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size=2>-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----<BR><B>Von:</B> tank.tv
[mailto:mail@tank.tv]<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Mittwoch, 2. Januar 2008
15:37<BR><B>An:</B> vera.tollmann@gmx.net<BR><B>Betreff:</B> The Whole World /
curated by Ian White<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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2008</STRONG></FONT><BR><BR>
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face="Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#000000 size=2><BR>The
Whole World is a list of lists: a programme of artists’ film and video and
an interactive online exhibition. <BR><BR>Both a formal device and a
political strategy, film and video that deploys a list as part of its
structure often does so with political intent: to subvert hierarchies, to
undermine rationalism or to reveal contradiction. In contemporary culture
the pop chart’s Top 10 has been replaced by an ever-expanding craze for
“Top 100s” of everything from Hollywood genres to celebrity gaffes. The
Whole World attempts to wrestle back the initiative… <BR><BR>A selection
of artists’ film and video that feature lists or different kinds of
taxonomies - visual, audio or textual – are presented as an online
exhibition of extracts. Works by Dalia Neis, Uriel Orlow, Jean-Gabirel
Périot, Michael Robinson and Valerie Tevere take as their subject such
wildly diverse lists as depictions of saints, everything on Ebay, magazine
advertising, our mediated world, protest, violence and war, the pages of
National Geographic magazine and the words spoken by people on the streets
of New York. Text scrolls across the screen, images flash past, immersive
landscapes ultimately disintegrate. Many things are logged and something
is undone. <BR><BR>At the same time, viewers are invited to contribute to
the programme by uploading their own video list, be that an extract from
an existing work or something made specially for the purpose, to compile a
unique, exponential collection: an extraordinary list of lists, of the
world as we know it – the whole world. <BR>Submitted work will be selected
to join The Whole World as well as tank.tv's programme on the
CASZartscreen in Amsterdam. <BR><BR>The Whole World is situated somewhere
between the absurd and obsessive enterprises of Flaubert’s eponymous
characters Bouvard and Pecuchet (they hopelessly collect and explore
until, exhausted, they revert to their original jobs as copy clerks) and
the Japanese animated game Katamari in which players roll all matter –
objects, buildings, landscapes, the world itself - into snowballing globes
of stuff. The Whole World is ridiculous and irreverent, ambitious and
viral.<BR><BR>Programme<BR><STRONG>Dalia Neis</STRONG>, Saints, 2005 /
<STRONG>Jean Gabriel Periot</STRONG>, 21.04.02, 2002 / <STRONG>Uriel
Orlow</STRONG>, Everything in Red, Yellow, Blue and Green, 2006 /
<STRONG>Michael Robinson</STRONG>, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers, 2005 /
<STRONG>Valerie Tevere</STRONG>, When I Say / <STRONG>Valerie Tevere &
Angel Navarez</STRONG>, Frequency Allocations / <STRONG>Martha
Rosler</STRONG>, Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975<BR><BR><BR><EM>Ian White
is Adjunct Film Curator for Whitechapel Gallery, London, an independent
curator, writer and artist. Recent projects include Kinomuseum for the
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and a new performance work in
collaboration with Jimmy Robert for STUK, Belgium and De Appel, Amsterdam
(2007/8). <BR></EM></FONT>
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