Window Projections | Every day from sunset to 02:00 AM.
"Video – Ich sehe mich / Mimikry" by Michael Geißler / Rosalia Müller

n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections

Mon, 01/15/2024 -
Sun, 01/21/2024
Goethe-Institut Montreal

The Goethe-Institut Montreal, in cooperation with the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), presents a screening programme of 20 video works from n.b.k Video-Forum’s extensive video art collection, curated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of Collection n.b.k. Video-Forum).

The individual films will be shown for a week at a time sunset to 2:00 a.m. on the display windows of the Goethe-Institut at 1626 Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2T1, Canada and can be viewed on an indoor screen during the Goethe-Institut's opening hours:

Video - Ich sehe mich / Mimikry

(Excerpt)
Michael Geißler / Rosalia Müller
1977
00:06:55  
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) 

The work Mimikry by Rosalia Müller is part of the video series Video - Ich sehe mich (engl.: Video – I see Me) from 1977 with several short works by individuals, alone in front of the camera, that each emphasizes the performative potential of the medium for self-presentation. The series was produced and conceived by the German artist Michael Geißler, who founded the collective "VAM" (Video-Audio-Media) in 1969. VAM developed an independent, documentary video style that was both playful and imaginative. VAM were the first video project whose productions were broadcast on German television and took part in Documenta 6 in 1977. In Mimikry, the artist Rosalia Müller demonstrates in a humorous way how one can work on one's own image and expression with the help of a camera. Müller's work is an approximately 7-minute excerpt from the original video series, which is 1:02:30 minutes long. 

Michael Geißler (*1942 in Berlin, †2003 in Berlin) belongs to the first generation of video artists in Germany. He was part of the founding class of the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin. In 1969, he formed the video artists’ collective VAM (an acronym for Video, Audio, Media). With a changing line-up, the group developed an independent, documentary, and playful video style that examined social and sociopolitical issues. In total, Geißler was involved in around 370 video productions.