> Co-Organizer: Netfilmmakers in Copenhagen, Denmark
> Date: September 19st ~ October 30th 2007
> Venue: Café VW, yri cafe, Cafe factory
> Curator's talk: October 22nd 2007 @ Total Museum of Contemporary Art
> Support: Seoul Foundationof Art and Culture, Danish Art Council, middle corea
> Introduction
'The Sound of Boiling Water'
Netfilmmakers is a netgallery for netfilm, netvideoart and netart founded in Copenhagen 2004.
Every third month three Danish and International artists are invited to create new works for Netfilmmakers within a given theme. Netfilmmakers count 11 editions and the 33 works can be viewed at www.netfilmmakers.dk together with the experimental documentation videos of the artist talks at various exhibition spaces in Denmark. Annette Finnsdottir and Iben Bentzen will present themselves, Netfilmmakers and their ideas behind the exhibition ’Boiling Water’. They have put together six works from the Netfilmmakers archieve to form a new exhibition made especially for Coffee with Sugar. Boiling Water shows the boiling passion for poetic reflections on the layers of the vibrating time of a city,the humoristic notions of everyday life, the awareness and dread of the human loops, the print screen copy paste functionality transcoded into our culture and the intensified gaze revealing the corners of our existence.
homepage of netfilmmakers for Boiling Water
> Selected art works by Netfilmmakers <Boiling Water>
060527
2006, 44 sec. animation, looped, silent.
One of life's certainties is time and its passage. But what are days and time more than rhythmical encounters passing all too quickly? Different light-levels, fleeting memories, is all we re-collect. A lacking wholeness. Many beauties left unseen. Miskas work aims to elucidate time and its rhythmical nature. In a way, rawly (re)represent it, capturing a day's flow, allowing focus, overview, recollection, reconsideration and re-appreciation of it's great many parts and continuities.
Miska Knapek
Web: http://miska.org and http://knapek.org
E-mail: mailmiska(@)knapek(.)org
Graphic designer, new media designer and artist Miska Knapek (*1975, Bremen, Germany) began as graphic designer at the age of fourteen. He completed a BA in Graphic Information Design at the University of Westminster (London, England) in 2001, pursued graduate studies in Interaction Design at Malmoe University, Sweden, 2001-2002, Art&Technology (IT-University of Gothenburg), Sweden, 2002-2004, and is currently studying New Media at University of Art & Design, Media Lab, Helsinki, Finland. Miskas artwork includes installations and prints reconfiguring and challenging people's sense of place, time, optics and information. He's been exhibited in new media exhibitions in Sweden and Denmark. Miska burns for information visualisation, ambient media and exploring interactive media's Situationist facets.
glemsel.net
2007
glemsel.net is an open and forgetful blog. ‘Open’ means that you can contribute to it without registering or signing yourself up. That the blog is forgetful means that entries disappear word by word. In the end the only things left will be the date of the entry and the writer’s name. A blog seems to remember the history of activity made on it, Glemsel.net forgets slowly and randomly as time passes.
Mogens Jacobsen
Web: http://www.mogensjacobsen.dk
E-mail: mail(@)mogens(.)info
Mogens Jacobsen (*1959, Rome, Italy) is living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mogens has worked with electronic art before the advent of personal computers. The first time he ever saw an IBM PC his forecast for the PC was not positive: the prize was high, the speed slow and the possibilities inadequate. In the 1990ies he worked mainly with web-art and in 1995 he was the co-founder of the organization Artnode. In recent years he has worked especially with installations and ‘physical computing’.
(Don't) Leave me Alone
2006
The subject of both clips, Bill, is dying from Cancer and filmed the last days of his life, when he was lying at home in bed. He seemed prepared to die, but it took him a lot of strength to talk and keep awake. All his movements were slow and exhausting. Kassandra did not want to leave him alone, on the other hand she was not always sure, whether he wanted to be left alone or not. The images are only alive, when you touch them, otherwise they slowly die. As long as you don´t leave him alone, he is not dead yet, but keeps coming back to life over and over and over again. The film captures a slash of reality – a “docu_slash”. Your activity will unfold it and preserve it long after reality has gone and Bill is dead.
Kassandra Wellendorf
E-mail: kasswell(@)hotmail(.)com
Kasssandra Wellendorf (*1965, Copenhagen, Denmark) is a film- and multimedia artist with a B.A. in Film and Media 1989 and Master Class in Electronic Arts with Bill Seamann 1996. She works in many different genres and media - documentary, fiction, animation, interactivity and installation. Wellendorf has produced films and video art since the close of the 1980s and has participated in a large number of international festivals. She has exhibited video installations at The National Museum of Denmark, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde and at Skive Art Museum. She has received several film awards and arts grants. Her films are distributed by The Danish Film Institute.
