Monthly Archives: April 2009

Talan Memmott – land/wave

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land/wave:02.08 (2009, 39MB, 1:10 min)


land/wave:03.02 (2009, 42MB, 1:17 min)

These pieces stand in stark and interesting contrast to the
magic realist whimsy of Memmott’s collabs with Sandy Florian
which we showed here a few months back.
I’d be interested to know whether these new works are completely,
as it were, synthesised or whether, lurking at the back,
there’s some real world footage.
The first piece puts me in mind quite forcibly of a journey by train
(as if the abstract shapes and images had been piled upon some
manipulated footage thereof..)
Dunno.
Good though! –striking. Talan?

Voice by Cinzia Cremona

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Voice (2003, 18MB, 4:38 min.)

A performance to camera taken to its extreme with the power of digital editing,
Voice ignites a conflict between an object of desire and its uncomfortable voice.
Refusing to be passive, this female collapses the psychoanalytic good breast and
bad breast into a paradoxical creature that defies expectations. It is a witness to the
complexities of subjectivity and relationships – and of being in the world.

by Cinzia Cremona.

Dan Osborne – Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men

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Mariah Carey/Boyz II Men(2009, 86MB, 4:49min)

Splendid bit of drôlerie from Dan Osborne, whose work
we’ve featured here before and certainly will again.
It’s funny, sure, but as with a good deal of Osborne’s work it
treads an interesting line between funny bone and heartstring.
Oh..alright..maybe heartstring is a bit strong but there’s a
certain, and a rather touching, melancholy lurking here.

Also – what is it about Mariah Carey and art video on the net?

Regardless by Cinzia Cremona

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Regardless (2007, 14MB, 3:37 min.)

A woman calls you from inside a monitor and asks you to touch her.
Yes, you. This call is for you. A presence in a box requests contact in
a game of vulnerability, seduction and power. It is a call for contact now,
but it is also a call to reflect on relationships, strength and weakness,
ethics. How do you respond to vulnerability? What do you offer?
What do you ask for? What do you take?

by Cinzia Cremona.