BREEDS CONTEMPT

(vertrautheit)

"Breeds contempt" is a video installation, a symmetrical projection of 2 separate videos. It was created for ResidencyShot exhibition and was presented in GlogauAir institute, in Berlin on March 2013.

 

Similar pairs of interior and exterior spaces were projected simultaneously on the walls of a symmetrical space. Symmetry was stressed by the 2 plants placed on the floor. 

The work instigated various reactions from the visitors. A lot of them asked me whether i had filmed the same or different spaces because some elements of the spaces appear identical and others structurally different. Creating this ambiguity was in my initial goals so raising these questions meant i had achieved my creative aims. I avoided answering in order to maintain this sense of confusion in the viewer and also to allow him to have his own interpretation of the work.

 

  Video Presentation

 

 

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The piece is a video installation of 2 separate big sized projections. Here the 2 videos are edited side by side for online presentation.

 

 

Caption from "breeds contempt"

I am using architecture to speak about psychological structures and human perception.This work is the result of a research on repetition, familiarity, topology (no - oriental surfaces) and parallel realities.

 

ResidencySHOT

ResidencyShot is an experimental project organized and curated by Erifili Missiou and Victoria Burgher. Our idea came out from our desire to set up a group show in Berlin that would involve experiencing the city for a period and work in relation to a space. We applied to GlogauAIR, an important institute that functions as a high class international residency. In parallel to its residency program it also hosts exhibitions and art events in its project space - where ResidencyShot project was realized. 

Core of the project was the intense collaboration and exchange between the participating artists both before and during the show. Each artist specializes in a different medium (video, sculpture, sound, performance, painting, installation) and we are all coming from different ethnic backgrounds (Spain, England, Russia, China, Greece, Ireland). This created a very interesting dynamic that was reflected on the final exhibition. 

Tatiana Baskakova, Terry Dynes, Matthew Hammond, Victoria Burgher, Erifili Missiou, Jeremy Lee

CONCEPT:

Seven London-based international artists knock back a residencySHOT.

ResidencySHOT is an experimental project, a simulation of the dynamics, politics and processes of an extended residency programme condensed into just one week. Over the final two days the artists will exhibit the results of the experiment to the public.

ResidencySHOT aims to instigate risk-taking and exploration in individual practices. The artists will focus on and play with the elements intrinsic to an international residency – multiculturalism, process, space and interaction.

Erifili Missiou and Victoria Burgher are interested in emphasizing the dialogue that evolves between the artists and in how GlogauAIR’s shared space, as well as relocating to Berlin for a week, will inform their work.

How the artists adapt and react to this habitat will form the basis of the experiment and subsequent exhibition, revealing to the public the internal anatomy of a residency experience.

MAIN FOCUS OF THE PROJECT WAS GIVEN ON THE PROCESS AND THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE ARTISTS.

                                                

ResidencyShot - final show

 

"Vertrautheit breeds contempt" - Erifili Missiou

"Ausgewahlte farbaufnahmen" - Cristina Pedreira

"Points" - Terry Dynes

"Erifili, Victoria, Matthew, Cristina, Terry, Tatiana and i am the wheeless barrow" - Jeremy Lee

"Jeremy Lee in wheelbarrow (artist in residence)" - Tatiana Baskakova

"Hard aber herzlich" - Victoria Burgher

ResidencyShot Opening

GlogauAir Institute

GlogauAir ready for the visitors to arrive