Thursday, Nov 14, 2024, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
Screening and talk
DokfestForum takes place in cooperation with the Fridericianum and directs its focus on the intersection of film, documentary, and visual art. Over two consecutive evenings, a selection of videos by Klara Hobza and Eli Cortiñas are presented. The screenings are followed by a talk, where the artists each discuss the ideas and strategies behind their respective works.
Eli Cortiñas’ practice centers around the idea of challenging our audiovisual cultural memory by analyzing existing material and combining it with her own film, video and audio archives. By first collecting, organizing and classifying the sourced material, the artist then reworks and reimagines the found film, YouTube, advertising or animation footage in a next step, disrupting and re-structuring narrative flows. Cortiñas’ video montages, collages and object arrangements suggest new and different meanings to appropriated and edited footage, in order to debunk myths and hegemonic narratives, as the Canary Islands native artist states. This method of ‘editing as writing’ generates a mixed feeling of both identification and alienation. A deep dive into psychological, aesthetic and societal questions, Eli Cortiñas manages to create an ambiguous and affirmative transparency within her work inviting her audience to explore power, memory and politics.
Introduction: Curatorial team, Fridericianum
Screening: Walls Have Feelings, 2019 (single channel video, length: 14 min., English)
Quella Che Cammina, 2014 (single channel video, length: 10 min., English)
Not Gone with the Wind, 2020 (single channel video, length: 9 min., English)
The Machine Monologues, 2024 (multichannel video (single channel length: 10 min.), English)
Subsequently: Talk with the artist (in English)
Language: German. Admission is free. No registration required.
With a Dokfest Festival Accreditation, admission to Melvin Edwards’s exhibition Some Bright Morning is free.