital, 7 min., 2005): realization, editing, sound and photography He also develops activities linked with plastic arts and has realized many group and solo exhibitions among which: 2001 - "Medodanóia" - solo exhibition realized at "Centro Cultural São Paulo" - São Paulo - Brazil 2000 - "SUNSET" - solo exhibition realized at the "FUNARTE" (Fondation Nationale des Arts) - São Paulo - Brazil

This documentary film follows a heroin-addicted professional escort as she moves between New York City, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. Combining frank images of the actual labor of sex work with intimate portraits of her interpersonal life, the film is an alternately humorous and harrowing look at a seldom depicted side of American life as well as a meditation on the performativity at the core of documentary filmmaking and the sex industry alike. Shot on a mixture of 16mm and HD digital video in luxuriant long takes, its disciplined style foregrounds the sensual texture of the everyday while playing with the conventions of narrative cinema, focussing on the profound interrelation of performance and identity within the socioeconomic fabric of the U.S. Written in close collaboration with its subject/star, Empathy marks the feature-length directorial debut for Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli, editor/producer of Bx46 (FID Marseille 2014).

Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli was born in 1988 in Boston, USA. Following a degree in Film Studies from Wesleyan University. They currently reside in New York City, where they also work as a critic, editor, and colorist. Empathy is their first feature, following two short films.

This is a film about plants. It was made by plants. They transmitted their instructions to the human director through artificially intelligent means. “Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction.”- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," (1935) in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, (New York: Shocken, 1969) Prior to the nineteenth century, western philosophers thought of eyes as broadcast centers, producing images of the world. As this perceived center of the universe shifted away from humans, and the Earth, it became more difficult to see the natural world exactly at the moment that industrial society’s exploitation began driving entire species towards extinction. Since that time, increasingly complex machines and algorithms do the work of seeing and recording the effects of the global climate emergency. Lost Prairie Valley investigates this moment at ecological research stations in the American state of Minnesota, with a little object recognition help from artificial intelligence.

Steve Rowell is a human, artist, and educator who works with photography, moving image, sound, maps, and spatial relations. His research-based practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, extinction, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist.

Parallelograms is an experimental documentary film and mapping project aimed at representing corruption and dark money in American politics. Political Action Committees, think tanks, trade associations, lobbying agencies, and advocacy groups are institutions where experts gather to discuss, map, and strategize, creating political and economic environments that help secure their visions of the future. This project is concerned with the multiverse of these near futures -- some more probable than others -- as well as with the present. Parallelograms is about where vectors of geography, landscape, politics, finance, and temporality intersect and how they are manifested. It also serves as a linear “cognitive mapping” experiment in which the viewer experiences a compressed, systematic tour of a dense and complex political terrain. Abstraction coexists with the real as a reflection of the current state of political discourse in America today. Corrupted power and distorted influence affects us all by exacerbating economic disparity, resource depletion, environmental degradation, and civil rights abuses. The intent of Parallelograms is not simply to present documentation from an exhaustive list, or to dictate any particular activist agenda, but rather, to extrapolate from the political landscape in a way that compels discussion about dark money.

Steve Rowell is a research-based artist who works with still and moving images, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts. Currently based in Los Angeles, he has lived in Berlin, Chicago, and Washington DC, over the past 20 years. His transdisciplinary practice focuses on overlapping aspects of technology, perception, and culture as related to ontology and landscape. Rowell contextualizes the built environment with the surrounding medium of nature; appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist. In addition to being Program Manager at The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Los Angeles) since 2001, he has collaborated with SIMPARCH (Chicago) and The Office of Experiments (London).

THE RED TREE / L`ALBERO ROSSO is short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini`s Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man returns to the island of San Domino where 60 years before during the Fascist era he was imprisoned with hundreds of other men for being homosexual. As he walks the island alone, memories come back - of all-male dances in his home town in Sicily in the 1930s, of his beating and arrest, the difficulty of prison life on the island, the suffering of gay men under fascism, and their public humiliation after their return. And of this unique island where all the prisoners were gay, and the seeds of a community were first sown.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Paul began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over forty shorts, documentaries, video installations, and experimental films, which have shown internationally from the Berlin Film Festival to San Francisco International to the Centre Pompidou.

DMC-13 is a short video produced on analog video synthesisers at the Experimental Television Center in New York. The film uses images from a documentary on John DeLorean - the ill fated automobile manufacturer - who opened his luxury sports car factory in Belfast at the height of the troubles in the north of Ireland. As the US car industry collapsed, and DeLorean was arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling, his dream of `affordable luxury`, which had spent over £100 million of taxpayers money, also perished.

Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He first began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over 30 shorts, feature films, video installations, and documentaries. The works are shown both in galleries and film festivals. Previous screenings include - Centre Pompidou Paris, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Forum Expanded at the Berlin Film Festival, Photographers` Gallery, London, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Museum of Modern Art Dublin. He recently completed a 60 screen permanent installation at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Rooms looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st. Watching the film is like wandering through a ghosted world. You find yourself in unfamiliar places as if arriving in a dream, suddenly and without direction, yet with apparent logical precision. A theatre operates by and for itself; a museum archives its own contents; a city attempts to replicate language; an unfinished embassy recalls political turmoil; an abandoned spy station collects fragments of historical data and re-programmes itself. These Rooms operate as quantum architectures, forming and collapsing by themselves, defying categorisation. With rich sound design and diverse formats, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. People exist only as echoes in the empty spaces. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the numerous locations become the interconnected sites of a post-human environment. Disparate fragments come together to form a whole through the film`s unique reading of time. The wages of human endeavour are leveled and treated as data. The perspectives of the past ? modernist, machine, space-age ? are scrutinized by a future that escaped prediction. The Rooms is a collaborative project by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue made with the support of a Projects Grant from the Irish Arts Council

BIO: Paul Rowley Paul Rowley is a filmmaker and visual artist. He began making experimental short films in 1995, and has presented his work internationally since. His films have received numerous awards over the years from the Irish Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award (Irish Museum of Modern Art?s contemporary art prize), the Irish American Arts Awards, and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His recent documentary, Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award and received a Special Jury Mention at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea. Recently completed projects include a feature length experimental film, The Rooms, and a perma- nent public video art installation for LAX airport Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature documentary commissioned by the Dublin Film Festival. BIO: Tim Blue Tim Blue is a film maker who also works in other diverse media. His videos have screened at many international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, Oberhausen, Art Basel, Mix, Rencontres Internationales, and Darklight, among others. Based in Berlin, he also composes music for theatre and film, has conducted video workshops for youth, and has performed throughout Europe with his group, CHEAP. Tim?s recorded audio work is prolific, and includes several solo as well as collaborative works. The Rooms is his first feature film.

A collaboration between friends. Tim shot footage of his home town while visiting there after many years. The images were sent to Paul who worked with them combining the raw footage with animated abstractions of the shots. Full frame images became fractured. A sequence based on grammar was constructed. Within each section the rooms were imagined as fragments of a quantum architecture - discreet, finite, minute.

