How to Live in a Game Harun Farocki’s War Games
22/10/09 Pieter Van Bogaert
Immersion, the recent work by the German filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki, shows therapists using game technology in the treatment of traumatized soldiers. Shown last summer at SMART Project Space, the film was previously presented in Leuven, together with two earlier works by Farocki. Here, it was clear that Farocki had previously used war as a game with analogue, electronic and digital media, blurring the distinctions between virtual and actual reality.
previews 10.09.08 Erik van Tuijn
Amsterdam, (& Den Bosch)
SMCS (& SM's, until november 16th)
05/09/08 - 30/09/08
Amar Kanwar is the final artist to 'dock' at the temporary Stedelijk Museum CS's Docking Station. The Torn First Pages unfolds as his personal investigation into the political situation in Burma.
Melt, Love, Protest Towards a theory of psychedelia
01/02/08 Lars Bang Larsen
From flower power to punk – pyschedelia comes in many guises. Its multiplicity of forms is part of what inspires the fascination for this movement that continues to this day. In 2005 and 2006 there was a large retrospective exhibition in Frankfurt and Liverpool called Summer of Love. Lars Bang Larsen, currently busy with his doctoral research, is a specialist on the subject. METROPOLIS M asked him to expound upon the deeper meaning of the movement.
Read more..Art in the Deserted City Detroit Has Soul
20/04/07 Mars van Grunsven
Each month, thousands of residents leave Detroit, never to return again. The city is allegedly too dangerous to live in and beyond saving.
But for the local artists, the desolate urban landscape is a precious incentive.
Reflections in Film: The Making of Existence Installations by Cora Roorda van Eijsinga
23/08/06 Christel Vesters
In an installation by Cora Roorda van Eijsinga, you do not have enough eyes and ears. There is a lot going on, often all at once. Out of the entirety of film fragments and performances rises an image of a socially inspired artist who does not flinch from the poetical elaboration of images.
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