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A filmic tryptic of three landscapes.

video works since 1988/ grants at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome/ lectureships at the HfG Karlsruhe and the HBK Braunschweig/ visiting professorships at the HBK Braunschweig and the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz/ lectures, workshops and seminars a.o. in Rome, Istanbul, Casablanca, Jerusalem, Bangkok/ participation in numerous festivals and tours/ works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum/ distribution by Heure Exquise! and Light Cone Paris/ internet: volkerschreiner.de

A transformation of Nam June Paik`s text "film scenario" into a movie. Hollywood stars speak Paik: "You can make any Hollywood movie interesting, if you cut the movie several times ..." Michael Caine, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, John Torturro, Katharine Hepburn and other protagonists of mainstream cinema are assembled to speak a text about deconstructing film watching.

Volker Schreiner video works since 1988/ grants at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome/ lectureships at the HfG Karlsruhe and the HBK Braunschweig/ visiting professorships at the HBK Braunschweig and the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz/ lectures, workshops and seminars a.o. in Rome, Istanbul, Casablanca, Jerusalem, Bangkok/ participation in numerous festivals and tours/ works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum/ distribution by Heure Exquise! and Light Cone Paris/ internet: volkerschreiner.de

A pair of hands, a pair of rings, two candles, cards, cables, fingers, photos, needles, glasses, chairs ? a couple, a pair, pairwise, pairs of words ? close-distant, longing-leaving, connecting-separating, remembering-forgetting, inside-outside, ahead-behind, before-after.

Volker Schreiner video works since 1988/ grants at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome/ lectureships at the HfG Karlsruhe and the HBK Braunschweig/ visiting professorships at the HBK Braunschweig and the Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz/ lectures, workshops and seminars a.o. in Rome, Istanbul, Casablanca, Jerusalem, Bangkok/ participation in numerous festivals and tours/ works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum/ distribution by Heure Exquise! and Light Cone Paris/ internet: volkerschreiner.de

?Clips from Curtiz to Lynch, from A Place in the Sun to White Noise. Assembled under the aspect of the dominating light source in each particular excerpt, which in this unsettling four minutes work shows off as the merciless ruler over the sound. Or, in the words of found-footage-virtuoso Volker Schreiner: ?Rooms illuminated by oscilling light, lightened up in rhythmic intervals by lamps and neon signs or irregular flashes of light . People are waiting, awaiting, pondering, searching, worrying.?? (catalogue Viennale 10, 2010)

VOLKER SCHREINER 1988/89 grant Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 1993 lectureship HfG Karlsruhe, 1994-98 lectureship HBK Braunschweig, 1998/99 grant Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome, 2000/01 visiting professor HBK Braunschweig, 2002/03 visiting professor Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, lectures, workshops and seminars a.o. in Rome, Istanbul, Ankara, Casablanca, Jerusalem, Bangkok, participation in numerous festivals and tours, works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum www.volkerschreiner.de

Traces, devices, indications, found and discovered, clues and hints referring to absentees - a compilation of excerpts from movies and feature films.

VOLKER SCHREINER 1988/89 grant Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 1993 lectureship HfG Karlsruhe, 1994-98 lectureship HBK Braunschweig, 1998/99 grant Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome, 2000/01 visiting professor HBK Braunschweig, 2002/03 visiting professor Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, participation in numerous festivals and tours, works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum

"Main motive is the speaker - on masts, in halls, on roofs in cars, living rooms, in headphones and handsets, in radio installations. Sound get through the speakers, as unclear part of communication and dialogues, distorted music and announcements, search of transitions, noise." (catalogue Viennale 2008)

VOLKER SCHREINER 1988/89 grant Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 1993 lectureship HfG Karlsruhe, 1994-98 lectureship HBK Braunschweig, 1998/99 grant Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome, 2000/01 associate professor HBK Braunschweig, 2002/03 associate professor Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, participation in numerous festivals and tours, works owned a.o. by the NBK Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, the Ludwig Museum Cologne, the Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, the Amsterdam Film Museum www.volkerschreiner.de

"Living rooms coolly lit by white noise on TV screens are a familiar harbinger of approaching doom in most feature films. In Cell, just this one unheimisch cinematographic element is put under the magnifying glass. A concentrated montage of countless fragments with flickering and spooky snow-covered screens from Hollywood films. This is the ultimate meta-cinema. No message, just medium." (catalogue International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007)

Volker Schreiner, since 1988 videos, video-installations and video sculptures/ a.o. grant Villa Massimo Rome, grant Cité des Arts Paris, grant Kunstfonds Bonn, prize winner of the 5th Marl Video-Kunst-Preis/ lectureships at the HfG Karlsruhe and the HBK Braunschweig, associate professor at the HBK Braunschweig and the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/ works owned a.o. by NBK Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Museum fuer Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Film Museum Amsterdam

A compilation of 200 notes from movies.

Volker Schreiner, since 1988 videos, video-installations and video sculptures/ a.o. grant Villa Massimo Rome, grant Cité des Arts Paris, grant Kunstfonds Bonn, prize winner of the 5th Marl Video-Kunst-Preis/ lectureships at the HfG Karlsruhe and the HBK Braunschweig, associate professor at the HBK Braunschweig and the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz/ works owned a.o. by NBK Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Museum Ludwig Cologne, Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, Film Museum Amsterdam

A compilation of cones of light from electric torches. "Radar" leads to an eerie pursuit of tracks. Hesitant cones of light, made from fragments of innumerable films, light up in a sporadic manner a path leading to nothingness. A metaphorical reflection on the darker side of existence as well as the light of knowledge. 2006 5 minutes 14 seconds Color / b&w Mono channel 1+2 PAL

Volker Schreiner was born in Germany in 1957. He has led numerous lectures and seminars, has held several lectureship and associate professor positions, and has won numerous awards and grants, such as a grant at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris in 1988/89, and a grant at the Deutsche Akademie Villa Massimo Rome in 1998/99. His work has been presented at festivals in, among other places, Berlin, Oberhausen, The Haag, Rotterdam, Paris, Madrid, Rome, New York, Montréal, Tokyo, Sydney and Moscow, and he has participated in numerous tours. Schreiner's works are owned by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, the Mediathek of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, the University of Québec Montréal, the Ludwig Museum Köln, the Museum für Neue Kunst Karlsruhe, and the Amsterdam Film Museum, to count a few.

