n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections
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:
Positions
Kristina Paustian
2016
08:22 min.
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
A group of young women sit on the roof of a skyscraper in front of a skyline. Uniformed and armed, they point their guns at a target that lies outside the frame and remains hidden from the viewers. Instead, the camera focuses on the postures and facial expressions of the protagonists. With
Positions, Kristina Paustian presents an aesthetic study of forms of resistance - both against political systems and normative gender concepts.
Kristina Paustian (*1985 in Omsk / Russia, lives in Berlin) works with video art, film, video installation, and video performance and is a founding member of UNST, a collective of media artists, curators, and academics dedicated to the development of experimental exhibition formats for time-based media. Paustian examines cultural-anthropological and sociopolitical issues in her work, exploring the complexity of seeing and being seen. Her films engage with identity and memory politics and the staging of gender roles and feminism, as well as bodily gestures and the appropriation of behavioral norms.
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