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we make money n art ~ Bring me home, please
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Samsung Art + PrizeBy Regineon January 17, 2012 5:13 PM
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Bring me home, please
The press view for the Samsung Art+ Prize at BFI Southbank in London dragged me
out of bed earlier than usual today. It did allow me to discover that taking the tube at
rush hour is not as hell as people claim. You get to admire lovely ladies speeding
through the corridors while dexterously applying make up with one hand and holding
the mirror in front of their face with the other.
Torsten Lauschmann, Digital Clock (Growing Zeros) 2010. Still from film. Courtesy
The Artist; Mary Mary, Glasgow
Anyway, i don't know if the Samsung Art+ Prize is indeed 'the UK's first digital media
art competition', but it is remarkably good. The selection of artworks, that is. I'm far
less enthusiastic about the way they are exhibited. First, there was no indication of the
author and title next to the works, you have to guess or to wait for the credits at the
end of the film, when they exist. Also i'd advise you navigate the rooms carefully. It'sso dark bench corners tend to hit your knees when you least expect them.
Most of the works are screen-based. The prize is sponsored by a manufacturer of TVs
after all. There are even two 3D pieces to ensure that the audience will marvel at the
flawless technology (as i did.)
I spent an hour and a half watching the works of 10 technologically-inspired artists.
There is so much to watch and take in that i might have to go back again. I think i
need to repeat here that the show is wonderful. Please, please, don't miss it if you're
in London in the coming days.
Thomson & Craighead, A Short Film about War, 2009. Courtesy of the artist
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Untitled (Hypno Project) is another two-screen work. On the left, twelve people are
watching the short video made using subliminal images that we see on the other
screen. What makes their experience of the film different from ours is that these
people have been hypnotized by a professional stage hypnotist, each having been
given specific suggestions instructing them to respond in certain ways at different
visual and aural cues.
Douglas Fishbone, Untitled (Hypno Project), 2009
The results are startling. The group of people reacts in the most unexpected way
following cues we know nothing about. One of the men was particularly excited by the
frogs in the video.
Part 1
Part 2 is online as well.
Fishbone says, "Their reactions raise a broad range of questions about manipulation
and behavioural conditioning, and the relativity of perception from one individual to the
next. How natural are our responses to our environment, and how accurate are ourperceptions?"
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Doug Fishbone, Still from Elmina (Fight), 2010. Photo by Thierry Bal. D. Fishbone.
Courtesy of the Artist
Another of Fishbone's film was selected for the prize. Elmina stars the very white and
very American artist in an otherwise completely Ghanaian production. The film will be
released as a low-cost mass-market DVD and VCD in Africa and on African immigrantmarkets, The rest of us will be able to buy it as a limited edition in the art world. (i
wrote about it last year.)
Torsten Lauschmann is showing Digital Clock (Growing Zeros). I can't remember how
many artistic versions of the digital clock i've seen over the past few years but this one
is as good as any. Have a look:
A couple more images of the works selected for the Samsung Art + Prize:
Semiconductor, Magnetic Movie, 2007. Courtesy of Semiconductor
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Doug Fishbone, Still from Elmina (Fight), 2010. Photo by Thierry Bal. D. Fishbone.
Courtesy of the Artist
Doug Fishbone, Elmina, 2010, production still. Photo by Thierry Ball. Courtesy the
artist and ROKEBY, London
Hiraki Sawa, Installation shot: Did I?, 2011. Courtesy of the Artist
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Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Walking After Acconci (Redirected Approaches) 2005.
(Production still) Photograph: Anne Worthington. Courtesy of the artists and Kate
MacGarry, London
Erika Tan, The Syntactical Impossibility of Approaching with a Pure Heart, 2008.
Courtesy of the artist
The Samsung Art+ Prize is on view at BFI Southbank in London from January 18 to
29th.
You can vote for the Samsung Art+ Prize Audience Award over here. Votes must be
received by January 24th.
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