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Joué magnifiquement par eux-mêmes et sans scénario, "CHANCE" raconte la tentative nocturne de quatre jeunes soudanais, demandeurs d’asile, de rejoindre l’Angleterre depuis la Belgique. Filmé entièrement dans la remorque d’un camion, ce docu-fiction est une rencontre rare, privilégiée et profondément humaine avec quatre individus et avec une réalité trop souvent invisible.

Effi Weiss (née en Israël en 1971) et Amir Borenstein (né en Israël en 1969) sont un duo d’artistes-cinéastes qui travaillent ensemble depuis 1999. Leur travail croise différentes disciplines comme la vidéo, les installations et les projets participatifs. Leurs œuvres sont diffusées dans des musées, centres d’Art contemporains et festivals. En dehors de leurs projets communs, ils animent aussi des ateliers avec des publics de toutes origines. "CHANCE" est leur troisième long métrage.

Places of Articulation: Five Obstructions takes the spectator on a journey across borders, from Northern Ireland to Tibet, passing through Germany, Albania and Flanders. However, it explores a more deeply engraved border, the invisible border of our oral cavity, which marks and defines the sounds we can emit and the words we can pronounce. Since biblical times and up till nowadays asylum procedures, this border is exploited to discriminate and divide. Moving between territories – sonic, anatomical and political ones – this installation examines how voice and pronunciation are used as identifiers, eventually become mobile checkpoints, determining fates and sometimes costing lives. Employing different imaging methods and visualisations, it renders these checkpoints visible, while questioning the limits of identification and revealing blurred lines or zones of ambiguity that defy binary categorisation.

Effi & Amir, nés et grandis en Israël, travaillent en duo depuis 1999 et vivent à Bruxelles depuis 2005. Ils ont étudié les beaux-arts à l'Académie Bezalel de Jérusalem et au Sandberg Institut d'Amsterdam et ont appris eux-mêmes, bien plus tard, comment faire des films. Leur travail, qui utilise les médias audiovisuels, la performance et les stratégies participatives, se situe à la frontière floue entre le documentaire et la fiction, et traite des mécanismes de construction - de l'identité, de l'appartenance au groupe, de l'histoire et de l'œuvre elle-même. Le travail d'Effi & Amir a récemment été primé dans des festivals de films documentaires (docAviv, IndieLisboa, En ville !, festival Jean rouch) et ils sont les lauréats du Prix de parcours documentaire audoiovisuel 2022 de la Scam.

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Born 1970 Lives and works in Oslo In the project "Proportional, Integral, Derivative: Registration of an expanding perimeter around Kunstnernes Hus" I utilise the board´s room in Kunstnernes Hus as a base for drone flying inside and outside of Kunstnernes Hus. The structures and Neo Classicist ideals of the Royal Palace Park create a web programmed into the drone. The Functionalism in Kunstnernes Hus defines the framework of video based piloting.

With the installation ARCHIVAL GRID, Charlotte Eifler and Clarissa Thieme present a filmic analysis in three parts. The work explores the tools of evidence production, the legal impact of cartographic surveys and the social processing of collective traumata and war crimes, as well as the criticism of it by those affected. The source materials are videos from one of the most extensive publicly accessible archives on war crimes: the archive of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). In 2001, the ICTY conducted site visits with witnesses in Sarajevo to prepare indictments related to the 1992–1996 siege of the city. The purpose of these site visits was the detailed reconstruction of war crimes, particularly the targeted shelling of civilians. Interviews with the local witnesses at the original sites were documented on video, combined with 360-degree photographs and geographical surveys. The first part of ARCHIVAL GRID combines the forensic materials gene- rated from the ICTY evidence documents with transcripts from the court proceedings and interviews conducted today with witnesses and former employees of the ICTY. These recordings of different surveying practices in the fictitious setting of a future archive architecture shape the cinematic discursive framework. This reflects close parallels of perspectives in the technologies of witnessing, evidence and testimony and juxtaposes them with the demands of the affected people for recognition of their suffering. In a second part, ARCHIVAL GRID analyses the historical backdrop of tools of inquiry and their database logic as well as their entanglements with governmentality and coloniality. Algorithms collect data from digital archives and constantly create, combine and re-organize existing and emerg- ing databases. Through historical surveying instruments, maps and globes from the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden collected und used by the Electors of Saxony, Augustus (1526– 1586) and Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733), Eifler and Thieme reflect on the historic interplay between survey and data collection, its visual representations and absolutistic claims to power. A third part turns once again to the archival ICTY videos to reflect on the specific forms of image production. Juxtaposing the processes and practices of the ICTY film team and the artistic methods that were used in the production of ARCHIVAL GRID, Eifler und Thieme engage with their own positions as filming artists and their role in the interrelation with witnesses of the war.