?This is a work based on found footage. Schreiner extracted sequences with numbers from many movies, both classic and obscure. Using these short fragments he compiled a countdown starting from the number 266. A strong effect of suspense is created, the tight-paced montage holding the viewer`s attention.? (catalogue Invideo, Milan 2004)

Artists from films, whose lives are made-up, fictional artists: who are they, how do they live, how do they work? What kind of clichÈs do they convey? Do they reflect the way that contemporary artists view themselves or do they represent an anachronistic image of theartist in a society heavily influenced by modern media? The twelve montages, taken from more than one hundred films ranging from classics to B-movies, engage in a subjective game with these questions.

Rainbow's Gravity is a cinematic study on the Agfacolor-Neu colour film stock made in Nazi Germany. Along its three layers of emulsion, the film digs deep into the escapist colourised landscape of this time and asks for the material requirements, retentions and ideological continuities of the Agfacolor palette. The film sequences, projected in the former production line, dismantle not only themselves, but also our view accustomed to historicise. Those scenes aim to visualise what the colour does not show. The film tries to realise, not only how it had been - in the darkrooms of the Agfa film factory - but also how it can be possible at all to face this reality today within film, in images and movements without a final or even conciliatory view of the past

Mareike Bernien (Berlin) and Kerstin Schroedinger (London / Zurich) working in collaboration since 2006 in joint film, exhibition and text projects. In their work they seek to critically interrogate image productions and to produce and reproduce images as material of thought. They work with film, radio play, music and text with a historiographical practice, questioning the means of production, historical continuities and ideological certainties of representation. They are interested in an experimental and critical approach to media formats, with an implicit entanglement of content and form.

More recently, the artist duo has looked at the artistic practice of the emblem. This is to consider an emblem as a variety of being a symbol, a trick, or a figure of thought. By so doing, Hanakam & Schuller rely on their profound examination of the formal language of everyday objects, liberating these from their context or their supposedly mysterious meanings. Inspired by the “Building Duke” research, Hanakam & Schuller worked on Duke University’s (Durham, NC) variety of architectural forms during their stay in spring 2019. In other words, the idea is to develop a short film featuring both physical architectural details of the campus buildings, and also virtually twisting these by means of a playful range of emblems.

Markus Hanakam (1979) and Roswitha Schuller (1984) both studied at the Universtiy of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2004 they collaborate as duo, their work is shown at Museums and Festivals in an international context, including Rencontres Internationales at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York, , SIGGRAPH 2012 Los Angeles, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Contemporary Art 2011 among others. Recently they have been visiting artists at Duke University, Durham, NC. The artefacts made by the two artists who live in Vienna are often shape-shifters, changing their exterior forms and reappearing in different contexts. As artists and researchers they are engaged in restructuring the visual art rulebook and building up idiosyncratic systemic orders and new visions of the world in their videos and objects. In the process they reflect and make ironic various historical and contemporary artistic strategies as well as their means of expression. They work primarily in the realm of video, interactive computer applications and applied forms of art.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. In C.G. Jungs sense the archetype as an object conduce to determination of a “big picture” - of wholeness - as a subject it serves as structure for universal and individual experiences. Like a role-play-gaming kit Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller’s video-work Trickster provides a card index on archetypical places, figures, artifacts and actions; a mode of narration on a coherent world design. To support the layer of moving image a text layer is composed by assembling passages from a historical inventory catalogue of the National Gallery of Scotland. A traditional spectrum of subjects, mostly Genre painting like landscape and portrait, declares the semiotics of art historical reading and puts it into a gaming context.

Markus Hanakam was born 1979 in Essen, Germany. After studying two years at the University Essen (Faculty for Art and Design), 2000-2002, he graduated in 2006 with a Master degree in Art Education, 2009 Master degree in Sculpture and Multimedia from the University of Applied Art Vienna. Roswitha Schuller was born in 1984 in Friesach, Austria. She graduated 2007 with a Master degree in Art Education, 2009 Master degree in Sculpture and Multimedia from the University of Applied Art Vienna; she holds a Doctoral Degree in Art Sociology. Since 2004 they collaborate as duo, their work is shown at Museums and Festivals in an international context, including Videodumbo Festival 2013 at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York, Recontres Internationales 2012 at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, ISEA 2011, Istanbul, 4th Moscow International Biennale for Contemporary Art 2011. They gained several awards like the MAK Schindler Fellowship in Los Angeles as well as an Artist in Residency at the Citè International des Art, Paris. Their short Film “INVASION” is awarded as Jury Selection Work at Japan Media Arts Festival 2012. Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller have been visiting curators at Medienwerkstatt Wien 2014.

This fiction, filmed on the Carnac alignments in Brittany, France, shows us a world where a group of household electric appliances have acquired a series of affects. Together they stage a version of a Victorian drama, a very free adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, where an air conditioner named AC suffers the adventures of being poor and orphaned in a loveless world in the midst of climate change. This drama, performed entirely by household appliances, takes place at a time when its moral content is linked to the first industrial revolutions. The idea would be to take up the fundamental themes of Victorian literature, such as the evolution of Romanticism towards reason, religious skepticism, the gradual urbanization of society, the creation of the bourgeoisie, the appearance of the figure of the snob, prejudice, glory and sensibility, as well as high moralism and the repression of sexuality.

Born in 1985, Liv Schulman grew up in Buenos Aires, where she attended public school. Fascinated by television, the arrival of cable in 1990 and the financial crash of 2001 are among the most striking moments of her life. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure d’ans de Paris-Cergy, she has lived in France since 2015. Liv Schulman’s work takes the form of filmed fictions, TV series, readings-performances and novel writing. The narratives at the core of her work deal with the role of subjectivity in the political space and the difficulty of giving it credit. In this way, a real telenovela is shown on television as if in a museum. In her approach, creating means directly experiencing an environment, a system, a subject. She has exhibited her work at the Villa Vassilieff in Paris, the CAC La Galerie in Noisy-Ie- Sec, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Crac Alsace, the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Austria, the Ricard Foundation in Paris, the SMK in Copenhagen, the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, and the Bennis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska. She has benefited from the ADAGP grant, the sponsorship of the Fondation des Artistes, the DAAD residency programme in Germany, and was awarded the Ricard prize in 2018.

For 66year-old german video-pioneer Gerd Conradt life shows new dimensions whilst gardening like other pensioners of his age. He turns his small garden into a nourishing and flowering GERD-EN OF FLUX öeaving soil for upcoming generations of artists. The film is to understand as a homage to gerd?s 66th birthday, edited to his favorite song by Jimmy Cliff on i-Movie. His friends celebrating him in real or on reel are: Kai Hoffmann, Veit loup, Wolfgang Lorenz, Hartmut Jahn, Lutz Gregor, Kain Karawahn etc...

