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In exile, 7 years away from my father and my homeland, I record our phone conversations. He tells me about the country, his loneliness. My screen unites and separates us, my only window. My memories fade, my life severed, my country inaccessible.

Sara Kontar is a Syrian artist, photographer, and filmmaker who has been based in France since 2016. She holds a Master's degree in animation cinema from L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris (ENSAD). Her work spans documentary and artistic photography, with international exhibitions and recognition, including the Inge Morath Award. "3350 KM" is her first experimental documentary, following earlier experimental video works showcased at venues like Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo. Kontar's work explores her roots and the experience of exile, expressing human emotions from a personal and intimate perspective. She is also the founder of "Al-Ayoun," a space for visual storytellers in Syria and the diaspora.

Une ode à la danse, à la fête et à la joie. Des ami.e.s se retrouvent et cherchent d’où vient ce son qui semble provenir d’une fête au loin. Des fragments de mots retiennent notre attention mais c’est le son du synthétiseur qui constitue la véritable voix narratrice de NOZA CASSANDRA. NOZA CASSANDRA, zone où la fête éclôt, faisant danser nos désirs et dans nos désirs germent notre révolution. Que la fête soit et qu’elle n’en finisse pas. Danser et faire la fête deviennent alors des actes militants pour ancrer des communautés, les rendre visibles et les faire exister. Faire la fête c’est exister et tordre sous toutes ses formes notre rapport au réel et à l’imaginaire, épuiser nos perceptions comme pour trouver la faille dans la matrice du réel.

Sarah Konté est une artiste queer interdisciplinaire travaillant la vidéo, la photographie, la performance et les installations sonores, au prisme d’enregistrements et de compositions au synthétiseur modulaire. Diplômée de l’EHESS en Arts et Langages en 2020, des Beaux-Arts de Paris en 2022 et de CalArts à Los Angeles en 2022 également, son travail s’articule autour de la mémoire, de la perception et de ce que l’on voit lorsque l’on ferme les yeux. Elle décline l’idée du griot, conteur traditionnel d’Afrique de l’Ouest, en proposant une histoire qui n’est plus contée par le griot mais par l’audience elle-même qui peut composer le fil narratif comme bon lui semble. Tous les sens de lecture sont possibles. Son travail a été exposé à la Monnaie de Paris, à la galerie Greatorex St à Londres, au MOCA à Los Angeles, à la galerie Campeche à Mexico, à la galerie SALA à Los Angeles, à l’espace Aimé Césaire de Gennevilliers et aux Grandes Serres de Pantin. Elle a récemment reçu le prix Marguerite et Méthode Keskar de la Fondation de France, en 2023.

In the experimental documentary Play Curacao (2015) contemporary games, social rituals and leisure typical for the Caribbean island of Curacao are thoroughly investigated through a mix of observations, discussions and performative acts. During a four month residency at the Instituto Buena Bista artists/filmmakers Kasper Jacobs and Frank Koolen followed a wide variety of sub-cultures and singletons in their free-time routines resulting in a personal taxonomy of the Caribbean ‘Homo Ludens’. Play Curacao offers a dynamic, absurd and playful insight in the versatile everyday society and culture of Curacao.

Kasper Jacobs and Frank koolen, both visual artists working in the field of film and photography, met in 2007 and since then have been assisting each other frequently in a range of individual projects. Through these collaborations they created a mutual frame of preference and understanding. Their shared interest in subcultures and the structures they create to frame their own reality form the fundament of `Play Curacao` and future projects. Kasper Jacobs (1981, Bergen, NL) studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Frank Koolen (1978, Maastricht, NL) studied at the HKU in Utrecht, De Ateliers and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

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Born 1970 in Frankfurt/Main, lives in Paris and Berlin 1992-1994 : studies philosophy at Paris IV, la Sorbonne. 1996 : graduates from Ecole Nat. Sup. des Beaux Arts, Paris.

Title: NS-12 Authors: Kristjan Loðmfjorð (is) / Konrad Korabiewski (dk/pl/is) Form 1: Audio Visual installation for 8 channels, 1 subwoofer and 1 HD projector Form 2: DCP master with 5.1 audio for cinema/festival screening, 52 min. NS-12 (2014-2018) is audiovisual collaboration between the filmmaker Kristjan Loðmfjorð and the composer Konrad Korabiewski. Using the means of sound and image, NS-12 poetically portrays the fishing trawler Gullver NS-12 based in Seyðisfjorður, East Iceland. The trawler is a self-contained world; a space which functions both as workplace and as collective living arrangement, which is also personally and physically affective. For the people working on board the ship might be seen as a tool, but artistically it is perceived as a living organism, as a musical instrument triggering the senses, and as a visual landscape impressing with textures and colors. The constant sensation of motion from the heaviness and roughness of the rolling trawler conveys a state of confusion or reverie, like that triggered by seasickness. The ship itself is always in the foreground, with the life on board as the background. Thus NS-12 captures the moment of an everyday situation applying an expressionistic approach for an experimental outcome. It communicates the human spirit, essential for the experience of the trawler at sea with the ceaseless sound and vibrations of the engine. The original soundscape for the work is realized as a contemporary composition where all the sonic material is sourced from reality, whereas the imagery is mainly based of still-life recordings where visual perception shines above realism. Together the two mediums explore the complete body of the trawler as a visually intriguing labyrinth, where each room has its own way of carrying the sound from the engine. The complete work including sound and image is purely field recorded, accompanied with voiceover recordings performed by the Seyðisfjorður Church Choir and the fourth (and Europe`s first female) president of Iceland, Mrs. Vigdis Finnbogadottir. Recordings on board Gullver NS-12 took place during the period of September 2012 - December 2013. Methodology: In the research process, the artists went out on three tours on the trawler to capture sound and image in various seasons and weather conditions. The machinery and the captain’s diaries were also examined, extracting relevant texts. These transcripts were integrated into the final piece as subtitled and as read text, as they are very evocative and give an irrational sense of the trawler`s path: such as the ship`s state examination while in the dockyard, weather reports from out on open sea, injuries on board, and mechanical breakdowns. 8 channel installation: A sound and video installation preferably presented by itself in a separate exhibition room. This 8 channel installation configuration,referring to the 8 cylinders of the trawler´s engine aims at conveying the physical presence of the trawler´space. Presentation history: 14.10.15 QC-Montréal,Festival Nouveau Cinéma, screening 11.10.15 QC-Montréal, North American premiere Festival Nouveau Cinéma, screening 26.10.2014-31.01.2015 DE-Marl, Marl Media Art Awards 2014, installation and award nomination 04.12.2014 CL- Valparaiso / South American premiere: Tsonami Sound Art Festival, installation 27.06.2014 PL-Gdańsk / Polish premiere: Soundplay Festival, installation 17.06.2014 IS-Seyðisfjorður, Icelandic premiere: Skaftfell – Center for Visual Art , installation 17.05.2014 DE-Berlin DAADgalerie, installation & artists talk 15.05.2014 DE-Karlsruhe, German / European premiere: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / Institute for Music and Acoustics, Sound Dome installation Credit list: Phonography and composition by Konrad Korabiewski Manuscript and cinematography by Kristjan Loðmfjorð Sound engineered at Institute for Music and Acoustics ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe by Konrad Korabiewski with Anton Kossjanenko Voiceovers by: Mrs. Vigdis Finnbogadottir The Seyðisfjorður Church Choir The work is supported by: Cultural Council of East Iceland Visual Art Council Iceland Danish Composers Society Danish Arts Foundation ZKM - Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe Detailed work description is available as pdf here: http://www.korabiewski.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/NS-12.pdf

