Rogue State
Vetoed UN resolutions hand-inscribed onto DV tape using a magnetic quill. Reinterpreted by the digital apparatus, these marks reveal abstract, lawless sonic and visual explosions - a fluid display of synthetic aerial terror. The action alludes to the shared nature of entertainment and military technology in seeking perfect spectacle whilst shunning error or uncertainty. Compressed light and sound are unleashed in volatile glitches to commemorate the abandonment of conventions in both the digital medium and international law. "Visually, Rogue State is a deceptively aesthetic burst of video confetti. But this innovative descendant of direct cinema is a digital interpretation of a text inscribed on the material; an obscured message only implied by the title" > Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Astria Suparak and Ranti Tjan, Impakt Jury 2005. >> Publications >> Clipviewer 2007 > Impakt Highlights, Product Festival for Contemporary Art, Varna, Bulgaria; Process–Space Art Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria; Bandits-Mages Festival, Bourges, France 2006 > Impakt Highlights, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, (EFT), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beursschouwburg, Brussels; Paris/Berlin/Bratislava, Art Film Festival, Slovakia; Paris/Berlin/Caracas, PULSAR, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela. . 2005 > Panorama, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands (Winner Silver Impakt Award); Take 291, 291 Gallery, Hackney, London. 2004 > Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin; Out of The Loop, curated by Erica Baum & Jane Johnson, Barbes, Brooklyn, USA; Backup Festival of New Media in Film, Bauhaus Universitat, Weimar, Germany; Video Hijack Bus, curated by Rob Kennedy, Dialogues Festival on coach travelling between Glasgow & Edinburgh and at Bongo Club, Edinburgh; Sonic Arts 32: Sound/Text/Image, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Switch Media Art Festival, Chiang Mai, Thailand; Machinista Festival, screened at Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow & toured to Perm City, Russia & RIXC Media Space, Riga, Latvia; Security Bytes Conference, Lancaster University, UK (1st Prize, Film Competition); FWD: no subject, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK; VAIA International Video Art Show of Alcoi, Valencia, Spain; www.tank.tv, September/Oct 2004 edition; Hertzoscopio Experimental & Trans-Disciplinary Arts Festival, Lisbon, Portugal; CODEC/X - New British Video and Sound Art (2003-2004), international touring.2003 > Intermix, curated by Pavilion, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK; Exposures Film Festival, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (Winner, Best Experimental Film). |
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