NB AUTHOR IS PAUL ROWLEY & TIM BLUE PAUL ROWLEY AN TIM BLUE MET IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1997. THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS SINCE THEN INCLUDING A FEATURE LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL WORK `AS LATHAIR` (2002) AND THIS NEW WORK `THE ROOMS`. TIM IS BASED IN BERLIN WHERE HE MAKES EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE `CHEAP`. PAUL IS BASED IN DUBLIN AND BROOKLYN AND WORKS BOTH AS AN INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FILMMAKER. HIS FEATURE DOC `SEAVIEW` PREMIERED AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008.

Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960`s, in particular Yuri Gagarin`s orbit of the earth in 1961. The presentation of the public events in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent a society internationally. Inspired in part by Hobbes` writings on the Body Politic, and writings on the history of science, the piece examines ideas of governance and community, and the use of division in social models to create order. A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti`s Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosaic murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970`s.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg, the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne, Fricción, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition Intrusion was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently to traveled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage?s Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin`s holiday camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

"Gravity Loop" is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigure a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level there may be gaps in time. Much as the model of the atom as a solid sphere of matter was replaced in the early Twentieth century with a model that describes the atom as almost empty space, the work uses similar ideas to illustrate possible models of timekeeping in a non-continuous time. One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

In classical physics, the energy of a system in which matter changes from one state to another seems to plateau as we approach the critical temperature. Taking simple observations from Physics, the piece examines how structural change and associated intermediary states can be applied to sociological readings. Examining societies in times of crisis, and looking at the operation of flash-points as catalysts of accelerated social change, the piece ties elements of social and physical sciences together aesthetically to examine what a society might look like in a moment of extreme unrest.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

On the night of the 27th of April, 1974, members of an armed IRA gang stole nineteen paintings from Russborough House worth a total of £8 million, including works by Gainsborough, Vermeer, and Velásquez. The gang demanded the return of Irish republican prisoners from England as well as £500,000 in ransom money. The authorities responded by offering a £100,000 reward for information and mounting a massive nationwide search. Ten days after the robbery, the police recovered the paintings in a house in Co. Cork. A wealthy Englishwoman, Dr. Rose Dugdale, was charged and convicted. She was also convicted of involvement in an earlier IRA operation, a hijacked helicopter attack on an RUC station. Rose Dugdale received a total of 18 years in prison, and served 9 of them. In this work, the genealogy of this event is traced using the now outdated library microfiche image archiving system. Shots from national news reports of the time are re-photographed from the internet, and edited together in a sequence of pairings that enable the viewer to piece together the event anew. Of interest here in this exercise in spectatorship is the series of exchanges that are presented. The Beit family fortune, which was initially used to buy these paintings, was accumulated by Alfred Beit in partnership with Cecil Rhodes as the De Beers Consolidated Mines in South Africa, which in 1891 owned 90% of the world?s diamond production. These profits were used to buy paintings, which were stolen from Russborough house a total of four times over the last thirty years. The sequence of exchanges is what is interesting here; where African diamonds become Western European art masterpieces, swapped for political prisoners, and later bargaining chips used by organized crime gangs in negotiations with the Irish state.

David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland, this spring. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

Contrasting the promise of rescue with threats of captivity and injury, ?Security Fugue? examines personal responses to crisis in the current arena of ubiquitous security. Images of a rescue helicopter move across the screen in exaggerated slow motion, while on a second screen, the camera tracks over aeriel views of a hospital and rescue crew on the ground below. In the audio track, stuttering confessions and dislocated murmurs echo in unison with the constant rhythm of chopping helicopter blades which fills the space. Sources for the piece are varied; a small excerpt of a 35mm Hollywood trailer from the early 1970`s, a 16mm educational film about psychological responses to disasters, taped recordings of phone calls made by Patty Hearst from captivity in 1974, interviews with Hearst from 2003 describing her revisited experiences of captivity, and original sound compositions by the artists. The memory lapse of the amnesiac is taken as a starting point from which to investigate the process of forgetting, remembering and rewriting of recent memories. These editorial patterns of amnesia are juxtaposed visually with images of physical constraint that parallel the collective mental state of a society in a state of siege. Musically, the imitative polyphonic compositional structure of the fugue in which a theme is stated successively in several voices is used both to determine the editing structure of the work and for its references to pursuit and flight. In psychiatry, the fugue is described as a condition of pathological amnesia during which one is apparently conscious of one`s actions, but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, is of interest in describing a trauma that is experienced both individually and collectively. In installation, the piece is presented as two side-by-side large-scale projections with a surround sound audio mix. A single channel version is also available for cinema and festival screenings.

Artists David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland. Recent fesitval screeings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards and bursaries from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

THE RED TREE / L`ALBERO ROSSO is short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini`s Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man returns to the island of San Domino where 60 years before during the Fascist era he was imprisoned with hundreds of other men for being homosexual. As he walks the island alone, memories come back - of all-male dances in his home town in Sicily in the 1930s, of his beating and arrest, the difficulty of prison life on the island, the suffering of gay men under fascism, and their public humiliation after their return. And of this unique island where all the prisoners were gay, and the seeds of a community were first sown.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Paul began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over forty shorts, documentaries, video installations, and experimental films, which have shown internationally from the Berlin Film Festival to San Francisco International to the Centre Pompidou.

DMC-13 is a short video produced on analog video synthesisers at the Experimental Television Center in New York. The film uses images from a documentary on John DeLorean - the ill fated automobile manufacturer - who opened his luxury sports car factory in Belfast at the height of the troubles in the north of Ireland. As the US car industry collapsed, and DeLorean was arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling, his dream of `affordable luxury`, which had spent over £100 million of taxpayers money, also perished.

Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He first began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over 30 shorts, feature films, video installations, and documentaries. The works are shown both in galleries and film festivals. Previous screenings include - Centre Pompidou Paris, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Forum Expanded at the Berlin Film Festival, Photographers` Gallery, London, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Museum of Modern Art Dublin. He recently completed a 60 screen permanent installation at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Rooms looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st. Watching the film is like wandering through a ghosted world. You find yourself in unfamiliar places as if arriving in a dream, suddenly and without direction, yet with apparent logical precision. A theatre operates by and for itself; a museum archives its own contents; a city attempts to replicate language; an unfinished embassy recalls political turmoil; an abandoned spy station collects fragments of historical data and re-programmes itself. These Rooms operate as quantum architectures, forming and collapsing by themselves, defying categorisation. With rich sound design and diverse formats, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. People exist only as echoes in the empty spaces. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the numerous locations become the interconnected sites of a post-human environment. Disparate fragments come together to form a whole through the film`s unique reading of time. The wages of human endeavour are leveled and treated as data. The perspectives of the past ? modernist, machine, space-age ? are scrutinized by a future that escaped prediction. The Rooms is a collaborative project by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue made with the support of a Projects Grant from the Irish Arts Council

BIO: Paul Rowley Paul Rowley is a filmmaker and visual artist. He began making experimental short films in 1995, and has presented his work internationally since. His films have received numerous awards over the years from the Irish Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award (Irish Museum of Modern Art?s contemporary art prize), the Irish American Arts Awards, and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His recent documentary, Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award and received a Special Jury Mention at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea. Recently completed projects include a feature length experimental film, The Rooms, and a perma- nent public video art installation for LAX airport Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature documentary commissioned by the Dublin Film Festival. BIO: Tim Blue Tim Blue is a film maker who also works in other diverse media. His videos have screened at many international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, Oberhausen, Art Basel, Mix, Rencontres Internationales, and Darklight, among others. Based in Berlin, he also composes music for theatre and film, has conducted video workshops for youth, and has performed throughout Europe with his group, CHEAP. Tim?s recorded audio work is prolific, and includes several solo as well as collaborative works. The Rooms is his first feature film.

