This is not a time for metaphors
Shortfilm – Multi-Channel – Work in Progress
The artist Andrea Fraser said that in these times of exaggerated and distorted political spectacle, art should not be poetical and metaphorical, but factual and understated.
In the short-films (one of many iterations of short-films with the same material) I collage contradictory layers of meaning to ask what should be done with art in these times.
Over a general mood of imminent danger texts from (mostly) psychoanalytically inclined social theorists, literary writers, art-historians and journalists from the past hundert and twenty years are spoken. Their ideas are slightly distorted, so that they mean that metaphorical language and imagery is one of the main ills of our times, opening society up for manipulation and exploitation. My drawings in acrylic ink after woodprints by Kuniyoshi refer to suggestive and symbolic use of imagery.
| media: |
1 video with sound (HD, 9:45); basic animation with acrylic ink drawings |
| project start: | april 2018 |
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public presentations (all versions, old and new): |
nov 2022 (version 4): screening at cmri, langenthal jun 2020 (version 3): “For” group show, milieu, bern |
| links: |
short-film on vimeo (link to excerpt): https://vimeo.com/292597816
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| credits: |
nairs zentrum für gegenwartskunst, sattelkammer bern, moritz sommet (japanology background on kuniyoshi), |