In her videos, Schulz provides a candid approach to her subjects through careful camerawork, ever- oscillating between proximity and distance. These slow observations demand significant concentration on the subject matter, for instance in her 'Home Series', in which she portrays men in their apartments. Here Schulz asks strangers if they would be open to develop a relationship in which the camera functions as the main instrument of communication. By doing so, she breaks the tension of subject/object relations, race and gender. As time goes by, we see these men in their apartments pondering over their lives, while further intimacy is being developed with the artist.

Jana Schulz (*1984 in Berlin) received her MFA in 2018 from the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Recent exhibitions, film screenings, residencies and prizes include Galerie Eigen+Art Leipzig (2022), KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin (2021), Videoart at Midnight Berlin (2021), Center for Contemporary Photography Melbourne (2020), Kunsthalle Bremerhaven (2020), Eigen+Art Lab Berlin (2020), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2020), Anca Poterasu Gallery Bucharest (2019), Galerie Eigen+Art Leipzig (2019), Kunsthalle Wien (2018), Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig (2018), BPA// Berlin Program for Artists (2020 – 2021), International Studio & Curatorial Program New York (2019), Marion Ermer Preis (2018) and Villa Aurora grant (2018) awarded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Der Titel Golden Boys leitet sich von den Golden Boy Promotions in Los Angeles ab. Sie nehmen junge Boxer unter Vertrag und organisieren monatlichen Kämpfe in der Stadt. Mit Golden Boys assoziiere ich eine Band, eine Gang oder eine andere Männergemeinschaft. Ich sehe das Boxen als eine Art Gemeinschaftsritual, junge Männer trainieren in kleinen Gruppen und sind als Sparringpartner körperlich eng verbunden. Mich interessiert ihr Zusammenschluss als eine Abgrenzung von ihrer Umgebung und als Eintritt in eine eigene Gegenwelt. Der Soziologe Loic Wacquant schreibt in seinem Buch Leben für den Ring. Boxen im amerikanischen Ghetto, dass die Sporthalle einer Entbanalisierung des Alltags gleicht. Mittels Trainingsroutine und Körpermodellierung bietet sie Zugang zu einer anderen Welt, in der sich Abenteuer, männliche Ehre und Prestige mischen. Gleichzeitig ist das Boxen eine der einsamsten und individuellsten Sportarten. Jeder steht allein im Ring, in minimaler Bekleidung. Der Körper ist das Kapital des Boxers, er wird eingesetzt im Kampf und unterliegt dabei einem hohen Verletzungsrisiko. Es ist eine Aufführung des Körperlichen auf erhöhter Bühne, umringt von Zuschauern. Hierin spiegelt sich die Sehnsucht wahrgenommen zu werden und der Wunsch, unsterblich zu sein. Boxen ist ein Kampf um Anerkennung. Wenn du ins Profigeschäft einsteigen willst, musst du es dorthin schaffen. In den USA, da bist du als Boxer noch wer, erzählt mir ein Protagonist aus Golden Boys Igdir. In dem Video begleite ich eine Gruppe junger Boxer aus Berlin zu Vergleichskämpfen in die Türkei. Die ersten beiden Szenen zeigen Alen Rahimic bei der Rasur, die ein Ritual vor jedem Amateurkampf ist. Den Amateurboxern ist es versagt mit Bart in den Ring zu steigen, weil er eine Verletzung im Gesicht verdecken kann. Im weiteren Verlauf sieht man die Jugendlichen bei ihren nächtlichen Treffen in der Hotellobby, die zu dieser späten Stunde von einem halb öffentlichen zu einem privaten Ort und somit zu einem Freiraum für die Gruppe wird. In Golden Boys Maravilla beobachte ich Andre Perez, Martin Urias und Raymond Otanes wie sie mal für mal eine steil ansteigende Straße in East Los Angeles hinauf rennen. Das road work ist Teil des Trainingsprogramms kurz vor ihrem Kampf in Mexiko. Am Ende der Straße steht – unscharf – eine Gruppe Männer, die an eine Gang denken lässt, die mit ihrer Präsenz das Viertel markiert und die Jüngeren vor äußeren Einflüssen abschirmt. Es sind die Trainer und Väter, die einer Kontrollinstanz gleich, ihre Zöglinge überwachen und hüten.We wanna keep them off the streets. Das Boxen soll ihre Söhne von der Straße fern halten. Gleichzeitig machen sie sich die Straße auf eine andere Weise zu eigen. Sie ist ihr Trainingsfeld. In Golden Boys Monterey Park ist Rico Ramos, ehemaliger Weltmeister im Bantamgewicht, einziger Protagonist. Er befindet sich in einer ‚gewohnten Ausnahmesituation‘, hat seine Wohnung und sein soziales Umfeld verlassen und lebt bei seinem Coach im Trainingscamp. In dieser letzten Phase vor dem Kampf wird sein Körper zur Rüstung und Waffe geformt. Mich interessiert der Moment der Isolation. Ramos sitzt wochenlang alleine vor dem Fernseher zwischen den drei täglichen Trainingseinheiten im Gym. Hier beobachte ich die Bewegungen des Körpers, Gestik und Mimik. Auf der Tonebene sind Stimmen und Musik aus dem Fernseher zu vernehmen. Es sind Fragmente, die eine Soundcollage ergeben, die zwischen Realität und Künstlichkeit changiert, ähnlich dem Körper im Raum, der sich in dem bunt aufflackernden Fernsehlicht bewegt. Das Boxen zeige ich in dem dreiteiligen Video nie explizit, vielmehr schwebt es wie ein Versprechen über den Köpfen der Protagonisten und ist verbindendes Element.