A collaboration between friends. Tim shot footage of his home town while visiting there after many years. The images were sent to Paul who worked with them combining the raw footage with animated abstractions of the shots. Full frame images became fractured. A sequence based on grammar was constructed. Within each section the rooms were imagined as fragments of a quantum architecture - discreet, finite, minute.

NB AUTHOR IS PAUL ROWLEY & TIM BLUE PAUL ROWLEY AN TIM BLUE MET IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1997. THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS SINCE THEN INCLUDING A FEATURE LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL WORK `AS LATHAIR` (2002) AND THIS NEW WORK `THE ROOMS`. TIM IS BASED IN BERLIN WHERE HE MAKES EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE `CHEAP`. PAUL IS BASED IN DUBLIN AND BROOKLYN AND WORKS BOTH AS AN INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FILMMAKER. HIS FEATURE DOC `SEAVIEW` PREMIERED AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008.

Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960`s, in particular Yuri Gagarin`s orbit of the earth in 1961. The presentation of the public events in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent a society internationally. Inspired in part by Hobbes` writings on the Body Politic, and writings on the history of science, the piece examines ideas of governance and community, and the use of division in social models to create order. A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti`s Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosaic murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970`s.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg, the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne, Fricción, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition Intrusion was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently to traveled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage?s Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin`s holiday camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

"Gravity Loop" is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigure a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level there may be gaps in time. Much as the model of the atom as a solid sphere of matter was replaced in the early Twentieth century with a model that describes the atom as almost empty space, the work uses similar ideas to illustrate possible models of timekeeping in a non-continuous time. One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

In classical physics, the energy of a system in which matter changes from one state to another seems to plateau as we approach the critical temperature. Taking simple observations from Physics, the piece examines how structural change and associated intermediary states can be applied to sociological readings. Examining societies in times of crisis, and looking at the operation of flash-points as catalysts of accelerated social change, the piece ties elements of social and physical sciences together aesthetically to examine what a society might look like in a moment of extreme unrest.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

On the night of the 27th of April, 1974, members of an armed IRA gang stole nineteen paintings from Russborough House worth a total of £8 million, including works by Gainsborough, Vermeer, and Velásquez. The gang demanded the return of Irish republican prisoners from England as well as £500,000 in ransom money. The authorities responded by offering a £100,000 reward for information and mounting a massive nationwide search. Ten days after the robbery, the police recovered the paintings in a house in Co. Cork. A wealthy Englishwoman, Dr. Rose Dugdale, was charged and convicted. She was also convicted of involvement in an earlier IRA operation, a hijacked helicopter attack on an RUC station. Rose Dugdale received a total of 18 years in prison, and served 9 of them. In this work, the genealogy of this event is traced using the now outdated library microfiche image archiving system. Shots from national news reports of the time are re-photographed from the internet, and edited together in a sequence of pairings that enable the viewer to piece together the event anew. Of interest here in this exercise in spectatorship is the series of exchanges that are presented. The Beit family fortune, which was initially used to buy these paintings, was accumulated by Alfred Beit in partnership with Cecil Rhodes as the De Beers Consolidated Mines in South Africa, which in 1891 owned 90% of the world?s diamond production. These profits were used to buy paintings, which were stolen from Russborough house a total of four times over the last thirty years. The sequence of exchanges is what is interesting here; where African diamonds become Western European art masterpieces, swapped for political prisoners, and later bargaining chips used by organized crime gangs in negotiations with the Irish state.

David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland, this spring. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

Contrasting the promise of rescue with threats of captivity and injury, ?Security Fugue? examines personal responses to crisis in the current arena of ubiquitous security. Images of a rescue helicopter move across the screen in exaggerated slow motion, while on a second screen, the camera tracks over aeriel views of a hospital and rescue crew on the ground below. In the audio track, stuttering confessions and dislocated murmurs echo in unison with the constant rhythm of chopping helicopter blades which fills the space. Sources for the piece are varied; a small excerpt of a 35mm Hollywood trailer from the early 1970`s, a 16mm educational film about psychological responses to disasters, taped recordings of phone calls made by Patty Hearst from captivity in 1974, interviews with Hearst from 2003 describing her revisited experiences of captivity, and original sound compositions by the artists. The memory lapse of the amnesiac is taken as a starting point from which to investigate the process of forgetting, remembering and rewriting of recent memories. These editorial patterns of amnesia are juxtaposed visually with images of physical constraint that parallel the collective mental state of a society in a state of siege. Musically, the imitative polyphonic compositional structure of the fugue in which a theme is stated successively in several voices is used both to determine the editing structure of the work and for its references to pursuit and flight. In psychiatry, the fugue is described as a condition of pathological amnesia during which one is apparently conscious of one`s actions, but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, is of interest in describing a trauma that is experienced both individually and collectively. In installation, the piece is presented as two side-by-side large-scale projections with a surround sound audio mix. A single channel version is also available for cinema and festival screenings.

Artists David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland. Recent fesitval screeings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards and bursaries from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

THE RED TREE / L`ALBERO ROSSO is short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini`s Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man returns to the island of San Domino where 60 years before during the Fascist era he was imprisoned with hundreds of other men for being homosexual. As he walks the island alone, memories come back - of all-male dances in his home town in Sicily in the 1930s, of his beating and arrest, the difficulty of prison life on the island, the suffering of gay men under fascism, and their public humiliation after their return. And of this unique island where all the prisoners were gay, and the seeds of a community were first sown.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Paul began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over forty shorts, documentaries, video installations, and experimental films, which have shown internationally from the Berlin Film Festival to San Francisco International to the Centre Pompidou.

DMC-13 is a short video produced on analog video synthesisers at the Experimental Television Center in New York. The film uses images from a documentary on John DeLorean - the ill fated automobile manufacturer - who opened his luxury sports car factory in Belfast at the height of the troubles in the north of Ireland. As the US car industry collapsed, and DeLorean was arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling, his dream of `affordable luxury`, which had spent over £100 million of taxpayers money, also perished.

Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He first began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over 30 shorts, feature films, video installations, and documentaries. The works are shown both in galleries and film festivals. Previous screenings include - Centre Pompidou Paris, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Forum Expanded at the Berlin Film Festival, Photographers` Gallery, London, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Museum of Modern Art Dublin. He recently completed a 60 screen permanent installation at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Rooms looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st. Watching the film is like wandering through a ghosted world. You find yourself in unfamiliar places as if arriving in a dream, suddenly and without direction, yet with apparent logical precision. A theatre operates by and for itself; a museum archives its own contents; a city attempts to replicate language; an unfinished embassy recalls political turmoil; an abandoned spy station collects fragments of historical data and re-programmes itself. These Rooms operate as quantum architectures, forming and collapsing by themselves, defying categorisation. With rich sound design and diverse formats, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. People exist only as echoes in the empty spaces. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the numerous locations become the interconnected sites of a post-human environment. Disparate fragments come together to form a whole through the film`s unique reading of time. The wages of human endeavour are leveled and treated as data. The perspectives of the past ? modernist, machine, space-age ? are scrutinized by a future that escaped prediction. The Rooms is a collaborative project by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue made with the support of a Projects Grant from the Irish Arts Council

BIO: Paul Rowley Paul Rowley is a filmmaker and visual artist. He began making experimental short films in 1995, and has presented his work internationally since. His films have received numerous awards over the years from the Irish Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award (Irish Museum of Modern Art?s contemporary art prize), the Irish American Arts Awards, and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His recent documentary, Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award and received a Special Jury Mention at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea. Recently completed projects include a feature length experimental film, The Rooms, and a perma- nent public video art installation for LAX airport Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature documentary commissioned by the Dublin Film Festival. BIO: Tim Blue Tim Blue is a film maker who also works in other diverse media. His videos have screened at many international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, Oberhausen, Art Basel, Mix, Rencontres Internationales, and Darklight, among others. Based in Berlin, he also composes music for theatre and film, has conducted video workshops for youth, and has performed throughout Europe with his group, CHEAP. Tim?s recorded audio work is prolific, and includes several solo as well as collaborative works. The Rooms is his first feature film.

A collaboration between friends. Tim shot footage of his home town while visiting there after many years. The images were sent to Paul who worked with them combining the raw footage with animated abstractions of the shots. Full frame images became fractured. A sequence based on grammar was constructed. Within each section the rooms were imagined as fragments of a quantum architecture - discreet, finite, minute.

NB AUTHOR IS PAUL ROWLEY & TIM BLUE PAUL ROWLEY AN TIM BLUE MET IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1997. THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS SINCE THEN INCLUDING A FEATURE LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL WORK `AS LATHAIR` (2002) AND THIS NEW WORK `THE ROOMS`. TIM IS BASED IN BERLIN WHERE HE MAKES EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE `CHEAP`. PAUL IS BASED IN DUBLIN AND BROOKLYN AND WORKS BOTH AS AN INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FILMMAKER. HIS FEATURE DOC `SEAVIEW` PREMIERED AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008.

Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960`s, in particular Yuri Gagarin`s orbit of the earth in 1961. The presentation of the public events in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent a society internationally. Inspired in part by Hobbes` writings on the Body Politic, and writings on the history of science, the piece examines ideas of governance and community, and the use of division in social models to create order. A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti`s Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosaic murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970`s.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg, the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne, Fricción, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition Intrusion was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently to traveled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage?s Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin`s holiday camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

"Gravity Loop" is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigure a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level there may be gaps in time. Much as the model of the atom as a solid sphere of matter was replaced in the early Twentieth century with a model that describes the atom as almost empty space, the work uses similar ideas to illustrate possible models of timekeeping in a non-continuous time. One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

In classical physics, the energy of a system in which matter changes from one state to another seems to plateau as we approach the critical temperature. Taking simple observations from Physics, the piece examines how structural change and associated intermediary states can be applied to sociological readings. Examining societies in times of crisis, and looking at the operation of flash-points as catalysts of accelerated social change, the piece ties elements of social and physical sciences together aesthetically to examine what a society might look like in a moment of extreme unrest.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

On the night of the 27th of April, 1974, members of an armed IRA gang stole nineteen paintings from Russborough House worth a total of £8 million, including works by Gainsborough, Vermeer, and Velásquez. The gang demanded the return of Irish republican prisoners from England as well as £500,000 in ransom money. The authorities responded by offering a £100,000 reward for information and mounting a massive nationwide search. Ten days after the robbery, the police recovered the paintings in a house in Co. Cork. A wealthy Englishwoman, Dr. Rose Dugdale, was charged and convicted. She was also convicted of involvement in an earlier IRA operation, a hijacked helicopter attack on an RUC station. Rose Dugdale received a total of 18 years in prison, and served 9 of them. In this work, the genealogy of this event is traced using the now outdated library microfiche image archiving system. Shots from national news reports of the time are re-photographed from the internet, and edited together in a sequence of pairings that enable the viewer to piece together the event anew. Of interest here in this exercise in spectatorship is the series of exchanges that are presented. The Beit family fortune, which was initially used to buy these paintings, was accumulated by Alfred Beit in partnership with Cecil Rhodes as the De Beers Consolidated Mines in South Africa, which in 1891 owned 90% of the world?s diamond production. These profits were used to buy paintings, which were stolen from Russborough house a total of four times over the last thirty years. The sequence of exchanges is what is interesting here; where African diamonds become Western European art masterpieces, swapped for political prisoners, and later bargaining chips used by organized crime gangs in negotiations with the Irish state.

David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland, this spring. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

Contrasting the promise of rescue with threats of captivity and injury, ?Security Fugue? examines personal responses to crisis in the current arena of ubiquitous security. Images of a rescue helicopter move across the screen in exaggerated slow motion, while on a second screen, the camera tracks over aeriel views of a hospital and rescue crew on the ground below. In the audio track, stuttering confessions and dislocated murmurs echo in unison with the constant rhythm of chopping helicopter blades which fills the space. Sources for the piece are varied; a small excerpt of a 35mm Hollywood trailer from the early 1970`s, a 16mm educational film about psychological responses to disasters, taped recordings of phone calls made by Patty Hearst from captivity in 1974, interviews with Hearst from 2003 describing her revisited experiences of captivity, and original sound compositions by the artists. The memory lapse of the amnesiac is taken as a starting point from which to investigate the process of forgetting, remembering and rewriting of recent memories. These editorial patterns of amnesia are juxtaposed visually with images of physical constraint that parallel the collective mental state of a society in a state of siege. Musically, the imitative polyphonic compositional structure of the fugue in which a theme is stated successively in several voices is used both to determine the editing structure of the work and for its references to pursuit and flight. In psychiatry, the fugue is described as a condition of pathological amnesia during which one is apparently conscious of one`s actions, but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, is of interest in describing a trauma that is experienced both individually and collectively. In installation, the piece is presented as two side-by-side large-scale projections with a surround sound audio mix. A single channel version is also available for cinema and festival screenings.

Artists David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland. Recent fesitval screeings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards and bursaries from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

THE RED TREE / L`ALBERO ROSSO is short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini`s Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man returns to the island of San Domino where 60 years before during the Fascist era he was imprisoned with hundreds of other men for being homosexual. As he walks the island alone, memories come back - of all-male dances in his home town in Sicily in the 1930s, of his beating and arrest, the difficulty of prison life on the island, the suffering of gay men under fascism, and their public humiliation after their return. And of this unique island where all the prisoners were gay, and the seeds of a community were first sown.

A visual artist and filmmaker, Paul began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over forty shorts, documentaries, video installations, and experimental films, which have shown internationally from the Berlin Film Festival to San Francisco International to the Centre Pompidou.

DMC-13 is a short video produced on analog video synthesisers at the Experimental Television Center in New York. The film uses images from a documentary on John DeLorean - the ill fated automobile manufacturer - who opened his luxury sports car factory in Belfast at the height of the troubles in the north of Ireland. As the US car industry collapsed, and DeLorean was arrested for alleged cocaine smuggling, his dream of `affordable luxury`, which had spent over £100 million of taxpayers money, also perished.

