Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Labadi Rising an urban sprawl, a gigantic, close-knit urban conglomerate along the westafrican coast from Abidjan to Lagos? The prediction of urbanist Mike Davis ( planet of slums) for 2050 could easily become reality long before. Labadi, located at the periphery of Accra where the city just merges with neigbouring portcity Tema is fitting exactly into this scheme. Thats where Daniel Aschwanden, Conny Zenk und Mat Hurtl meet the performancegroup GOLOCAL around visual artist Serge Attukwei Clottey, all of them inhabitants of Labadi. They demonstrate a new african self-consciousness through their way of trashy posing and improvise in public space along the beach. "The digital gaze belongs to all!" they seem to say, looking back through the displays of their gadgets, creating their own images. They stand for many young Africans facing the challenges of everyday life: poverty, violence , environmental pollution, rivalry, corruption and exploitation through global capital and own elites. The collage as a principle of life, seemingly omnipresent tool to appropriate symbolic and real territories serves as a matrix also for the videoshooting. The big themes are to be found in microspaces and depict themselves in surprizing transitions; locations, things, humans, actions, smells, realities, sounds, continuously measured, built-in, destroyed, rearranged and applied again, the construction of a future.

Daniel Aschwanden is experimenting with transdisciplinary methods in urban contexts departing from body related agendas applying a choreographic gaze to urban surroundings. His works articulate themselves in a wide range of formats reaching from interventions in public spaces to installations and performances in Gallery spaces and theatres and relating social with art agendas. Lecturer at the university of applied arts Vienna, since 2013 at the social design studio. Collaborations with media artist Conny Zenk since 2009. Urban seed, urban performative installation Vienna , PARCOURS I-IV 2010-13 urban performances Vienna, Path of money Beijing, Berlin,Vienna, system_m, Bastard crowding,urban media performance Accra, Beijing, Vienna, SUPERSUIT Vienna Conny Zenk is media artist with the focus on generative video art, installation and performance. she explores hybrid contexts between projection, digital gadgets, bodies and urban environments. Active as a live visual improviser she works chiefly with software that allows her to investigate digital processes and to translate them into videos of abstract landscapes. collaboration with Daniel Aschwanden since 2009. WEAVE (Installation), urban seed (Performance), scope (visual Live Performance), Art of Reading Maps (Urban Performance), Bastard crowding (Workshops and Performances)