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 Leftwing
2004, 3 min. (video, color, sound)
In "Leftwing", the artist transforms a typical school desk by sawing off the right half to reassemble it on the left. After finishing his work, he sits down on the chair, signs the table and, after due consideration, sticks a chewing gum under it. What the video shows, however, is not the already transformed desk, but the transformation process itself. The documentary camera, held far back from the shot, thus makes us forget that the real product, the work presented here, is neither an object nor the story of its creation, but a succession of digital images. The real work escapes attention: it is the different aspects of the nature of this work that are explored here. The action of sticking the chewing gum to the desk highlights the action of signing the desk, which here is brought to the level of graffiti and "TAGS". The conscious appropriation of everyday´s environment is opposed to the integration of the artistic work in an artistic context. In this context, the title provocatively poses the question of the importance of politics in Art. Art is seen as a field of experimentation of aimless transformations - underlined in the reassembling of the desk and the clumsiness of the actor.
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LASSE BRANDT
aka BOSSE SUDENBURG (DE)
www.nyrt.net
www.artnews.info/lassebrandt
short CV
Lasse Brandt aka Bosse Sudenburg
2006
Master Degree - Heinz Emigholz / Stan Douglas (UdK Berlin)
2006
DAAD-Scholarship / NYC (USA)
2005
NICA-Scholarship / Hunter College / NYC (USA)
2004
ERASMUS-Scholarship / University of the West / Bristol (UK)
2000
Experimental Film-Making / University of the the Arts / Berlin
1999
Media-Designer - MediaAkademie / Leipzig
1996-8
Culture Science / History of Art / University of Leipzig
1994
London
1975 born in Magdeburg
2005 Founding Member of Art Association "NewYorkRioTokyo" / Berlin
2003 Founding Member of Artist-House "Buscha11" / Buscha-Thüringen
1997 Member of Artist-Group "Ramon Haze" / Leipzig
Group - & Solo-Shows / Screenings / Publications
2006/7 "Land(e)scape" touring-show / Ptui/Venedig/Genua/Berlin
2006 "abhyAmarda (Sanskrit: War)" / Leipzig
2006 "CinemaAbstracta" Rome
2006 "YoungArtPrize" Kunstpreis der SaarFernGasAG (Catalogue)
2006 "OPENdraw" / Washington / USA
2006 "Home of Lost Ideas" / Artistbook by von Cathrine Griffes
2006 "Performancefestival" / Salzau
2006 "EMERGEANDSEE" Film-Festival / Berlin
2006 "NovaArtFair" ArtFair Chicago / USA
2006 "Unfinished Business" SoloShow / Berlin
2006 "Motorenhalle" / Dresden
2006 "International Video Art & Architecture Festival" / Indiana (USA)
2006 "Lange Nacht der Museen" / Berlin
2006 "Temporary Identities" / Novosibirsk State Art Museum / GUS
2005 "MFA-Show" at Hunter College / NYC
2005 "Attitude" in der Galerie Magaza / Bitola (Mazedonien)
2005 "Berliner Kunstsalon" ArtFair / Berlin (Catalogue)
2005 "Berliner Fenster des Kunstvereins Buscha11" / Berlin
2004 "P2-Halle-Niedersachsenplatz" / Halle (Catalogue)
2003 "LOCKS, POCKETS AND ABSENCES" Essay by Andew Cannon
1998 "Blind Date" / Leipzig
1997 "Schwanenhalselevation" / Leipzig
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