Boris Eldagsen & Sabine Taeubner
Berliín. Alemania
www.superhigh.org or www.eldagsen.com/superhigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIn-BUrdfKU

Proyecto: SUPERHIGH

German artist duo Boris Eldagsen and Sabine Taeubner produced SUPERHIGH, a 40-minute film using mockumentary and reality-show elements to create a clash between drug-free and classic drug highs. SUPERHIGH proposes an online dialogue at http://superhigh.arte.tv – commencing on World Television Day, November 21st, 2013.

In the video work, six candidates showcase methods of getting high without drugs (Candle Staring, Knock Out Kiss, Whirling Dervish, 12 Cycle Meth Breath, Kin Hen Meditation and more). Personified drugs – Cocaine, LSD and Speed – form the jury and judge their efforts. In round II, the candidates combine two drug-free methods, while Ketamine, MDMA and Marihuana are joining the jury.
“We create what Alejandro Jodorowsky wanted to achieve with his failed film project 'Dune': to make people that haven’t taken drugs, feel high.” says Boris Eldagsen.
“It was more difficult to find someone who would stare into a flame for 30 minutes than someone willing to smoke a joint and drink ten vodkas in front of a camera. SUPERHIGH is a cross-media platform. The video is just the beginning. We want to make museums and clubs high on installations and events”, adds Sabine Taeubner.

SUPERHIGH is co-produced by Arte Creative, the international magazine, lab and network of contemporary culture, and a satellite of German-French cultural TV station Arte. SUPERHIGH fulfils all that digital natives wish for: the 'Highbrary' – an online library on the subject hosted by Pinterest – and a Facebook page where users can post alternative methods of getting high. The audience is also invited to vote for their SUPERHIGH amongst the jury, candidates and host.

SUPERHIGH's world premiere took place in front of an audience of over 300 people on November 20, 2013 at Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin. Since then, the online platform www.superhigh.org had 25.000 visitors and 750 voters.

In March 2014 SUPERHIGH started to tour as a nomadic event through European museums.

For Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven / Netherlands, Eldagsen & Taeubner created a ‘SUPERHIGH Yourself’ parcours around the central video work, hacking the museum’s collection by placing how-to posters and SUPERHIGH tools next to famous art works of the 21st century.
technicaldates: Screen or Projector, file Reader or Player, SoundSystem
cvteam: Boris Eldagsen is a Berlin-based visual Artist that studied at the Art Academies of Mainz / Germany, Prague / Czech Republic, the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad / India – and philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz.

His photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals such as Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Videonale Bonn, Edinburgh Art Festival, Athens

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