Jana Schulz (*1984 in Berlin) lebt und arbeitet in Berlin und Leipzig. 2018 schloss sie ihr Meisterschülerstudium bei Prof. Tina Bara an der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig ab. 2020 ist sie Teilnehmerin des Berlin Program for Artists, 2019 war sie mit einem Stipendium der Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen am International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. 2018 erhielt sie das Villa Aurora Stipendium der Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes und den Marion Ermer Preis. Schulz‘ Arbeiten wurden unter anderem im Eigen+Art Lab Berlin, bei Eigen+Art Leipzig, in der Anna Poterasu Gallery Bukarest, in der Kunsthalle Wien, im Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig und im Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin gezeigt. Kommende Ausstellungen sind im Center for Photography Melbourne und im Kunstverein Bremerhaven. In ihren medienübergreifenden Arbeiten setzt sie sich mit Formen zwischenmenschlicher Kommunikation auseinander. In einer prozessualen Arbeitsweise beobachtet sie Strukturen und Dynamiken innerhalb sozialer Gruppen, reinszeniert einzelne Szenen und erweitert ihren dokumentarischen Ansatz um fiktive Elemente.

Filmmaker Alex Schuurbiers became captivated by a small house on a French island, a mystical place hidden between the incessant force of wind and waves. In the experimental documentary Song Of Homecoming, she talks to the house and its inhabitant in an attempt to find kinship and connection.

Alex Schuurbiers (she/her) is a photographer and filmmaker from the Netherlands living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. After years of writing short stories and shooting portraits, she started combining text with moving images for the short film En Vagues, which premiered at Courtisane, Gent in 2023. Inspired by the work of Jean Epstein, it was shot on 8mm on Ouessant, a small rocky island off the coast of Brittany. She created the miniature Handwerk at LABOBXL filmed on a Bolex, hand-developed and edited on a Steenbeck, after which she fell even more in love with the medium. In early 2023 she finished Where I lay my head to rest, a personal cine-essay about modern day femininity and close collaboration with cinematographer Ans Mertens. Song of Homecoming is her first foray into more documentary-based experimental filmmaking. She is also the founding member of Ursula, a collective of women working with the moving image based in Antwerp.

The development of the Internet and the flood of information attached to it give increasing value to archives and close-circuit collections. In the live installation "Sichtbar Archiv", the Dutch artists Remco Packbiers and Remco Schuurbiers unite their personal archives of image recordings and sounds to create a joint performance. Four monitors, four video-cassette recorders, and four mono turntable records are in a block of wood especially made for the occasion. The VHS video images and the sounds of the records are mixed live, superposed, opposed, and then reunited in a new collage. The installation's 'analogical' structure, the technical use of the instruments, as well as the interaction between the artists do not disappear in the perfection of the digital worlds, but are actually part of the installation. The film transposes two systems in a new spontaneous, intuitive, and associative context, and allows the public to see one hundred years of images and sounds.

Born in Holland, Remco Schuurbiers lives and works in Berlin. His work consists in abstract compositions, short video films, installations, and live video performances. He works on projects with musicians in the field of Contemporary Electronic Music, producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. He also works as a photographer, is one of the organizers of club transmediale, and is co-organizer of the event/project "The Art of Pingpongcountry". Together with director Ivan Stanev he creates films and theater plays. In his PA Dual-project, Remco Packbiers uses 4 to 8 mono record players. His aim is to find the perfect musical fragment at the right time in the right musical environment. His masterful mixing skills utilise a whole range of musical genres like Grass Roots, Rare Grooves, Folk Music (Ethnic), Lock Grooves, Spoken Word, Contemporary music, Electro-Acoustic, Avant-Hop, Dub-Step, Breakcore, and Noise.

Remco Schuurbiers est originaire des Pays-Bas, il vit et travaille actuellement à Berlin. Son travail se situe aux confins de la vidéo et de l'audio numérique, créant ainsi des compositions, installations et performances abstraites. Il travaille souvent sur des projets en collaboration avec des artistes de la scène électronique et produit des performances audiovisuelles, compositions ou improvisations. Par ailleurs, il travaille en tant que photographe, et co-organisateur du 'Club Transmediale' et de 'The art of pingpongcountry'. Depuis peu, il travaille en collaboration avec le compositeur hollandais Huib Emmer sous le pseudonyme 'Datenreport' et également avec Radboud Mens pour l'?uvre "Pulse".

Cette performance de Radboud Mens (son) et Remco Schuurbiers (vidéo) est une composition multimédia improvisée, fondée sur le dialogue entre les deux artistes. Les connexions numériques systématiques image/son s`opposent dans cette performance à une recherche de structures d`équivalences intuitives. Le matériau sonore et visuel de Pulse est un matériau numérique auto-généré. Il part de formes géométriques minimales les plus basiques et de sons basses fréquences, et se développe lentement en une texture hypnotique et de grande complexité. www.art-action.org

The development of the Internet and the flood of information attached to it give increasing value to archives and close-circuit collections. In the live installation "Sichtbar Archiv", the Dutch artists Remco Packbiers and Remco Schuurbiers unite their personal archives of image recordings and sounds to create a joint performance. Four monitors, four video-cassette recorders, and four mono turntable records are in a block of wood especially made for the occasion. The VHS video images and the sounds of the records are mixed live, superposed, opposed, and then reunited in a new collage. The installation's 'analogical' structure, the technical use of the instruments, as well as the interaction between the artists do not disappear in the perfection of the digital worlds, but are actually part of the installation. The film transposes two systems in a new spontaneous, intuitive, and associative context, and allows the public to see one hundred years of images and sounds.

Born in Holland, Remco Schuurbiers lives and works in Berlin. His work consists in abstract compositions, short video films, installations, and live video performances. He works on projects with musicians in the field of Contemporary Electronic Music, producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. He also works as a photographer, is one of the organizers of club transmediale, and is co-organizer of the event/project "The Art of Pingpongcountry". Together with director Ivan Stanev he creates films and theater plays. In his PA Dual-project, Remco Packbiers uses 4 to 8 mono record players. His aim is to find the perfect musical fragment at the right time in the right musical environment. His masterful mixing skills utilise a whole range of musical genres like Grass Roots, Rare Grooves, Folk Music (Ethnic), Lock Grooves, Spoken Word, Contemporary music, Electro-Acoustic, Avant-Hop, Dub-Step, Breakcore, and Noise.

Remco Schuurbiers est originaire des Pays-Bas, il vit et travaille actuellement à Berlin. Son travail se situe aux confins de la vidéo et de l'audio numérique, créant ainsi des compositions, installations et performances abstraites. Il travaille souvent sur des projets en collaboration avec des artistes de la scène électronique et produit des performances audiovisuelles, compositions ou improvisations. Par ailleurs, il travaille en tant que photographe, et co-organisateur du 'Club Transmediale' et de 'The art of pingpongcountry'. Depuis peu, il travaille en collaboration avec le compositeur hollandais Huib Emmer sous le pseudonyme 'Datenreport' et également avec Radboud Mens pour l'?uvre "Pulse".