Charlotte Eifler is an artist and filmmaker spanning performance, video, installation, XR, and sound. Her works address the politics of representation, abstraction, and computation, and are characterized by interdisciplinary forms of collaboration. Focusing on feminist approaches and elements of science fiction, she explores processes of image & history production and imaginations of alternative futures. Charlotte is co-founder and/or member of the networks Digital Critique Leipzig, G-Edit, cobratheater.cobra, FACES – gender,art,technology und feat.Fem. Since Nov 2020, she’s teaching in the department of Media Art/ Film at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). Eifler’s works have been presented at ACM Siggraph Art, Los Angeles (US); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden Baden (DE), Le printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (FR); Sapporo International Art Japan (JN); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE); IMPAKT Utrecht (NL); Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and RENCONTRES INTERNATIONAL Paris among others. Residencies and scholarships facilitated her research in Moskau (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation), New York (KdFs Foundation) and Mexico City (Institutio Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura). /// Clarissa Thieme works with film, performance, text, and installation, combining documentary and fictional methods to explore processes of memory and historical translation as well as their identity implications. For this purpose, Thieme often deals with subjective testimonies in the context of collective traumas and their reconstruction with technical and legal means to trace the fissures that open up between the languages of individual memory and their translation into processes of historical objectification. Her practice is research-oriented and takes a collaborative approach. In series, many of her works link together to form long-term studies that span several years. Since the early 2000s, various artistic projects have taken her to the post-Yugoslav space, where she has collaborated with various archival collections and initiatives.

Two thieves are in an ambiguous room, lights cast a security grid.? How do patterns of dominance shape our bodies and actions? Grids secure, grids order, grids categorize and evaluate. The logic of the grid is not only found in (colonial) geography, but also in digital evaluation systems. Diverse information about bodies, landscapes and situations are fed into binary systems to be classified. The thieves in the video intend to bend, deform and discard the grids - to create space for new disorder.

Charlotte Eifler is an artist and filmmaker. Her works address the politics of representation in relation to technology. Focusing on feminist approaches and elements of science fiction, she explores processes of image production, computation and imaginations of alternative futures. Currently she lectures at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) in the department of Media Art/Film. Charlotte has presented work at Ann Arbor Filmfestival; ACM Siggraph Art, Los Angeles; Museum Würzburg; Le printemps de Toulouse; Sapporo International Art Japan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; IMPAKT Utrecht; Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and ARD Mediathek among others.

Slow Space emmène le spectateur dans un voyage visuel à travers les structures de verre de la ville de Chicago. Intégralement filmé dans l´environnement urbain construit qui compose cette ville Nord-Américaine contemporaine, Slow Spaces représente une enquête frappante dans la manière dont l´espace est décrit, défini et, finalement, vécu. Le réalisateur berlinois Klaus W. Eisenlohr interchange cette relation avec le ´monde´ extérieur grâce à un éventail de transparences structurées, dans les dômes de verre et les atriums qui occupaient tellement les préoccupations modernistes de l´architecture à la recherche d´une dialectique intérieur/extérieur structurée. Les descriptions et ultimement, les avis concernant le statut de l´espace public de Chicago constituent une partie de l´identité du film, à travers une série d´interviews réalisées dans les propriétés privées des participants. Des scènes de rue avec des acteurs complètent cet essai filmique. Ce projet a permis à Klaus W. Eisenlohr d´enquêter sur la relation entre le corps et l´environnement architectural urbain sur une période de trois ans.