Paul Rowley is a visual artist and filmmaker. He first began making films in 1995. Since then he has completed over 30 shorts, feature films, video installations, and documentaries. The works are shown both in galleries and film festivals. Previous screenings include - Centre Pompidou Paris, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Forum Expanded at the Berlin Film Festival, Photographers` Gallery, London, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Museum of Modern Art Dublin. He recently completed a 60 screen permanent installation at Los Angeles International Airport.

The Rooms looks back at the remnants of the 20th century through the eyes of the 21st. Watching the film is like wandering through a ghosted world. You find yourself in unfamiliar places as if arriving in a dream, suddenly and without direction, yet with apparent logical precision. A theatre operates by and for itself; a museum archives its own contents; a city attempts to replicate language; an unfinished embassy recalls political turmoil; an abandoned spy station collects fragments of historical data and re-programmes itself. These Rooms operate as quantum architectures, forming and collapsing by themselves, defying categorisation. With rich sound design and diverse formats, the film is a visually complex study of a world abandoned that somehow continues to operate. People exist only as echoes in the empty spaces. Filmed in Italy, Germany, Spain, the United States and Korea, the numerous locations become the interconnected sites of a post-human environment. Disparate fragments come together to form a whole through the film`s unique reading of time. The wages of human endeavour are leveled and treated as data. The perspectives of the past ? modernist, machine, space-age ? are scrutinized by a future that escaped prediction. The Rooms is a collaborative project by Paul Rowley and Tim Blue made with the support of a Projects Grant from the Irish Arts Council

BIO: Paul Rowley Paul Rowley is a filmmaker and visual artist. He began making experimental short films in 1995, and has presented his work internationally since. His films have received numerous awards over the years from the Irish Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Irish Film Board, Culture Ireland, the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award (Irish Museum of Modern Art?s contemporary art prize), the Irish American Arts Awards, and a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival. His recent documentary, Seaview premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, was nominated for an Irish Film and Television Award and received a Special Jury Mention at the DMZ Documentary Festival in Korea. Recently completed projects include a feature length experimental film, The Rooms, and a perma- nent public video art installation for LAX airport Los Angeles. He is currently in production on a new feature documentary commissioned by the Dublin Film Festival. BIO: Tim Blue Tim Blue is a film maker who also works in other diverse media. His videos have screened at many international festivals including the Berlin Film Festival, Oberhausen, Art Basel, Mix, Rencontres Internationales, and Darklight, among others. Based in Berlin, he also composes music for theatre and film, has conducted video workshops for youth, and has performed throughout Europe with his group, CHEAP. Tim?s recorded audio work is prolific, and includes several solo as well as collaborative works. The Rooms is his first feature film.

A collaboration between friends. Tim shot footage of his home town while visiting there after many years. The images were sent to Paul who worked with them combining the raw footage with animated abstractions of the shots. Full frame images became fractured. A sequence based on grammar was constructed. Within each section the rooms were imagined as fragments of a quantum architecture - discreet, finite, minute.

NB AUTHOR IS PAUL ROWLEY & TIM BLUE PAUL ROWLEY AN TIM BLUE MET IN SAN FRANCISCO IN 1997. THEY HAVE COLLABORATED ON A VARIETY OF PROJECTS SINCE THEN INCLUDING A FEATURE LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL WORK `AS LATHAIR` (2002) AND THIS NEW WORK `THE ROOMS`. TIM IS BASED IN BERLIN WHERE HE MAKES EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND MUSIC. HE IS A MEMBER OF THE PERFORMANCE COLLECTIVE `CHEAP`. PAUL IS BASED IN DUBLIN AND BROOKLYN AND WORKS BOTH AS AN INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FILMMAKER. HIS FEATURE DOC `SEAVIEW` PREMIERED AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL IN 2008.

Commonwealth examines ideas of social progress through re-visiting the Soviet Space program of the 1960`s, in particular Yuri Gagarin`s orbit of the earth in 1961. The presentation of the public events in shaping perceptions of what is good for a society, uplifting the spirit of a community, is examined in relation to the role of the individual figurehead, selected from the masses to represent a society internationally. Inspired in part by Hobbes` writings on the Body Politic, and writings on the history of science, the piece examines ideas of governance and community, and the use of division in social models to create order. A rich collection of visual references are brought together in building the piece; for example, Ambrogio Lorenzetti`s Allegories of Good Government: The Effects of Good Government in the City and Country, Soviet mosaic murals, the iconography of the space race, the visual language of progress, and the utopian architectures and designs of the World Fairs of the late 1960s and early 1970`s.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg, the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne, Fricción, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition Intrusion was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards, in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He was a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently to traveled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage?s Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin`s holiday camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

"Gravity Loop" is a series of photographs and video works which reconfigure a single image in order to present multiple approaches to viewing time. Taking its starting point in relativity, the series moves to consider recent movements in Theoretical Physics and String Theory, which discuss the possibilities of time as a non-continuous dimension, that is, that at the quantum level there may be gaps in time. Much as the model of the atom as a solid sphere of matter was replaced in the early Twentieth century with a model that describes the atom as almost empty space, the work uses similar ideas to illustrate possible models of timekeeping in a non-continuous time. One way to imagine this concept visually is to consider the use of clocks to tell time. Instead of a single clock that displays the passing of time continuously, we must imagine an infinite number of identical clocks, each of which come into existence for the tiniest fraction of a second, display the time, and then disappear. In between the appearance of these clocks is nothing, a gap in time where no matter or movement exists.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

In classical physics, the energy of a system in which matter changes from one state to another seems to plateau as we approach the critical temperature. Taking simple observations from Physics, the piece examines how structural change and associated intermediary states can be applied to sociological readings. Examining societies in times of crisis, and looking at the operation of flash-points as catalysts of accelerated social change, the piece ties elements of social and physical sciences together aesthetically to examine what a society might look like in a moment of extreme unrest.

Dublin born Paul Rowley and Memphis born David Phillips currently work primarily with film, video, and sound, exhibiting their work in galleries, museums and festival screenings. Some recent exhibitions include: "Re:mote" at the Photographers' Gallery, London; "Your chance to live at 300m3 in Gothenburg", the Kunst Film Biennial in Cologne; "Fricción", at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City; "Videonale" at the Bonn Kunst Museum; and "Bambi" at the ICA in Philadelphia. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, and the Rio de Janeiro Festival of Media Arts. Their exhibition "Intrusion" was at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery in London in July. In 2000 they were awarded the Glen Dimplex Artists' Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art's annual contemporary art prize seen as the Irish equivalent of the Turner Prize. Their short video "Suspension" was awarded a Golden Spire at the San Francisco International Film Festival and they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Award for video. Paul recently won the Irish American Arts Awards in both the under 35 category and the overall prize. Paul was artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida with Gillian Wearing, and has received many awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work since 1997. He had a fellowship at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire, and recently travelled to Italy to work on a new series of videos at the Bogliasco Foundation. He was awarded a residency at the Experimental Television Center in New York in 2005, which recently led to a grant from NYCSA, the New York State Council for the Arts. Paul and David have just completed a collection of films to accompany a live performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, premiered at The Stone in New York this July in collaboration with pianist Emily Manzo. Paul is currently finishing a feature length documentary shot in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, which is now used as a holding center for asylum seekers. They are also currently shortlisted to produce a new multi-screen video work for LAX airport in Los Angeles, to be announced in 2007.

