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Glenn and Carmen, the protagonists of this documentary, are portrayals of two lives immersed in American culture. Of Hispanic origin, both of them believe they have "made it in Gringo-land". They are identities consolidated in archetypes and social superficiality: this is what each of their lives represents. The two faces of "The Face and The Face". Born in New York, Glenn Neil travels around during the day in a Hummer, a powerful vehicle used by the US Army that his company has lent to him to promote PEPCID, a stomach antacid marketed primarily to Neil's original community: the Hispanic population. In the other video, the camera follows Carmen, an Argentinean, on her habitual late-night tour of the places where she works in Manhattan. With her piano/synthesiser, she drives to restaurants and nightclubs, usually Latin, playing her repertoire of songs to make people's evenings more enjoyable.

Isabel María was born in Mérida,Spain in 1972. While finishing her degree in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, she also completed a residency in the artist Urs Lüthi's, HBK, Germany, from 2000 to 2002. The following year she received her doctorate in Image Art from the Fine Arts Department of the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, and she is currently completing her doctoral thesis on Framing methods: The camera like writing in video art. Isabel María has received the following awards and grants: First Honourable Mention in the III Photography Contest of the El Cultural supplement in the newspaper El Mundo, 2003; Finalist in Camel Arte 03, video art section, Barcelona, 2003; El Brocense Cultural Institution Prize artwork acquisition, Cáceres, 2004; First Honourable Mention in "5ª Biennialal from Vic" Barcelona, 2006-2007; artist grant from MediaLabMadrid/Conde Duque, Madrid, 2002; F.P.U. Research Grant, Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Madrid, 2003-2006; M.E.C., Madrid, grant for MoMA, New York, 2004; and in 2005 she received an M.E.C. grant for the Video Data Bank at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recently, she was selected by Contemporary, the London art magazine, in the first Contemporary Annual 2006, as one of the 50 international emerging artists.

Jenny MARKETOU (Author) Courtesy Anita Becker Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany DE_LETE (2006) /dv/color/2m.10" The border is an artificially constructed place that gets materialized by the crossing of people. We are used to seeing media images of the border that are violent and aggressive in nature, and which are used to manipulate the public opinion about illegal immigration and national security. DE_LETE was filmed along the border line between Tijuana and San Diego, US in the backdrop of the small fishing village Las Playas at the Gulf of Mexico. DE _LETE takes a look at the border from an alternate perspective. It is shot from a combination of formal, documentary and philosophical genres. The camera captures the human activity along the wired fence of the border in anticipation of the crime. To our surprise, the border materializes itself only when people of all ages come from both sides of the border to perform intimate human communication. By so doing, the fence is transformed into a meeting point, and no attempt to cross it is made. As this performance of everyday experience unfolds and repeats itself in slow motion, "the border" vanishes and suddenly becomes an ambivalent place at the fringe of two cultures; a new social space with discreet relationships. It is a remote space, controlled by invisible powers.

Short Biography Jenny Marketou, born in Athens, Greece, is a Brooklyn-based artist who works with video, video installations, internet performance, photography and public dialog. Her work is influenced by a varied amount of music, art, and new media. Her primary inspiration is in relationship with a multitude of readings]which can be viewed in a culture of landscape. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries nationally and internationally and has been awarded numerous grants and artists residencies worldwide. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and she has been teaching as adjunct professor Photography and Interdisciplinary studio art at The Cooper Union School of Art and Science in New York City. She is the author of the book with photographs and interviews? The Great Longing: The Greek Immigrants of Astoria ,Queens. www.jennymarketou.com .

FLOWS : Working very closely with the indigenous communities with the intention to explore the female voice as a political weapon and the dialectic that are embedded in the moving image and which can generate political action embarking from grass root groups as those of the AfroColombian Diaspora who settled in the mountains of Santa Maria near Cartagena .Their lyrics embodied in their songs are social and communal messages engage with various issues connected with identity, their struggles for preservation, drug wars, death, and in general echoing their personal encounters with their past . The protagonists by choice are all women and the narrative is ruptured by the intervention of a male cello player whose face is never revealed as well as by incorporating pixilated clips appropriated from the archival excess of you tube and video. Both interventions have a symbolic meaning showing the cracks in the representation system.

