With wit and savvy, Kalin combines text, graphics and flowers with musical and political quotation to comment on the disjuncture between a conservative, medicalized discourse that describes homosexuality as both "unnatural" and "dangerous," and the possibilities of liberation involved in embracing the criminality of the "unnatural." A quote from Angela Carter's Sadeian Woman ("Criminality may present itself as a kind of saintly self-mastery, an absolute rejection of hypocrisy"), disco music, and hothouse flowers serve as counterpoints to fundamentalist agit-prop about gay sexuality.
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Observatory Archives 2000
/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020
Observatory Archives 2000
OVNI 2000 brings toughener a series of works which we hope may serve as a plural and multifaceted reflection on the notion of COMMUNITY, understood not as ideal, a closed and defined paradigm, but as a reality: spaces for social, anthropological, cultural and emotional relationships where we already find ourselves, irrespective of the acceptance, participation or conflict we develop within tem.
COMMUNITY as a key reality, often hijacked, transformed by media, caricatured by states, by markets and ideologies. The “community” in this way is separated from the necessities of day to day chores and realities. Singularities, unique people are kept from forming communities unless the declare conformity to ab identity, or pertain to a group. Instead masses od individuals are constructed, eliminating, however, whats is always alive underneath, what remains of a people, indescribable, without a nam, without boundaries, whose lack of definition gives it its force and its grace. (1)
(1) Contra el hombre Agustin Garcia Calvo. Fundació Anselmo Lorenzo. Madrid, 1996 . La Comunidad que viene. Giorgio Agamben. Pre-Textos. Valencia 1996 .
Thematical screenings
Hall and Auditorium.Simultaneous Screenings
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Montalegre 5. 08001 Barcelona
Confessions to a camera.
UntitledA man planned to get married. From there, everything starts. A series of photos, which retrace his evolution (death, separation, distance and birth) in a fixed frame with a masculine voice in off which tells us the invisible stories behind the photos.
UntitledMiguel reveals to Fábio the filmed footage of his childhood. The film is an investigation into the possibilities of fiction through a material that, in theory, does not hide anything. His raw material is some VHS that Miguel himself starts to review next to a mysterious and flirtatious friend from Brazil. Miguel speaks, his friend listens. Miguel presents his world, his past, his first self. With these reference images, Miguel structures a particular account of his experience as a Colombian child and the first manifestations of Satan in his life.
Personal relations mediated by the telephone. The story, in which desire enters the logic of fast-food, is told by a group of people. 6 Muestra de Vídeo & Fenómenos Interactivos
This whirling dance tape is a visual odyssey from Beirut to Berlin, a woman’s story set in the oppressive civil fragmentation of two divided cities where images of destruction and reconstruction are intermingled. A cutting edge poetic short, that maps out the roots of inner and outer landscapes. Biba Non Biba is a powerful visual and sonic plea for change that is inclusionary not exclusionary. ARGOS Centre for Art and Media / Biba non Biba
Untitled"These are my friends. My dead friends."
UntitledGoing in depth into her father’s photo archive and diaries about his experience during the military service at the Sahara spanish colony in 1964, Pilar spots the lost paradise where he always would try to come back. In the eighties and nineties, after the failure of his family project, Manuel Monsell will start to traveling to the Maghreb. Again with his photo camera, he will run after the beauty of some portraits which could move him to the place of his dreams. But all these trips reveal much more about the place of departure than about the place of destination. Romantic love, independence and family compose a stage of a refuge that getting itself broken, it commit ourselves to ask not only about our more sincere desires but also about the need of rethinking the sense of these old words.
UntitledINTERVIEW AGENCY An exercise that explores the interview format– as testimony or as a document – and the values associated with it: transparency/manipulation, neutrality/ideology and subjectivity/objectivity.
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