On the night of the 27th of April, 1974, members of an armed IRA gang stole nineteen paintings from Russborough House worth a total of £8 million, including works by Gainsborough, Vermeer, and Velásquez. The gang demanded the return of Irish republican prisoners from England as well as £500,000 in ransom money. The authorities responded by offering a £100,000 reward for information and mounting a massive nationwide search. Ten days after the robbery, the police recovered the paintings in a house in Co. Cork. A wealthy Englishwoman, Dr. Rose Dugdale, was charged and convicted. She was also convicted of involvement in an earlier IRA operation, a hijacked helicopter attack on an RUC station. Rose Dugdale received a total of 18 years in prison, and served 9 of them. In this work, the genealogy of this event is traced using the now outdated library microfiche image archiving system. Shots from national news reports of the time are re-photographed from the internet, and edited together in a sequence of pairings that enable the viewer to piece together the event anew. Of interest here in this exercise in spectatorship is the series of exchanges that are presented. The Beit family fortune, which was initially used to buy these paintings, was accumulated by Alfred Beit in partnership with Cecil Rhodes as the De Beers Consolidated Mines in South Africa, which in 1891 owned 90% of the world?s diamond production. These profits were used to buy paintings, which were stolen from Russborough house a total of four times over the last thirty years. The sequence of exchanges is what is interesting here; where African diamonds become Western European art masterpieces, swapped for political prisoners, and later bargaining chips used by organized crime gangs in negotiations with the Irish state.

David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland, this spring. Recent festival screenings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

Contrasting the promise of rescue with threats of captivity and injury, ?Security Fugue? examines personal responses to crisis in the current arena of ubiquitous security. Images of a rescue helicopter move across the screen in exaggerated slow motion, while on a second screen, the camera tracks over aeriel views of a hospital and rescue crew on the ground below. In the audio track, stuttering confessions and dislocated murmurs echo in unison with the constant rhythm of chopping helicopter blades which fills the space. Sources for the piece are varied; a small excerpt of a 35mm Hollywood trailer from the early 1970`s, a 16mm educational film about psychological responses to disasters, taped recordings of phone calls made by Patty Hearst from captivity in 1974, interviews with Hearst from 2003 describing her revisited experiences of captivity, and original sound compositions by the artists. The memory lapse of the amnesiac is taken as a starting point from which to investigate the process of forgetting, remembering and rewriting of recent memories. These editorial patterns of amnesia are juxtaposed visually with images of physical constraint that parallel the collective mental state of a society in a state of siege. Musically, the imitative polyphonic compositional structure of the fugue in which a theme is stated successively in several voices is used both to determine the editing structure of the work and for its references to pursuit and flight. In psychiatry, the fugue is described as a condition of pathological amnesia during which one is apparently conscious of one`s actions, but has no recollection of them after returning to a normal state. This condition, usually resulting from severe mental stress, is of interest in describing a trauma that is experienced both individually and collectively. In installation, the piece is presented as two side-by-side large-scale projections with a surround sound audio mix. A single channel version is also available for cinema and festival screenings.

Artists David Phillips (Memphis, Tennessee 1970) and Paul Rowley (Dublin, Ireland 1971) have been working together collaboratively since 1998, primarily with film, video installation and sound. In 2000, they won the Glen Dimplex Artists? Award, the Irish Museum of Modern Art?s annual contemporary art prize, and seen as the Irish equivalent of the Tate?s Turner prize. Their short video Suspension was awarded a Golden Spire at the 1999 San Francisco International Film Festival. In the same year they were the recipients of the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award for video. Recent exhibitions include Re:mote at the Photographers? Gallery, London, Videonale at the Bonn Kunst Museum, and Bambi at the ICA in Philadelphia. Their work was recently selected by New Museum?s senior curator Dan Cameron to participate in the annual ev+a exhibition in Limerick, Ireland. Recent fesitval screeings include the Impakt festival in Holland, special mention at the Zemos:98 festival in Sevilla, and retrospectives at the Darklight Digital Festival in Dublin and Prog:ME, the Rio de Janeiro festival of Media Arts. Paul has been artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida, with Gillian Wearing, and a fellow at the Macdowell Artist Colony in New Hampshire. He has received numerous awards and bursaries from the Irish Arts Council for his work.

'Just Breathe' merges GTAV in-game machinima selfies with AI to probe the intersection of virtual realities and human identity. The work infuses AI-induced physiological functions into a digital avatar, typically constrained by game mechanics, highlighting the duality of entrapment and perceived freedom in digital personas and gaming experiences. The piece is accompanied by an ambient soundscape, drawn from the game itself and IRL sounds to blur the distinctions between the digital and physical selves. It challenges viewers to reflect on the boundaries and interactions between virtual and real identities. Through 'Just Breathe', Smith prompts a re-evaluation of identity, presence, and reality in the digital era, exploring how online spaces both mirror and distort our physical existence.

Georgie Roxby Smith works across a range of disciplines exploring new pathways between virtual and physical worlds. Employing a variety of tools - including 3D graphics, live performance, shared virtual and gaming spaces, installation and projection - these works explore the increasingly blurred border between identity, materiality, reality, virtuality and fantasy in contemporary culture. In 2010 Georgie was selected for The Watermill Center Spring Residency Program, NY, by an international selection committee of cultural leaders including Marina Abramovi?, Alanna Heiss & Robert Wilson. In 2011 Georgie completed her MFA at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. Since 2012 Georgie has been focusing on online identity, gender representation and violence in video games, particularly that directed towards women on screen and in online communities. Most recently she has been utilising AI in video collages exploring digital portraits. Georgie has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally including Art in Odd Places, New York, (where her work was featured in Time Out NY), Prospectives International Festival of Digital Art Nevada, Game Art Festival at Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Gamerz Festival (FR), Festival Miden (GR) and Generation i.2 - Aesthetics of the Digital in the 21st Century at Edith Russ Huas for Media Art (DE). Other highlights include curating and showing in NOW13:New Media Art Now, Substation Contemporary Art Prize and Self Help at Rawson Projects Brooklyn, curated by Jocelyn Miller (MoMa PS1). Awards and grants include the Australia Council of the Arts New Work, Artstart, Nellie Castan Award, Australian Postgraduate Award, Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Dame Joan Sutherland Fund and the Eldon and Anne Foote Trust Travel Grant.

A car drives from the Square of the Republic over Brancos Bridge in the direction of New Belgrade on the Boulevard Mihajla Pupina up to the Cinema Fontana and back. On the road you see a lot of advertisement billboards. One billboard at the beginning and one near Fontana display the title of the project »Boulevard of Illusions ? Learning from Novi Beograd« and define the project. From site to site and from billboard-installation to billboard-installation the car drives with some off-voices talking about the city and the different places which pass by. These stories range from a kind of information style to more subjective impressions, experiences or historical reflections. It consists of different perspectives on urbanism, history, graffiti or art. The sites will be more or less on the road. The filmscreen displays found graffitis as textanimations which reflect the last fifteen years in a kind of street culture history as a transparency screen before the architectural facades. From site to site the gaze of the camera follows the street life and shows the apartment blocks that pass by. The project »Boulevard of Illusions« prospects historical aspects of New Belgrade?s development on the former »Boulevard of Lenin« where Tito drove up and down in his Mercedes facing thousands of waving people.