Jenny Marketou is Greek born and New York based interdisciplinary artist who has participated in a number of leading exhibitions of contemporary art, such as Manifesta, as well as international art biennials such as Prague in Chez Republic; Cartagena des Indias in Colombia, Athens in Greece; Seville in Spain ,Sao Paolo in Brazil , Venice and Istanbul .Her solo exhibitions have been hosted by art institutions, such as, Centre of Contemporary Art (CCA) Glasgow in Scotland; Museum de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid ; the ARTIUM Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria, Bilbao, Spain; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn Estonia; National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens; ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK; The New Museum in New York City; Queens Art Museum, Queens, New York among others. She earned her MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York and she has also taught at Cooper Union School of Art . As of 2015 she will be teaching at the School of Art at CAL ARTS (California Institute of the Arts) in California. Marketou is the author of numerous texts on issues concerning moving image including the photography book The Great Longing , Kedros Publishers, Athens, Greece.

Ultrasocial Pop is Filip Markiewicz’s latest experimental audio visual project. Creating a performative dialogue between his visual and filmic work and his musical compositions as Raftside. The live performance is always a unique experience that includes a comment on actual social events. The idea is to question the link between pop culture and populism and to create a videographic moving painting. The work in progress of Ultrasocial Pop will lead to the release of a visual book with vinyl Lp (Label Grzegorzki Records) in the frame of his solo show at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin (D) in May 2021. Ultrasocial Pop is supported by the Bourse Bert-Theis.

Filip Markiewicz was born in Esch-sur-Alzette (L) in 1980. His solo shows have been hosted by institutions such as the MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest (RO), NN Contemporay Art in Northampton (UK), Kunsthalle Osnabrück in Osnabrück (D), CCA Derry -Londonderry (UK) an the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain (L). He represented Luxembourg at the 56th Biennial in Venice. Markiewicz follows a theatrical and musical performance route, which has led him to create shows at the Staatstheater Cottbus for the Lausitz Festival (D), Theater Basel in Basel (CH) and the Expo in Shanghai (CHN), to his work in the visual arts field. He lives and works in Hamburg (D) and Luxembourg (L)

Fake Fiction is initially a theater play that became a film produced in 2017 by the Theater Basel. Filip Markiewicz wrote the dialogues in reference to the events that happened during the period of time, the terror attacks, the European mirgant crisis and the rise of populist movements and fake news...

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980) is a multidisciplinary Luxembourg artist of Polish origin, who expresses himself through different mediums, including drawing, video and installation. Always seeking explanations for our daily lives, he explores the omnipresence of images and puts into perspective the message they convey. He submits current issues to a critical and political approach, and thus emphasizes the emptiness of our world submerged by visual overproduction where information becomes reality rather than the opposite. In 2015, Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale with Paradiso Lussemburgo.

Celebration Club (2017) is a film made over the course of one week in Northampton following the Brexit referendum.The film captures musicians of different generations and origins talking about the changing society and making music, including punk scholar Roy Wallace, rapper Phundo Art, avant-garde black metal band Denigrata and the Northampton Male Voice Choir performing Robbie William’s Angels in a local church.

Luxembourger of Polish origin, Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist expressing himself through drawing, video, music, theatre and installations thereby creating a visual body of work using diversified media. His work is not intending to be a kind of political activism, but rather to develop an almost surreal language consolidating different expressions. In 2015 Filip Markiewicz represented the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale with his project "Paradiso Lussemburgo". In 2017 he produced his first theater play "Fake Fiction" at the Theater Basel. In 2018, he will present his monographic exhibition "Celebration Factory" at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d`Art Contemporain.