Cette performance de Radboud Mens (son) et Remco Schuurbiers (vidéo) est une composition multimédia improvisée, fondée sur le dialogue entre les deux artistes. Les connexions numériques systématiques image/son s`opposent dans cette performance à une recherche de structures d`équivalences intuitives. Le matériau sonore et visuel de Pulse est un matériau numérique auto-généré. Il part de formes géométriques minimales les plus basiques et de sons basses fréquences, et se développe lentement en une texture hypnotique et de grande complexité. www.art-action.org

The development of the Internet and the flood of information attached to it give increasing value to archives and close-circuit collections. In the live installation "Sichtbar Archiv", the Dutch artists Remco Packbiers and Remco Schuurbiers unite their personal archives of image recordings and sounds to create a joint performance. Four monitors, four video-cassette recorders, and four mono turntable records are in a block of wood especially made for the occasion. The VHS video images and the sounds of the records are mixed live, superposed, opposed, and then reunited in a new collage. The installation's 'analogical' structure, the technical use of the instruments, as well as the interaction between the artists do not disappear in the perfection of the digital worlds, but are actually part of the installation. The film transposes two systems in a new spontaneous, intuitive, and associative context, and allows the public to see one hundred years of images and sounds.

Born in Holland, Remco Schuurbiers lives and works in Berlin. His work consists in abstract compositions, short video films, installations, and live video performances. He works on projects with musicians in the field of Contemporary Electronic Music, producing composed or improvised audiovisual performances. He also works as a photographer, is one of the organizers of club transmediale, and is co-organizer of the event/project "The Art of Pingpongcountry". Together with director Ivan Stanev he creates films and theater plays. In his PA Dual-project, Remco Packbiers uses 4 to 8 mono record players. His aim is to find the perfect musical fragment at the right time in the right musical environment. His masterful mixing skills utilise a whole range of musical genres like Grass Roots, Rare Grooves, Folk Music (Ethnic), Lock Grooves, Spoken Word, Contemporary music, Electro-Acoustic, Avant-Hop, Dub-Step, Breakcore, and Noise.

Remco Schuurbiers est originaire des Pays-Bas, il vit et travaille actuellement à Berlin. Son travail se situe aux confins de la vidéo et de l'audio numérique, créant ainsi des compositions, installations et performances abstraites. Il travaille souvent sur des projets en collaboration avec des artistes de la scène électronique et produit des performances audiovisuelles, compositions ou improvisations. Par ailleurs, il travaille en tant que photographe, et co-organisateur du 'Club Transmediale' et de 'The art of pingpongcountry'. Depuis peu, il travaille en collaboration avec le compositeur hollandais Huib Emmer sous le pseudonyme 'Datenreport' et également avec Radboud Mens pour l'?uvre "Pulse".

Cette performance de Radboud Mens (son) et Remco Schuurbiers (vidéo) est une composition multimédia improvisée, fondée sur le dialogue entre les deux artistes. Les connexions numériques systématiques image/son s`opposent dans cette performance à une recherche de structures d`équivalences intuitives. Le matériau sonore et visuel de Pulse est un matériau numérique auto-généré. Il part de formes géométriques minimales les plus basiques et de sons basses fréquences, et se développe lentement en une texture hypnotique et de grande complexité. www.art-action.org

Somebody is playing with a hammer on his foot.

Rolf Schuurmans was born in Holland in 1972, and now he works and lives in Antwerpen, Belgium. He makes sculptures, music/sounds, and films/video, sometimes in combination. Lately his focus has been on film.

Instants arrive and take place for us and in us. Like the girl appearing in a gust, as a goddess of winds, whose movements settle into a gesture, a suite of still images. Between the instants relations unfold, the evident as well as the invented. The hand that halts in writing sentence after sentence implies a loop, a stepping back. There, what has been felt takes form. The jolts, abrasions, and stops in the arrival of images make up this body of instants from which language flows. —Hannes Schüpbach (Translation: Elizabeth Tucker)

Hannes Schüpbach was born in Winterthur (Switzerland) in 1965. He is a visual artist and writer. Since 1999 Schüpbach has completed ten silent films. However, his artistic practice with elements of the cinematographic dates back to 1990, with spatial installations and serial paintings that can be experienced through movement. In the exhibition Stills and Movies at Kunsthalle Basel, 2009, a number of his large, connected series of paintings were shown for the first time. The exhibition also highlighted the conceptual interconnections between installations, performances, and films by Schüpbach; they all entice movement and unfold through memory. Cat.: Hannes Schüpbach: Cinema Elements, Films, Paintings, and Performances 1989–2008, Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2009, distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. His films have been presented at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, Tate Modern, London (2009); CCCB Barcelona, Kunstmuseum Bern (2011); Centre Pompidou, Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images, London, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2012); Arsenal, Berlin, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (“Conversations at the Edge”), Toronto International Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2013); International Film Festival Rotterdam, Literaturhaus Zürich (2014).

The narrator in the moving image work GALAXY is technology itself. The story is generated by an algorithm and offers an interpretation of the brief meeting of the two characters Touch and Long Swipe, an encounter of love and disappointment. Small deviations in the language and the narrative logic reveal our social imprint of how stories are expected to be told and how technology is programmed to follow these perceptions. The mise en scéne is a computer-generated galaxy of objects and images reminiscent of the organic, but dismembered and fragmented, reflecting on the possibility of creating new worlds and stories in digital space by following a subjective system of ordering.

Dagmar Schürrer is a media artist based in Berlin, Germany. The digital image, found and generated, is her material to form a visual language beyond analogue perception. She assembles found footage, digitally generated objects and animations, text, drawings and sound to form intricate video sound montages, presented on screen, as installations or combined with new technologies such as augmented reality. She holds a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martin´s College in London, UK. Her work has been exhibited internationally, amongst others at the New Contemporaries at the ICA London, the Moscow Biennale for Young Art, at the Museum of Waste in Changsha, China, the Transmediale Vorspiel in Berlin and LUX moving image London. Her videos have been screened at numerous festivals: SUPERNOVA in Denver, Seattle Film Festival, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, the Horn Experimental Film Festival in Israel, Tricky Women Festival in Vienna, or the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz. In recent years she received the Goldrausch Scholarship of the Senate of Berlin and was shortlisted for the Berlin Art Prize and the Tenderpixel Award in London.