"Drifting Woods" is a filmic work that engages with the local histories of a dense forestland located two hours north of Stockholm. A forest has existed in this area for as long as records have been kept, and only in the last 250 years has it been extensively utilized for industrial production. Through a non-linear composition, the work brings forth the various stages of the forest's development: from the planting and cultivation of saplings, through the different phases of tree felling, to the production of paper pulp and lumber. The work captures how the forest is documented and consistently represented – through scientific experiments, data collections, botanical studies, and retellings of the area's history. The film conveys the histories of both local and migratory perspectives, showing how the expulsion of nomadic practices from the forest is closely linked to the forest's enclosure. What becomes evident through the film is that the capitalization of forests is intertwined with surveillance technology derived from racist ideologies. The work collaborates with biologists to gain a deeper understanding of tree life and its interconnection with the underground mycelium, forming what the biologist Suzanne Simard refers to as network topologies. "Drifting Woods" is also a network topology, connecting the forest with the narratives that inhabit it. Listening to the stories of this network also means hearing how the forest is portrayed and understanding that its future depends on how the forest's stories are retold within a broader narrative.

Pia Rönicke's work spans from film, prints, sculptures to objects, which together build narratives. Her work arises from perspectives of a drifting practice that opens up to new connections to land and ways of being present within an everyday, to zones where plant life transgresses existing borders of occupation. Collecting is a recurring aspect of her practice, the personal, ethical and political dimensions of it.

The Times, replayed unfolds in a time loop that is both enigmatic and very concrete. From an isolated room images of the world comes into appearance being both out of sync and in actuality with the news stream. The materiality of images are put into question, how they are contextualized and how they decompose, how rapidly the are rendered out of date or take one new meanings. Within this space an actual presence is slowly starting to emerge.

Pia Rönicke is an artist based in Copenhagen. In recent years, she has been investigating different botanical collections that show traces of colonial and geopolitical conditions. Her work is concerned with problems of space and spatial transformations. She is interested in the connection between work space and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives and the practice of collecting is a recurring theme in her artworks. Her artistic practice spans film, prints, sculptures, and objects, which together build narratives. Solo exhibitions, Drifting Woods, Gävle Art Center, Sweden, Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico, 2018 The Cloud Document, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, 2017; The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency, Paris, 2015; Aurora, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2012. Group exhibitions, film festivals, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, 2018; FIDMarseille, 2018; Botany Under Influence, Apexart, New York, 2016; A story within a Story, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2015, Buildering: Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2014; Rehabilitation, WIELS, Brussels, 2012; After Architecture, Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, 2010; Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008; Elephant Cemetery, Artists Space, New York, 2007; Anachronism, ARGOS, Brussels, 2007; GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2003

Word for Forest is a cinematic journey that travels from the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen to Santiago Comaltepec in the mountains of Oaxaca. The film records a seed's displacement from Mexico, where it was collected by the botanist Frederik Liebmann in 1842, to the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen. The film returns to the plant`s original home, the unique habitat of the cloud forest. The cloud forest in this region has an exceptionally high biodiversity, where specific oaks and pines grow side by side with a rich plant life that is not found anywhere else. In Santiago Comaltepec, the forest is taken care of by the community, which has long resided in this area, but has not always had the right to use the land. Both the Spanish colonial empire and the Mexican state have previously demanded control over the forest. In the 1980s, the community fought for the forest's rights. Through "comunalidad", the forest became common land and only the naturally fallen wood can be logged. The film invites one to listen to the rhythms of the language and the sounds of the forest and to absorb the variations in the many ferns.

In recent years, I have been investigating different botanical collections. These plant collections show traces of geopolitical conditions not only within the practices of botany but also map out colonial territorializations. This work including, The Pages of Day and Night (2015) and The Cloud Document (2017) attempts to examine some of the consequences of botanical systemization.I am interested in how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities and the connection between workspace and filmic space. I often work with different kinds of archives and the practice of collecting is a recurring subject in my practice - The personal, ethical and political dimensions of it. I work with blind spots' that which contains spatial dimensions, and a set of coordinates of unnoticed, undisclosed material.

In an unknown near future and past, a filmmaker is trying to retrace the steps of Silvia. “Who is Silvia? What is Silvia?” Silvia has gone missing. In this filmic reconstruction, Silvia drifts with the forest, attempting to attune with its temporalities. In a quest for co-existence, Silvia bridges the supposedly opposing world-views of ‘Sequency and Simultaneity’, presence and duration. At the borders of not only the forest but also of science, the destructive powers of a proprietarian society only obey the laws of succession. Here, the socialists plans of the post war era are being demolished and cleared for new and profitable housing. But in Silvia’s archive, city infrastructure and forest root systems are being integrated. Silvia’s recordings are cut in intervals where time itself becomes unstable. Through a numbering system of repeating patterns, progression is broken. Silvia has abandoned the society of ‘means to an end’. In this movement lays the path to un-build the walls that have infiltrated all aspects of this world. In the film there are excerpts by: Ursula K. Le Guin, The Author of the Acacia Seeds' and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics and The Dispossessed, 1974. Walter Benjamin, Painting, or Signs and Marks, 1917. Una Canger, What the Eye Sees, 1986. Prints, photographs, drawings and architectural plans by among others: Florence Henri, Lotte Stam-Beese, Alma Buscher and Silvia.

