inauguration videoworkcase

   

co-curated by Andreas Templin     

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International Media Art Biennale WRO 09

Andreas Templin is participating with his work 'as if to nothing' in the International Media Art Biennale WRO. The work is exhibited as an installation. The Biennale opens on 4th of May and is on view till 10.05.

700IS Reindeerland, Iceland

Andreas Templin's momentarily touring video-installation "as if to nothing" is on view 21st till 28th of March in the exhibition 700 IS Reindeerland. The exhibition is located in Egilstadir's Cultural Center.

Videomedeja 2008

Andreas Templin's artwork "as if to nothing" was selected for this year's edition of the Novi-Sad based festival Videomedeja. 

It was on view as a large-scale installation at Studio M, Novi-Sad/Serbia, 12.12.- 14.12.2008.

Mobile Institute Brussels

Mobile Institute launched its activities during August in Brussels resulting in a wide scope of presentations, concerts, screenings, an artist-in-residence project. The events culminate in an exhibition opening 31.08. combined with a catalogue.

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