RAFTSIDE is Filip Markiewicz’s electrovisual pop rock project that is always connected to his visual work. The performances are film and musical experiences, that analyze in a poetic and way our digital society of the spectacle. After a european tour with with his latest LP « Ultrasocial Pop » (Grzegorzki Records / Berlin) and presenting a visual performance in 2020 for the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Mudam Luxembourg, Konschthal Esch, the RAFTSIDE performance was presented at this year’s NRW Forum in Düsseldorf for the opening of the AR Biennale and at Filip Markiewicz’s solo exhibition « Liquid Poem » at the Stadtgalerie Kiel (D). Over the last 15 years RAFTSIDE shared also the stage on different pop rock festivals with bands like Daft Punk, Metronomy, Flavien Berger… www.raftside.com www.filipmarkiewicz.com

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980, Esch / Alzette, Luxembourg) is a visual artist who expresses himself through various media such as drawing, painting, music, video and installation. Filip Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 with the Paradiso Lussemburgo project (Sternberg Press Verlag catalog). His long-term project Celebration Factory on contemporary Europe began in 2016 at the NN Contemporary Art Northampton and at the Theater Basel before it was continued in 2018 at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain and in 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry and the Kunsthalle Osnabrück (catalog Hatje Cantz Verlag). In 2017 Markiewicz staged his performance Fake Fiction with diary texts by Oskar Schlemmer (publication Hyde Éditions) at Theater Basel for the official Art Basel program. Markiewicz received the Art Prize Bourse Bert-Theis in 2019 for his art music project Ultrasocial Pop. In 2020 his theater film project Fake Fiction was presented for the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin festival at the Musée du Louvre in Paris and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In the same year Markiewicz shows his monographic exhibition Ultraplastik Rhapsody at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. For the Lausitz Festival 2020, Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the play ANTIGONE NEUROPA (Sophocles) in collaboration with the Staatstheater Cottbus. In february 2021 Filip Markiewicz presented the performance Ultrasocial Pop  in the frame of the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin. In August 2021 Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the installation and theater performance Euro Hamlet at the Lausitz Festival. From 2021-2023 Filip Markiewicz presented the Ultrasocial Pop solo exhibition through european Art Institutions like Konschthal Esch, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Meno Parkas Kaunas 2022, Mudam Luxembourg. In 2023 he participated at the AR Biennale at NRW Forum Düsseldorf and most recently he presented the soloshow « Liquid Poem » at the Stadtgalerie Kiel. A catalogue presenting the body of work Ultrasocial Pop was released by Hatje Cantz. Filip Markiewicz has been composing music for film, theater and installation under the name RAFTSIDE since 1999, with which he has also appeared in several international festivals. 

Euro Hamlet is the latest project of theatrical creation directed by Filip Markiewicz in August 2021 in the immense Hall of the Telux site in Weisswasser in Germany, in collaboration with playwright Katrin Michaels, Working from the original text of Hamlet, Shakespeare's most popular and disturbing play, Filip Markiewicz creates a sort of concept with Euro Hamlet. He subverts the established rules of classic theatre and combines them with different artistic forms. The result proves to be a veritable performance, both in terms of the artists appropriating the original text and the visual and audio presentation of its content in space. In this contemporary tableau, Filip Markiewicz reflects certain references from the history of art and uses the concept of the «Play Within the Play» to engage with issues in the social and political realities of today's Europe, It raises the question: how to communicate the truths of everydav life in a context that is subject to codes of appearance? The preparation for the staging of Euro Hamlet included a shooting in July 2021 with the actors Leila Lallali, Marie Jung, Luc Feit and Joran Yonis in the region of East Germany and in Zgorzelec in Poland. A "mise en abyme" of Shakespeare's text in an organic setting that bears witness to European history, where the artist adresses the notion of territory beyond the experimental nature of this reading.

