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Maya Han C18H10N2O4 2023, US, video essay/hybrid documentary, 35:00 (8:00 excerpt) C18H10N2O4 is the chemical compound of melanin, one of the most ancient and ubiquitous biological pigments found across nature, including in humans and fungi. Using as a point-of-departure melanin’s historical role as a spurious marker of racial categories, this essay film explores the surprising ways in which melanin and mycology are intertwined, uncovering connections to African and colonial histories, as well as the chemical’s fascinating larger role in nature and culture.

Maya Han is an artist, writer, and experimental filmmaker. Her work is a form of soft activism, critically engaging with issues of race, gender, class, labor, diasporic identities, and marginalized histories. Her education includes studies in Lettres et Langues from the Université de Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She has screened and exhibited in the US and internationally including at the Harlem Film Festival, New York NY; The Film Gallery, Paris France; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; and the Busan International Film Festival, Busan South Korea. She can usually be found in Paris or in Brooklyn, where she is cultivating our garden.

Hanakam and Schuller’s new animated work Cosmic Commissioner takes a satirical dive into the world of typical AI-generated styles such as new-age, comicesque and hyperrealism, which are based on creative commons and influenced by big tech, as well as their handling of diversity and material bases. The narrative character is the fictional Cosmic Commissioner – inspired by Victor Gruen, the exiled Austrian architect and urban planner – who reacts to burning environmental and security issues on Earth as a more-than-human being from the cosmos. In 1975 Gruen, godfather of the American suburban shopping mall, wrote his satirical book: Is Progress a Crime? Environmental planning instead of the End of the World. Gruen turned increasingly to environmental planning in the 1970s – under the influence of contemporary phenomena such as environmental destruction, the space race and nuclear armament. Scenes with architects, military personnel, urban planners and environmental activists are realised through short dialogues from Gruen’s texts on the level of lyrics and synthetic disco space sounds. The project links historical and current social challenges such as global security and environmental destruction. Cosmic Commissioner invites you to take a reflective, humorous look at the interfaces between AI, pop culture and social challenges – a visual and acoustic journey through time, space and digital realities.

Many of the artifacts of Hanakam & Schuller, an artist duo that lives in Vienna, are shapeshifters, changing their outer form and then reappearing in a variety of contexts. As artists and explorers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redesign the rules of the fine arts for their own purposes and create unconventional arrangements and new world designs in videos and objects. They also work with applied artforms. Their works have been shown in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture, Vienna’s MAK, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, and Tokyo’s National Art Center. Their video— animation The Borgia Device (Second Day) is part of the show ANTHROPOCENE ON HOLD — 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth's resilience and sustainability — by PCAI Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative in Piraeus, Greece, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, accompanied by a catalogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadim Samman, Selina Nwulu (2020–21).

THE MOIST CABINET is inspired by the literary genre of climate fiction. Through the voice-over of the film, we encounter poems by Bettina von Arnim and William Shakespeare, each in the original language. Hanakam & Schuller view these poems from the 16th and 19th centuries a prequel to cli-fi. Both poets seem to be in dialogue with each other, yet testify to different attitudes: in Shakespeare, the description of nature serves as a catalyst of sexual desire; in Arnim, the physical encounter with nature triggers a need to preserve the source of erotic experience: “Your silence, nature, do not break.?/?Not on rustling leaf?/?With stylus wake thee.” THE MOIST CABINET thus also describes the influence of literary narratives on the relationships between nature and humans, and the consequential actions.

HANAKAM & SCHULLER is an artist duo living in Vienna. As artists and explorers, Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller redesign the rules of fine arts and create unconventional arrangements and new world designs in videos and objects as well as applied artforms. Their works have been shown in Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; MAK, Vienna; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and the National Art Center in Tokyo. In 2022 they will work with Current Interests on a spatial installation for MAK Garage Top in Los Angeles.

