50 drawings, marker pen on tinted watercolour paper, 19 x 28 cm or 28 x 38 cm, newspapers, 2008-2009
Work
The video shows a recording / casting session with a native German speaking actor of non-European descent who is speaking Karl Kraus’ text ‘In These Great Times’ in English and German.
The video shows a slow close-up pan which creates an tactile inventory of the surfaces and materials of the café’s interior and its ornamental vocabulary
The wish to establish the exact time that a tree standing in the forest needs in order to be converted into a newspaper has given the owner of a Harz paper mill the occasion to conduct an interesting experiment.
The café is filmed in long-shots after closing time at 3 am and before it re-opens the next day at 6 am.
Two colour photographs mounted on MDF at 150 degree angle, 106.6 x 33.6 cm / Installation version, 2008
Uriel Orlow & Marcia Farquhar, single channel video with sound, 11′ “In planning The Transgenerational Memory of Monkeys, Uriel took a rather lateral approach to the choice of work, pulling at a very particular thread in Marcia’s work, and in … More
The camera trails a guide on a tour through the labyrinthine architectural complex of Ogiamen’s palace in Benin City (Nigeria)