KONRAD KORABIEWSKI composer/sound/media artist http://korabiewski.com konrad@korabiewski.com Danish | Polish | Icelandic Konrad Korabiewski (1978) is an award-winning experimental composer, sound and media artist working worldwide and currently residing in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland and California. Characterized by a marked tendency to transgress various genres and media, his sound art, film music, installations, radio, video and multi-media art works have a strong site- specific element. Konrad Korabiewski’s musical atmosphere is sombre and intense, demonstrating a precise attention to musical space; at times with a meditative character, where distortion expresses an emotional depth that demands and attracts attention in minimalistic scenarios of sound. Among many international prizes and grants in 2014 Konrad Korabiewski was awarded the prestige Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD academic award & working grant and nominated for 2 Media Art Awards: European Sound Art Award (formerly known as Deutsche Klangkunst-Preis) and Marler Videokunst-Preis in Germany. He holds a Master in Electronic Music Composition from The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark. Konrad Korabiewski is founder and currently the director of Skálar | Sound Art | Experimental Music, Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. He is an independent curator and Research Associate at Film and Digital Media Department of University of California, Santa Cruz. Also a key member of Danish Composers ́Society since 2004. Awards | nominations: 2014, NS-12, nomination for the Marl Video Art Award, Germany, 2014, The Art Book Orchestra, finalist in European Sound Art Award competition, Germany (formerly known as der Deutsche Klangkunst Preis) 2014, The Institute for Music and Acoustics – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, awarded scholarship and residency 2013, Berliner Künstlerprogramm of the DAAD- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst awarded academic award, residency and working grant for 2014 2011, Skeyti, winning the international sound-art competition Europe A Sound Panorama 2011, Affected As Only A Human Been Can Be (interactive art book with integrated sound scape), nominated for Best Book-craft /art book of the Year, Denmark 2010, Affected As Only A Human Been Can Be (interactive art book with integrated sound scape) nominated for the Young Illustrators Award, Illustrative, Berlin, Germany 2005, Slowloop (animation video with sound scape ), winning first price at the film festi- val KRAKFFA, Cracow, Poland 2003, Lay Down (electro-acustic composition), finalist in Luigi Russolo Electro- acoustic Competition, Italy. Main education: 2012, Master degree in Electronic Music Composition, The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark.

Two boys and a girl prepare for nightclubbing in the heart of Athens. Arriving, they face a deserted club, where music plays blaring but there is no one to listen. There, one by one falls asleep as they surrender themselves in a collective dream.

Born with dual Greek/German nationality, Efthimis Kosemund Sanidis studied Informatics Engineering, and then Contemporary Arts at Le Fresnoy - Studio National in France. His films have won acclaim at festivals around the world. His debut short film, “ II ” (2014, 16’), won the Pack & Pitch award at Sarajevo while in development, followed by a world premiere in the Pardi di Domani section of the Locarno Film Festival. He shot his next two films, “ Odette ” (2015, 16’) and “ Unbuilt Light ” (2017, 29’), while in residency at Le Fresnoy, with the latter opening in competition in Sarajevo. “ Astrometal ” (2017, 15’) was nominated for a Golden Lion in the Orizzonti section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.

"What happens when someone dies is that we, the living, contain their memory within us ... They will live on in us, and we will celebrate them. And dance like there is no tomorrow". Diane Torr A dance dedicated to artist, drag king and gender activist Diane Torr who passed away in May 2017. A year to the day, I dance in a black room : a single shot fusing male and female as ode to life and death. Traditional urban zeybekiko dance of Rebetiko, exclusively danced by men -in the past- is danced by my hybrid manifestation - blended aspects of my identity. In silence, I hear Diane's words: "Take space with all your being. Own the space". I lift my arms and dance like there is no tomorrow as the camera follows. No edits or retakes : the aim is not to please or excite but to offer myself as site for collective unburdening.

Fenia Kotsopoulou is a Greek cross-disciplinary, award-winning artist (performance (art), dance, video, photography), based in Lincoln (UK), holding a MFA in Choreographing Live Art from the University of Lincoln (UK), a BA Honours in Dance from the National Dance Academy of Rome (Italy), and a BA in Italian Language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Over the course of the last 10 years, video making and photography became a dominant and persistent component of her artistic practice. Pivotal topics of recent projects include the body as gathering place of emotions and site of transformation, personal and collective memory, fragmentation, (de)construction of female identity, unbecoming, shame, hairiness and other issues. In the past few years, as (dance) performer, producer and visual practitioner, her works and the work of close-collaborator digital artist, Daz Disley, have been shown at a wide array of festivals and art platforms, encompassing the fields of dance, experimental performance, live-art and video-art, and receiving several prizes/awards. Alongside her practice, she is lecturer at the Master of Performance Practices at the university of ArtEZ (Netherlands) and, since 2016, she is artist-in-residence at x-church in Gainsborough (UK).

In a hinterland within the “elsewhere” a lone character meanders in search of meaning and understanding. Hither and dither doth he wander reflecting upon all things that came before and all things hereafter. The work is a companion piece to “ttingâ” latest feature film LEK AND THE DOGS and was shot in the Atacama desert in Chile. Produced to run on a loop in a gallery “space” or as a single screen the film exemplifies “ttings ability to take an idea and run with it until it spills over into the expanded cinematic “elsewhere”. With the beguiling presence of French performance artist Xavier Tchili and sublime cinematography by Nick Gordon-Smith the work is designed to be experienced within the pitch black and the sound up high.

Andrew ‘tting was born between the mountains and the sea in Elmstead Woods in 1959. After some early forays into market trading and scrap-metal dealing he travelled to Scandinavia to become a Lumberjack. He returned home in the 80’s to study for a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design and then graduated with a Masters Degree from The Slade, London. He currently lives and works between Hastings in England and Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the French Pyrenees. He teaches part-time at the University for the Creative Arts where he is Professor of Time Based Media. He has made numerous experimental short films, which were awarded prizes at international film festivals. Gallivant (1996), was his first feature film, a road/home movie about his four-month journey around the coast of Britain, with his grandmother Gladys and his daughter Eden, which won the Channel 4 Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival for Best Director and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini (Italy). The film went on in 2011 to be voted number 49 as Best British Film of all time by the UK publication Time Out. In 2001 he directed the first of his Earthworks Trilogy; This Filthy Earth, in 2009 Ivul, and in 2018 Lek And The Dogs. All three films were released theatrically throughout the UK and France. As well as exhibitions of his work in the UK he has also presented retrospectives of his work in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland and Switzerland. His twenty-eight year oeuvre to date has moved from early live-art inflected, often absurdist pieces, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to eight resolutely independent feature films that take biography, landscape and journeys as springboards into the making of visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of the folkloric.