The work contains sounds extracted from the amateur videos filmed during the protests in Belarus in 2020. The videos are mostly very brutal and full of violence and evoke pure and irrational rage and hatred. By cutting off the images and leaving only the sounds I want the viewer/listener to concentrate on what is behind: sounds of the beatings, a dinner in a kitchen with shooting in the background, heavy breathing of those running away, sobbing of a person filming from a balcony, etc. I provide CCTV camera footage from Minsk for my work. Nothing is happening on the screen, it's just a square and people walking by, living normal lives, but the sounds you hear prove that they don't live normal lives anymore. At the same time, this duality reminds us that active protests were totally suppressed. This very view from a CCTV camera looks almost exactly like a view from a prison cell camera - same angle, same grey colours, same texture, and same figures down there. The final part of my work is a footage from a police wagon showing police beating the detained after they were brought to the detention centre.

Born in Belarus in 1986. Studied languages in Belarus, Poland and Germany, which later influenced my artistic practice and let me not be limited to only one cultural context. Different approaches to education in Belarus and Europe gave me a strong push for further personal development. Served mandatory military service in 2009-2010. There I observed the state system of patriarchy and violence, which I would later often refer to in my projects. Studied at the School of contemporary photography Docdocdoc in St. Petersburg, participated in Simon Menner's master class in Minsk, took the online course More than a project, went to residencies organized by ISSP and Sputnik Photos and basically never stopped self-education. In the winter of 2022-2023, I attended the Social Camp course organized by the Goethe Institute to support civil society in Belarus. After the events in Belarus in 2020, I focused on the modern archive and propaganda narratives, and how an authoritarian system creates an alternative reality in the age of the Internet. In 2015 I got polish citizenship, now I have two.

When Jerusalem was divided into Israeli West and Jordanian East by the 1948 war, Musrara was among the neighbourhoods split in half by the Armistice Line. Palestinian Arabs who lived on the Israeli controlled side fled or were driven out of their homes from what thereafter became known as West Musrara. After the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem. The No Man?s Land was dismantled, but the city remained divided, as Palestinians were prevented from returning to their homes. Some of the expropriated Palestinian houses were converted into bed and breakfasts by the Israeli Jews who now occupied them, promising a ?homey atmosphere? for tourists in search of an ?authentic experience of Jerusalem?. It is in one of those guesthouses in West Musrara that the Palestinian artist stayed for thirteen nights in August 2007. The result is a film that has the feel of a crime scene investigation. Stills from the interior of the house, environmental sounds, oral history of Palestinian refugees, video-footage from the artist?s drifts through east and west Musrara, interlace with a diaristic text - opening an intimate space that is at once unsettling and evocative. The wounded city becomes tangible.

Alexandra Handal is a London based artist with a transnational upbringing. Born into a Bethlehemite, Palestinian family, Handal has lived in numerous cities around the world, among them: New York City, Port-au-Prince, Jerusalem, and Santo Domingo. She obtained an MA in Studio Art at New York University (2001), a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History at Boston University, Boston, MA (1997); and pursued parallel studies during the summer in Paris and Madrid. Handal is currently completing a combined practice/theory PhD at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. She is the recipient of the University of the Arts London Research Studentship Award (2004) and was a Finalist for the Young Artist of the Year, Hassan Hourani Award from the A.M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, Palestine (2004). Her video From the Bed & Breakfast Notebooks was selected for the prestigious New Contemporaries 2009 internationally juried exhibit, which showcases emerging artists in the United Kingdom. Her artworks have been included in group exhibitions internationally, namely at A Foundation, London (2009) Cornerhouse, Manchester (2009); Al-Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem (2009); DePaul University Museum, Chicago, IL (2005); A Space Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2003); The Performance Space, Sydney, Australia (2003); Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2001).

Michelle Handelman’s new video piece, THESE UNRULY AND UNGOVERNABLE SELVES (The Lockdown), recontextualizes characters from her previous works into a hypnotic visual essay about the transfiguring of interiority during periods of isolation and fear. It takes as its starting point the coronavirus pandemic and filters it through theorist Jill Casid’s writings on the necrocene, and Walter Benjamin's writings from The Arcade’s Project, sliding between threshold and boundaries, considering how bioterrorism may not only be an intentional release of viruses, but it may also be what lives inside, our own fear that late stage capitalism uses to destroy us. Handelman's characters, who each have already struggled with existential questions of belonging and fear in her projects DORIAN, A CINEMATIC PERFUME (2009/11); IRMA VEP, THE LAST BREATH (2013/15); and HUSTLERS & EMPIRES (2018), are juxtaposed with found images and texts sourced during the pandemic to take on a new form that both denies and struggles with containment. Casid writes, “May none of us rest as we live our dying. May we not forget but actually do the work of reckoning with the still uncounted, of the crimes of the endless war we are still in.”

