Challenging, doubt-inducing and transformative aspects of ‘the future’ can
be perceived in Vito Acconci’s repetitive acts, recorded in a super8 film
‘Break-Through’ or in Philippe Meste’s detonative video ‘LHRB’. Rachel
Reupke’s ‘Infrastructure’ is born of a fascination with movie special
effects and narrative devices. And Carsten Höller’s ‘One minute of doubt’
and ‘Punktefilm’ induct a representation of our ‘timeless everyday’, and
magically echo the playful nature of his present turbine hall insta llation.
Laurent Montaron shows us a fictive exploration of time and travel through
his `Readings’, while Matthieu Laurette’s impressive cocktail of celebrity
lookalikes brings us into confusion at a blured vision of the limits between
performance and observation. Mai Yamashita and Naoto Kobayashi’s star, in
‘When I wish Upon a Star’ gives us time we need to wish upon.
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When one sees a car spasmodically breaking during the rush hours on the streets of Antwerp while spreading a message of doubt (Carsten Höller’s “One Minute of Doubt”) one gets perplexed because what one sees is really strange and not what one expects. But after a few days, or even hours or minutes, the reality experience changes into an art experience. The gap between art and life is in these examples both open and closed, although not for the same person, just for different persons at the same time.
thoughts / description from 16beaver.
doubt-inducing? spreading the message of doubt? sounds like a film worth seeing.
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