In recent years, Pia Rönicke has been investigating different botanical collections that show traces of colonial and geopolitical conditions. She is in her work concerned with problems of space and spatial transformations. She is interested in the connection between workspace and filmic space, and how we conceive historical matters in relationship to our daily activities. Rönicke often works with archives and the practice of collecting is a recurring theme in her practice. She works with film, prints, sculptures and objects, which together builds narratives. CURRICULUM VITAE Pia Rönicke Born: Denmark, Roskilde. 1974 Education 1995-1999 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art 1999-2001 California Institute of the Arts. Solo Exhibitions (selected): 2022: Drifting Woods, Munkeruphus, Denmark 2021: Drifting Woods, Deserted Forest, Gävle Konstcentrum, Sweden 2020 Astrid, Lotte og Florence, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen 2019: one artist / 2 films / one week, gb agency, Paris 2018: Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico 2017: the Cloud Document, Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art 2015: The Pages of Day and Night, gb agency. 2012: Aurora, Museo Tamayo, M?xico City. Dream and action find equal support in it, gb agency, Paris 2011: Dream and action find equal support in it, Andersen’s Contemporary, Copenhagen 2010: Scanning Through Landscapes, WALDEN AFFAIRS, Den Haag 2009: Facing, CENTRO CULTURAL MONTEHERMOSO KULTURENEA, Vitoria, Spain. 2008: A Usual Story from a Nameless Country, gb Agency, Paris Travel Stories, Casco, Utrecth, Holland. 2007: Rosa’s Letters - Telling a Story, croy nielsen, Berlin. 2006: Rosa’s Letters - Telling a Story, gb Agency, Paris Capitol Punishment, in collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros Glassell School of Arts, Houston. The Plan is Dictator. Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden.* 2005: Hoardings II, public project, Tate Modern. London Without a Name. Gallery Andersen’s, Copenhagen. Land/Documents. Display Gallery, Prague. 2004: Without a Name, Gallery gb Agency, Paris. Landscapes of Resistance,Trafo Gallery, Budapest. Six Architects – An Architectural Rorschach Test, •• A collaporation with Michael Bears. Lunds Kunsthal, Sweden. 2003: Seven Architects – An Architectural Rorschach Test, Schindler residency, The Makey Apartments, Los Angeles ••A collaporation with Michael Bears. 2002: ‘A Place Like Any Other’, Gallery Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Denmark. Group Exhibitions (selected): 2022: Busan Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan (MoCA Busan) Flowers, MAMAC, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice 2021: Acts of Listening: A Common Attempt to (Re) Articulate a Feminist Position, Astrid Noacks Atelier, Copenhagen Perspectives #01,Fonds regional d’art contemporain, Alsace The Secret Life of Plants, Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal 2020: The City, BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, Bergen 2019: Artistic Undressings of the Royal Seaport, Moss exhibitions, Stockholm Drawing Attention, DEN FRIE, Contemporary Artcenter. Kbenhavn I slipped into my metamorphosis so quietly that no one noticed, DEN FRIE This is Not An Apricot, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen 2018: Case of Emergency, public project, Gävle, Sverige 2018: Word for Forest, Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico 2017: AMIF, LUX Scotland. Tramway, Glasgow. Collaboration with Henriette Heise, Deirdre Humphrys, Mia Edelgart Conversation I: Family, work, art, surroundings, Tom Christoffersen. Pia R?nicke, S?nder Boulevard 88, 3.tv 1720 Copenhagen V. E-mail: piaronicke@gmail.com Mapping with Plants, book work and symposium, Hamborg Art Academy. DFU Kino, screening, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning. 2016: Botany Under Influence, Apexart, New York. But Still Tomorrow Builds into My Face, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai. 2015: A story within a Story G?teborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art.Old News, cneai, Paris. Kvinder frem. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark. Lokale, Flensborggade 57, Copenhagen 2014: Photography and Architecture. Photographic Center, Copenhagen Human- Space-Machines. Henie Onstad Kunstsenter (HOK), Oslo. Buildering : Misbehaving the City, Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio 2013: Reports from New Sweden, Tensta Konsthall. Human- Space-Machines: Stage Experiments At The Bauhaus, Stiftung Bauhaus, Dessau Fokus, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen. 2012: Horizons persistants, Centre d’art le LAIT, Albi Cities of Light: Film Programme curated by Inheritance Projects, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India. Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, exhibition for the City of Mechelen, Belgium VISIT TINGBJERG, Artfestival in Tingbjerg. A Gathering, locus Athens, Athen Envisioning Buildings, MAK, Wien 2011: Ficciones Urbanas, Centro Cultural Koldo Mitxlena, San Sebastian. Community without Propinquity, Milton Keynes Art Gallery, UK Terms of Belonging (gaaafstand collaboration with Nis R?mer) Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. L'idee de nature, Mulhouse Kunsthalle, Frankrig 2010: hem ljuva hem, Konsthall C, Stockholm. THIS STORY IS NOT READY FOR ITS FOOTNOTES, Ex Elettrofonica, Roma. Danmark 2010 - en vejledning til nationen for 'verdens lykkeligste folk'. (gaaafstand collaboration with Nis R?mer) Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Wiels, Rehabilitation, Bruxelles – Brussel Both Before and After, gb agency, Paris Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, Film festival, Barcelona. Where are yesterday's tomorrow? Film screening, Mus?e d'Art Contemporain de Montreal. Montreal. 2009: Changes in the contemporary city, Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR), Coolsingel cinema, Rotterdam. The Curve is Ruinous (film screening program), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz. After Architecture, CASM, Barcelona. In May (After October), Gallery TPW Toronto Gets Under the Skin (film screening program), The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York Os demos, Publik, Copenhagen 2008: Overcoming, Ernst Museum, Budapest After October, Elizabeth Dee gallery, New York Zero Gravity, The Week of Contemporary Art in Plovdiv, Bulgaria U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copehagen The Map is not the Territory, Esbjeg Artmuseum, Denmark Technically Sweet, Participant Inc, New York Danskjävlar – A Swedish declaration of love, Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Copenhagen. A NEW STANCE FOR TOMORROW, The Gallery Sketch, London 2007: “The Other City”, Hungarian cultural center, New York. “Sue?o de casa propia”, La casa encendida, Madrid “Archaeologies of the Future, Sala Rekalde, Bilboa. ”Building Society”, Contemporary artcenter La Panera, Lleida, Spain. “Imagine Action”, Lisson Gallery, London. “A Number of Worlds Resembling Our Own”, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam. Habitat/Variations, B?timent d'art con temporain, Geneve “Anachronism”, ARGOS, Brussels. "Elephant Cemetary”, Artist Space, New York "Dibujos animados (Cartoons)", Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid 2006: Exportable Goods, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna Dreamlands Burn, Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest Version Animee, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneve. Urban Appearances, video parcour at Rosa-LuxemburgPlatz, Berlin Closely Observed Plans, Transit workshops, Bratislava. Super nova, Pommery#3, Reims, France Esplanaden, The Frie, Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen. 2005: At the Same Time Somewhere Else, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinbourg gb Agency. Paris. Opening exhibition, Andersen’s Gallery, Copenhagen. Urban Cirkulation, public project, Berlin. 2004: Channel _0, CATV Project, Local TV-NETWORK, AIAV, Japan Non Standard Cities, Stadtkunstverein, Berlin. Cycle Tracks Will Abound In Utopia, ACCA, Melbourne Architectual Adventures, Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. Monument, an exhibition in the city of Copenhagen. 2003: Abcity, Trafo, Budapest. Plunder, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland. Feu de bois, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France. Rent a Bench, Trapholt Moderne Museum of Art, Kolding, Denmark. Coup de Coeur- a sentimental choice, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France. Video festival, Creating New Spaces, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany. Venice biennale, Utopia Station, Venice. gb agency, Present Perfect, Paris. GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Nomadic Structures, Cubiitt Gallery, London. Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris. 2002: Home Scenes: 8 days of revision. The Schindler House, Los Angeles. Site-seeing: disneyfication of cities? Ku?nstlerhaus, Vienna. The Fall Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. ••A collaporation with Johan Tiren. Rent-a-bench, in the street on bus benches, Los Angeles. Culture meets culture, Busan Biannale, Korea. Urbane Sequenzen, Kunsthalle Erfurt/Museum Schloss Hardenberg Manifesta 4, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany* ’Concrete Garden’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 2001: ‘Dedalic Convention’, MAK – Austrian Museum for Applied Arts, Wien. ‘Blick’, Screening touring Nordic and international venues. ‘Exile Video’, Rum46, Aarhus, Denmark. ‘New Settlements’, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark. ‘Take Off’, Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark 2000:‘Site Geist’, The Porter Troupe Gallery, SanDiego, USA. ‘No swimming’, org. by Heike Ander, Kunstverein Mu?nchen, Germany. ‘Use your illusion/part 3’, Duchamp's Suitcase, Arnolfini, Bristol, England. ‘Momentum’. Nordic Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway. ’Taenk om/What if?’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm,Sweden.