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Shingo Yoshida - The Summit

Shingo Yoshida - The Summit

Yoshida’s ghostly journey through Heathrow Airport, an abandoned monument to globalization, is here set in contrast to an intergenerational journey to the peak of Japan’s monument to nationhood, Mount Fuji. In The Summit, Yoshida brings to life his father’s and grandfather’s dream to place an engraved haiku atop Mount Fuji.

Duration : 23m
Maturity Level : all

MAP Office - Runscape

MAP Office - Runscape

Runscape chronicles the freedom of movement which, under our current pandemic conditions, has been denied to many around the world restricted to lockdown. The narration describing the body as ‘a bullet which needs no gun’, assumes a dark duality in view of the deadly spread of the virus from person to person.

Duration : 24m
Maturity Level : all

Shaarbek Amankul - Sham

Shaarbek Amankul - Sham

In Duba and Sham, Kyrgyz artist Shaarbek Amankul gives us an intimate portrait of cleansing rituals performed by shamans in his native country, with the trances, incantations, cries, and grunts, that seem so alien to most of us.

Duration : 4m
Maturity Level : all

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls I

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls I

A topic made especially poignant in today’s pandemic reality, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls is a tribute to the disappeared, to the forgotten sites of distant traumas, to the frailty of personal and historic memory.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls II

Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls II

Setting up an interplay between landscape, memory, forgetting and history, Kate McMillan’s Paradise Falls considers how history can leave a residue in the landscape and the past often comes back to haunt us.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Gülsün Karamustafa - Personal Time Quartet

Gülsün Karamustafa - Personal Time Quartet

Gulsun Karamustafa’s 4-channel video installation and soundscape, Personal Time Quartet, was intended as a portrait of the artist’s childhood, stuck indoors and perpetually repeating the same domestic tasks.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Stefano Cagol - National Pride

Stefano Cagol - National Pride

Stefano Cagol’s National Pride turns a clip from Virus, a 1980 apocalyptic sci-fi film, into an audiovisual parable for our times.

Duration : 2m
Maturity Level : all

Nezaket Ekici - On the Way safety and Luck

Nezaket Ekici - On the Way safety and Luck

In her elegy to the freedoms of travel, On The Way Safety and Luck (2016), Nezaket Ekici reimagines a farewell ritual which was once commonly practiced in Turkey and many Balkan countries, where friends and family gather to throw water after the vehicles of the departed, so that their journey may flow as smoothly as water.

Duration : 34m
Maturity Level : all

Theo Eshetu - The Festival of Sacrifice

Theo Eshetu - The Festival of Sacrifice

Faith is the subject of Theo Eshetu’s Festival of Sacrifice, depicting an ancient cultural tradition, the celebration of Eid-ul-Adha, the Islamic Festival of Sacrifice.

Duration : 17m
Maturity Level : all

Claudia Chaseling - Murphy the Mutant

Claudia Chaseling - Murphy the Mutant

Claudia Chaseling’s Murphy the Mutant is apocalyptic sci-fi grounded in the harsh reality of the environmental devastation of nuclear waste and munitions.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

David Krippendorff - Nothing Escapes My Eyes

David Krippendorff - Nothing Escapes My Eyes

David Krippendorff’s Nothing Escapes My Eyes is a time-warping tribute to a changing world where, to a moving soundtrack from the eponymous opera, a would-be Aida sheds tears for a place and time which no longer exist.

Duration : 14m
Maturity Level : all

Varvara Shavrova - Opera - Three Transformations

Varvara Shavrova - Opera - Three Transformations

Varvara Shavrova’s The Opera takes an intimate look at the performers behind the spectacle of Chinese opera.

Duration : 3m
Maturity Level : all

Janet Laurence - Vanishing

Janet Laurence - Vanishing

COVIDecameron ends with the meditative soundtrack of deep breathing, snuffling, purring, rumbling, accompanied visually by close-ups of various animals as they inhale…exhale…inhale…exhale.

Duration : 9m
Maturity Level : all

Qiu Anxiong - Cake

Qiu Anxiong - Cake

In a timeless and exquisitely crafted contemplation on the past, the present, and the relationship between the two, Qiu Anxiong’s Cake combines painting, drawing and clay with a discordant soundtrack of mechanical noises.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all

Martin Sexton - Indestructible Truth

Martin Sexton - Indestructible Truth

The temporal and narrative ambiquities persist in Martin Sexton’s Indestructible Truth, intercuting historic footage of Tibet with quotations from Carl Jung, culminating in a UFO hovering over the Tibetan temples.

Duration : 13m
Maturity Level : all

Martin Sexton - Bloodspell

Martin Sexton - Bloodspell

Martin Sexton’s Bloodspell at first appears to be a travelogue constructed from grainy home videos, only to turn into a transcendental journey into science fiction.

Duration : 10m
Maturity Level : all

Sumugan Sivanesan - Children’s Book of War

Sumugan Sivanesan - Children’s Book of War

Sumugan Sivanesan’s A Children’s Book of War uses the lighthearted visual languages of animation, computer games, and digital media in a jarring conjunction to address the topics of war, sovereignty, and violence.

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

Beyond Walls by Saype

Beyond Walls by Saype

Discover his 8 first gigantic frescoes. Project 9 is now in Cape Town

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

Tomas Saraceno

Tomas Saraceno

ENJOY HIS DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 53s
Maturity Level : all

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

DISCOVER IT’S DEDICATED CHANNEL

Duration : 1m
Maturity Level : all

THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2021

THE WORLD AROUND SUMMIT 2021

Online event on 30th January with stories about architectural culture today

Duration : 26s
Maturity Level : all

David Szauder

David Szauder

Kinetic Movements with Sound

Duration : 5m
Maturity Level : all

COVIDecameron

COVIDecameron

DISCOVER MOMENTUM ON CHANNELS

Duration : 20s
Maturity Level : all

orbital cascade_57-46

orbital cascade_57-46

The work orbital cascade_57-46 (2013) visualizes the demographics of defunct objects in orbit around the Earth from 1957 to 2046.

Duration : 6m
Maturity Level : all