Klaus W. Eisenlohr, est basé à Berlin,où il travaille en tant qu´artiste freelance et réalisateur. Il est diplômé d´un MA (équivalent du Master) en photographie, réalisation et projets conceptuels, Université d´Arts de Berlin, 1996. Il a obtenu par la suite un MFA de la School of the Art Institute de Chicago, Etats-Unis. Ila été membre à temps partiel de la faculté d´Arts de Berlin, à la Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art à Dundee et au College of Art Institute de Chicago. En tant qu´artiste-commissaire il est un membre fondateur du festival d´art média Directors Lounge à Berlin. Exposition et projets séléctifs: 2006, Artist-in-Residency à HIAP, Helsinki, Finlande; 2006, ?Standlinien?, Lines of Reference, show de deux artistes à la Banque House Merck Finck & Co. Berlin, DE; 2006, ?Slow Space? Premiere à Arsenal/ Friends of German Kinemathek, Berlin, DE; 2004, ?Match? show de groupe, Kunsthalle Faust Hannover, DE and Inner Spaces Gallery, Poznan PL; 2004, ?Stadt der Plätze?, City of Plazas, show individuel au Foro Artistico, Hannover, DE; 2004, Projet ?Stadtrandzone Mitte? Centre de périphérie urbaine, financé par la bourse "Cast & Cut? et qui a reçu le prix Stiftung Kulturregion Hannover und Nordmedia Fonds GmbH, Hannover, DE; 2003, ?Slow Spaces? projection individuelle à la Cinémathèque de San Francisco, Etats Unis; 2001, Artist-in-Residence à la Künstlerhaus Hooksiel, Wangerland, sur la côte de la Mer du Nord en Allemagne; 1999-2001 Projet ?Slow Space? à Chicago, Etats-Unis, partiellement financé par Airlift Memorial Fellowship, Berlin; 1999, ?Cupola?, show individuel à la galerie municipale de Tuttlingen, DE; 1997, Bourse de travail de Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg, fondation d´art du Baden-Württemberg, Allemagne;

Performance artist Jeroen Eisinga is seated at a small table in front of a wall, which is entirely covered by bees. The pulsating, squirming bee mass gradually covers the artist?s body and face as well. In this gruesome, yet beautifully filmed performance the artist balances on the border between life and death. A claustrophobic image of fearlessness and patience.

Jeroen Eisinga began to work in performance art and film in the early 1990s. He made a series of controversial films in which the idea of suffering and personal danger as artistic expression were central. In his first performance (40-44-PG, 1993) a Volkswagen Beetle without a driver, circles mechanically in circles around the blindfolded artist who walks in circles in the opposite direction. Eisinga`s work deals increasingly with death and transience.

The black-and-white 8mm film of the abandoned facilities of Turku County Prison (1835–2007), documents the layers of messages drawn, scratched and burned on the cell walls. The markings are passages to the shadow of an individual’s psyche, and expose an underbelly which a society simultaneously both generates and hides. The film becomes a codex of a collapsed civilization and evidence of a forbidden zone in the centre of the city. On top of the inmates’ messages, a second layer of graffiti by building squatters, trespassers and other participators has emerged, turning the walls into thickets of obscure visual information and indecipherable communication. The flow of images is punctuated by John Cage’s (1912–1992) composition “Perilous Night” (1964), described as a journey to the nocturnal side of the soul.