Michelle Handelman is a visual artist, filmmaker, and writer whose work pushes against the boundaries of gender, race and sexuality. Coming up through the years of the AIDS crisis and Culture Wars, Handelman has built a body of work that investigates the dark and uncomfortable spaces of queer identity. She is a Creative Capital awardee (2019); Guggenheim Fellow (2011); Art Matters Awardee (2011) and NYFA Fellow (2011). She has exhibited widely including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, PERFORMA Biennial, MIT List Visual Arts Center, PARTICIPANT, INC, The Henry Art Gallery; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Guangzhou 53 Art Museum; Film at Lincoln Center, The British Film Institute, and Centre Georges Pompidou. During the 1990s, Handelman was based in San Francisco where she collaborated with Monte Cazazza, a pioneer of the Industrial music scene; directed the feature film BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism (1995), and performed in several films by Lynn Hershman-Leeson. Her work has been written about in Bomb Magazine, Artforum, Art in America, Filmmaker Magazine, and The New York Times, and is in many private collections including the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; di Rosa Foundation and Preserve; Zabludowicz Art Trust. She is based in Brooklyn and is a Professor in the Film, Media and Performing Arts department at Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC.

The eighty-year-old actress Libgart Schwarz suddenly loses her language while rehearsing for a film version of the play KASPAR. The play is based on the historic enfant sauvage Kaspar Hauser who assumedly grew up locked in a dark room with no social contacts. Just as it’s protagonist, MY SENTENCE does not fit in. Although in German, it is about universal politics of language and (age) discrimination. Amina Handke’s first feature-length film translates her father’s famous play into cinematic language. The protagonist, originally a young man, is replaced/played by the director’s mother. The play itself questions the rules and violence of language and naturalistic narration. The movie transforms this disobedience into a world full of quotations and references. „What begins as a pure and playful family meta-fiction turns into a surreal, partly nonsensical Babylonian confusion, it’s just that it’s not different languages that are clashing but layers and fragments of the German language, the language of the father. Losing a language becomes an act of resistance against the expected channels of communication, the seriousness of conversation and also the model text. There couldn’t be a truer adaption of the original play than the one taking it apart.“ Patrick Holzapfel, VIENNALE

Amina Handke's work evolves around topics of originality, subjectivity, authorship / audienceship and reception: where does the actual work happen, who produces it, how many versions or realities of it exist and where – in the minds, as documents, as remains? And what is it worth? Her perception of artistic work emphasises the privilege of formulating questions rather than contributing to the universe of commodities. Her practice roots in a wide range of expertise and experience in the fields and intersections of arts, social practice, participative media and a multitude of disciplines: mainly time based (audiovisual, performing and conceptual) arts. It is fueled by the concern to exchange experiences and thoughts with others and to create dialogues about the perception of contradictory, complex constructions of reality. As a curator, she combines her artistic concerns with reflections on working processes and documentary / expanded artistic practices.

This film was inspired by John Cassavetes'"Faces", but something quite original takes place. The question "what do you expect from life?" is represented and performed with undisguised pleasure and with courageous risk-taking. In a quite tiny room, four women with different personalities and sexual expectations meet and walk around a handsome sailor. The result is an atmospheric and condensed miniature that oscillates between hysteria and self-mockery. Remake was awarded with the Prize for the Best Contribution to the German Competition in Oberhausen.

Hangover Ltd. is a group of young women who all are filmmakers and whose members are: Christine Groß, Sophie Huber, Ute Schall, Tatjana Turanskyj, and Claudia Splitt. They have been working together for a few years. They made PETRA which is a co-production with the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, and "Sehnsucht nach Schüssen," with the Prater-Volksbühne among others.

