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review of the
Back to Berlin exhibition in RealTime
arts.
Friday April 27 and Friday May 4, lecture and presentation
of works at the Academy of Fine Arts in Split,
Croatia
shadowlands: a presentation of recent video work
by Linda Wallace at the International Centre for Contemporary Arts
(ICCA) Bucharest, Romania
April 20, 2007.
entanglements screened as part of the
Limited Access
program at Parkingallery, Tehran. 8-15 March 2007
Back to
Berlin An exhibition of video works by Linda Wallace
from January 31 to February 11, 2007 NewYorkRioTokyo
Gallery
Eberswalder Str. 4, Berlin
Back to Berlin was
a
transmediale partner event.
The video works shown in
Back to Berlin speak to the experience of being between places,
of being here, there and there, all the time immersed within the strange
overlap of media and televisual non-space and lived realities.
The three video works are filters for one or another global media
event.
entanglements (2004) takes as its starting point the 2003
invasion of Iraq as seen through the siphon of Australian television.
Concurrent with the invasion was the hit series The Block, a home
renovation competition. These and other images, for example, pictures
from the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege are woven together and projected
through curtains, as television becomes the window on the world.
The three-screen
LivingTomorrow (2005) began as one thing and ended as something
quite different as a significant event pierced the narrative
mid-production. This event was the murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van
Gogh in late-2004. The murder is woven into a larger story told by
hand-made subtitles over segments cut from the soap opera
The Bold
and the Beautiful, itself the highest rating television show on the
planet watched daily by over 450 million people. Showing in Berlin will
be the 'immersive cinema" 3 DVD version, the original was a random
database-archive work.
TOR, the most recent work is by
comparison simpler and shows snippets from the journey on the M19 bus
down Berlin¹s Kurfuerstendamm on the evening of Germany¹s win over
Argentina in the 2006 World Cup. The faces in
TOR beg the
question: who are the Germans?
The art of Linda Wallace
invites us to reflect upon our televisual environment. Day-time soap
operas, classic cinema, European song contests, news broadcasts and the
pervasive images of war and terrorism are juxtaposed and interspersed in
both linear videos and multi-screen projections. Her work takes as its
starting point the context of communications media which she describes
as _a vast labyrinthine media-datascape_. Our relationships with both
the natural and urban environment, and with each other, are increasingly
negotiated via electronic means. This is a world in which commercial
television actively maintains conventional and homogenous categories
around identity, politics and gender. In response, Wallace fragments,
re-mixes and re-dubs the television image, introducing a spectrum of
meanings back into the digital screen. This is not to say that she is
attempting to reinstate a kind of truth. Rather, her project forges
links between cultures as they are mediated in a televisual landscape.
from the
essay by Victoria Lynn
Die Kunst von Linda
Wallace zieht uns hinein in eine Reflexion unserer Fernseh-Umwelt. In
ihren Videos und Mehrkanal-Projektionen kombiniert und vermischt sie
z.B. “Daytime-Soaps³, Filmklassiker, Europäische Schlagerwettbewerbe,
Nachrichten-sendungen und die um sich greifenden Bilder von Krieg und
Terrorismus. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Arbeit ist der Kontext der
Kommunikationsmedien, den sie als eine “riesige, labyrinthische
Datenlandschaft³ beschreibt. Sowohl unsere Beziehungen zur natürlichen
und urbanen Umwelt als auch untereinander werden zunehmend über
elektronische Medien organisiert. In dieser Welt wirkt das kommerzielle
Fernsehen aktiv mit an der Aufrechterhaltung konventioneller und
homogener Kategorien von Identität, Politik und Geschlecht. Im Gegenzug
fragmentiert, re-mixt und re-dubt Wallace das Fernseh-Bild und führt so
ein Spektrum verdrängter Bedeutungen in den digitalen Bildschirm zurück.
Das heißt nicht, dass sie versucht, eine Art von “Wahrheit³
wiederherzu-stellen. Vielmehr knüpft ihr Projekt Verbindungen zwischen
Kulturen, wie sie in einer televisuellen Landschaft vermittelt
sind.
essay, German translation by Andreas Kallfelz
to contact
Linda Wallace put :: lwallace ::: then the at, followed by:::
xs4all.nl
machinehunger youtube channel
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works by Linda Wallace
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