In the work of Melik Ohanian, the world is not presented as a stage for human activity and definitely not as a fixed, organised and hierarchical entity, but rather as an evolving cosmos, dynamic and full of life. Video as a medium offers the space to articulate and make tangible the connections between time, language and movement. In Hit, an empty television studio is observed, while the set still has to be tested.
Also in this combined programme
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Rubin 2004
Inspired by an advertising sign she found by a workshop in one of Warsaw’s grey apartment buildings, Sosnowska painted a fake advertisement i
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Laurent Grasso
Installation about the ambiguity of the concept reality, the relationship to images and information, with various references to the same elements (
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Happiness
Installation with amorphous, reflecting shed of Perspex and the breaking voice of Van Lieshout while he passionately tries to make it clear to his
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Fox TV
Installation with nocturnal images from the studios of the American television network Fox. In the background we hear an episode of a police series
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We interrupt your regularly scheduled program_
Installation investigates the real nature of television, with its countless broadcasting channels, ubiquitous nature and endless stream of images.
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Monitor
Installation about the feel the tension between the real state of things and expectation, `empty’ moments such as a security camera filming a
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The Kiss (Let’s Play Dynasty)
Installation with a `vintage remake’ of the most famous series in Hollywood style from the 1980s dynasty. Helmut Berger plays Alexis Carringt
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The Inverse Armory
This installation investigates the theme of blood, both as psychological and physiological material. The very suggestive images raised doubts about
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Untitled
Installation with Tiravanija’s own ‘illegal’ personal broadcasting station that screens Punishment Park (1971) by Peter Watkins,
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1998
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Medium/Format
- -
- Premiere status
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DCTP TV (Development Company For Television Program)
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