Window Projections | Every day from sunset to 02:00 AM.
"Parken" by Asta Gröting

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

Mon, 12/11/2023 -
Sun, 12/17/2023
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:

Parken

Asta Gröting 
2001
04:37  
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)  

PARKEN is representative of Asta Gröting's artistic approach of exploring interpersonal relationships on an emotional and conceptual level. A narrow street framed by two rows of parked cars is all that the fixed camera captures from a bird's eye view. At times, a car drives out, creating a free parking space for which several drivers instantly compete. The vehicles navigate hectically and nervously through the narrow street, pushing forward and blocking each other. The movements reveal a spectrum of tactics that symbolize the competition in a neoliberal working society. 
 
Asta Gröting (*1961 in Herford / Germany, lives in Berlin) investigates the human body as a site of internal and external communication by means of the people around her and her own psyche. Referencing the readymade and the development of post-1960s material aesthetics, she engages with the language of everyday life both theoretically and artistically, visualizing complex issues of human coexistence from the perspective of cultural and scientific history. Although her work initially focused on sculpture, she began to explore the potential of the moving image in 1993.