The Belfast Exposed photography archive contains over half a million images produced by community groups, amateur and professional photographers over the past 30 years. It represents a valuable historical document recording political, cultural and social change in Northern Ireland over these 3 decades. Since 2001 Belfast Exposed have been commissioning artists to produce work using this archive as raw material, previous artists include Duncan Campbell and Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Three Short Films about Learning is a latest project to be commissioned in this series. The work juxtaposes a selection of images taken from the archive with excerpts from a lecture series outlining theories of social and environmental psychology. The lecture series is Introduction to Psychology by Paul Bloom, made available by Yale University through the free online learning platform Academic Earth. The archive imagery includes marches, masked gunmen at funerals, and paramilitary punishments. The rhythm of the speech varies throughout from carefully measured statements to free flowing thoughts, and the images are timed to mirror this rhythm.

Michael Hanna completed his MFA at the University of Ulster in 2012 and recently undertook residencies at the Millennium Court Arts Centre and Digital Art Studios, Belfast. He graduated with BA (Hons) in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. Hanna was shortlisted for the Converse / Dazed Emerging Artist Award with the Whitechapel Gallery, London. He has been involved in exhibitions in the UK and internationally including Interplanetary Revolutions at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and Instances of Agreement at the Kao Yuan Arts Centre in Taiwan. Most recently Hanna took part in Multiplicity - an exhibition curated by NURTUREart and shown across four galleries in New York. It was an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments.

Framing the activities of a group of lighthouse spotters against the uncertain future faced by Irish lighthouses, An Illustrated Guide to Lighthouse Spotting idles with common documentary conventions in a kind of epistemological dilettantism, whereby the diseased triumvirate of rhetorical development, drama and realism is inoculated by mild incoherence, mundanity and idiosyncratic fancy.

Mike Hannon works as an independent artist, and as a freelance documentor for creative sectors and the visual arts. His previous pieces have included both conventional, TV documentary and experimental work.

Musarion adapts the eponymous work by German writer Christoph Martin Wieland and transfers the love story into the present day. Phanias withdrew from the city of Athens to the countryside to leave his old life behind. But one day he encounters his former girlfriend Musarion who tries to bring him back to reason. The art film follows their struggle to find an enlightened form of love that can overcome philosophical and political fanaticism. Musarion was directed by a collective of five young artists and mixes elements of the original text, opera, theatre, video art and narrative film.

Vincent Hannwacker was born in 1997 in Munich, Germany. Since 2016 he studies Media Art at Julian Rosefeldt's class at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Since 2017 he studies Screenwriting at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF).

"Circunvalasion" fait partie de un working in progres - Barrio Godoy -que je commençais il y a deux ans. Un ensembles de travaux auteurs de la périphérie. Circunvalasion est le nom de une autoroute que entoure Rosario, una ville a 300k de Buenos Aires, en Argentina. Il y a des usines métallurgiques, le port est a quelques kilometres. Les camions viennent des diferentes provinces du pays. Av. circunvalacion 8,54 ?Film Numérique Dans la périphérie à Rosario, sur la Nationale A008 les camions passent sans interruptions. Marga et Mariela nous parlent au bord de la route.

Au commencement des années 70, adolescente engagée au côté des montoneros, Julieta Hanono est enlevée et incarcérée par la dictature argentine. Après un effacement de près de trois décennies durant lesquelles son expérience de la disparition semble s?être prolongée, cet épisode aura une influence profonde sur son travail. Au commencement des années 2000, installée en France depuis les années 80, Julieta Hanono renoue avec la pratique artistique, à laquelle elle avait dû brutalement renoncer. Ses pièces, teintée de psychanalyse et de marxisme, associant sculpture, dessin et film, sont traversées par son expérience de la disparition et se présentent comme une répétition de ses souvenirs, une conceptualisation méditative qui tend à la réconcilier avec son passé. Simultanément, les pièces se tournent vers l?extériorité : un mouvement qui correspond au souci de l?artiste de reconstituer son lien à l?autre et d?explorer, à travers celui-ci, les fondements de la socialité.