Filip Markiewicz (born in 1980, Esch / Alzette, Luxembourg) is a visual artist who expresses himself through various media such as drawing, painting, music, video and installation. Filip Markiewicz represented Luxembourg at the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 with the Paradiso Lussemburgo project. His long-term project Celebration Factory on contemporary Europe began in 2016 at the NN Contemporary Art Northampton and at the Theater Basel before it was continued in 2018 at the Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain and in 2019 at the Center for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry and the Kunsthalle Osnabrück. In 2017 Markiewicz staged his performance Fake Fiction with diary texts by Oskar Schlemmer (publication Hyde Éditions) at Theater Basel for the official Art Basel program. Markiewicz received the Art Prize Bourse Bert-Theis in 2019 for his art music project Ultrasocial Pop. In 2020 Markiewicz shows his monographic exhibition Ultraplastik Rhapsody at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. For the Lausitz Festival 2020, Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the play ANTIGONE NEUROPA (Sophocles) in collaboration with the Staatstheater Cottbus. In february 2021 Filip Markiewicz presented the performance Ultrasocial Pop in the frame of the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin. In August 2021 Markiewicz directed, created the scenography and composed the music for the installation and theater performance Euro Hamlet at the Lausitz Festival. Filip Markiewicz has been composing music for film, theater and installation under the name RAFTSIDE since 1999, with which he has also appeared in several international festivals.

After gaining independence in the early 1960s, the young African nations are greeted by an unexpected and enigmatic friend from a far-off continent. Independent Africa receives a seemingly endless stream of Soviet parliamentarians, who arrive on the continent to pay respect to the newly independent states.. These ambassadors of the nation with a ‘bright future’ radiate friendliness and offer assistance in technical, social and cultural development under the banner of a new ideology of equality and fraternity. But is everything as rosy as the Soviet propaganda claims? Are there any strings attached to the Soviet Union’s goodwill? What were the real objectives of the Red Empire?

Alexander Markov is a documentary filmmaker, cinema historian and artist. Born in Leningrad, Russia at January 28, 1973. He directs films in Saint Petersburg and abroad, teaches documentary directing at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Film and Television, and works as an independent curator. His video installations were shown at Sharjah Biennial, Calvert 22, Iwalewahaus, Africa.Cont, CEU etc. Markov's films were participated and awarded prizes at various international film festivals like Berlinale Talents, Visions Du Reel, DocPoint, Sheffield Doc, Film Africa, Message To Man, NYAFF, Artdocfest, Cinefest, Directors Lounge, Stalker, Temps De Images and others.

I was overwhelmed by a sense of the wrongness of what was happening, or if not by the wrongness, then by the sheer pace of events. I felt that you would have been disappointed at how quickly I had accepted the news of your death, and how readily we had set in motion the machinery of memorialization. One minute i was looking forward to meet you in our old flat, headed home from a long time away; the next minute I came in and I was burying you.

Jelena Markovic holds a Bachelor`s Degree from Academy of Arts, University of Belgrade, and a Master`s Degree from Hochschule for bildende Kunste Hamburg, mentored by Angela Schanelec. Born 1987. in Belgrade, Serbia. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Like a glass vault that contains traces and gifts from distant countries, the headquarters of Energoprojekt, the former Yugoslavian construction company merges geographically distant places. Walls are pannelled with faded photographs of Energoprojekt’s conscturctions in fellow Non-Aligned countries, from 1960's until late 1980’s. Across Africa, South America, the Middle East and South Asia, the distinctive modernist constructions built by Energoprojekt formed an independent post-colonial architectural identity, beyond the Eastern and Western Bloc polarity. Abundant plants and trees, different species brought from afar 50 years ago, still grow together under the glass roof. The space is gradually revealed in choreographed sequences of the people who take care of the plants, forming an inseparable sense of belonging.

