Window Projections
"Walls Have Feelings" by Eli Cortiñas

n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections

Mon, 11/27/2023 -
Sun, 12/03/2023
Goethe-Institut Montreal

The Goethe-Institut Montreal, in cooperation with the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), presents a screening programme of 20 video works from n.b.k Video-Forum’s extensive video art collection, curated by Anna Lena Seiser (Head of Collection n.b.k. Video-Forum).

The individual films will be shown for a week at a time sunset to 2:00 a.m. on the display windows of the Goethe-Institut at 1626 Boul. St-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, H2X 2T1, Canada and can be viewed on an indoor screen during the Goethe-Institut's opening hours:

Walls Have Feelings

Eli Cortiñas
2019
13:12
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)

In Walls Have Feelings, Eli Cortiñas addresses the power that objects and architectures have to effect change in the worlds of politics and labor. The film’s protagonists are office spaces, walls, artworks, and technological entities, which appear as authority figures or preservers and amplifiers of various forms of power. Starting from the design of space in totalitarian systems, this essayistic narrative takes the objects’ point of view to draw connections between structures of political domination, industrial production conditions, and neoliberal systems of value creation.

About the Artist
Visual memory is challenged in the works of Eli Cortiñas (*1979 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, lives and works in Berlin). The film and video artist analyzes preexisting film footage from advertising, film, and pop culture then reworks and recontextualizes it through slight alterations or juxtaposition with the artist’s own recordings.