"THE LEOPARD SHALL LIE DOWN WITH THE GOAT THE WOLVES SHALL LIVE WITH THE LAMBS AND THE YOUNG BOY WILL LEAD THEM" 12+1 KIDS AND THE CARCASS OF A WHALE WASHED ASHORE

Konstantina Kotzamani is a graduate student of Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have participated in major International Festivals and have received several awards. Her film Washingtonia premiered in Berlinale 2014 and was nominated for the Golden Bear. Washingtonia participated in more than 120 International Film Festivals and in 2014 was awarded by the Greek Film Academy as the best Short Film. One year later Washingtonia received the EFA (European Film Academy) nomination for the best European Short. Konstantina Kotzamani was chosen to take part and present her work in Future Frames at the 50th Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2015 and at the same year, her short film Yellow Fieber premiered in Locarno Film Festival 2015 in international competition Pardi di Domani. Her last short film Limbo co- produced between Greek Film Centre and French CNC, premiered in Cannes , Semaine de la Critique 2016 and after that gained awards in many other International festival such as Palm Springs ( future filmmaker award) , Vila do Conde ( Best Fiction ) , Rio de Janeiro ( Best Short Film , Best director) ect.. Limbo was also nominated for the European Academy Awards 2016 as best European Short.

Washingtonia starts when the giraffes heart can no longer be heard. Washingtonia is an alternative name for Athens, a place where people, like animals, fall into summertime sadness because of the heat. Washingtonia is the only palm tree which heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.

Konstantina Kotzamani was born in Komotini in 1983. She has studied Pharmacy and then Cinema at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Fine Arts. She has participated at Berlin and Sarajevo Talent Campus as a director. Her short movies have been selected in several International Festivals and have gained many awards.

This film explores the facets of a young man alienated from his feelings. Kickboxing, muscular bodies, nighttime, dreams and unspoken feelings slowly blend into abstraction.

Zaur Kourazov (1994) graduated from KASK with his work, 'TIME IS' (2019). Dwelling on themes of memory, identity and bonds from intercultural aspects, exploring the 'in betweenness'. A space of understanding worlds yet not fitting in them.

In a village in Chechnya a mother and a daughter speak about the return of an acquaintance.

Zaur Kourazov (1994) graduated from KASK in 2019 magna cum laude with his work, TIME IS (2020). His work dwells on themes such as memory, (cultural) identity and friendships which stem from intercultural aspects. Feeling connected to his ethnic culture and the assimilated culture, his work resides in a unique position by exploring 'in betweenness,' a very intriguing space of understanding both worlds yet not fitting in either of them.

The daily life of migrants (Syrian, Kurdish, Pakistani, Afghani and other) in the camp of Idomeni, in Greece. People waiting in queues for food, tea and doctors; waiting to cross the border. One day, Europe closes the West Balkan Route for them once and for all. The «residents» of Idomeni decide, in their turn, to occupy the train tracks, blocking the trains that carry goods across the border.

Niki Giannari: Greek writer, born in 1968. Maria Kourkouta : Greek filmmaker born in 1982. She lives between France and Greece. Since 2008, she made several films, mostly on 16mm at different artist-run labs in France (such as L’Etna and L’Abominable) where she is still active as a member. Most of her films are distributed by Light Cone (Paris).

The truth will always out. Back in the day the truth was easier to hide, but today the world has become nearly transparent: lies are exposed sooner than ever, they look awkward and ridiculous, yet they are told shamelessly and insolently as never before. The worst is when a lie grows so big it turns into a war. Even if it’s a war against myths, lying is a heavy weapon. A few days before the war, lies started to materialize in an extremely tangible fashion. It was then that I learned from news presenter that my country does not exist, that it emerged, a century ago, as a fruit of one man’s fantasy, and that today it is a refuge for Nazis and drug addicts. I know the taste of this kind of lie and would recognize it anywhere, but I cannot accept the fact that this malady has afflicted millions of submissive supporters of a regime that has for generations treated people like idiots and kept them in the grip of fear. For former residents of the Soviet Union, mendacious state propaganda is associated with the music of the Swan Lake ballet, which has for decades served as a means of concealing the truth: every significant news that needed to be kept secret, be it the Chernobyl explosion or the death of another secretary general, was replaced by this ballet on TV screens. During the August coup, Swan Lake was broadcast for three days. My performance is set to the music of the notorious ballet, but I also called it Swan Song, foreshadowing a quick end to a regime that has gotten carried away in its bad game. When lying goes so far in its foul play, it inevitably devours itself.

Lena Kovach (1982, Lutsk, Ukraine), visual artist. Since 2002, I have been mainly working on my own long-term projects, combining photography with other visual media. I am interested in interdisciplinary forms of photography at its intersection with theater and performance and fascinated by the subject matter of memory, trauma, and deprivation, which requires working with vernacular and archival material.

East of Paradise is the last film of the "Wild Wild East" trilogy by the filmmaker Lech Kowalski. Produced after "The Boot Factory" and "On Hitler`s Highway", his new documentary is far the most personal. In the first part of "East of Paradise", he gives the voice to Maria Werla Kowalsi, his mother, who evokes her life during the war. With an unseen precision and a natural sense of language, she relates her deportation from Cracovie to the Soviet gulags, at the beginning of the Second World War. Mrs Kowalski is convicted that whoever has not lived this drama, can not really apprehend this dark period of history. As if defied by the tragedy of such depth and significance that his mother lived, Kowalski plunges into his own eventful past. Using of images from earlier works ("Gringo", "Walter and Cutie", "D.O.A.") whose quality strongly contrasts with the sharpness of his mother's images, he presents the porn and drugs social ghettos. In these images, Lech evokes a marginal freely chosen existence, whereas her mother's story is an homage to the human desire for survival. Lech's narration can not be really compared with his mother's oppressive story. Nevertheless, this impassible gap changes the juxtaposition of two very different world into two portrayals as contentious as surprising . "East of Paradise" has been awarded, in 2005, by the Best Alternative Film Prize at the Mostra - Venice Festival.

Lech Kowalski comes from a Polish family. Born in London, he grew in the USA. When he was 18 years old, he went to New York where he discovered Punk Music, drug and porn. From a cinematographic point of view, Kowalski is tributary to Shirley Clarke. His films are produced by instable film-making, associative linkings and lines of story mixed together. Among Kowalski's earlier documentaries, we could name "Sex Stars" (1977), "Death On Arrival" (1978), "Gringo ? Story of a Junkie" (1985), "Rock Soup" (1991), "Born to Lose" (1999), "Hey is Dee Dee Home" (2002), "Camera Gun" (2003) and "Charlie Chaplin in Kabul" (2003).

Part of the In Art Dreams Come True series, this piece was conceived as a pop music video cover of Gwen Stefani?s What Are You Waiting For? Playing which clichés of femininity and masculinity, this time Kozyra takes on the role not of an opera diva but of a pop-rock star playing a cheerleader in a music video set in a men?s locker room. Engaging in the kind of dancing and acrobatics (choreographed by Anna Godowska) customarily performed by cheerleaders, Kozyra, waving pom-poms and wearing a white miniskirt, tries to draw the attention of male athletes changing in the locker room after practice. Backup singers include members of the Zachêta?s curatorial staff and management. In this brief music video telling a rebellious story, Kozyra incorporates numerous references to her previous works.