"Caméra au point, Julieta Hanono arpente le gouffre et s?avance jusqu?à la lisière de l?insondable territoire, celui où l?homme n?est plus l?homme. A l?image, des filets de lumière, des entrefilets de paroles, le tissage d?une pensée matière, épaisseur sans laquelle ne pourrait éclore un quelconque partageable. El Pozo, non lieu d?une histoire insensée ; « El Pozo », l??uvre de Julieta Hanono, « lieu-dit » constitué sur fond de ténèbres, masque rapporté sur une histoire demeurée hors du monde, sur une histoire sans visage. El Pozo n?existe pas, il est trou noir, anti-pensée comme l?on parlerait d?anti-matière. A l??uvre, nous ne le voyons pas. A l??uvre s?expose son exact envers, la raison reconquise. Le sujet doit s?exprimer sans ruser ; le Je doit prendre ici la parole. Je refuse de prétendre que quoi que ce soit du vécu de Julieta Hanono en tant que « disparue » puisse devenir pour moi compréhensible. Rien n?y fait, pas même cette ?uvre qui ne saurait rendre palpable l?inouï qui en est le creuset. Je refuse l?empathie qui semble être de rigueur ? de bienséance ? face à ce que d?aucuns nomment un « témoignage ». L?empathie ne peut être ici que feinte ; forme sommaire d?entente, elle demeure sourde au fond de l?histoire folle traversée par Julieta Hanono. L?inhumanité me restera inaccessible par la pensée, car elle en est son strict négatif. Ce que je vois, ce que je pense face à « El Pozo » est tout autre : il s?agit du chemin que parcourt Julieta Hanono pour renaître à la vie ; il s?agit du secret constitutif de « l?humanité de l?humain » dont parle Georg Lukacs. C?est précisément cette histoire que rapporte Julieta Hanono de son propre gouffre ; c?est précisément là que réside le partageable de son aventure. « El Pozo » expose, vive, l?histoire qui me constitue. « El Pozo » est le récit de la (re)conquête du sujet par lui-même, de la (re)naissance du Je. Voir « El Pozo » dans El Pozo éclaire d?un feu plus brûlant encore le secret dont cette ?uvre nous parle. Cette exposition boucle en quelque sorte la démonstration de vie. Placé (tout) contre les murs du gouffre, l??uvre affirme la conquête de l?artiste. Placé entre l?homme et l?espace de sa négation, l??uvre rend active de manière performative sa propre nécessité : elle recrée le sol même de la pensée en mettant à distance l?inhumain par les images et les mots. Jamais El Pozo n?aura été plus éloigné qu?au moment où « El Pozo » irradiera ces lieux ; jamais El Pozo n?aura été plus terrassé en tant que politique d?anéantissement que lorsque « El Pozo » s?y dressera. L??uvre de Julieta Hanono nous rend El Pozo habitable par la pensée, et sans doute rend-elle habitable par la pensée à l?artiste elle-même sa propre histoire insensée. ?uvre politique par excellence, « El Pozo » se comprend comme le récit de la lutte du sujet contre les machines qui dans l?histoire ont visé son éradication. Dans cette affaire ? constituer et entretenir le monde par les armes de la parole ? , l?artiste se situe en première ligne. Il est celui qui traverse les gouffres pour nous en donner l?image renversée, et donc habitable. Il est celui qui porte à bout de bras, à l?instar de Julieta Hanono arpentant El Pozo caméra au point, « l?humanité de l?humain » jusqu?à nous. Sébastien Thiery

