Collapse
“Where creation meets destruction. An evening with films, installations, and dinner.”
Losing control is marvellous. Afterwards you will regret things perhaps, but in the moment itself it is a relief. Anger, vandalism, pointless violence, disappointment, sorrow, ruthless abusing… all are stages in a psychological process, an inner transformation. And what about inspiration, the urge to create, the transcendental plane? Are these the very opposites of destruction or do they follow naturally from each other?
Film and video are perfectly suited to record this process. The transformation is depicted by framing shrewdly, by stripping away all narrative or by consciously omitting the immediate cause of an act. Sometimes in documentary fashion, sometimes staged, sometimes symbolically. In beauty, the human psyche is disected.
The program COLLAPSE draws attention to this transformation. Something new is created from destruction. The piano is a recurring theme. An artist invites a vulture to his studio. An opera is being written. A landscape disappoints. And Christmas trees infuriate.
Curated by: Bart Rutten.
The evening includes a specially designed menu focused on the theme of the event.
Note: the three course meal is included in the entrance fee, the evening lasts until 22:00, no entrance after the show has begun.
Silberhöhe, Clemens von Wedemeyer, 2003
At the background of a Soviet district in decay, Silberhöhe shows the beauty of the television light and a last image that represents collapse in one frame.
Somebody Else's Car, Ahmet Ögut, 2005
A tightly documented streetperformance where Ögut indignantly takes an advance on the determination of the street scene of Istanbul.
Successive Inconceivable Events, Richard T. Walker, 2005
Where the beauty of nature normally inspires, especially from the prospect of art history, this artist thinks a little bit different about that…“The distance is too large”
Far de Donna, Vasco Araújo, 2005
A special portrait of mother and son, one of the most talented singers of this moment, where she is losing and he is winning. Is this a coincidence, too good to be true?
Presidenzia, Jota Castro, 2004
When the Italian Europarliamentarian said to his German colleague that he would be the ideal actor in a Holocaust movie as a camp bully, the European unification suddenly looked impossible to achieve. Fortunately we are united by our cultural traditions, including opera.
Nummer Vier, Guido van de Werve, 2005
Here as well we focus on the Romantic landscape. A piano floating on a Scandinavian lake versus a Southern Dutch brass band going down a river on a flatboat. The artist portrays himself in between these elements in a way that will be familiar to those who have seen his earlier works.
Rain, Yasmijn Karhof, 2005
Zoom in until the world turns upside down. Single shot film with exceptional cinematic quality, that goes beyond all the sorrow.
Inside and outside are complete opposites.
Occupation, Clemens von Wedemeyer, 2002
For the ideal group scene, recorded in darkness, there are many preparations that lead to lots of stress. Light, area partitioning, framing, are easy recognizable as the building blocks in filmic construction.