THE CRACK-UP “ the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise ” (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up, 1936) Glaciers take time and glaciers hold time immensely, with sorrow and not sorrow, worry and not worry. There is a light that casts on and cast out from within, `a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight` and slowly dissolving, it sounds enormous, urgent.

Jonathan Schwartz lives in Vermont (usa) where his creative practice includes 16mm films, things that look like list-making and collecting as a mode of research, and teaching film/associative thinking. He has had solo screenings Austrian Film Museum, UnionDocs, SF Cinematheque, Cinema Project, TIFF/Free Screen, and more. His work has been included in many film festivals including New York, Ann Arbor, Rotterdam, Toronto, Punto de Vista, Recontres Internationales, Exis, and more.

an old photo of student teacher population - a transference of ideas -
language games/code phrases.
a song is sung - popular and bright -
borrowed by alex and the droogs - behavior modification-
found on the street, a man accompanies a cd player -
a cover up.
` I`m singing in the rain
Just singing in the rain
What a glorious feelin`
I`m happy again
I`m laughing at clouds
So dark up above
The sun`s in my heart
And I`m ready for love
 ` 

initial conversation came via boston based `neptune` -
inquiring into a visual supplement to track 6, copper green.


jonathan schwartz- mostly boston (usa) based- works primarily in film and sound. some works have shown in new york film festival - views form the avant-garde, rotterdam film fiestival, recontres intl, bfi London Film Festival, ICA, TIE, Harvard Film Archive, Images Fetsival, and more.

a logic sore lines drawn for structures, for community, for notes collected like anagrams. the radio sounds like an invitation to scramble all belongings and float them through the air as jets. or ?The Bridge Between Matter & Spirit is Matter Becoming Spirit? (soleri) this film is part of an 11 film project ? treating each as a song ? an album totaling 331/3 minutes - referencing the note that 331/3rpm was created in conjunction with projected image to prolong sounds response time to image time ? prior, the phonograph needed to be turned over in middle of a film reel ? an interruption. An interruption; each of the 11 films are shot as in camera rolls (30.5 meters/no edits) ? then, sound is a response. Or an echo. a logic sore is an anagram for arcologies.

Jonathan Schwartz, (boston usa) works primarily in film and sound. He has made works culled from family audio recordings, travels to far lands, wonderings in familiar lands, collage materials, and exaggerated sound recordings. Some these works have shown in Europe, usa, and Canada in places such as bfi London Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, New York Film Festival, TIE ? experimental cinema exposition. The project of the 16mm film/ lp record in 11 parts/songs will be finished in the end of 2007.

all for the prevention of violence, check the manual, it might die in the seventies. the distance is now your compass so follow the shadows to your resting spot. or I was wondering if sincerity could override irony and flood out some emotions passed. of past situations: it was said that 331/3 rpm was created in conjunction with early cinema - to prolong sound for image. then- all for the extension of time, check the echo, it might disappear into the clouds. the photographs are now your compass so follow the land to your old imagined worlds. or I was wondering if this picture in my hand could conjure the past to emotions present. of present situations: this 3 minute film is one of 11 which create an album of films totalling 331/3 minutes ? to prolong connection to pasts. then- of future situations: all for the prevention of violence.

Jonathan Schwartz, (Boston, USA) works primarily in film and sound. He has made works culled from family audio recordings, travels to far lands, wanderings in familiar lands, collage materials, and exaggerated sound recordings. Some these works have shown in Europe, the USA, and Canada, in places such as bfi London Film Festival, TIE ? experimental cinema exposition, AntiMatter. He is currently finishing a 16mm film/ lp record in 11 parts/songs.

Mélange d'époques, karaoké:en 1968, Heintje chante la vieille chanson régionale "Mama"...Fondu enchaîné: un enfant de neuf ans regarde, maussade, quelque chose à la lentille, pendant que, dans la rue, les étudiants se révoltent. Un autre tube de cette époque, "Es fährt ein Zug nach Nirgendwo", conduit au groupe "Fehlfarben", qui montent sur scène en 2003 à Berlin et évoquent 1982: " Quand la réalité te dépasse, tu n'as plus d'ami, pas même l'alcool". Le punk allemand au meilleur de lui-même, qui dicte le tempo du film. Un voyage linéaire de 1945 à aujourd'hui avec de nombreux sauts dans le temps: les années 1848 dans le lied de Schuman, là-dessus un mirador qui rappelle le mur de Berlin - il se trouve près d'un container Toys'r us...des paysages allemands, symbole de la fin des utopies, chagrin d'amour, o Marie, jamais, plus jamais Auschwitz, mais des bombes sur Belgrade...du petit garçon à l'homme nu qui est allongé sur la plage dans la position de Christ...Es fährt kein Zug nach Nirgendwo...: (fr = "Il n'y a pas de train vers nulle part..."): Mélange d'époques. Karaoké. C'était au temps...

Herbert Schwarze, Allemagne né en 1959. De 1988 à 1993 études à la DFFB à Berlin. Cinéaste, dramaturge et régisseur. Membre de la commission de sélection des journées internationales du court-métrage d'Oberhausen, Allemagne. vit à Berlin. Filmographie DAS BLEIBT DAS KOMMT NIE WIEDER (1988-1992) GRETCHEN 2000 (1994) HUNGER NACH MEHR (mit Jutta Doberstein) (2001) UND IMMER WIEDER GEHT DIE SONNE AUF (2000-2005) und andere

Tanja speaks English and small talk. Thorsten likes to eat „pocket coffee“ Tillmann loves team building events. He recently found one of the three door openers needed to escape from the chamber of horrors while visiting an „escape room“ together. Thorsten is „top tax rate“ Tanja is „Veganuary“ Tillmann is the first to be dismissed. Seedless Fruits is about the founding of a new company whose product or service remains unknown. We glide through an imposing company headquarters that gradually becomes more and more cracked. It is a satirical commentary on the abysses of neoliberal office worlds and alienated labour in a self-perpetuating construct of value creation ­without content.

Stefanie Schwarzwimmer (*1990 in Linz) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Berlin. From 2012 to 2018, she studied art and digital media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Constanze Ruhm. Her graduation film Silent Revolution was awarded the Academy Prize. Schwarzwimmer completed the Berlin Programme for Artists in 2017 and was a participant in the Goldrausch programme in 2022. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen (2020), at Deborah Bowmann in Brussels (solo exhibition, 2021), at Kasseler Kunstverein (2022), at Oberösterreichischer Kunstverein (solo exhibition, 2024) and in solo screenings at Kunstverein der Rheinlande und Westfahlen Düsseldorf as part of the ‘Another Eye’ series (2024) and at KW Berlin as part of a ‘Pogo Bar’ event (2024).