Julieta Hanono Venir m?installer en France a d?abord signifié prendre de la distance avec ma langue maternelle. Traverser un autre idiome et réinventer à partir de ce détour mes propres mythes. C?est aussi revenir au point de départ, revivre l?exil de mes arrières grand parents, d?Alep, d?Alexandrie, de l?Espagne à l?Argentine. Et dans une spirale ascendante, je veux redessiner leurs parcours. Je pars de Buenos Aires et je débarque en France. A mon arrivée à Paris, j?ai entrepris des ?uvres à partir de portes et de planches que je récupérais. Je ramenais dans mon atelier des objets jetés ; après je compris que faire apparaître ce qu?étais disparus étais en relation a ma propre histoire : le 11 novembre 1977, à l?âge de seize ans, durant la dictature militaire en Argentine je fus portée disparue.( j?étais enlevée de la vie et jetée hors du monde) Ainsi, à Paris surgissaient les reliefs d?un récit enfoui, celui de ma propre histoire qu?en Argentine je ne pouvais voir. Trop proche, elle demeurait là-bas un point aveugle. Tunnel? Loupes / serrures. Ma ligne d?horizon s?épaississait et mon cheminement me conduisait à construire de nouvelles séries de travaux : des « bijoux » et des ?uvres photographiques élaborés à partir d?instruments médicaux. Notamment, je produisais des images numériques prises à travers un spéculum et constituais ainsi la série « Le tunnel ». Ambiguïté du spéculum réunissant en lui-même deux principes : loupe et serrure. Objet à double tranchant peut-être permettant de se rapprocher, de voir en vue d?un savoir scientifique et neutre ; mais aussi permettant d?épier, de se faire le voyeur d?une intimité secrète. « Le tunnel » se compose de différents tableaux. Il s?agit d?une série de déclinaisons, mais aussi d?instantanés que l?on peut approcher indépendamment de la série dans laquelle ils s?inscrivent. Images agrandies, avec une certaine pixellisation, ces « portraits féminins » de dimension identique varient néanmoins selon l?intensité de la lumière et de la couleur. La séquence se lit comme un kaléidoscope à travers lequel se scande le fond de l?affaire, l?énigme de l?origine démultipliée. Toutefois, en chacune de ces compositions l?intérieur ouvre sur ma propre ligne de fuite, mon propre passé noué à ce moment douloureux de l?Argentine, ces années de plomb de la dictature ; en chacune de ces compositions, un temps immobile, celui de mon propre enfermement, l?objet perdu.

Intimate is crossing of France from winter to summer from North to South. The sequences are enchained with her camera that flies almost without touching reality, as through deep in a dream: the lights and song of the night, cold haze of the dawn, the call of the animals, tears falling into space ending up in the desolation of the snow. ?Intimate? is also the idea that isolation develops on a journey through life till death. The artist wishes to be completely subjective when shooting. The film is in the first person and it can be seen as an homage to her father who disappeared and understanding that someone else?s life can be seen as a closed cycle only when that person is gone.

Coming to live in France first meant for Julieta Hanono that she was distanced from her mother tongue.Then to relive the exile of her great-grand parents, from Alep, Alexendria, went from Spain to Argentina. Julieta Hanono wanted to outline their journey, she went to Buenos Aries, then arrived in France. On her arrival in France she began her work with doors and planks of wood, things that were thrown out, which she retrieved. She understood later on, the link with her own history: on the 11th of November 1977, at the age of sixteen, during the military dictatorship in Argentina, she was reported missing. In Paris bits of her buried story began to emerge, her own story in Argentina which she wasn`t able to see. Her horizon expanded and her journey led her to construct a new series of work: "Jewels" is elaborate photographic work about medical instruments and digital images.

S?installer en France a d?abord signifié pour Julieta Hanono prendre de la distance avec sa langue maternelle. Puis revivre l?exil de ses arrières grands parents, d?Alep, d?Alexandrie, de l?Espagne à l?Argentine. Julieta Hanono souhaite redessiner leur parcours, elle parcourt Buenos Aires, puis arrive en France. A son arrivée à Paris, elle entreprend des ?uvres à partir de portes et de planches, des objets jetés, qu`elle récupère. Elle comprend plus tard le lien avec sa propre histoire : le 11 novembre 1977, à l?âge de seize ans, durant la dictature militaire en Argentine elle fût portée disparue. A Paris surgissaient les reliefs d?un récit enfoui, celui de sa propre histoire qu?en Argentine elle ne pouvait voir. Sa ligne d?horizon s?épaississait et son cheminement la conduisait à construire de nouvelles séries de travaux : des « bijoux », des ?uvres photographiques élaborés à partir d?instruments médicaux et des images numériques.

TÂKE is a landscape film capturing mysterious natural and man-made fog-obscured scenes in Beijing, Oslo, Azores and Newfoundland. The film observes the spectacle of fog through several different film- and video formats. It explores the behaviour of Super-8 and 16mm film alongside digital video against a visual obstacle. The variable formats are also used to create spatial shifts on the screen and work with ideas of obscured or filtered visions. Associations can be made between the grain in the film material and the tiny particles, or condensation nuclei, needed to form both fog and smog, such as pollen, sea salt, dust and particle pollution. In parallel to the image the soundtrack attempts to create an auditory fog. It compares the loss of visibility to the loss of audible frequencies. During the process of making the film the artist discovered that the way sound gets filtered in fog is similar to her own loss of hearing, where the high frequencies are no longer perceived. In the fog the tiny water droplets block the high frequencies from passing. The soundtrack is composed of sirens and signals, hearing tests samples and environmental sounds.