Katarzyna Kozyra born in Warsaw (Poland) in 1963. Studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw (1988-1993) Deals with performance, video, and videoinstallation. In 1999 received a honorable mention at 48. International Biennale of Visual Art, Venice In 2003 scholarschip in the Berlin artists program (DAAD) Lives in Warsaw, Trento and in Berlin.

Uta Kögelsberger’s 4-channel video installation that brings together Clearance and Woddworks is part of new body of work Forest Complex that observes the complex social, political, and ecological entanglements surrounding the pressures Alpine forests have come under in the wake of the climate emergency. The work visualises into the relentless cycle of destruction that humanity has set up with the environment we occupy. This is juxtaposed with the astonishing drive to ‘fix’ the destruction we have caused. More specifically Clearance follows the two-month Sisyphean task of clearing up after the devastation in the 145-metre-deep Haselbach Gorge. The sides of the gorge are so steep that the fallen trees had to be plucked from the mountainside by helicopter. Too costly to be carried away in this manner, the trees were dropped to the bottom of the gorge, creating a a flood risk. A two-tonne cable had to be stretched across the gorge by helicopter to rope the trees out of the gorge one by one. The piles of tree trunks accumulating in the riverbed were so precarious that it was too dangerous to work with large crews. Dwarfed by the scale of the task, we see a man working on his own as he proceeds to clear out one log at a time. Juxtaposed with that sits the single channel work Woodworks. Woodworks follows the next stage of the trees as they arrives at one of the largest wood-manufacturing conglomerate in Europe. We see the trees as they are first collected by a machine with oversized claws that effortlessly picks up twenty to thirty logs at a time, removes the bark and drops them on a conveyor belt endlessly churns out one log after the other. Each region in Austria has an allowance of cubic metres of wood that can be cut per year. For the area surrounding Haselbach the annual allowance was exceeded by 80% due to the storms. The abundance of wood that has flooded the market as a result of this triggered a price drop of 25–35% per cubic metre of wood, with devastating financial outcomes for the small hold farmers. Woodworks visualises the machine that forest owners small and large are compelled to feed continually.

Uta Kögelsberger is a London based visual artist whose work articulates and engages with social and political concerns through the languages of photography, video, sculpture and sound. Her work has awarded the prestigious Royal Academy Wollaston Award, been awarded the Stanley Picker Fellowship, the Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, the EAA Award for Art in Architecture and the SPD silver medal for editorial photography. Her photographic essays have been published in Wired, Esquire, GQ, and American Photography. It has been exhibited, at MOMus, Thessaloniki, the Vincent Price Museum, Los Angeles, Art Night, London, in collaboration with Whitechapel Art Galleries, Brighton Photo Biennial, Les Rencontres, Arles, at SPG, London, the Architectural Association London, the Barbican, London, and Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC, and the Glassell Project Space MFAH, Houston amongst others. Her work is held in public and private collections including the MFAH, Houston and LACMA, Los Angeles.

Melilla is a small spanish exclave on the North-African coast. A piece of Europe in Africa, a remnant of colonialism. A huge 12 km long fence here seperates rich Europe from the global South in order to keep away migrants seeking their fortune in Europe. Our films tells the story of three migrants who have made it across the fence. One foot on European soil, they wait for their papers or their final deportation. Opara is from Nigeria. For two years, he lives in the CETI detention camp at the outskirts of the city. He doesn´t want to indemnify with his situation and fights for the respect of the spanish population. He is an active member of the city´s small pentecostal church. Shahbaz from Pakistan lives in the camp for three years. Through his mobile phone, he organises a complex network of relationships to his family at home and to friends who already have reached Europe. The pictures and Hindi-Pop-Songs he has saved on his phone provide him an emotional connection to home. Ilham is from Morocco. Like many other Moroccans, she lives illegally in the city. For years, she fights for a legal status, lives on the street or stays occasionally with friends and does small jobs to survive.

Steffen Köhn Born on the 1st of December1980 in Kirchheimbolanden. Studies of social anthropology and film studies in Mainz and Berlin. Fieldwork and thesis on the West-african Videofilm-Industry. Since 2006 study of film directing at German Film- and Television Academy in Berlin. Paola Calvo Born on the 22nd of May 1980 in Caracas/ Venezuela. Media studies at Universidad Complutense Madrid. Since 2006 study of camera at German Film- and Television Academy in Berlin.

In a barque she sails across the high lands of the past. The barque heads shimmer and glow at stern and bow, and that lights her unseeable passage. She calls to the spirits of this hour, and that is how we come to even hear her voice. La Barca locates a radiance of memories by transforming the residues of recorded visual and sonic reality into imaginary music of urban spaces.

Pasajeros Pelegrinos Pilotos shows commuters and pedestrians on their daily track. An imaginative Doppelgänger that accompanies each person is becoming visible. The Doppelgänger to me represents an ideal thyself, knowing everything, never making wrong decisions, and of course, always being too late. Bound to the wear and tear of mass movements, this idealistic vision can decompose at any time.

Thomas Köner (b. 1965) is a media artist working with audiovisual installations, sound, video, photography, net art and live performance. His works are in the collections of numerous significant art museums. Awards: (a.o.) Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica 2004; Transmediale Award 2005; Golden Tiger Cub, Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005.

With PNEUMA MONOXYD, media artist Thomas Köner works on a series of audiovisual works that attempt to trace fluctuations and invisible border crossings that constitute any moment. Ina part one, a static gaze of a Balkan market seems like a window looking to the other side, unveiling that Hic et Nunc has become a porous frontier. Dissolved by an unsound breeze, the banality of everyday life is set free to embrace gloom and beauty in a blurry dance.

Thomas Köner, born 1965, attended the music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked for the film industry as editor and sound engineer. He extended his concept of time and sound colour to images, resulting in video installations, photography and film works. 2000 the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media awarded him the "New Media Prize". 2004 the Prix Ars Electronica awarded him the "Golden Nica", and he was awarded the "Produktionspreis WDR / Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis" (german sound art award). His media installation "Suburbs Of The Void" received the Transmediale 2005 award in Berlin and was presented at La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice as a live performance in the same year. Köners video "Nuuk" received the Tiger Cub Award (best short film) during the International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005. His point of departure was composition of sound in which aspects of a performance and visual language were gradually integrated. At first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992). Following this, he started to compose film soundtracks and music to accompany historic silent films for the Louvre Museum and the Musée d`Orsay, Paris. The Rimbaud Museum commissioned Thomas Köner five permanent sound installations for five rooms of the "Maison Rimbaud" in Charleville-Mezières, France. The Musée d`art contemporain Montreal and other museums acquired his audiovisual works for their collection.

