Window Projections | Every day from sunset to 02:00 AM.
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:
A CRISIS OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
2023
35:30
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
A CRISIS OF EVERYTHING AND NOTHING was produced especially for the n.b.k. Video Forum. In the context of their first German solo exhibition, the artist duo spent several weeks in Berlin in the winter of 2022/23. The work blends real events and encounters from this stay with fictional elements. Starting point is the explosion of a giant aquarium in the atrium of a large hotel in Berlin that provokes an existential crisis in the heroine of the story.
Since its inception in the late 1990s, the Net Art pioneers
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) have developed a distinctive style through its negotiation of cultural identity, material inequalities, (police) violence, the confluence of fact and fiction, and geopolitical realities, including the division of Korea. The works of the art duo are characterized by a high degree of abstraction that simultaneously constitutes its signature: YHCHI’s wide-ranging themes and interests are expressed almost exclusively through writing and a lyrical subject, the text is synchronized by - mostly self-composed - music and builds up sentence by sentence, word by word or letter by letter.
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