Inger Lise Hansen (b. 1963) is a visual artist with background in experimental film and animation. She studied Fine Art at University of East London (1989) and Central-St. Martin’s College of Art and Design (1991) and received a Master of Fine Art Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. Since the nineties her film works has been screened in international institutions and galleries such as Tate Modern, National Gallery London, RI at Jeu de Paume Paris, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and Malmö Konsthall. She has received a number of prizes from film festivals including Vienna Independent Shorts, Videoex, Ann Arbor and Oberhausen. Inger Lise lives and works in Oslo.

An upside-down time-lapse camera is moved frame by frame on a track along a beach inverting the ground and the sky. The camera moves through four shots recorded in different weather conditions. The result is a mysterious and disorienting space in accelerated time, where the originally solid ground at the top of the frame appears to be sliding past like a lava-stream. Proximity was shot on Super16mm film, on location in North Jutland, Denmark.

Inger Lise Hansen was educated at North East London Polytechnic, St. Martin's College of Art, London, and received a Masters of Fine Art Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. She has made a number of experimental animation films with support from Arts Council England, Film London, and the Norwegian Film Institute, and has won several international prizes such as Gold Prize for animation at the Bilbao Festival of Documentary and Short Films, and the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animation at Ann Arbor International Film Festival. Her earlier films have been screened at Tate Modern, London; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm; and Hiroshima Animation Festival.

Travelling Fields focuses on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. Sections of the landscape are documented by moving the camera upside/down, one frame at the time, along a track. The film moves between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula, Northern Russia. Shot in Northern Russia, Travelling Fields is the third film in Inger Lise Hansen's inverted perspective trilogy, following Proximity (2006) and Parallax (2009). The films focus on a particular phenomenon occurring through a change of perspective and animated camera movements, as a way of redefining a place and its geography. In these films sections of the landscape are documented by moving the camera one frame at the time, along a track. As each of the earlier films focus on one particular location, Travelling Fields offers a more complex viewing as it moves between different topographies and locations in the Kola Peninsula.

Inger Lise Hansen (b. 1963) was educated at North East London Polytechnic, St. Martin's College of Art, London and holds a Master of Fine Art in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. She has made a number of experimental animation films with support from Arts Council England, Film London and the Norwegian Film Institute, and has won several international awards such as Gold Prize for animation at the Bilbao Festival of Documentary and Short Films and the Chris Frayne Award for Best Animation at Ann Arbor International Film Festival. Her earlier films have been screened at Tate Modern, London, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm and Hiroshima Animation Festival.

The meeting of two people and a growing relationship is very seldom an uncomplicated matter. When dealing with the twosome aspect in this particular storyline, the focus is set on communication, dependence, trust, and integrity. It is a challenge to keep a balance between one and the other.

Artist Mette Hansen started of as a painter in the beginning of 1990. His studies of art caused him to be interested in different media and he started working with room installations and other sculptural objects besides photo. He eventually started to work with video and has doing so ever since. His first videos were about films that I studied and recut. Most recently he has only been using text and sometimes animated pictures in video.

For her first grand-scale institutional show, Hansen has created the major new film and sound installation Groundings, collaborating with sound artist Eliza Bo?ek, among others. Based on long-term research on the quartzite quarry at the Giemaš mountain in the Sápmi region of northern Norway, Hansen’s investigation digs into questions of the manmade structures that control Earth’s raw materials and ground—hence the title Groundings. How technology amplifies the mapping, analysis, extraction, and profitability of natural resources and how the core resources employed in these new technologies and shifting geopolitics are the Earth’s raw materials themselves (just think of the chip in your smartphone).

The artistic practice of Nanna Elvin Hansen (b. 1989, DK) moves in the murk between art and activism. Building audio and film projects via local, collaborative processes, her works unveil structural violence that impacts on human rights and displacement.