[Nettime-ro] Alien Passions - a BMR trilogy at Skolska 28, Prague

["FrantiÅek Zachoval" <zachoval@artycok.tv>]

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Alien Passions*

Åkolskà 28 Gallery, Prague
opening: March 06, 6pm

workshop: March 10 - 11, 5 - 8pm (Academy of Fine Arts Prague)
curated by FrantiÅek Zachoval

The trilogy is a reflection on affects, performance and the body in the 
form of TV instructional shows which are also available as live 
sessions: /Protect Your Heart at Work /(2012), /Lovegold. Contemporary 
Alchemy/ (2013) and /Written on the Wind/ (work-in-progress, 2014). The 
title refers to the way alienation plays out in contemporary society, 
especially in the work relations, where emotions and well-being have to 
be externalized in order to commodified. Conversely, it also alludes to 
the inverse movement of passions that take over bodies as external 
forces, rather than being psychological and interiorized. Instead of 
lamenting an acceleration of estrangement brought about by the new 
economy of moods, the trilogy is a threefold recognition of blurry 
borders between an alleged inside and the anonymity of exteriority.

PROTECT YOUR HEART AT WORK (2012, HD video, 20 min) was produced during 
a residency in the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in 
Warsaw and was first presented as a performance with the Glass Lady in 
the Technical Museum there. The work uses the vocabulary of 
work-and-safety instructional materials to reflect on post-industrial 
economics, where goods are immaterial and personal satisfaction is put 
to work to create value. The educational program uses the transparent 
body of an anatomic model to reflect on the materiality of the immaterial.
âWatch an excerpt here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0u8s7nt7i4

LOVEGOLD. CONTEMPORARY ALCHEMY (2013, HD video, 25 min, premiere) was 
first presented as a performance in BAK Utrecht in October 2013. It is a 
cooking show which proposes cosmic cooking as a model for an extended 
economy which does not start or end with the human element. Cooking 
involves being cooked at many levels, a continuous interaction and 
exchange between material and immaterial, between organic and inorganic, 
between a mood and a meal in the same way that love and gold form a new 
chemical composite - lovegold.â
Watch an excerpt here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6wD7F7RZP8

WRITTEN ON THE WIND (work-in-progress, 2014), the third part of the 
trilogy will take the form of a weather forecast program. One of the 
main characteristics of the melodramatic genre was the emotional charge 
of its characters pitted against nature, the name referencing the 
notable film Written on the Wind by Douglas Sirk from 1956. The broader 
context of global warming and climate change recasts emotions as alien 
forces coming from the nonhuman realm as an uncontrollable demonic 
possession. In Written on the Wind a simple breath is the start of a new 
climate, a whirl of thought is a cyclone and drops of tears gather in 
dubious waste ponds. At the opening visitors can engage in smalltalk 
about the weather with the Bureau.

-- <http://thebureauofmelodramaticresearch.blogspot.com>
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