Benjamin Rosenthal (USA) Loops & Bonds, 7:00
Film & video programme „Performance“
15/09/2010, Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:00, Studio 7, Art Academy
Loops & Bonds investigates the tension between the spontaneity and subliminal violence of the open-mic scenario and the fraternity, through the juxtaposition of immersive and chaotic images and sound against the austerity of menacing and suggestive performative actions. Evolving out of an exploration of metered utterance, rhythms collapse into frenzied and amorphous experiences—interrupted by the abrupt exposition of production and artifice. Functioning as an agent of connectivity and suture, the lasso and the rope transform to reveal the sinister psychological underpinnings of the event.
Benjamin Rosenthal received his B.F.A. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, and studied briefly in 2005 in the Intermedia Department (Sogouzokei) at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design in Komaki CIty, Aichi, Japan. He is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Art Studio department of the University of California, Davis. Primarily working in film, video, and performance-based practices, Benjamin is interested in the tension that ensues when acts of performativity--durational, personal, collective, etc.--become edited against elements appropriated from or derived out of popular culture.
15/09/2010, Wednesday, 17:00 - 18:00, Studio 7, Art Academy
Loops & Bonds investigates the tension between the spontaneity and subliminal violence of the open-mic scenario and the fraternity, through the juxtaposition of immersive and chaotic images and sound against the austerity of menacing and suggestive performative actions. Evolving out of an exploration of metered utterance, rhythms collapse into frenzied and amorphous experiences—interrupted by the abrupt exposition of production and artifice. Functioning as an agent of connectivity and suture, the lasso and the rope transform to reveal the sinister psychological underpinnings of the event.
Benjamin Rosenthal received his B.F.A. at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, and studied briefly in 2005 in the Intermedia Department (Sogouzokei) at the Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design in Komaki CIty, Aichi, Japan. He is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Art Studio department of the University of California, Davis. Primarily working in film, video, and performance-based practices, Benjamin is interested in the tension that ensues when acts of performativity--durational, personal, collective, etc.--become edited against elements appropriated from or derived out of popular culture.
