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This video montage of more than 250 camera phone snapshots illustrates an Istanbul student’s confrontation with the strangely provincial and orientalistic projections of Berlin’s inhabitants.
Ezgi Kilincaslan was born in 1973, Besni-Turkey. She had a degree on art and pedagogy at Marmara University, Istanbul. She lives in Berlin and graduated as "meister schüler" from UdK with Prof. Katharina Sieverding.
A painter already, now she is experimenting with a variety of mediums including photography, video and installation, exploring and questioning the matters of power, related with patriarchy and gender.
Health, Wealth, Name, and Fame begins to piece together my journey to Rangpur, the remote village in India where my Grandfather was born. Rangpur is still the epitome of rural life, an increasing rarity in India as more and more people abandon their village roots and flock to the cities. A year after my Grandfather’s death I find myself a guest in his village and invited to dinner at Kanu’s house, a distant relative whom I am meeting for the first time. The soundtrack that accompanies the piece is an amalgamation of conversations recorded over the past 6 years of my Grandfather remembering his village and dreaming of returning to it one day.
Guided focuses on my father and mother as we become increasingly delirious while struggling to communicate with waiters in a restaurant in China. The piece reveals and centers on ingrained patterns of familial behavior.
Since 2002 Gautam Kansara’s video and photographic work have been featured internationally in numerous exhibitions and screenings, including a solo show at Real Art Ways, Hartford (2008); the Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin as part of Rencontres Internationales (2008); LMAK Projects, New York (2007); Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City (2007). Gautam has received a fellowship from Smack Mellon, a Swing Space Grant from LMCC, and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Center for Book Arts. Most recently Gautam was included in New Language Makers at 131 Art Productions in Hong Kong.
Imaginary Girlfriend is based loosely on 1980s family sitcoms, and features a boy named Steven and his imaginary girlfriend Amanda. Steven is constantly tormented by Amanda, being asked to do things that leave him in embarrassing situations. Simultaneously, the video reveals the suffocating and inappropriate relationship between Steven and his mother.
Erica Eyres (born 1980, Winnipeg) recieved her BFA from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 2002, and her MFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2004. In 2003, she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent group exhibitions include, the Jerwood Drawing Prize, at the Jerwood Space, London (2009); Bad Joke, at Riga Art Space, Latvia (2008); Bitter Finals at Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles (2008); Looky See at Ben Malz Gallery, Otis College (2008), Los Angeles; Bloomberg New Contemporaries, at Barbican, London, and touring (2005). Recent solo exhibitions include Erica Eyres at Rokeby Gallery, London(2008); Erica Eyres at Haas and Fischer, Zurich (2008); Shut Up Shut Up Shut Up, at Fette's Gallery, Los Angeles (2007) ; I love You But I Hate You, at CCA, Glasgow (2006).
Shot between 1998 and 2006, When How To Live Was Undecided spans the time between to events: A pregnancy and a marriage. Part scripted narrative, part art document, the film utilizes portraiture, art performance, and interviews to explore themes of family, pregnancy, perversion and friendship among young contemporary artists. As the film gently poses the internal question, "What kind of film is this?" a subtle story emerges, replete with emotional tension and resolution.
Darren Floyd is an motion picture artist who works with 16mm film, video, and zines. His films and videos have used portraiture, letter writing, collaboration, and improvisation as structural elements in experimental narrative films. He is currently working on a film project of supernatural self-portraits that combine landscape cinematography and direct-address narration to trace a narrative and emotional arc. Darren has been invited to Cornell University as an Artist-In-Residence beginning in the fall of 2009, where he will be working on a public art motion portraiture project. Darren holds a MFA in Film and Media Art from Temple University and a BA in Women's Studies from The College of Wooster.
Don't Let Me Down meditates on the arc of the creative process via pregnancy, motherhood, fertility, and sexuality Williams set out on this body of work in anticipation of the birth of her first child and completed the work prior to her expected due date. Then the unthinkable happened, her son died in labor and was delivered stillborn on January 26, 2009. Although several of the works have been re-visited since the loss of her son, in many ways all of the works now take on the dual function of living as a testament to the most devastating kind of loss imaginable and the nine months the artist spent contemplating her expectant new life as a mother.
Abbey Williams' work has been exhibited at Tate Britain (London), PS1/MOMA (New York), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid) and The Studio Museum of Harlem (New York). The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.