André Willimann Hong Kong: The Blue Lotus 2014 / 15 photographs and collages (title unknown) A mix of vacation photographs and historical documents builds a small, atmospheric narrative. It also visualizes my impressions of the city in an easily digestible format.
Alfred Vorster Documentations, Movements and Time Trio for prepared piano, violin and violoncello / 2014 / score (12 sheets on music stands) “Documentation, Movements and Time” is a graphic representation of movement patters in Hong Kong, which has been documented at various times and locations within the city. The fundamental aim is not to reproduce…
Katherine Patio Miranda
To push or not to push? Combat Lesson
2014 / installation
Life seems as an effort to get somewhere, to attain something or to simply get things done. Our natural instinct is to apply an effort to deal with things. As long as there are two forces in opposition, there will be conflict. When the two forces are brought into one, the conflict is resolved.
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Ami Tsang Tsz Hei & Magnhild Fossum McStudios – The ideology of the role of studio 2014 / concept by Ami Tsang, performance by Magnhild Fossum / 1-channel video / colour / no sound McDonald‘s is famous in its native North America for its cheap fast food, as well as for its drive-through service. This…
Magnhild Fossum Wild is the wind 2014 / mixed media Wind is movement. Wind carries. Wind has a powerful influence on our existence. With population growth, technological development, and globalization we see the development of new “world cities” where the buildings are taller than tall, and the climate is next to tropical. As in Hong…
Vera Buck Sei Shi‘s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion 2014 / wooden chopsticks / ink on paper The project Shi Shi‘s Chopsticks or: How to Eat a Lion is a parodistic quote on Kafka‘s Gabel (Kafka‘s fork) as exposed in the Deutsche Literaturarchiv in Marbach. It bears reference to Yuen Ren Chao‘s poem The…
Xavier Le Roy Product of circumstances http://www.xavierleroy.com/page.php?sp=b484c7a5657f9135a4743af6cf4b70a038ffd7f1&lg=en PRODUCT OF OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES (2009) From and by: Xavier Le Roy Production: Le Kwatt Coproduction: Le muse de la danse – Rennes Thanks to: Boris Charmatz, PAF (performing arts forum) In October 2009, after an email exchange (read here after), Xavier Le Roy created a performance titled Xavier makes someRebutoh.…
Tschopp Navid Third Space, 2011 Skype-conference on a persian carpet. Half of the carpet is in Switzerland, the other half in Iran. www.navid.ch Third Space (2012) is an illusionary projection of a skype-video-conversation to Iran (or anywhere else). The central motiv of the installation is a persian carpet wich symbolizes the garden where people come…