ANNIKA LARSSON
Saturday, April 4th 2009, 7- 11 PM
the building
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14A
Berlin 10249 DE
T: 030 28 04 79 73
Saturday, April 4th 2009, 7- 11 PM
ANNIKA LARSSON
e-flux video rental is pleased to present a special extended screening of works by Annika Larsson. Join us this Saturday, April 4th for a unique four hour long program, consisting of a selection of Larsson’s video works from the past 10 years, as well as of clips and extracts of found footage from her archive.
PROGRAM (starts at 7 pm):
POLIISI (17 min, 2001)
PINK BALL (16 min, 2002)
40-15 (13 min, 1999)
3l33t (19.30 min, 2007)
COVERED CAR (10 min, 1999)
DOG (16 min, 2001)
NEW GRAVITY (29.30 min, 2003)
BEND II (13 min, 2002)
BLOOD (17.30 min, 2003)
HOCKEY (25.30 min, 2004)
DIE (31 min, 2000)
The work of Swedish artist Annika Larsson (b. 1972) focuses on patterns of human behaviour in contemporary culture. Her video installations represent slightly altered universes obeying autonomous rules. The figures are shown in close-up, in great detail. The shots are slow and carefully composed and framed. Images shot from different viewpoints succeed one another, but without ever offering a view of the whole. Larsson focuses on the body language and the eyes of the figures. Her work seems to be about the almost ritual quality of everyday actions, but also about dominance and suppression. In the spectator, these videos arouse an oppressive feeling or even a form of claustrophobia, not only because of the close-ups but also the apparent strangeness of the environment in which the figures move about.
Annika Larsson, born in Stockholm, Sweden 1972, lives and works in Berlin. She has studied at the Royal Collage of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Solo exhibitions include: Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, SMAK, Gent, ICA, London and Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg. Selected group exhibitions: 49th Venice Biennial, 8th Istanbul Biennial, 6th Shanghai Biennial. She is represented by Andréhn Schiptjenko, Stockholm and Bugada & Cargnel (Cosmic Galerie), Paris.
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e-flux video rental (EVR) is an ongoing work by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprising a free video rental, a public screening room, and a film and video archive that is constantly growing. This collection of over 850 works of film and video art has been assembled in collaboration with more than 400 artists, curators and critics.
EVR is a poetic exploration of alternative processes of circulation and distribution, and it is structured to function like a typical video rental store, except that it operates for free. VHS tapes can be watched in the space, or, once a new member fills out a membership form and contract, they can be checked out and viewed at home.
Originally presented at a storefront in New York, in 2004, EVR has traveled to art venues in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Seoul, Paris, Istanbul, Canary Islands, Austin, Budapest, Boston, Antwerp, Berlin, Miami, Lyon and Lisbon. EVR will travel to Colombia, Argentina and Brazil later this fall. Having outlived the technology that made it possible (VHS video tape players), the project will be permanently archived with the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut and Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, in 2009.
For further information please contact Magdalena Magiera: magdalena@e-flux.com
the building
Platz der Vereinten Nationen 14A
Berlin 10249 DE
T: 030 28 04 79 73
the building is open Thursday through Saturday, 12 – 6 pm.