Saara Ekström works in film, photography, text and installation. Chronotopes where time and place densify, time that nurtures and erodes, the ambivalent desire to both remember and forget are at the core of her art. Ekström’s work has been shown extensively in various museums and festivals in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She received the Finnish media art prize AVEK-award in 2018 and the prizes of SW Finland in 2017, Finnish Art Society in 1995 and the Aboa prize in 1994. She has been the Helsinki Festival Artist in 2005 and was nominated for both Ars Fennica and Carnegie Art Award prizes in 2010.

Dans « 2 Avenue M », Hakima El Djoudi dépeint les scènes de conflits et de rupture très intenses et, apparemment très passionnées mais aussi très contrôlées et elliptiques, entre un homme et une femme de la haute bourgeoisie. Le développement de séquences dans un appartement luxueux sans éclairage artificiel, et le dialogue entre les deux personnages, intensifient la tension suffocante entre l?homme et la femme, et leurs conflits profonds, pris trop tard pour pouvoir revenir en arrière.

lives and works in Paris and Corsica

Ces images avec leurs couleurs et leurs esthétisme formelles, les rythmes, les sonorités, lorsqu?elles sont combinées évoquent et suggèrent des sensations, des mots et des émotions. Mesure vague, un poème. Mais la naïveté n?est pas de mise. Derrière ces belles images, ces couleurs, toutes ces formes (de casiers gris, de machine pleine de graisses?), cette sonorité de western, tous ces éléments qui m?ont toujours attiré, séduits, tous ces moments réunis qui m?ont ému, finalement m?entraînent, vers ceux que j`avais rejetés en premier lieu, le labeur quotidien des marins pêcheurs, mais filmé, monté, cadré et montré différemment de ce que l?on peu imaginé ou attendre. Mesure vague est un film vidéo ambigu. Derrière ce poème qui se voulait paisible, se trouve une violence d?une constance inaltérée.

Mesure vague, est une vidéo réalisée lors d?une résidence à la Villa Saint Clair de Sète, avec le soutien de la Collectivité Territoriale de Corse en 2006.

Evoking the Olympic marathon from Rome 1960, in which the Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila conquered the African continent’s first gold medal, running barefoot and becoming a sporting legend and a symbol of the Africa that was freeing itself of colonialism, Fischer & el Sani have recontextualised amidst Rome’s controversial rationalist architecture, a new race involving refugees and immigrants staking a claim to their freedom of movement. Fischer & el Sani are examining the complexity of ideological, political and architectural implications of Bikila’s 1960’s Olympic gold medal run to this day.

Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani are visual artists and filmmakers, based in Berlin. They have been working together since 1995. From 2007 until 2010 they have been Associate Professors for Film and Media Art at Sapporo City University, Japan. Since 2015 Nina Fischer is Professor for Experimental Film and Media Art at Uninversity of the Arts, Berlin. International art exhibitions and film festivals they have participated in include Berlinale - International Filmfestival Berlin, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Istanbul Film Festival, Sydney Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Media City Seoul Biennale, Aichi Triennale, and solo exhibitions e.g. at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima, K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Maxxi Museum, Rome.

Exploring hybrid spaces that have been created through strategy games which reflect the relationships between the virtual and physical world. In these spaces, you have the opportunity to explore a different world or create your own with tools available within this space. This is how the controversy ended over how novelist Jules Verne extraordinary journeys were the end of its era, where it was said that it was no longer possible to travel to unknown places on earth. In “ other spaces ” man became wandering with space-time scenarios of different and unusual premise in the virtual worlds or redesigning the place with the concept of hybrid spaces in the virtual world but in reality. The project came through walking around the sites and places that got the trait of the hybrid space with the same hypothesis and tools of these spaces in the virtual world of strategy games in which i found several points that have this particular trait.The starting point was a refugee camp in Calais, northwestern France and the site of the Atlantic Wall in Dunkirk. The first part of the project has been carried out in France and the second part in cairo