In Sans histoire, an epic river of thought, current fears of the end of civilization are both “without story” and “without narrative”. Disturbing images of animals in the night, visions of a technologized future and images of people dancing to excess or fleeing war combine to generate an apocalyptic atmosphere. Yet what seems dystopian at first conceals a utopian potential for a new beginning: time and again, Schweizer deploys images of waves, oceans and currents that sweep through what she shows, washing it away and absorbing it. Maya Schweizer draws our attention to oblivion as a reality determined by human life. In this paradox lies her proposal for confronting the existential fears of our time: Sans histoire is a space for honoring memory and a monument to oblivion.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris, studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence, at the Hochschule der bildenden Künste Leipzig (HGB), where she completed her pre-diploma, and at the Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin in the class of Lothar Baumgarten, where she graduated in 2006 and was awarded the title of Meisterschülerin in 2007. Schweizer works in a variety of media (including photography and textiles), although her focus is on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Jewish Museum Berlin, 2023, Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin - Exhibition winner of the HAP Grieshaber 2022 award, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Kunstverein Leipzig, 2018, Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2016, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 2014, Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011, Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster, 2010. She has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials including Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Manifesta 13 Marseille, 2020, Anren Biennale China, 2018, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007,Berlin Biennale, 2006. Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th and the 71.rst Berlin International Film Festival, Berlinale (in 2017 and 2021), the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020) and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen several times. Examples of the Awards, project grants and residencies, include; Funding programme for women artists in film/video, 2024, Dagesh Art Award 2023, HAP-Grieshaber-Prize, 2022, e-flux film award, 2019, Artist in Residence, La Non-Maison, 2014, Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, 2008–2010, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, (Walther and Franz König, 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015) and Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010). Schweizer works in Germany and France.

“ A thin crack extending from the roof, down the front of the building, and into the adjacent lake” notes the narrator as he arrives at the House of Usher, thus opening up a parallel between the Irish setting of Maya Schweizer’s cinematic association and Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of horror. Orson Welles and other cinematic ghosts seem to lead the spectator of A Tall Tale onwards, passing through a landscape of ruins and films and ruins of films that evoke phantoms and fairies.

Maya Schweizer (b.in Paris, France) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the university, Aix-Marseille I, at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and Berlin University of the Arts, where she graduated. Maya Schweizer exhibited at Kunstverein Leipzig (2017-2018), Drawing Room Hamburg (2017-2018), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016); Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl (2016); Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen (2016); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015);GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig (2015); MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (2015). She recently screened at Videoart at Midnight, Berlin (2018), Traverses Vidéo, Toulouse (2018), Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada (2017), Cinema in viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria (2017), in Oberhausen 63. International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen (2017) and at the 67. Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin (2017). She received the Research stipends from the Berlin Senat (2017), Research grant from Goethe Institute Neapels and the Fundazione Morra-Museo Nitsch, Naples (2017), and the residency at the Watchtower, Flutgraben, Berlin (2016-2017).

The film begins with footage of a city of ruins, when the entire cityscape of Warsaw is covered with stones. It is 1945. Themed around stones as carriers of historical memory, the movie is so closely filmed that the viewer can never see the city`s memorials in their entirety. Special attention, though, is paid to the author of the Umschlagplatz Wall, a monument located in the former Ghetto. Hanna Szmalenberg is explaining the process of realization of the Umschlagplatz as the camera winds through a snow-covered sculpture garden.

Maya Schweizer, born in Paris studied art and art history at the university of Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998). She moved to Germany and studied at the School of Visual Arts in Leipzig (HGB) (1999-2002) and move in Berlin 2003 where she finished her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) with Professor Lothar Baumgarten and graduated in 2006. She had solo shows in Westfalischen Kunstverein, Muenster (2010), Frankfurter Kunstverein, (2011) with Clemens von Wedemeyer, in the Kunstverein Langenhagen (2013), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (2015), at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2016). Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as “Of Mice and Men,” Berlin Biennale (2006), “Storylines,” Kunstraum Munich, (2006), “Um-Kehrungen, Interaktion I - Speaker”s Corner,” Kunstverein Braunschweig (2007), “Magellaneous Cloud,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2007), “Urban Stories,” The X Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius (2009), “Auto-Kino!,” Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin (2010), “Ambigous Being,” exhibitions in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Taipei, tamtamART, Berlin / Kav16 Community Gallery, Tel Aviv / Hong Gah Museum, Taipei (2012), “Die Stadt, die es nicht gibt,” Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2012), “Vot ken you mach!,” Kunsthaus Dresden (2013), efa (Elisabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA (2013). At “Villa Romana 1905”2013 Das Künstlerhaus in Florenz,” Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, (2013), “Gestern die Stadt von Morgen,” Kunstmuseum Mälheim an der Ruhr, (2014),. “Sammlungsalphabet,” Sammlungsausstellung, Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig (2014), and the forthcoming “Im inneren der Stadt. Öffentlicher Raum und Frei-Raum,” Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, (2015). At the Museum MWW Muzeum Wspó?czesne, Wroc?aw, Poland, (2015), Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, (2016), in VOX, Montreal (2016), and at POLIN Museum, Warsaw (2016).

A video work, in which the daily routine of Les Milles is caught up by its past - a former brickyard in the town`s center was used as internment camp for Germans during World War II and served as concentration camp later on. With the use of montage cutting techniques the artist succeeds in letting the past burst into present.

Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts (with Lothar Baumgarten). Maya Schweizer works with diverse media: the focus of her work lies in the making of short films based on documentary material. „Identity, biography, politics, history and memory are recurring themes in Maya Schweizer’s photographs and videos... In general, the artist generates an incomplete tableau of collective memory and questions the way history is produced and visually recorded. „(Cynthia Krell). The artist approaches the relation of montage editing techniques with the concept of film and memorial and film as memorial — a relation which traces back to the very beginnings of montage as it does to research findings by French historian Pierre Nora. Recurring moments in Schweizer’s multiform art practice revolve around the examination of subtly treated processes of memory regarding historic-political events in public space. In the places, structures and situations she investigates, historical threads intersect. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (KdFS), 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa), TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany 2015. Edith Seeshow’s Notes at the Kunstverein Langenhagen, 2013. Metropolis. Report from China with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2011. The Same Story Elsewhere at the Westfälisher Kunstverein, Münster, Germany, 2010. Schweizer was also involved in many international exhibitions, such as; Inside the City. Public Space and Free Space at the GAK, Bremen, Germany, 2015. Vot ken you mach ?, Muzeum Wspólczesne Wroclaw, Poland, 2015. Collection Alphabet at the Museum of Contemporary Art (GfZK), Leipzig, 2014. The city that doesn´t exist at Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 2012. Ambigous Being, Hong Gah Museum,Taipei 2012. Take me to your leader!, Kunstmuseum Bergen, Norway, 2011. Here and There, at the Wallace Gallery, New York and at the Oonagh Young Gallery, in Dublin, 2011. 15 Jahre Villa Aurora. Transatlantische Impulse, AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2011. Of Other Spaces at the Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2011.

