inauguration videoworkcase

   

co-curated by Andreas Templin     

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video-magazine 'animal'

Andreas Templin 'the 20th Century on visit in the 21st', 2002

'This is not a tribute to animals. No sensitive natural observations, or cute portraits of animal 'companions'.These are videos about animals. People dressed as animals and animals dressed as animals.' 

The video-magazine, an activity of the Oneminutes-Foundation Amsterdam, will be on view during March in the following institutions: 

Academisch Medisch Centrum, Amsterdam - www.amc.nl/kunst
Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam - www.amsterdammuseum.nl
deBuren, Brussels - www.deburen.eu
Centraal Museum, Utrecht - www.centraalmuseum.nl
Cultuurwerf/Buro Beeldende Kunst, Vlissingen - www.burobk.nl
Graphic Design Museum, Breda - www.graphicdesignmuseum.com
het Haarlem College - www.haarlemcollege.nl
Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort - www.kunsthalkade.nl
Marres - centre for contemporary culture, Maastricht - www.marres.org
NIMk, Amsterdam - www.nimk.nl
Schunck*, Heerlen - www.schunck.nl
TwentseWelle, Enschede - www.twentsewelle.nl
East China Normal University, Shanghai
Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen
Townhouse gallery, Cairo

FRAME, curated by Culture Shock NY, Miami Beach

FRAME is a series of moving image artworks created by 18 video artists & curated by Vimeo and Culture Shock during Art Basel Miami Beach 2011.

"as if to nothing" at International Forum Art Tech Media Cordoba 0.8

Andreas Templin's artwork "as if to nothing" was exhibited at this year's international forum Art Tech Media in Cordoba/Spain.
Next to the annual international conference, a wide array of media- and new-media artworks were shown across four locations in the inner city of Cordoba.

"the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" on show in 's-Hertogenbosch

videostill of "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st"

28.10.- 12.11. Fringe Shanghai

Fringe Shanghai selected "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" for this year's edition. www.fringeshanghai.com

04.-21.10. “dogville”, curated by 00130 gallery

Helsinki City Town Hall Gallery, Helsinki/Fi www.00130gallery.net

23.08.- 27.08. Impakt Festival Utrecht

Impakt invited the videowork "sympathy for the devil", a music-videoclip based on the song of the Rolling Stones created in early 2006. www.impakt.nl, screened at Centraal Museum Utrecht/NL, programme "It's a small world".

European Biennale of Contemporary Art 01.07.- 15.07.

On the occasion of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art in Nimes/France, a new videoinstallation, the work "this is your life". was shown for the first time.




installation view



description:
“this is your life”, 2005. videoinstallation for three screens and soundsystem, DVD, different versions, commissioned by European Biennale of Contemporary Art Nimes

In cooperation with animal-rights activists, who illegally shot the footage for this installation, Andreas Templin developed this video-installation as a reaction and comparison to Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The groundwork/ approach for this videowork can be seen in Giorgio Agamben´s book 'Homo sacer' (1998), which is a survey of the history of the Western democratic state comparing it to an enormous concentration camp in its essence. He sees the modern state as a totalitarian event in the efficient management of naked biological life because contemporary sovereignty is exercised through bio-politics – the control of naked life. According to Agamben, “the power of decree to which concentration camp prisoners are subjected has no legal limitations and constitutes the secret matrix of the modern ad-ministrative state.".



The three screens show three different edits: The left screen concentrates on individual pigs, the center screen focuses on footage shot inside of the stalls and the right screen shows the structure of the pig mast.
Next to the three screens, extremely loud Death Metal is used to underline and intensify the deathmatch-atmosphere of this artwork and the fundamental questions it is raising with the chosen title.

www.lemanif.org, catalogue still available

Machfeld Vienna

01.07.
PARKGEWUSEL, Machfeld International Arts and Culture Society, Vienna/Austria.
A screening event in a park in Vienna comprised of an international selection of videoart including my 2006 piece "sympathy for the devil". www.machfeld.net/studio/parkgewusel

Festival Summertime, Lyon/France 30.06./01.07.

Again a videowork of mine got selected for the Summertime-Festival in Lyon
Festival Summertime, Lyon/France www.asso-summertime.com

12th-15th of May PixelDance Festival Thessaloniki/Greece www.pixeldance.gr

On show was "sympathy for the devil", music-videoclip of beginning 2006.

description:

“sympathy for the devil”, 2006. videoclip, DVD single channel, 6.22 mins

“Sympathy for the devil” is a videoclip for the song of the Rolling Stones reissuing the thematics raised by the song in the present.
All footage for this videowork is found and taken from the web.
The web takes the parallel function of a “Pandora´s box” and a “catalogue of human obsessions” for this videowork.
This term first issued by Duchamp, ment in a sense of “designing a catalogue, which could display and fulfill any kown human obsession”)
is the leitmotif for this videowork, which can both be shown in screenings or as single work (looped)
A work about human desire and the contemporary image semantics, an intentional story told with images
trying to grasp into the time “after the end of history” (Fukuyama)

01.07.-03.07 ASSO-SUMMERTIME, Lyon/France

The festival SUMMERTIME invited two of my videoworks, "the 20th Century on visit in the 21st" and "happy new everything" to Lyon.

06.05. Artists Television Access, San Fransisco/USA

An evening of videoscreenings orgnaized by Michael Trigilio of NPR. Artists' Television Access San Fransisco/USA