• Screening

KREISLAUF - PART I

Malina Heinemann & Joseph Kadow, Mouth of Ox (Musso I Voi) (2021-22)

An unusual, glowing cloud formation appears over tree tops.
A blurred red figure against a black background with a quote at the bottom.
A red, blurred shadow resembling a human profile and gesture.
A dark sky filled with scattered lights and text about ashes and pumice stones.
A red outline of a devil figure with a text caption below.
Grainy black-and-white image showing an indoor room with some people.
A blurry night scene with distant glowing lights and a silhouette in the foreground.
A bright streak crosses the night sky above a busy highway.
An artist's depiction of a cosmic jet emitting from a distant stellar object in space.
A glowing, spiraled vortex in a dark, smoky background with a text at the bottom. (Maximale Länge erreicht - leicht verkürzt auf 101 Zeichen.)
A red-hued smoke blanket covers a dimly lit cityscape at night.

Dates

  • Tu 02.08., 10:00–18:00
  • We 03.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Th 04.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Fr 05.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Sa 06.08., 10:00–18:00
  • Su 07.08., 10:00–18:00

Language

  • English

In their video work Mouth of Ox, filmmakers Malina Heinemann and Joseph Kadow explore the magic and aesthetics of natural and human-induced phenomena. The film follows the story of an environmental disaster that abruptly changes the lives of humans and animals. Escape and loss are the results of an ash cloud shown in the film that rages across the landscape of southern Italy.

As a starting point for this storytelling, Heinemann and Kadow take the stony, unreal crater landscape of Mount Etna, reminiscent of a distant planet. These associatively laden images give the fear of the unknown a firm place in a planet-related aesthetic. The non-invasive exploration of this terrestrial science fiction setting therefore not only reveals a certain unease about a future of the planet unknown to us but also shows that nature may very soon reclaim its original place in the ecological power structure.

In August and as part of Nature and State SKBB launches a new format: KREISLAUF.

The German expression KREISLAUF brings meanings of circulation, cycle, and circuit in relation to moving images and the display of them as a loop in an exhibition context. It also references nature’s cycle, the body’s and the transition of things.

As a series of weekly video programming located in Ersan Mondtag’s installation The Temple, KREISLAUF focuses a highly curated selection on geographies of transition, geo-subjective perspectives on global issues such as climate change, drought and drainage, with local references and glocal sensitivity. Within its focuses and critical lenses, KREISLAUF investigates forms and storytelling mostly through non-European, Asian Pacific and transnational connections and artistic perspectives on these geopolitical conflicts. Each week will feature a video piece, or two in conversation, unfolding questions from the exhibition.