In his films, photography and video works, Ivan Markovi? observes space and the relationship between labour, architecture and ideology. With Linfeng Wu, he co-directed the short film “White Bird”, that had its premiere at Berlinale 2016. His experimental documentary “Centar” had its premiere at Doclisboa in 2018, won the “Best Newcomer” award at Dokufest. “From Tomorrow on, I Will”, a feature he co-directed with Linfeng Wu, had its premiere at Berlinale Forum 2019. The film received the Grand Prize at 2019 Jeonju IFF. It was shown in numerous festivals, including Belfort, Viennale, Zinebi and Mar del Plata. As a cinematographer collaborated on several feature films including “You Have the Night” by Ivan Salatic (Venice Film Festival), “Landscapes of Resistance” by Marta Popivoda (IFF Rotterdam) and “I Was at Home, But...” and “Music” by Angela Schanelec (Berlinale). His work was shown in numerous solo or group exhibitions internationally, in institutions including Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Bethanien in Berlin, Austrian Kulturforum Berlin, Museum of Contemporary arts Belgrade. Since 2020, a member of the European Film Academy.

A vast complex of corridors, atriums and halls: a congress center made to host thousands now stands almost abandoned. The architecture reflects a former idea of the future, while surfaces and materials testify to its end. Through their relentless effort, the maintenance workers shoulder the duty of restoring the space to what it was imagined to be. Their movements are unison, ritual but also their own. Sava Centar is a congress space completed in 1978. in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It hosted hundreds of international meetings, including World Bank summits and a conference of the Non Aligned Movement. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, its capacities gradually became obsolete. It is now awaiting a privatisation and commercial reconstruction.

Ivan Markovi is a cinematographer and director born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama arts in Belgrade, cinematography studies, in 2012. For his film and photography work, won “Erste Bank foundation” Award for best visual artist in 2014. Recently worked as a cinematographer on several feature films including “All the cities of the north” (director: Dane Komljen, premiered on Locarno Film festival 2016), “You have the night” (director: Ivan Salati, premiered on Venice Critics week 2018) and “Ich war zuhause, aber..” by director Angela Schanelec, which premiered in Berlinale Competition 2019. The short film “White Bird”, which he worked on as a cinematographer and co-director with Linfeng Wu, had its premiere on Berlinale Shorts 2016. In 2018 his experimental documentary film “Centar” had its premiere on Doclisboa Film festival. Lives and works between Belgrade and Berlin.

The film is inspired by a character known as The Great Safae. He was a transvestite, and spent part of his life working as a domestic servant for my family, which was quite unaware of his "true" sexual identity.

b. 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco, a Fine Arts graduate at Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France) and Le Fresnoy (France). Randa Maroufi belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. Her work goes trough photography, installation, performance, sound and film, has been presented at major contemporary art event (The Marrakech Biennale in 2014, The Arab World Institute in Paris, Brandts Museum in Odense, African Photography Meeting in Bamako,…) and film festivals such as (The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film festival, New directors / New films at the MOMA in New York), etc. She is currently living and working in Paris, France.

The camera enters an office. The receptionist answers the telephone, her co-workers drink coffee during their break and talk about their plans. Later, there is a meeting. The stiffness of the situation reveals a hidden story. What exactly took place from June 2015 to September 2016 in the government building in Amsterdam?

Born 1987, Casablanca, works and lives in Paris. As a Fine Arts graduate from the University in Tetouan, Angers and Le Fresnoy, Randa Maroufi belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. The field of her ambiguous fiction and experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues in a continuous search to highlight its founding mechanisms. Randa Maroufi's work has been presented at art events and film festivals such as The Marrakech Biennale, the Arab World Institute in Paris, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the MOMA, etc.

Bab Sebta is a series of reconstructions of situations observed in Ceuta, a Spanish enclave on Moroccan soil. This place is the scene of a traffic of manufactured goods and sold at a discount. Thousands of people work there every day.

Born in 1987 in Casablanca, Morocco, a Fine Arts graduate at Tetouan (Morocco), Angers (France) and Le Fresnoy (France). Randa Maroufi belongs to this generation that grew up in an era dominated by images. She collects them with as much eagerness as suspicion, and ceaselessly questions their veracity. She prefers to put her ambiguous fictions in the service of reality, and the field of her experimentation encompasses the occupation of public space and gender issues, of which she highlights the founding mechanisms. She is currently living and working in Paris, France.

Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day. "L’mina" recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.

Born in 1987 in Casablanca (Morocco), Randa Maroufi is a visual artist and filmmaker. She graduated from the Institut National des Beaux-Arts in Tétouan, the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, and Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. In 2018, she became a fellow at the Académie de France à Madrid, Casa de Velázquez and the Villa Médicis in Rome in 2025. Her films Le Park (2015) and Bab Sebta (2019), awarded at several festivals, mark the beginning of a trilogy dedicated to three Moroccan cities. L’mina (2025) is the final chapter of this trilogy.

go slow, you’ll see better is a journey of contemplation and transitioning between opposing states (of being). Revealing a landscape interspersed with vibrant colours of magenta and pink, this represents a bridge between excitement and calmness, chaos, and order. The shift in saturation mirrors the ever-changing nature of emotions, experiences, and personal narratives. Driving by and shooting out the window, the landscape becomes blurred and unblurred, evoking the sense of in-betweenness, which can prompt the feelings of familiarity and unfamiliarity, clarity, and vagueness. go slow, you’ll see better is everywhere and nowhere, collapsing both the temporal and the spatial.

Siyanda Marrengane is a Eswatini-born visual artist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kuba semkhatsini is a SiSwati phrase that can be translated as being caught in the middle of conflicting states of being, situations, conditions and more. Siyanda is interested in the notion of the in-between (kuba semkhatsini), a central component in her practice that encompasses personal and collective narratives and experiences. These are subsequently explored as ways of questioning, challenging and falsifying existing hegemonies. Unpacking and translating these through video, sound and installation, to create ambiguous spaces that are both imagined and real.

Plänterwald is filmed on the site of a former GDR amusement park built in 1969 and abandoned after unification. Its rollercoaster and ferris wheel sit motionless at the edge of the city of Berlin. After being closed to the public for almost a decade the rides and fairground structures ? once providing a distraction from everyday realities ? are left to a gradual process of decay and overgrowth. Paradoxically this derelict site is patrolled and protected by security guards who on the one hand attempt to maintain its separation from the public sphere and contemporary life yet at the same time position it in the present social and economic conditions. The video stages a journey in, over and through this bordered off park evoking the exceptional conditions of its persistent existence. Positioning the security guards as the guardians of a ?dead? space, the work plays on the absurdity of the use of force and notion of property in relation to the decay and obsolescence of the site. Plänterwald pursues an exploration of a world held together by an internal logic, and quietly, yet relentlessly - like the defunct rollercoaster - echoes the rumbles of deep social and political fault lines and their explosive potential.

Lynne Marsh is a Canadian artist who divides her time between Montréal, Berlin and London where she teaches at the University of Hertfordshire. Working predominately with video, installation and sound her practice explores the cultural and social concerns that operate at the convergence of performance, choreography, speculative fiction and staged events. Her most recent works, shot respectively in a sports stadium, a TV studio and an abandoned amusement park investigate the inscription of individual bodies in architectural environments built for mass consumption. Her works present conceptual and visual experimentations that create a space for us to speculate on the present concept of the individual and its contemporary exertion of pressure as a political subject. Marsh?s video installations have been exhibited in solo exhibitions including Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, the Musée d`art contemporain de Montréal and Danielle Arnaud contemporary art, London and group exhibitions including Catastrophe, the Québec City Biennial and There is no audience, at Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. A monograph on her works entitled Lynne Marsh, was produced by the Musée d`art contemporain de Montreal and the Musée régional de Rimouski.

