Work-in-progress video portrait by Angelika Middendorf & Andreas Schimanski [DE]
// 24–31/01 > Venue:
KKB > 12–21:00
"25sec." is a series of video portraits in which representatives from various occupational groups, generations and cultural circles each formulate a twenty-five second long statement on the goals of their projects. A goal is a positive action in the nearer future, a dream, a vision or utopia...
For CTM.09, Middendorf & Schimanski will realise a new version of the project dedicated to perspectives on the festival theme
STRUCTURES. To do so, a video recording studio will be set up in Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, into which international protagonists from the media and music scenes attending the festival will be invited. The participants can employ an object that refers to their goal, vision for the future or utopia to support their 25-second statement. At the centre of the "25sec." project stands each individual statement and portrait, which the artists then later assemble into a precisely choreographed sequence of all the portraits recorded. In this way, the project shows a snapshot of the motivations, goals, ideas and questions that characterise the work and the projects of the participants, and thus maps an extract of the contemporary landscape of independent music and media cultures.
The "25sec." project is a process-oriented, temporary social sculpture that already manifests itself in the exploration of the question and becomes active through the exchange and discussion of their goals with the others. The course of the project process already begins before the shooting date for the statements. Because the simple seeming question about goals as a positive action in the nearer future not only provides space for critical self-assessment, dreams, visions and utopias, but also involves the backgrounds and contexts of each individual project participant and his/her individual horizon of experience.
The finished video portrait will be presented in Berlin in the summer of 2009 as one of the three "STRUCTURES-Nodes" organised by DISK/CTM this year.
> www.25sec.net
Angelika Middendorf (DE) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been presented in numerous international solo and group shows including: "Circle, Sphere, Cosmos" at Kunsthalle Würth (2007), Pergamonmuseum Berlin (2006) and more. She also had a residency at the International Studio Program at P.S.1 in New York (2000-2001).
Andreas Schimanski (DE) is a visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. He is the recipient of the Video Project grant, Department for Cultural Affairs, Berlin Lichtenberg (2006), the German Art Award of Artistic Photography (1996), the Bremer Advancement Award for Fine Arts (1996) and Video Award Bremen (1994), to name a few.