Born in 1981, Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes. His work has been highlighted in numerous exhibitions and festivals, among which; Art Game Demos -Festival Nuage Numérique Curated by: Isabelle Arvers Lyon-France 2017, 56th Venice Biennale, "In the Eye of the Thunderstorm" Collateral Event, Curated by: Martina Corgnati, Venice, Italy. “ Experiments in Arab Cinema ” at (Simon Fraser University) “ SFU ”, Vancouver, Canada, 2013 and (Rochester University) New York, USA, 2014. Bamako Biennale, Bamako National Museum, Bamako, Mali (2011). He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in several residency programs, such as: Cité internationale des arts Invited by Institut Francais, Paris-France 2016. Art Omi Artist-in-Residence New York, USA, the Pro Helvetia Artist-in-Residence cycle (Zurich, Switzerland, 2009) and the Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria, 2006 and 2007) and lately Fulbright Grant for 2018-2019.

Since the beginning of the Egyptian revolution, which is not over yet, repeat of the scenes and actions and demands in different ways suggest to you that the scenes are repeated, and acts similar to the chosen scene is composed of fine-conversation is about an act of revolution in the case of repeated systematic and careful with the small increase in the course of the event and we find it in the last minute, and this has turned into two minutes and the same actions but at the same time periods.

Ahmed El Shaer Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1980; lives and works in Egypt. Ahmed El Shaer is a multi-disciplinary artist (installation, photography, sound, video), with a particular interest in digital technologies. His videos combine Machinima, stock footage, 3D animation and experimental soundscapes. He is Co-Founder of ?CAIRO DOCUMENTA? an independent event and he started to establish ?TOLON STUDIO FOR CONTEMPORARY ART? - as an Individual Company, a non-profit organization devoted to contemporary arts. His work has been highlighted in numerous exhibitions and festivals, among which: (2012) Cairo Documenta, Cairo, Egypt, (2011) After the Rage, Beton7 Art Center, Athena, Greece, (2011) Disconnect , the Town House Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, (2011) Bamako Biennale , Bamako National Museum, Bamako, Mali, (2011) The Changing Room, Group Exhibition, Torino-Italy, Presidents Remix, SALT Beyo?lu, Istanbul, Turkey (2011); The Oakland Standard, Contemporary Arab Video Encounter (CAVE), Oakland Museum, California, USA (2011); Cairo Documenta, Cairo, Egypt (2010); Sanctioned Array, White Box, New York, USA (2010); Living Spaces The 2nd AllArtNow Festival for Contemporary Arts, Damascus, Syria (2010); Awkward Conversations, The 17th New York African Film Festival, New Museum, New York and Axis Gallery, New York, USA (2010);Under Current: Contemporary Art from Egypt, SAWA Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2009); Fugitive Video Project 2009 (International Festival for Alternative Film and Video, Dublin and Mantua, 2009); Under Current: Contemporary Art from Egypt (SAWA Gallery, Dubai, 2009); Orebro International Video Art Festival (Orebro, Sweden, 2008); International Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Bari, Italy (2008). He is the recipient of numerous awards and has participated in several residency programs, such as the Pro Helvetia Artist-in-Residence cycle (Zurich, Switzerland, 2009) and the Summer Academy of Fine Arts (Salzburg, Austria, 2006 and 2007).

Spacious landscapes, a cloudless sky decorate the walls surrounding the little zoo in Palestine: Screaming illusoric allegories of freedom. The humans feed the animals and speak to them. A usual day. If it were not for the Giraffe, which was shot dead by the Israeli military; or for the Lions who are only allowed to be imported sterilized. Timidly the workers start talking about what it means to live and work under occupation.