“ Tragedy ” brings forth an altered experience of the infamous opera La traviata. Producing a new mise-en-scene composed of the routine labour around the stage, the film is an enquiry into the nature of performance, re-framing the culture of the work place and the “ grand narratives ” of the opera. Mimicking the framing device of a play within a play, the film exposes a production of production while tracking the processes at work behind the scenes during live performances at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, in Leeds, UK. The film captures the movement, work and conversations of stage managers, backstage crew and offstage performers, bringing an operatic tradition into context with present-day realities and pronouncing the mechanics that create an experience. These individuals develop as characters in a new alternative performative event over the three acts of the live performance. Direct parallels are drawn between the urgency and tension of the live performance onstage and the choreography played out offstage, where discrete conversations between characters behind the scenes marry up with the dialogue taking place in the libretto. Keeping true to the “ real-time ” of the live performance and in reference to the live screen-based broadcasts of theatrical productions in cinemas, “ Tragedy ” provides a counterpoint, directing our attention to the theatre that exists aside the stage.

Lynne Marsh is a Canadian artist, currently living and working in Los Angeles. Her practice is concerned with questioning the status of the image through mediation, technology and production. Ideas central to Lynne Marsh’s practice include offstage space; production-in-production; affective and cultural labour; music as a framing device; and the Brechtian revealing of the mechanics of cultural and theatrical production. Her works capture the behind-the-scenes workings and turn the camera onto subjects whose labour and gestures support and mediate events. In doing so, her works address the political dimension of its scenography. Marsh’s formal and conceptual strategies emphasize the camera’s performance as a means to reconfigure social space, presenting the mechanics that create an experience as a type of theatre or performance in its own right. Solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Berlinische Galerie (2017); Opera North, Leeds (2016); fig2@Institute for Contemporary Art, London (2015); Scrap Metal, Toronto International Film Festival (2014); and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008). Her work has been featured in biennials and at institutions including La Biennale de Montréal (2014); The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2012); 53 Art Museum, Guangzhou (2011); The Québec City Biennial (2010) and the 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007).

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Nicolás Martella (1978, La Plata, Argentina). Lives and works in Buenos Aires. He study photography with Ataulfo Perez Aznar. He participated in workshops of photography and video with Juan Travnik, Gabriel Valansi, Martín Rejtman, Andrés Di Tella and Mariano Llinás. Solo exhibitions (selection): Slideshow (2013); Contemporáneas (Contemporary) (2007). Group exhibitions (selection): 2014: XIX Bienal de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (XIX Santa Cruz de la Sierra`s Biennial, Bolivia); 2013: Premio Fundación Andreani (Fundación Andreani Prize), 102º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales (102º National Visual Arts Prize); 2010: II Premio AMEC de Fotografía Argentina, Museo Emilio Caraffa (2º Argentinian Contemporary Photography Award). Awards: 2014 XIX Bienal de Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia (XIX Santa Cruz de la Sierra`s Biennial, Bolivia); 2013 102º Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales (102º National Visual Arts Prize); 2006 Argentinean Visual Arts Award – O.S.D.E. Foundation. Residencies: 2014 Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland.

A B C A M (or A & B Cam) explores a scene from a TV movie where the angles have been superimposed to reveal filmic conventions. It reveals the narrative, angles as well as the adjustments in performance to observe the process in its rawness and mesmerizing predictability. In conventional cinema we are only allowed to see what is presented and manipulated through the process of editing. This is a process as old as the medium itself. It is the essence of cinema. In the case of A B C A M, that process has been subverted and exposed to allow the audience to experience the conventions simultaneously and in real time. The manufactured certainty of the experience is undermined as we are encouraged to review both sides of the narrative, follow the narrative or perhaps, find a new narrative.

Richard Martin (MFA 2013 University of British Columbia) is a media artist living in Vancouver Canada. His short film work has appeared as official selections in prestigious venues such as Berlin International Film Festival, Oberhausen, Rencontres (Paris), Toronto International, EXiS (Korea), Ann Arbor, Athens (Ohio), and many more. He has also worked as a mainstream film and TV director and in that his work straddles conventional and experimental cinema, blending and upending convention with abstract intention, playfulness and occasionally, personal trauma.