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Beny Wagner

Outside

Film expérimental | mp4 | couleur | 14:0 | Allemagne | 2017

`Outside` traverses two cyclical metabolic paths in the attempt to forge a reciprocal relationship between the two. Moving from the metabolism of the human body to the metabolism of waste infrastructures, the film creates an inverted exchange wherein the concealment of waste inside the human body turns to the concealment of the human body inside waste. The boundary that divides waste from production would seem to contain an underlying set of moral implications. The film considers these as situated somewhere between law enforcement and class structure as defined through labor positions.

Wagner has exhibited his work and screened films world wide: International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media Art Biennale WRO, Movimenta Biennale (Nice), Rongwrong (Amsterdam), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Art Athina (Athens), Impakt Festival (Utrecht), 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art, Eye Film Museum (Amsterdam), Venice Biennale, Plato (Ostrava), Import Projects (Berlin), Future Gallery (Berlin), Center (Berlin) among others. His work has been featured in Artforum, Spike Magazine Quarterly, Frieze Magazine, Kaleidoscope Press, and Die Zeit. He has published texts with Valiz, BLOCK Magazin and 60 pages. Wagner graduated with honors from Bard College, New York in 2008. He was a researcher at Jan van Eyck Academy, The Netherlands in 2015-6. He is currently a lecturer at Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, and has been a guest teacher at several other academies.