From the classroom, is a split screen projection that consists of found images from YouTube. The left image shows dancing girls from the classroom that have apparently been filmed by their friends during their break. On the right image one sees a blackboard with a diary-style text written on it. The text describes the route a woman takes everyday to work.

http://www.mayaschweizer.com/site/DOWNLOADS/Mschweizerbio.pdf Born 10 january 1976 in Maisons-Alfort, France Lives in Berlin ----- February 2007 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Master Degree January 2005 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Diploma April 2003 Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany Fine art School, Berlin In the class of Lothar Baumgarten and Katharina Sieverding. 2000-2002 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany School of visual arts, Leipzig June 1998 Licence, Degree of Visual arts 1998-1995 Université d ́Aix-en-Provence Visual arts. June 1995 Bachelor ́s degree, option Visual arts, Aix-en-Provence, France Residency Programm, Prizes : 2008 Villa Aurora, Artits Grant from the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles 2008-2010 Karl-Hofer Stipendium, Grant from the Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin 2006 First Prize of the German Programm Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2006 Grant from the DAP, (Department of the visual arts), Paris, France 2005-2006 Residency and Film Project with Clemens von Wedemeyer at the Contemporary Art Center of in Bretigny, France Realisation and Production of the film Rien du tout (nothing at all) with Clemens von Wedemeyer.

2004, 80 years after Fritz Lang?s travel to New York and exactly in the estimated time of the futuristic projections of his film ?Metropolis?? We had come to China to find film locations, to talk with workers and architects, screenwriters and novelists in Shanghai and Beijing. To investigate, whether the whole film could be re-staged here. But do we want this film to repeat itself, for it to become ?real?? ? Maybe here in China we have seen a variation of ?Metropolis?, which has already become true?

Clemens von Wedemeyer: Clemens von Wedemeyer was born in Göttingen, Germany, in 1974. He studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts of Leipzig (prof. Astrid Klein). He received numerous international awards including the Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen, Germany (2005), the VG Bildkunst Award for Experimental Film and Video?art, Munich Film Festival, Germany (2002), the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig, Germany.

It opens in the dark, in a corridor; water is flowing ... Voices echo in these sewer tunnels; it is the abyss of Munich, under the river Isar. The voices tell fragments of stories: about vanished people, violence, memory loss—while the camera is now above ground, scanning the city’s façades, including those of the “Third Reich.” The city appears as a body winding its way through time, past and present. Like a thread through memories, a spiral runs through it: a shell, a whirlpool, the turn of a staircase, the ever-recurring voices of the past. The film is a collage: it jumbles traces of history and forms of nature, bringing images, voices and sounds from different sources to the same level. A story of living beings and living environments, of fossils which challenge our perception of time.

Born in Paris, she studied art and art history in Aix-en-Provence (1995-1998), moved to Berlin in 1998 and worked for a year as an assistant for artistic projects in Küntlerhaus Bethanien. From 1999 to 2002, begins art studies at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and continues in early 2003 in the class of Lothar Baumgarten at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she received her postgraduate studies degree (Meisterschülerin Abschluss) in 2007. Schweizer works with different media, with a particular focus on experimental video works. She has had numerous solo exhibitions (including Westfälischer Kunstverein Münster 2010, Frankfurter Kunstverein 2011, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden 2014, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 2016, Kunstverein Leipzig 2018, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2020/21, Double Feature, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2021) and has shown her work in group exhibitions and at biennials (including Berlin Biennale, 2006, Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2013, Kunsthaus Dresden, 2016, Anren Biennale 2017, China, Manifesta 13, 2020, Neuen Berliner Kunstverein e.V., Berlin 2020, Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2022, Forum expanded exhibition, Silent Green, Berlin 2022). Her videos have already been selected for numerous festivals and events, including Forum expanded during the 67th (2017) and the 72.nd (2022) Berlin International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival (2017, 2020), Gli Incontri Internazionali del Cinema, Sorrento, Italy (2019), at the 36. Kasseler Dokfest, (2019) and at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022), where L’étoile de mer was awarded the e-flux prize in 2019. Examples of grants, and artist residencies she has received include a grant from the Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (2008), Studio grant, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin (2008–2010), Toni and Albrecht Kumm Prize for the Promotion of Fine Arts, (2009), Artist in Residence, Lieu d’arts contemporains 3bisf, Aix-en-Provence, France (2010), Košice Artist in Residence (K.A.I.R.), Košice, Slovakia (2011), Artist in Residence, Museum POLIN, Warsaw, Poland (2016),work grant from the Berlin Senate (2019), the Funding programme for women artists in film/video, (2021), the Research Grant from the Berlin Senate as well (2017, 2021). So far, four monographs on her work have been published: Voices, Stimmen (Walther and Franz König, Köln 2121), Where Ivy Cracks The Wall (Naima, Paris / Berlin 2019), Lieux de Mémoire and Desire (Archive Books, Berlin 2015), Maya Schweizer?The Same Story Elsewhere (Spector Books, Leipzig 2010)

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Maya Schweizer was born in 1976 in Paris, France and studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, and Berlin University of the Arts. She received international grants and most recently Project grant "Lieux de Mémoire and Desire",Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, 2015. The Exhibition sponsor from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, TCG Nordica, Kunming, China, 2013. The Robert Bosh Foundation, in Slovakia 2011, also in the Villa Aurora, Artist Grant from the Goethe-Institute in Los Angeles 2008-2009. Together with Clemens von Wedemeyer, she won the Prize of the German Competition at the Oberhausen Film Festival Oberhausen 2006. She recently had solo shows, such as; “Art | Memory | Place”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin Ireland, “Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles”, Kuns