Three scenes in remote, hazy locations: second, third world; people on the streets of Harar, Belgrade and in a favela in Buenos Aires. The camera traces fluctuating and vanishing movements; we see faces becoming transparent, the images leafing through beclouding layers of personal memory. What first seemed to be an observation of three daily-life fragments merges into the vast space of a given moment, unsealing a microcosm of time that can only be entered from the off, the insignificant edge of the world. The third section homes in on people passing by, zooming into walking clothes afloat, ghostly outlines without being or body, as if person and identity disappear when questioned, revealing an agitated emptiness that drifts around its center of periphery.

Thomas Köner, born 1965, attended music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked with film sound as sound engineer. He extended his concept of sound colour to moving images, resulting in video installations and film works. In 2000 the Montreal International Festival "New Cinema New Media" awarded him the "New Media Prize". In 2004 the Prix Ars Electronica awarded him the "Golden Nica", and he was awarded the "Produktionspreis WDR" during the "Deutsche Klangkunst-Preis" (German sound art award). His media installation "Suburbs of the Void" received the Transmediale 2005 award in Berlin and was presented at La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice as a live performance in the same year. Köners video "Nuuk" received the Tiger Cub Award (best short film) during the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005. While studying, he dedicated himself to intensive sound research in the recording studio. His first impulse consisted in avoiding rhythm and melody and focusing instead on the phenomenon of sound colour. To intensify the experience of sound, he decided to work with other media, resulting at first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance "Alchemie" (1992). Following this, he started to compose film soundtracks and electronic live music to accompany old silent films for the Louvre in Paris. As "Porter Ricks", a collaboration with Andy Mellwig, he became an acclaimed producer of progressive techno, resulting in remix commissions for "Nine Inch Nails" and a Claude Debussy remix for Universal Music, a.o. Köner's interest in combining visual and auditory experiences and in extending the effectiveness of his works was conducive to an involvement with the work of other artists like Max Eastley, in which the combination between sound sculpture and performance became central. "List Of Japanese Winds", a collaboration of Max Eastley and Thomas Köner, is an installation piece that was commissioned by the Hayward Gallery in London. The Rimbaud Museum commissioned five permanent sound installations to be installed in five rooms of the "Maison Rimbaud" in Charleville-Mezières (until 2010). The Centre Georges Pompidou and other museums acquired his audiovisual works for their collection.

Nuuk is a simple but profound film, which makes do with one single washed-out shot taken by a webcam. In the snowy landscape of Greenland Köner shows the hamlet of Nuuk in changing light, which by all means complies with classic demands of rendering landscapes yet undermines them by way of denying visual expectations. The soundtrack is an integral part of the video. Without fully transcending the images the music passes just as imperceptibly as light and time do. Jurystatement Videoex Festival, Zurich 2005

1965 born in Bochum, Germany Education: 1985-1990 studying electronic music at CEM Studio, Arnhem 1987-1992 Conservatory of Music, Dortmund 1992-1994 Avid Operator, cutter- and soundassistant, Ruhr Sound Studios, Dortmund 1995 ? working as independant artist with sound, installation, film, music, video, theater and radio art Scholarships: 2001 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. 2006 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles Awards (selection): ARCO Award Best Young Artist at Arco, Feria International de Arte Contemporaneo Madrid 2005 Transmediale.05 Award, International Media Art Festival, Berlin 2005 TV5 Tiger Cub Award, International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005 Golden Nica, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz 2004 German Sound Art Award Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis / Produktionspreis WDR, Marl 2004 Laureate, BBI Creation Contest, Fribourg 2004 Norman Award, Filmwinter Stuttgart 2004 New Media Prize, Montreal 2000 Nominations: 2004 MuVi Award, Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2004 Golden Cube, Monitoring Exhibition 21. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest 2004 & 2005 Viper Award, International Festival for Video and New Media, Basel Permanent installations: Musée Rimbaud / Maison Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières Work in public collections: Centre Pompidou Musée national d`art moderne Paris, France Musée d`art contemporain Montreal, Canada Communidad Madrid Collection, Spain Ayuntamiento de Pamplona, Spain Exhibitions (selection): 2000 Sonic Boom Hayward Gallery London. 2004 Regarder, observer, surveiller Séquence Galerie Chicoutimi (Canada). Cyberarts Center for Contemporary Art, Linz. SoundART ArtCologne, Cologne. German Sound Art Award Skulpturenmuseum Marl. 2005 Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto. Climax National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung. disappear Kunstpavillion Innsbruck. The Pantagruel Syndrome, Museo d`Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli. Commissioned works: 1998 Musée National d`art moderne, Paris 2001 Centre d?art contemporain, Rennes 2004 Musée Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières Remix (selection): 1999 Nine Inch Nails Remix for Nothing Records / Interscope 2002 Claude Debussy Remix for Universal Music 2003 ISIS Remix for Hydrahead Records Discography: since 1990 releases on more than 70 CD Live-Performance (selection): 1994 Louvre, Auditorium Paris. 1998 Spiral Hall Tokyo. 2001 New Zealand Film Festival. 2002 Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt. La Biennale Filmfestival Venice. Walker Art Center Minneapolis. 2003 Musée d?art contemporain Montreal. NYYD Festival for New Music Tallinn. 2004 Musée d?Orsay Paris. Festival de Carthage Tunis. 2005 La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles. Serralves Museum, Porto. Radio art: 2001 Radio France 2004& 2005 Deutschlandradio Kultur 2006 Westdeutscher Rundfunk WDR Theatermusic: 1997 Krieg, Rainald Goetz, Schauspielhaus Dortmund Guest lectures & workshops (selection): 1998 Keio University Arts Center, Fujisawa. 2000 University of Traditional Music Theatre, Beijing. 2003 Musashino Art University, Tokyo. 2004 Dutch Art Institute, Enschede. 2004 Musrara School of Photography, Jerusalem. 2005 Hyperwerk, Basel.

An hypnotic journey between two visions of the future and two utopias, from footages of the monumental “Metropolis” (Fritz Lang, 1927) and of the film 80`s cult “Tron” (Steven Lisberger, 1982).

Thomas Köner studied at the Music Academy in Dortmund, and at CEM-Studio in Arnhem. His work revolves mainly on the combination of visual and audio experiences, and develops into installations, concerts, videos, photos and multimedia works. In 2000, he received the “New Media Prize” at the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media. In 2004, he received the “Golden Nica” of Prix Ars Electronica, the “Produktionspreis WDR/Deutscher Klangkust – Preis” (German prize for sound art). His media installation “Suburb of the Void” received the Transmediale prize 2005 in Berli and was presented at the Venice Biennale, at the Fenice theatre, as a live performance. Various important museums has acquired his audio-visual works for their collection: mainly the Pompidou Centre, the Museum of contemporary art of Montreal, the Comunidad of Madrid, the FRAC of Limousin. In 2008, he participated at the Media Art Biennale in Seoul. In 2009, he received the MuVi prize at the International short film festival of Oberhausen. Thomas Köner is nominated for the Nam June Paik prize in 2012.

Landshaft sketches the psychogeography of a geopolitically charged landscape and its inhabitants between extractivism, war and displacement. In the form of a journey in eastern Armenia, the film follows human and non-human actors as they make their way through the landscape, from Lake Sevan to the Sotk gold mine, occupied by Azerbaijan since the Karabakh War in 2020.

