FAFF2010 Programme
Wednesday 18th August 2010
Çağlar Çetin (TR)
Peki (Alright)
A motionless woman, who is surrounded by ceaseless speeches of her family, colleges and childhood memories, comes across with people shaking their heads. Would she really like to take any action?
Sarah Lüdemann (NL)
Other Voices
If you do not have a language, do you have an identity? Twelve “impossible” conversations between the artist (German) and participants speaking their own mother tongue arranged into a symphony of voices, sounds and gestures.
Jenny Triggs (UK)
The Unnamable
A short animated film based on ‘The Unnamable’ by Samuel Beckett
Tory Smith (UK)
Bariera Jezykowa (Language Barrier)
Language Barrier (Barieka Jezykowa) portrays the inability of words to approximate the visual image and successful translations from one language to another. The short film incites the visual and spoken word through the production of dynamic exchange. The combination of elements; taught language, the art of translation, identity, and memory, confront the prejudices of linguistic lack to shape the perception and understanding of foreign languages.
Lernert & Sander (NL)
How To Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal
Martin de Waal is a Dutch artist who uses his own body as a medium and pushes the boundaries of self-alteration, in order to reflect on human identity and people’s judgement about physical appearance. In How Yo Explain It To My Parents: Martin de Waal, he speaks with two people who might be worried about this – his parents. The conversation shifts to expectations, understand and memories of the furniture and artworks in the parental home.
Keren Cytter (DE)
Der Spiegel (The Mirror)
With simple means, Keren Cytter stages a Shakespearean drama in a stripped contemporary Berlin apartment. A 42 year old woman is confronted by her mirror image with the fact she’s not 16 anymore, she is being rejected by her crush and has no eyes for the man who loves her.
Jacki Storey (UK)
Vanitas
Vanitas is the unmediated recording of a live camera obscura projective installation. Ordinary objects are animated in real time using synchronicity, juxtaposition, transparency and transition and the manipulation of light. By perceptually transforming the normal appearance and behaviour of objects, the realm of the Uncanny is explored.
Jane Chavez-Dawson (UK)
Seeing The Woods For The Trees
‘Seeing The Wood For The Trees’ sees Jane Chavez-Dawson build upon the idea of Frieda Kahlo as a cultural signifier, Kahlo is synonymous with the myth & truth of her suffering, this persona often depicted in her own work is adopted by Chavez-Dawson. Yet here the mechanics of the work is made transparent and a multi visual presentation; from the initial video, to post-production to a backdrop for a live performance is revealed, each phase adds a new level to the audience’s reading of Chavez-Dawson as Kahlo with the prospect of the footage being considered authentic.
www.myspace.com/janechavezdawson
