Encore!
23 Mar — 16 Apr 2013
Organizer: Bonniers Konsthall
Cinema / Biografen Sture
Stockholm, Sweden
Often, one only sees glimpses of a work in a show, does not have time to stay for the entire film or forgot who made the video that you cannot stop thinking about. Therefore, this past winter we gave our audience the chance to wish for the films they would like to see most. From the many suggestions we received, we have finally created a program that includes everything from classics such as John Smith’s Girl Chewing Gum to Trisha Donnelly’s noted and appreciated work from Documenta 13, 2012. Two evenings are curated by artists Lisa Tan and Pierre Bismuth.
Encore! is organized by Bonniers Konsthall and takes place at Biografen Sture every Monday and Tuesday from March 25 to April 16. The evenings start at 18.30.
Tue 9/4 Encore! According to Lisa Tan
Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses, 2011 (61 min).
Davey scours through her earliest black-and-white photographs: portraits of her rebellious Catholic sisters in the early 1980s. She walks around her apartment, whispers in the microphone and quotes everything from the philosopher Walter Benjamin’s thoughts on photography to the poet Alejandra Piznarnik’s ideas on food.
John Bock, Gast, 2004 (11 min).
Gast depicts a rabbit hopping freely in the artist’s apartment, which is littered with sculptures composed of quotidian household items. Bock’s camera follows the rabbit’s movements as his own costume manipulates them. References to Joseph Beuys’ performance How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare (1965) are evident, but Bock reverses Beuys’ mandate by learning from rather than teaching his companion.
Lisa Tan, Sunsets, 2012 (23 min).
The video documents an informal translation and transcription (Portuguese to English) of a 1977 interview with the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977). Lispector’s figurative and highly imaginative stories approach the limits of subjectivity in remarkable ways. The piece layers the interview with scenes that were filmed in Sweden during the liminal zone of either 3am during the summer, or 3pm during the winter.