Daniel Kötter (1975, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany) has been working for 20 years as a theatre and documentary film director. His documentary and performance practice regularly takes him to the African continent, but also to the Middle East, North America and Southeast Asia. His work, which has been presented at numerous international festivals, focuses on the study of spatial politics. In addition to numerous music theatre pieces with composer Hannes Seidl (2008-2020), he developed the documentary film series “State-theatre Lagos/Tehran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach” (2009-2014, with Constanze Fischbeck), the award-winning trilogy on urban peripheries Hashti Tehran, Desert View, Rift Finfinnee (2017-2020), the exhibition and film project “CHINAFRIKA” (2014-18, with Jochen Becker) and the series of virtual reality performances and films “landscapes and bodies” on the impact of mining on landscapes and communities in West Papua, Saxony, Ruhrgebiet, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Estonia (2018-2021).

The film Rift Finfinnee takes the viewer on a journey through the periphery of Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. In strictly composed landscapes and architecture shots, and with a soundtrack that interweaves the original conversations in a complex way, the film travels along the Akaki river gorge, dissecting the more than symbolic rift between city and rural. It takes the concrete geography, architecture and the every day life of individual agricultural and construction workers in the east of Addis Ababa (in Oromo: Finfinnee) as the starting point for an allegorical narrative about the becoming urban of an African society on the edge of civil war.

Daniel Kötter is an international filmmaker and theater director. Visual research leads him again and again to the African continent and the Middle East. 2014-18 he worked with the curator Jochen Becker (metroZones) on the research, exhibition and film project CHINAFRIKA. Under Construction. In 2017-20 he worked on the documentary film trilogy Hashti Tehran (2017, 60 ’), Desert View (2018, 84’) and Rift Finfinnee (2020, 80 ’) about urban peripheries in Tehran, Cairo and Addis Ababa. Hashti Tehran won the special award of the German Short Film Award, Rift Finfinnee the DEFA Award at DOK Leipzig. Daniel Kötter is currently working on a series of spatial performances and 360° films on the landscape and social consequences of extractivism in Germany, West Papua, DR Congo and Estonia under the title landscapes and bodies.

The documentary Chinafrika.mobile is tracking the life cycle of a mobile phone. From its birth in the mines in the Kolwezi, DR Congo, to its manufacturing in Chinese factories in the Pearl River Delta to its use and death in the markets and recycling dumps in Lagos, Nigeria, the mobile phone camera sends images of its global journey to the viewer`s mobile phone display. It was filmed by miners, factory employees, dealers and electronic scrap collectors at the original locations in Congo, China and Nigeria. Four short documentary films show the work on the device that shapes our everyday life. China and Africa act as driving forces for the economic, political and cultural future of globalization and the mobile phone is their important link. Since 2013 Jochen Becker and Daniel Kötter have done research on cultural effects of the economic and political connections between China and the African continent.

Daniel Kötter ist ein international tätiger Filmemacher und Musiktheater-Regisseur. Seine Arbeiten changieren zwischen verschiedenen medialen und institutionellen Kontexten und verbinden Techniken des strukturalistischen Experimentalfilms mit performativen und dokumentarischen Elementen. Sie wurden weltweit auf zahlreichen Film- und Videokunstfestivals, in Galerien, Theatern und Konzerthäusern gezeigt. Zu seinen Hauptwerken zählen die experimentellen Videokonzertperformances Falsche Freizeit (2010), Freizeitspektakel (2010), 'konomien des Handelns 1-3: KREDIT, RECHT, LIEBE (2013-16, alle mit Hannes Seidl), die Mehrkanal-Trilogie Arbeit und Freizeit (2009-2011) sowie die Film-, Performance- und Diskursreihe state-theatre über die Bedingungen des Performativen in den Städten Lagos, Teheran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut, Mönchengladbach (2009-2014 mit Constanze Fischbeck). Seine umfangreiche Film- und Textarbeit KATALOG (2013) entstand in 13 Ländern rund um das Mittelmeer mit einem besonderen Interesse an Praktiken des Raums. Visuelle Recherchen führen ihn immer wieder auf den afrikanischen Kontinent sowie in den Mittleren Osten. 2014-18 arbeitete er u.a. mit dem Kurator Jochen Becker (metroZones) an dem Recherche-, Ausstellungs- und Filmprojekt CHINAFRIKA. Under Construction. Sein Film "Hashti Tehran" (2017, HD, 60") gewann u.a. den Sonderpreis des Deutschen Kurzfilmpreises.

Hashti, in most traditional houses in Iran, is a octagonal space of distribution and circulation to direct the person towards the various parts of the house, the private (andarouni) and semi-public (birouni) reserved for the reception from abroad and the access to spaces of service. Based on the idea that Tehran itself represents a house, so to speak the inner circle of The Islamic Republic of Iran, the outskirts of the city become the space of transition between inside and outside, between urban and non-urban. Thus the film and discursive project HASHTI Tehran looks at four very different areas in the outskirts of Tehran: the mountain of Tochal in the north, the area around the artificial lake Chitgar in the West, the construction of social housing called Pardis Town in the far east and the neighbourhood Nafar Abad at the southern edges of the city. By combining Road movie and architectural documentary and by inverting the techniques of inside and outside shots the film HASHTI Tehran portrays Tehran through its peripheral spaces. Background „Segregation“ and „privatization“, „security“ and „control“ are core terms of urban transformation in the developping cities of the 21st century around the globe. Its contested counterparts are „public“ or „open space“, „access“ and „citizenship“. All these concepts seem stuck in the negotiation between aspiration of new liberal economies trying to connect to a global construction and business boom on the one and a tendency of preserving a shared public sphere for all groups of society within the urban area on the other hand. HASHTI tries to shift this focus to areas where the controlling force of urban development seems to lose its influence, where definitions get blurry and fluid: the edges and peripheries, those contact zones, where city and landscape, nature and construction meet. Can a citizen who leaves the city for recreational or other purposes, still be called a citizen? Which societal function does he take on, which political role does he play in the moment where he enters or lives in the periphery of a city? Administrative aswell as geographical city borders divide space into inside and outside, into what belongs and what is beyond. The relation of those spaces on both sides of the border is therefore not symmetrical. The definitional authority is on the side of the city. The city would always determine the use and formation of space beyond its limits in a stronger way than the countryside would determine the urban space. One of the reasons for this is the fact that the city produces things, that it has to exclude from its centre, in order to guarantee the functionality of the living together: waste, dead corpses, criminals and socially marginalized. The space beyond the city limits therefore is predetermined for storage, settlement and disposal of what is socially peripheral. On the other hand the space beyond the boundaries of the city calls for this need for the city’s opposite: recreation, life in the green space, better air, less density and pollution. Living in the periphery therefore can be understood equally as Stigma and privilege. The Tehran case study Tehran’s peripheral geography shows a significant structural analogy with its social, environmental and psychological divisions: the northern periphery, reserved for the upper class in penthouse appartments and for recreation in the „clean air“ of the mountains, heavily contradicts the situation at the southern periphery, where smog and desert define the social life of the middle and low classes. While the geographical layout of the city with the mountains in the north and the desert in the south define a north-south axis, growth and development of the city are only possible on a west-east axis. HASHTI as a discursive project in collaboration with Shadnaz Azizi, Kaveh Rashidzadeh, Amir Tehrani and Pouya Sepehr and explored in four printed booklets, examines the different strategies of urban planners, architects and sociologists in these areas. How is traffic, how are meeting places, contact zones, gardening controlled and defined? And how do these spaces relate to the definition of interior spaces, the living room as a main forum in a society that regulates public space.

Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. It was shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over the world. Between 2008 and 2011, he developed the video-performance trilogy Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown at numerous international festivals. Between 2013 and 2016 they developped the trilogy Ökonomien des Handelns: KREDIT, RECHT, LIEBE. Kötter’s series of films, performative and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of theatre architecture and performativity has been under development between 2009 and 2015) under the title state-theatre: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). His film and text work KATALOG was shot in twelve countries around the mediterranean sea portraying sites and practices related to the definition of the public sphere. It was presented at the Venice Biennal for Architecture (2013/14). He is currently working with curator Jochen Becker (metroZones) on the research, exhibition and film project CHINAFRIKA. Under Construction. (2014-2018) www.danielkoetter.de www.state-theatre.de http://katalog.danielkoetter.de

He who walks down the street, over there, is immersed in the multiplicity of noises, murmurs, rhythms. By contrast, from the window, the noises distinguish themselves, the flows separate out, rhythms respond to another. No camera, no image or series of images can show these rhythms. The observer in the window knows that he takes his time as first reference, but that the first impression displaces itself and includes the most diverse rhythms on the condition that they remain to scale. Rhythms always need a reference, the initial moment persists through other perceived givens. Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis

Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. It was shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over the world. Between 2008 and 2011, he developed the video-performance trilogy Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown at numerous international festivals. Between 2013 and 2016 they developped the trilogy Ökonomien des Handelns: KREDIT, RECHT, LIEBE. Kötter’s series of films, performative and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of theatre architecture and performativity has been under development between 2009 and 2015) under the title state-theatre: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). His film and text work KATALOG was shot in twelve countries around the mediterranean sea portraying sites and practices related to the definition of the public sphere. It was presented at the Venice Biennal for Architecture (2013/14). He is currently working with curator Jochen Becker (metroZones) on the research, exhibition and film project CHINAFRIKA. Under Construction. (2014-2018)

Daniel Kötter’s single take film “A Composer” documents a car ride by Lebanese composer Zad Moultaka, re-imagining a story that happened 10 years ago, when Moultaka was threatened for using the word “Israel” in one of his compositions. The political situation of his home country, its psycho-geography and the conditions of artistic practice in the Middle East, all this superimposed in the protagonist’s imagination. A film documenting the assimilation of past and present reflected in the recording situation.

Daniel Kötter is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. It was shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over the world. Between 2008 and 2011, he developed the video-performance trilogy Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown at numerous international festivals. Kötter`s series of installations, films, and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of performativity has been under development since mid-2009 under the title state-theatre: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). His film and text work KATALOG was shot in twelve countries around the mediterranean sea portraying sites and practices related to the definition of the public sphere. It was presented at the Venice Biennal for Architecture.

Following the traces of Glenn Gould and his so-called ?Solitude-Trilogy? up north at Lake Superior seemed a welcome alibi for a middle-european to explore a little bit of what is called THE NORTH for Canadians, what it means to drive hours and hours without one single settlement, having the car radio and the camera as sole companions. And what community might mean under the circumstances of the periphery. What I brought back from there? The certainty that there is definitely no marxist in the White House! And that even in the most remote retreat: Beware of the dogs!

The small german City of Mönchengladbach, a former textile industry hub, redefines its commercial and cultural centre by removing the modernist theatre building, abandoned during the past decade, and replacing it with a shopping mall. This constant process of producing space comes to a temporary halt when a group of citizens enters the winterly void to claim and re-stage the public discourse on appropriation of urban space: ?There ought not to be a vacuum which might attempt to lead us to the idea of the void as potentiality.? state-theatre is a series of six experimental documentaries that explore urban conditions for performance based on six case studies in Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach. state-theatre departs from places that have shed their apparent societal functions: deserted areas, construction sites, unused or reinterpreted buildings ? empty spaces in the urban fabric, places that were originally meant as allegoric gathering places: theaters.

Daniel Kötter ist ein international tätiger Filmemacher und Musiktheater-Regisseur. Seine Arbeiten changieren zwischen verschiedenen medialen und institutionellen Kontexten. Sie wurden weltweit auf zahlreichen Film- und Videokunstfestivals, in Galerien, Theatern und Konzerthäusern gezeigt. Zu seinen Hauptwerken zählen neben experimentellen Videokonzertperformances (mit Hannes Seidl) die Mehrkanal-Trilogie Arbeit und Freizeit (2009-2011) sowie die Film-, Performance- und Diskursreihe state-theatre über die Bedingungen des Performativen in den Städten Lagos, Teheran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut, Mönchengladbach (mit Constanze Fischbeck). Constanze Fischbeck was born in 1968 in Berlin. She works as stage designer and video artist. Her artwork is based on the space and present of specific locations. In her films she investigates the interference of documentary and staged moments in the urban context. Her work was presented at various festivals, art institutes and theatres.

?You know what - this whole ?common ground? category scares me. It must be conceived from the position of someone? - I don?t know - an allegorical film director, an engineer ? someone outside the frame, designing the potential encounter.? Daniel Kötter?s single take film Neues Theater, based on a performance staged in November 2011, examines a moment of fundamental change in the understanding of public space in post-communist Poland. The workshop hall of the Warsaw city cleaning company MPO will turn into the new cultural centre for Poland?s most internationally renowned theatre company Nowy Teatr, the work of the workers will be replaced by the work of actors and viewers. While the camera slowly travels along the hall, the roles of viewers and actors, of labour and performance, practice and theory keep oscillating. The film stages the ?theatre? itself, not as yet another art form (with its specific institutional conditions, market rules and local aesthetic and historic limitations), but as a name for the allegoric space of encounter.

Daniel Kötter, born 1975, is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. It was shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over Europe, in New York, Mexico, Tehran and Lagos. Between 2008 and 2011, he developed the video- and opera-performance trilogy Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Musica d?hoy Madrid and others. Kötter`s new series of installations, films, and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of performativity has been under development since mid-2010 under the title state-theatre: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). For galleries and dance performances, he developed multi-channel live video delay installations. His award-winning short-Film Film für übers Sofa (with Hannes Seidl) was shown at festivals worldwide. Between 2002 and 2008 Daniel Kötter, as artistic director of the labor für musik:theater, developed and produced numerous feature-length performative projects and multi-channel movies on the borderline between concert and musical theater. Daniel Kötter has been living and working in Berlin since 1996.

