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Andrés Villa Torres, Rhona Mühlebach, Anna Dasović

Image: Andrés Villa Torres

18. Oktober 2020, 2-5pm

Eingangshalle D1, Haus der Statistik, Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72, 10178 Berlin

Our current residents Anna Dasoviç, Rhona Mühlebach & Andrés Villa Torres will give a brief insight into their artistic practices and their planned researches in Berlin.

Andrés Villa Torres 

Andrés was born in Mexico City in the midd 80’s. Since 2010 he is active in the field of new media, computer and algorithmic arts. He explores issues from politics, society, philosophy, media and technology through artistic practice and research. Andrés works mostly with algorithms, computational processes, data, public space, sound, light, live coding and the web.
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Rhona Muehlebach
Rhona’s work develops out of everyday relationships with, and attractions to humans, animals, objects or places that she considers companions. The will to understand this attraction – emotionally and not rationally – and the relation between the companions and herself leads to the work. Rhona has moved from a traditional narration-based cinema practice into a fine art practice consisting of video, audio and text. Her cinema background inspires the formal choices she makes in her work. Nature and science documentaries, and how we discover the world through them, have been very influential in her work over the last years. In her practice she manipulates the forms and technical traditions of TV documentaries and big budget cinema work in order to create uncanny versions of [removed];
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Anna Dasović

Anna Dasović’s artistic practice is focused on the rhetorical structures that make genocidal violence visible, and those deployed to obscure the politically inconvenient aspects of such conflicts. What are representations of such extreme violence intended to communicate despite their original intentions? What ideological narratives do such representations participate in on a structural level? The production and use of (visual) documents are examined in their quest for truth finding or the social and/or political perceptions they seek to form, while simultaneously exposing their legislative and archival inability to cope with trauma caused by violence. Here, the archive serves both as a physical place for these documents and a metaphor of collective humiliation and remorse.
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