"In Limbo" is a collage edited from American satellite feeds intercepted by the artists Marko Peljhan and Brian Springer between 1990 and 1997. The material comprises unfiltered back-hauls from raw live feeds of news networks (before they are packaged with voice-over, music and commercials), as well as corporate and governmental broadcasts for the employees and trainees of the respective companies and law-enforcement institutions.
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falling and flying / OVNI 2014
/ CONTEXT 1994 - 2020
falling and flying / OVNI 2014
Limbo (Lat. Limbus) ~ the world between the living and the dead ~ the storage space where deleted files are sent ~ a tale by Aldous Huxley.
There is an enormous, constant, and well-organised pressure on social rights and freedoms, backed by a media apparatus that appropriates language and steals our words. Meanwhile, nature is still the source from which we extract the fuel that feeds the engines of progress for the few.
Borders spill beyond boundaries and permeate cities like the laboratory for a new totalitarian society.
Fall & Winter, Cómo robar la vida a un ser humano, Terrorisme d'Auteur, Barcelona the Dead City, Deleuze à Vincennes, Marinaleda, iPhone China, Detroit Wildlife, Barcelona panAfrica, Agustín García Calvo at Sol, Homeland Security.
Thematical screenings
Hall and Auditorium. Simultaneous Screenings
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Montalegre 5. 08001 Barcelona
Image: Pour Auguste (2010). Chantal Michel
The controversy surrounding copyright and the use of samples in the music industry during the 80s. With the participation of Negativland and EBN Emergency Broadcast Network.
The author of the video is hired as a marketing assistant by Columbia House. His only credential for the job is his status as a Nirvana fan, but circumstances soon lead him to a central position in the grunge catalogue of the multinational record distributor. Chris manages to create a personal diary of corporate America, its hierarchies and the ladder to the top, day-to-day life in a business community. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show
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