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Vanessa Renwick screening at Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art
Thursday, May 20th
“Portrait #2: Trojan” Vanessa Renwick, courtesy of PDX Contemporary Art
Lauded by Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post as a filmmaker responsible for, “some of the liveliest work on the microcinema circuit, [where] film, video art, and music collide with edgy, confrontational, unpredictable and often exuberant intensity”, Vanessa Renwick is coming to Berlin! On May 20th, Renwick will be presenting a select screening of her short works at Arsenal in collaboration with The EAST/WEST Project. Her iconoclastic work reflects an interest in place, relationships between bodies and landscapes, and all sorts of borders. Working in experimental and poetic documentary forms, she produces films, videos and installations that explore the possibility of hope in contemporary society.
CROWDOG (1984/98) is about the American Indian movement. Her “Portrait Series” (2005-09) is dedicated to the efforts toward independence in the Cascadia region of the American Northwest and based on music from the area. BRITTON, SOUTH DAKOTA (2003) is a structural found footage piece with 60-year-old portraits of the town’s children. The triple projection, HOPE AND PREY (2006), deals with hunting and being hunted in the wilderness.
The screening will include:
Crowdog 1984/98 7 min
Portrait #1: Cascadia Terminal 2005 6 min
Portrait #2: Trojan 2006 5 min
Portrait #3: House of Sound 2009 12 min
Britton, South Dakota 2003 9 min
Hope and Prey 2006 23 min
May 20, 2010
20:00
Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art
Potsdamer Str. 2
Berlin, Germany
Theater #2
Ticket Prices:
Guests: 6,50 €
Members: 4,50 €
Children: 3 €
Vanessa Renwick is represented by PDX Contemporary Art and lives and works in Portland, OR.
CURRENTLY ON EXHIBIT AT THE EAST/WEST PROJECT BERLIN
Shadow + Sunlight
April 30 – May 29, 2010
Opening Reception
Friday, April 30th
7 – 10 pm
gallery location: Fichtestrasse 3, Berlin, Germany
directions: U7 to Sudstern (Two blocks from station) or U8 to hermannplatz
For “Shadow + Sunlight” the EAST/WEST Project presents a Berlin/West Coast Spectacular of work by a new generation of artists raised in a world colored by counter-cultural ideals of the 60’s and esoteric, transcendental visuals from the American Symbolist and Visionary artistic movements of the early 20th century. Encompassing painting, photography, sculpture and drawing, it is an exhibition of moments where micro-emotional experiences open the door to a new and infinite sense of self in the world; a walk through the city becomes a cartographic mandala charting intimate epiphanies, hypercolor crystals trap the suggestion of a sacred geometry, tiny hillsides sprout on the backs of gnarled mushrooms and young men and women commune with one another in a woodland utopia.
Midori Hirose (Portland, Oregon)
Chloé Richard (Portland, Oregon/Berlin, Germany)
Elina Tuhkanen (Portland, Oregon/Finland)
Per Schumann (Hamburg, Germany)