presented by the French Institute
After several conferences where the topic was broached by law experts, sociologists, historians or geographs, we would like to present you the artist’s point of views and to present you how three projects made by the young European artists.
Jonathan Rescigno (FR)
Photograph, director and visual artist. His work sweeps between documentary and fiction, narration and interpretation. His films and autobiographical videographic installations intertwine personal stories with a collective History. He will introduce his last film project Territorial pissing following the group of migrants from Serbia-hungarian border till their arrival in Berlin. But the film is not a simple documentary, Jonathan Rescigno mixes with brio the film archive sequences with the present ones or film extracts.
www.jorescigno.com
Ronny Trocker (IT)
the author will introduce his short experimental film Estate inspired by a picture from photographer Juan Medina, taken on the beach of Gran Tarajal in Spain in 2006 while the landing of migrants boats: a black exhausted man is crawling at the sunny beach, it seems that noone has noticed his arrival. This photo is a perfect resume of a situation: expectation and hope of a black man and indifference of the population. Trocker forces us to notice him and be captivated by the full extent of the gravity ofthe picture. The photo represents the point of view of a photographer but what is happening in the head of this black man?
Interview with Ronny Trocker – http://yellowbreadshorts.com/2016/09/02/vis-2016-interview-with-ronny-trocker/
Markus Obendorfer (AU)
Fine-artist with a main focus on photography and audiovisual-, timeline-based media and DJ. He will present 2 artistic projects around the Nazi Germany‘s concrete fortifications on the Atlantic Coast remnants around Cap Ferret: Disappearance – The Atlantic Wall around Cap Ferret and Foukauld, Diseappearance. Unlike the bunkers in Normandy which reminds of memorials, bunkers at the Atlantic coast are different. Not only their physical disappearance because of corrosion, water and sand, but also the one that results from man converting those relicts by using them in many
different ways, for example as an improvised gallery for graffitti. His time-lined photo exhibition Disappearance – The Atlantic Wall around Cap Ferret captures the different layers and stages of their disseappearing. The second project Foukauld, Diseappearance is an interview with Henri Lavrillat (*1920) who recalls his compulsory work service at Cap Ferret and in Bordeaux during the Second World War. He also talks about the exposition "Disappearance – The Atlantic Wall around Cap Ferret", which was the starting point for this interview.
To interconnect the both main works around the fortifications and to close the circle between these two histories of past and present Markus created a last exhibition Se souvenir.
www.markusoberndorfer.com
After the presentation, the evening continues by a electroparty at the Cafeteria of Theatre Archa. (DJ Markus Obendorfer)
Presented by the French Institute Prague — www.ifp.cz
