- Screening
KREISLAUF - PART III
Stelios Kallinikou, Weeper Capuchin (2020-22)
Dates
- Tu 16.08., 08:00–16:00
- We 17.08., 08:00–16:00
- Th 18.08., 08:00–16:00
- Fr 19.08., 08:00–16:00
- Sa 20.08., 08:00–16:00
- Su 21.08., 08:00–16:00
Language
- English
In Austerlitz W.G. Sebald, quoting John Berger, sets forth that “captive animals and we ourselves, their human counterparts, view one another across a narrow abyss of incomprehension.” The work (Weeper Capuchin, 2020/21) negotiate this space between us and the animal, striving to offer a bridge that hovers over the void. The expressive eyes of the Capuchins, as if carrying a prehistoric melancholy, exchange glances with the viewer via a thick glass wall that is invisible in the photographs, much like the photographic lens. Often birds find tragic death on such reflective glass walls because they are not visible to them.
In August and as part of Nature and State SKBB launches a new format: KREISLAUF.
The German expression KREISLAUF brings meanings of circulation, cycle, and circuit in relation to moving images and the display of them as a loop in an exhibition context. It also references nature’s cycle, the body’s and the transition of things.
As a series of weekly video programming located in Ersan Mondtag’s installation The Temple, KREISLAUF focuses a highly curated selection on geographies of transition, geo-subjective perspectives on global issues such as climate change, drought and drainage, with local references and glocal sensitivity. Within its focuses and critical lenses, KREISLAUF investigates forms and storytelling mostly through non-European, Asian Pacific and transnational connections and artistic perspectives on these geopolitical conflicts. Each week will feature a video piece, or two in conversation, unfolding questions from the exhibition.