book ‘Labyrinth of Memory. Faces of Evil 1939—2009’ — reviews of the video arts presented at the exhibition
year of publication: 2011
size: 16 × 23 cm
volume: 440 pages
edition: 500 pieces
binding: softcover
reproductions in colour
languages: Polish/English
graphic design and typesetting: Zofia Oslislo
publisher: Institution of Culture Ars Cameralis Silesiae Superioris and BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice
ISBN 978-83-928793-2-9, 978-83-88254-62-8
Contents:
‘Interview with Derrick de Kerckhove’ Anna Maj, Michał Derda-Nowakowski
‘Film Of Folly’ Rod Mengham
‘The Shield of Perseus’ Violetta Sajkiewicz
Mirosław BAŁKA
‘When Four Becomes Zero’ Roman Lewandowski
Sophie CALLE
‘L’argent Sophie Calle’ Calle Daniel Muzyczuk
‘Stories about Lack and Loss’ Ewa Tatar
Paul CHAN
“‘Paul Chan’s ‘Re: The Operation’” Kitty Scot
CHI JANG YIN
“‘Another Clapping’, a Film by Chi Jang Yin Klaus” W. Eisenlohr
Dominique COMTAT
‘(…)’ Véronique Barre
Loïc CONNANSKI
‘Loïc Connanski, On Contemporary Art’ Yann Perol
Chris DOYLE
‘Apocalypse Management / Telling about Being One Being Living’ Friedheim Mennekes
‘Apocalypse Management / Telling about Being One Being Living’ Timothy Houlihan
Köken ERGUN
‘Pains of Turkish Modernity’ Max Cegielski
‘Personal Works of Public Ceremonies’ Yan White
Harun FAROCKI
‘Industrial Landscapes’ Zuzanna Hadryś
Mona HATOUM
‘Objects in Exile’ Sebastian Cichocki
Alexander KLUGE
‘Why Are You Crying Antonio?’ Jakub Bąk
Gordon MATTA-CLARK
‘Liberating the Bourgeois Home by Means of a Circular Saw’ Sebastian Cichocki
Guillaume MAZELINE
‘(…)’ Jacquie Chavance
Angela MELITOPOULOS
“Before the Representation. Video Images as Agents in ‘Passing Drama’” Angela Melitopoulos
Antonio MUNTADAS
‘Sight and smell. On Muntadas’s Latest Projects’ Eugeni Bonet
Deimantas NARKEVIČIUS
‘Deimantas Narkevičius; Natural Born Filmmaker’ Anna Maria Potocka
Tony OURSLER
‘Tony Oursler: Too Much Reality’ Dominik Kuryłek
Nam June PAIK
‘Retaliating against TV’ Małgorzata Mleczko
Walid RÁAD
‘To Save the Non-Memory of Lebanon — Walid Ráad and Atlas Group’ Krzysztof Pijarski
Martha ROSLER
“Martha Rosler, ‘Chile on the Road to NAFTA. Accompanied by the National Police Band’ as a Type of Political Film Collage” Kamila Wielebska
Zbig RYBCZYŃSKI
“‘Steps’ as an Audiovisual Palimpsest” Piotr Zawojski
SQUAT THEATRE
‘Andy Warhol’s Hungarian Love’ Dominik Kuryłek
Franciszka i Stefan THEMERSON
“Anatol Stern’s Re-reading of ‘Europa’” Adam Dziadek
Bill VIOLA
‘(…)’ Maria Brewińska
Lawrence WEINER
‘Lawrence Weiner’s Melancholic Conceptualism’ Dominik Kuryłek
Tigran XMALIAN
‘The Interview with Tigran Xmalian’ Silvio Graselli
Dragna ŽAREVAC
‘The World According to Dragana Žarevac’ Etienne Sandrin
Artur ŻMIJEWSKI
‘(…)’ Stanisław Ruksza
Price: 60 zł (about 15 euro)
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Labyrinth of Memory. Faces of Evil 1939-2009 The exhibition is organised at the time of symbolical character, namely on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the World War Two (1939-2009), when...
The video arts were presented within the framework of the exhibition on show at the BWA Contemporary Art Gallery in Katowice and Rondo Sztuki Gallery from July to September 2009th. The showcase featured works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Bill Viola, Sophie Calle, Mona Hatoum, Tony Oursler, Mirosław Bałka and Deimantas Narkevicius, among others.
The exhibition was intended to visually process dormant trauma which has the ability to trigger the mechanics of aggression and hatred. The invited artists, who assumed the role of historians, followed different methods to create their archives, amalgamating shreds and echoes of the past. They felt a pressing need to impose structure on reminiscences. The result was an exhibition presenting private impressions of history assembled from personal testimonies, along with their pop cultural transformations. This extensive publication is comprised of interviews and critical texts, in which media experts, curators and art historians attempt the analysis and interpretation of dozens of films. Depending on the specifics of the works, they discover traces of strategies and manipulations employed in the presentation of history, which were exposed by the artists, or of the vitality conveyed in intimate messages.