Pary El-Qalqili is a writer, director and curator, based in Berlin. She studied Directing at the University of Television and Film Munich. Her first feature documentary THE TURTLE`S RAGE was released in German cinema in 2012 and won several awards on international film festivals, such as the Dubai International Film Festival, Visions du Réel in Nyon and the Al Jazeera Documentary Festival. The short documentary „ZOOLAND“ is her Diplom movie. For her artistic work she got support and scholarships by the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Robert-Bosch-Stiftung and Künstlerinnenförderung Film/Video of the City of Berlin.

In and around the historical ruins of Fustat in Old Cairo, tensions simmer between the site’s government-appointed guards and residents of a nearby informal settlement, al-Izba. The guards chase away looters and confiscate their equipment, while locals infuriate them by taking shortcuts through the site, occasionally stopping for a smoke. For the guards it would be easiest to keep the site closed until further notice.

Ahmed El Ghoneimy, born in 1986 in Alexandria, Egypt, is a filmmaker and artist currently living between Alexandria and Cairo. His work revolves around interpersonal tensions between the different protagonists presented in his films, such as sons and fathers (Tripoli Tide, 2018), victims and perpetrators (Bahari, 2011), bullies and friends (The Cave, 2013). Alternating between fiction and documentary, his films follow associations and use moments of collision as an opportunity to investigate notions like victimhood, power, and masculinity.

A character is passing time in a desolate beach town. Slowly, the loneliness and alienation she experiencesin theforeign town makes her enter into an uncanny delusional realm, that blurs the memory of her own experiences with that of female protagonists from film history.

Sara Eliassen (b 1977) is a filmmaker based between Oslo and San Francisco. Her film Still Birds premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 and has later screened at several other international film festivals, amongst them Sundance 2010. Eliassen holds an MFA in filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and was a studio fellow at The Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in 2011.

An unexpected encounter on the staircase threw the young man out of his regular routine.

Was born in Tomsk, Siberia. Moved in Moscow in childhood. Studied phylology in "Russian State University for the Humanities", then stuied in "Moscow School of New Cinema" (editing department). Is living in Tel-Aviv since August 2022.

De 1884 à 1914, une étroite bande de terre située entre la colonie britannique de la Côte-de-l`Or et le Dahomey gouverné par la France faisait partie des possessions africaines de l`empire allemand. Le "Togoland" d`alors, qui comprenait le territoire du Togo et la partie orientale du Ghana d`aujourd`hui, a vu la première capitulation allemande de la Première Guerre mondiale. La présence européenne a durablement marqué les esprits et les souvenirs sont vifs, même plus d`un siècle après l`éviction forcée de l`un des principaux acteurs européens du "grand jeu colonial" et plus d`un demi-siècle après les indépendances africaines. Lomé - Adibo et Yendi (Ghana) - Kamina - Wahala : moments de quelques étapes au présent sur le chemin du passé... Langues originales : dagbani, anglais, ifè

1985-1997 : chroniqueur, auteur et producteur radio. 1995-2004 : chargé de programmes documentaires pour chaînes de télévision publiques et privées en France et Allemagne.

“Stretching and blurring the boundaries of video essay, experimental film and home movie, traces of a 1950s homemade melodrama by amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin intermingle with a mournful homage to the author’s grandmother and her vacated home. A powerful mélange of cinematic and domestic spaces, past and present.”

Carl Elsaesser (1988, USA) graduated from Hampshire college and University of Iowa. He lives and works between midcoast and interior Maine and Brooklyn, NY. He has made several short films which have screened at festivals in New York, Berlin, Michigan, Amsterdam, Korea among others. In his work, Elsaesser mixes genres and materials to produce work that “critically investigates the overarching presence of the historical without losing sight of individual experiences of human connection.”

Do-Mystic Uni-Verse: is a visual interpretation of the aftermath of the bomb that went off recently inside of me, It`s about hope and also showing the stagnant life we live. It`s a nine clips subtitled with nine vague, subtle, and desperate sentences "verses", about the dull life of mine, but in the same time there`s a sort of sarcasm in them? The motion mechanism is inspired by the motion of the solar system, performed with home worn out nick nacks. I emulate the solar system to represent infinity and continuation.

