Screening: New Visions
Tekla Aslanishvili og Basim Magdy
As part of the side program of New Visions, we show films by the artists Tekla Aslanishvili and Basim Magdy.
On the same day, we will be showing Nour Sokhons performance Revisiting: Resisting Turbulence, a
commisioned work for New Visions. See information about different ticket types
in the ticket link. Entrance to the exhibition is included in the tickets.
Tekla Aslanishvili was born in 1988 in Tbilisi, Georgia and lives in Berlin, Germany
and in Tbilisi. In the exhibition, she shows the work Stone of Hell, 2021, made
in collaboration with Giorgi Gago Gagoshidze. On Saturday 13
May we will show the film A State in a State, 2022, in the Auditorium.
Basim Magdy was born in
1977 in Asyut, Egypt and lives in Basel, Switzerland. In the exhibition, he
shows the works Someone Tried to Lock Up Time (Clouds are Dreams) 2018, Someone
Tried to Lock Up Time (Modern History) 2023 and Someone Tried to Lock Up Time
(History of the Stars) 2023. On Saturday 13 May we will show the film FEARDEATHLOVEDEATH, 2022, in the Auditorium
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"A State in a State" is an experimental documentary film that follows the construction and destruction of railways in the South Caucasus and the Caspian region. The film focuses on infrastructure developed for transport, and examines how the railway materializes the fragile political borders that have re-emerged in the area after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Scenes characterized by delays and waiting are central, and contribute to the optimistic narratives about the new silk road being read against the current. The film further observes how iron, as a basis for mobility and connectivity, can be used as a weapon of exclusion and geopolitical sabotage.
Along the same railway lines, other forms of sabotage are carried out by workers to disrupt the political violence in the area. A State in a State explores the railways' potential to build a new infrastructural consciousness, and the enduring, transnational kinship that develops between the people who live and work around them.
Credits
The film is developed in artistic-scientific collaboration with Dr. Evelina Gambino, Margaret Tyler Research Fellow in Geography at Girton College, University of Cambridge.
Research & Script: Tekla Aslanishvili / Evelina Gambino
Music: Ani Zakareishvili / Nika Pasuri
Cinematography: Nikoloz Tabukashvili / Tekla Aslanishvili
Typography: Dato Simonia
Editing: Tekla Aslanishvili
Sound: Viktor Bone / Irakli Shonia
Color: Sally Shamas
Supported by the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe
Produced by the Han Nefkens Foundation as a result of Video Art Production Award 2020, with support from the Fundació Antoni Tàpies; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila; Jameel Art
Centre, Dubai; NTU CCA Singapore and WIELS, Brussels. -
FEARDEATHLOVEDEATH conjures up a hallucinatory journey that reminds us of man's need to shape his surroundings through material structures, and of the absurdity of death. A young girl invents a one-word language to describe objects in the bedroom of a recently deceased man. A city of caves from a bygone civilization triggers a memory of an encounter with a mysterious woman with pockets full of worried smiles. People buy tickets at theme parks to enjoy near-death experiences, while an alligator is spotted poking its head out of the clouds.
ARPANET is remembered as the forerunner of the internet just before death comes galloping between the stars. Against all odds, it appears to be wearing an alligator tail. The film is based on associative connections across time and space, and speculates about humans' relationship with the spaces and structures they build around them and which surround us in life and death.
Credits
FEARDEATHLOVEDEATH, 2022. Super 16mm film transferred to HD. 17:15. The film was made as a commissioned work for Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden.
On the same day, we show Nour Sokhon's performance Revisiting: Resisting Turbulence, a commissioned work for New Visions. See the ticket link for more information and note that there are two different ticket types.
