Passage from synopsis :This is a road movie shoot through the windscreen of a car, over a period of eight year from 2014 to 2022.The road movie is not going anywhere, the only thing moving is the time.All the shoot are from the same location, and with the accompaniment of a distant voice-overspeaking in a foreign tongue exactly time stamping every single shoot in the film.This film made itself; Any location anywhere you pass by is a scene of its own,but the unavoidable location of Time After Time with its chronology of events inevitablemakes a film on its own, as you pass from scene to scene over the passage of timeit becomes a movie.Keywords : The place, The time, The montage, The narrator, The distancing. **********************************************************************************************
BOOK "SO36 - 1978 BIS HEUTE" ISBN 9783955750541August 2022,This summer I got the book brought to me from Berlin with some more posters, thanks.
The book is an extensive documentation of the Berliner music venue SO36 in Kreuzberg over a period of more than 40 years, rich in anecdote and photography.The book is the result of a tremendous community effort; in the production andraising founds among the community.It can be purchasedhere.
For those who are more into the art scene than the music scene :The German artist Martin Kippenberger was for a period running SO36."There Kippenberger took on various roles – artist, performer, writer, compare – while regularly performing with the punk band Grugas."
When SO36 was celebrating its 36 years anniversary in 2014, I put a poster together:There is something about posters, how they can inhabit a space, a private space or a public space, they can have a temporary presence and a very short life or the opposite.The poster is printed on both sides, so one can flip it if you get tired of looking at the front.The photograph on the flip side is the one I like the most, and its also the one they use in the book. There is nothing real special about the image, it shows : The SO36 stage, the band,the audience, the lamps, the speakers and so on, it just a window into to the past at aparticularly moment at a particularly place.**********************************************************************************************
BOOK "THE CAMERA AND US" ISBN 9788770231558August 2022,The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition :The Camera and Us. at The National Collection of Photography, The Royal Library. Copenhagen Denmark.A photography has many lives, here two photos side by side.
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THE NATIONAL COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHYNovember 2021,From Friday the 19 November 2021 until 1 October 2023 a selection of The National Collection ofPhotography are exhibited under the titleThe Camera and Us.It's a rare opportunity to take of advantage becauseThe National Collection of Photography do nothave a permanent exhibition for the 50.000 photos in their storage.In one room at the exhibition you will find an installation offive portraits, among them one my works, a portrait of Christian Lemmerz from 1989. It's from an era where they only boughtportraits like at the National Portrait Gallery in London.It's hard to get hold on what is in the storage of The National Collection of Photography,so I’ll use the occasion to facilitate that, If you dig into their collection storage, you willfind this work :Rabbit Lab, 1994-96
Passage from upcoming book about the work :As in cinematography the camera shoots 24 frames per second for later to be projectedin the same frame rate to create the illusion of motion, but in reality nothing is moving.It is all fixed images: an illusion.In Rabbit Lab one get exposed to a different illusion, every single frame on a film rollis only a fragment of a lager image of a rabbits.The rabbits are posing, first in one posing and then in another posing.In one image you see a single rabbit posing solo, in another image a rabbit duo are posing.The rabbit laboratory keeps producing rabbits, on one film roll after another, a continualaccumulation of film rolls, accumulation of fragments and finally accumulation of rabbits.Driven by the culture of an insatiable demand for ever more production and consumptionof images.The Rabbit Lab sequence was followed two years later with the Film City sequence, where the point of view are taking out of the laboratory and into the sum of all there is to be seen.
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ON 31 OCTOBER 1981 ABEL CATHRINES STIFTELSE WAS SQUATTEI discovered 40 year has gone.what to say today :- Another scene.- An Intervention in the urban space year 1981.Abel Cathrines Stiftelse was squatted On 31 October 1981.Its somehow a beautiful building, despite its sad history of being a residence for impoverishedwomen and homeless. The building has a layout as monastery, with an inner courtyard in the center,encircled by walkways connecting to the dormitories, and with a chapel at the end of the courtyard.It was the third building in a row to be squatted, in an unsuccessful attempt to create an autonomousculture space later to be known asUngdomshuset.The chapel at Abel Cathrines Stiftelse was far to small to host music venues, the dormitories were like minimal monastery cells. It's not so easy to see on the photo, but walls had been knockdown between the small cells to be able to create space for a cafe. Abel Cathrines Stiftelse could not be the framework for expression needed and was abandoned 14. februar 1982.
What could I bring to the party ? Only a few experiences from the squatter movement in West-Berlin.
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THE PINA BAUSCH FOUNDATIONOctober 2021,The Pina Bausch Foundation is in the long process of creating what they title :“An Invitation from Pina. An Archive as a Workshop for the Future”.An archive of material Pina Bausch selected when she was still alive.Five of my photos are to be found in the archive, and will present online.Pina Bausch was one of our truly outstanding artists in postwar Europa, so its a pleasure to be able to contribute to her legacy.In 1985 I spent time with The Pina Bausch Company in Paris, where they were rehearsing andperforming “Café Müller”. The following year 1986 I visited the company again in Wuppertal,here they were performing “Two cigarettes in the dark” and were working on the creation of new pieces.What caught my eye, at the time I was 24 years, was the way she used improvisations to createthe characters and situations. How she composed and disrupted the stage space,and the spirit the can emerge by of working as an ensemble.It's my impression, that it will take time before the archive is ready for the public,for now, I will endorse watching the film“Un jour Pina a demandé” byChantal Akerman,she spent five weeks with the company in the 80s.
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JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUROURE.Spring 2021,In remembranceJean-François Duroure 1964 - 2021From 1985 to 1987 I had the privilege of working with Jean-François in Copenhagen, Wuppertal,Paris and Angers.My photos below are from the piece “Extasis” 1985, Jean-François Duroure in the rare and uniqueduo with Mathilde Monnier.Their ecstasy was highly transmittable. For now this photo material is online, and will be stored in the memory of the world wide web.
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**********************************************************************************************ARTICLE MAY 2016Katalog vol. 27, no. 1 2016
REVERSE ENGINEERING THE ARCHIVE: PETER LIND’S ARCHIVAL PROJECTS.By Peter Alexander van der Meijden.
Passages taken from the archicle : Saying what Peter Lind is not is easier than saying what he is, and the same goes for his work.One thing that Lind certainly is not, is a photographer, even though photographsare his primary material and he himself is the person who takes them.Lind’s attitude towards photography seesaws between acceptance and resistance.“Photography is a seductive medium”, ... “and the first one to be seduced is the onewho takes the picture"”I want it to look like the myriad of other images that have been made earlier.”Lind works with juxtaposition and association, but symbolism is alien to his world.”I want to design my current exhibition like a movie, where you move from one scene to another,where one image leads you to the next. It has to be fresh and alive; alive like walking into a movie”.“In order to create an overview, you have to take a certain degree of distance”
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