Like That?
LIKE THAT? The work deals with the male gaze and the position of women in public space in the patriarchal society of Pakistan. Women, addressed on the street, pose for the camera. In short interviews they talk about looks, beauty, and about the Lollywood movie star Saima. The projection [...]
East is East
EAST IS EAST Multan, Pakistan, 2003. Large billboards dominate public space in Pakistan. The images are often in stark contrast to the surrounding place. East is East underlines the absurdity by doubling this image. A video is projected onto a large billboard mounted in public space. It shows the [...]
Foreigners are Being Watched
Foreigners are Being Watched Lahore, Pakistan, 2003. The video sculpture takes a newspaper headline at the time of the „War on Terror“ and juxtaposes it to a poem of Pablo Neruda: Ésta es la casa, el mar y la bandera. Errábamos por otros largos muros. No [...]
Overtures
OVERTURES What is the role of the individual in collective group movement? The rules of the performance were those of an imagined parlour game. On two days, 31 performers moved through a garden according to given patterns. The camera registered the movements from a centrally placed dolly. [...]
From Zero to One
FROM ZERO TO ONE Can we do the impossible? The result of the calculation 4 (x.x) -4 (x.x-x) moves between zero and one. It makes a never-repeated movement. Correspondingly, the familiar puzzle, house X, is a quiz for a path in a finite graph that visits every edge exactly once. However, [...]
From Zero to One
From Zero to One Can we do the impossible? The result of the calculation 4 (x.x) -4 (x.x-x) moves between zero and one. It makes a never-repeated movement. Correspondingly, the familiar puzzle, house X, is a quiz for a path in a finite graph that visits every edge exactly once. The [...]
Ruth and the River
Ruth and the River Maastricht, the Netherlands;Â Salzburg, Austria, 1998. The work is a reflection on progression of cinematic time. A thirty-minute VHS video shows a shot of a river flowing. Next to this is a looped projection of a Super-8 film of 15 meters.
Lightwalking
20 TRIES OF LIGHTWALKING 20 tries of lightwalking were 20 attempts at doing the impossible, that is to walk on light. A residency at de Fabriek, in Eindhoven, led to the performance series ‚Lightwalking‘. The performer walked on 18 light bulbs until they broke. Lightwalking was an absurd [...]