Walid elsawi, Egyptian visual artist, based and works in Alexandria. BFA in painting, Alexandria University, 2010. He works with different kinds of media, such as installation, video art and painting. He became interested in the concept of the alienation by the time he graduated, expressing his thoughts through oil paintings; he made a series of 14 oil paintings depicting his self-portrait. In 2011 he discovered the impact of the words and how strong they are, so he used texts and words as another form of showing his personality, he came up with three pieces concentrating on the subliminal messages and how tricky words can be In 2012 he made a piece entitled (a contemporary artist vs. a con artist) a dozen statements, taken from the artist?s ongoing interview project are written on glowing neon boxes, peppered around the space. The interview consists of responses he gives to the question ?are you an artist?? a means of exploring the current climate of contemporary art, and the cult of personality, with a tongue-in-cheek emphasis on certain stereotypes, perceived pre-requisites or trends. Alongside with that, In terms of the alienation concept, I decided to deal with it with a whole different form. I worked on manipulating personal domestic photos, because puzzling the viewer makes them think a little deeper, at the first glance they wouldn`t recognize, but when they take a closer look they would see the trick? Believing that the convincing image is the poor resolution one, the non-designed picture; this makes it more realistic by avoiding the aesthetics of photography, I don`t want to focus on a main item in the picture, I prefer to take raw pictures, to enhance the idea.

"I'll be you if you'll be me 4 - Love Hurts More", une oeuvre d'Åsa Elzén et Markus Wetzel Pendant trois mois en 2006, les artistes se sont isolés sur une petite île inhabitée de la mer Baltique où ils ont réalisé ensemble une série de cours métrages. Dans le même film, ils ont constamment échangé leur rôles, de réalisateur à acteur et inversement, et grâce à cette méthode, ont développé des récits sur un personnage androgyne fictif. Celui qui jouait portait un masque et devenait cet étrange personnage silencieux, seul sur son île, essayant de venir à bout de la nature aliénante, de la solitude, de la mort et de son désir d'amour. Ce "trans-personnage" au sexe toujours changeant habite également un espace entre les deux artistes. Le séjour réel sur l'île est ici une métaphore de l'isolation forcée dans laquelle un couple peut se mettre, mentalement ou physiquement. Cet état ambivalent entre sécurité et isolation a influencé la situation dans laquelle la collaboration a eu lieu. Les artistes s'intéressent aux notions d'hétéronormativité, de genre et de sexualité, et aux limites entre sujet et autre. Au début de "Love Hurts More" (10 mn), le personnage chante la chanson "Love Hurts" sur les rives rocheuses la nuit. Il/elle utilise un générateur pour faire fonctionner une lampe et chante en même temps que le bruit du générateur. Ensuite, il/elle se dirige vers le centre de l'île en s'aidant de la lampe et en traînant le lourd générateur. Il/elle arrive enfin à destination et trouve un cristal caché dans les branches d'un vieil arbre. De retour dans sa petite maison avec son trophée, notre héro/héroïne tente sans enthousiasme de soigner son manque d'amour par une étrange incantation.

Åsa Elzen a obtenu son MFA au Royal University College of Fine Art de Stockholm en 2002. Actuellement, elle suit le Whitney Independent Study Program de New York. Elle travaille sur les installations et l'art vidéo, traitant souvent de féminisme et de questions post-coloniales. Markus Wetzel a obtenu son MFA à la Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst à Zurich. Actuellement, il travaille à New York et Zurich. Dans ses projets, il utilise l'idée de l'île à la fois comme forme réelle et comme forme fictive: ses images numériques, ses installations et ses projets d'extérieur, tout comme ses collaborations tendent vers les limites de la fiction, de l'espace fictif et du récit, vers ce moment où la fiction semble basculer dans la réalité. Depuis 2005, Elzén et Wetzel ont collaboré à trois projets.