Detroit, once America?s center for auto-industry and theater, was shrinking to a third of its population. What used to be the space for theatrical presentation, nowadays presents the urban crisis. What once was private space became public open space for societal negotiation. The city became a theater itself. In front of the backdrop of former Michigan theater, today a parking garage for the adjacent office building, the film stages the performative discourse of six locations, six neighborhoods, and six Detroiters: ?...we?re sort of talking about Detroit in a way that it itself is a theater, that it itself is the object to behold.? state-theatre is a series of six experimental documentaries that explore urban conditions for performance based on six case studies in Lagos, Tehran, Berlin, Detroit, Beirut and Mönchengladbach. state-theatre departs from places that have shed their apparent societal functions: deserted areas, construction sites, unused or reinterpreted buildings ? empty spaces in the urban fabric, places that were originally meant as allegoric gathering places: theaters.

Daniel Kötter, born 1975, is a director and video artist whose work oscillates deliberately between different media and institutional contexts, combining techniques of structuralist film with documentary elements and experimental music theater. It was shown in numerous galleries, video festivals, concert halls and theatres all over Europe, in New York, Mexico, Tehran and Lagos. Between 2008 and 2011, he developed the video- and opera-performance trilogy Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown at international festivals such as the Venice Biennale, Musica d?hoy Madrid and others. Kötter`s new series of installations, films, and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of performativity has been under development since mid-2010 under the title state-theatre: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin/Detroit/Beirut/Mönchengladbach (with Constanze Fischbeck). For galleries and dance performances, he developed multi-channel live video delay installations. His award-winning short-Film Film für übers Sofa (with Hannes Seidl) was shown at festivals worldwide. Between 2002 and 2008 Daniel Kötter, as artistic director of the labor für musik:theater, developed and produced numerous feature-length performative projects and multi-channel movies on the borderline between concert and musical theater. Daniel Kötter has been living and working in Berlin since 1996.

The word `theatre` (theatron in greek) refers first and foremost to the place and architecture of a performance, rather than to what is being performed. Even after centuries, a theatre?s architecture represents the visual order from which it emerged: the possibilities for artistic production are historically conditioned. The geometrical space of architecture is pitted against the anthropological space of its use. 1st case study: LAGOS The National Theatre of Nigeria in Lagos was built for the Second Festival of Black and African Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1976.
It is the only state-subsidized theatre in Nigeria.
 While its smaller halls are occasionally used for theatre performances, banquets and weddings, the 5000-seat main hall has been deserted since the early 1990s.
A reopening was scheduled for 2010 but 
postponed indefinitely after a series of changes in direction. counter shot: The Bariga Arts Center was founded in 2009 in a Lagosian slum by choreographer and Nollywood actor Segun Adefila, after the rent free agreement between his company Crown Troupe of Africa and the National Theatre of Nigeria had been revoked.

Daniel Kötter has been implementing experimental approaches to the formats of theatrical and musical performance, collaborative models for artists and non-artists, video art in the context of different formats of presentation ? exhibitions, live performances, film, with a particular interest in multi-channel video installations and alternative concert formats. Daniel Kötter (b. 1975) lives and works in Berlin. Between 2008 and 2011 he developed the video- and opera-performance trilogy on artistic labour - Arbeit und Freizeit. His music theatre performances in collaboration with composer Hannes Seidl are shown on international festivals like Venice Biennale, Musica d?hoy Madrid and others. A new series of installations, films, and discursive work on urban and socio-political conditions of performativity has been developed in collaboration with Constanze Fischbeck since 2010 under the title state-theater: Lagos/Teheran/Berlin. Constanze Fischbeck was born in 1968. She studied set design, and now works as a set designer for theater, music theater and dance. She has also been working as a video artist since 1996. Space and the current time of specific locations are always the initial points from which her work unfolds. In her video works, she is interested in the intersection of documentary and staged moments in the context of an urban environment. Since 2001, she has developed a series of works that explore the function of society in cities like Magdeburg, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Sarajevo, Lagos, Tehran and Detroit. Her work has been shown in festivals, art institutions and theaters. "state-theater" is her second collaboration with Daniel Kötter.

Checkpoint Grenzanlage a.D.: zwei Fahrzeuge, simultan, Start auf zwei Seiten einer Grenze. Aufeinandertreffen am Checkpoint. Spirale um zwei Wachtürme. Beschleunigung durch zunehmende Anzahl von Bildern pro Sekunde. Location: ehemalige deutsch-deutsche Grenzanlage Marienborn. Arbeitsweise: Rück-Übertragung von bevorzugten Methoden der DV-Technik wie Simultaneität, Splitscreen, Beschleunigung, Planseuquenz auf das nostalgische Medium Super8. Vermischung von Roadmovie, Dokumentarfilm, Experimentalfilm.

Daniel Kötter 1975 geboren; seine mehrkanaligen Videoinstallationen und Konzertinszenierungen wurden gezeigt u.a. am Hebbel-Theater Berlin, in den sophiensaelen, den KW- institute for contemporaray art Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, im tesla Berlin, im Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Casa da musica Porto, Konzerthaus Wien, musica viva und im Rahmen des Ultraschall-Festivals Berlin, der Ostseebiennale für Klangkunst, Warschauer Herbst, Tanz im August sowie dem Kunstfrühling Bremen und Rohkunstbau; Zusammenarbeit u.a. mit den Komponisten John Lely, Helmut Oehring, Thierry Blondeau, Christoph Ogiermann, Iris ter Schiphorst, dem Ensemble Apartment House London, den Musikern Boris Baltschun, Daniel Teige und den Choreographen Sasha Waltz, Paul Gazzola und Petra Sabisch, Videoinszenierungen u.a. zu Musik von Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Helmut Oehring und Franco Evangelisti, seit 2000 Künstlerischer Leiter des labor für musik: Theater Berlin.

The exchange between two adversaries starts with thuds (here: tennis or badminton serves), they are the thuds (here: hits) that happen at the fall, and the thuds (here: the raising of the eyelids that open the game of seduction. But here the body doesn't encounter or achieve anything but its self: vertically (thuds). It continues hopeless of recapturing a day: horizontally (canon). The arms, the legs, the head, the face, and the skin come face to face and enter into contact in a corner of the room. This installation video has two canons, "Aufschläge ? Kanon" was first presented in the framework of the audiovisual project "In der Gnade der Strafe sein" by Christoph Ogiermann (composition) and Daniel Kötter (video).

Daniel Kötter was born in 1975. His directorial works and installation videos have been presented at Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Sophiensaelen; the KW-Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Tesla, Berlin; Festspielhaus, Hellerau Dresden; Casa da musica, Porto; Rahmen des Ultraschall, Festivals Berlin; the Ostseebiennale für Klangkunst, Dance in August; as well as Kunstfrühling Bremen and Rohkunstbau, among others. Hehas collaborated with the composers John Lely, Helmut Oehring, Thierry Blondeau, Christoph Ogiermann, and Iris ter Schiphorst on the Ensemble Apartment House London with the Musicians Boris Baltschun and Daniel Teige, and the Choreographers Sasha Waltz, Paul Gazzola, and Petra Sabisch, among others. He has done video directing for the music of Luigi Nono, Iannis Xenakis, Helmut Oehring und Franco Evangelisti. Has been the artistic director of "labour for music: theater Berlin" since 2000.