n.b.k. Video-Forum | Window Projections
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:
In Ewig den Zufall betrachtend
Alicja Kwade
2014
08:16 Min.
Collection Video-Forum, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
The video installation
In Ewig den Zufall betrachtend (engl.
Forever contemplating chance) shows dice rolling ceaselessly from left to right without ever stopping. By using the dice as a symbol of luck and throwing it as a method of making decisions or tracking down the outcome of a process, Kwade has found a formally simple, yet strong metaphor for the human pursuit of certainty.
In her sculptures, spatial and light installations, and video works,
Alicja Kwade (*1979 in Katowice / Poland, lives in Berlin) repeatedly explores the relationship between fiction and reality. Her works are formal attempts to explain scientific or philosophical phenomena and shed light on our perception of reality as well as social conventions. In this process, Kwade works with material properties, modes of representation, and the expectations associated with them, as well as with notions of time and space.
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