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Curator: Kiki Petratou
ATTRACTION OF THE OPPOSITES presents “Acting Out”, a screening of works of 7 international artists who embed role-playing and moving image in pursuing of their projects. The compilation varying in style and scope brings together artist performances ranging between documentary, animation and video art.
“Acting Out” investigates the role of the artist as director, researcher, messenger, mediator and executor; from the politically engaging work of Gil & Moti and the sociopolitical approach of Duro Toomato, delving into the subcultural movements of Alexis Milne to jump into the fictionalization of reality of Kiki Petratou and the eccentric rituals of Martin Hansen and on to the personal inquests of Adonis Migkos and Alexander van Merle.
ATTRACTION OF THE OPPOSITES is a multidisciplinary project. It aims to question and reflect on the different aspects of our multifaceted culture through exhibitions and festivals, exchange and collaboration.
Gil & Moti
In spring 2008, over a period of two months Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen, was housing Gil & Moti’s performative and site-specific project “Available For You”.
Taking as a point of departure their own nationality and the current situation in Israel, concepts such as humanity, atonement and forgiveness acquire an added significance. In “Available For You” the artists offer a number of services to residents in Copenhagen with an Arab background, with a view to creating inter-human relations, which may help to counteract the otherwise so ingrained political hostility.
A flyer was distributed; calling for Arab people to contact them.
Hanna, originally from Lebanon, asked them to help him out with renovating his apartment and to throw a party celebrating his 44 years birthday. The hard labor and its rituals depicted in the video are mixed up with Hanna’s personal observations from daily life to existential and political concerns.
UK
“Jobseekers” is part one of a series of videos entitled “The Delinquents” focusing on semiotic analysis by Jean Baudrillard and Dick Hebdige into subcultural movements that Milne was heavily influenced by in his youth such as skinheads, graffiti art, and raving. “Jobseekers” was made before the 2011 sporadic August riots in London and was an outcome of investigations into ‘delinquent’ self destructive behaviour manifested through a systemic disenfranchised distance from society. Milne was looking for footage of looting and nihilistic behaviour after reading the Situationist International response to the LA riots of 1965.
Alexander van Merle
Netherlands
Martin Hansen
Germany / Netherlands
Adonis Migkos
Greece
Kiki Petratou
Greece / Netherlands
Duro Toomato
Croatia / Netherlands
It results in the animation of the inert property of "sculpture", in real motion, real time and real space. The work of art thus becomes more and more a part of the viewer’s consciousness; unique in its moment in time.