ENCYCLOPEDIC CARTOONS Video Project
Friday 12th February 2010, 20h
Kulturpalast Wedding
Freienwalder Str. 20, 13359 Berlin

The project´s idea is base on the encyclopedia, knowledge pool of the 18th century put together in a multi volume book project. The encyclopedia aimes making world´s phenomena understandable and put them into a larger context beyond religious explanations, which usually had been the first and only world interpretations in the middle ages provided by the catholic church. By this encyclopedia is the first try in modern time shaping the world.

In our time knowledge is provided by scientists and changes everyday. Today it would be impossible to bring together the different concepts in order to understand the world from a unique position. Nevertheless the encyclopedia is still a distinct concept, which more than in the old days presents an utopia to us.

ENCYCLOPEDIC CARTOONS provides for each letter of the alphabet a more or less abstract word. Loosely connected to the word is a single film running from a few seconds to 4 minutes. There are 26 films, for each letter one film.

This are the words, representing the aphabet.

THE WORDS:

A-ARCHITECTURE
B-BALLET
C-CHILDHOOD
D-DISGUST
E-EMINENT
F-FRUIT
G-GROWTH
H-HOSPITALITY
I-INFINITY
J-JOINT
K-KILL JOY
L-LEGS
M-MECHANICAL
N-NIGHT OUT
O-OLD
P-PARADISE
Q-QUILT
R-REPRODUCTIVE ORGAN
S-SUSTAINABILITY
T-TALK
U-UNCHAINED
V-VIOLENCE
W-WASTE
X-XENOPHOBIA
Y-YELP
Z-ZOOLOGY

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

1. Alison Williams, RSA
2. Alberto Guerreiro, Portugal
3. Vienne Chan, HK/Can
4. Debbie Douez, Can
5. Elisabeth Eberle, Switzerland
6. Fancynot, France
7. Beate Goerdes, Germany
8. Kim Dotty Hachmann, Germany
9. Marty McCutcheon, USA
10. Matthias Roth, Germany
11. Paul Rascheja, Poland/Germany
12. András László Weil Fischer di Palotta, Hungary/The Netherlands
13. Joas Sebastian Nebe, Germany

More detailed information at
www.artreview.com/group/enigmaticbook
www.nebe.kulturserver-hamburg.de
www.jsnebe.de
and on twitter

Just look around this place
Curated By Kenneth White
Friday January 22nd 7pm
Baer Ridgway Exhibitions of 172 Minna Street, San Francisco, USA

"Just look around this place" is a collection of seven short works in video that explore the transformation of social relations by the video medium. Using a diverse range of methods, including video-diary, home video, animation, direct address, and appropriation, the artists dissect their means of creative production and the mutations of social performance that their medium instigates. Video is an environment through which interaction is conditioned. In each work, we are beckoned to “just look around this place,” and recognize the (often hilarious) scenes of life performed for electronic media. Works and artists include “Let’s watch this guy at a coffee shop.” (Julie Perini), “HOME / VIDEO” (Michael Hession), “Video Terraform Dance Party” (Jeremy Bailey), “Pine Point” (Kenneth White), “Beauty Plus Pity” (Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby), “West Nile” (Tom Sherman), and “The Frills 3.0” (Jimmy DiPasquale). Curated by Kenneth White. Running time 1 hour. Free and open to the public.