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- Artistic Area:
- I am interested in questions of power and how power does shape the human body, the land- and cityscapes in which we live. Buildings are usually known for expressing hierarchical orders.
Human bodies are expressing the traces of power too, experienced during lifetime. This to show is one of my interests. Every story told is filled with the meaning of power and its expressions. Without the drive of power no story developes.
Power and forcement are everywhere in our western world and in other recent and ancient cultures and modes of living.
- About Me:
- REBECCA SCHÖNSEE, ARTHISTORIAN ABOUT THE WORK:
THE HOUSE OF SHADES
"The House of Shades installation potrays an intricate play on the symbolims of the house as womb or cave, and in consequence of the feminine principle and its sheltering function. Instead the ground adopts a menacing power emasculating the figures inscribed within. The common figure-ground relationship is twisted presenting the ground as dominant function. The misogynistic and coarse language in teh background of the paintings used in the installation appears as futile attempt to speak up against the tacit dominance of teh feminine introspection, which is proving to be untouchable. The defeated "ècriture masculine" lapsed back into shady existence. By enlightening the possible impact of the passive part within human relations, the installation disclosed (öffnet) mechanisms of violence that often go unnoticed and yet are vital to gender driven contexts as well as to any kind of competitive environment in which power is as stake."
DRAWINGS:
"The topic of violence is scrutinized even further in the scribble drawings, in which torture becomes an essential issue. The void space created by the scribbling interacts with the ground to representing the absend subject. While the chaotic strokes sadistically attempt to bind the absend body, the victimized ground in its inexhaustible capacity to receive the torturious line regains aggressive momentum in its power to survive. The blurringe of role enables the subject to function both as victim and as vitimizer and deterioates the sadomasochistic game presenting the viewer with the brutal reality of the issue itself."
PAINTINGS:
"The constellation of the figures is reminiscent of psychodrama or the set up used in psychotherapy. The hierarchy of power is symbolized by the positioning of each figure, scales of this hierarchy being distance, vicitnity or postiions in relation to the grid. The bleak ground conveyes psychich spaces that are devoid fo time measure or spatial depths. The psychodramatic action takes palce in an archaic environment in which the figures are forced to confront the very extremes of their human condition.
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The work of Joas Sebastian Nebe enters a dialogue with Viennes actionism. As opposed to open and brutal rebellion against established order as is characteristic of the works of Adofl Frohner, Nitsch and Muehl, Nebe uses means of narrative to expose hidden violence within contemporary structures. His work functions as reflector on important topics of the Viennese avantgarde movement, such as their use of archaic motifs and repeated referenece to ritual sacrifice. Thus Nebe creates a meta-discourse that discusses different artistic perspectives of rebellion against repressive social constraints. Whereas Viennes Actionsim is known for an excessive consideration fo orgiastic experience, Nebe blocks kathartic relief. Instead, the main focus on the implact of veiled resistance touches upon neglected issues such as passive aggressiveness, which cannot be released within the aestehtic function. By stressing that violence never be a solution to human problems Nebe's art transports an important sociopolitical statement. (The complete essay is as pdf file on this site available. The complete text is German.)
RECENT ART PROJECTS:
ZENDAI MOMA, Shanghai, Intrude Art & Life 366 Project participation:
On march 13th at Shanghai downtown two of my animation videos have been shown on viewing screens in public spaces, e.g. subway stations and big places.
They are about the demolition and rebuilding of citysites and meet by this issue the experience of the passing by people who see their city changing nearly every day.
My purpose has been chosen by the curators of the project, which is hosted by the Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai. The project is projected for a period of one year. Every day a different artist´s work is presented to the public. 100 of the participating artists are china based, 266 are from around the world.
BORDER PROJECT, Tblisi, Georgia, taking place November 2008
The video animation "SMALL NOTHING" will be shown at the project´s presentation in november 2008. The video brings up a new aspect of project´s issue "border" in showing how fantasy blurrs borders between past and present in mind.
The video animation is made up of old postcards with images from big German towns about the turn of century (19th to 20th century), combined with animated clouds drifting by. There is a music running which reminds us to the circus show of our childhood, one music theme repeated endlessly.
The idea of this animation video is to make visible the border between fantasy, the past (our childhood, our wishes to return to the probably better past) and the reality of the present.
There are 4 sequences in the animation video.
The first sequence shows the Hofburg in Vienna under changing sunlight and drifting clouds. This stands for the present. The second film shows an old postcard from a famous lakeside in Hamburg, called the Alster. This place, although it is obviously an image from an old postcard, is under sunrays influences as well. The third film shows 19th century people in a djungle, having a picnic. No one moves but clouds do.
The landscape shown is becoming more fantastic every time a new film sequence starts. The final film part shows again the scenery from the lake Alster. But this time the lake is reset by clouds. The clouds are everywhere but only a small part still resists them, protecting the visitors looking around. The visitors represents us observing the ways of fantasy.
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