PrintScreen Copy Paste
2005
Layer by layer PrintScreen Copy Paste is created as a painters constant and sensitive adding of colours and shapes. Maria used the program Haohao by Ichitaro Masuda to make this work. By moving the mouse and pressing the mouse button she started embryos of picture-elements. She decided to save 100 pictures within the same frame. To keep the tempo she sang ‘PrintScreen Copy Paste’.
Maria Lavman Vetö
Web: www.marialavman.dk
E-mail: marialavman(@)telia(.)com
Fine artist, interaction designer and curator Maria Lavman Vetö (*1960, Stockholm, Sweden) lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark and Malmö, Sweden. She is educated in painting from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1990 and in Interactionsdesign at K3 at Malmö University 2001-03. She has exhibited at group shows in Sweden, Spain, Denmark and Finland.
Secret Service
2005
Secret service is an ironic reaction of an unpleasant habit we are often forced to meet at official places. In this work Heike displays the humoristic notion of everyday life and opens up for its absurdity. Is it the pathology of everyday life or are our habits sick in their normality? Heike plays with words and directions, rhythm and rituals and use simple effects to a simple story. Thanks to the actor David Fischer.
Heike Hamann
E-mail: hehamann(@)web(.)de
Heike Hamann (*1962, Hamburg, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Heike has a Post Graduate Degree in Fine Arts from Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany. Her work deals with perceptual relationships and communication systems and she works in various, different media: installation, painting, photography, performance and video. Heike has participated in a large number of international and national exhibitions and received several awards and scholarships.
Udefra
2005
On research in Paris, Thomas studied the French pioneer Nicephore Niepce and his invention of photography. Niépce called his process "heliography", meaning "sun writing". Under influence of his work Thomas found that for him the link between art, photography and the univers, became clear. Here the everyday burns in the gaze from outside and in - searching the corners of our existence.
Thomas Seest
Web: www.dandruff.dk
E-mail: thomas(@)dandruff(.)dk
Thomas Seest (*1968, Copenhagen) has a BA in Fine Art Photography from the Glasgow School of Art and a 1 year Scholarship in Time based Art from Duncan and Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. He works with video and photography and has participated in national and international exhibitions in Italy, Israel, Scotland, New York, Norway and Japan. He has been published in several Danish artist books and likes to be challenged collaborating work with writers, designers and other photographers.
> Selected art works by Lab.preparat
Parking Lot Limbo
2006, Betacam SP adapted to DVD, 11min., ed. 3
”PARKING LOT LIMBO” is a large-scale video installation. The viewer encounters a construction which is a room within the gallery space. Near the entrance there are a couple of umbrellas. It’s raining inside the room and the viewer must use the umbrellas for protection against the artificial rain. In the room at the end wall there’s a film showing and the viewer is placed in a setting similar to what’s shown in the film. In the pouring rain the viewer experiences the fiction. In this sense fiction and reality is brought together and the viewer becomes a part of the fictitious universe.
The film is an endless, continuously running loop – like a dream that never stops – however with a certain narrative progression. The story takes place in a parking lot at night in the rain. The focal point is a man who is in a state of limbo – in depressed paranoia, which develops into manic joy. Limbo is a mental state filled with uncertainty, which makes it difficult to move on.
Jacob Tжkker often places himself as the central character in his video installations, which deals with the human emotional state of mind, the routine of everyday life and the conceptions of and motives for manґs actions.
The video installations also show the tragicomic aspects of life in images that often manipulate and comment on the relationship between fiction and reality.
Postcards-Tivoli
2006, 16mm film transferred to DVD (2006) 11 minutes/ Stereo sound/Colour
Camera: Jesper Fabricius / Sound: Pejk Malinovski
The film "Postcards – Tivoli" consists of a series of fixed-camera tableaux from the amusement park Tivoli, founded in Copenhagen in 1843.
The film concerns how the orientalist architecture of Tivoli from the late 19th century was a Danish version of an orientalist trend coming from the larger European capitals, especially London and Paris. After Denmark's loss of Southern Jutland to Germany in 1864, there was a movement towards England and France in order to define national identity as "non-German". Ideas of "the oriental" became important factors in the national construction of identity.
In the same period Tivoli hosted a number of "ethnic caravans" or "colonial exhibitions". But while the orientalist architecture (and thereby the colonial past of England and France) is still visible in the amusement park, the traces of Danish colonial history are far less present.
Visually the film consists of 16mm film recordings from Tivoli. These are framed as postcards, with people moving in and out of the picture. The sound is a montage based on interviews and archive material concerning the architectural history of Tivoli, the colonial exhibitions as well as reflections on entertainment and orientalism. Shown at the exhibition "Thinking Aloud", Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006
