{"id":223,"date":"2018-08-09T04:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T04:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/sea01\/?post_type=ux-portfolio&#038;p=693"},"modified":"2025-03-01T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T10:44:00","slug":"start-with-text","status":"publish","type":"ux-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/?ux-portfolio=start-with-text","title":{"rendered":"This is not a time for metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bm-builder clearfix \"><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1581443318246 bm-wrap row-top row-center\" data-module-col=\"6\" data-change-color=\"off\" data-backcolor=\"transparent\" data-frontcolor=\"\" data-logocolor=\"\" data-goto-top=\"off\" data-goto-top-spacing=\"0\" data-goto-disable-m=\"\" data-groupsameheight=\"off\"><div class=\"module-inside group-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 100px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 100px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:30px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1581443318361 col-offset-0\" data-module-col=\"6\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 20px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 20px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:20px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block withbg background_image\"><div class=\"bm-background-img\" style=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1581443318361\" class=\"text_block_centered \"  style=\"\"><h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: 42px;\" data-msize=\"38\">This is not a time for metaphors<br><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-12 module-id-1581443318465\" data-module-col=\"12\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:40px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1581443318465\" class=\"text_block_centered \"  style=\"\"><p align=\"center\"><font color=\"#9c9c94\">Shortfilm \u2013 Multi-Channel \u2013 Work in Progress<\/font><\/p><p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1533800635561\" data-module-col=\"6\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 100px;--bottom-mod: 60px;--top-mod-t: 100px;--bottom-mod-t: 60px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:50px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1533800635561\" class=\"text_block_centered text_block_centered_enable_width\"  style=\"\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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. <\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1581334964937 bm-wrap row-top row-left bm-wrap-height-auto\" data-module-col=\"6\" data-change-color=\"off\" data-backcolor=\"transparent\" data-frontcolor=\"\" data-logocolor=\"\" data-goto-top=\"off\" data-goto-top-spacing=\"0\" data-goto-disable-m=\"\" data-groupsameheight=\"off\"><div class=\"module-inside group-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 80px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 80px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1581332032826\" data-module-col=\"6\"><div class=\"module-inside embed-inside\" style=\"--cornerRadius:0px 0px 0px 0px ; --top-mod: 20px;--bottom-mod: 20px;--top-mod-t: 20px;--bottom-mod-t: 20px;--top-mod-m:2px;--bottom-mod-m:2px;\" ><div class=\"embed-wrap embed-wrap-with-radio embed-wrap-has-cover\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" ><iframe class=\"lazy\" data-src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/721510378?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=1&amp;muted=1&amp;loop=1\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-6 module-id-1581335244384 bm-wrap row-top row-center bm-wrap-height-auto\" data-module-col=\"6\" data-change-color=\"off\" data-backcolor=\"transparent\" data-frontcolor=\"\" data-logocolor=\"\" data-goto-top=\"off\" data-goto-top-spacing=\"0\" data-goto-disable-m=\"\" data-groupsameheight=\"off\"><div class=\"module-inside group-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 20px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 20px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-4 module-id-1581335620394\" data-module-col=\"4\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1581335620394\" class=\"text_block_centered text_block_centered_enable_width\"  style=\"\"><p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">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.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-5 module-id-1538547952882 bm-wrap row-top row-left bm-wrap-height-auto\" data-module-col=\"5\" data-change-color=\"off\" data-backcolor=\"transparent\" data-frontcolor=\"\" data-logocolor=\"\" data-goto-top=\"off\" data-goto-top-spacing=\"0\" data-goto-disable-m=\"off\" data-groupsameheight=\"off\"><div class=\"module-inside group-inside\" style=\"--cornerRadius:0px 0px 0px 0px ; --top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 100px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 100px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:30px;\" ><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-5 module-id-1581341826232\" data-module-col=\"5\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\" data-animation=\"fadein\" data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1581341826232\" class=\"text_block_centered \"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-5 module-id-1581342202289\" data-module-col=\"5\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1581342202289\" class=\"text_block_centered text_block_centered_enable_width\"  style=\"\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-bordered\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">media:<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">1 video with sound (HD, 9:45); basic animation with acrylic ink drawings<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">project start:<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">april 2018 <br><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">public presentations (all versions, old and new):<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\" data-msize=\"13px\">nov 2022 (version 4): screening at cmri, langenthal<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">jun 2020 (version 3): &#8220;For&#8221; group show, milieu, bern<br>dec 2019 (version 2): Cantonale 19-20, kunsthaus langenthal<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">nov 2018 (version 1): \u201ckunst in unruhigen zeiten\u201d in \u201cscience talk\u201d, sattelkammer bern<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">links:<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">short-film on vimeo (link to excerpt): <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/292597816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/292597816<\/a><br><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"background-color: #9c0000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Please write me for link on full&nbsp; video!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">credits:<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">nairs zentrum f\u00fcr gegenwartskunst, sattelkammer bern, moritz sommet (japanology background on kuniyoshi),&nbsp;<br>visarte graub\u00fcnden<br>voice-over: flurina casty, shorty skillz, tilde von overbeck, daniela ruocco, davor bodrozic<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"\" class=\"module col-12 module-id-1578931576012\" data-module-col=\"12\"><div class=\"module-inside text-inside\" style=\"--top-mod: 0px;--bottom-mod: 0px;--top-mod-t: 0px;--bottom-mod-t: 0px;--top-mod-m:0px;--bottom-mod-m:0px;\" ><div class=\"text_block_out\"  data-effect=\"standard\" style=\"\"><div class=\"text_block ux-mod-nobg\"><div class=\"text_block_inn\"><div id=\"text-1578931576012\" class=\"text_block_centered text_block_centered_enable_width\"  style=\"\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a time for metaphors Shortfilm \u2013 Multi-Channel &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"ux-portfolio-cat":[37,24,32,23],"ux-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-223","ux-portfolio","type-ux-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ux-portfolio-cat-after-2018","ux-portfolio-cat-animation","ux-portfolio-cat-recent-video","ux-portfolio-cat-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ux-portfolio\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/ux-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/ux-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ux-portfolio-cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fux-portfolio-cat&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"ux-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gian-andri-toendury.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fux-portfolio-tag&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}