Terence Gower, Ciudad Moderna, 2004
Artist: Terence Gower (born 1965 in British Columbia, Canada; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Digital video; 6 min 20 sec. Description: “The video Ciudad Moderna is a composite of clips taken from the popular Mexican film Despedida de Casada, released in 1966. The source film is treated as a document of […]
Dorit Margreiter, 10104 Angelino View Drive, 2004
Artist: Dorit Margreiter (born 1967 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna). Materials: 16 mm film, color; 6 min 56 sec. Description: A film based on John Lautner’s Sheats-Goldstein Residence (1963), documenting its movable features. The house was used in many movies as hub for villains. Basic impulses and desires are expressed in modernist […]
David Claerbout, The Bordeaux Piece, 2004
Artist: David Claerbout (born 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium; lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium and Berlin, Germany). Materials: Single-channel video projection, color, dual mono over headphones and speakers; 13 hrs 43 min. Description: 13-hour video of Rem Koolhaas’s Maison à Bordeaux (1996), itself a comment on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s courtyard houses and glass […]
Tacita Dean, Palast, 2004
Artist: Tacita Dean (born 1965 in Canterbury, England; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Film, 16 mm, projection, color, and sound; 10 min, 30 sec. Description: “…Palast was created in Berlin, where the artist has lived since she undertook a DAAD fellowship with the Berlin Artist-in-Residence programme in 2000. It comprises a sequence of still […]
David Maljkovic, Scenes for a New Heritage, 2004
Artist: David Maljkovic (born 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia; lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia). Materials: Video (color, sound); 11:30 min. Description: Video triptych based on a socialist monument at Petrova Gora Memorial Park in the Petrova Gora mountain range outside Vojnic in Croatia. The monument is in memory of soldiers who fell in World War II. […]
Tamar Guimarães, Canoas, 2010
Artist: Tamar Guimarães (born 1967 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark). Materials: Digital color video, with sound, transferred from 16mm film; 13 min 30 sec. Description: “Canoas focuses on the preparations for a cocktail party at Casa das Canoas – the house Oscar Niemeyer built for himself in the early 1950s. […]
Knut Åsdam, Tripoli, 2010
Artist: Knut Åsdam (born 1968 in Trondheim, Norway; lives and works in Oslo, Norway). Materials: RED to HD; 24min, color, stereo Description: “Tripoli emphasizes the political history and architectural traces through the preserved relics of our recent past. It also emphasizes psychological and traumatic dimension of a place reflecting political history. In the city of […]
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Silberhöhe, 2003
Artist: Clemens von Wedemeyer (born 1974 in Göttingen, Germany; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: 35 mm/DVD, 1:1,66, stereo, 10 min, loop. Description: “In Halle-Silberhöhe, an area of pre-fab blocks of flats in East Germany, blocks of flats are being torn down. The film addresses the mission of an urban-planning concept in the late […]
Sarah Morris, Points on a Line, 2010
Artist: Sarah Morris (born 1967 in Sevenoaks, England; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: HD digital color video; 35 minutes 48 seconds. Description: “The Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois and the Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut. Philip Johnson and Mies van der Rohe. Curator and architect. Architect and architect. “Points on a Line” directed […]
Adrien Missika, Dôme, 2011
Artist: Adrien Missika (born 1981 in Paris, France; lives and works in Berlin, Germany). Materials: Super 8 film with sound transferred to DVD; 10 min 29 secs. Description: “The Super-8 film Dôme (2011) is perhaps Missika’s most ambitious work to date. Here, an anonymous young man explores a vast domed structure built by Oscar Niemeyer […]
